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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 20 23
Rank change year-on-year +9 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,292 1,213 1,314
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.41% 9.97% 7.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.00% 10.81% 8.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,544 825 950
10th Percentile £400 £394 £413
25th Percentile £450 £447 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -2.65% -9.24%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £750 £838 £813
England median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.50% -8.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 3
10th Percentile £49.25 £39.88 £48.40
25th Percentile £61.00 £47.19 £50.88
Median hourly rate £70.00 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -4.55% -31.25%
75th Percentile £95.00 £54.06 £61.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.63 £64.60
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £67.50
% change year-on-year +14.54% -15.93% +2.89%

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 16,373 11,226 15,458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.63% 92.27% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,935 7,534 11,094
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £434 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £800 £800
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 192 316
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.09 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.19% +14.29% -28.97%
75th Percentile £59.00 £49.56 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.13 £62.90 £66.88
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.55 £37.18
% change year-on-year +64.62% -23.21% -0.85%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -3 244 £572 -2.22% 92
West London +9 61 £603 +21.77% 16
South London -1 47 £513 -1.91% 5
East London +3 12 £450 +80.00% 16
North London - 1 £650 - 4
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
1 107 (4.67%) Apache Spark
2 99 (4.32%) Apache Airflow
3 70 (3.05%) Apache
3 70 (3.05%) Confluence
4 30 (1.31%) SharePoint
5 12 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.48%) Camunda
7 10 (0.44%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.44%) Mendix
7 10 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.35%) Appian
8 8 (0.35%) OpenStack
8 8 (0.35%) SAS
9 7 (0.31%) CMS
9 7 (0.31%) Ethereum
9 7 (0.31%) WebSphere
10 6 (0.26%) Hyperledger
11 5 (0.22%) nginx
12 4 (0.17%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.13%) WebLogic
Applications
1 20 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.39%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.13%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.13%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.044%) Maya
Business Applications
1 16 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.39%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.22%) Magento
4 5 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
4 5 (0.22%) Shopify
5 3 (0.13%) Findur
5 3 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.13%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.087%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.044%) Endur
7 1 (0.044%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.044%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.044%) ProductWriter
7 1 (0.044%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.044%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.044%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.044%) SDL Web 8
7 1 (0.044%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 1,045 (45.59%) Azure
2 1,013 (44.20%) AWS
3 529 (23.08%) GitHub
4 408 (17.80%) Azure DevOps
5 344 (15.01%) GitHub Actions
6 340 (14.83%) GCP
7 307 (13.39%) Serverless
8 224 (9.77%) Amazon S3
9 205 (8.94%) Power Platform
10 200 (8.73%) AWS Lambda
11 183 (7.98%) AWS CloudFormation
12 133 (5.80%) Amazon EKS
13 128 (5.58%) Azure Data Factory
14 113 (4.93%) Amazon EC2
15 111 (4.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 108 (4.71%) Azure AKS
17 103 (4.49%) Amazon ECS
18 102 (4.45%) Snowflake
19 93 (4.06%) Entra ID
20 87 (3.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 77 (3.36%) Firewall
2 46 (2.01%) Network Security
3 37 (1.61%) DNS
4 25 (1.09%) HTTP
5 24 (1.05%) VPN
6 14 (0.61%) WAN
7 12 (0.52%) SD-WAN
8 10 (0.44%) Internet
9 9 (0.39%) SSL
10 8 (0.35%) 3GPP
10 8 (0.35%) 5G
11 7 (0.31%) BGP
12 6 (0.26%) OSPF
12 6 (0.26%) TCP/IP
13 5 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
13 5 (0.22%) FTP
13 5 (0.22%) LTE
13 5 (0.22%) Reverse Proxy
13 5 (0.22%) VXLAN
14 4 (0.17%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (6.33%) Data Lake
2 140 (6.11%) Power BI
3 136 (5.93%) PostgreSQL
4 134 (5.85%) SQL Server
5 123 (5.37%) NoSQL
6 104 (4.54%) Data Warehouse
7 81 (3.53%) Relational Database
8 79 (3.45%) MongoDB
9 72 (3.14%) Amazon RDS
9 72 (3.14%) Delta Lake
10 63 (2.75%) BigQuery
10 63 (2.75%) Metadata
11 62 (2.71%) Amazon Athena
12 55 (2.40%) Amazon Redshift
13 53 (2.31%) Big Data
14 49 (2.14%) DynamoDB
15 44 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
16 38 (1.66%) Snowflake Schema
17 33 (1.44%) Redis
17 33 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 398 (17.36%) Git
2 359 (15.66%) Jenkins
3 269 (11.74%) GitLab
4 136 (5.93%) JIRA
5 69 (3.01%) Selenium
6 62 (2.71%) JUnit
7 49 (2.14%) MLflow
8 48 (2.09%) Postman
9 44 (1.92%) Cucumber
10 40 (1.75%) JMeter
11 38 (1.66%) Mockito
12 31 (1.35%) REST Assured
13 30 (1.31%) Gradle
14 26 (1.13%) Cypress.io
15 23 (1.00%) Bitbucket
16 22 (0.96%) Artifactory
17 21 (0.92%) CircleCI
18 20 (0.87%) SonarQube
19 19 (0.83%) Liquibase
19 19 (0.83%) Maven
General
1 551 (24.04%) Finance
2 522 (22.77%) Social Skills
3 265 (11.56%) Public Sector
4 235 (10.25%) Banking
5 162 (7.07%) Analytical Skills
6 53 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
7 45 (1.96%) Front Office
8 43 (1.88%) Investment Banking
9 41 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 41 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
10 38 (1.66%) Retail
11 28 (1.22%) Financial Institution
12 21 (0.92%) Legal
13 19 (0.83%) Law
14 18 (0.79%) Telecoms
15 17 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
16 16 (0.70%) Marketing
16 16 (0.70%) Publishing
17 12 (0.52%) Manufacturing
18 11 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 476 (20.77%) Developer
2 380 (16.58%) Senior
3 258 (11.26%) Architect
4 254 (11.08%) DevOps Engineer
5 226 (9.86%) Data Engineer
6 218 (9.51%) Lead
7 137 (5.98%) Azure Engineer
8 132 (5.76%) AWS Engineer
9 129 (5.63%) Cloud Engineer
10 109 (4.76%) Software Engineer
11 92 (4.01%) Platform Engineer
12 91 (3.97%) Java Developer
12 91 (3.97%) Senior Developer
13 72 (3.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 72 (3.14%) Python Developer
14 70 (3.05%) Full-Stack Developer
15 67 (2.92%) Solutions Architect
16 54 (2.36%) Security Engineer
17 52 (2.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 51 (2.23%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 246 (10.73%) REST
2 233 (10.17%) React
3 221 (9.64%) Kafka
4 211 (9.21%) .NET
5 195 (8.51%) RESTful
6 180 (7.85%) Spring
7 165 (7.20%) Spring Boot
8 131 (5.72%) Node.js
9 116 (5.06%) AngularJS
9 116 (5.06%) PySpark
10 82 (3.58%) OAuth
11 78 (3.40%) HTML
12 72 (3.14%) Playwright
13 67 (2.92%) CSS
14 61 (2.66%) FastAPI
15 59 (2.57%) Pandas
16 54 (2.36%) OAuth2
16 54 (2.36%) YAML
17 51 (2.23%) JSON
17 51 (2.23%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 476 (20.77%) Cloud Native
2 165 (7.20%) Distributed Systems
3 108 (4.71%) Product Ownership
4 79 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
5 74 (3.23%) Onboarding
6 52 (2.27%) AI Agents
7 40 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
8 38 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
9 37 (1.61%) Algorithms
10 36 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 31 (1.35%) Equities
11 31 (1.35%) Public Cloud
12 30 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
12 30 (1.31%) Management Information System
12 30 (1.31%) Virtual Team
13 29 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
13 29 (1.27%) Low-Code
13 29 (1.27%) Mobile App
13 29 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
14 27 (1.18%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 156 (6.81%) Linux
2 87 (3.80%) Windows
3 42 (1.83%) Unix
4 23 (1.00%) Android
4 23 (1.00%) VMS
5 21 (0.92%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 17 (0.74%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.26%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.22%) zOS
10 4 (0.17%) Solaris
10 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.13%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.087%) AIX
12 2 (0.087%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,262 (55.06%) DevOps
2 782 (34.12%) Infrastructure as Code
3 713 (31.11%) Agile
4 508 (22.16%) Containerisation
5 469 (20.46%) AI
6 462 (20.16%) Test Automation
7 432 (18.85%) Microservices
8 395 (17.23%) Observability
9 371 (16.19%) Analytics
10 332 (14.49%) Software Engineering
11 312 (13.61%) Data Modelling
12 296 (12.91%) Data Pipeline
13 294 (12.83%) Problem-Solving
14 287 (12.52%) Data Engineering
15 265 (11.56%) Continuous Improvement
16 250 (10.91%) Machine Learning
17 247 (10.78%) Platform Engineering
18 234 (10.21%) ETL
18 234 (10.21%) Migration
19 214 (9.34%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 892 (38.92%) Python
2 664 (28.97%) SQL
3 434 (18.94%) Java
4 259 (11.30%) C#
5 229 (9.99%) JavaScript
6 227 (9.90%) TypeScript
7 152 (6.63%) PowerShell
8 151 (6.59%) Bash
9 91 (3.97%) Bicep
10 57 (2.49%) Scala
11 44 (1.92%) Go
12 39 (1.70%) Ruby
12 39 (1.70%) Shell Script
13 38 (1.66%) Apex Code
14 33 (1.44%) Kotlin
15 29 (1.27%) PL/SQL
16 27 (1.18%) T-SQL
17 20 (0.87%) C++
18 14 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 11 (0.48%) C
Qualifications
1 570 (24.87%) Security Cleared
2 511 (22.29%) SC Cleared
3 122 (5.32%) Degree
4 95 (4.14%) Azure Certification
5 64 (2.79%) AWS Certification
6 56 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 44 (1.92%) DV Cleared
8 39 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 25 (1.09%) Master's Degree
10 23 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
11 18 (0.79%) CISSP
12 17 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 15 (0.65%) ISTQB
14 13 (0.57%) DBS Check
15 12 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
15 12 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
16 11 (0.48%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 10 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 9 (0.39%) CISM
19 8 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 186 (8.12%) QA
2 173 (7.55%) Data Quality
3 77 (3.36%) GDPR
4 67 (2.92%) Accessibility
5 62 (2.71%) NIST
6 51 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 31 (1.35%) NCSC
8 24 (1.05%) WCAG
9 23 (1.00%) PCI DSS
9 23 (1.00%) SLA
10 15 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (0.39%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.31%) GRC
12 7 (0.31%) PSD2
13 6 (0.26%) COBIT
13 6 (0.26%) MiFID
14 5 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.22%) SOC 2
15 4 (0.17%) SEPA
16 3 (0.13%) PMO
System Software
1 612 (26.70%) Docker
2 57 (2.49%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.39%) Squid
7 6 (0.26%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.22%) vSphere
9 4 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.087%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.087%) Postfix
11 1 (0.044%) HDFS
11 1 (0.044%) IAG
11 1 (0.044%) OpenSSH
11 1 (0.044%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
11 1 (0.044%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 745 (32.50%) Terraform
2 689 (30.06%) Kubernetes
3 155 (6.76%) Ansible
4 154 (6.72%) Grafana
5 141 (6.15%) Prometheus
6 27 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
7 25 (1.09%) Argo
8 21 (0.92%) Istio
9 20 (0.87%) Puppet
10 18 (0.79%) Kibana
11 11 (0.48%) Progress Chef
12 10 (0.44%) Packer
13 8 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
14 7 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 6 (0.26%) Kustomize
15 6 (0.26%) SCCM
16 4 (0.17%) Karpenter
16 4 (0.17%) Oracle RMAN
16 4 (0.17%) Salt
16 4 (0.17%) Suricata
Vendors
1 353 (15.40%) Microsoft
2 205 (8.94%) Databricks
3 113 (4.93%) Google
4 103 (4.49%) Oracle
5 83 (3.62%) Salesforce
6 75 (3.27%) Splunk
7 56 (2.44%) OpenAI
8 52 (2.27%) ServiceNow
9 30 (1.31%) Dynatrace
10 25 (1.09%) VMware
11 24 (1.05%) CyberArk
11 24 (1.05%) Foundry
11 24 (1.05%) Red Hat
12 23 (1.00%) IBM
12 23 (1.00%) SAP
13 22 (0.96%) MuleSoft
14 15 (0.65%) Cisco
14 15 (0.65%) Informatica
15 12 (0.52%) New Relic
15 12 (0.52%) Palo Alto