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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 15 19
Rank change year-on-year +4 +4 +1
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,699 1,519 1,433
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.33% 11.47% 8.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.00% 12.39% 9.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,820 1,009 1,000
10th Percentile £400 £364 £413
25th Percentile £450 £435 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £525 £567
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -7.41% -5.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £738 £738 £788
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 1
10th Percentile £50.25 £30.63 -
25th Percentile £52.19 £36.88 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £48.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -11.36% -26.67%
75th Percentile £74.50 £53.75 -
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.38 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £67.25
% change year-on-year - -3.35% -10.33%

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 17,996 12,259 14,355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.86% 92.58% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,759 8,104 9,616
10th Percentile £359 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 300 254 180
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £34.62 £31.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.02% -9.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.44 £48.44 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.02 £63.75 £72.19
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.81%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +12 350 £550 -10.71% 297
South London +3 66 £536 +0.89% 29
West London -6 49 £560 +15.45% 90
East London +6 13 £588 +8.80% 35
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
1 131 (4.85%) Apache Airflow
2 113 (4.19%) Confluence
3 99 (3.67%) Apache Spark
4 77 (2.85%) Apache
5 38 (1.41%) SharePoint
6 17 (0.63%) CMS
7 14 (0.52%) Camunda
8 11 (0.41%) nginx
9 9 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.26%) Anypoint
11 6 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.22%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.22%) SAS
12 5 (0.19%) Mule
13 4 (0.15%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
14 3 (0.11%) Apache Pulsar
14 3 (0.11%) Headless CMS
14 3 (0.11%) IIS
14 3 (0.11%) Mendix
Applications
1 17 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.56%) Chatbot
3 9 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.15%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.15%) Trello
6 2 (0.074%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.037%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.037%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.037%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 1 (0.037%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 27 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
3 9 (0.33%) Aladdin
4 6 (0.22%) Shopify
5 5 (0.19%) Magento
5 5 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (0.15%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.11%) Endur
7 3 (0.11%) SAP CRM
8 2 (0.074%) Findur
8 2 (0.074%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.074%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.074%) Temenos T24
9 1 (0.037%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.037%) Dynamics AX
9 1 (0.037%) SAP BPC
9 1 (0.037%) SAP IS-U
9 1 (0.037%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,214 (44.98%) Azure
2 1,167 (43.24%) AWS
3 611 (22.64%) GitHub
4 463 (17.15%) Azure DevOps
5 417 (15.45%) GCP
6 416 (15.41%) GitHub Actions
7 323 (11.97%) Serverless
8 242 (8.97%) Amazon S3
9 236 (8.74%) Power Platform
10 211 (7.82%) AWS Lambda
11 161 (5.97%) Amazon EKS
12 156 (5.78%) Snowflake
13 144 (5.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 137 (5.08%) dbt
15 135 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
16 130 (4.82%) Entra ID
17 123 (4.56%) Amazon EC2
18 111 (4.11%) Azure AKS
19 109 (4.04%) Azure Data Factory
20 91 (3.37%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 66 (2.45%) Firewall
2 41 (1.52%) Network Security
3 37 (1.37%) DNS
4 35 (1.30%) VPN
5 29 (1.07%) Internet
6 25 (0.93%) TCP/IP
7 21 (0.78%) HTTP
8 20 (0.74%) 5G
9 19 (0.70%) SSL
10 13 (0.48%) WAN
11 12 (0.44%) 3GPP
12 11 (0.41%) Radio Access Network
12 11 (0.41%) SAN
13 9 (0.33%) Kerberos
14 8 (0.30%) 4G
14 8 (0.30%) SSH
15 7 (0.26%) BGP
15 7 (0.26%) FTP
15 7 (0.26%) SD-WAN
16 6 (0.22%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (6.71%) PostgreSQL
1 181 (6.71%) Power BI
2 155 (5.74%) Data Warehouse
3 138 (5.11%) SQL Server
4 128 (4.74%) NoSQL
5 114 (4.22%) Data Lake
6 106 (3.93%) MongoDB
7 105 (3.89%) Relational Database
8 90 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
9 86 (3.19%) Delta Lake
10 81 (3.00%) Metadata
11 73 (2.70%) BigQuery
12 71 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
13 55 (2.04%) Redis
14 50 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
15 48 (1.78%) DynamoDB
16 42 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
16 42 (1.56%) MySQL
17 40 (1.48%) Big Data
18 39 (1.44%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 512 (18.97%) Git
2 435 (16.12%) Jenkins
3 350 (12.97%) GitLab
4 188 (6.97%) JIRA
5 86 (3.19%) Selenium
6 75 (2.78%) JUnit
7 57 (2.11%) Gradle
8 51 (1.89%) Cypress.io
9 47 (1.74%) JMeter
10 45 (1.67%) SonarQube
11 44 (1.63%) Maven
12 41 (1.52%) Cucumber
13 40 (1.48%) Bitbucket
13 40 (1.48%) Mockito
14 35 (1.30%) Postman
15 33 (1.22%) REST Assured
16 27 (1.00%) CircleCI
17 24 (0.89%) Gatling
18 23 (0.85%) MLflow
19 19 (0.70%) Snyk
General
1 675 (25.01%) Social Skills
2 672 (24.90%) Finance
3 317 (11.75%) Banking
4 308 (11.41%) Public Sector
5 246 (9.11%) Analytical Skills
6 71 (2.63%) Front Office
7 67 (2.48%) Retail
8 58 (2.15%) Investment Banking
9 46 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 38 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
11 35 (1.30%) Marketing
12 32 (1.19%) Law
13 29 (1.07%) Telecoms
14 28 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
15 24 (0.89%) Financial Institution
16 22 (0.82%) Legal
17 20 (0.74%) Military
17 20 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
18 17 (0.63%) Local Government
19 16 (0.59%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 583 (21.60%) Developer
2 491 (18.19%) Senior
3 328 (12.15%) DevOps Engineer
4 304 (11.26%) Architect
5 266 (9.86%) Lead
6 253 (9.37%) Data Engineer
7 150 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
8 142 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
9 133 (4.93%) Software Engineer
10 130 (4.82%) Senior Developer
11 126 (4.67%) Cloud Engineer
12 119 (4.41%) Java Developer
13 99 (3.67%) Platform Engineer
14 95 (3.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 94 (3.48%) Full-Stack Developer
16 83 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
17 79 (2.93%) Python Developer
18 69 (2.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 69 (2.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 67 (2.48%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 879 (32.57%) Terraform
2 405 (15.01%) REST
3 288 (10.67%) Kafka
4 266 (9.86%) React
5 240 (8.89%) .NET
6 221 (8.19%) RESTful
7 213 (7.89%) Spring
8 191 (7.08%) Spring Boot
9 142 (5.26%) PySpark
10 120 (4.45%) Node.js
11 108 (4.00%) HTML
12 96 (3.56%) CSS
13 90 (3.33%) Playwright
14 85 (3.15%) AngularJS
15 84 (3.11%) JSON
16 80 (2.96%) FastAPI
17 77 (2.85%) OAuth
18 72 (2.67%) SOAP
19 59 (2.19%) OAuth2
20 58 (2.15%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 562 (20.82%) Cloud Native
2 233 (8.63%) Distributed Systems
3 162 (6.00%) Product Ownership
4 126 (4.67%) AI Agents
5 115 (4.26%) Onboarding
6 100 (3.71%) Enterprise Software
7 87 (3.22%) Legacy Systems
8 45 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
9 42 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
9 42 (1.56%) Virtual Team
10 40 (1.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 38 (1.41%) Data Structures
12 37 (1.37%) Security Posture
13 36 (1.33%) Mobile App
14 35 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
14 35 (1.30%) Management Information System
15 34 (1.26%) Algorithms
16 33 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
17 31 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
17 31 (1.15%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 238 (8.82%) Linux
2 117 (4.33%) Windows
3 77 (2.85%) Unix
4 47 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 32 (1.19%) Windows Server
6 29 (1.07%) Android
7 27 (1.00%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.52%) VMS
9 13 (0.48%) Ubuntu
10 11 (0.41%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
11 7 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
12 6 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.15%) Solaris
13 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.074%) CentOS
14 2 (0.074%) zOS
15 1 (0.037%) AIX
15 1 (0.037%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,487 (55.09%) DevOps
2 977 (36.20%) Agile
3 937 (34.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 615 (22.79%) AI
5 583 (21.60%) Test Automation
6 572 (21.19%) Containerisation
7 535 (19.82%) Microservices
8 516 (19.12%) Observability
9 494 (18.30%) Software Engineering
10 401 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
11 364 (13.49%) Analytics
12 363 (13.45%) Data Pipeline
13 360 (13.34%) Continuous Improvement
14 358 (13.26%) Stakeholder Management
15 342 (12.67%) Event-Driven
16 341 (12.63%) Data Engineering
16 341 (12.63%) Data Modelling
17 334 (12.37%) Platform Engineering
18 288 (10.67%) Technical Leadership
19 279 (10.34%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1,119 (41.46%) Python
2 749 (27.75%) SQL
3 549 (20.34%) Java
4 288 (10.67%) JavaScript
5 278 (10.30%) TypeScript
6 260 (9.63%) C#
7 229 (8.48%) Bash
8 217 (8.04%) PowerShell
9 111 (4.11%) Bicep
10 65 (2.41%) Go
11 58 (2.15%) Kotlin
12 53 (1.96%) Shell Script
13 48 (1.78%) Scala
14 43 (1.59%) Apex Code
15 41 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 32 (1.19%) PL/SQL
17 31 (1.15%) Ruby
18 28 (1.04%) T-SQL
19 27 (1.00%) C++
20 26 (0.96%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 711 (26.34%) Security Cleared
2 637 (23.60%) SC Cleared
3 146 (5.41%) Degree
4 101 (3.74%) Azure Certification
5 90 (3.33%) DV Cleared
6 80 (2.96%) AWS Certification
7 65 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
8 54 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 24 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
11 19 (0.70%) CISSP
12 18 (0.67%) Master's Degree
13 16 (0.59%) DBS Check
13 16 (0.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 14 (0.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 12 (0.44%) GIAC
15 12 (0.44%) ISTQB
16 11 (0.41%) PhD
17 10 (0.37%) CISM
18 9 (0.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 253 (9.37%) QA
2 249 (9.23%) Data Quality
3 84 (3.11%) Accessibility
4 49 (1.82%) GDPR
5 45 (1.67%) NIST
6 43 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 25 (0.93%) WCAG
8 23 (0.85%) NCSC
9 18 (0.67%) SLA
10 14 (0.52%) ISO 20022
11 11 (0.41%) EU AI Act
11 11 (0.41%) GRC
12 10 (0.37%) SOC 2
13 9 (0.33%) PCI DSS
14 7 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.22%) Basel III
15 6 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 6 (0.22%) MiFID
16 5 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
16 5 (0.19%) EMIR
System Software
1 693 (25.68%) Docker
2 62 (2.30%) Active Directory
3 39 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
4 32 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.48%) Squid
6 7 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.22%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
8 5 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.15%) Postfix
10 2 (0.074%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.074%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.074%) Dovecot
10 2 (0.074%) HDFS
10 2 (0.074%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.074%) KVM
10 2 (0.074%) Varnish
10 2 (0.074%) vSphere
11 1 (0.037%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 805 (29.83%) Kubernetes
2 220 (8.15%) Grafana
3 211 (7.82%) Ansible
4 178 (6.60%) Prometheus
5 37 (1.37%) Argo
6 33 (1.22%) Puppet
7 24 (0.89%) Kibana
8 21 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (0.67%) Packer
9 18 (0.67%) Progress Chef
10 11 (0.41%) Control-M
10 11 (0.41%) Istio
10 11 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (0.30%) SCCM
12 7 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
12 7 (0.26%) Karpenter
12 7 (0.26%) Kustomize
13 5 (0.19%) Nagios
14 4 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
14 4 (0.15%) systemd
Vendors
1 461 (17.08%) Microsoft
2 247 (9.15%) Databricks
3 155 (5.74%) Google
4 147 (5.45%) Oracle
5 104 (3.85%) Splunk
6 95 (3.52%) Salesforce
7 66 (2.45%) ServiceNow
8 58 (2.15%) OpenAI
9 55 (2.04%) Dynatrace
10 48 (1.78%) VMware
11 40 (1.48%) IBM
12 36 (1.33%) Foundry
12 36 (1.33%) Informatica
13 34 (1.26%) Red Hat
14 28 (1.04%) SAP
15 25 (0.93%) MuleSoft
16 24 (0.89%) New Relic
17 21 (0.78%) CyberArk
18 19 (0.70%) Cisco
18 19 (0.70%) Palantir