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

6 months to
11 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 2,361 1,229 1,354
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.56% 10.04% 7.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.15% 10.87% 8.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,584 828 972
10th Percentile £400 £389 £413
25th Percentile £450 £444 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £540 £565
Median % change year-on-year +0.60% -4.42% -9.24%
75th Percentile £645 £678 £688
90th Percentile £750 £825 £815
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 3
10th Percentile £50.25 £39.88 £48.40
25th Percentile £55.00 £47.19 £50.88
Median hourly rate £68.50 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.48% -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 16,682 11,302 15,611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.76% 92.31% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,119 7,563 11,181
10th Percentile £358 £347 £340
25th Percentile £435 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £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 250 199 318
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.16 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £32.89 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +13.26% +16.42% -28.34%
75th Percentile £58.88 £49.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £68.23
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +69.64% -25.33% +4.17%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -2 263 £575 -4.17% 96
West London +7 55 £603 +21.41% 19
South London -2 43 £513 -6.82%
East London +6 12 £450 +80.00% 15
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
1 106 (4.49%) Apache Spark
2 102 (4.32%) Apache Airflow
3 74 (3.13%) Confluence
4 68 (2.88%) Apache
5 27 (1.14%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
7 11 (0.47%) Camunda
8 10 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
9 9 (0.38%) SAS
10 8 (0.34%) Appian
10 8 (0.34%) OpenStack
10 8 (0.34%) WebSphere
11 7 (0.30%) CMS
11 7 (0.30%) Ethereum
12 6 (0.25%) HCL Notes
12 6 (0.25%) Hyperledger
12 6 (0.25%) Mendix
12 6 (0.25%) nginx
13 5 (0.21%) Tomcat
14 3 (0.13%) WebLogic
Applications
1 18 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.42%) Chatbot
2 10 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.13%) Adobe XD
3 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.13%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.085%) CPLEX
5 1 (0.042%) Maya
Business Applications
1 17 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.38%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.25%) Shopify
5 5 (0.21%) Magento
5 5 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.13%) Findur
7 3 (0.13%) SAP BPC
8 2 (0.085%) Endur
8 2 (0.085%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.085%) SAP S/4HANA
9 1 (0.042%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.042%) ProductWriter
9 1 (0.042%) R3 Corda
9 1 (0.042%) SAP CRM
9 1 (0.042%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.042%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,053 (44.60%) AWS
2 1,048 (44.39%) Azure
3 545 (23.08%) GitHub
4 404 (17.11%) Azure DevOps
5 354 (14.99%) GitHub Actions
6 340 (14.40%) GCP
7 311 (13.17%) Serverless
8 232 (9.83%) Amazon S3
9 209 (8.85%) AWS Lambda
10 205 (8.68%) Power Platform
11 181 (7.67%) AWS CloudFormation
12 140 (5.93%) Amazon EKS
13 121 (5.12%) Azure Data Factory
14 114 (4.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 112 (4.74%) Amazon EC2
16 111 (4.70%) Azure AKS
17 105 (4.45%) Snowflake
18 101 (4.28%) Amazon ECS
19 94 (3.98%) Entra ID
20 83 (3.52%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 81 (3.43%) Firewall
2 47 (1.99%) Network Security
3 33 (1.40%) DNS
4 28 (1.19%) VPN
5 25 (1.06%) HTTP
6 15 (0.64%) Internet
7 14 (0.59%) WAN
8 12 (0.51%) 5G
8 12 (0.51%) SD-WAN
9 11 (0.47%) SSL
10 10 (0.42%) 3GPP
11 8 (0.34%) TCP/IP
12 7 (0.30%) BGP
13 6 (0.25%) FTP
13 6 (0.25%) OSPF
14 5 (0.21%) 4G
14 5 (0.21%) Ethernet VPN
14 5 (0.21%) LTE
14 5 (0.21%) Radio Access Network
14 5 (0.21%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (6.10%) Data Lake
2 142 (6.01%) Power BI
3 141 (5.97%) PostgreSQL
4 137 (5.80%) SQL Server
5 124 (5.25%) NoSQL
6 110 (4.66%) Data Warehouse
7 83 (3.52%) Relational Database
8 82 (3.47%) MongoDB
9 75 (3.18%) Amazon RDS
10 70 (2.96%) Delta Lake
11 69 (2.92%) Amazon Athena
12 63 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
13 61 (2.58%) BigQuery
13 61 (2.58%) Metadata
14 53 (2.24%) Big Data
15 49 (2.08%) DynamoDB
16 41 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
17 36 (1.52%) Redis
18 35 (1.48%) Snowflake Schema
19 31 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 409 (17.32%) Git
2 359 (15.21%) Jenkins
3 281 (11.90%) GitLab
4 142 (6.01%) JIRA
5 65 (2.75%) Selenium
6 63 (2.67%) JUnit
7 47 (1.99%) MLflow
8 46 (1.95%) Postman
9 43 (1.82%) Cucumber
9 43 (1.82%) JMeter
10 38 (1.61%) Mockito
11 34 (1.44%) Gradle
12 33 (1.40%) REST Assured
13 27 (1.14%) Cypress.io
14 25 (1.06%) CircleCI
15 22 (0.93%) Artifactory
15 22 (0.93%) SonarQube
16 21 (0.89%) Bitbucket
17 20 (0.85%) Maven
18 19 (0.80%) Liquibase
General
1 560 (23.72%) Finance
2 544 (23.04%) Social Skills
3 276 (11.69%) Public Sector
4 240 (10.17%) Banking
5 165 (6.99%) Analytical Skills
6 55 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
7 47 (1.99%) Front Office
8 45 (1.91%) Investment Banking
9 42 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
9 42 (1.78%) Retail
10 41 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 27 (1.14%) Financial Institution
12 23 (0.97%) Law
12 23 (0.97%) Legal
12 23 (0.97%) Telecoms
13 19 (0.80%) Marketing
14 17 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
15 16 (0.68%) Publishing
16 13 (0.55%) Military
17 11 (0.47%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 488 (20.67%) Developer
2 397 (16.81%) Senior
3 272 (11.52%) DevOps Engineer
4 268 (11.35%) Architect
5 223 (9.45%) Lead
6 219 (9.28%) Data Engineer
7 149 (6.31%) AWS Engineer
8 141 (5.97%) Azure Engineer
9 133 (5.63%) Cloud Engineer
10 113 (4.79%) Software Engineer
11 98 (4.15%) Java Developer
11 98 (4.15%) Senior Developer
12 96 (4.07%) Platform Engineer
13 76 (3.22%) Full-Stack Developer
14 74 (3.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 73 (3.09%) Solutions Architect
16 72 (3.05%) Python Developer
17 61 (2.58%) AWS DevOps
18 58 (2.46%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 55 (2.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 267 (11.31%) REST
2 237 (10.04%) React
3 223 (9.45%) Kafka
4 209 (8.85%) .NET
5 201 (8.51%) RESTful
6 189 (8.01%) Spring
7 172 (7.29%) Spring Boot
8 126 (5.34%) Node.js
9 116 (4.91%) AngularJS
9 116 (4.91%) PySpark
10 86 (3.64%) OAuth
11 82 (3.47%) HTML
12 69 (2.92%) CSS
13 68 (2.88%) Playwright
14 66 (2.80%) FastAPI
15 59 (2.50%) Pandas
16 58 (2.46%) OAuth2
17 57 (2.41%) JSON
18 53 (2.24%) OpenTelemetry
19 51 (2.16%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 503 (21.30%) Cloud Native
2 172 (7.29%) Distributed Systems
3 107 (4.53%) Product Ownership
4 84 (3.56%) Legacy Systems
5 76 (3.22%) Onboarding
6 61 (2.58%) AI Agents
7 42 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
8 39 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 38 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
10 34 (1.44%) Algorithms
11 33 (1.40%) Mobile App
11 33 (1.40%) Public Cloud
12 32 (1.36%) Fixed Income
12 32 (1.36%) Management Information System
12 32 (1.36%) Virtual Team
13 31 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
13 31 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
14 30 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
15 28 (1.19%) Equities
16 25 (1.06%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 155 (6.57%) Linux
2 92 (3.90%) Windows
3 46 (1.95%) Unix
4 24 (1.02%) Android
4 24 (1.02%) Apple iOS
5 22 (0.93%) VMS
6 20 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 18 (0.76%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.25%) Ubuntu
8 6 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.21%) Solaris
9 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
9 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.17%) zOS
11 3 (0.13%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.085%) AIX
12 2 (0.085%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,289 (54.60%) DevOps
2 810 (34.31%) Infrastructure as Code
3 737 (31.22%) Agile
4 527 (22.32%) Containerisation
5 508 (21.52%) AI
6 466 (19.74%) Test Automation
7 452 (19.14%) Microservices
8 408 (17.28%) Observability
9 378 (16.01%) Analytics
10 357 (15.12%) Software Engineering
11 321 (13.60%) Data Modelling
12 307 (13.00%) Data Pipeline
13 304 (12.88%) Problem-Solving
14 301 (12.75%) Data Engineering
15 280 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
16 267 (11.31%) Machine Learning
17 261 (11.05%) Platform Engineering
18 243 (10.29%) Migration
19 233 (9.87%) ETL
20 224 (9.49%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 922 (39.05%) Python
2 673 (28.50%) SQL
3 449 (19.02%) Java
4 258 (10.93%) C#
5 233 (9.87%) JavaScript
6 232 (9.83%) TypeScript
7 158 (6.69%) PowerShell
8 156 (6.61%) Bash
9 88 (3.73%) Bicep
10 55 (2.33%) Scala
11 41 (1.74%) Go
12 40 (1.69%) Shell Script
13 39 (1.65%) Apex Code
14 37 (1.57%) Kotlin
14 37 (1.57%) Ruby
15 30 (1.27%) PL/SQL
16 28 (1.19%) T-SQL
17 15 (0.64%) C++
18 14 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 12 (0.51%) Swift
Qualifications
1 582 (24.65%) Security Cleared
2 521 (22.07%) SC Cleared
3 122 (5.17%) Degree
4 97 (4.11%) Azure Certification
5 72 (3.05%) AWS Certification
6 55 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 47 (1.99%) DV Cleared
8 42 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
9 23 (0.97%) Master's Degree
9 23 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 19 (0.80%) CISSP
12 15 (0.64%) ISTQB
13 14 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
13 14 (0.59%) DBS Check
14 12 (0.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 12 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
15 10 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 9 (0.38%) CISM
17 8 (0.34%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 192 (8.13%) QA
2 180 (7.62%) Data Quality
3 74 (3.13%) Accessibility
4 73 (3.09%) GDPR
5 64 (2.71%) NIST
6 52 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 30 (1.27%) NCSC
8 25 (1.06%) WCAG
9 24 (1.02%) PCI DSS
10 21 (0.89%) SLA
11 13 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.38%) GRC
12 9 (0.38%) ISO 20022
13 7 (0.30%) PSD2
14 6 (0.25%) COBIT
15 5 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.21%) EU AI Act
15 5 (0.21%) MiFID
15 5 (0.21%) SEPA
15 5 (0.21%) SOC 2
System Software
1 622 (26.34%) Docker
2 55 (2.33%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.38%) Squid
7 7 (0.30%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
9 5 (0.21%) vSphere
10 2 (0.085%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.085%) Postfix
11 1 (0.042%) HDFS
11 1 (0.042%) IAG
11 1 (0.042%) OpenSSH
11 1 (0.042%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
11 1 (0.042%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 778 (32.95%) Terraform
2 699 (29.61%) Kubernetes
3 169 (7.16%) Ansible
4 162 (6.86%) Grafana
5 147 (6.23%) Prometheus
6 28 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
7 26 (1.10%) Argo
8 21 (0.89%) Istio
9 19 (0.80%) Puppet
10 18 (0.76%) Kibana
11 12 (0.51%) Packer
12 11 (0.47%) Progress Chef
13 8 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
14 7 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 6 (0.25%) Kustomize
15 6 (0.25%) SCCM
16 5 (0.21%) Oracle RMAN
17 4 (0.17%) FortiGate
17 4 (0.17%) HP Fortify
17 4 (0.17%) Suricata
Vendors
1 343 (14.53%) Microsoft
2 192 (8.13%) Databricks
3 118 (5.00%) Google
4 104 (4.40%) Oracle
5 88 (3.73%) Salesforce
6 81 (3.43%) Splunk
7 55 (2.33%) OpenAI
8 54 (2.29%) ServiceNow
9 37 (1.57%) Dynatrace
10 31 (1.31%) VMware
11 25 (1.06%) IBM
11 25 (1.06%) Red Hat
12 24 (1.02%) CyberArk
12 24 (1.02%) Foundry
12 24 (1.02%) SAP
13 22 (0.93%) MuleSoft
14 19 (0.80%) Cisco
15 16 (0.68%) Informatica
16 14 (0.59%) Palo Alto
17 13 (0.55%) Sybase