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

6 months to
17 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 2,379 1,253 1,378
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.58% 10.13% 7.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.16% 10.98% 8.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,594 850 989
10th Percentile £400 £390 £413
25th Percentile £450 £441 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £540 £565
Median % change year-on-year +0.60% -4.42% -8.72%
75th Percentile £640 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £825 £813
England median daily rate £525 £519 £550
% change year-on-year +1.11% -5.59% -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 £67.50
% change year-on-year +14.54% -15.93% +2.89%

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 16,795 11,414 15,551
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.80% 92.28% 88.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,181 7,654 11,105
10th Percentile £360 £343 £343
25th Percentile £435 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £518 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.48% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 205 313
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £34.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.56% +13.33% -24.84%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.80
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.45 £37.75
% change year-on-year +71.22% -27.28% +7.09%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -3 267 £566 -5.67% 87
West London +6 51 £603 +21.41% 25
South London -2 43 £513 -5.31% 3
East London +8 12 £450 +80.00% 18
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
1 103 (4.33%) Apache Airflow
1 103 (4.33%) Apache Spark
2 80 (3.36%) Confluence
3 68 (2.86%) Apache
4 26 (1.09%) SharePoint
5 12 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.46%) Camunda
6 11 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
7 9 (0.38%) SAS
8 8 (0.34%) Appian
8 8 (0.34%) WebSphere
9 7 (0.29%) CMS
9 7 (0.29%) Ethereum
9 7 (0.29%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.25%) HCL Notes
10 6 (0.25%) Hyperledger
10 6 (0.25%) Mendix
10 6 (0.25%) nginx
11 5 (0.21%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.13%) WebLogic
Applications
1 18 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.46%) Chatbot
3 10 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.13%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.13%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.084%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.042%) Maya
Business Applications
1 17 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.38%) Aladdin
3 6 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.25%) Shopify
4 5 (0.21%) Magento
4 5 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.13%) Findur
6 3 (0.13%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.084%) Endur
7 2 (0.084%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.084%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.042%) Distributed Ledger
8 1 (0.042%) ProductWriter
8 1 (0.042%) R3 Corda
8 1 (0.042%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.042%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.042%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.042%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,065 (44.77%) Azure
2 1,062 (44.64%) AWS
3 547 (22.99%) GitHub
4 410 (17.23%) Azure DevOps
5 356 (14.96%) GitHub Actions
6 337 (14.17%) GCP
7 313 (13.16%) Serverless
8 237 (9.96%) Amazon S3
9 213 (8.95%) Power Platform
10 210 (8.83%) AWS Lambda
11 174 (7.31%) AWS CloudFormation
12 136 (5.72%) Amazon EKS
13 120 (5.04%) Azure Data Factory
14 119 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 116 (4.88%) Amazon EC2
16 112 (4.71%) Azure AKS
17 104 (4.37%) Snowflake
18 100 (4.20%) Amazon ECS
19 95 (3.99%) Entra ID
20 88 (3.70%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 79 (3.32%) Firewall
2 52 (2.19%) Network Security
3 32 (1.35%) DNS
4 29 (1.22%) VPN
5 25 (1.05%) HTTP
6 17 (0.71%) Internet
7 15 (0.63%) WAN
8 14 (0.59%) 5G
9 12 (0.50%) SD-WAN
10 11 (0.46%) 3GPP
11 10 (0.42%) SSL
12 8 (0.34%) TCP/IP
13 7 (0.29%) BGP
14 6 (0.25%) 4G
14 6 (0.25%) FTP
14 6 (0.25%) OSPF
14 6 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
15 5 (0.21%) Ethernet VPN
15 5 (0.21%) LTE
15 5 (0.21%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (6.14%) Power BI
2 142 (5.97%) Data Lake
3 139 (5.84%) PostgreSQL
4 132 (5.55%) SQL Server
5 127 (5.34%) NoSQL
6 116 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
7 86 (3.61%) Relational Database
8 83 (3.49%) MongoDB
9 76 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
10 71 (2.98%) Delta Lake
11 70 (2.94%) Amazon Athena
12 68 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
13 63 (2.65%) Metadata
14 61 (2.56%) BigQuery
15 51 (2.14%) Big Data
16 49 (2.06%) DynamoDB
17 41 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
17 41 (1.72%) Redis
18 35 (1.47%) Snowflake Schema
19 30 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 423 (17.78%) Git
2 366 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 293 (12.32%) GitLab
4 153 (6.43%) JIRA
5 67 (2.82%) JUnit
6 64 (2.69%) Selenium
7 46 (1.93%) MLflow
8 44 (1.85%) JMeter
8 44 (1.85%) Postman
9 43 (1.81%) Cucumber
10 39 (1.64%) Mockito
11 35 (1.47%) Gradle
12 33 (1.39%) REST Assured
13 27 (1.13%) Cypress.io
14 25 (1.05%) CircleCI
15 24 (1.01%) SonarQube
16 23 (0.97%) Bitbucket
16 23 (0.97%) Maven
17 21 (0.88%) Artifactory
18 20 (0.84%) Gatling
General
1 573 (24.09%) Finance
2 551 (23.16%) Social Skills
3 284 (11.94%) Public Sector
4 252 (10.59%) Banking
5 166 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
6 56 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
7 49 (2.06%) Investment Banking
8 47 (1.98%) Front Office
9 45 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 43 (1.81%) Retail
11 41 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
12 28 (1.18%) Financial Institution
13 27 (1.13%) Telecoms
14 26 (1.09%) Law
15 24 (1.01%) Legal
16 19 (0.80%) Marketing
17 17 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
18 16 (0.67%) Publishing
19 13 (0.55%) Military
20 11 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 482 (20.26%) Developer
2 403 (16.94%) Senior
3 277 (11.64%) DevOps Engineer
4 276 (11.60%) Architect
5 226 (9.50%) Lead
6 222 (9.33%) Data Engineer
7 150 (6.31%) AWS Engineer
8 143 (6.01%) Azure Engineer
9 137 (5.76%) Cloud Engineer
10 112 (4.71%) Software Engineer
11 102 (4.29%) Platform Engineer
12 101 (4.25%) Java Developer
13 99 (4.16%) Senior Developer
14 74 (3.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 74 (3.11%) Full-Stack Developer
15 73 (3.07%) Solutions Architect
16 71 (2.98%) Python Developer
17 63 (2.65%) AWS DevOps
18 59 (2.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 54 (2.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 274 (11.52%) REST
2 236 (9.92%) React
3 225 (9.46%) Kafka
4 205 (8.62%) RESTful
5 204 (8.58%) .NET
6 189 (7.94%) Spring
7 172 (7.23%) Spring Boot
8 123 (5.17%) PySpark
9 122 (5.13%) Node.js
10 115 (4.83%) AngularJS
11 87 (3.66%) OAuth
12 81 (3.40%) HTML
13 68 (2.86%) CSS
14 66 (2.77%) FastAPI
15 65 (2.73%) Playwright
16 60 (2.52%) JSON
16 60 (2.52%) OAuth2
17 59 (2.48%) Pandas
18 53 (2.23%) OpenTelemetry
19 52 (2.19%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 509 (21.40%) Cloud Native
2 182 (7.65%) Distributed Systems
3 106 (4.46%) Product Ownership
4 82 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
5 80 (3.36%) Onboarding
6 65 (2.73%) AI Agents
7 44 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
8 43 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
9 39 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 37 (1.56%) Algorithms
11 34 (1.43%) Management Information System
12 33 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
12 33 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
13 32 (1.35%) Fixed Income
13 32 (1.35%) Mobile App
13 32 (1.35%) Public Cloud
13 32 (1.35%) Virtual Team
14 30 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
15 28 (1.18%) Data Structures
15 28 (1.18%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 154 (6.47%) Linux
2 94 (3.95%) Windows
3 47 (1.98%) Unix
4 24 (1.01%) Apple iOS
5 23 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 22 (0.92%) Android
7 20 (0.84%) VMS
8 19 (0.80%) Windows Server
9 8 (0.34%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
11 6 (0.25%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.21%) Solaris
12 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
12 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.17%) zOS
14 2 (0.084%) AIX
14 2 (0.084%) Amazon Linux
15 1 (0.042%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,299 (54.60%) DevOps
2 823 (34.59%) Infrastructure as Code
3 752 (31.61%) Agile
4 536 (22.53%) Containerisation
5 516 (21.69%) AI
6 473 (19.88%) Test Automation
7 457 (19.21%) Microservices
8 411 (17.28%) Observability
9 377 (15.85%) Analytics
10 363 (15.26%) Software Engineering
11 324 (13.62%) Data Modelling
12 310 (13.03%) Problem-Solving
13 309 (12.99%) Data Pipeline
14 302 (12.69%) Data Engineering
15 287 (12.06%) Continuous Improvement
16 273 (11.48%) Machine Learning
17 271 (11.39%) Platform Engineering
18 244 (10.26%) Migration
19 232 (9.75%) ETL
20 227 (9.54%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 936 (39.34%) Python
2 673 (28.29%) SQL
3 452 (19.00%) Java
4 257 (10.80%) C#
5 231 (9.71%) TypeScript
6 229 (9.63%) JavaScript
7 162 (6.81%) Bash
8 161 (6.77%) PowerShell
9 91 (3.83%) Bicep
10 53 (2.23%) Scala
11 43 (1.81%) Go
12 42 (1.77%) Apex Code
13 38 (1.60%) Ruby
13 38 (1.60%) Shell Script
14 35 (1.47%) Kotlin
15 28 (1.18%) PL/SQL
15 28 (1.18%) T-SQL
16 15 (0.63%) C++
16 15 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 12 (0.50%) Swift
Qualifications
1 589 (24.76%) Security Cleared
2 528 (22.19%) SC Cleared
3 123 (5.17%) Degree
4 99 (4.16%) Azure Certification
5 76 (3.19%) AWS Certification
6 55 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 48 (2.02%) DV Cleared
8 39 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
9 26 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
10 25 (1.05%) Master's Degree
11 22 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 21 (0.88%) CISSP
13 15 (0.63%) DBS Check
13 15 (0.63%) ISTQB
14 14 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
15 12 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 12 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
16 10 (0.42%) CISM
16 10 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 9 (0.38%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (7.99%) QA
2 188 (7.90%) Data Quality
3 80 (3.36%) Accessibility
4 70 (2.94%) GDPR
5 65 (2.73%) NIST
6 53 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 31 (1.30%) NCSC
8 26 (1.09%) PCI DSS
8 26 (1.09%) WCAG
9 21 (0.88%) SLA
10 11 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (0.38%) GRC
11 9 (0.38%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.29%) PSD2
13 6 (0.25%) COBIT
13 6 (0.25%) EU AI Act
13 6 (0.25%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.21%) MiFID
14 5 (0.21%) SEPA
System Software
1 632 (26.57%) Docker
2 57 (2.40%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.38%) Squid
7 6 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.25%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
9 4 (0.17%) vSphere
10 2 (0.084%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.084%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.084%) 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
1 789 (33.17%) Terraform
2 707 (29.72%) Kubernetes
3 171 (7.19%) Ansible
4 163 (6.85%) Grafana
5 149 (6.26%) Prometheus
6 28 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
7 25 (1.05%) Argo
8 20 (0.84%) Istio
8 20 (0.84%) Puppet
9 18 (0.76%) Kibana
10 13 (0.55%) Packer
11 11 (0.46%) Progress Chef
12 9 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
13 8 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 6 (0.25%) Kustomize
14 6 (0.25%) SCCM
15 5 (0.21%) HP Fortify
15 5 (0.21%) Oracle RMAN
16 4 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
16 4 (0.17%) Salt
Vendors
1 347 (14.59%) Microsoft
2 190 (7.99%) Databricks
3 113 (4.75%) Google
4 99 (4.16%) Oracle
5 91 (3.83%) Salesforce
6 82 (3.45%) Splunk
7 57 (2.40%) OpenAI
8 56 (2.35%) ServiceNow
9 39 (1.64%) Dynatrace
10 30 (1.26%) VMware
11 25 (1.05%) IBM
12 24 (1.01%) CyberArk
12 24 (1.01%) Foundry
12 24 (1.01%) Red Hat
12 24 (1.01%) SAP
13 23 (0.97%) MuleSoft
14 21 (0.88%) Informatica
15 18 (0.76%) Cisco
16 14 (0.59%) Palantir
16 14 (0.59%) Palo Alto