CI/CD Contract Job Trends in London

CI/CD
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring CI/CD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 18 27
Rank change year-on-year +6 +9 -12
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,050 1,340 1,258
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.01% 10.11% 6.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.42% 11.13% 7.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,414 950 932
10th Percentile £364 £403 £425
25th Percentile £433 £484 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +1.74% -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £725 £688
90th Percentile £738 £838 £800
England median daily rate £513 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -6.82% -2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile £63.25 - £50.55
25th Percentile £65.50 - £56.25
Median hourly rate £68.00 - £58.00
75th Percentile £95.00 - £67.00
90th Percentile - - £70.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £71.00
% change year-on-year - -8.45% +8.22%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

CI/CD falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,221 12,041 16,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.23% 90.87% 88.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,548 7,833 11,601
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £676 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 158 349
10th Percentile £18.04 £20.45 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £24.68 £19.38
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% +17.50% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.50 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.51 £72.10
England median hourly rate £28.91 £35.00 £34.21
% change year-on-year -17.40% +2.31% -3.42%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CI/CD relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

CI/CD job vacancy trend in London

CI/CD
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing CI/CD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing CI/CD

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in London over the 6 months to 2 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in London

CI/CD
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing CI/CD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing CI/CD

CI/CD
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CI/CD in London over the 6 months to 2 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for CI/CD in London

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CI/CD within the London region over the 6 months to 2 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -2 223 £525 -8.70% 183
West London +7 68 £603 +47.31% 28
South London +4 63 £525 +8.25% 22
East London -6 8 £450 -14.69% 24
CI/CD
England

CI/CD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 88 (4.29%) Apache Spark
2 70 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
2 70 (3.41%) Confluence
3 53 (2.59%) Apache
4 32 (1.56%) SharePoint
5 12 (0.59%) CMS
5 12 (0.59%) SAS
6 11 (0.54%) Appian
6 11 (0.54%) Ethereum
6 11 (0.54%) Hyperledger
7 10 (0.49%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
8 9 (0.44%) Mendix
9 7 (0.34%) Camunda
9 7 (0.34%) nginx
10 6 (0.29%) IIS
11 5 (0.24%) Headless CMS
12 4 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
12 4 (0.20%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.20%) WebLogic
Applications
1 21 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.29%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.15%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.098%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.049%) Maya
7 1 (0.049%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 15 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.20%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.098%) Endur
3 2 (0.098%) Magento
3 2 (0.098%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.098%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.098%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.098%) Shopify
4 1 (0.049%) Actimize
4 1 (0.049%) Cerner Millennium
4 1 (0.049%) Maximo
4 1 (0.049%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.049%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.049%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.049%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.049%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.049%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.049%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.049%) ProductWriter
4 1 (0.049%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 922 (44.98%) Azure
2 904 (44.10%) AWS
3 489 (23.85%) GitHub
4 352 (17.17%) Azure DevOps
5 333 (16.24%) GCP
6 312 (15.22%) GitHub Actions
7 291 (14.20%) Serverless
8 195 (9.51%) Amazon S3
9 183 (8.93%) AWS CloudFormation
10 177 (8.63%) AWS Lambda
11 161 (7.85%) Power Platform
12 124 (6.05%) Amazon EKS
13 120 (5.85%) Azure Data Factory
14 118 (5.76%) Amazon ECS
15 91 (4.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 87 (4.24%) Azure AKS
17 86 (4.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 80 (3.90%) Amazon EC2
19 72 (3.51%) Azure Logic Apps
20 70 (3.41%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 79 (3.85%) Firewall
2 49 (2.39%) Network Security
3 44 (2.15%) DNS
4 27 (1.32%) VPN
5 21 (1.02%) HTTP
6 15 (0.73%) SSL
6 15 (0.73%) WAN
7 13 (0.63%) SD-WAN
8 12 (0.59%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.29%) BGP
10 5 (0.24%) Wireshark
11 4 (0.20%) Cisco IPT
11 4 (0.20%) DHCP
11 4 (0.20%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.20%) LAN
11 4 (0.20%) MPLS
11 4 (0.20%) Multicast
11 4 (0.20%) OSPF
11 4 (0.20%) Reverse Proxy
11 4 (0.20%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
2 122 (5.95%) SQL Server
3 121 (5.90%) Data Lake
4 116 (5.66%) Power BI
5 109 (5.32%) NoSQL
6 93 (4.54%) Data Warehouse
7 72 (3.51%) MongoDB
8 71 (3.46%) Amazon RDS
9 70 (3.41%) Relational Database
10 53 (2.59%) Delta Lake
11 52 (2.54%) Amazon Athena
12 51 (2.49%) BigQuery
13 50 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
14 45 (2.20%) Amazon Redshift
15 44 (2.15%) Big Data
16 37 (1.80%) DynamoDB
16 37 (1.80%) Metadata
17 35 (1.71%) MySQL
18 32 (1.56%) Redis
19 27 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 378 (18.44%) Git
2 361 (17.61%) Jenkins
3 258 (12.59%) GitLab
4 150 (7.32%) JIRA
5 80 (3.90%) Selenium
6 59 (2.88%) Cucumber
7 57 (2.78%) JUnit
8 48 (2.34%) MLflow
9 46 (2.24%) Postman
10 39 (1.90%) Cypress.io
11 35 (1.71%) JMeter
12 31 (1.51%) REST Assured
13 25 (1.22%) Bitbucket
14 24 (1.17%) Maven
15 23 (1.12%) Mockito
16 21 (1.02%) TeamCity
17 19 (0.93%) Gatling
17 19 (0.93%) Gradle
17 19 (0.93%) SonarQube
18 14 (0.68%) CircleCI
General
1 534 (26.05%) Social Skills
2 454 (22.15%) Finance
3 228 (11.12%) Public Sector
4 199 (9.71%) Banking
5 163 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
6 43 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
7 42 (2.05%) Front Office
8 38 (1.85%) Investment Banking
9 33 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
10 31 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 30 (1.46%) Financial Institution
12 25 (1.22%) Retail
13 21 (1.02%) Marketing
13 21 (1.02%) Telecoms
14 14 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
15 13 (0.63%) Manufacturing
16 12 (0.59%) Law
17 10 (0.49%) Military
17 10 (0.49%) Publishing
18 9 (0.44%) Legal
Job Titles
1 497 (24.24%) Developer
2 318 (15.51%) Senior
3 244 (11.90%) DevOps Engineer
4 198 (9.66%) Architect
5 189 (9.22%) Data Engineer
6 161 (7.85%) Lead
7 125 (6.10%) AWS Engineer
8 116 (5.66%) Azure Engineer
9 92 (4.49%) Cloud Engineer
10 91 (4.44%) Software Engineer
11 89 (4.34%) Full-Stack Developer
12 87 (4.24%) Platform Engineer
12 87 (4.24%) Senior Developer
13 84 (4.10%) Java Developer
14 72 (3.51%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 67 (3.27%) AWS DevOps
16 62 (3.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 56 (2.73%) Python Engineer
18 53 (2.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
19 52 (2.54%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 251 (12.24%) React
2 204 (9.95%) Kafka
3 200 (9.76%) Node.js
4 190 (9.27%) .NET
4 190 (9.27%) RESTful
5 183 (8.93%) REST
6 157 (7.66%) Spring
7 125 (6.10%) Spring Boot
8 123 (6.00%) AngularJS
9 107 (5.22%) Playwright
10 98 (4.78%) CSS
11 97 (4.73%) HTML
12 90 (4.39%) PySpark
13 82 (4.00%) OAuth
14 65 (3.17%) GraphQL
15 59 (2.88%) YAML
16 50 (2.44%) JSON
16 50 (2.44%) PyTorch
17 49 (2.39%) FastAPI
18 48 (2.34%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 398 (19.41%) Cloud Native
2 117 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
3 91 (4.44%) Product Ownership
4 53 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
5 47 (2.29%) Onboarding
6 46 (2.24%) Mobile App
7 41 (2.00%) Algorithms
8 35 (1.71%) AI Agents
9 34 (1.66%) Public Cloud
10 31 (1.51%) Data Structures
10 31 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
11 29 (1.41%) Derivative
12 27 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
13 24 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 23 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
14 23 (1.12%) Equities
14 23 (1.12%) Low-Code
14 23 (1.12%) Private Cloud
15 22 (1.07%) Security Posture
15 22 (1.07%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 151 (7.37%) Linux
2 64 (3.12%) Windows
3 36 (1.76%) Apple iOS
4 28 (1.37%) Android
4 28 (1.37%) VMS
5 26 (1.27%) Unix
6 16 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.44%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.29%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.29%) Solaris
8 6 (0.29%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.24%) CentOS
9 5 (0.24%) zOS
10 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.098%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.098%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.098%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,134 (55.32%) DevOps
2 672 (32.78%) Infrastructure as Code
3 668 (32.59%) Agile
4 463 (22.59%) Containerisation
5 424 (20.68%) Test Automation
6 380 (18.54%) Problem-Solving
7 369 (18.00%) AI
8 363 (17.71%) Microservices
9 319 (15.56%) Analytics
10 305 (14.88%) Observability
11 282 (13.76%) Software Engineering
12 239 (11.66%) Data Engineering
13 238 (11.61%) Data Pipeline
14 235 (11.46%) Data Modelling
15 227 (11.07%) Continuous Improvement
16 221 (10.78%) Machine Learning
17 217 (10.59%) Full-Stack Development
18 203 (9.90%) ETL
19 184 (8.98%) Mentoring
20 178 (8.68%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 813 (39.66%) Python
2 525 (25.61%) SQL
3 391 (19.07%) Java
4 298 (14.54%) JavaScript
5 276 (13.46%) TypeScript
6 234 (11.41%) C#
7 128 (6.24%) Bash
8 96 (4.68%) PowerShell
9 70 (3.41%) Bicep
10 62 (3.02%) Scala
11 61 (2.98%) Go
12 31 (1.51%) C++
12 31 (1.51%) Ruby
13 30 (1.46%) Kotlin
14 29 (1.41%) T-SQL
15 27 (1.32%) PL/SQL
16 19 (0.93%) Shell Script
16 19 (0.93%) Swift
17 17 (0.83%) Apex Code
17 17 (0.83%) Rust
Qualifications
1 486 (23.71%) Security Cleared
2 424 (20.68%) SC Cleared
3 122 (5.95%) Degree
4 71 (3.46%) AWS Certification
5 69 (3.37%) Azure Certification
6 67 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 34 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 30 (1.46%) Master's Degree
8 30 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 26 (1.27%) DV Cleared
10 24 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 20 (0.98%) ISTQB
12 19 (0.93%) CISSP
13 17 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
14 14 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
15 13 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 12 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 12 (0.59%) Numerate Degree
17 10 (0.49%) CCSP
18 9 (0.44%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (8.49%) QA
2 134 (6.54%) Data Quality
3 79 (3.85%) GDPR
4 77 (3.76%) Accessibility
5 50 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 48 (2.34%) NIST
7 28 (1.37%) NCSC
7 28 (1.37%) WCAG
8 25 (1.22%) PCI DSS
9 21 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 11 (0.54%) SLA
11 9 (0.44%) HIPAA
12 7 (0.34%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.34%) NIST 800
13 6 (0.29%) MiFID
13 6 (0.29%) PSD2
14 4 (0.20%) GRC
14 4 (0.20%) HL7
14 4 (0.20%) SEPA
14 4 (0.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 629 (30.68%) Docker
2 50 (2.44%) Active Directory
3 38 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.39%) VMware NSX
6 8 (0.39%) vSphere
7 4 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.15%) zsh
9 2 (0.098%) HDFS
9 2 (0.098%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.098%) Squid
10 1 (0.049%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.049%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.049%) etcd
10 1 (0.049%) IAG
10 1 (0.049%) NFS
10 1 (0.049%) Postfix
10 1 (0.049%) Veritas File System
10 1 (0.049%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 680 (33.17%) Terraform
2 672 (32.78%) Kubernetes
3 156 (7.61%) Ansible
4 124 (6.05%) Grafana
5 109 (5.32%) Prometheus
6 49 (2.39%) Argo
7 25 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (1.07%) Istio
9 13 (0.63%) Kibana
9 13 (0.63%) Puppet
10 11 (0.54%) Progress Chef
11 10 (0.49%) ITRS Geneos
12 8 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
12 8 (0.39%) Rancher
13 7 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 5 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
14 5 (0.24%) Karpenter
14 5 (0.24%) Kubeflow
14 5 (0.24%) vCenter Server
15 4 (0.20%) logstash
Vendors
1 294 (14.34%) Microsoft
2 207 (10.10%) Databricks
3 126 (6.15%) Google
4 77 (3.76%) Oracle
5 60 (2.93%) Splunk
6 57 (2.78%) OpenAI
7 55 (2.68%) ServiceNow
8 51 (2.49%) Salesforce
9 34 (1.66%) Red Hat
10 28 (1.37%) VMware
11 27 (1.32%) Dynatrace
12 20 (0.98%) SAP
13 19 (0.93%) CyberArk
14 18 (0.88%) Cisco
15 15 (0.73%) MuleSoft
16 14 (0.68%) Foundry
16 14 (0.68%) IBM
17 13 (0.63%) Apple
17 13 (0.63%) Okta
17 13 (0.63%) Solace