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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 18 27
Rank change year-on-year +6 +9 -12
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,082 1,338 1,222
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.96% 10.17% 6.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.36% 11.18% 7.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,432 949 914
10th Percentile £369 £403 £425
25th Percentile £435 £481 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +1.74% -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £725 £688
90th Percentile £738 £838 £800
England median daily rate £514 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -6.55% -2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile £63.25 - £49.60
25th Percentile £65.50 - £53.88
Median hourly rate £68.00 - £57.75
75th Percentile £95.00 - £60.81
90th Percentile - - £64.53
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £68.75
% change year-on-year - -5.45% +4.79%

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 14,498 11,963 16,063
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.24% 90.92% 88.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,728 7,826 11,476
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £676 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 155 344
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.45 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.56 £24.66 £19.29
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.38 £52.88 £50.00
90th Percentile £69.94 £78.04 £71.75
England median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £33.78
% change year-on-year -17.14% +3.63% -6.18%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 -5 226 £525 -8.70% 193
West London +6 70 £603 +47.31% 30
South London +5 63 £525 +8.25% 36
East London -2 8 £450 -10.00% 26
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 90 (4.32%) Apache Spark
2 74 (3.55%) Apache Airflow
3 71 (3.41%) Confluence
4 54 (2.59%) Apache
5 32 (1.54%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.58%) CMS
6 12 (0.58%) SAS
7 11 (0.53%) Appian
7 11 (0.53%) Ethereum
7 11 (0.53%) Hyperledger
8 10 (0.48%) HCL Notes
8 10 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (0.43%) Mendix
10 7 (0.34%) Camunda
10 7 (0.34%) nginx
11 6 (0.29%) IIS
12 5 (0.24%) Headless CMS
13 4 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
13 4 (0.19%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.19%) WebLogic
Applications
1 21 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.29%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.096%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.048%) Maya
7 1 (0.048%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 15 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.19%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.096%) Endur
3 2 (0.096%) Magento
3 2 (0.096%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.096%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.096%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.096%) Shopify
4 1 (0.048%) Actimize
4 1 (0.048%) Cerner Millennium
4 1 (0.048%) Maximo
4 1 (0.048%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.048%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.048%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.048%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.048%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.048%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.048%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.048%) ProductWriter
4 1 (0.048%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 940 (45.15%) Azure
2 918 (44.09%) AWS
3 497 (23.87%) GitHub
4 356 (17.10%) Azure DevOps
5 339 (16.28%) GCP
6 318 (15.27%) GitHub Actions
7 297 (14.27%) Serverless
8 200 (9.61%) Amazon S3
9 185 (8.89%) AWS CloudFormation
10 181 (8.69%) AWS Lambda
11 167 (8.02%) Power Platform
12 127 (6.10%) Amazon EKS
13 123 (5.91%) Azure Data Factory
14 119 (5.72%) Amazon ECS
15 95 (4.56%) Azure AKS
16 94 (4.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 89 (4.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 83 (3.99%) Amazon EC2
19 74 (3.55%) Entra ID
20 73 (3.51%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 81 (3.89%) Firewall
2 52 (2.50%) Network Security
3 45 (2.16%) DNS
4 27 (1.30%) VPN
5 21 (1.01%) HTTP
6 15 (0.72%) SSL
6 15 (0.72%) WAN
7 13 (0.62%) SD-WAN
8 12 (0.58%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.29%) BGP
10 5 (0.24%) Wireshark
11 4 (0.19%) 3GPP
11 4 (0.19%) Cisco IPT
11 4 (0.19%) DHCP
11 4 (0.19%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.19%) MPLS
11 4 (0.19%) Multicast
11 4 (0.19%) OSPF
11 4 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
11 4 (0.19%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (7.06%) PostgreSQL
2 127 (6.10%) SQL Server
3 124 (5.96%) Data Lake
4 120 (5.76%) Power BI
5 113 (5.43%) NoSQL
6 94 (4.51%) Data Warehouse
7 76 (3.65%) MongoDB
8 71 (3.41%) Amazon RDS
9 70 (3.36%) Relational Database
10 54 (2.59%) Azure SQL Database
10 54 (2.59%) Delta Lake
11 53 (2.55%) Amazon Athena
12 52 (2.50%) BigQuery
13 46 (2.21%) Amazon Redshift
14 44 (2.11%) Big Data
15 39 (1.87%) Metadata
16 37 (1.78%) DynamoDB
17 35 (1.68%) MySQL
18 32 (1.54%) Redis
19 28 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 382 (18.35%) Git
2 369 (17.72%) Jenkins
3 264 (12.68%) GitLab
4 152 (7.30%) JIRA
5 80 (3.84%) Selenium
6 60 (2.88%) JUnit
7 59 (2.83%) Cucumber
8 48 (2.31%) MLflow
9 46 (2.21%) Postman
10 39 (1.87%) Cypress.io
11 35 (1.68%) JMeter
12 31 (1.49%) REST Assured
13 25 (1.20%) Bitbucket
13 25 (1.20%) Mockito
14 24 (1.15%) Maven
15 21 (1.01%) TeamCity
16 19 (0.91%) Gatling
16 19 (0.91%) Gradle
16 19 (0.91%) SonarQube
17 14 (0.67%) CircleCI
General
1 541 (25.98%) Social Skills
2 463 (22.24%) Finance
3 230 (11.05%) Public Sector
4 204 (9.80%) Banking
5 164 (7.88%) Analytical Skills
6 44 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
7 43 (2.07%) Front Office
8 38 (1.83%) Investment Banking
9 33 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
10 31 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 30 (1.44%) Financial Institution
12 25 (1.20%) Retail
13 22 (1.06%) Telecoms
14 21 (1.01%) Marketing
15 14 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (0.62%) Manufacturing
17 12 (0.58%) Law
18 10 (0.48%) Electronics
18 10 (0.48%) Legal
18 10 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 501 (24.06%) Developer
2 327 (15.71%) Senior
3 245 (11.77%) DevOps Engineer
4 203 (9.75%) Architect
5 193 (9.27%) Data Engineer
6 164 (7.88%) Lead
7 128 (6.15%) AWS Engineer
8 121 (5.81%) Azure Engineer
9 95 (4.56%) Cloud Engineer
10 93 (4.47%) Software Engineer
11 90 (4.32%) Platform Engineer
12 89 (4.27%) Full-Stack Developer
13 88 (4.23%) Senior Developer
14 85 (4.08%) Java Developer
15 72 (3.46%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 68 (3.27%) AWS DevOps
17 63 (3.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 56 (2.69%) Python Engineer
18 56 (2.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
19 53 (2.55%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 256 (12.30%) React
2 208 (9.99%) Kafka
3 202 (9.70%) Node.js
4 193 (9.27%) .NET
5 191 (9.17%) RESTful
6 185 (8.89%) REST
7 159 (7.64%) Spring
8 127 (6.10%) Spring Boot
9 126 (6.05%) AngularJS
10 108 (5.19%) Playwright
11 99 (4.76%) CSS
12 98 (4.71%) HTML
13 92 (4.42%) PySpark
14 83 (3.99%) OAuth
15 66 (3.17%) GraphQL
16 60 (2.88%) YAML
17 51 (2.45%) JSON
18 50 (2.40%) PyTorch
19 49 (2.35%) FastAPI
19 49 (2.35%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 409 (19.64%) Cloud Native
2 118 (5.67%) Distributed Systems
3 92 (4.42%) Product Ownership
4 54 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
5 49 (2.35%) Onboarding
6 48 (2.31%) Mobile App
7 41 (1.97%) Algorithms
8 36 (1.73%) AI Agents
9 34 (1.63%) Public Cloud
10 32 (1.54%) Data Structures
11 31 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
12 30 (1.44%) Derivative
13 28 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
14 25 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 24 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
15 24 (1.15%) Equities
16 23 (1.10%) Fixed Income
16 23 (1.10%) Low-Code
16 23 (1.10%) Private Cloud
16 23 (1.10%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 152 (7.30%) Linux
2 68 (3.27%) Windows
3 37 (1.78%) Apple iOS
4 29 (1.39%) Android
5 28 (1.34%) VMS
6 26 (1.25%) Unix
7 16 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.48%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.29%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.29%) Solaris
9 6 (0.29%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.24%) CentOS
10 5 (0.24%) zOS
11 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.096%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.096%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.096%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,149 (55.19%) DevOps
2 683 (32.80%) Infrastructure as Code
3 674 (32.37%) Agile
4 467 (22.43%) Containerisation
5 433 (20.80%) Test Automation
6 384 (18.44%) Problem-Solving
7 375 (18.01%) AI
8 369 (17.72%) Microservices
9 327 (15.71%) Analytics
10 314 (15.08%) Observability
11 285 (13.69%) Software Engineering
12 243 (11.67%) Data Engineering
12 243 (11.67%) Data Pipeline
13 240 (11.53%) Data Modelling
14 231 (11.10%) Continuous Improvement
15 225 (10.81%) Machine Learning
16 219 (10.52%) Full-Stack Development
17 207 (9.94%) ETL
18 191 (9.17%) Mentoring
19 186 (8.93%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 825 (39.63%) Python
2 543 (26.08%) SQL
3 396 (19.02%) Java
4 299 (14.36%) JavaScript
5 281 (13.50%) TypeScript
6 241 (11.58%) C#
7 131 (6.29%) Bash
8 101 (4.85%) PowerShell
9 73 (3.51%) Bicep
10 62 (2.98%) Scala
11 61 (2.93%) Go
12 32 (1.54%) C++
13 31 (1.49%) Kotlin
13 31 (1.49%) Ruby
14 29 (1.39%) T-SQL
15 27 (1.30%) PL/SQL
16 19 (0.91%) Shell Script
16 19 (0.91%) Swift
17 17 (0.82%) Apex Code
17 17 (0.82%) Rust
Qualifications
1 491 (23.58%) Security Cleared
2 429 (20.61%) SC Cleared
3 124 (5.96%) Degree
4 73 (3.51%) Azure Certification
5 72 (3.46%) AWS Certification
6 68 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 34 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 31 (1.49%) Master's Degree
9 30 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 26 (1.25%) DV Cleared
11 24 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 20 (0.96%) ISTQB
13 19 (0.91%) CISSP
14 17 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
15 14 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
16 13 (0.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 12 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 12 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
18 10 (0.48%) CCSP
19 9 (0.43%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (8.45%) QA
2 135 (6.48%) Data Quality
3 80 (3.84%) GDPR
4 78 (3.75%) Accessibility
5 51 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 49 (2.35%) NIST
7 29 (1.39%) NCSC
8 28 (1.34%) WCAG
9 27 (1.30%) PCI DSS
10 21 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 14 (0.67%) SLA
12 9 (0.43%) HIPAA
13 7 (0.34%) ISO 20022
13 7 (0.34%) NIST 800
14 6 (0.29%) MiFID
14 6 (0.29%) PSD2
15 4 (0.19%) GRC
15 4 (0.19%) HL7
15 4 (0.19%) SEPA
15 4 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 642 (30.84%) Docker
2 53 (2.55%) Active Directory
3 39 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.38%) VMware NSX
6 8 (0.38%) vSphere
7 4 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.14%) zsh
9 2 (0.096%) HDFS
9 2 (0.096%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.096%) Squid
10 1 (0.048%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.048%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.048%) etcd
10 1 (0.048%) IAG
10 1 (0.048%) NFS
10 1 (0.048%) Postfix
10 1 (0.048%) Veritas File System
10 1 (0.048%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 692 (33.24%) Terraform
2 684 (32.85%) Kubernetes
3 157 (7.54%) Ansible
4 130 (6.24%) Grafana
5 115 (5.52%) Prometheus
6 49 (2.35%) Argo
7 25 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
8 23 (1.10%) Istio
9 13 (0.62%) Kibana
9 13 (0.62%) Puppet
10 11 (0.53%) Progress Chef
11 10 (0.48%) ITRS Geneos
12 8 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
12 8 (0.38%) Rancher
13 7 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 5 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
14 5 (0.24%) Karpenter
14 5 (0.24%) Kubeflow
14 5 (0.24%) vCenter Server
15 4 (0.19%) logstash
Vendors
1 304 (14.60%) Microsoft
2 210 (10.09%) Databricks
3 128 (6.15%) Google
4 77 (3.70%) Oracle
5 65 (3.12%) Splunk
6 58 (2.79%) OpenAI
7 57 (2.74%) ServiceNow
8 51 (2.45%) Salesforce
9 34 (1.63%) Red Hat
10 28 (1.34%) VMware
11 27 (1.30%) Dynatrace
12 20 (0.96%) SAP
13 19 (0.91%) Cisco
13 19 (0.91%) CyberArk
14 15 (0.72%) MuleSoft
15 14 (0.67%) Foundry
15 14 (0.67%) IBM
16 13 (0.62%) Apple
16 13 (0.62%) Okta
16 13 (0.62%) Solace