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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 17 20
Rank change year-on-year +7 +3 -3
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,554 1,449 1,364
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.84% 10.60% 8.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.43% 11.49% 9.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,721 974 965
10th Percentile £400 £377 £413
25th Percentile £453 £438 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £565
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -7.08% -5.83%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £688
90th Percentile £738 £796 £808
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 2
10th Percentile £48.25 £30.63 £56.20
25th Percentile £54.06 £36.88 £58.00
Median hourly rate £61.00 £48.75 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.13% -20.08% -18.67%
75th Percentile £80.63 £53.75 £64.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.38 £65.80
England median hourly rate £67.25 £65.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year +3.46% -2.99% -4.29%

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 17,699 12,607 14,667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.97% 92.22% 88.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,693 8,437 10,407
10th Percentile £363 £326 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £651 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 241 219
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.19
25th Percentile £20.69 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.03% -12.41% -20.35%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.38
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.88% -37.63% -5.12%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 27 July 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 +3 301 £550 -12.00% 121
South London +1 57 £541 +2.05% 4
West London +7 50 £560 +13.71% 32
East London +8 12 £585 +62.50% 20
North London - 1 £650 - 3
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
1 112 (4.39%) Apache Airflow
2 101 (3.95%) Confluence
3 93 (3.64%) Apache Spark
4 71 (2.78%) Apache
5 27 (1.06%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
7 10 (0.39%) SAS
8 9 (0.35%) WebSphere
9 8 (0.31%) Camunda
9 8 (0.31%) CMS
9 8 (0.31%) nginx
9 8 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.23%) Anypoint
12 5 (0.20%) Mule
12 5 (0.20%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.16%) IIS
14 3 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
14 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 14 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.39%) Chatbot
2 10 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.16%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.12%) Trello
6 2 (0.078%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.039%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.039%) Maya
Business Applications
1 23 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.43%) Aladdin
3 8 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.27%) Shopify
5 6 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
6 5 (0.20%) Magento
7 4 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
8 3 (0.12%) Endur
8 3 (0.12%) Findur
8 3 (0.12%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.12%) SAP BPC
9 2 (0.078%) SAP CRM
9 2 (0.078%) Temenos T24
10 1 (0.039%) Distributed Ledger
10 1 (0.039%) R3 Corda
10 1 (0.039%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.039%) SAP ERP
10 1 (0.039%) SAP IS-U
10 1 (0.039%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,139 (44.60%) Azure
2 1,123 (43.97%) AWS
3 565 (22.12%) GitHub
4 434 (16.99%) Azure DevOps
5 381 (14.92%) GCP
6 379 (14.84%) GitHub Actions
7 302 (11.82%) Serverless
8 240 (9.40%) Amazon S3
9 217 (8.50%) Power Platform
10 200 (7.83%) AWS Lambda
11 150 (5.87%) Amazon EKS
12 142 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
13 116 (4.54%) Entra ID
14 115 (4.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 115 (4.50%) Snowflake
15 113 (4.42%) Amazon EC2
15 113 (4.42%) Azure AKS
16 106 (4.15%) dbt
17 99 (3.88%) Azure Data Factory
18 88 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 71 (2.78%) Firewall
2 42 (1.64%) Network Security
3 35 (1.37%) DNS
4 34 (1.33%) VPN
5 25 (0.98%) Internet
6 24 (0.94%) HTTP
7 19 (0.74%) 5G
8 16 (0.63%) TCP/IP
8 16 (0.63%) WAN
9 14 (0.55%) SSL
10 11 (0.43%) 4G
11 10 (0.39%) 3GPP
11 10 (0.39%) SD-WAN
12 8 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
13 7 (0.27%) BGP
13 7 (0.27%) LTE
14 6 (0.23%) Cisco IOS
14 6 (0.23%) FTP
15 5 (0.20%) MPLS
15 5 (0.20%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (6.11%) Power BI
2 144 (5.64%) PostgreSQL
3 125 (4.89%) Data Warehouse
4 123 (4.82%) NoSQL
5 122 (4.78%) Data Lake
6 119 (4.66%) SQL Server
7 89 (3.48%) Relational Database
8 86 (3.37%) MongoDB
9 75 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
10 74 (2.90%) Delta Lake
11 69 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
12 66 (2.58%) Metadata
13 64 (2.51%) Amazon Athena
14 61 (2.39%) BigQuery
15 51 (2.00%) DynamoDB
16 46 (1.80%) Big Data
17 43 (1.68%) Redis
18 40 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
19 36 (1.41%) Snowflake Schema
20 26 (1.02%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 448 (17.54%) Git
2 390 (15.27%) Jenkins
3 308 (12.06%) GitLab
4 179 (7.01%) JIRA
5 74 (2.90%) Selenium
6 68 (2.66%) JUnit
7 45 (1.76%) Cypress.io
7 45 (1.76%) JMeter
8 43 (1.68%) Cucumber
9 42 (1.64%) Gradle
10 39 (1.53%) Mockito
11 38 (1.49%) Postman
12 37 (1.45%) REST Assured
13 34 (1.33%) MLflow
14 33 (1.29%) Bitbucket
15 32 (1.25%) Maven
16 30 (1.17%) SonarQube
17 28 (1.10%) CircleCI
18 25 (0.98%) Gatling
19 19 (0.74%) Liquibase
General
1 604 (23.65%) Finance
2 601 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 317 (12.41%) Public Sector
4 280 (10.96%) Banking
5 201 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
6 58 (2.27%) Front Office
7 54 (2.11%) Investment Banking
8 52 (2.04%) Retail
9 48 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
10 40 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 33 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
12 31 (1.21%) Law
13 30 (1.17%) Telecoms
14 26 (1.02%) Financial Institution
14 26 (1.02%) Legal
15 23 (0.90%) Marketing
16 16 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
17 13 (0.51%) Manufacturing
17 13 (0.51%) Military
18 12 (0.47%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 543 (21.26%) Developer
2 442 (17.31%) Senior
3 295 (11.55%) DevOps Engineer
4 280 (10.96%) Architect
5 259 (10.14%) Lead
6 221 (8.65%) Data Engineer
7 153 (5.99%) AWS Engineer
8 152 (5.95%) Azure Engineer
9 133 (5.21%) Cloud Engineer
10 129 (5.05%) Software Engineer
11 120 (4.70%) Java Developer
12 115 (4.50%) Senior Developer
13 108 (4.23%) Platform Engineer
14 88 (3.45%) Full-Stack Developer
15 83 (3.25%) Solutions Architect
16 75 (2.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 69 (2.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 65 (2.55%) Python Developer
19 63 (2.47%) AWS DevOps
20 59 (2.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 339 (13.27%) REST
2 246 (9.63%) React
3 235 (9.20%) .NET
4 232 (9.08%) Kafka
5 209 (8.18%) RESTful
6 201 (7.87%) Spring
7 171 (6.70%) Spring Boot
8 131 (5.13%) Node.js
9 130 (5.09%) PySpark
10 102 (3.99%) AngularJS
11 101 (3.95%) HTML
12 94 (3.68%) Playwright
13 88 (3.45%) CSS
14 77 (3.01%) JSON
15 73 (2.86%) OAuth
16 67 (2.62%) SOAP
17 66 (2.58%) FastAPI
18 58 (2.27%) OAuth2
19 56 (2.19%) GraphQL
20 55 (2.15%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 522 (20.44%) Cloud Native
2 220 (8.61%) Distributed Systems
3 127 (4.97%) Product Ownership
4 91 (3.56%) Onboarding
5 88 (3.45%) AI Agents
6 83 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
7 69 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
8 47 (1.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 41 (1.61%) Algorithms
10 39 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
11 38 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
11 38 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
12 37 (1.45%) Data Structures
12 37 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
12 37 (1.45%) Mobile App
13 36 (1.41%) Virtual Team
14 34 (1.33%) Fixed Income
14 34 (1.33%) Management Information System
15 31 (1.21%) Security Posture
16 26 (1.02%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 181 (7.09%) Linux
2 109 (4.27%) Windows
3 55 (2.15%) Unix
4 33 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 27 (1.06%) Apple iOS
6 26 (1.02%) Android
6 26 (1.02%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.47%) VMS
8 10 (0.39%) Mac OS
8 10 (0.39%) Ubuntu
9 8 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.20%) Solaris
10 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
10 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.078%) AIX
12 2 (0.078%) zOS
13 1 (0.039%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,402 (54.89%) DevOps
2 900 (35.24%) Agile
3 845 (33.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 558 (21.85%) Containerisation
5 541 (21.18%) Test Automation
6 530 (20.75%) AI
7 510 (19.97%) Microservices
8 438 (17.15%) Software Engineering
9 435 (17.03%) Observability
10 369 (14.45%) Analytics
11 341 (13.35%) Problem-Solving
12 335 (13.12%) Data Pipeline
13 321 (12.57%) Data Modelling
14 316 (12.37%) Continuous Improvement
15 303 (11.86%) Platform Engineering
16 302 (11.82%) Data Engineering
17 278 (10.88%) Event-Driven
18 273 (10.69%) Machine Learning
19 262 (10.26%) Migration
20 258 (10.10%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 969 (37.94%) Python
2 684 (26.78%) SQL
3 509 (19.93%) Java
4 266 (10.42%) TypeScript
5 265 (10.38%) C#
6 260 (10.18%) JavaScript
7 195 (7.64%) Bash
8 172 (6.73%) PowerShell
9 100 (3.92%) Bicep
10 62 (2.43%) Go
11 52 (2.04%) Kotlin
12 50 (1.96%) Apex Code
13 46 (1.80%) Shell Script
14 43 (1.68%) Scala
15 35 (1.37%) Ruby
16 31 (1.21%) PL/SQL
17 27 (1.06%) T-SQL
18 19 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 18 (0.70%) Groovy
20 16 (0.63%) C++
Qualifications
1 653 (25.57%) Security Cleared
2 588 (23.02%) SC Cleared
3 135 (5.29%) Degree
4 99 (3.88%) Azure Certification
5 71 (2.78%) DV Cleared
6 68 (2.66%) AWS Certification
7 61 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
8 42 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
9 23 (0.90%) Master's Degree
10 22 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
11 18 (0.70%) CISSP
12 17 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 15 (0.59%) DBS Check
14 13 (0.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 13 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
15 12 (0.47%) CISM
15 12 (0.47%) PhD
16 11 (0.43%) GIAC
16 11 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
17 9 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 227 (8.89%) QA
2 204 (7.99%) Data Quality
3 101 (3.95%) Accessibility
4 58 (2.27%) GDPR
5 48 (1.88%) NIST
6 39 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 34 (1.33%) WCAG
8 23 (0.90%) NCSC
9 19 (0.74%) SLA
10 15 (0.59%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.43%) EU AI Act
11 11 (0.43%) GRC
12 8 (0.31%) SOC 2
13 7 (0.27%) ISO 20022
13 7 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 6 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.20%) PSD2
16 4 (0.16%) COBIT
16 4 (0.16%) MiFID
16 4 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 650 (25.45%) Docker
2 63 (2.47%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
4 28 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.43%) Squid
6 10 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.27%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
10 4 (0.16%) vSphere
11 3 (0.12%) HDFS
12 2 (0.078%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.078%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.078%) KVM
12 2 (0.078%) Postfix
12 2 (0.078%) Varnish
13 1 (0.039%) OpenSSH
13 1 (0.039%) Samba
13 1 (0.039%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 816 (31.95%) Terraform
2 743 (29.09%) Kubernetes
3 199 (7.79%) Grafana
4 187 (7.32%) Ansible
5 165 (6.46%) Prometheus
6 33 (1.29%) Argo
7 27 (1.06%) Puppet
8 22 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
9 19 (0.74%) Kibana
10 18 (0.70%) Packer
11 11 (0.43%) Progress Chef
12 10 (0.39%) Istio
12 10 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
13 8 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
14 7 (0.27%) Kustomize
14 7 (0.27%) SCCM
15 6 (0.23%) vCenter Server
16 5 (0.20%) HP Fortify
16 5 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
16 5 (0.20%) Salt
Vendors
1 376 (14.72%) Microsoft
2 193 (7.56%) Databricks
3 130 (5.09%) Google
4 117 (4.58%) Oracle
5 102 (3.99%) Salesforce
6 88 (3.45%) Splunk
7 58 (2.27%) ServiceNow
8 51 (2.00%) OpenAI
9 43 (1.68%) Dynatrace
10 41 (1.61%) VMware
11 31 (1.21%) IBM
12 30 (1.17%) Foundry
13 28 (1.10%) SAP
14 27 (1.06%) MuleSoft
15 26 (1.02%) Informatica
16 22 (0.86%) Palantir
17 21 (0.82%) Cisco
17 21 (0.82%) Red Hat
18 18 (0.70%) CyberArk
18 18 (0.70%) New Relic