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 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 20 23
Rank change year-on-year +9 +3 -8
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,219 1,265 1,313
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.40% 10.06% 7.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.03% 10.91% 8.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,491 879 959
10th Percentile £400 £394 £413
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -2.22% -9.64%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £688
90th Percentile £750 £838 £788
England median daily rate £525 £525 £554
% change year-on-year - -5.29% -7.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 4
10th Percentile £50.25 £38.25 £49.23
25th Percentile £61.19 £43.13 £52.94
Median hourly rate £67.50 £52.50 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -6.67% -29.69%
75th Percentile £90.00 £53.75 £60.81
90th Percentile £95.25 - £64.53
England median hourly rate £66.00 £61.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +7.76% -5.77% -0.92%

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 15,818 11,593 15,688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.37% 92.21% 88.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,577 7,857 11,245
10th Percentile £356 £350 £340
25th Percentile £430 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £681
90th Percentile £758 £813 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 176 315
10th Percentile £18.70 £16.50 £15.97
25th Percentile £23.66 £22.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.61 £34.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% +22.32% -28.21%
75th Percentile £58.57 £50.56 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.30
England median hourly rate £46.80 £29.15 £36.50
% change year-on-year +60.55% -20.14% -2.14%

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 10 May 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 10 May 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 10 May 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 -2 253 £572 -0.52% 206
West London +11 69 £603 +52.53% 23
South London +1 57 £525 +6.06% 5
East London +1 11 £450 +80.00% 21
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
1 109 (4.91%) Apache Spark
2 83 (3.74%) Apache Airflow
3 63 (2.84%) Apache
4 60 (2.70%) Confluence
5 28 (1.26%) SharePoint
6 11 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (0.45%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.45%) Mendix
8 9 (0.41%) Camunda
9 8 (0.36%) Appian
9 8 (0.36%) OpenStack
9 8 (0.36%) SAS
10 7 (0.32%) Ethereum
10 7 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
11 6 (0.27%) Hyperledger
11 6 (0.27%) IIS
12 5 (0.23%) CMS
12 5 (0.23%) nginx
12 5 (0.23%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.23%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.14%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.045%) Maya
Business Applications
1 16 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.32%) Aladdin
3 6 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.14%) Findur
5 3 (0.14%) Magento
5 3 (0.14%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.14%) Shopify
6 2 (0.090%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.090%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.045%) Actimize
7 1 (0.045%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.045%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.045%) ProductWriter
7 1 (0.045%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.045%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.045%) SDL Web 8
7 1 (0.045%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 1,033 (46.55%) Azure
2 979 (44.12%) AWS
3 517 (23.30%) GitHub
4 405 (18.25%) Azure DevOps
5 340 (15.32%) GCP
6 332 (14.96%) GitHub Actions
7 299 (13.47%) Serverless
8 216 (9.73%) Amazon S3
9 198 (8.92%) AWS CloudFormation
10 193 (8.70%) Power Platform
11 191 (8.61%) AWS Lambda
12 131 (5.90%) Amazon EKS
13 130 (5.86%) Azure Data Factory
14 119 (5.36%) Amazon ECS
15 110 (4.96%) Azure AKS
16 100 (4.51%) Amazon EC2
17 97 (4.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 95 (4.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 88 (3.97%) Snowflake
20 86 (3.88%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 80 (3.61%) Firewall
2 48 (2.16%) Network Security
3 37 (1.67%) DNS
4 26 (1.17%) HTTP
5 23 (1.04%) VPN
6 14 (0.63%) WAN
7 13 (0.59%) SD-WAN
8 8 (0.36%) 3GPP
8 8 (0.36%) 5G
9 7 (0.32%) BGP
9 7 (0.32%) SSL
10 6 (0.27%) OSPF
11 5 (0.23%) Ethernet VPN
11 5 (0.23%) FTP
11 5 (0.23%) Internet
11 5 (0.23%) LTE
11 5 (0.23%) MPLS
11 5 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (0.23%) VXLAN
12 4 (0.18%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (6.58%) Data Lake
2 138 (6.22%) PostgreSQL
3 137 (6.17%) SQL Server
4 133 (5.99%) Power BI
5 121 (5.45%) NoSQL
6 100 (4.51%) Data Warehouse
7 81 (3.65%) Relational Database
8 80 (3.61%) MongoDB
9 70 (3.15%) Delta Lake
10 66 (2.97%) Amazon RDS
11 63 (2.84%) Metadata
12 61 (2.75%) Amazon Athena
13 56 (2.52%) BigQuery
14 55 (2.48%) Amazon Redshift
14 55 (2.48%) Big Data
15 50 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
16 41 (1.85%) DynamoDB
17 36 (1.62%) Snowflake Schema
18 32 (1.44%) Redis
19 29 (1.31%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 393 (17.71%) Git
2 368 (16.58%) Jenkins
3 260 (11.72%) GitLab
4 127 (5.72%) JIRA
5 71 (3.20%) Selenium
6 61 (2.75%) JUnit
7 51 (2.30%) MLflow
8 45 (2.03%) Cucumber
8 45 (2.03%) Postman
9 36 (1.62%) JMeter
9 36 (1.62%) Mockito
10 31 (1.40%) REST Assured
11 27 (1.22%) Cypress.io
12 22 (0.99%) Bitbucket
12 22 (0.99%) Gradle
13 20 (0.90%) Artifactory
14 18 (0.81%) SonarQube
15 17 (0.77%) CircleCI
16 16 (0.72%) Appium
16 16 (0.72%) Liquibase
General
1 531 (23.93%) Social Skills
2 529 (23.84%) Finance
3 265 (11.94%) Public Sector
4 219 (9.87%) Banking
5 175 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
6 49 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
7 46 (2.07%) Front Office
8 39 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
9 38 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 35 (1.58%) Investment Banking
11 29 (1.31%) Financial Institution
12 28 (1.26%) Retail
13 21 (0.95%) Legal
13 21 (0.95%) Telecoms
14 17 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
15 15 (0.68%) Law
15 15 (0.68%) Publishing
16 13 (0.59%) Marketing
17 12 (0.54%) Manufacturing
18 10 (0.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 490 (22.08%) Developer
2 360 (16.22%) Senior
3 257 (11.58%) Architect
4 235 (10.59%) DevOps Engineer
5 223 (10.05%) Data Engineer
6 197 (8.88%) Lead
7 141 (6.35%) Azure Engineer
8 119 (5.36%) AWS Engineer
9 117 (5.27%) Cloud Engineer
10 102 (4.60%) Software Engineer
11 94 (4.24%) Java Developer
11 94 (4.24%) Platform Engineer
12 87 (3.92%) Senior Developer
13 72 (3.24%) Full-Stack Developer
14 70 (3.15%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 63 (2.84%) Python Developer
16 61 (2.75%) Solutions Architect
17 53 (2.39%) AWS DevOps
17 53 (2.39%) Security Engineer
18 52 (2.34%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 224 (10.09%) Kafka
2 222 (10.00%) React
3 217 (9.78%) REST
4 203 (9.15%) .NET
5 192 (8.65%) RESTful
6 187 (8.43%) Spring
7 167 (7.53%) Spring Boot
8 149 (6.71%) Node.js
9 118 (5.32%) AngularJS
10 114 (5.14%) PySpark
11 88 (3.97%) HTML
12 82 (3.70%) Playwright
13 73 (3.29%) CSS
14 70 (3.15%) OAuth
15 57 (2.57%) Pandas
16 56 (2.52%) YAML
17 54 (2.43%) FastAPI
18 51 (2.30%) OpenTelemetry
19 49 (2.21%) GraphQL
20 45 (2.03%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 462 (20.82%) Cloud Native
2 157 (7.08%) Distributed Systems
3 108 (4.87%) Product Ownership
4 72 (3.24%) Legacy Systems
5 71 (3.20%) Onboarding
6 41 (1.85%) AI Agents
7 39 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
8 37 (1.67%) Algorithms
9 33 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
10 32 (1.44%) Equities
10 32 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 32 (1.44%) Mobile App
10 32 (1.44%) Public Cloud
11 30 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
12 29 (1.31%) Virtual Team
13 28 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
13 28 (1.26%) Fixed Income
14 27 (1.22%) Management Information System
14 27 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
15 26 (1.17%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 151 (6.80%) Linux
2 91 (4.10%) Windows
3 37 (1.67%) Unix
4 27 (1.22%) Android
4 27 (1.22%) Apple iOS
5 25 (1.13%) VMS
6 16 (0.72%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (0.23%) zOS
9 4 (0.18%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.18%) Solaris
9 4 (0.18%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.090%) AIX
10 2 (0.090%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,234 (55.61%) DevOps
2 762 (34.34%) Infrastructure as Code
3 720 (32.45%) Agile
4 523 (23.57%) Containerisation
5 458 (20.64%) Test Automation
6 438 (19.74%) AI
7 432 (19.47%) Microservices
8 373 (16.81%) Observability
9 369 (16.63%) Analytics
10 317 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
11 308 (13.88%) Software Engineering
12 304 (13.70%) Data Modelling
13 286 (12.89%) Data Pipeline
14 271 (12.21%) Data Engineering
15 262 (11.81%) Continuous Improvement
16 245 (11.04%) Machine Learning
17 230 (10.37%) ETL
18 220 (9.91%) Migration
19 219 (9.87%) Platform Engineering
20 207 (9.33%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 857 (38.62%) Python
2 633 (28.53%) SQL
3 426 (19.20%) Java
4 256 (11.54%) C#
5 247 (11.13%) JavaScript
6 239 (10.77%) TypeScript
7 135 (6.08%) Bash
8 128 (5.77%) PowerShell
9 87 (3.92%) Bicep
10 60 (2.70%) Scala
11 44 (1.98%) Go
12 40 (1.80%) Ruby
13 37 (1.67%) Shell Script
14 35 (1.58%) Apex Code
15 32 (1.44%) Kotlin
15 32 (1.44%) PL/SQL
16 29 (1.31%) T-SQL
17 18 (0.81%) C++
18 14 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 14 (0.63%) R
Qualifications
1 570 (25.69%) Security Cleared
2 512 (23.07%) SC Cleared
3 121 (5.45%) Degree
4 91 (4.10%) Azure Certification
5 68 (3.06%) AWS Certification
6 65 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
7 38 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 35 (1.58%) DV Cleared
9 26 (1.17%) Master's Degree
10 23 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
11 20 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 17 (0.77%) CISSP
12 17 (0.77%) ISTQB
13 14 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
14 12 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 12 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
15 11 (0.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 9 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 8 (0.36%) CCSP
17 8 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 191 (8.61%) QA
2 174 (7.84%) Data Quality
3 82 (3.70%) GDPR
4 64 (2.88%) Accessibility
5 60 (2.70%) NIST
6 54 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 30 (1.35%) NCSC
8 27 (1.22%) PCI DSS
9 23 (1.04%) WCAG
10 22 (0.99%) SLA
11 18 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.41%) ISO 20022
13 7 (0.32%) MiFID
14 6 (0.27%) GRC
14 6 (0.27%) PSD2
15 5 (0.23%) SOC 2
16 4 (0.18%) COBIT
16 4 (0.18%) HL7
16 4 (0.18%) NIST 800
16 4 (0.18%) SEPA
System Software
1 617 (27.81%) Docker
2 55 (2.48%) Active Directory
3 38 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.27%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.23%) Squid
7 5 (0.23%) vSphere
8 4 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
8 4 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
8 4 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.090%) HDFS
9 2 (0.090%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.045%) IAG
10 1 (0.045%) OpenSSH
10 1 (0.045%) Postfix
10 1 (0.045%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 1 (0.045%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 734 (33.08%) Terraform
2 679 (30.60%) Kubernetes
3 152 (6.85%) Grafana
4 148 (6.67%) Ansible
5 132 (5.95%) Prometheus
6 31 (1.40%) Argo
7 24 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (0.99%) Puppet
9 21 (0.95%) Istio
10 15 (0.68%) Kibana
11 11 (0.50%) Progress Chef
12 9 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
12 9 (0.41%) Packer
13 7 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 6 (0.27%) SCCM
15 5 (0.23%) Kustomize
15 5 (0.23%) Rancher
16 4 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
16 4 (0.18%) Opsgenie
16 4 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 353 (15.91%) Microsoft
2 199 (8.97%) Databricks
3 114 (5.14%) Google
4 95 (4.28%) Oracle
5 76 (3.42%) Salesforce
6 75 (3.38%) Splunk
7 54 (2.43%) OpenAI
8 53 (2.39%) ServiceNow
9 29 (1.31%) Dynatrace
10 23 (1.04%) CyberArk
10 23 (1.04%) VMware
11 22 (0.99%) MuleSoft
12 21 (0.95%) Foundry
13 20 (0.90%) Red Hat
14 19 (0.86%) SAP
15 18 (0.81%) IBM
16 15 (0.68%) Cisco
17 13 (0.59%) Informatica
18 12 (0.54%) Okta
19 11 (0.50%) UiPath