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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 18 25
Rank change year-on-year +4 +7 -10
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 1,826 1,390 1,312
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.76% 9.72% 7.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.95% 10.77% 8.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,254 977 986
10th Percentile £375 £406 £423
25th Percentile £442 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £589
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +1.91% -5.80%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £700
90th Percentile £724 £810 £800
England median daily rate £520 £560 £575
% change year-on-year -7.14% -2.61% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £36.90 - £56.60
25th Percentile £52.88 - £57.13
Median hourly rate £64.75 - £58.00
75th Percentile £67.38 - £65.38
90th Percentile £68.95 - £69.35
England median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year -3.70% -10.00% +14.32%

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 13,094 12,910 16,178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.52% 90.24% 89.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,658 8,267 11,566
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 160 246
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.09 £17.11
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £20.01
Median hourly rate £32.45 £35.00 £32.60
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% +7.38% -13.08%
75th Percentile £53.44 £54.13 £57.50
90th Percentile £69.24 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.27% +23.66%

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 4 January 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 4 January 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 4 January 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 +2 213 £550 -7.17% 233
South London +11 59 £525 -2.42% 23
West London +5 59 £603 +30.27% 17
East London -3 12 £520 +1.22% 18
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 79 (4.33%) Confluence
2 61 (3.34%) Apache Spark
3 58 (3.18%) Apache Airflow
4 36 (1.97%) Apache
5 31 (1.70%) SharePoint
6 17 (0.93%) nginx
7 13 (0.71%) CMS
8 9 (0.49%) HCL Notes
9 8 (0.44%) Mendix
10 6 (0.33%) Appian
10 6 (0.33%) SAS
11 5 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 5 (0.27%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.27%) Headless CMS
11 5 (0.27%) Hyperledger
11 5 (0.27%) IIS
11 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.22%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.16%) Camunda
13 3 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 24 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 10 (0.55%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 7 (0.38%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.16%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.055%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.44%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.22%) Endur
4 2 (0.11%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.11%) Magento
4 2 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.11%) Shopify
4 2 (0.11%) thinkFolio
5 1 (0.055%) Actimize
5 1 (0.055%) Cerner Millennium
5 1 (0.055%) ION Anvil
5 1 (0.055%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.055%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.055%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.055%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.055%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.055%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.055%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.055%) Orchestrade
5 1 (0.055%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 805 (44.09%) AWS
2 801 (43.87%) Azure
3 445 (24.37%) GitHub
4 313 (17.14%) GitHub Actions
5 308 (16.87%) Azure DevOps
6 294 (16.10%) GCP
7 262 (14.35%) Serverless
8 179 (9.80%) Amazon S3
9 156 (8.54%) AWS Lambda
10 131 (7.17%) Power Platform
11 128 (7.01%) AWS CloudFormation
12 102 (5.59%) Amazon EKS
13 101 (5.53%) Amazon ECS
14 96 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 94 (5.15%) Azure Data Factory
16 88 (4.82%) Azure AKS
17 80 (4.38%) Amazon EC2
18 71 (3.89%) Azure Logic Apps
19 66 (3.61%) Azure Functions
20 65 (3.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 87 (4.76%) Firewall
2 61 (3.34%) DNS
3 44 (2.41%) Network Security
4 26 (1.42%) VPN
5 20 (1.10%) HTTP
6 18 (0.99%) TCP/IP
7 15 (0.82%) OpenLDAP
7 15 (0.82%) SSL
8 12 (0.66%) SSH
8 12 (0.66%) WAN
9 11 (0.60%) SMTP
10 10 (0.55%) FTP
10 10 (0.55%) IMAP
10 10 (0.55%) SD-WAN
11 8 (0.44%) DHCP
12 6 (0.33%) tcpdump
12 6 (0.33%) Wireshark
13 5 (0.27%) BGP
13 5 (0.27%) MPLS
14 4 (0.22%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (7.72%) PostgreSQL
2 106 (5.81%) SQL Server
3 99 (5.42%) NoSQL
4 94 (5.15%) Power BI
5 88 (4.82%) Data Lake
6 75 (4.11%) Amazon RDS
7 72 (3.94%) Data Warehouse
8 61 (3.34%) MongoDB
9 58 (3.18%) Relational Database
10 41 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
10 41 (2.25%) BigQuery
11 40 (2.19%) Delta Lake
12 32 (1.75%) DynamoDB
13 30 (1.64%) Amazon Athena
14 29 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
14 29 (1.59%) MySQL
15 28 (1.53%) Big Data
16 27 (1.48%) Metadata
16 27 (1.48%) Redis
17 26 (1.42%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 354 (19.39%) Jenkins
2 328 (17.96%) Git
3 231 (12.65%) GitLab
4 145 (7.94%) JIRA
5 73 (4.00%) Selenium
6 49 (2.68%) Cucumber
7 46 (2.52%) Cypress.io
8 43 (2.35%) JUnit
9 37 (2.03%) Postman
10 31 (1.70%) JMeter
10 31 (1.70%) SonarQube
10 31 (1.70%) TeamCity
11 30 (1.64%) MLflow
12 26 (1.42%) Maven
13 25 (1.37%) Bitbucket
14 24 (1.31%) Sonatype Nexus
15 21 (1.15%) Gradle
16 20 (1.10%) REST Assured
17 18 (0.99%) Mockito
18 17 (0.93%) CircleCI
General
1 477 (26.12%) Social Skills
2 411 (22.51%) Finance
3 207 (11.34%) Banking
4 197 (10.79%) Public Sector
5 131 (7.17%) Analytical Skills
6 49 (2.68%) Investment Banking
7 47 (2.57%) Front Office
8 33 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
9 32 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 29 (1.59%) Financial Institution
11 26 (1.42%) Telecoms
12 25 (1.37%) Marketing
13 19 (1.04%) Retail
14 17 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
15 16 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
16 15 (0.82%) Publishing
17 14 (0.77%) Military
18 13 (0.71%) Manufacturing
19 11 (0.60%) Electronics
20 10 (0.55%) Law
Job Titles
1 468 (25.63%) Developer
2 288 (15.77%) Senior
3 247 (13.53%) DevOps Engineer
4 153 (8.38%) Architect
5 146 (8.00%) Data Engineer
6 117 (6.41%) Lead
7 109 (5.97%) AWS Engineer
8 105 (5.75%) Azure Engineer
9 101 (5.53%) Platform Engineer
10 87 (4.76%) Senior Developer
11 83 (4.55%) Software Engineer
12 80 (4.38%) Full-Stack Developer
12 80 (4.38%) Java Developer
13 65 (3.56%) AWS DevOps
13 65 (3.56%) Python Engineer
14 63 (3.45%) Cloud Engineer
15 60 (3.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 56 (3.07%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 53 (2.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 52 (2.85%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 231 (12.65%) React
2 195 (10.68%) Node.js
3 192 (10.51%) Kafka
4 175 (9.58%) RESTful
5 165 (9.04%) REST
6 159 (8.71%) .NET
7 130 (7.12%) Spring
8 105 (5.75%) Spring Boot
9 104 (5.70%) AngularJS
10 89 (4.87%) CSS
11 85 (4.65%) HTML
12 84 (4.60%) Playwright
13 72 (3.94%) GraphQL
13 72 (3.94%) OAuth
14 65 (3.56%) YAML
15 62 (3.40%) PySpark
16 58 (3.18%) JSON
17 52 (2.85%) FastAPI
18 49 (2.68%) .NET Core
18 49 (2.68%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 337 (18.46%) Cloud Native
2 124 (6.79%) Distributed Systems
3 76 (4.16%) Product Ownership
4 47 (2.57%) Mobile App
5 38 (2.08%) AI Agents
5 38 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
6 34 (1.86%) Onboarding
7 33 (1.81%) Derivative
8 31 (1.70%) Replication
9 28 (1.53%) Algorithms
9 28 (1.53%) Public Cloud
10 27 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
10 27 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
10 27 (1.48%) Hedge funds
11 26 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 24 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
13 22 (1.20%) Equities
14 21 (1.15%) Data Structures
14 21 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
15 20 (1.10%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 165 (9.04%) Linux
2 68 (3.72%) Windows
3 38 (2.08%) Apple iOS
4 37 (2.03%) Android
5 35 (1.92%) VMS
6 23 (1.26%) Unix
7 19 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 17 (0.93%) Windows Server
9 14 (0.77%) Ubuntu
10 10 (0.55%) Amazon Linux
11 7 (0.38%) Solaris
12 6 (0.33%) CentOS
12 6 (0.33%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.11%) zOS
14 1 (0.055%) tvOS
14 1 (0.055%) watchOS
14 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,039 (56.90%) DevOps
2 640 (35.05%) Agile
3 602 (32.97%) Infrastructure as Code
4 391 (21.41%) Containerisation
5 364 (19.93%) Problem-Solving
5 364 (19.93%) Test Automation
6 344 (18.84%) Microservices
7 267 (14.62%) Software Engineering
8 261 (14.29%) AI
9 257 (14.07%) Observability
10 236 (12.92%) Analytics
11 207 (11.34%) Data Pipeline
12 180 (9.86%) Full-Stack Development
13 178 (9.75%) Data Engineering
14 174 (9.53%) Migration
15 165 (9.04%) Machine Learning
16 162 (8.87%) Continuous Improvement
17 158 (8.65%) Data Modelling
18 155 (8.49%) ETL
19 153 (8.38%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 729 (39.92%) Python
2 433 (23.71%) SQL
3 372 (20.37%) Java
4 264 (14.46%) JavaScript
5 242 (13.25%) TypeScript
6 200 (10.95%) C#
7 140 (7.67%) Bash
8 111 (6.08%) PowerShell
9 80 (4.38%) Go
10 68 (3.72%) Bicep
11 47 (2.57%) C++
12 37 (2.03%) Scala
13 28 (1.53%) Ruby
14 27 (1.48%) Kotlin
15 26 (1.42%) Rust
16 25 (1.37%) PL/SQL
17 23 (1.26%) T-SQL
18 20 (1.10%) Groovy
19 17 (0.93%) PHP
19 17 (0.93%) Swift
Qualifications
1 407 (22.29%) Security Cleared
2 356 (19.50%) SC Cleared
3 122 (6.68%) Degree
4 67 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 66 (3.61%) Azure Certification
6 63 (3.45%) AWS Certification
7 27 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (1.31%) Master's Degree
10 20 (1.10%) MCP
11 19 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 17 (0.93%) DV Cleared
12 17 (0.93%) ISTQB
13 14 (0.77%) CISSP
14 13 (0.71%) Numerate Degree
15 11 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
16 8 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 8 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 7 (0.38%) OSCP
18 6 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (8.11%) QA
2 94 (5.15%) Data Quality
3 83 (4.55%) GDPR
4 63 (3.45%) Accessibility
5 48 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 40 (2.19%) NIST
7 21 (1.15%) WCAG
8 20 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 17 (0.93%) PCI DSS
10 14 (0.77%) NCSC
11 9 (0.49%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.44%) MiFID
12 8 (0.44%) SLA
13 6 (0.33%) NIST 800
14 5 (0.27%) EU AI Act
15 4 (0.22%) PERC
15 4 (0.22%) SOC 2
16 3 (0.16%) HL7
16 3 (0.16%) ISO 20022
16 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 589 (32.26%) Docker
2 55 (3.01%) Active Directory
3 30 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.66%) Squid
6 10 (0.55%) DFS Replication
6 10 (0.55%) Dovecot
6 10 (0.55%) Postfix
7 8 (0.44%) zsh
8 6 (0.33%) vSphere
9 5 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.27%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.22%) NFS
10 4 (0.22%) Veritas File System
10 4 (0.22%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 3 (0.16%) HDFS
11 3 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.055%) etcd
12 1 (0.055%) KVM
Systems Management
1 621 (34.01%) Kubernetes
2 615 (33.68%) Terraform
3 157 (8.60%) Ansible
4 148 (8.11%) Grafana
5 130 (7.12%) Prometheus
6 50 (2.74%) Argo
7 25 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
8 24 (1.31%) Istio
9 18 (0.99%) Kibana
10 16 (0.88%) Progress Chef
11 15 (0.82%) ITRS Geneos
12 14 (0.77%) Puppet
13 11 (0.60%) Nessus
14 10 (0.55%) Proxmox
15 9 (0.49%) Rancher
16 7 (0.38%) logstash
16 7 (0.38%) Packer
17 6 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 6 (0.33%) Red Hat Satellite
18 5 (0.27%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 260 (14.24%) Microsoft
2 178 (9.75%) Databricks
3 121 (6.63%) Google
4 76 (4.16%) Oracle
5 53 (2.90%) Splunk
6 50 (2.74%) ServiceNow
7 49 (2.68%) Salesforce
8 47 (2.57%) OpenAI
9 35 (1.92%) Red Hat
10 30 (1.64%) Dynatrace
11 23 (1.26%) VMware
12 18 (0.99%) SAP
13 17 (0.93%) Cisco
13 17 (0.93%) Solace
14 16 (0.88%) Atlassian
15 15 (0.82%) MuleSoft
16 12 (0.66%) Apple
16 12 (0.66%) Palo Alto
17 10 (0.55%) Adobe
17 10 (0.55%) CyberArk