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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 17 19
Rank change year-on-year +6 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,626 1,467 1,373
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.07% 10.90% 8.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.66% 11.80% 9.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,757 998 965
10th Percentile £400 £373 £413
25th Percentile £450 £438 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £525 £565
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% -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 £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -10.65%

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 17,916 12,432 14,370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 92.34% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,760 8,272 10,048
10th Percentile £360 £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 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 253 197
10th Percentile £16.99 £16.50 £16.99
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.50
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +5.94%

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 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 18 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 18 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 +9 328 £550 -10.71% 99
South London +4 64 £538 +2.48% 10
West London +7 52 £560 +13.71% 33
East London 0 11 £588 +12.98% 25
North London - 1 £650 - 1
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
1 127 (4.84%) Apache Airflow
2 103 (3.92%) Confluence
3 102 (3.88%) Apache Spark
4 77 (2.93%) Apache
5 30 (1.14%) SharePoint
6 11 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
7 10 (0.38%) CMS
8 9 (0.34%) Camunda
8 9 (0.34%) nginx
9 8 (0.30%) OpenStack
9 8 (0.30%) SAS
10 7 (0.27%) Anypoint
11 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.23%) WebSphere
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 (0.53%) Chatbot
3 9 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.15%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.15%) Trello
6 2 (0.076%) CPLEX
6 2 (0.076%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 26 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.46%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.27%) 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 BPC
7 3 (0.11%) SAP CRM
8 2 (0.076%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.076%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.076%) 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 1,192 (45.39%) Azure
2 1,152 (43.87%) AWS
3 591 (22.51%) GitHub
4 474 (18.05%) Azure DevOps
5 399 (15.19%) GitHub Actions
6 393 (14.97%) GCP
7 291 (11.08%) Serverless
8 233 (8.87%) Amazon S3
9 230 (8.76%) Power Platform
10 199 (7.58%) AWS Lambda
11 150 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
12 143 (5.45%) AWS CloudFormation
13 138 (5.26%) Snowflake
14 127 (4.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 124 (4.72%) Entra ID
16 121 (4.61%) dbt
17 119 (4.53%) Azure AKS
18 117 (4.46%) Amazon EC2
19 110 (4.19%) Azure Data Factory
20 86 (3.27%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 74 (2.82%) Firewall
2 43 (1.64%) Network Security
3 36 (1.37%) DNS
3 36 (1.37%) VPN
4 29 (1.10%) Internet
5 23 (0.88%) HTTP
6 19 (0.72%) 5G
7 18 (0.69%) SSL
7 18 (0.69%) TCP/IP
8 17 (0.65%) WAN
9 11 (0.42%) 3GPP
9 11 (0.42%) BGP
9 11 (0.42%) SD-WAN
10 10 (0.38%) 4G
11 9 (0.34%) Radio Access Network
12 8 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
12 8 (0.30%) NX-OS
12 8 (0.30%) VXLAN
13 7 (0.27%) LTE
14 6 (0.23%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (6.70%) Power BI
2 154 (5.86%) PostgreSQL
3 148 (5.64%) Data Warehouse
4 131 (4.99%) SQL Server
5 126 (4.80%) NoSQL
6 117 (4.46%) Data Lake
7 96 (3.66%) MongoDB
8 95 (3.62%) Relational Database
9 81 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
10 78 (2.97%) Delta Lake
10 78 (2.97%) Metadata
11 74 (2.82%) Amazon Redshift
12 70 (2.67%) BigQuery
13 59 (2.25%) Amazon Athena
14 49 (1.87%) Redis
15 47 (1.79%) Big Data
15 47 (1.79%) DynamoDB
16 45 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
17 35 (1.33%) Snowflake Schema
18 33 (1.26%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 469 (17.86%) Git
2 413 (15.73%) Jenkins
3 335 (12.76%) GitLab
4 184 (7.01%) JIRA
5 83 (3.16%) Selenium
6 73 (2.78%) JUnit
7 48 (1.83%) Cypress.io
8 46 (1.75%) JMeter
9 45 (1.71%) Gradle
10 40 (1.52%) Mockito
11 37 (1.41%) Bitbucket
11 37 (1.41%) Cucumber
12 34 (1.29%) Maven
12 34 (1.29%) Postman
13 32 (1.22%) SonarQube
14 30 (1.14%) REST Assured
15 28 (1.07%) CircleCI
16 26 (0.99%) MLflow
17 24 (0.91%) Gatling
18 20 (0.76%) Snyk
General
1 644 (24.52%) Finance
2 639 (24.33%) Social Skills
3 309 (11.77%) Public Sector
4 296 (11.27%) Banking
5 217 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
6 60 (2.28%) Front Office
7 59 (2.25%) Retail
8 57 (2.17%) Investment Banking
9 44 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
9 44 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 30 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
10 30 (1.14%) Law
11 29 (1.10%) Financial Institution
11 29 (1.10%) Marketing
11 29 (1.10%) Telecoms
12 24 (0.91%) Legal
13 15 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
14 14 (0.53%) Local Government
15 13 (0.50%) Manufacturing
15 13 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 563 (21.44%) Developer
2 473 (18.01%) Senior
3 300 (11.42%) DevOps Engineer
4 286 (10.89%) Architect
5 276 (10.51%) Lead
6 233 (8.87%) Data Engineer
7 158 (6.02%) Azure Engineer
8 144 (5.48%) AWS Engineer
9 133 (5.06%) Cloud Engineer
10 132 (5.03%) Software Engineer
11 121 (4.61%) Senior Developer
12 118 (4.49%) Java Developer
13 105 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
14 87 (3.31%) Full-Stack Developer
15 82 (3.12%) Solutions Architect
16 79 (3.01%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 72 (2.74%) Python Developer
18 66 (2.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 63 (2.40%) Azure DevOps Engineer
20 61 (2.32%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 373 (14.20%) REST
2 259 (9.86%) Kafka
3 251 (9.56%) React
4 243 (9.25%) .NET
5 210 (8.00%) RESTful
6 205 (7.81%) Spring
7 174 (6.63%) Spring Boot
8 133 (5.06%) PySpark
9 123 (4.68%) Node.js
10 104 (3.96%) HTML
11 102 (3.88%) AngularJS
12 92 (3.50%) Playwright
13 86 (3.27%) CSS
14 82 (3.12%) JSON
15 71 (2.70%) OAuth
16 67 (2.55%) FastAPI
17 66 (2.51%) SOAP
18 58 (2.21%) Next.js
19 57 (2.17%) OAuth2
20 56 (2.13%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 548 (20.87%) Cloud Native
2 224 (8.53%) Distributed Systems
3 137 (5.22%) Product Ownership
4 103 (3.92%) AI Agents
5 100 (3.81%) Onboarding
6 88 (3.35%) Legacy Systems
7 80 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
8 44 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
9 42 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 42 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
10 38 (1.45%) Virtual Team
11 37 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
11 37 (1.41%) Mobile App
11 37 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
12 35 (1.33%) Management Information System
13 33 (1.26%) Data Structures
14 31 (1.18%) Algorithms
14 31 (1.18%) Fixed Income
15 30 (1.14%) Security Posture
16 29 (1.10%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 204 (7.77%) Linux
2 115 (4.38%) Windows
3 66 (2.51%) Unix
4 39 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 29 (1.10%) Android
5 29 (1.10%) Apple iOS
6 28 (1.07%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.46%) VMS
8 11 (0.42%) Ubuntu
9 9 (0.34%) Mac OS
10 8 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.19%) Solaris
11 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
11 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.076%) AIX
14 1 (0.038%) CentOS
14 1 (0.038%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,458 (55.52%) DevOps
2 943 (35.91%) Agile
3 876 (33.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 564 (21.48%) AI
4 564 (21.48%) Test Automation
5 552 (21.02%) Containerisation
6 522 (19.88%) Microservices
7 461 (17.56%) Observability
8 456 (17.36%) Software Engineering
9 375 (14.28%) Problem-Solving
10 371 (14.13%) Analytics
11 350 (13.33%) Data Pipeline
12 344 (13.10%) Continuous Improvement
13 335 (12.76%) Data Modelling
14 315 (12.00%) Data Engineering
15 311 (11.84%) Platform Engineering
16 299 (11.39%) Stakeholder Management
17 298 (11.35%) Event-Driven
18 275 (10.47%) Migration
19 265 (10.09%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 1,025 (39.03%) Python
2 735 (27.99%) SQL
3 540 (20.56%) Java
4 279 (10.62%) C#
4 279 (10.62%) JavaScript
5 264 (10.05%) TypeScript
6 207 (7.88%) PowerShell
7 201 (7.65%) Bash
8 108 (4.11%) Bicep
9 58 (2.21%) Go
10 53 (2.02%) Kotlin
11 49 (1.87%) Apex Code
12 45 (1.71%) Shell Script
13 44 (1.68%) Scala
14 36 (1.37%) PL/SQL
15 33 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 33 (1.26%) Ruby
16 28 (1.07%) T-SQL
17 25 (0.95%) C++
18 20 (0.76%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 683 (26.01%) Security Cleared
2 618 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 130 (4.95%) Degree
4 99 (3.77%) Azure Certification
5 77 (2.93%) DV Cleared
6 71 (2.70%) AWS Certification
7 58 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 45 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
9 22 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 22 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
10 20 (0.76%) CISSP
11 18 (0.69%) Master's Degree
12 14 (0.53%) DBS Check
12 14 (0.53%) ISTQB
13 13 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 13 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
14 12 (0.46%) GIAC
14 12 (0.46%) PhD
15 11 (0.42%) CISM
16 8 (0.30%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 233 (8.87%) QA
2 215 (8.19%) Data Quality
3 90 (3.43%) Accessibility
4 58 (2.21%) GDPR
5 49 (1.87%) NIST
6 46 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 28 (1.07%) WCAG
8 23 (0.88%) NCSC
8 23 (0.88%) SLA
9 14 (0.53%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.42%) EU AI Act
10 11 (0.42%) ISO 20022
11 9 (0.34%) GRC
12 7 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 7 (0.27%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.15%) COBIT
14 4 (0.15%) MiFID
System Software
1 670 (25.51%) Docker
2 61 (2.32%) Active Directory
3 38 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
4 32 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.42%) Squid
6 10 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.27%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.076%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.076%) HDFS
10 2 (0.076%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.076%) KVM
10 2 (0.076%) Postfix
10 2 (0.076%) Varnish
10 2 (0.076%) vSphere
11 1 (0.038%) IAG
11 1 (0.038%) OpenSSH
11 1 (0.038%) Samba
Systems Management
1 842 (32.06%) Terraform
2 775 (29.51%) Kubernetes
3 204 (7.77%) Grafana
4 194 (7.39%) Ansible
5 170 (6.47%) Prometheus
6 33 (1.26%) Puppet
7 32 (1.22%) Argo
8 22 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
9 20 (0.76%) Kibana
9 20 (0.76%) Packer
10 16 (0.61%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.46%) Istio
12 9 (0.34%) Control-M
12 9 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
13 8 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
13 8 (0.30%) Kustomize
14 7 (0.27%) SCCM
15 5 (0.19%) HP Fortify
15 5 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
15 5 (0.19%) Salt
Vendors
1 412 (15.69%) Microsoft
2 214 (8.15%) Databricks
3 141 (5.37%) Google
4 132 (5.03%) Oracle
5 104 (3.96%) Salesforce
6 94 (3.58%) Splunk
7 71 (2.70%) ServiceNow
8 46 (1.75%) Dynatrace
9 44 (1.68%) OpenAI
9 44 (1.68%) VMware
10 33 (1.26%) IBM
10 33 (1.26%) Informatica
11 29 (1.10%) Foundry
11 29 (1.10%) Red Hat
11 29 (1.10%) SAP
12 27 (1.03%) MuleSoft
13 26 (0.99%) Cisco
14 24 (0.91%) New Relic
15 21 (0.80%) Palantir
16 19 (0.72%) CyberArk