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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 20 23
Rank change year-on-year +10 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,315 1,216 1,333
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.47% 10.02% 7.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.05% 10.85% 8.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,555 819 954
10th Percentile £400 £394 £413
25th Percentile £450 £447 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £540 £565
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -4.34% -9.32%
75th Percentile £646 £688 £688
90th Percentile £750 £838 £815
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 3
10th Percentile £51.25 £39.88 £48.40
25th Percentile £55.00 £47.19 £50.88
Median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.62% -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 £70.00
% change year-on-year +14.54% -18.93% +6.70%

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 16,474 11,204 15,470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.70% 92.30% 88.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,987 7,490 11,076
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £435 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £683 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 196 317
10th Percentile £18.48 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.22 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% +15.18% -28.21%
75th Percentile £58.96 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £79.25 £63.50 £68.30
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.53 £37.50
% change year-on-year +66.52% -23.93% +1.99%

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 6 June 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 6 June 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 6 June 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 -2 249 £575 -2.95% 208
West London +12 56 £603 +21.41% 19
South London -4 44 £513 -6.82% 3
East London +5 12 £450 +80.00% 25
North London - 1 £650 - 2
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
1 106 (4.58%) Apache Spark
2 100 (4.32%) Apache Airflow
3 72 (3.11%) Confluence
4 68 (2.94%) Apache
5 29 (1.25%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
7 11 (0.48%) Camunda
8 10 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
9 9 (0.39%) SAS
10 8 (0.35%) Appian
10 8 (0.35%) HCL Notes
10 8 (0.35%) Mendix
10 8 (0.35%) OpenStack
11 7 (0.30%) CMS
11 7 (0.30%) Ethereum
11 7 (0.30%) WebSphere
12 6 (0.26%) Hyperledger
12 6 (0.26%) nginx
13 5 (0.22%) Tomcat
14 3 (0.13%) WebLogic
Applications
1 19 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.43%) 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 2 (0.086%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.043%) Maya
Business Applications
1 17 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.39%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.26%) Shopify
5 5 (0.22%) Magento
5 5 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.13%) Findur
7 3 (0.13%) SAP BPC
8 2 (0.086%) SAP S/4HANA
9 1 (0.043%) Endur
9 1 (0.043%) NetSuite
9 1 (0.043%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.043%) ProductWriter
9 1 (0.043%) R3 Corda
9 1 (0.043%) SAP CRM
9 1 (0.043%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.043%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,046 (45.18%) Azure
2 1,024 (44.23%) AWS
3 533 (23.02%) GitHub
4 405 (17.49%) Azure DevOps
5 346 (14.95%) GitHub Actions
6 339 (14.64%) GCP
7 304 (13.13%) Serverless
8 221 (9.55%) Amazon S3
9 208 (8.98%) Power Platform
10 201 (8.68%) AWS Lambda
11 179 (7.73%) AWS CloudFormation
12 136 (5.87%) Amazon EKS
13 123 (5.31%) Azure Data Factory
14 114 (4.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 112 (4.84%) Amazon EC2
16 105 (4.54%) Azure AKS
16 105 (4.54%) Snowflake
17 99 (4.28%) Amazon ECS
18 94 (4.06%) Entra ID
19 84 (3.63%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 78 (3.37%) Firewall
2 46 (1.99%) Network Security
3 37 (1.60%) DNS
4 25 (1.08%) HTTP
4 25 (1.08%) VPN
5 14 (0.60%) WAN
6 13 (0.56%) Internet
7 12 (0.52%) SD-WAN
8 11 (0.48%) 5G
9 9 (0.39%) 3GPP
9 9 (0.39%) SSL
10 7 (0.30%) BGP
11 6 (0.26%) OSPF
11 6 (0.26%) TCP/IP
12 5 (0.22%) 4G
12 5 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
12 5 (0.22%) FTP
12 5 (0.22%) LTE
12 5 (0.22%) VXLAN
13 4 (0.17%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (6.22%) Power BI
2 141 (6.09%) Data Lake
3 136 (5.87%) PostgreSQL
4 135 (5.83%) SQL Server
5 122 (5.27%) NoSQL
6 108 (4.67%) Data Warehouse
7 82 (3.54%) Relational Database
8 80 (3.46%) MongoDB
9 74 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
10 72 (3.11%) Delta Lake
11 62 (2.68%) Amazon Athena
11 62 (2.68%) Metadata
12 61 (2.63%) BigQuery
13 56 (2.42%) Amazon Redshift
14 52 (2.25%) Big Data
15 48 (2.07%) DynamoDB
16 44 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
17 36 (1.56%) Redis
17 36 (1.56%) Snowflake Schema
18 32 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 403 (17.41%) Git
2 357 (15.42%) Jenkins
3 277 (11.97%) GitLab
4 138 (5.96%) JIRA
5 67 (2.89%) Selenium
6 62 (2.68%) JUnit
7 48 (2.07%) MLflow
8 46 (1.99%) Postman
9 43 (1.86%) Cucumber
10 42 (1.81%) JMeter
11 37 (1.60%) Mockito
12 32 (1.38%) Gradle
13 31 (1.34%) REST Assured
14 28 (1.21%) Cypress.io
15 24 (1.04%) CircleCI
16 22 (0.95%) Artifactory
16 22 (0.95%) SonarQube
17 20 (0.86%) Bitbucket
18 19 (0.82%) Liquibase
18 19 (0.82%) Maven
General
1 553 (23.89%) Finance
2 531 (22.94%) Social Skills
3 269 (11.62%) Public Sector
4 234 (10.11%) Banking
5 161 (6.95%) Analytical Skills
6 53 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
7 45 (1.94%) Front Office
7 45 (1.94%) Investment Banking
8 41 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 41 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
9 40 (1.73%) Retail
10 27 (1.17%) Financial Institution
11 22 (0.95%) Legal
11 22 (0.95%) Telecoms
12 20 (0.86%) Law
13 18 (0.78%) Marketing
14 17 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
15 16 (0.69%) Publishing
16 11 (0.48%) Manufacturing
16 11 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 479 (20.69%) Developer
2 389 (16.80%) Senior
3 267 (11.53%) Architect
4 259 (11.19%) DevOps Engineer
5 221 (9.55%) Data Engineer
6 218 (9.42%) Lead
7 138 (5.96%) AWS Engineer
7 138 (5.96%) Azure Engineer
8 129 (5.57%) Cloud Engineer
9 111 (4.79%) Software Engineer
10 93 (4.02%) Senior Developer
11 92 (3.97%) Platform Engineer
12 91 (3.93%) Java Developer
13 73 (3.15%) Full-Stack Developer
14 71 (3.07%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 71 (3.07%) Python Developer
15 70 (3.02%) Solutions Architect
16 55 (2.38%) AWS DevOps
17 53 (2.29%) Security Engineer
18 52 (2.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 254 (10.97%) REST
2 233 (10.06%) React
3 219 (9.46%) Kafka
4 213 (9.20%) .NET
5 199 (8.60%) RESTful
6 182 (7.86%) Spring
7 167 (7.21%) Spring Boot
8 124 (5.36%) Node.js
9 118 (5.10%) PySpark
10 116 (5.01%) AngularJS
11 84 (3.63%) OAuth
12 81 (3.50%) HTML
13 70 (3.02%) CSS
14 69 (2.98%) Playwright
15 65 (2.81%) FastAPI
16 58 (2.51%) Pandas
17 56 (2.42%) OAuth2
18 52 (2.25%) JSON
18 52 (2.25%) OpenTelemetry
19 51 (2.20%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 492 (21.25%) Cloud Native
2 171 (7.39%) Distributed Systems
3 106 (4.58%) Product Ownership
4 82 (3.54%) Legacy Systems
5 76 (3.28%) Onboarding
6 54 (2.33%) AI Agents
7 40 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
8 38 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
9 37 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 36 (1.56%) Algorithms
11 32 (1.38%) Public Cloud
12 31 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
12 31 (1.34%) Mobile App
12 31 (1.34%) Virtual Team
13 30 (1.30%) Equities
13 30 (1.30%) Fixed Income
13 30 (1.30%) Management Information System
14 29 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
14 29 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
15 27 (1.17%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 154 (6.65%) Linux
2 88 (3.80%) Windows
3 43 (1.86%) Unix
4 24 (1.04%) Android
5 23 (0.99%) Apple iOS
5 23 (0.99%) VMS
6 19 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 17 (0.73%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.26%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.22%) Solaris
9 5 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
9 5 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.17%) zOS
11 3 (0.13%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.086%) AIX
12 2 (0.086%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,267 (54.73%) DevOps
2 794 (34.30%) Infrastructure as Code
3 718 (31.02%) Agile
4 515 (22.25%) Containerisation
5 479 (20.69%) AI
6 465 (20.09%) Test Automation
7 440 (19.01%) Microservices
8 398 (17.19%) Observability
9 369 (15.94%) Analytics
10 337 (14.56%) Software Engineering
11 316 (13.65%) Data Modelling
12 304 (13.13%) Data Pipeline
13 291 (12.57%) Data Engineering
13 291 (12.57%) Problem-Solving
14 276 (11.92%) Continuous Improvement
15 255 (11.02%) Machine Learning
16 249 (10.76%) Platform Engineering
17 240 (10.37%) Migration
18 235 (10.15%) ETL
19 216 (9.33%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 898 (38.79%) Python
2 664 (28.68%) SQL
3 437 (18.88%) Java
4 255 (11.02%) C#
5 230 (9.94%) JavaScript
6 227 (9.81%) TypeScript
7 155 (6.70%) PowerShell
8 154 (6.65%) Bash
9 90 (3.89%) Bicep
10 55 (2.38%) Scala
11 40 (1.73%) Go
12 39 (1.68%) Shell Script
13 38 (1.64%) Apex Code
13 38 (1.64%) Ruby
14 36 (1.56%) Kotlin
15 30 (1.30%) PL/SQL
16 26 (1.12%) T-SQL
17 18 (0.78%) C++
18 13 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 11 (0.48%) C
Qualifications
1 575 (24.84%) Security Cleared
2 516 (22.29%) SC Cleared
3 121 (5.23%) Degree
4 100 (4.32%) Azure Certification
5 67 (2.89%) AWS Certification
6 57 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 46 (1.99%) DV Cleared
8 40 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (1.04%) Master's Degree
10 23 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
11 19 (0.82%) CISSP
12 18 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 16 (0.69%) ISTQB
14 15 (0.65%) DBS Check
15 13 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
16 12 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
17 10 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 9 (0.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 9 (0.39%) CISM
19 8 (0.35%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 191 (8.25%) QA
2 172 (7.43%) Data Quality
3 73 (3.15%) GDPR
4 71 (3.07%) Accessibility
5 64 (2.76%) NIST
6 52 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 30 (1.30%) NCSC
8 25 (1.08%) WCAG
9 24 (1.04%) PCI DSS
10 23 (0.99%) SLA
11 14 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.39%) ISO 20022
13 7 (0.30%) GRC
13 7 (0.30%) PSD2
14 6 (0.26%) COBIT
15 5 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.22%) MiFID
15 5 (0.22%) SOC 2
16 4 (0.17%) EU AI Act
16 4 (0.17%) SEPA
System Software
1 610 (26.35%) Docker
2 57 (2.46%) Active Directory
3 36 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.39%) Squid
7 7 (0.30%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
9 5 (0.22%) vSphere
10 2 (0.086%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.086%) Postfix
11 1 (0.043%) HDFS
11 1 (0.043%) IAG
11 1 (0.043%) OpenSSH
11 1 (0.043%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
11 1 (0.043%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 751 (32.44%) Terraform
2 689 (29.76%) Kubernetes
3 164 (7.08%) Ansible
4 156 (6.74%) Grafana
5 143 (6.18%) Prometheus
6 28 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (1.04%) Argo
8 21 (0.91%) Istio
9 20 (0.86%) Kibana
9 20 (0.86%) Puppet
10 11 (0.48%) Packer
10 11 (0.48%) Progress Chef
11 8 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
12 7 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 6 (0.26%) Kustomize
13 6 (0.26%) SCCM
14 5 (0.22%) Oracle RMAN
15 4 (0.17%) FortiGate
15 4 (0.17%) HP Fortify
15 4 (0.17%) Suricata
Vendors
1 348 (15.03%) Microsoft
2 198 (8.55%) Databricks
3 113 (4.88%) Google
4 103 (4.45%) Oracle
5 87 (3.76%) Salesforce
6 76 (3.28%) Splunk
7 53 (2.29%) OpenAI
8 49 (2.12%) ServiceNow
9 33 (1.43%) Dynatrace
10 29 (1.25%) VMware
11 25 (1.08%) Red Hat
12 24 (1.04%) CyberArk
12 24 (1.04%) Foundry
13 23 (0.99%) IBM
13 23 (0.99%) SAP
14 22 (0.95%) MuleSoft
15 17 (0.73%) Cisco
15 17 (0.73%) Informatica
16 12 (0.52%) Palo Alto
16 12 (0.52%) Sybase