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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 17 21
Rank change year-on-year +6 +4 -4
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,614 1,457 1,351
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.97% 10.72% 8.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.56% 11.61% 9.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,747 990 948
10th Percentile £400 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £438 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £569
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -7.69% -5.21%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £751 £806
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 2
10th Percentile £48.25 £30.63 £56.20
25th Percentile £54.06 £36.88 £58.00
Median hourly rate £61.00 £48.75 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.13% -20.08% -21.29%
75th Percentile £80.63 £53.75 £64.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.38 £65.80
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -10.34%

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 17,953 12,554 14,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.10% 92.35% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,817 8,388 10,113
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
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 294 250 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.05
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.75 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year +19.33% -16.44% -12.67%
75th Percentile £56.25 £48.44 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.30 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%

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 12 August 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 12 August 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 12 August 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 +6 325 £550 -12.00% 141
South London +1 70 £538 +1.90% 22
West London +8 52 £560 +13.71% 38
East London +7 11 £588 +63.19% 16
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
1 130 (4.97%) Apache Airflow
2 105 (4.02%) Confluence
3 99 (3.79%) Apache Spark
4 77 (2.95%) Apache
5 30 (1.15%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
7 10 (0.38%) SAS
8 9 (0.34%) Camunda
8 9 (0.34%) CMS
8 9 (0.34%) nginx
8 9 (0.34%) WebSphere
9 8 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.27%) Anypoint
11 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.19%) Mule
12 5 (0.19%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.15%) IIS
14 3 (0.11%) Apache Pulsar
14 3 (0.11%) Mendix
14 3 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 17 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.54%) Chatbot
3 9 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.15%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.15%) Trello
5 2 (0.077%) CPLEX
5 2 (0.077%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.038%) Maya
Business Applications
1 25 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.46%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.23%) Shopify
5 5 (0.19%) Magento
5 5 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
7 3 (0.11%) Endur
7 3 (0.11%) Findur
7 3 (0.11%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.11%) SAP BPC
7 3 (0.11%) SAP CRM
8 2 (0.077%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.077%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.077%) Temenos T24
9 1 (0.038%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.038%) SAP IS-U
9 1 (0.038%) SDL Web 8
9 1 (0.038%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,179 (45.10%) Azure
2 1,145 (43.80%) AWS
3 596 (22.80%) GitHub
4 468 (17.90%) Azure DevOps
5 404 (15.46%) GitHub Actions
6 387 (14.80%) GCP
7 297 (11.36%) Serverless
8 241 (9.22%) Amazon S3
9 227 (8.68%) Power Platform
10 202 (7.73%) AWS Lambda
11 152 (5.81%) Amazon EKS
12 143 (5.47%) AWS CloudFormation
13 137 (5.24%) Snowflake
14 126 (4.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 121 (4.63%) Entra ID
16 119 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
16 119 (4.55%) dbt
17 116 (4.44%) Azure AKS
18 109 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
19 90 (3.44%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 75 (2.87%) Firewall
2 44 (1.68%) Network Security
3 36 (1.38%) DNS
3 36 (1.38%) VPN
4 29 (1.11%) Internet
5 24 (0.92%) HTTP
6 20 (0.77%) 5G
7 18 (0.69%) SSL
7 18 (0.69%) TCP/IP
8 16 (0.61%) WAN
9 11 (0.42%) 3GPP
9 11 (0.42%) 4G
10 10 (0.38%) SD-WAN
11 9 (0.34%) Radio Access Network
12 8 (0.31%) BGP
13 7 (0.27%) LTE
14 6 (0.23%) Cisco IOS
14 6 (0.23%) Ethernet VPN
14 6 (0.23%) FTP
14 6 (0.23%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (6.62%) Power BI
2 152 (5.81%) Data Warehouse
3 151 (5.78%) PostgreSQL
4 125 (4.78%) SQL Server
5 124 (4.74%) NoSQL
6 122 (4.67%) Data Lake
7 93 (3.56%) MongoDB
8 90 (3.44%) Relational Database
9 79 (3.02%) Amazon RDS
9 79 (3.02%) Delta Lake
10 74 (2.83%) Amazon Redshift
10 74 (2.83%) Metadata
11 68 (2.60%) BigQuery
12 60 (2.30%) Amazon Athena
13 49 (1.87%) Big Data
14 48 (1.84%) Redis
15 47 (1.80%) DynamoDB
16 46 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
17 37 (1.42%) Snowflake Schema
18 32 (1.22%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 462 (17.67%) Git
2 416 (15.91%) Jenkins
3 333 (12.74%) GitLab
4 187 (7.15%) JIRA
5 80 (3.06%) Selenium
6 69 (2.64%) JUnit
7 48 (1.84%) Cypress.io
8 44 (1.68%) Gradle
8 44 (1.68%) JMeter
9 40 (1.53%) Cucumber
10 39 (1.49%) Bitbucket
10 39 (1.49%) Mockito
11 38 (1.45%) Postman
12 35 (1.34%) Maven
13 32 (1.22%) SonarQube
14 31 (1.19%) REST Assured
15 28 (1.07%) MLflow
16 27 (1.03%) CircleCI
17 22 (0.84%) Gatling
18 21 (0.80%) Liquibase
General
1 638 (24.41%) Finance
2 634 (24.25%) Social Skills
3 315 (12.05%) Public Sector
4 293 (11.21%) Banking
5 213 (8.15%) Analytical Skills
6 57 (2.18%) Front Office
6 57 (2.18%) Retail
7 56 (2.14%) Investment Banking
8 43 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
9 42 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 32 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
11 30 (1.15%) Law
11 30 (1.15%) Telecoms
12 29 (1.11%) Financial Institution
12 29 (1.11%) Marketing
13 24 (0.92%) Legal
14 15 (0.57%) Local Government
14 15 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
15 13 (0.50%) Manufacturing
15 13 (0.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 553 (21.16%) Developer
2 466 (17.83%) Senior
3 299 (11.44%) DevOps Engineer
4 287 (10.98%) Architect
5 272 (10.41%) Lead
6 234 (8.95%) Data Engineer
7 157 (6.01%) Azure Engineer
8 148 (5.66%) AWS Engineer
9 135 (5.16%) Cloud Engineer
10 132 (5.05%) Software Engineer
11 119 (4.55%) Senior Developer
12 113 (4.32%) Java Developer
13 106 (4.06%) Platform Engineer
14 88 (3.37%) Full-Stack Developer
15 85 (3.25%) Solutions Architect
16 73 (2.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 69 (2.64%) Python Developer
18 66 (2.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 63 (2.41%) AWS DevOps
20 62 (2.37%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 360 (13.77%) REST
2 253 (9.68%) React
3 252 (9.64%) Kafka
4 240 (9.18%) .NET
5 205 (7.84%) RESTful
6 201 (7.69%) Spring
7 168 (6.43%) Spring Boot
8 135 (5.16%) PySpark
9 126 (4.82%) Node.js
10 104 (3.98%) AngularJS
10 104 (3.98%) HTML
11 92 (3.52%) Playwright
12 87 (3.33%) CSS
13 79 (3.02%) JSON
14 71 (2.72%) OAuth
15 68 (2.60%) FastAPI
16 67 (2.56%) SOAP
17 58 (2.22%) Next.js
18 57 (2.18%) OAuth2
19 56 (2.14%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 539 (20.62%) Cloud Native
2 219 (8.38%) Distributed Systems
3 136 (5.20%) Product Ownership
4 97 (3.71%) AI Agents
4 97 (3.71%) Onboarding
5 86 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
6 78 (2.98%) Enterprise Software
7 42 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 41 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
8 41 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
9 39 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
10 38 (1.45%) Virtual Team
11 37 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
12 36 (1.38%) Management Information System
13 35 (1.34%) Mobile App
14 33 (1.26%) Data Structures
15 32 (1.22%) Algorithms
15 32 (1.22%) Fixed Income
16 30 (1.15%) Security Posture
17 28 (1.07%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 201 (7.69%) Linux
2 112 (4.28%) Windows
3 62 (2.37%) Unix
4 39 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 28 (1.07%) Android
5 28 (1.07%) Windows Server
6 27 (1.03%) Apple iOS
7 12 (0.46%) VMS
8 11 (0.42%) Ubuntu
9 9 (0.34%) Mac OS
10 8 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
11 5 (0.19%) Solaris
11 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
11 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.077%) AIX
13 1 (0.038%) CentOS
13 1 (0.038%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,459 (55.81%) DevOps
2 937 (35.85%) Agile
3 865 (33.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 557 (21.31%) Test Automation
5 556 (21.27%) Containerisation
6 553 (21.16%) AI
7 516 (19.74%) Microservices
8 454 (17.37%) Software Engineering
9 452 (17.29%) Observability
10 374 (14.31%) Analytics
11 363 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
12 355 (13.58%) Data Pipeline
13 339 (12.97%) Continuous Improvement
14 337 (12.89%) Data Modelling
15 317 (12.13%) Data Engineering
16 306 (11.71%) Platform Engineering
17 291 (11.13%) Event-Driven
18 287 (10.98%) Stakeholder Management
19 274 (10.48%) Migration
20 265 (10.14%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,017 (38.91%) Python
2 723 (27.66%) SQL
3 530 (20.28%) Java
4 284 (10.86%) JavaScript
5 274 (10.48%) C#
6 268 (10.25%) TypeScript
7 203 (7.77%) Bash
8 201 (7.69%) PowerShell
9 106 (4.06%) Bicep
10 58 (2.22%) Go
11 53 (2.03%) Kotlin
12 51 (1.95%) Apex Code
13 47 (1.80%) Shell Script
14 46 (1.76%) Scala
15 33 (1.26%) PL/SQL
15 33 (1.26%) Ruby
16 30 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 27 (1.03%) T-SQL
18 25 (0.96%) C++
19 21 (0.80%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 687 (26.28%) Security Cleared
2 624 (23.87%) SC Cleared
3 133 (5.09%) Degree
4 101 (3.86%) Azure Certification
5 75 (2.87%) DV Cleared
6 72 (2.75%) AWS Certification
7 61 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 46 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
9 22 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
10 20 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 20 (0.77%) CISSP
11 19 (0.73%) Master's Degree
12 15 (0.57%) DBS Check
13 13 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 12 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
14 12 (0.46%) GIAC
14 12 (0.46%) ISTQB
14 12 (0.46%) PhD
15 11 (0.42%) CISM
16 8 (0.31%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 230 (8.80%) QA
2 217 (8.30%) Data Quality
3 94 (3.60%) Accessibility
4 58 (2.22%) GDPR
5 48 (1.84%) NIST
6 44 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 31 (1.19%) WCAG
8 23 (0.88%) NCSC
9 22 (0.84%) SLA
10 14 (0.54%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.42%) EU AI Act
11 11 (0.42%) ISO 20022
12 9 (0.34%) GRC
13 7 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 7 (0.27%) SOC 2
14 6 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
15 4 (0.15%) COBIT
15 4 (0.15%) MiFID
System Software
1 678 (25.94%) Docker
2 61 (2.33%) Active Directory
3 38 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
4 31 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.42%) Squid
6 10 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.23%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.077%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.077%) HDFS
10 2 (0.077%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.077%) KVM
10 2 (0.077%) Postfix
10 2 (0.077%) Varnish
10 2 (0.077%) vSphere
11 1 (0.038%) IAG
11 1 (0.038%) OpenSSH
11 1 (0.038%) Samba
Systems Management
1 836 (31.98%) Terraform
2 765 (29.27%) Kubernetes
3 199 (7.61%) Grafana
4 189 (7.23%) Ansible
5 167 (6.39%) Prometheus
6 33 (1.26%) Puppet
7 31 (1.19%) Argo
8 23 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
9 20 (0.77%) Kibana
9 20 (0.77%) Packer
10 15 (0.57%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.46%) Istio
12 9 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
13 8 (0.31%) Control-M
13 8 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
13 8 (0.31%) Kustomize
14 7 (0.27%) SCCM
15 5 (0.19%) HP Fortify
15 5 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
15 5 (0.19%) Salt
Vendors
1 402 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 210 (8.03%) Databricks
3 137 (5.24%) Google
4 121 (4.63%) Oracle
5 105 (4.02%) Salesforce
6 91 (3.48%) Splunk
7 68 (2.60%) ServiceNow
8 47 (1.80%) Dynatrace
9 44 (1.68%) OpenAI
10 43 (1.64%) VMware
11 35 (1.34%) IBM
12 31 (1.19%) Informatica
13 29 (1.11%) Foundry
14 28 (1.07%) MuleSoft
14 28 (1.07%) SAP
15 27 (1.03%) Red Hat
16 23 (0.88%) New Relic
17 22 (0.84%) Cisco
18 21 (0.80%) Palantir
19 18 (0.69%) CyberArk