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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 18 21
Rank change year-on-year +8 +3 -4
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,523 1,420 1,379
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.75% 10.48% 8.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.34% 11.37% 9.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,696 947 981
10th Percentile £400 £375 £410
25th Percentile £455 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £567
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -6.53% -5.50%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £688
90th Percentile £738 £800 £813
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 3
10th Percentile £50.25 £38.00 £48.40
25th Percentile £55.00 £42.50 £50.88
Median hourly rate £68.50 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.48% -4.55% -26.67%
75th Percentile £95.00 £53.75 £61.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.50 £64.60
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% -2.99% +2.13%

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 17,589 12,488 14,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.92% 92.12% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,618 8,349 10,661
10th Percentile £363 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
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 276 238 247
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £21.41 £24.66 £21.05
Median hourly rate £36.00 £30.40 £33.55
Median % change year-on-year +18.41% -9.38% -19.16%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.25
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.43%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 +3 299 £550 -12.00% 126
South London +3 55 £541 -0.07% 8
West London +13 53 £560 +13.71% 23
East London +5 11 £543 +40.91% 22
North London - 1 £650 - 2
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
1 114 (4.52%) Apache Airflow
2 100 (3.96%) Confluence
3 93 (3.69%) Apache Spark
4 69 (2.73%) Apache
5 26 (1.03%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
7 10 (0.40%) Camunda
7 10 (0.40%) SAS
8 9 (0.36%) WebSphere
9 8 (0.32%) CMS
9 8 (0.32%) nginx
9 8 (0.32%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.28%) Ethereum
10 7 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.24%) Hyperledger
12 5 (0.20%) Anypoint
12 5 (0.20%) Mule
12 5 (0.20%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.16%) Appian
14 3 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 16 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.40%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.16%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.079%) CPLEX
5 2 (0.079%) Trello
6 1 (0.040%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.040%) Maya
Business Applications
1 22 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.44%) Aladdin
3 8 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.28%) Shopify
5 6 (0.24%) 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%) SAP BPC
9 2 (0.079%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.079%) SAP CRM
9 2 (0.079%) Temenos T24
10 1 (0.040%) Distributed Ledger
10 1 (0.040%) R3 Corda
10 1 (0.040%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.040%) SAP ERP
10 1 (0.040%) SAP IS-U
10 1 (0.040%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,119 (44.35%) Azure
2 1,107 (43.88%) AWS
3 559 (22.16%) GitHub
4 427 (16.92%) Azure DevOps
5 372 (14.74%) GitHub Actions
6 366 (14.51%) GCP
7 301 (11.93%) Serverless
8 244 (9.67%) Amazon S3
9 215 (8.52%) Power Platform
10 200 (7.93%) AWS Lambda
11 146 (5.79%) AWS CloudFormation
12 139 (5.51%) Amazon EKS
13 113 (4.48%) Azure AKS
13 113 (4.48%) Snowflake
14 112 (4.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 112 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
14 112 (4.44%) Entra ID
15 104 (4.12%) Azure Data Factory
16 103 (4.08%) dbt
17 86 (3.41%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 69 (2.73%) Firewall
2 43 (1.70%) Network Security
3 34 (1.35%) DNS
4 31 (1.23%) VPN
5 29 (1.15%) HTTP
6 24 (0.95%) Internet
7 19 (0.75%) 5G
8 15 (0.59%) TCP/IP
9 14 (0.55%) WAN
10 11 (0.44%) 4G
11 10 (0.40%) 3GPP
11 10 (0.40%) SSL
12 9 (0.36%) SD-WAN
13 8 (0.32%) Radio Access Network
14 7 (0.28%) BGP
14 7 (0.28%) LTE
15 6 (0.24%) Cisco IOS
15 6 (0.24%) FTP
16 5 (0.20%) Ethernet VPN
16 5 (0.20%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (6.10%) Power BI
2 140 (5.55%) PostgreSQL
3 124 (4.91%) Data Lake
3 124 (4.91%) Data Warehouse
3 124 (4.91%) NoSQL
4 121 (4.80%) SQL Server
5 85 (3.37%) Relational Database
6 83 (3.29%) MongoDB
7 75 (2.97%) Amazon Redshift
8 71 (2.81%) Delta Lake
9 69 (2.73%) Metadata
10 67 (2.66%) Amazon RDS
11 65 (2.58%) Amazon Athena
12 59 (2.34%) BigQuery
13 50 (1.98%) DynamoDB
14 47 (1.86%) Big Data
15 39 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
16 38 (1.51%) Snowflake Schema
17 36 (1.43%) Redis
18 28 (1.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 449 (17.80%) Git
2 386 (15.30%) Jenkins
3 297 (11.77%) GitLab
4 181 (7.17%) JIRA
5 73 (2.89%) Selenium
6 72 (2.85%) JUnit
7 44 (1.74%) Cucumber
7 44 (1.74%) Cypress.io
8 43 (1.70%) JMeter
9 41 (1.63%) Gradle
10 39 (1.55%) Mockito
11 38 (1.51%) Postman
12 37 (1.47%) REST Assured
13 35 (1.39%) MLflow
14 31 (1.23%) Maven
15 30 (1.19%) Bitbucket
16 29 (1.15%) SonarQube
17 27 (1.07%) CircleCI
18 23 (0.91%) Gatling
19 19 (0.75%) Liquibase
General
1 597 (23.66%) Finance
2 589 (23.35%) Social Skills
3 309 (12.25%) Public Sector
4 275 (10.90%) Banking
5 201 (7.97%) Analytical Skills
6 56 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
7 54 (2.14%) Front Office
8 53 (2.10%) Investment Banking
9 51 (2.02%) Retail
10 42 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 38 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
12 29 (1.15%) Telecoms
13 28 (1.11%) Law
14 27 (1.07%) Legal
15 25 (0.99%) Financial Institution
16 22 (0.87%) Marketing
17 15 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
18 13 (0.52%) Manufacturing
18 13 (0.52%) Military
19 11 (0.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 533 (21.13%) Developer
2 434 (17.20%) Senior
3 293 (11.61%) DevOps Engineer
4 280 (11.10%) Architect
5 258 (10.23%) Lead
6 220 (8.72%) Data Engineer
7 152 (6.02%) AWS Engineer
8 145 (5.75%) Azure Engineer
9 132 (5.23%) Cloud Engineer
10 121 (4.80%) Software Engineer
11 117 (4.64%) Java Developer
12 110 (4.36%) Senior Developer
13 100 (3.96%) Platform Engineer
14 87 (3.45%) Full-Stack Developer
15 79 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
16 71 (2.81%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 65 (2.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 64 (2.54%) AWS DevOps
18 64 (2.54%) Python Developer
19 60 (2.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 322 (12.76%) REST
2 244 (9.67%) React
3 234 (9.27%) .NET
4 230 (9.12%) Kafka
5 203 (8.05%) RESTful
6 195 (7.73%) Spring
7 166 (6.58%) Spring Boot
8 130 (5.15%) Node.js
9 128 (5.07%) PySpark
10 109 (4.32%) AngularJS
11 98 (3.88%) HTML
12 92 (3.65%) Playwright
13 85 (3.37%) CSS
14 73 (2.89%) JSON
14 73 (2.89%) OAuth
15 63 (2.50%) FastAPI
16 61 (2.42%) SOAP
17 57 (2.26%) OAuth2
18 56 (2.22%) GraphQL
19 55 (2.18%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 516 (20.45%) Cloud Native
2 210 (8.32%) Distributed Systems
3 123 (4.88%) Product Ownership
4 91 (3.61%) Onboarding
5 85 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
6 81 (3.21%) AI Agents
7 62 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
8 45 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 43 (1.70%) Algorithms
10 40 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
11 38 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
12 37 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
12 37 (1.47%) Mobile App
12 37 (1.47%) Virtual Team
13 36 (1.43%) Management Information System
14 34 (1.35%) Data Structures
14 34 (1.35%) Fixed Income
15 33 (1.31%) Security Posture
16 32 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
17 28 (1.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 175 (6.94%) Linux
2 105 (4.16%) Windows
3 54 (2.14%) Unix
4 32 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 27 (1.07%) Apple iOS
6 26 (1.03%) Android
6 26 (1.03%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.48%) VMS
8 10 (0.40%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.32%) Ubuntu
9 8 (0.32%) 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 (0.079%) AIX
12 2 (0.079%) zOS
13 1 (0.040%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,381 (54.74%) DevOps
2 882 (34.96%) Agile
3 829 (32.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 546 (21.64%) Containerisation
5 541 (21.44%) Test Automation
6 524 (20.77%) AI
7 501 (19.86%) Microservices
8 420 (16.65%) Observability
9 411 (16.29%) Software Engineering
10 364 (14.43%) Analytics
11 337 (13.36%) Data Pipeline
12 335 (13.28%) Problem-Solving
13 315 (12.49%) Data Modelling
14 310 (12.29%) Continuous Improvement
15 300 (11.89%) Data Engineering
16 294 (11.65%) Platform Engineering
17 272 (10.78%) Machine Learning
18 263 (10.42%) Event-Driven
19 257 (10.19%) Migration
20 254 (10.07%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 962 (38.13%) Python
2 675 (26.75%) SQL
3 489 (19.38%) Java
4 269 (10.66%) TypeScript
5 268 (10.62%) C#
6 255 (10.11%) JavaScript
7 185 (7.33%) Bash
8 168 (6.66%) PowerShell
9 96 (3.80%) Bicep
10 58 (2.30%) Go
11 50 (1.98%) Kotlin
12 48 (1.90%) Apex Code
13 45 (1.78%) Scala
13 45 (1.78%) Shell Script
14 36 (1.43%) Ruby
15 29 (1.15%) PL/SQL
16 27 (1.07%) T-SQL
17 17 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 16 (0.63%) SOQL
18 16 (0.63%) Swift
Qualifications
1 649 (25.72%) Security Cleared
2 586 (23.23%) SC Cleared
3 134 (5.31%) Degree
4 98 (3.88%) Azure Certification
5 69 (2.73%) AWS Certification
6 68 (2.70%) DV Cleared
7 59 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
8 44 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 25 (0.99%) Master's Degree
10 21 (0.83%) CISSP
10 21 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
11 17 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 15 (0.59%) DBS Check
13 14 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 14 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
14 13 (0.52%) CISM
15 12 (0.48%) GIAC
15 12 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
16 10 (0.40%) PhD
17 8 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 223 (8.84%) QA
2 202 (8.01%) Data Quality
3 100 (3.96%) Accessibility
4 60 (2.38%) GDPR
5 57 (2.26%) NIST
6 48 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 33 (1.31%) WCAG
8 30 (1.19%) NCSC
9 19 (0.75%) SLA
10 17 (0.67%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.44%) EU AI Act
11 11 (0.44%) GRC
12 9 (0.36%) SOC 2
13 7 (0.28%) ISO 20022
13 7 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 6 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.20%) PSD2
16 4 (0.16%) COBIT
16 4 (0.16%) MiFID
16 4 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 638 (25.29%) Docker
2 64 (2.54%) Active Directory
3 38 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
4 25 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.44%) Squid
6 10 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.28%) 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 (0.079%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.079%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.079%) KVM
12 2 (0.079%) Postfix
13 1 (0.040%) IAG
13 1 (0.040%) OpenSSH
13 1 (0.040%) Samba
13 1 (0.040%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 800 (31.71%) Terraform
2 732 (29.01%) Kubernetes
3 194 (7.69%) Grafana
4 180 (7.13%) Ansible
5 157 (6.22%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.19%) Argo
7 26 (1.03%) Puppet
8 22 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
9 19 (0.75%) Kibana
10 17 (0.67%) Packer
11 11 (0.44%) Istio
12 10 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
12 10 (0.40%) Progress Chef
13 8 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
14 7 (0.28%) Kustomize
14 7 (0.28%) SCCM
15 6 (0.24%) vCenter Server
16 5 (0.20%) HP Fortify
16 5 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
16 5 (0.20%) Salt
Vendors
1 370 (14.67%) Microsoft
2 190 (7.53%) Databricks
3 123 (4.88%) Google
4 114 (4.52%) Oracle
5 98 (3.88%) Salesforce
6 92 (3.65%) Splunk
7 56 (2.22%) ServiceNow
8 51 (2.02%) OpenAI
9 39 (1.55%) Dynatrace
10 37 (1.47%) VMware
11 30 (1.19%) Foundry
11 30 (1.19%) IBM
12 26 (1.03%) Informatica
12 26 (1.03%) MuleSoft
12 26 (1.03%) SAP
13 23 (0.91%) CyberArk
14 22 (0.87%) Palantir
15 21 (0.83%) Cisco
15 21 (0.83%) Red Hat
16 15 (0.59%) Okta