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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 20 23
Rank change year-on-year +9 +3 -7
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,206 1,232 1,293
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.34% 9.94% 7.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.98% 10.77% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,480 852 939
10th Percentile £400 £394 £413
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £558
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -1.35% -10.44%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £688
90th Percentile £750 £838 £790
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 4
10th Percentile £49.25 £38.25 £49.23
25th Percentile £61.00 £43.13 £52.94
Median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +27.62% -6.67% -29.69%
75th Percentile £95.00 £53.75 £60.81
90th Percentile £95.50 - £64.53
England median hourly rate £66.00 £58.38 £67.00
% change year-on-year +13.06% -12.87% +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 15,783 11,435 15,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.30% 92.26% 88.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,560 7,742 11,125
10th Percentile £356 £350 £346
25th Percentile £431 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £755 £813 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 176 311
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.17 £15.95
25th Percentile £25.15 £22.86 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £34.00 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +5.03% +22.13% -28.62%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £48.66
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.50
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.07 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.68% -20.36% -2.67%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -2 248 £572 -0.52% 199
West London +11 69 £603 +52.53% 22
South London +2 50 £530 +7.07% 3
East London +4 11 £450 +80.00% 28
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
1 108 (4.90%) Apache Spark
2 86 (3.90%) Apache Airflow
3 64 (2.90%) Confluence
4 63 (2.86%) Apache
5 27 (1.22%) SharePoint
6 11 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (0.45%) Camunda
7 10 (0.45%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.45%) Mendix
8 8 (0.36%) Appian
8 8 (0.36%) OpenStack
8 8 (0.36%) SAS
9 7 (0.32%) Ethereum
9 7 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.27%) Hyperledger
10 6 (0.27%) WebSphere
11 5 (0.23%) IIS
11 5 (0.23%) nginx
12 4 (0.18%) CMS
12 4 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 20 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.27%) 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 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.32%) Aladdin
3 6 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.18%) Magento
4 4 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.14%) Findur
5 3 (0.14%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.14%) Shopify
6 2 (0.091%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.091%) 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 1,013 (45.92%) Azure
2 966 (43.79%) AWS
3 512 (23.21%) GitHub
4 393 (17.82%) Azure DevOps
5 335 (15.19%) GCP
6 331 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
7 300 (13.60%) Serverless
8 217 (9.84%) Amazon S3
9 197 (8.93%) Power Platform
10 196 (8.88%) AWS Lambda
11 194 (8.79%) AWS CloudFormation
12 131 (5.94%) Amazon EKS
13 128 (5.80%) Azure Data Factory
14 117 (5.30%) Amazon ECS
15 106 (4.81%) Amazon EC2
15 106 (4.81%) Azure AKS
16 103 (4.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 92 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 86 (3.90%) Entra ID
18 86 (3.90%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 75 (3.40%) Firewall
2 46 (2.09%) Network Security
3 36 (1.63%) DNS
4 25 (1.13%) HTTP
5 21 (0.95%) VPN
6 13 (0.59%) WAN
7 12 (0.54%) SD-WAN
8 8 (0.36%) 3GPP
8 8 (0.36%) 5G
9 7 (0.32%) BGP
9 7 (0.32%) Internet
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%) LTE
11 5 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (0.23%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.23%) VXLAN
12 4 (0.18%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (6.57%) Data Lake
2 136 (6.17%) Power BI
3 131 (5.94%) PostgreSQL
4 126 (5.71%) SQL Server
5 116 (5.26%) NoSQL
6 100 (4.53%) Data Warehouse
7 79 (3.58%) Relational Database
8 76 (3.45%) MongoDB
9 70 (3.17%) Delta Lake
10 66 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
11 62 (2.81%) Metadata
12 61 (2.77%) Amazon Athena
13 60 (2.72%) BigQuery
14 55 (2.49%) Big Data
15 54 (2.45%) Amazon Redshift
16 44 (1.99%) Azure SQL Database
17 41 (1.86%) DynamoDB
18 36 (1.63%) Snowflake Schema
19 32 (1.45%) Redis
20 29 (1.31%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 384 (17.41%) Git
2 365 (16.55%) Jenkins
3 262 (11.88%) GitLab
4 129 (5.85%) JIRA
5 70 (3.17%) Selenium
6 58 (2.63%) JUnit
7 51 (2.31%) MLflow
8 46 (2.09%) Postman
9 43 (1.95%) Cucumber
10 37 (1.68%) JMeter
11 33 (1.50%) Mockito
12 31 (1.41%) REST Assured
13 26 (1.18%) Cypress.io
14 23 (1.04%) Gradle
15 21 (0.95%) Artifactory
16 20 (0.91%) Bitbucket
17 18 (0.82%) SonarQube
18 17 (0.77%) CircleCI
19 16 (0.73%) Appium
19 16 (0.73%) Liquibase
General
1 516 (23.39%) Finance
2 508 (23.03%) Social Skills
3 255 (11.56%) Public Sector
4 221 (10.02%) Banking
5 170 (7.71%) Analytical Skills
6 47 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
6 47 (2.13%) Front Office
7 40 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
8 39 (1.77%) Investment Banking
9 35 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 30 (1.36%) Retail
11 28 (1.27%) Financial Institution
12 21 (0.95%) Telecoms
13 20 (0.91%) Legal
14 17 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
15 15 (0.68%) Publishing
16 13 (0.59%) Law
16 13 (0.59%) Marketing
17 12 (0.54%) Manufacturing
18 10 (0.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 471 (21.35%) Developer
2 357 (16.18%) Senior
3 253 (11.47%) Architect
4 240 (10.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 225 (10.20%) Data Engineer
6 197 (8.93%) Lead
7 140 (6.35%) Azure Engineer
8 120 (5.44%) AWS Engineer
9 115 (5.21%) Cloud Engineer
10 104 (4.71%) Software Engineer
11 93 (4.22%) Java Developer
12 91 (4.13%) Platform Engineer
13 84 (3.81%) Senior Developer
14 72 (3.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 70 (3.17%) Full-Stack Developer
16 63 (2.86%) Python Developer
17 62 (2.81%) Solutions Architect
18 53 (2.40%) Security Engineer
19 52 (2.36%) AWS DevOps
20 48 (2.18%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 219 (9.93%) Kafka
2 214 (9.70%) React
3 213 (9.66%) REST
4 197 (8.93%) .NET
5 192 (8.70%) RESTful
6 182 (8.25%) Spring
7 162 (7.34%) Spring Boot
8 141 (6.39%) Node.js
9 115 (5.21%) PySpark
10 109 (4.94%) AngularJS
11 81 (3.67%) HTML
12 79 (3.58%) Playwright
13 72 (3.26%) OAuth
14 66 (2.99%) CSS
15 58 (2.63%) Pandas
16 55 (2.49%) FastAPI
17 54 (2.45%) YAML
18 50 (2.27%) OpenTelemetry
19 49 (2.22%) GraphQL
20 46 (2.09%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 454 (20.58%) Cloud Native
2 162 (7.34%) Distributed Systems
3 106 (4.81%) Product Ownership
4 70 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
5 69 (3.13%) Onboarding
6 44 (1.99%) AI Agents
7 39 (1.77%) Algorithms
8 38 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
9 37 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
10 35 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 33 (1.50%) Equities
12 32 (1.45%) Public Cloud
13 30 (1.36%) Mobile App
14 29 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
14 29 (1.31%) Virtual Team
15 28 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
15 28 (1.27%) Fixed Income
16 27 (1.22%) Low-Code
17 26 (1.18%) Derivative
17 26 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 152 (6.89%) Linux
2 85 (3.85%) Windows
3 40 (1.81%) Unix
4 26 (1.18%) Android
5 25 (1.13%) VMS
6 24 (1.09%) Apple iOS
7 16 (0.73%) Windows Server
8 12 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.23%) zOS
10 4 (0.18%) Solaris
10 4 (0.18%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.091%) AIX
12 2 (0.091%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,225 (55.53%) DevOps
2 760 (34.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 700 (31.73%) Agile
4 510 (23.12%) Containerisation
5 457 (20.72%) Test Automation
6 439 (19.90%) AI
7 422 (19.13%) Microservices
8 373 (16.91%) Observability
9 364 (16.50%) Analytics
10 309 (14.01%) Software Engineering
11 303 (13.74%) Data Modelling
11 303 (13.74%) Problem-Solving
12 285 (12.92%) Data Pipeline
13 273 (12.38%) Data Engineering
14 250 (11.33%) Continuous Improvement
15 242 (10.97%) Machine Learning
16 229 (10.38%) ETL
17 222 (10.06%) Platform Engineering
18 216 (9.79%) Migration
19 202 (9.16%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 846 (38.35%) Python
2 623 (28.24%) SQL
3 419 (18.99%) Java
4 249 (11.29%) C#
5 231 (10.47%) JavaScript
6 228 (10.34%) TypeScript
7 139 (6.30%) Bash
8 133 (6.03%) PowerShell
9 85 (3.85%) Bicep
10 61 (2.77%) Scala
11 42 (1.90%) Go
12 39 (1.77%) Ruby
13 38 (1.72%) Shell Script
14 34 (1.54%) Apex Code
15 31 (1.41%) PL/SQL
16 30 (1.36%) Kotlin
17 29 (1.31%) T-SQL
18 20 (0.91%) C++
19 14 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 13 (0.59%) R
Qualifications
1 565 (25.61%) Security Cleared
2 506 (22.94%) SC Cleared
3 118 (5.35%) Degree
4 89 (4.03%) Azure Certification
5 67 (3.04%) AWS Certification
6 61 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 36 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 35 (1.59%) DV Cleared
9 26 (1.18%) Master's Degree
10 22 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
11 20 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 18 (0.82%) CISSP
13 17 (0.77%) ISTQB
14 13 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
15 12 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 12 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
16 11 (0.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 9 (0.41%) CISM
17 9 (0.41%) DBS Check
18 8 (0.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (8.30%) QA
2 173 (7.84%) Data Quality
3 77 (3.49%) GDPR
4 65 (2.95%) Accessibility
5 59 (2.67%) NIST
6 52 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (1.45%) NCSC
8 26 (1.18%) PCI DSS
9 24 (1.09%) WCAG
10 22 (1.00%) SLA
11 17 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.41%) ISO 20022
13 7 (0.32%) MiFID
14 6 (0.27%) COBIT
14 6 (0.27%) GRC
14 6 (0.27%) PSD2
15 5 (0.23%) SOC 2
16 4 (0.18%) HL7
16 4 (0.18%) SEPA
17 3 (0.14%) HIPAA
System Software
1 604 (27.38%) Docker
2 53 (2.40%) Active Directory
3 38 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.36%) Squid
7 5 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
7 5 (0.23%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
8 4 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.18%) vSphere
9 2 (0.091%) HDFS
9 2 (0.091%) 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
1 724 (32.82%) Terraform
2 664 (30.10%) Kubernetes
3 144 (6.53%) Grafana
4 143 (6.48%) Ansible
5 128 (5.80%) Prometheus
6 25 (1.13%) Argo
7 24 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (0.91%) Istio
9 18 (0.82%) Puppet
10 15 (0.68%) Kibana
11 11 (0.50%) Progress Chef
12 9 (0.41%) Packer
13 8 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
14 7 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 6 (0.27%) SCCM
16 5 (0.23%) Kustomize
17 4 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
17 4 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
17 4 (0.18%) Rancher
17 4 (0.18%) Suricata
Vendors
1 348 (15.78%) Microsoft
2 198 (8.98%) Databricks
3 110 (4.99%) Google
4 90 (4.08%) Oracle
5 75 (3.40%) Salesforce
6 73 (3.31%) Splunk
7 52 (2.36%) OpenAI
7 52 (2.36%) ServiceNow
8 30 (1.36%) Dynatrace
9 22 (1.00%) CyberArk
9 22 (1.00%) Foundry
9 22 (1.00%) VMware
10 21 (0.95%) MuleSoft
10 21 (0.95%) SAP
11 19 (0.86%) IBM
11 19 (0.86%) Red Hat
12 15 (0.68%) Cisco
13 13 (0.59%) Informatica
14 12 (0.54%) Okta
15 10 (0.45%) UiPath