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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 18 24
Rank change year-on-year +6 +6 -9
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 1,869 1,380 1,324
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.03% 9.85% 7.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.27% 10.90% 8.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,291 966 1,009
10th Percentile £375 £406 £425
25th Percentile £435 £496 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £711 £700
90th Percentile £725 £810 £800
England median daily rate £515 £560 £568
% change year-on-year -8.04% -1.32% -5.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £36.90 - £56.60
25th Percentile £52.88 - £57.13
Median hourly rate £64.75 - £58.00
75th Percentile £67.38 - £65.38
90th Percentile £68.95 - £69.35
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £73.50
% change year-on-year - -11.56% +12.03%

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 13,093 12,664 16,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.28% 90.41% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,651 8,072 11,558
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 156 277
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.97 £16.48
25th Percentile £24.69 £24.42 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +9.38% -14.35%
75th Percentile £54.38 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £69.49 £80.38 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -12.50% +14.29%

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 18 January 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 18 January 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 18 January 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 +1 213 £550 -4.35% 161
West London +4 61 £603 +30.27% 15
South London +12 59 £525 -2.42% 31
East London -9 9 £450 -12.41% 18
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 76 (4.07%) Confluence
2 68 (3.64%) Apache Spark
3 58 (3.10%) Apache Airflow
4 37 (1.98%) Apache
5 35 (1.87%) SharePoint
6 15 (0.80%) nginx
7 13 (0.70%) CMS
8 11 (0.59%) HCL Notes
9 10 (0.54%) Mendix
10 8 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
11 7 (0.37%) Appian
12 6 (0.32%) SAS
13 5 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 5 (0.27%) Ethereum
13 5 (0.27%) Headless CMS
13 5 (0.27%) Hyperledger
13 5 (0.27%) IIS
14 3 (0.16%) Camunda
15 2 (0.11%) Jupyter
15 2 (0.11%) Traefik
Applications
1 23 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.48%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 7 (0.37%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.16%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.11%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.054%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.32%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.11%) Endur
3 2 (0.11%) Magento
3 2 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.11%) Shopify
4 1 (0.054%) Actimize
4 1 (0.054%) Cerner Millennium
4 1 (0.054%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.054%) Maximo
4 1 (0.054%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.054%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.054%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.054%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.054%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.054%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.054%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.054%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.054%) thinkFolio
4 1 (0.054%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 825 (44.14%) AWS
2 814 (43.55%) Azure
3 454 (24.29%) GitHub
4 313 (16.75%) Azure DevOps
5 312 (16.69%) GitHub Actions
6 308 (16.48%) GCP
7 280 (14.98%) Serverless
8 190 (10.17%) Amazon S3
9 171 (9.15%) AWS Lambda
10 151 (8.08%) AWS CloudFormation
11 140 (7.49%) Power Platform
12 116 (6.21%) Amazon ECS
13 107 (5.72%) Amazon EKS
14 99 (5.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 98 (5.24%) Azure Data Factory
16 90 (4.82%) Azure AKS
17 83 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
18 73 (3.91%) Azure Logic Apps
19 68 (3.64%) Azure Functions
20 64 (3.42%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 84 (4.49%) Firewall
2 56 (3.00%) DNS
3 46 (2.46%) Network Security
4 26 (1.39%) VPN
5 20 (1.07%) HTTP
6 17 (0.91%) SSL
6 17 (0.91%) TCP/IP
7 14 (0.75%) OpenLDAP
8 13 (0.70%) WAN
9 11 (0.59%) SD-WAN
9 11 (0.59%) SSH
10 10 (0.54%) SMTP
11 9 (0.48%) FTP
11 9 (0.48%) IMAP
12 7 (0.37%) DHCP
13 5 (0.27%) BGP
13 5 (0.27%) MPLS
13 5 (0.27%) tcpdump
13 5 (0.27%) Wireshark
14 4 (0.21%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (7.70%) PostgreSQL
2 111 (5.94%) SQL Server
3 108 (5.78%) NoSQL
4 101 (5.40%) Power BI
5 92 (4.92%) Data Lake
6 79 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
7 76 (4.07%) Data Warehouse
8 69 (3.69%) Relational Database
9 67 (3.58%) MongoDB
10 43 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
11 40 (2.14%) BigQuery
12 39 (2.09%) Delta Lake
13 36 (1.93%) MySQL
14 35 (1.87%) Amazon Athena
14 35 (1.87%) DynamoDB
15 33 (1.77%) Big Data
16 32 (1.71%) Metadata
17 31 (1.66%) Amazon Redshift
18 27 (1.44%) Redis
19 26 (1.39%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 356 (19.05%) Jenkins
2 332 (17.76%) Git
3 245 (13.11%) GitLab
4 141 (7.54%) JIRA
5 70 (3.75%) Selenium
6 46 (2.46%) Cucumber
6 46 (2.46%) JUnit
7 42 (2.25%) Cypress.io
8 35 (1.87%) MLflow
8 35 (1.87%) Postman
9 30 (1.61%) SonarQube
10 29 (1.55%) TeamCity
11 28 (1.50%) JMeter
12 25 (1.34%) Maven
13 24 (1.28%) Sonatype Nexus
14 23 (1.23%) Bitbucket
15 19 (1.02%) Gradle
15 19 (1.02%) Mockito
15 19 (1.02%) REST Assured
16 14 (0.75%) Gatling
General
1 497 (26.59%) Social Skills
2 427 (22.85%) Finance
3 211 (11.29%) Banking
4 199 (10.65%) Public Sector
5 138 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
6 45 (2.41%) Front Office
7 44 (2.35%) Investment Banking
8 35 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
9 33 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 31 (1.66%) Financial Institution
11 27 (1.44%) Marketing
12 25 (1.34%) Telecoms
13 21 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
13 21 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
14 18 (0.96%) Retail
15 15 (0.80%) Publishing
16 14 (0.75%) Manufacturing
17 13 (0.70%) Military
18 11 (0.59%) Electronics
19 10 (0.54%) Law
Job Titles
1 482 (25.79%) Developer
2 287 (15.36%) Senior
3 261 (13.96%) DevOps Engineer
4 161 (8.61%) Data Engineer
5 152 (8.13%) Architect
6 120 (6.42%) Lead
7 114 (6.10%) AWS Engineer
8 102 (5.46%) Azure Engineer
9 94 (5.03%) Platform Engineer
10 87 (4.65%) Full-Stack Developer
11 85 (4.55%) Senior Developer
12 81 (4.33%) Java Developer
13 80 (4.28%) Software Engineer
14 69 (3.69%) AWS DevOps
15 66 (3.53%) Cloud Engineer
16 64 (3.42%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 64 (3.42%) Python Engineer
17 58 (3.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 58 (3.10%) Python Developer
18 53 (2.84%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 241 (12.89%) React
2 199 (10.65%) Kafka
3 198 (10.59%) Node.js
4 188 (10.06%) RESTful
5 166 (8.88%) REST
6 163 (8.72%) .NET
7 144 (7.70%) Spring
8 114 (6.10%) Spring Boot
9 105 (5.62%) AngularJS
10 94 (5.03%) CSS
11 91 (4.87%) HTML
12 83 (4.44%) Playwright
13 76 (4.07%) OAuth
14 73 (3.91%) GraphQL
15 69 (3.69%) PySpark
16 64 (3.42%) YAML
17 55 (2.94%) JSON
18 50 (2.68%) FastAPI
19 49 (2.62%) .NET Core
19 49 (2.62%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 357 (19.10%) Cloud Native
2 122 (6.53%) Distributed Systems
3 80 (4.28%) Product Ownership
4 44 (2.35%) Mobile App
5 40 (2.14%) AI Agents
6 39 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
7 37 (1.98%) Onboarding
8 31 (1.66%) Derivative
9 30 (1.61%) Replication
10 29 (1.55%) Public Cloud
11 28 (1.50%) Algorithms
12 27 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
13 25 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 24 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
14 24 (1.28%) Hedge funds
15 23 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
15 23 (1.23%) Data Structures
15 23 (1.23%) Equities
16 22 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
16 22 (1.18%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 175 (9.36%) Linux
2 72 (3.85%) Windows
3 36 (1.93%) Android
3 36 (1.93%) Apple iOS
4 34 (1.82%) VMS
5 26 (1.39%) Unix
6 18 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 15 (0.80%) Windows Server
8 13 (0.70%) Ubuntu
9 9 (0.48%) Amazon Linux
10 7 (0.37%) Solaris
11 6 (0.32%) CentOS
12 5 (0.27%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.21%) zOS
14 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,062 (56.82%) DevOps
2 638 (34.14%) Agile
3 617 (33.01%) Infrastructure as Code
4 425 (22.74%) Containerisation
5 372 (19.90%) Problem-Solving
6 366 (19.58%) Test Automation
7 346 (18.51%) Microservices
8 278 (14.87%) AI
9 266 (14.23%) Observability
10 260 (13.91%) Software Engineering
11 254 (13.59%) Analytics
12 209 (11.18%) Data Pipeline
13 191 (10.22%) Full-Stack Development
14 189 (10.11%) Data Engineering
15 175 (9.36%) Continuous Improvement
16 171 (9.15%) Data Modelling
17 170 (9.10%) Migration
18 169 (9.04%) Machine Learning
19 161 (8.61%) ETL
20 156 (8.35%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 750 (40.13%) Python
2 450 (24.08%) SQL
3 388 (20.76%) Java
4 271 (14.50%) JavaScript
5 242 (12.95%) TypeScript
6 206 (11.02%) C#
7 139 (7.44%) Bash
8 108 (5.78%) PowerShell
9 74 (3.96%) Go
10 68 (3.64%) Bicep
11 47 (2.51%) C++
12 45 (2.41%) Scala
13 29 (1.55%) Ruby
14 25 (1.34%) Kotlin
14 25 (1.34%) Rust
15 24 (1.28%) T-SQL
16 23 (1.23%) PL/SQL
17 18 (0.96%) Groovy
18 16 (0.86%) PHP
18 16 (0.86%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 428 (22.90%) Security Cleared
2 371 (19.85%) SC Cleared
3 121 (6.47%) Degree
4 66 (3.53%) AWS Certification
5 65 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 63 (3.37%) Azure Certification
7 27 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (1.28%) Master's Degree
10 23 (1.23%) MCP
11 20 (1.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 20 (1.07%) DV Cleared
12 18 (0.96%) ISTQB
13 15 (0.80%) CISSP
14 13 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
14 13 (0.70%) Numerate Degree
15 10 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 9 (0.48%) OSCP
17 8 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 8 (0.43%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (7.92%) QA
2 102 (5.46%) Data Quality
3 87 (4.65%) GDPR
4 62 (3.32%) Accessibility
5 45 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 40 (2.14%) NIST
7 25 (1.34%) PCI DSS
8 23 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 19 (1.02%) WCAG
10 17 (0.91%) NCSC
11 11 (0.59%) HIPAA
12 10 (0.54%) SLA
13 6 (0.32%) MiFID
13 6 (0.32%) NIST 800
14 5 (0.27%) EU AI Act
15 4 (0.21%) HL7
15 4 (0.21%) PERC
15 4 (0.21%) SOC 2
16 3 (0.16%) ISO 20022
16 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 621 (33.23%) Docker
2 53 (2.84%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.59%) Squid
6 9 (0.48%) DFS Replication
6 9 (0.48%) Dovecot
6 9 (0.48%) Postfix
7 7 (0.37%) zsh
8 6 (0.32%) vSphere
9 5 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.27%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.21%) NFS
10 4 (0.21%) Veritas File System
10 4 (0.21%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 3 (0.16%) HDFS
11 3 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.054%) etcd
12 1 (0.054%) KVM
Systems Management
1 645 (34.51%) Kubernetes
2 630 (33.71%) Terraform
3 161 (8.61%) Ansible
4 134 (7.17%) Grafana
5 118 (6.31%) Prometheus
6 49 (2.62%) Argo
7 25 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
8 23 (1.23%) Istio
9 19 (1.02%) Progress Chef
10 17 (0.91%) Puppet
11 16 (0.86%) Kibana
12 13 (0.70%) ITRS Geneos
13 10 (0.54%) Nessus
13 10 (0.54%) Rancher
14 9 (0.48%) Proxmox
15 6 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 6 (0.32%) logstash
15 6 (0.32%) Packer
15 6 (0.32%) Red Hat Satellite
16 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 272 (14.55%) Microsoft
2 177 (9.47%) Databricks
3 125 (6.69%) Google
4 72 (3.85%) Oracle
5 54 (2.89%) ServiceNow
6 53 (2.84%) Splunk
7 51 (2.73%) Salesforce
8 48 (2.57%) OpenAI
9 36 (1.93%) Red Hat
10 28 (1.50%) Dynatrace
11 24 (1.28%) VMware
12 17 (0.91%) Cisco
12 17 (0.91%) SAP
13 16 (0.86%) Atlassian
14 15 (0.80%) MuleSoft
14 15 (0.80%) Solace
15 13 (0.70%) Palo Alto
16 12 (0.64%) Adobe
16 12 (0.64%) Apple
16 12 (0.64%) CyberArk