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 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 19 26
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 -11
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 1,818 1,492 1,477
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.80% 9.44% 7.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.88% 10.54% 8.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,237 1,048 1,108
10th Percentile £363 £413 £424
25th Percentile £434 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £583 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.87% -2.92% -4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £700
90th Percentile £713 £800 £800
England median daily rate £519 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -5.73% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 6
10th Percentile £32.75 - £57.13
25th Percentile £42.50 - £59.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £68.50
75th Percentile £66.50 - £74.25
90th Percentile £68.60 - £76.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -13.33% +14.32%

All Process and 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 13,095 14,155 17,663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.23% 89.55% 89.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,599 9,136 12,670
10th Percentile £335 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £799 £799
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 171 240
10th Percentile £18.09 £17.25 £18.56
25th Percentile £24.50 £24.15 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.50 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year -21.33% +4.30% -7.81%
75th Percentile £47.63 £55.88 £60.00
90th Percentile £68.62 £80.75 £75.13
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -30.14% -20.00% +25.00%

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 26 November 2025.

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 26 November 2025.

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 26 November 2025. 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 +1 214 £550 -15.38% 95
South London +8 52 £525 -2.42% 14
West London +4 44 £598 +29.35% 19
East London -4 11 £540 +8.00% 27
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 79 (4.35%) Confluence
2 72 (3.96%) Apache Airflow
3 53 (2.92%) Apache Spark
4 34 (1.87%) Apache
5 23 (1.27%) SharePoint
6 18 (0.99%) nginx
7 14 (0.77%) CMS
8 7 (0.39%) SAS
9 6 (0.33%) Headless CMS
10 5 (0.28%) Camunda
10 5 (0.28%) Ethereum
10 5 (0.28%) Hyperledger
10 5 (0.28%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.22%) Appian
11 4 (0.22%) IIS
11 4 (0.22%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
12 3 (0.17%) Traefik
13 2 (0.11%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 19 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.55%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 5 (0.28%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.17%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.055%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.055%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.66%) Aladdin
3 6 (0.33%) Endur
4 4 (0.22%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.22%) Oracle BPM
4 4 (0.22%) thinkFolio
5 3 (0.17%) FLEXCUBE
5 3 (0.17%) Shopify
6 2 (0.11%) Magento
6 2 (0.11%) Orchestrade
6 2 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.055%) Cerner Millennium
7 1 (0.055%) ION Anvil
7 1 (0.055%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.055%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.055%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.055%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.055%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.055%) Siebel CRM
7 1 (0.055%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 831 (45.71%) AWS
2 747 (41.09%) Azure
3 408 (22.44%) GitHub
4 306 (16.83%) GCP
5 284 (15.62%) GitHub Actions
6 275 (15.13%) Azure DevOps
7 221 (12.16%) Serverless
8 165 (9.08%) Amazon S3
9 137 (7.54%) AWS Lambda
10 123 (6.77%) AWS CloudFormation
11 97 (5.34%) Power Platform
12 90 (4.95%) Amazon ECS
13 87 (4.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 82 (4.51%) Amazon EKS
15 77 (4.24%) Amazon EC2
15 77 (4.24%) Azure AKS
16 70 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
17 67 (3.69%) Azure Monitor
18 63 (3.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 57 (3.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 80 (4.40%) Firewall
2 62 (3.41%) DNS
3 41 (2.26%) Network Security
4 32 (1.76%) VPN
5 24 (1.32%) TCP/IP
6 21 (1.16%) HTTP
7 17 (0.94%) SSL
8 15 (0.83%) OpenLDAP
9 13 (0.72%) SSH
10 12 (0.66%) WAN
11 11 (0.61%) SMTP
12 10 (0.55%) FTP
12 10 (0.55%) IMAP
12 10 (0.55%) SD-WAN
13 8 (0.44%) BGP
14 7 (0.39%) DHCP
15 6 (0.33%) MPLS
15 6 (0.33%) Multicast
15 6 (0.33%) tcpdump
15 6 (0.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (7.76%) PostgreSQL
2 94 (5.17%) NoSQL
3 85 (4.68%) SQL Server
4 84 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
5 71 (3.91%) Amazon RDS
6 66 (3.63%) Power BI
7 63 (3.47%) MongoDB
8 62 (3.41%) Data Lake
9 52 (2.86%) Relational Database
10 44 (2.42%) BigQuery
11 35 (1.93%) DynamoDB
12 32 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
12 32 (1.76%) Delta Lake
13 30 (1.65%) Big Data
14 28 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
15 24 (1.32%) MySQL
16 22 (1.21%) Metadata
16 22 (1.21%) Redis
17 20 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
18 18 (0.99%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 358 (19.69%) Jenkins
2 345 (18.98%) Git
3 214 (11.77%) GitLab
4 147 (8.09%) JIRA
5 69 (3.80%) Selenium
6 52 (2.86%) JUnit
7 50 (2.75%) Cypress.io
8 48 (2.64%) Cucumber
9 42 (2.31%) SonarQube
10 32 (1.76%) Maven
10 32 (1.76%) TeamCity
11 31 (1.71%) Postman
12 30 (1.65%) Bitbucket
13 28 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
14 27 (1.49%) JMeter
15 24 (1.32%) CircleCI
16 23 (1.27%) Artifactory
17 22 (1.21%) Gradle
17 22 (1.21%) Mockito
18 20 (1.10%) MLflow
General
1 496 (27.28%) Social Skills
2 397 (21.84%) Finance
3 207 (11.39%) Banking
4 187 (10.29%) Public Sector
5 162 (8.91%) Analytical Skills
6 55 (3.03%) Investment Banking
7 44 (2.42%) Front Office
8 36 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
9 35 (1.93%) Marketing
10 34 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 30 (1.65%) Telecoms
12 25 (1.38%) Financial Institution
13 20 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
14 18 (0.99%) Retail
15 16 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
16 15 (0.83%) Military
17 14 (0.77%) Law
17 14 (0.77%) Publishing
18 13 (0.72%) Electronics
18 13 (0.72%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 474 (26.07%) Developer
2 290 (15.95%) Senior
3 242 (13.31%) DevOps Engineer
4 155 (8.53%) Architect
5 131 (7.21%) Data Engineer
6 121 (6.66%) Lead
7 113 (6.22%) AWS Engineer
8 106 (5.83%) Java Developer
8 106 (5.83%) Platform Engineer
9 96 (5.28%) Azure Engineer
10 85 (4.68%) Senior Developer
11 82 (4.51%) Full-Stack Developer
12 78 (4.29%) Software Engineer
13 70 (3.85%) AWS DevOps
14 64 (3.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 64 (3.52%) Cloud Engineer
15 62 (3.41%) Python Developer
16 60 (3.30%) Python Engineer
17 55 (3.03%) Consultant
18 46 (2.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 224 (12.32%) React
2 195 (10.73%) Kafka
3 188 (10.34%) Node.js
4 181 (9.96%) RESTful
5 176 (9.68%) REST
6 146 (8.03%) .NET
7 143 (7.87%) Spring
8 107 (5.89%) AngularJS
9 106 (5.83%) Spring Boot
10 98 (5.39%) HTML
11 96 (5.28%) CSS
12 76 (4.18%) Playwright
13 70 (3.85%) GraphQL
14 61 (3.36%) OAuth
15 59 (3.25%) JSON
15 59 (3.25%) YAML
16 51 (2.81%) Vue
17 48 (2.64%) .NET Core
18 47 (2.59%) Jest
19 45 (2.48%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 304 (16.72%) Cloud Native
2 117 (6.44%) Distributed Systems
3 84 (4.62%) Product Ownership
4 61 (3.36%) Mobile App
5 40 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
6 38 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
7 37 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 33 (1.82%) Onboarding
9 32 (1.76%) Hedge funds
9 32 (1.76%) Public Cloud
10 30 (1.65%) Algorithms
11 29 (1.60%) AI Agents
11 29 (1.60%) Replication
12 27 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
13 26 (1.43%) Derivative
13 26 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
14 23 (1.27%) Fixed Income
15 22 (1.21%) Data Centre
15 22 (1.21%) Data Structures
15 22 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 181 (9.96%) Linux
2 62 (3.41%) Windows
3 45 (2.48%) Apple iOS
4 44 (2.42%) Android
5 36 (1.98%) Unix
6 23 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 21 (1.16%) VMS
8 17 (0.94%) Windows Server
9 14 (0.77%) Ubuntu
10 10 (0.55%) Amazon Linux
11 9 (0.50%) Solaris
12 8 (0.44%) CentOS
13 7 (0.39%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.055%) tvOS
14 1 (0.055%) watchOS
14 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.055%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,000 (55.01%) DevOps
2 683 (37.57%) Agile
3 586 (32.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 394 (21.67%) Problem-Solving
5 371 (20.41%) Containerisation
6 356 (19.58%) Test Automation
7 345 (18.98%) Microservices
8 265 (14.58%) Software Engineering
9 225 (12.38%) Observability
10 218 (11.99%) Analytics
11 198 (10.89%) AI
12 196 (10.78%) Data Pipeline
13 172 (9.46%) Full-Stack Development
13 172 (9.46%) Migration
14 167 (9.19%) Data Engineering
15 161 (8.86%) Continuous Improvement
16 156 (8.58%) Machine Learning
17 154 (8.47%) Mentoring
18 150 (8.25%) Platform Engineering
18 150 (8.25%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 733 (40.32%) Python
2 414 (22.77%) Java
3 400 (22.00%) SQL
4 273 (15.02%) JavaScript
5 241 (13.26%) TypeScript
6 210 (11.55%) C#
7 171 (9.41%) Bash
8 119 (6.55%) PowerShell
9 102 (5.61%) Go
10 60 (3.30%) Bicep
11 57 (3.14%) C++
12 33 (1.82%) Kotlin
12 33 (1.82%) Scala
13 29 (1.60%) Rust
14 25 (1.38%) Groovy
15 23 (1.27%) PL/SQL
16 20 (1.10%) T-SQL
17 18 (0.99%) Perl
17 18 (0.99%) Ruby
17 18 (0.99%) Swift
Qualifications
1 383 (21.07%) Security Cleared
2 330 (18.15%) SC Cleared
3 114 (6.27%) Degree
4 63 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 59 (3.25%) AWS Certification
6 52 (2.86%) Azure Certification
7 23 (1.27%) DV Cleared
8 20 (1.10%) Master's Degree
8 20 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
9 19 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 19 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
10 18 (0.99%) CISSP
11 15 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
12 13 (0.72%) ISTQB
13 12 (0.66%) CREST Certified
13 12 (0.66%) OSCP
14 9 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 8 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 8 (0.44%) CCSP
16 7 (0.39%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (7.87%) QA
2 80 (4.40%) Data Quality
3 72 (3.96%) Accessibility
4 71 (3.91%) GDPR
5 46 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 37 (2.04%) NIST
7 21 (1.16%) WCAG
8 16 (0.88%) PCI DSS
9 15 (0.83%) NCSC
10 12 (0.66%) HIPAA
11 9 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 8 (0.44%) MiFID
13 6 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.33%) NIST 800
13 6 (0.33%) SLA
14 5 (0.28%) EU AI Act
15 4 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 4 (0.22%) PERC
15 4 (0.22%) SOC 2
16 3 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 573 (31.52%) Docker
2 49 (2.70%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.61%) Squid
6 10 (0.55%) DFS Replication
6 10 (0.55%) Dovecot
6 10 (0.55%) Postfix
7 9 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (0.50%) zsh
8 5 (0.28%) vSphere
9 4 (0.22%) NFS
9 4 (0.22%) Veritas File System
9 4 (0.22%) Veritas Volume Manager
9 4 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.17%) HDFS
10 3 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.17%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.11%) KVM
12 1 (0.055%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 619 (34.05%) Kubernetes
2 594 (32.67%) Terraform
3 163 (8.97%) Ansible
4 154 (8.47%) Grafana
5 141 (7.76%) Prometheus
6 47 (2.59%) Argo
7 24 (1.32%) Puppet
8 23 (1.27%) Progress Chef
8 23 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
9 17 (0.94%) ITRS Geneos
10 16 (0.88%) Istio
11 14 (0.77%) Kibana
11 14 (0.77%) Nessus
12 10 (0.55%) Proxmox
13 9 (0.50%) Packer
13 9 (0.50%) Rancher
14 7 (0.39%) Kubeflow
14 7 (0.39%) logstash
14 7 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
14 7 (0.39%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 223 (12.27%) Microsoft
2 146 (8.03%) Databricks
3 130 (7.15%) Google
4 72 (3.96%) Oracle
5 59 (3.25%) Splunk
6 48 (2.64%) Salesforce
6 48 (2.64%) ServiceNow
7 36 (1.98%) OpenAI
8 35 (1.93%) Red Hat
9 25 (1.38%) Dynatrace
10 24 (1.32%) VMware
11 21 (1.16%) SAP
12 19 (1.05%) Solace
13 17 (0.94%) Cisco
14 16 (0.88%) Atlassian
15 13 (0.72%) MuleSoft
16 12 (0.66%) Palo Alto
17 10 (0.55%) CyberArk
17 10 (0.55%) Jaspersoft
17 10 (0.55%) Qualys