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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 18 25
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 -10
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 1,938 1,384 1,314
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.00% 10.14% 7.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.32% 11.20% 7.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,335 967 997
10th Percentile £363 £406 £425
25th Percentile £435 £493 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £595 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +3.48% -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £688
90th Percentile £737 £825 £800
England median daily rate £513 £560 £563
% change year-on-year -8.48% -0.44% -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 - £62.06
90th Percentile - - £68.03
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £71.00
% change year-on-year - -8.45% +8.22%

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 13,533 12,355 16,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.77% 90.53% 88.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,013 7,845 11,870
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% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 153 346
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.80 £16.01
25th Percentile £24.90 £25.00 £19.28
Median hourly rate £34.00 £37.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +23.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £56.13 £55.25 £51.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% - -

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 8 February 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 8 February 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 8 February 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 -2 205 £525 -8.70% 156
West London +9 71 £603 +36.31% 29
South London +9 56 £525 -2.42% 9
East London -8 8 £495 -3.65% 19
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 81 (4.18%) Apache Spark
2 67 (3.46%) Confluence
3 65 (3.35%) Apache Airflow
4 50 (2.58%) Apache
5 34 (1.75%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.62%) CMS
7 11 (0.57%) Ethereum
7 11 (0.57%) Hyperledger
8 10 (0.52%) Appian
8 10 (0.52%) HCL Notes
8 10 (0.52%) nginx
9 9 (0.46%) Mendix
10 8 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
11 7 (0.36%) Camunda
12 6 (0.31%) SAS
13 5 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 5 (0.26%) Headless CMS
13 5 (0.26%) IIS
14 2 (0.10%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.10%) WebLogic
Applications
1 23 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.31%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.31%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.15%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.15%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.052%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.26%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.10%) Endur
3 2 (0.10%) Magento
3 2 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.052%) Actimize
4 1 (0.052%) Cerner Millennium
4 1 (0.052%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.052%) Maximo
4 1 (0.052%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.052%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.052%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.052%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.052%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.052%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.052%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.052%) ProductWriter
4 1 (0.052%) Shopify
4 1 (0.052%) thinkFolio
4 1 (0.052%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 855 (44.12%) AWS
1 855 (44.12%) Azure
2 468 (24.15%) GitHub
3 327 (16.87%) Azure DevOps
4 312 (16.10%) GitHub Actions
5 308 (15.89%) GCP
6 284 (14.65%) Serverless
7 194 (10.01%) Amazon S3
8 173 (8.93%) AWS Lambda
9 164 (8.46%) AWS CloudFormation
10 146 (7.53%) Power Platform
11 116 (5.99%) Amazon ECS
12 114 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
13 106 (5.47%) Azure Data Factory
14 97 (5.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 89 (4.59%) Azure AKS
16 79 (4.08%) Azure Logic Apps
17 78 (4.02%) Amazon EC2
18 73 (3.77%) Azure Functions
19 69 (3.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 79 (4.08%) Firewall
2 52 (2.68%) DNS
3 48 (2.48%) Network Security
4 26 (1.34%) VPN
5 23 (1.19%) HTTP
6 15 (0.77%) SSL
7 13 (0.67%) TCP/IP
7 13 (0.67%) WAN
8 11 (0.57%) SD-WAN
9 8 (0.41%) SSH
10 7 (0.36%) DHCP
10 7 (0.36%) SMTP
11 6 (0.31%) FTP
11 6 (0.31%) IMAP
11 6 (0.31%) OpenLDAP
12 5 (0.26%) Wireshark
13 4 (0.21%) Calico
13 4 (0.21%) Cisco IPT
13 4 (0.21%) Multicast
13 4 (0.21%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (7.53%) PostgreSQL
2 118 (6.09%) SQL Server
3 110 (5.68%) NoSQL
4 106 (5.47%) Data Lake
5 102 (5.26%) Power BI
6 77 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
7 75 (3.87%) Amazon RDS
8 72 (3.72%) MongoDB
9 67 (3.46%) Relational Database
10 45 (2.32%) Azure SQL Database
11 43 (2.22%) BigQuery
12 42 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
13 41 (2.12%) Delta Lake
14 37 (1.91%) Amazon Redshift
15 34 (1.75%) Big Data
15 34 (1.75%) Metadata
15 34 (1.75%) MySQL
16 32 (1.65%) DynamoDB
17 30 (1.55%) Redis
18 27 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 362 (18.68%) Jenkins
2 354 (18.27%) Git
3 248 (12.80%) GitLab
4 139 (7.17%) JIRA
5 72 (3.72%) Selenium
6 50 (2.58%) Cucumber
7 49 (2.53%) JUnit
8 42 (2.17%) MLflow
9 39 (2.01%) Postman
10 38 (1.96%) Cypress.io
11 27 (1.39%) JMeter
12 26 (1.34%) REST Assured
12 26 (1.34%) TeamCity
13 22 (1.14%) Maven
14 20 (1.03%) Bitbucket
14 20 (1.03%) Gradle
14 20 (1.03%) Mockito
14 20 (1.03%) SonarQube
15 15 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
16 14 (0.72%) Visual Studio
General
1 517 (26.68%) Social Skills
2 448 (23.12%) Finance
3 210 (10.84%) Public Sector
4 198 (10.22%) Banking
5 158 (8.15%) Analytical Skills
6 46 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
7 45 (2.32%) Front Office
8 43 (2.22%) Investment Banking
9 32 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 31 (1.60%) Financial Institution
11 30 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
12 27 (1.39%) Marketing
13 24 (1.24%) Telecoms
14 20 (1.03%) Retail
15 19 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
16 15 (0.77%) Manufacturing
17 12 (0.62%) Law
17 12 (0.62%) Military
18 11 (0.57%) Electronics
18 11 (0.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 490 (25.28%) Developer
2 298 (15.38%) Senior
3 254 (13.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 179 (9.24%) Data Engineer
5 177 (9.13%) Architect
6 134 (6.91%) Lead
7 119 (6.14%) AWS Engineer
8 113 (5.83%) Azure Engineer
9 90 (4.64%) Senior Developer
10 87 (4.49%) Java Developer
10 87 (4.49%) Platform Engineer
11 86 (4.44%) Full-Stack Developer
12 78 (4.02%) Software Engineer
13 76 (3.92%) Cloud Engineer
14 72 (3.72%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 68 (3.51%) AWS DevOps
16 62 (3.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 57 (2.94%) Python Engineer
18 56 (2.89%) Site Reliability Engineer
19 55 (2.84%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 246 (12.69%) React
2 207 (10.68%) Kafka
3 198 (10.22%) Node.js
4 187 (9.65%) RESTful
5 175 (9.03%) REST
6 162 (8.36%) .NET
7 151 (7.79%) Spring
8 124 (6.40%) Spring Boot
9 110 (5.68%) AngularJS
10 92 (4.75%) CSS
11 89 (4.59%) Playwright
12 84 (4.33%) HTML
13 79 (4.08%) OAuth
14 73 (3.77%) PySpark
15 71 (3.66%) GraphQL
16 63 (3.25%) YAML
17 56 (2.89%) JSON
18 49 (2.53%) Vue
19 48 (2.48%) FastAPI
19 48 (2.48%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 385 (19.87%) Cloud Native
2 124 (6.40%) Distributed Systems
3 86 (4.44%) Product Ownership
4 48 (2.48%) Onboarding
5 47 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
6 41 (2.12%) Mobile App
7 40 (2.06%) AI Agents
8 39 (2.01%) Algorithms
9 33 (1.70%) Public Cloud
10 31 (1.60%) Derivative
11 29 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
12 27 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
13 26 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 25 (1.29%) Replication
15 24 (1.24%) Data Structures
15 24 (1.24%) Equities
15 24 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
15 24 (1.24%) Low-Code
15 24 (1.24%) Security Posture
16 22 (1.14%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 171 (8.82%) Linux
2 70 (3.61%) Windows
3 33 (1.70%) Apple iOS
4 32 (1.65%) VMS
5 29 (1.50%) Android
6 27 (1.39%) Unix
7 17 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 15 (0.77%) Windows Server
9 11 (0.57%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.31%) Amazon Linux
10 6 (0.31%) CentOS
11 5 (0.26%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.26%) Solaris
11 5 (0.26%) zOS
12 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,075 (55.47%) DevOps
2 640 (33.02%) Agile
3 629 (32.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 439 (22.65%) Containerisation
5 392 (20.23%) Test Automation
6 377 (19.45%) Problem-Solving
7 342 (17.65%) Microservices
8 322 (16.62%) AI
9 284 (14.65%) Analytics
10 281 (14.50%) Observability
11 255 (13.16%) Software Engineering
12 223 (11.51%) Data Pipeline
13 212 (10.94%) Data Engineering
14 199 (10.27%) Full-Stack Development
15 195 (10.06%) Data Modelling
16 194 (10.01%) Continuous Improvement
17 192 (9.91%) Machine Learning
18 181 (9.34%) ETL
19 172 (8.88%) Migration
20 166 (8.57%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 767 (39.58%) Python
2 485 (25.03%) SQL
3 389 (20.07%) Java
4 268 (13.83%) JavaScript
5 259 (13.36%) TypeScript
6 203 (10.47%) C#
7 130 (6.71%) Bash
8 110 (5.68%) PowerShell
9 73 (3.77%) Bicep
10 67 (3.46%) Go
11 58 (2.99%) Scala
12 37 (1.91%) C++
13 30 (1.55%) Ruby
14 26 (1.34%) Kotlin
14 26 (1.34%) T-SQL
15 24 (1.24%) PL/SQL
16 23 (1.19%) Rust
17 17 (0.88%) Apex Code
17 17 (0.88%) Shell Script
18 15 (0.77%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 452 (23.32%) Security Cleared
2 394 (20.33%) SC Cleared
3 123 (6.35%) Degree
4 67 (3.46%) AWS Certification
4 67 (3.46%) Azure Certification
5 65 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
7 30 (1.55%) Master's Degree
8 29 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 22 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 21 (1.08%) DV Cleared
11 18 (0.93%) CISSP
12 17 (0.88%) ISTQB
13 13 (0.67%) Numerate Degree
14 12 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
15 11 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 9 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 9 (0.46%) OSCP
17 7 (0.36%) CCSP
17 7 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (7.48%) QA
2 122 (6.30%) Data Quality
3 88 (4.54%) GDPR
4 66 (3.41%) Accessibility
5 54 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 51 (2.63%) NIST
7 28 (1.44%) NCSC
8 27 (1.39%) PCI DSS
9 21 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 18 (0.93%) WCAG
11 11 (0.57%) HIPAA
11 11 (0.57%) SLA
12 6 (0.31%) MiFID
12 6 (0.31%) NIST 800
13 5 (0.26%) EU AI Act
13 5 (0.26%) ISO 20022
13 5 (0.26%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.21%) HL7
14 4 (0.21%) PERC
14 4 (0.21%) SEPA
System Software
1 620 (31.99%) Docker
2 50 (2.58%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.41%) Squid
5 8 (0.41%) vSphere
6 7 (0.36%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.31%) DFS Replication
7 6 (0.31%) Dovecot
7 6 (0.31%) Postfix
7 6 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.31%) zsh
8 3 (0.15%) HDFS
8 3 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.10%) NFS
9 2 (0.10%) Veritas File System
9 2 (0.10%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 1 (0.052%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.052%) etcd
Systems Management
1 665 (34.31%) Kubernetes
2 643 (33.18%) Terraform
3 151 (7.79%) Ansible
4 130 (6.71%) Grafana
5 120 (6.19%) Prometheus
6 50 (2.58%) Argo
7 27 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
8 23 (1.19%) Istio
9 18 (0.93%) Kibana
10 15 (0.77%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.67%) ITRS Geneos
12 12 (0.62%) Puppet
13 10 (0.52%) Rancher
14 8 (0.41%) Nessus
15 7 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 6 (0.31%) logstash
16 6 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
16 6 (0.31%) Packer
16 6 (0.31%) Proxmox
17 5 (0.26%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 286 (14.76%) Microsoft
2 189 (9.75%) Databricks
3 120 (6.19%) Google
4 75 (3.87%) Oracle
5 60 (3.10%) OpenAI
6 59 (3.04%) Splunk
7 53 (2.73%) ServiceNow
8 50 (2.58%) Salesforce
9 35 (1.81%) Red Hat
10 26 (1.34%) Dynatrace
11 24 (1.24%) VMware
12 21 (1.08%) CyberArk
13 19 (0.98%) SAP
14 17 (0.88%) Solace
15 15 (0.77%) MuleSoft
16 14 (0.72%) Cisco
17 13 (0.67%) Adobe
18 12 (0.62%) Atlassian
18 12 (0.62%) UiPath
19 11 (0.57%) Apple