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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 16 20
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 -3
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,663 1,485 1,394
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.20% 11.07% 8.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.80% 11.97% 9.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,795 1,010 965
10th Percentile £400 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £436 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £565
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -7.08% -5.83%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 1
10th Percentile £49.25 £30.63 -
25th Percentile - £36.88 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £48.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -11.36% -29.03%
75th Percentile £75.00 £53.75 -
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.38 -
England median hourly rate £67.25 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.46% - -10.96%

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 17,993 12,408 14,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.22% 92.47% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,806 8,254 10,021
10th Percentile £361 £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 £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 286 256 195
10th Percentile £17.43 £16.50 £17.35
25th Percentile £19.59 £24.74 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.33% -15.00% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.38 £47.81 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.63
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% +2.41%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 +8 333 £550 -11.36% 107
South London +5 62 £537 +1.80% 9
West London +4 53 £560 +13.71% 58
East London +3 11 £588 +12.98% 31
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 (4.88%) Apache Airflow
2 108 (4.06%) Confluence
3 105 (3.94%) Apache Spark
4 75 (2.82%) Apache
5 30 (1.13%) SharePoint
6 11 (0.41%) Camunda
6 11 (0.41%) CMS
6 11 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
7 9 (0.34%) nginx
8 8 (0.30%) OpenStack
9 7 (0.26%) Anypoint
10 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.23%) SAS
10 6 (0.23%) WebSphere
11 5 (0.19%) Mule
12 4 (0.15%) IIS
12 4 (0.15%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.11%) Apache Pulsar
13 3 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
13 3 (0.11%) Mendix
Applications
1 18 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.53%) Chatbot
3 10 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.15%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.15%) Trello
6 2 (0.075%) CPLEX
6 2 (0.075%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 28 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.45%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (0.23%) Shopify
5 5 (0.19%) Magento
6 4 (0.15%) NetSuite
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%) SAP CRM
8 2 (0.075%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.075%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.075%) Temenos T24
9 1 (0.038%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.038%) Dynamics AX
9 1 (0.038%) SAP BPC
9 1 (0.038%) SAP IS-U
9 1 (0.038%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,218 (45.74%) Azure
2 1,164 (43.71%) AWS
3 595 (22.34%) GitHub
4 484 (18.17%) Azure DevOps
5 399 (14.98%) GitHub Actions
6 398 (14.95%) GCP
7 306 (11.49%) Serverless
8 234 (8.79%) Power Platform
9 232 (8.71%) Amazon S3
10 202 (7.59%) AWS Lambda
11 152 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
12 145 (5.44%) Snowflake
13 138 (5.18%) AWS CloudFormation
14 127 (4.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 126 (4.73%) dbt
16 122 (4.58%) Azure AKS
16 122 (4.58%) Entra ID
17 117 (4.39%) Amazon EC2
18 109 (4.09%) Azure Data Factory
19 91 (3.42%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 72 (2.70%) Firewall
2 42 (1.58%) Network Security
3 36 (1.35%) VPN
4 34 (1.28%) DNS
5 29 (1.09%) Internet
6 21 (0.79%) HTTP
7 20 (0.75%) 5G
7 20 (0.75%) TCP/IP
8 18 (0.68%) SSL
9 17 (0.64%) WAN
10 12 (0.45%) 3GPP
11 11 (0.41%) BGP
11 11 (0.41%) SD-WAN
12 10 (0.38%) 4G
12 10 (0.38%) Radio Access Network
13 8 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
13 8 (0.30%) NX-OS
13 8 (0.30%) VXLAN
14 7 (0.26%) LTE
14 7 (0.26%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (6.68%) Power BI
2 162 (6.08%) PostgreSQL
3 154 (5.78%) Data Warehouse
4 137 (5.14%) SQL Server
5 130 (4.88%) NoSQL
6 116 (4.36%) Data Lake
7 102 (3.83%) MongoDB
8 97 (3.64%) Relational Database
9 84 (3.15%) Metadata
10 83 (3.12%) Amazon RDS
11 82 (3.08%) Delta Lake
12 76 (2.85%) Amazon Redshift
13 72 (2.70%) BigQuery
14 56 (2.10%) Amazon Athena
15 54 (2.03%) Redis
16 48 (1.80%) Big Data
17 46 (1.73%) DynamoDB
18 44 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
19 36 (1.35%) Amazon Aurora
20 34 (1.28%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 481 (18.06%) Git
2 423 (15.88%) Jenkins
3 343 (12.88%) GitLab
4 191 (7.17%) JIRA
5 85 (3.19%) Selenium
6 71 (2.67%) JUnit
7 51 (1.92%) Cypress.io
8 46 (1.73%) Gradle
8 46 (1.73%) JMeter
9 40 (1.50%) Bitbucket
9 40 (1.50%) Mockito
10 37 (1.39%) Cucumber
11 36 (1.35%) Postman
12 34 (1.28%) Maven
13 31 (1.16%) REST Assured
13 31 (1.16%) SonarQube
14 29 (1.09%) CircleCI
15 25 (0.94%) MLflow
16 23 (0.86%) Gatling
17 19 (0.71%) Liquibase
General
1 659 (24.75%) Social Skills
2 649 (24.37%) Finance
3 314 (11.79%) Public Sector
4 300 (11.27%) Banking
5 229 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
6 62 (2.33%) Retail
7 60 (2.25%) Front Office
8 57 (2.14%) Investment Banking
9 45 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
10 44 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 31 (1.16%) Marketing
11 31 (1.16%) Telecoms
12 30 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
12 30 (1.13%) Law
13 27 (1.01%) Financial Institution
14 25 (0.94%) Legal
15 15 (0.56%) Local Government
15 15 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
16 13 (0.49%) Back Office
16 13 (0.49%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 576 (21.63%) Developer
2 474 (17.80%) Senior
3 312 (11.72%) DevOps Engineer
4 305 (11.45%) Architect
5 271 (10.18%) Lead
6 240 (9.01%) Data Engineer
7 156 (5.86%) Azure Engineer
8 142 (5.33%) AWS Engineer
9 135 (5.07%) Software Engineer
10 129 (4.84%) Cloud Engineer
11 120 (4.51%) Senior Developer
12 116 (4.36%) Java Developer
13 103 (3.87%) Platform Engineer
14 91 (3.42%) Full-Stack Developer
15 84 (3.15%) Solutions Architect
16 80 (3.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 76 (2.85%) Python Developer
18 66 (2.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 65 (2.44%) Azure DevOps Engineer
20 62 (2.33%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 852 (31.99%) Terraform
2 388 (14.57%) REST
3 269 (10.10%) Kafka
4 256 (9.61%) React
5 251 (9.43%) .NET
6 217 (8.15%) RESTful
7 205 (7.70%) Spring
8 176 (6.61%) Spring Boot
9 142 (5.33%) PySpark
10 125 (4.69%) Node.js
11 109 (4.09%) HTML
12 104 (3.91%) AngularJS
13 92 (3.45%) Playwright
14 87 (3.27%) CSS
15 86 (3.23%) JSON
16 73 (2.74%) OAuth
17 68 (2.55%) FastAPI
17 68 (2.55%) SOAP
18 58 (2.18%) Next.js
19 57 (2.14%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 552 (20.73%) Cloud Native
2 228 (8.56%) Distributed Systems
3 144 (5.41%) Product Ownership
4 107 (4.02%) AI Agents
5 106 (3.98%) Onboarding
6 92 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
7 85 (3.19%) Enterprise Software
8 42 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
8 42 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
9 41 (1.54%) Virtual Team
10 40 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 40 (1.50%) Mobile App
11 37 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
12 36 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
13 35 (1.31%) Management Information System
14 32 (1.20%) Data Structures
15 31 (1.16%) Algorithms
15 31 (1.16%) Fixed Income
16 30 (1.13%) Security Posture
17 29 (1.09%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 213 (8.00%) Linux
2 114 (4.28%) Windows
3 70 (2.63%) Unix
4 40 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 30 (1.13%) Android
5 30 (1.13%) Apple iOS
6 28 (1.05%) Windows Server
7 15 (0.56%) VMS
8 11 (0.41%) Ubuntu
9 9 (0.34%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
11 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.15%) Solaris
12 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.075%) AIX
14 1 (0.038%) CentOS
14 1 (0.038%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,482 (55.65%) DevOps
2 970 (36.43%) Agile
3 884 (33.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 581 (21.82%) AI
5 575 (21.59%) Test Automation
6 561 (21.07%) Containerisation
7 532 (19.98%) Microservices
8 476 (17.87%) Observability
9 471 (17.69%) Software Engineering
10 383 (14.38%) Problem-Solving
11 374 (14.04%) Analytics
12 357 (13.41%) Data Pipeline
13 356 (13.37%) Continuous Improvement
14 338 (12.69%) Data Modelling
15 323 (12.13%) Data Engineering
16 320 (12.02%) Platform Engineering
16 320 (12.02%) Stakeholder Management
17 309 (11.60%) Event-Driven
18 283 (10.63%) Migration
19 273 (10.25%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1,056 (39.65%) Python
2 763 (28.65%) SQL
3 543 (20.39%) Java
4 286 (10.74%) JavaScript
5 281 (10.55%) C#
6 273 (10.25%) TypeScript
7 213 (8.00%) PowerShell
8 210 (7.89%) Bash
9 111 (4.17%) Bicep
10 60 (2.25%) Go
11 53 (1.99%) Kotlin
12 50 (1.88%) Apex Code
13 49 (1.84%) Shell Script
14 44 (1.65%) Scala
15 36 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 34 (1.28%) PL/SQL
17 33 (1.24%) Ruby
18 29 (1.09%) T-SQL
19 26 (0.98%) C++
20 22 (0.83%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 700 (26.29%) Security Cleared
2 628 (23.58%) SC Cleared
3 135 (5.07%) Degree
4 104 (3.91%) Azure Certification
5 80 (3.00%) DV Cleared
6 74 (2.78%) AWS Certification
7 62 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 46 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
9 25 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
10 23 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 18 (0.68%) CISSP
12 17 (0.64%) Master's Degree
13 14 (0.53%) DBS Check
14 13 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 13 (0.49%) ISTQB
15 12 (0.45%) GIAC
15 12 (0.45%) PhD
16 11 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
17 9 (0.34%) CISM
18 8 (0.30%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 240 (9.01%) QA
2 229 (8.60%) Data Quality
3 87 (3.27%) Accessibility
4 54 (2.03%) GDPR
5 47 (1.76%) NIST
6 45 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 28 (1.05%) WCAG
8 25 (0.94%) SLA
9 23 (0.86%) NCSC
10 13 (0.49%) ISO 20022
10 13 (0.49%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.41%) EU AI Act
12 10 (0.38%) GRC
13 7 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 7 (0.26%) SOC 2
14 6 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.19%) MiFID
16 4 (0.15%) COBIT
16 4 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 680 (25.54%) Docker
2 63 (2.37%) Active Directory
3 38 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
4 31 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.41%) Squid
6 8 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.26%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.075%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.075%) HDFS
10 2 (0.075%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.075%) KVM
10 2 (0.075%) Postfix
10 2 (0.075%) Varnish
10 2 (0.075%) vSphere
11 1 (0.038%) IAG
11 1 (0.038%) OpenSSH
11 1 (0.038%) Samba
Systems Management
1 784 (29.44%) Kubernetes
2 212 (7.96%) Grafana
3 198 (7.44%) Ansible
4 173 (6.50%) Prometheus
5 33 (1.24%) Argo
5 33 (1.24%) Puppet
6 22 (0.83%) Kibana
7 21 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (0.75%) Packer
9 16 (0.60%) Progress Chef
10 14 (0.53%) Istio
11 10 (0.38%) Control-M
12 8 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
12 8 (0.30%) Kustomize
12 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
13 7 (0.26%) SCCM
14 5 (0.19%) HP Fortify
14 5 (0.19%) Salt
15 4 (0.15%) ITRS Geneos
15 4 (0.15%) Podman
Vendors
1 431 (16.18%) Microsoft
2 230 (8.64%) Databricks
3 140 (5.26%) Google
4 136 (5.11%) Oracle
5 104 (3.91%) Salesforce
6 97 (3.64%) Splunk
7 68 (2.55%) ServiceNow
8 49 (1.84%) Dynatrace
9 47 (1.76%) OpenAI
10 43 (1.61%) VMware
11 36 (1.35%) Informatica
12 35 (1.31%) IBM
13 29 (1.09%) Foundry
13 29 (1.09%) Red Hat
14 28 (1.05%) MuleSoft
15 27 (1.01%) SAP
16 26 (0.98%) Cisco
17 25 (0.94%) New Relic
18 21 (0.79%) Palantir
19 19 (0.71%) CyberArk