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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 20 23
Rank change year-on-year +10 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,465 1,319 1,395
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.86% 10.36% 7.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.45% 11.21% 8.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,652 885 1,000
10th Percentile £400 £388 £413
25th Percentile £450 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £538 £573
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -6.11% -8.03%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £825 £813
England median daily rate £525 £515 £556
% change year-on-year +1.94% -7.33% -7.38%
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% -31.25%
75th Percentile £95.00 £53.75 £61.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.50 £64.60
England median hourly rate £66.00 £59.63 £67.50
% change year-on-year +10.69% -11.67% +2.89%

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 17,053 11,769 15,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.98% 92.41% 88.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,360 7,875 11,093
10th Percentile £360 £336 £340
25th Percentile £438 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - -6.34%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 221 300
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.17 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £59.36 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £68.08
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.50 £38.12
% change year-on-year +84.31% -33.11% +1.87%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -1 279 £550 -9.84% 73
West London +4 52 £603 +22.34% 19
South London +1 47 £525 -1.41% 4
East London +7 11 £475 +90.00% 17
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
1 109 (4.42%) Apache Airflow
2 106 (4.30%) Apache Spark
3 86 (3.49%) Confluence
4 70 (2.84%) Apache
5 27 (1.10%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
7 11 (0.45%) Camunda
7 11 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (0.41%) SAS
9 9 (0.37%) WebSphere
10 7 (0.28%) Appian
10 7 (0.28%) CMS
10 7 (0.28%) Ethereum
11 6 (0.24%) Hyperledger
11 6 (0.24%) nginx
11 6 (0.24%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.20%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.16%) Anypoint
13 4 (0.16%) HCL Notes
13 4 (0.16%) Mule
Applications
1 17 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.45%) Chatbot
2 11 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.16%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.081%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.041%) Maya
Business Applications
1 21 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.37%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.28%) Shopify
4 5 (0.20%) Magento
4 5 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.12%) Findur
6 3 (0.12%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.081%) Endur
7 2 (0.081%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.081%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.041%) Distributed Ledger
8 1 (0.041%) ProductWriter
8 1 (0.041%) R3 Corda
8 1 (0.041%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.041%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.041%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.041%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,105 (44.83%) AWS
2 1,091 (44.26%) Azure
3 547 (22.19%) GitHub
4 421 (17.08%) Azure DevOps
5 356 (14.44%) GitHub Actions
6 346 (14.04%) GCP
7 322 (13.06%) Serverless
8 244 (9.90%) Amazon S3
9 214 (8.68%) AWS Lambda
9 214 (8.68%) Power Platform
10 175 (7.10%) AWS CloudFormation
11 135 (5.48%) Amazon EKS
12 120 (4.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 116 (4.71%) Amazon EC2
14 114 (4.62%) Azure AKS
15 112 (4.54%) Azure Data Factory
16 107 (4.34%) Snowflake
17 103 (4.18%) Entra ID
18 100 (4.06%) Amazon ECS
19 94 (3.81%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 75 (3.04%) Firewall
2 49 (1.99%) Network Security
3 35 (1.42%) DNS
4 31 (1.26%) VPN
5 25 (1.01%) HTTP
6 19 (0.77%) Internet
7 16 (0.65%) 5G
7 16 (0.65%) WAN
8 12 (0.49%) SD-WAN
9 11 (0.45%) 3GPP
10 9 (0.37%) SSL
11 8 (0.32%) 4G
11 8 (0.32%) TCP/IP
12 7 (0.28%) BGP
12 7 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
13 6 (0.24%) FTP
13 6 (0.24%) OSPF
14 5 (0.20%) Cisco IOS
14 5 (0.20%) Ethernet VPN
14 5 (0.20%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (6.09%) Power BI
2 146 (5.92%) PostgreSQL
3 135 (5.48%) NoSQL
4 133 (5.40%) Data Lake
5 132 (5.35%) SQL Server
6 121 (4.91%) Data Warehouse
7 93 (3.77%) Relational Database
8 88 (3.57%) MongoDB
9 77 (3.12%) Amazon Redshift
10 75 (3.04%) Amazon RDS
11 71 (2.88%) Amazon Athena
12 69 (2.80%) Delta Lake
13 65 (2.64%) Metadata
14 56 (2.27%) BigQuery
15 52 (2.11%) Big Data
16 51 (2.07%) DynamoDB
17 42 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
18 40 (1.62%) Redis
19 37 (1.50%) Snowflake Schema
20 32 (1.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 436 (17.69%) Git
2 377 (15.29%) Jenkins
3 304 (12.33%) GitLab
4 163 (6.61%) JIRA
5 71 (2.88%) JUnit
6 67 (2.72%) Selenium
7 44 (1.78%) Postman
8 43 (1.74%) Cucumber
8 43 (1.74%) JMeter
9 42 (1.70%) MLflow
10 41 (1.66%) Mockito
11 37 (1.50%) Gradle
11 37 (1.50%) REST Assured
12 30 (1.22%) Cypress.io
13 26 (1.05%) CircleCI
14 25 (1.01%) Bitbucket
14 25 (1.01%) Maven
14 25 (1.01%) SonarQube
15 21 (0.85%) Gatling
16 20 (0.81%) Snyk
General
1 594 (24.10%) Finance
2 578 (23.45%) Social Skills
3 300 (12.17%) Public Sector
4 274 (11.12%) Banking
5 182 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
6 57 (2.31%) Investment Banking
7 56 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
8 50 (2.03%) Front Office
9 46 (1.87%) Retail
10 45 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 41 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
12 28 (1.14%) Financial Institution
12 28 (1.14%) Law
12 28 (1.14%) Telecoms
13 25 (1.01%) Legal
14 22 (0.89%) Marketing
15 16 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
16 14 (0.57%) Publishing
17 12 (0.49%) Manufacturing
17 12 (0.49%) Military
Job Titles
1 508 (20.61%) Developer
2 413 (16.75%) Senior
3 286 (11.60%) DevOps Engineer
4 280 (11.36%) Architect
5 237 (9.61%) Lead
6 226 (9.17%) Data Engineer
7 157 (6.37%) AWS Engineer
8 145 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
9 134 (5.44%) Cloud Engineer
10 121 (4.91%) Software Engineer
11 115 (4.67%) Java Developer
12 103 (4.18%) Platform Engineer
13 98 (3.98%) Senior Developer
14 78 (3.16%) Full-Stack Developer
15 76 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
16 70 (2.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 70 (2.84%) Python Developer
17 66 (2.68%) AWS DevOps
18 62 (2.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 60 (2.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 294 (11.93%) REST
2 240 (9.74%) React
3 232 (9.41%) Kafka
4 220 (8.92%) .NET
5 211 (8.56%) RESTful
6 202 (8.19%) Spring
7 174 (7.06%) Spring Boot
8 132 (5.35%) PySpark
9 121 (4.91%) Node.js
10 112 (4.54%) AngularJS
11 88 (3.57%) OAuth
12 83 (3.37%) HTML
13 75 (3.04%) Playwright
14 70 (2.84%) CSS
15 66 (2.68%) JSON
16 65 (2.64%) FastAPI
17 62 (2.52%) OAuth2
18 57 (2.31%) SOAP
19 56 (2.27%) GraphQL
19 56 (2.27%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 525 (21.30%) Cloud Native
2 189 (7.67%) Distributed Systems
3 114 (4.62%) Product Ownership
4 89 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
5 81 (3.29%) Onboarding
6 70 (2.84%) AI Agents
7 47 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
8 42 (1.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 42 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
9 39 (1.58%) Management Information System
10 36 (1.46%) Mobile App
10 36 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
11 35 (1.42%) Algorithms
11 35 (1.42%) Virtual Team
12 34 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
13 33 (1.34%) Fixed Income
14 32 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
15 31 (1.26%) Security Posture
16 30 (1.22%) Public Cloud
17 28 (1.14%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 168 (6.82%) Linux
2 102 (4.14%) Windows
3 51 (2.07%) Unix
4 25 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (0.97%) Apple iOS
6 23 (0.93%) Android
7 21 (0.85%) Windows Server
8 16 (0.65%) VMS
9 8 (0.32%) Ubuntu
9 8 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.28%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.20%) Solaris
11 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
11 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.16%) zOS
13 2 (0.081%) AIX
13 2 (0.081%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.041%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,342 (54.44%) DevOps
2 827 (33.55%) Infrastructure as Code
3 820 (33.27%) Agile
4 553 (22.43%) Containerisation
5 519 (21.05%) AI
6 499 (20.24%) Test Automation
7 468 (18.99%) Microservices
8 411 (16.67%) Observability
9 382 (15.50%) Software Engineering
10 380 (15.42%) Analytics
11 324 (13.14%) Problem-Solving
12 323 (13.10%) Data Modelling
13 318 (12.90%) Data Pipeline
14 306 (12.41%) Data Engineering
15 291 (11.81%) Continuous Improvement
16 284 (11.52%) Platform Engineering
17 275 (11.16%) Machine Learning
18 253 (10.26%) Migration
19 246 (9.98%) Event-Driven
20 237 (9.61%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 952 (38.62%) Python
2 680 (27.59%) SQL
3 478 (19.39%) Java
4 275 (11.16%) C#
5 245 (9.94%) TypeScript
6 237 (9.61%) JavaScript
7 170 (6.90%) Bash
8 155 (6.29%) PowerShell
9 96 (3.89%) Bicep
10 52 (2.11%) Scala
11 50 (2.03%) Go
12 43 (1.74%) Apex Code
13 40 (1.62%) Kotlin
13 40 (1.62%) Shell Script
14 35 (1.42%) Ruby
15 28 (1.14%) T-SQL
16 26 (1.05%) PL/SQL
17 15 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 14 (0.57%) SOQL
19 13 (0.53%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 621 (25.19%) Security Cleared
2 556 (22.56%) SC Cleared
3 130 (5.27%) Degree
4 94 (3.81%) Azure Certification
5 71 (2.88%) AWS Certification
6 58 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 57 (2.31%) DV Cleared
8 39 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
9 26 (1.05%) Master's Degree
10 22 (0.89%) CISSP
11 21 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 21 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
12 16 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
13 15 (0.61%) DBS Check
14 12 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 12 (0.49%) CISM
14 12 (0.49%) GIAC
14 12 (0.49%) ISTQB
14 12 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
15 9 (0.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 209 (8.48%) QA
2 192 (7.79%) Data Quality
3 89 (3.61%) Accessibility
4 68 (2.76%) NIST
5 67 (2.72%) GDPR
6 56 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (1.30%) NCSC
8 28 (1.14%) WCAG
9 26 (1.05%) PCI DSS
10 22 (0.89%) SLA
11 10 (0.41%) EU AI Act
11 10 (0.41%) GRC
12 9 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 8 (0.32%) ISO 20022
14 6 (0.24%) COBIT
14 6 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.24%) PSD2
14 6 (0.24%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 5 (0.20%) SEPA
System Software
1 651 (26.41%) Docker
2 59 (2.39%) Active Directory
3 36 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.37%) Squid
7 6 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
8 5 (0.20%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.12%) vSphere
10 2 (0.081%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.081%) HDFS
10 2 (0.081%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.081%) Postfix
11 1 (0.041%) IAG
11 1 (0.041%) OpenSSH
11 1 (0.041%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
11 1 (0.041%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 806 (32.70%) Terraform
2 744 (30.18%) Kubernetes
3 175 (7.10%) Ansible
4 170 (6.90%) Grafana
5 151 (6.13%) Prometheus
6 25 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (0.97%) Puppet
8 20 (0.81%) Argo
9 18 (0.73%) Kibana
10 14 (0.57%) Packer
11 12 (0.49%) Istio
11 12 (0.49%) Progress Chef
12 8 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
13 6 (0.24%) Kustomize
13 6 (0.24%) SCCM
14 5 (0.20%) HP Fortify
14 5 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
14 5 (0.20%) Salt
15 4 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 349 (14.16%) Microsoft
2 190 (7.71%) Databricks
3 107 (4.34%) Google
4 100 (4.06%) Oracle
5 93 (3.77%) Salesforce
6 87 (3.53%) Splunk
7 58 (2.35%) ServiceNow
8 56 (2.27%) OpenAI
9 39 (1.58%) Dynatrace
10 30 (1.22%) VMware
11 27 (1.10%) Informatica
12 26 (1.05%) Foundry
13 25 (1.01%) IBM
14 24 (0.97%) CyberArk
14 24 (0.97%) Red Hat
14 24 (0.97%) SAP
15 23 (0.93%) MuleSoft
16 21 (0.85%) Palantir
17 18 (0.73%) Cisco
18 13 (0.53%) Sybase