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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 18 24
Rank change year-on-year +4 +6 -9
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 1,798 1,382 1,305
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.74% 9.84% 7.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.95% 10.90% 8.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,237 970 982
10th Percentile £375 £406 £425
25th Percentile £438 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £593
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +1.27% -5.20%
75th Percentile £638 £704 £700
90th Percentile £722 £810 £800
England median daily rate £519 £558 £575
% change year-on-year -7.00% -3.04% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £36.90 - £56.60
25th Percentile £52.88 - £57.13
Median hourly rate £64.75 - £58.00
75th Percentile £67.38 - £65.38
90th Percentile £68.95 - £69.35
England median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year -3.70% -10.00% +14.32%

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 12,887 12,677 16,143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.35% 90.27% 88.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,501 8,101 11,545
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -5.46%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 155 258
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.94 £16.52
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.99 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.59 £54.50 £54.03
90th Percentile £69.30 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -27.63% -18.24% +21.43%

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 January 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 January 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 January 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 +3 206 £550 -5.98% 144
South London +9 58 £525 -2.42% 23
West London +4 58 £603 +30.27% 19
East London -9 9 £450 -12.41% 21
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 77 (4.28%) Confluence
2 58 (3.23%) Apache Spark
3 57 (3.17%) Apache Airflow
4 35 (1.95%) Apache
5 33 (1.84%) SharePoint
6 15 (0.83%) nginx
7 13 (0.72%) CMS
8 10 (0.56%) HCL Notes
9 9 (0.50%) Mendix
10 7 (0.39%) Appian
11 6 (0.33%) SAS
12 5 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 5 (0.28%) Ethereum
12 5 (0.28%) Headless CMS
12 5 (0.28%) Hyperledger
12 5 (0.28%) IIS
12 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
13 4 (0.22%) WebLogic
14 3 (0.17%) Camunda
14 3 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 24 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.50%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 7 (0.39%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.17%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.056%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.33%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.17%) Endur
4 2 (0.11%) Magento
4 2 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.11%) Shopify
5 1 (0.056%) Cerner Millennium
5 1 (0.056%) ION Anvil
5 1 (0.056%) Maximo
5 1 (0.056%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.056%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.056%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.056%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.056%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.056%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.056%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.056%) Orchestrade
5 1 (0.056%) Siebel CRM
5 1 (0.056%) thinkFolio
5 1 (0.056%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 795 (44.22%) AWS
2 785 (43.66%) Azure
3 442 (24.58%) GitHub
4 311 (17.30%) GitHub Actions
5 300 (16.69%) Azure DevOps
6 290 (16.13%) GCP
7 263 (14.63%) Serverless
8 179 (9.96%) Amazon S3
9 157 (8.73%) AWS Lambda
10 131 (7.29%) Power Platform
11 129 (7.17%) AWS CloudFormation
12 103 (5.73%) Amazon EKS
13 101 (5.62%) Amazon ECS
14 95 (5.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 93 (5.17%) Azure Data Factory
16 90 (5.01%) Azure AKS
17 80 (4.45%) Amazon EC2
18 71 (3.95%) Azure Logic Apps
19 67 (3.73%) Azure Functions
20 64 (3.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 83 (4.62%) Firewall
2 59 (3.28%) DNS
3 45 (2.50%) Network Security
4 25 (1.39%) VPN
5 19 (1.06%) HTTP
6 18 (1.00%) TCP/IP
7 15 (0.83%) SSL
8 14 (0.78%) OpenLDAP
9 12 (0.67%) WAN
10 11 (0.61%) SSH
11 10 (0.56%) SD-WAN
11 10 (0.56%) SMTP
12 9 (0.50%) FTP
12 9 (0.50%) IMAP
13 8 (0.44%) DHCP
14 5 (0.28%) BGP
14 5 (0.28%) MPLS
14 5 (0.28%) tcpdump
14 5 (0.28%) Wireshark
15 4 (0.22%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (7.73%) PostgreSQL
2 106 (5.90%) SQL Server
3 98 (5.45%) NoSQL
4 93 (5.17%) Power BI
5 88 (4.89%) Data Lake
6 75 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
7 70 (3.89%) Data Warehouse
8 60 (3.34%) MongoDB
9 57 (3.17%) Relational Database
10 40 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
11 39 (2.17%) BigQuery
12 36 (2.00%) Delta Lake
13 32 (1.78%) DynamoDB
14 30 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
15 29 (1.61%) MySQL
16 28 (1.56%) Big Data
16 28 (1.56%) Redis
17 27 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
18 26 (1.45%) Amazon Aurora
18 26 (1.45%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 347 (19.30%) Jenkins
2 320 (17.80%) Git
3 229 (12.74%) GitLab
4 142 (7.90%) JIRA
5 69 (3.84%) Selenium
6 47 (2.61%) Cucumber
7 43 (2.39%) Cypress.io
8 42 (2.34%) JUnit
9 34 (1.89%) Postman
10 32 (1.78%) MLflow
11 30 (1.67%) TeamCity
12 29 (1.61%) SonarQube
13 28 (1.56%) JMeter
14 24 (1.33%) Bitbucket
14 24 (1.33%) Maven
14 24 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
15 19 (1.06%) Gradle
16 18 (1.00%) Mockito
16 18 (1.00%) REST Assured
17 16 (0.89%) CircleCI
General
1 476 (26.47%) Social Skills
2 410 (22.80%) Finance
3 201 (11.18%) Banking
4 191 (10.62%) Public Sector
5 131 (7.29%) Analytical Skills
6 46 (2.56%) Investment Banking
7 44 (2.45%) Front Office
8 34 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
9 31 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 30 (1.67%) Financial Institution
11 26 (1.45%) Marketing
11 26 (1.45%) Telecoms
12 19 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
12 19 (1.06%) Retail
13 15 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
14 14 (0.78%) Military
14 14 (0.78%) Publishing
15 13 (0.72%) Manufacturing
16 11 (0.61%) Electronics
17 10 (0.56%) Law
Job Titles
1 462 (25.70%) Developer
2 283 (15.74%) Senior
3 247 (13.74%) DevOps Engineer
4 148 (8.23%) Architect
5 146 (8.12%) Data Engineer
6 117 (6.51%) Lead
7 106 (5.90%) AWS Engineer
8 103 (5.73%) Azure Engineer
9 97 (5.39%) Platform Engineer
10 84 (4.67%) Senior Developer
11 81 (4.51%) Full-Stack Developer
12 80 (4.45%) Software Engineer
13 76 (4.23%) Java Developer
14 64 (3.56%) AWS DevOps
14 64 (3.56%) Python Engineer
15 62 (3.45%) Cloud Engineer
16 59 (3.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 56 (3.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 52 (2.89%) Python Developer
18 52 (2.89%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 230 (12.79%) React
2 195 (10.85%) Node.js
3 190 (10.57%) Kafka
4 170 (9.45%) RESTful
5 162 (9.01%) REST
6 158 (8.79%) .NET
7 128 (7.12%) Spring
8 101 (5.62%) Spring Boot
9 100 (5.56%) AngularJS
10 87 (4.84%) CSS
11 83 (4.62%) HTML
11 83 (4.62%) Playwright
12 74 (4.12%) OAuth
13 70 (3.89%) GraphQL
14 66 (3.67%) YAML
15 62 (3.45%) PySpark
16 55 (3.06%) JSON
17 51 (2.84%) FastAPI
18 48 (2.67%) Vue
19 47 (2.61%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 334 (18.58%) Cloud Native
2 124 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
3 73 (4.06%) Product Ownership
4 45 (2.50%) Mobile App
5 38 (2.11%) AI Agents
5 38 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
6 35 (1.95%) Onboarding
7 32 (1.78%) Derivative
8 30 (1.67%) Replication
9 28 (1.56%) Algorithms
9 28 (1.56%) Public Cloud
10 26 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
11 25 (1.39%) Hedge funds
12 24 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
13 23 (1.28%) Equities
13 23 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 22 (1.22%) Data Structures
15 21 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
15 21 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
16 20 (1.11%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 163 (9.07%) Linux
2 67 (3.73%) Windows
3 36 (2.00%) Android
3 36 (2.00%) Apple iOS
4 34 (1.89%) VMS
5 23 (1.28%) Unix
6 18 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 17 (0.95%) Windows Server
8 13 (0.72%) Ubuntu
9 9 (0.50%) Amazon Linux
10 7 (0.39%) Solaris
11 6 (0.33%) CentOS
12 5 (0.28%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.11%) zOS
14 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,025 (57.01%) DevOps
2 626 (34.82%) Agile
3 594 (33.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 386 (21.47%) Containerisation
5 362 (20.13%) Problem-Solving
6 354 (19.69%) Test Automation
7 331 (18.41%) Microservices
8 259 (14.40%) AI
9 258 (14.35%) Software Engineering
10 254 (14.13%) Observability
11 235 (13.07%) Analytics
12 201 (11.18%) Data Pipeline
13 181 (10.07%) Full-Stack Development
14 175 (9.73%) Data Engineering
15 167 (9.29%) Migration
16 164 (9.12%) Machine Learning
17 163 (9.07%) Continuous Improvement
18 161 (8.95%) Data Modelling
19 152 (8.45%) ETL
20 151 (8.40%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 720 (40.04%) Python
2 426 (23.69%) SQL
3 361 (20.08%) Java
4 262 (14.57%) JavaScript
5 241 (13.40%) TypeScript
6 200 (11.12%) C#
7 136 (7.56%) Bash
8 106 (5.90%) PowerShell
9 78 (4.34%) Go
10 66 (3.67%) Bicep
11 47 (2.61%) C++
12 38 (2.11%) Scala
13 29 (1.61%) Ruby
14 25 (1.39%) Kotlin
14 25 (1.39%) Rust
15 23 (1.28%) PL/SQL
15 23 (1.28%) T-SQL
16 18 (1.00%) Groovy
17 17 (0.95%) PHP
18 15 (0.83%) Swift
Qualifications
1 405 (22.53%) Security Cleared
2 355 (19.74%) SC Cleared
3 120 (6.67%) Degree
4 65 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 63 (3.50%) Azure Certification
6 62 (3.45%) AWS Certification
7 27 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 25 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (1.33%) Master's Degree
10 20 (1.11%) MCP
11 19 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 17 (0.95%) DV Cleared
12 17 (0.95%) ISTQB
13 14 (0.78%) CISSP
14 13 (0.72%) Numerate Degree
15 11 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
16 8 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 8 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 7 (0.39%) OSCP
18 6 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (7.90%) QA
2 94 (5.23%) Data Quality
3 81 (4.51%) GDPR
4 61 (3.39%) Accessibility
5 47 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 40 (2.22%) NIST
7 21 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 21 (1.17%) WCAG
8 19 (1.06%) PCI DSS
9 15 (0.83%) NCSC
10 9 (0.50%) HIPAA
10 9 (0.50%) SLA
11 7 (0.39%) MiFID
12 6 (0.33%) NIST 800
13 5 (0.28%) EU AI Act
14 4 (0.22%) PERC
14 4 (0.22%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.17%) HL7
15 3 (0.17%) ISO 20022
15 3 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 587 (32.65%) Docker
2 54 (3.00%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.61%) Squid
6 9 (0.50%) DFS Replication
6 9 (0.50%) Dovecot
6 9 (0.50%) Postfix
7 8 (0.44%) zsh
8 6 (0.33%) vSphere
9 5 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.28%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.22%) NFS
10 4 (0.22%) Veritas File System
10 4 (0.22%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 3 (0.17%) HDFS
11 3 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.056%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 1 (0.056%) etcd
Systems Management
1 615 (34.20%) Kubernetes
2 609 (33.87%) Terraform
3 152 (8.45%) Ansible
4 143 (7.95%) Grafana
5 125 (6.95%) Prometheus
6 48 (2.67%) Argo
7 25 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
8 23 (1.28%) Istio
9 17 (0.95%) Kibana
10 16 (0.89%) Progress Chef
11 14 (0.78%) Puppet
12 13 (0.72%) ITRS Geneos
13 10 (0.56%) Nessus
14 9 (0.50%) Proxmox
14 9 (0.50%) Rancher
15 7 (0.39%) Packer
16 6 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 6 (0.33%) logstash
16 6 (0.33%) Red Hat Satellite
17 5 (0.28%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 257 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 173 (9.62%) Databricks
3 119 (6.62%) Google
4 74 (4.12%) Oracle
5 53 (2.95%) Splunk
6 51 (2.84%) ServiceNow
7 47 (2.61%) Salesforce
8 46 (2.56%) OpenAI
9 35 (1.95%) Red Hat
10 29 (1.61%) Dynatrace
11 23 (1.28%) VMware
12 17 (0.95%) Cisco
12 17 (0.95%) SAP
13 16 (0.89%) Atlassian
14 15 (0.83%) MuleSoft
14 15 (0.83%) Solace
15 12 (0.67%) Palo Alto
16 11 (0.61%) Apple
16 11 (0.61%) CyberArk
17 10 (0.56%) Lotus