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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 14 19
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 +4
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,862 1,621 1,468
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.96% 12.11% 9.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.67% 13.09% 10.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,966 1,092 1,027
10th Percentile £400 £369 £413
25th Percentile £450 £437 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £644 £688
90th Percentile £738 £733 £800
England median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.24% -6.64% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 0
10th Percentile £51.10 £29.75 -
25th Percentile - £35.00 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% - -
75th Percentile £57.00 £53.75 -
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.50 -
England median hourly rate £65.83 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +1.28% -7.14% -6.67%

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 18,262 12,381 14,326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.07% 92.48% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,971 8,179 9,290
10th Percentile £358 £334 £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 £668 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 352 241 177
10th Percentile £15.89 £18.25 £17.40
25th Percentile £18.69 £25.15 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £31.49 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.21% -16.03% -6.25%
75th Percentile £57.50 £48.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.13 £65.00 £78.75
England median hourly rate £38.13 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +51.59% -40.82% -5.56%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +8 351 £550 -8.33% 97
South London +2 67 £537 +1.08% 7
West London -4 54 £560 +13.71% 41
East London +4 11 £585 +8.33% 23
North London - 2 £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 (4.61%) Apache Airflow
2 115 (4.02%) Confluence
3 106 (3.70%) Apache Spark
4 85 (2.97%) Apache
5 38 (1.33%) SharePoint
6 23 (0.80%) CMS
7 16 (0.56%) nginx
8 14 (0.49%) Camunda
9 9 (0.31%) SAS
10 8 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
11 7 (0.24%) Anypoint
11 7 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.17%) Mule
12 5 (0.17%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
12 5 (0.17%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.14%) IIS
14 3 (0.10%) JBoss
14 3 (0.10%) Mendix
14 3 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 21 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.52%) Chatbot
3 9 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.21%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.14%) Trello
6 2 (0.070%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.035%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.035%) Gliffy
7 1 (0.035%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.035%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 1 (0.035%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.035%) Sketch
7 1 (0.035%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 26 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.31%) Aladdin
3 9 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (0.21%) Shopify
5 5 (0.17%) Temenos T24
6 4 (0.14%) Magento
6 4 (0.14%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.10%) Cloudability
7 3 (0.10%) Endur
7 3 (0.10%) SAP CRM
7 3 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.070%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.070%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.035%) Dynamics AX
9 1 (0.035%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.035%) SAP IS-U
9 1 (0.035%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,294 (45.21%) Azure
2 1,206 (42.14%) AWS
3 647 (22.61%) GitHub
4 488 (17.05%) Azure DevOps
5 451 (15.76%) GCP
6 444 (15.51%) GitHub Actions
7 344 (12.02%) Serverless
8 243 (8.49%) Amazon S3
9 227 (7.93%) Power Platform
10 213 (7.44%) AWS Lambda
11 195 (6.81%) Amazon EKS
12 163 (5.70%) Snowflake
13 161 (5.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 154 (5.38%) Entra ID
15 146 (5.10%) AWS CloudFormation
16 135 (4.72%) Amazon EC2
17 129 (4.51%) dbt
18 121 (4.23%) Azure AKS
19 106 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
20 102 (3.56%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 68 (2.38%) Firewall
2 54 (1.89%) DNS
3 49 (1.71%) Network Security
4 41 (1.43%) VPN
5 33 (1.15%) Internet
6 31 (1.08%) TCP/IP
7 21 (0.73%) SSL
8 18 (0.63%) 5G
8 18 (0.63%) HTTP
9 13 (0.45%) WAN
10 11 (0.38%) Radio Access Network
10 11 (0.38%) SAN
11 10 (0.35%) 3GPP
11 10 (0.35%) BGP
12 9 (0.31%) 4G
12 9 (0.31%) Kerberos
12 9 (0.31%) SSH
13 7 (0.24%) OpenLDAP
13 7 (0.24%) SD-WAN
14 5 (0.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 206 (7.20%) PostgreSQL
2 168 (5.87%) Power BI
3 159 (5.56%) SQL Server
4 152 (5.31%) Data Warehouse
5 128 (4.47%) NoSQL
6 114 (3.98%) Data Lake
7 111 (3.88%) MongoDB
7 111 (3.88%) Relational Database
8 105 (3.67%) Amazon RDS
9 91 (3.18%) Delta Lake
10 86 (3.00%) Metadata
11 75 (2.62%) BigQuery
12 67 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
13 60 (2.10%) Redis
14 54 (1.89%) MySQL
15 50 (1.75%) DynamoDB
16 46 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
16 46 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
16 46 (1.61%) Oracle Database
17 43 (1.50%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 560 (19.57%) Git
2 457 (15.97%) Jenkins
3 388 (13.56%) GitLab
4 195 (6.81%) JIRA
5 108 (3.77%) Selenium
6 84 (2.94%) JUnit
7 66 (2.31%) Gradle
8 63 (2.20%) Cypress.io
9 61 (2.13%) Cucumber
10 53 (1.85%) Maven
11 51 (1.78%) JMeter
12 47 (1.64%) Bitbucket
12 47 (1.64%) Postman
13 44 (1.54%) SonarQube
14 39 (1.36%) Mockito
15 35 (1.22%) REST Assured
16 30 (1.05%) CircleCI
17 27 (0.94%) MLflow
18 26 (0.91%) Gatling
19 25 (0.87%) Claude Code
General
1 746 (26.07%) Social Skills
2 720 (25.16%) Finance
3 358 (12.51%) Banking
4 322 (11.25%) Public Sector
5 290 (10.13%) Analytical Skills
6 77 (2.69%) Front Office
7 73 (2.55%) Retail
8 70 (2.45%) Investment Banking
9 45 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 44 (1.54%) Marketing
11 32 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
11 32 (1.12%) Law
12 29 (1.01%) Financial Institution
12 29 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
12 29 (1.01%) Telecoms
13 25 (0.87%) Back Office
14 21 (0.73%) Local Government
14 21 (0.73%) Military
15 19 (0.66%) Legal
16 17 (0.59%) Billing
Job Titles
1 581 (20.30%) Developer
2 528 (18.45%) Senior
3 363 (12.68%) DevOps Engineer
4 302 (10.55%) Architect
5 294 (10.27%) Lead
6 257 (8.98%) Data Engineer
7 161 (5.63%) Azure Engineer
8 149 (5.21%) AWS Engineer
9 135 (4.72%) Senior Developer
10 132 (4.61%) Software Engineer
11 128 (4.47%) Cloud Engineer
12 117 (4.09%) Java Developer
13 113 (3.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 105 (3.67%) Platform Engineer
15 97 (3.39%) Full-Stack Developer
16 84 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
17 77 (2.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 76 (2.66%) Python Developer
19 73 (2.55%) Senior Data Engineer
20 69 (2.41%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 955 (33.37%) Terraform
2 471 (16.46%) REST
3 312 (10.90%) Kafka
4 278 (9.71%) .NET
5 264 (9.22%) React
6 228 (7.97%) RESTful
7 220 (7.69%) Spring
8 196 (6.85%) Spring Boot
9 149 (5.21%) PySpark
10 121 (4.23%) Node.js
11 108 (3.77%) Playwright
12 107 (3.74%) HTML
13 101 (3.53%) OAuth
14 97 (3.39%) CSS
15 91 (3.18%) AngularJS
15 91 (3.18%) JSON
16 84 (2.94%) FastAPI
17 81 (2.83%) SOAP
18 77 (2.69%) Middleware
19 70 (2.45%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 610 (21.31%) Cloud Native
2 236 (8.25%) Distributed Systems
3 167 (5.84%) Product Ownership
4 149 (5.21%) AI Agents
5 128 (4.47%) Enterprise Software
6 123 (4.30%) Onboarding
7 103 (3.60%) Legacy Systems
8 49 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
9 48 (1.68%) Mobile App
10 44 (1.54%) Data Structures
11 42 (1.47%) Virtual Team
12 39 (1.36%) Replication
13 38 (1.33%) Management Information System
14 37 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
14 37 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
15 36 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 36 (1.26%) Security Posture
16 35 (1.22%) Algorithms
17 34 (1.19%) Public Cloud
18 33 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 271 (9.47%) Linux
2 129 (4.51%) Windows
3 78 (2.73%) Unix
4 49 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 33 (1.15%) Android
5 33 (1.15%) Windows Server
6 31 (1.08%) Apple iOS
7 15 (0.52%) macOS
8 14 (0.49%) Ubuntu
8 14 (0.49%) VMS
9 7 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
10 6 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.10%) zOS
13 2 (0.070%) CentOS
13 2 (0.070%) Solaris
13 2 (0.070%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.035%) AIX
14 1 (0.035%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,600 (55.90%) DevOps
2 1,048 (36.62%) Agile
3 994 (34.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 692 (24.18%) AI
5 667 (23.31%) Test Automation
6 568 (19.85%) Observability
7 552 (19.29%) Containerisation
8 538 (18.80%) Microservices
9 532 (18.59%) Software Engineering
10 447 (15.62%) Problem-Solving
11 428 (14.95%) Stakeholder Management
12 426 (14.88%) Continuous Improvement
13 379 (13.24%) Platform Engineering
14 376 (13.14%) Event-Driven
15 373 (13.03%) Analytics
15 373 (13.03%) Data Pipeline
16 366 (12.79%) Data Engineering
17 343 (11.98%) Data Modelling
18 335 (11.71%) Technical Leadership
19 323 (11.29%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1,213 (42.38%) Python
2 764 (26.69%) SQL
3 562 (19.64%) Java
4 313 (10.94%) JavaScript
5 296 (10.34%) TypeScript
6 280 (9.78%) C#
7 257 (8.98%) Bash
8 245 (8.56%) PowerShell
9 128 (4.47%) Bicep
10 83 (2.90%) Go
11 66 (2.31%) Kotlin
12 61 (2.13%) Shell Script
13 44 (1.54%) Scala
14 41 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 37 (1.29%) Apex Code
15 37 (1.29%) Groovy
16 30 (1.05%) C++
17 26 (0.91%) PL/SQL
17 26 (0.91%) T-SQL
18 25 (0.87%) Perl
Qualifications
1 755 (26.38%) Security Cleared
2 673 (23.52%) SC Cleared
3 169 (5.90%) Degree
4 102 (3.56%) AWS Certification
5 101 (3.53%) Azure Certification
6 93 (3.25%) DV Cleared
7 85 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 64 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
9 29 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 24 (0.84%) CISSP
10 24 (0.84%) Master's Degree
11 23 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
12 21 (0.73%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 20 (0.70%) ISTQB
14 16 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 15 (0.52%) DBS Check
16 12 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
17 11 (0.38%) CISM
17 11 (0.38%) PhD
18 10 (0.35%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 288 (10.06%) QA
2 272 (9.50%) Data Quality
3 92 (3.21%) Accessibility
4 44 (1.54%) GDPR
5 43 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 37 (1.29%) NIST
7 24 (0.84%) WCAG
8 22 (0.77%) NCSC
9 20 (0.70%) SLA
10 16 (0.56%) SOC 2
11 13 (0.45%) ISO 20022
12 11 (0.38%) GRC
13 10 (0.35%) EU AI Act
13 10 (0.35%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.28%) Basel III
15 6 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 6 (0.21%) MiFID
16 5 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
16 5 (0.17%) EMIR
System Software
1 730 (25.51%) Docker
2 62 (2.17%) Active Directory
3 39 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
4 31 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.42%) Squid
6 10 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.21%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.14%) HDFS
9 4 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
9 4 (0.14%) Postfix
10 2 (0.070%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.070%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.070%) Dovecot
10 2 (0.070%) KVM
10 2 (0.070%) RACF
10 2 (0.070%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.070%) vSphere
11 1 (0.035%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 868 (30.33%) Kubernetes
2 239 (8.35%) Grafana
3 227 (7.93%) Ansible
4 182 (6.36%) Prometheus
5 47 (1.64%) Argo
6 34 (1.19%) Puppet
7 30 (1.05%) Kibana
8 22 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (0.63%) Packer
9 18 (0.63%) Progress Chef
10 13 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
11 12 (0.42%) Control-M
12 11 (0.38%) Istio
13 8 (0.28%) Karpenter
13 8 (0.28%) SCCM
14 7 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
14 7 (0.24%) Kustomize
15 6 (0.21%) HP Fortify
16 5 (0.17%) Nagios
16 5 (0.17%) systemd
Vendors
1 504 (17.61%) Microsoft
2 281 (9.82%) Databricks
3 188 (6.57%) Google
4 147 (5.14%) Oracle
5 114 (3.98%) Splunk
6 91 (3.18%) Salesforce
7 72 (2.52%) OpenAI
8 70 (2.45%) ServiceNow
9 66 (2.31%) Dynatrace
10 47 (1.64%) VMware
11 46 (1.61%) Foundry
12 44 (1.54%) IBM
13 37 (1.29%) Red Hat
14 34 (1.19%) Informatica
15 32 (1.12%) SAP
16 30 (1.05%) MuleSoft
17 24 (0.84%) New Relic
18 19 (0.66%) CyberArk
18 19 (0.66%) Palantir
19 18 (0.63%) Cisco