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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 19
Rank change year-on-year +3 +4 +3
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,755 1,591 1,466
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.54% 11.81% 9.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.24% 12.76% 10.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,885 1,064 1,022
10th Percentile £400 £368 £413
25th Percentile £450 £438 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £738 £738 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.34% -6.73% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 0
10th Percentile £53.88 £29.75 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £35.00 -
Median hourly rate £61.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +35.56% - -
75th Percentile £80.63 £53.75 -
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.50 -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £68.75
% change year-on-year +3.85% -5.45% -8.33%

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 18,072 12,468 14,370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.85% 92.58% 89.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,839 8,220 9,409
10th Percentile £358 £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 £669 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 329 243 178
10th Percentile £16.04 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.01 £24.16
Median hourly rate £32.63 £30.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.75% -16.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.25 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.38
England median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 1 October 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 +10 349 £550 -9.84% 278
South London +4 68 £535 -1.15% 18
West London -9 51 £560 +15.45% 98
East London +6 11 £585 +8.33% 17
North London - 1 £650 - 3
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
1 132 (4.79%) Apache Airflow
2 115 (4.17%) Confluence
3 107 (3.88%) Apache Spark
4 84 (3.05%) Apache
5 38 (1.38%) SharePoint
6 17 (0.62%) CMS
7 14 (0.51%) Camunda
8 11 (0.40%) nginx
9 8 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.25%) Anypoint
10 7 (0.25%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.18%) Mule
12 5 (0.18%) SAS
12 5 (0.18%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.15%) IIS
14 3 (0.11%) Headless CMS
14 3 (0.11%) JBoss
14 3 (0.11%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (0.58%) Chatbot
1 16 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.15%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.15%) Trello
5 2 (0.073%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.036%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.036%) Gliffy
6 1 (0.036%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.036%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 1 (0.036%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.036%) Sketch
6 1 (0.036%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 27 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.36%) Aladdin
3 10 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (0.22%) Shopify
5 5 (0.18%) Magento
5 5 (0.18%) Temenos T24
6 4 (0.15%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.11%) Endur
7 3 (0.11%) SAP CRM
8 2 (0.073%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.073%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.073%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.073%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.036%) Cloudability
9 1 (0.036%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.036%) FIS Private Capital Suite
9 1 (0.036%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,240 (45.01%) Azure
2 1,183 (42.94%) AWS
3 618 (22.43%) GitHub
4 467 (16.95%) Azure DevOps
5 428 (15.54%) GCP
6 416 (15.10%) GitHub Actions
7 331 (12.01%) Serverless
8 249 (9.04%) Amazon S3
9 229 (8.31%) Power Platform
10 215 (7.80%) AWS Lambda
11 179 (6.50%) Amazon EKS
12 159 (5.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 153 (5.55%) Snowflake
14 147 (5.34%) Entra ID
15 135 (4.90%) AWS CloudFormation
16 133 (4.83%) dbt
17 131 (4.75%) Amazon EC2
18 106 (3.85%) Azure AKS
19 103 (3.74%) Azure Data Factory
20 94 (3.41%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 64 (2.32%) Firewall
2 45 (1.63%) DNS
2 45 (1.63%) Network Security
3 34 (1.23%) VPN
4 30 (1.09%) Internet
5 27 (0.98%) TCP/IP
6 21 (0.76%) SSL
7 20 (0.73%) 5G
8 19 (0.69%) HTTP
9 12 (0.44%) 3GPP
10 11 (0.40%) Radio Access Network
10 11 (0.40%) SAN
11 10 (0.36%) SSH
11 10 (0.36%) WAN
12 9 (0.33%) 4G
12 9 (0.33%) Kerberos
13 7 (0.25%) BGP
13 7 (0.25%) FTP
13 7 (0.25%) OpenLDAP
14 5 (0.18%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (6.97%) PostgreSQL
2 173 (6.28%) Power BI
3 154 (5.59%) Data Warehouse
4 139 (5.05%) SQL Server
5 132 (4.79%) NoSQL
6 118 (4.28%) Data Lake
7 113 (4.10%) MongoDB
8 101 (3.67%) Relational Database
9 100 (3.63%) Amazon RDS
10 87 (3.16%) Delta Lake
11 80 (2.90%) Metadata
12 74 (2.69%) BigQuery
13 72 (2.61%) Amazon Redshift
14 60 (2.18%) Redis
15 50 (1.81%) Amazon Athena
15 50 (1.81%) MySQL
16 47 (1.71%) DynamoDB
17 44 (1.60%) Big Data
18 41 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
19 40 (1.45%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 539 (19.56%) Git
2 441 (16.01%) Jenkins
3 371 (13.47%) GitLab
4 193 (7.01%) JIRA
5 99 (3.59%) Selenium
6 77 (2.79%) JUnit
7 57 (2.07%) Gradle
8 55 (2.00%) Cypress.io
9 53 (1.92%) Cucumber
10 48 (1.74%) JMeter
11 47 (1.71%) Maven
12 46 (1.67%) Bitbucket
13 44 (1.60%) SonarQube
14 42 (1.52%) Postman
15 38 (1.38%) Mockito
16 33 (1.20%) REST Assured
17 25 (0.91%) CircleCI
17 25 (0.91%) Gatling
18 21 (0.76%) Claude Code
18 21 (0.76%) MLflow
General
1 697 (25.30%) Social Skills
2 690 (25.05%) Finance
3 333 (12.09%) Banking
4 302 (10.96%) Public Sector
5 260 (9.44%) Analytical Skills
6 76 (2.76%) Front Office
7 67 (2.43%) Retail
8 64 (2.32%) Investment Banking
9 44 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 36 (1.31%) Marketing
11 35 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
12 31 (1.13%) Telecoms
13 30 (1.09%) Law
14 27 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
15 25 (0.91%) Financial Institution
16 23 (0.83%) Military
17 20 (0.73%) Back Office
18 19 (0.69%) Local Government
19 17 (0.62%) Legal
19 17 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 577 (20.94%) Developer
2 503 (18.26%) Senior
3 335 (12.16%) DevOps Engineer
4 301 (10.93%) Architect
5 274 (9.95%) Lead
6 250 (9.07%) Data Engineer
7 153 (5.55%) Azure Engineer
8 145 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
9 133 (4.83%) Software Engineer
10 129 (4.68%) Senior Developer
11 125 (4.54%) Cloud Engineer
12 118 (4.28%) Java Developer
13 107 (3.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 98 (3.56%) Full-Stack Developer
15 95 (3.45%) Platform Engineer
16 79 (2.87%) Solutions Architect
17 74 (2.69%) Python Developer
18 71 (2.58%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 71 (2.58%) Senior Data Engineer
19 67 (2.43%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 898 (32.60%) Terraform
2 440 (15.97%) REST
3 305 (11.07%) Kafka
4 263 (9.55%) React
5 253 (9.18%) .NET
6 225 (8.17%) RESTful
7 215 (7.80%) Spring
8 192 (6.97%) Spring Boot
9 141 (5.12%) PySpark
10 116 (4.21%) Node.js
11 111 (4.03%) HTML
12 98 (3.56%) CSS
13 94 (3.41%) OAuth
13 94 (3.41%) Playwright
14 87 (3.16%) JSON
15 81 (2.94%) AngularJS
16 80 (2.90%) SOAP
17 79 (2.87%) FastAPI
18 67 (2.43%) OAuth2
19 66 (2.40%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 583 (21.16%) Cloud Native
2 229 (8.31%) Distributed Systems
3 160 (5.81%) Product Ownership
4 141 (5.12%) AI Agents
5 118 (4.28%) Onboarding
6 111 (4.03%) Enterprise Software
7 93 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
8 45 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
9 41 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
10 40 (1.45%) Data Structures
10 40 (1.45%) Mobile App
10 40 (1.45%) Virtual Team
11 37 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 37 (1.34%) Security Posture
11 37 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
12 35 (1.27%) Management Information System
13 34 (1.23%) Algorithms
13 34 (1.23%) Replication
14 32 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
14 32 (1.16%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 257 (9.33%) Linux
2 124 (4.50%) Windows
3 81 (2.94%) Unix
4 50 (1.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 32 (1.16%) Windows Server
6 29 (1.05%) Android
7 25 (0.91%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.54%) Ubuntu
8 15 (0.54%) VMS
9 11 (0.40%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
11 6 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.11%) zOS
14 2 (0.073%) CentOS
14 2 (0.073%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.073%) Solaris
14 2 (0.073%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.036%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,523 (55.28%) DevOps
2 1,010 (36.66%) Agile
3 953 (34.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 654 (23.74%) AI
5 616 (22.36%) Test Automation
6 545 (19.78%) Containerisation
7 534 (19.38%) Observability
8 530 (19.24%) Microservices
9 504 (18.29%) Software Engineering
10 411 (14.92%) Problem-Solving
11 395 (14.34%) Stakeholder Management
12 384 (13.94%) Continuous Improvement
13 362 (13.14%) Data Pipeline
14 357 (12.96%) Analytics
15 353 (12.81%) Event-Driven
16 345 (12.52%) Data Engineering
17 342 (12.41%) Platform Engineering
18 331 (12.01%) Data Modelling
19 312 (11.32%) Technical Leadership
20 293 (10.64%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1,152 (41.81%) Python
2 749 (27.19%) SQL
3 557 (20.22%) Java
4 304 (11.03%) JavaScript
5 281 (10.20%) TypeScript
6 267 (9.69%) C#
7 243 (8.82%) Bash
8 223 (8.09%) PowerShell
9 116 (4.21%) Bicep
10 79 (2.87%) Go
11 60 (2.18%) Kotlin
12 57 (2.07%) Shell Script
13 49 (1.78%) Scala
14 41 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 40 (1.45%) Apex Code
16 31 (1.13%) Groovy
17 29 (1.05%) C++
18 27 (0.98%) PL/SQL
18 27 (0.98%) T-SQL
19 25 (0.91%) Perl
Qualifications
1 724 (26.28%) Security Cleared
2 642 (23.30%) SC Cleared
3 154 (5.59%) Degree
4 99 (3.59%) Azure Certification
5 93 (3.38%) DV Cleared
6 88 (3.19%) AWS Certification
7 72 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 60 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 24 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
11 23 (0.83%) CISSP
11 23 (0.83%) Master's Degree
12 21 (0.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 16 (0.58%) DBS Check
14 14 (0.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 14 (0.51%) ISTQB
15 11 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
15 11 (0.40%) GIAC
15 11 (0.40%) PhD
16 10 (0.36%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 273 (9.91%) QA
2 253 (9.18%) Data Quality
3 88 (3.19%) Accessibility
4 43 (1.56%) GDPR
4 43 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 42 (1.52%) NIST
6 25 (0.91%) NCSC
7 24 (0.87%) WCAG
8 18 (0.65%) SLA
9 15 (0.54%) ISO 20022
10 13 (0.47%) SOC 2
11 12 (0.44%) GRC
12 10 (0.36%) EU AI Act
13 9 (0.33%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.29%) Basel III
15 6 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 6 (0.22%) MiFID
16 5 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
16 5 (0.18%) EMIR
System Software
1 696 (25.26%) Docker
2 64 (2.32%) Active Directory
3 40 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
4 31 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.47%) Squid
6 7 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.22%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.15%) Postfix
10 3 (0.11%) HDFS
10 3 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.073%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.073%) DFS Replication
11 2 (0.073%) Dovecot
11 2 (0.073%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.073%) KVM
11 2 (0.073%) Time Sharing Option
11 2 (0.073%) Varnish
11 2 (0.073%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 833 (30.24%) Kubernetes
2 231 (8.38%) Grafana
3 226 (8.20%) Ansible
4 187 (6.79%) Prometheus
5 40 (1.45%) Argo
6 35 (1.27%) Puppet
7 28 (1.02%) Kibana
8 24 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
9 19 (0.69%) Packer
10 16 (0.58%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.47%) Istio
12 12 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
13 11 (0.40%) Control-M
14 8 (0.29%) SCCM
15 7 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
15 7 (0.25%) Karpenter
15 7 (0.25%) Kustomize
16 6 (0.22%) HP Fortify
17 5 (0.18%) Nagios
17 5 (0.18%) systemd
Vendors
1 475 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 260 (9.44%) Databricks
3 169 (6.13%) Google
4 138 (5.01%) Oracle
5 115 (4.17%) Splunk
6 91 (3.30%) Salesforce
7 67 (2.43%) OpenAI
8 65 (2.36%) ServiceNow
9 60 (2.18%) Dynatrace
10 48 (1.74%) VMware
11 43 (1.56%) IBM
12 39 (1.42%) Foundry
13 35 (1.27%) SAP
14 34 (1.23%) Informatica
15 31 (1.13%) Red Hat
16 26 (0.94%) MuleSoft
17 23 (0.83%) New Relic
18 21 (0.76%) CyberArk
19 19 (0.69%) Cisco
20 18 (0.65%) Palantir