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 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 16 19
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 0
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,666 1,484 1,405
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.29% 11.19% 8.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.91% 12.10% 9.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,798 1,002 978
10th Percentile £400 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £438 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £528 £567
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -6.97% -5.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £788
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 1
10th Percentile £50.25 £30.63 -
25th Percentile £52.19 £36.88 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £48.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -11.36% -26.67%
75th Percentile £74.50 £53.75 -
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.38 -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -13.33%

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 17,877 12,261 14,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.14% 92.47% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,701 8,147 9,784
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 256 190
10th Percentile £17.46 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.94 £24.94 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.75 £35.75
Median % change year-on-year +11.81% -11.19% -10.63%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £85.63 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 3 September 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 +10 341 £550 -10.46% 162
South London +4 66 £538 +1.18% 18
West London +3 51 £560 +15.45% 97
East London +6 12 £590 +9.26% 28
North London - 1 £650 - 1
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
1 131 (4.91%) Apache Airflow
2 113 (4.24%) Confluence
3 103 (3.86%) Apache Spark
4 80 (3.00%) Apache
5 37 (1.39%) SharePoint
6 14 (0.53%) Camunda
6 14 (0.53%) CMS
7 11 (0.41%) nginx
8 10 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
9 8 (0.30%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.26%) Anypoint
11 6 (0.23%) SAS
11 6 (0.23%) WebSphere
12 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.19%) Mule
13 4 (0.15%) Tomcat
14 3 (0.11%) Apache Pulsar
14 3 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
14 3 (0.11%) IIS
14 3 (0.11%) Mendix
Applications
1 18 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.53%) Chatbot
3 10 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.15%) Trello
6 3 (0.11%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.075%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.038%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.038%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 28 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.49%) Aladdin
3 10 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
4 7 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.23%) Shopify
6 5 (0.19%) Magento
7 4 (0.15%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.11%) Endur
8 3 (0.11%) Findur
8 3 (0.11%) SAP CRM
8 3 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
9 2 (0.075%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.075%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.075%) Temenos T24
10 1 (0.038%) Distributed Ledger
10 1 (0.038%) Dynamics AX
10 1 (0.038%) SAP BPC
10 1 (0.038%) SAP IS-U
10 1 (0.038%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,211 (45.42%) Azure
2 1,167 (43.77%) AWS
3 603 (22.62%) GitHub
4 482 (18.08%) Azure DevOps
5 405 (15.19%) GitHub Actions
6 402 (15.08%) GCP
7 320 (12.00%) Serverless
8 240 (9.00%) Amazon S3
9 238 (8.93%) Power Platform
10 208 (7.80%) AWS Lambda
11 152 (5.70%) Amazon EKS
11 152 (5.70%) Snowflake
12 136 (5.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 136 (5.10%) AWS CloudFormation
13 133 (4.99%) dbt
14 127 (4.76%) Entra ID
15 116 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
16 112 (4.20%) Azure AKS
17 111 (4.16%) Azure Data Factory
18 87 (3.26%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 67 (2.51%) Firewall
2 41 (1.54%) Network Security
3 37 (1.39%) DNS
4 35 (1.31%) VPN
5 27 (1.01%) Internet
6 25 (0.94%) TCP/IP
7 23 (0.86%) HTTP
8 21 (0.79%) 5G
9 19 (0.71%) SSL
10 14 (0.53%) WAN
11 13 (0.49%) 3GPP
12 11 (0.41%) Radio Access Network
12 11 (0.41%) SAN
13 9 (0.34%) 4G
13 9 (0.34%) Kerberos
14 8 (0.30%) BGP
14 8 (0.30%) SD-WAN
14 8 (0.30%) SSH
15 7 (0.26%) FTP
16 6 (0.23%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (6.79%) Power BI
2 176 (6.60%) PostgreSQL
3 157 (5.89%) Data Warehouse
4 135 (5.06%) SQL Server
5 126 (4.73%) NoSQL
6 118 (4.43%) Data Lake
7 103 (3.86%) MongoDB
8 99 (3.71%) Relational Database
9 89 (3.34%) Amazon RDS
10 88 (3.30%) Delta Lake
11 86 (3.23%) Metadata
12 72 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
13 71 (2.66%) BigQuery
14 54 (2.03%) Redis
15 51 (1.91%) Amazon Athena
16 47 (1.76%) DynamoDB
17 44 (1.65%) Big Data
18 43 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
19 41 (1.54%) Amazon Aurora
20 38 (1.43%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 496 (18.60%) Git
2 429 (16.09%) Jenkins
3 347 (13.02%) GitLab
4 191 (7.16%) JIRA
5 88 (3.30%) Selenium
6 74 (2.78%) JUnit
7 52 (1.95%) Gradle
8 51 (1.91%) Cypress.io
9 48 (1.80%) JMeter
10 42 (1.58%) Mockito
11 39 (1.46%) Bitbucket
11 39 (1.46%) Maven
12 38 (1.43%) Postman
13 37 (1.39%) Cucumber
13 37 (1.39%) SonarQube
14 33 (1.24%) REST Assured
15 27 (1.01%) CircleCI
16 26 (0.98%) MLflow
17 22 (0.83%) Gatling
18 20 (0.75%) Liquibase
General
1 672 (25.21%) Social Skills
2 649 (24.34%) Finance
3 313 (11.74%) Public Sector
4 302 (11.33%) Banking
5 245 (9.19%) Analytical Skills
6 66 (2.48%) Front Office
7 63 (2.36%) Retail
8 61 (2.29%) Investment Banking
9 45 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 42 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
11 34 (1.28%) Telecoms
12 33 (1.24%) Law
13 32 (1.20%) Marketing
14 31 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
15 26 (0.98%) Financial Institution
16 23 (0.86%) Legal
17 19 (0.71%) Military
18 17 (0.64%) Local Government
19 16 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
20 15 (0.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 576 (21.61%) Developer
2 477 (17.89%) Senior
3 319 (11.97%) DevOps Engineer
4 298 (11.18%) Architect
5 263 (9.86%) Lead
6 253 (9.49%) Data Engineer
7 155 (5.81%) Azure Engineer
8 141 (5.29%) AWS Engineer
9 131 (4.91%) Software Engineer
10 126 (4.73%) Senior Developer
11 121 (4.54%) Cloud Engineer
12 117 (4.39%) Java Developer
13 100 (3.75%) Platform Engineer
14 94 (3.53%) Full-Stack Developer
15 89 (3.34%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 84 (3.15%) Solutions Architect
17 77 (2.89%) Python Developer
18 67 (2.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 66 (2.48%) Azure DevOps Engineer
20 63 (2.36%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 855 (32.07%) Terraform
2 397 (14.89%) REST
3 281 (10.54%) Kafka
4 264 (9.90%) React
5 239 (8.96%) .NET
6 217 (8.14%) RESTful
7 211 (7.91%) Spring
8 183 (6.86%) Spring Boot
9 142 (5.33%) PySpark
10 123 (4.61%) Node.js
11 102 (3.83%) HTML
12 92 (3.45%) CSS
13 89 (3.34%) Playwright
14 88 (3.30%) AngularJS
15 85 (3.19%) JSON
16 76 (2.85%) OAuth
17 75 (2.81%) FastAPI
18 70 (2.63%) SOAP
19 59 (2.21%) OAuth2
20 56 (2.10%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 557 (20.89%) Cloud Native
2 231 (8.66%) Distributed Systems
3 155 (5.81%) Product Ownership
4 121 (4.54%) AI Agents
5 109 (4.09%) Onboarding
6 93 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
7 91 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
8 43 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
9 42 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
10 40 (1.50%) Virtual Team
11 39 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 37 (1.39%) Mobile App
13 36 (1.35%) Management Information System
14 35 (1.31%) Data Structures
14 35 (1.31%) Security Posture
15 34 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
16 33 (1.24%) Algorithms
16 33 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
17 31 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
17 31 (1.16%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 224 (8.40%) Linux
2 110 (4.13%) Windows
3 74 (2.78%) Unix
4 48 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 32 (1.20%) Windows Server
6 29 (1.09%) Android
7 28 (1.05%) Apple iOS
8 16 (0.60%) VMS
9 14 (0.53%) Ubuntu
10 11 (0.41%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
11 7 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
12 6 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.15%) Solaris
13 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.075%) AIX
14 2 (0.075%) CentOS
15 1 (0.038%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,474 (55.29%) DevOps
2 968 (36.31%) Agile
3 906 (33.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 597 (22.39%) AI
5 569 (21.34%) Test Automation
6 561 (21.04%) Containerisation
7 532 (19.95%) Microservices
8 498 (18.68%) Observability
9 475 (17.82%) Software Engineering
10 390 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
11 370 (13.88%) Analytics
12 360 (13.50%) Data Pipeline
13 351 (13.17%) Continuous Improvement
14 342 (12.83%) Data Modelling
15 340 (12.75%) Stakeholder Management
16 339 (12.72%) Data Engineering
17 326 (12.23%) Event-Driven
18 325 (12.19%) Platform Engineering
19 284 (10.65%) Migration
20 278 (10.43%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1,100 (41.26%) Python
2 748 (28.06%) SQL
3 546 (20.48%) Java
4 283 (10.62%) JavaScript
5 271 (10.17%) TypeScript
6 262 (9.83%) C#
7 223 (8.36%) Bash
8 214 (8.03%) PowerShell
9 112 (4.20%) Bicep
10 63 (2.36%) Go
11 54 (2.03%) Kotlin
11 54 (2.03%) Shell Script
12 48 (1.80%) Scala
13 46 (1.73%) Apex Code
14 42 (1.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 34 (1.28%) Ruby
16 32 (1.20%) PL/SQL
17 28 (1.05%) T-SQL
18 26 (0.98%) C++
19 25 (0.94%) Perl
Qualifications
1 693 (25.99%) Security Cleared
2 621 (23.29%) SC Cleared
3 149 (5.59%) Degree
4 103 (3.86%) Azure Certification
5 86 (3.23%) DV Cleared
6 82 (3.08%) AWS Certification
7 71 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
8 53 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 26 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
11 19 (0.71%) CISSP
12 18 (0.68%) Master's Degree
13 15 (0.56%) DBS Check
14 14 (0.53%) ISTQB
15 13 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 13 (0.49%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 12 (0.45%) GIAC
16 12 (0.45%) PhD
17 10 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
17 10 (0.38%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 243 (9.11%) Data Quality
2 238 (8.93%) QA
3 82 (3.08%) Accessibility
4 53 (1.99%) GDPR
5 48 (1.80%) NIST
6 47 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 26 (0.98%) WCAG
8 23 (0.86%) SLA
9 21 (0.79%) NCSC
10 13 (0.49%) ISO 20022
11 11 (0.41%) EU AI Act
11 11 (0.41%) GRC
11 11 (0.41%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.41%) SOC 2
12 7 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 5 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.19%) MiFID
15 4 (0.15%) Basel III
15 4 (0.15%) COBIT
System Software
1 689 (25.84%) Docker
2 62 (2.33%) Active Directory
3 39 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
4 33 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.49%) Squid
6 7 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.23%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
9 4 (0.15%) Postfix
10 3 (0.11%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.075%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.075%) DFS Replication
11 2 (0.075%) Dovecot
11 2 (0.075%) HDFS
11 2 (0.075%) KVM
11 2 (0.075%) Varnish
11 2 (0.075%) vSphere
12 1 (0.038%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 785 (29.44%) Kubernetes
2 213 (7.99%) Grafana
3 197 (7.39%) Ansible
4 174 (6.53%) Prometheus
5 37 (1.39%) Argo
6 33 (1.24%) Puppet
7 24 (0.90%) Kibana
8 20 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (0.68%) Packer
10 17 (0.64%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.45%) Istio
12 10 (0.38%) Control-M
13 9 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
14 7 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
14 7 (0.26%) Karpenter
14 7 (0.26%) Kustomize
14 7 (0.26%) SCCM
15 5 (0.19%) HP Fortify
15 5 (0.19%) Nagios
16 4 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 456 (17.10%) Microsoft
2 241 (9.04%) Databricks
3 147 (5.51%) Google
4 143 (5.36%) Oracle
5 99 (3.71%) Splunk
6 97 (3.64%) Salesforce
7 66 (2.48%) ServiceNow
8 57 (2.14%) OpenAI
9 50 (1.88%) Dynatrace
10 46 (1.73%) VMware
11 40 (1.50%) IBM
12 37 (1.39%) Informatica
13 35 (1.31%) Foundry
14 30 (1.13%) Red Hat
15 26 (0.98%) MuleSoft
15 26 (0.98%) SAP
16 23 (0.86%) New Relic
17 21 (0.79%) Cisco
18 20 (0.75%) CyberArk
18 20 (0.75%) Palantir