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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 17 20
Rank change year-on-year +7 +3 -3
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,550 1,443 1,351
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.84% 10.61% 8.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.44% 11.51% 9.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,714 975 955
10th Percentile £400 £375 £413
25th Percentile £453 £438 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £567
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -7.41% -5.50%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £688
90th Percentile £738 £783 £808
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 2
10th Percentile £48.25 £30.63 £56.20
25th Percentile £54.06 £36.88 £58.00
Median hourly rate £61.00 £48.75 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.13% -20.08% -18.67%
75th Percentile £80.63 £53.75 £64.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.38 £65.80
England median hourly rate £66.66 £65.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year +2.55% -2.99% -4.29%

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 17,663 12,532 14,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.17% 88.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,664 8,387 10,335
10th Percentile £363 £325 £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 £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 242 212
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.75 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.33% -12.50% -18.07%
75th Percentile £57.00 £49.31 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.23 £71.25
England median hourly rate £46.62 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +85.35% -39.40% -2.35%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 29 July 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 +5 304 £550 -12.00% 131
South London 0 56 £540 +1.93% 6
West London +9 51 £560 +13.71% 36
East London +7 12 £585 +62.50% 22
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
1 114 (4.47%) Apache Airflow
2 101 (3.96%) Confluence
3 93 (3.65%) Apache Spark
4 71 (2.78%) Apache
5 29 (1.14%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
7 10 (0.39%) SAS
8 9 (0.35%) CMS
8 9 (0.35%) WebSphere
9 8 (0.31%) Camunda
9 8 (0.31%) nginx
9 8 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.24%) Anypoint
12 5 (0.20%) Mule
12 5 (0.20%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.16%) IIS
14 3 (0.12%) Apache Pulsar
14 3 (0.12%) Appian
14 3 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 17 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.43%) Chatbot
3 10 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.16%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.12%) Trello
7 2 (0.078%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.039%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.039%) Maya
Business Applications
1 23 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.43%) Aladdin
3 8 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.27%) Shopify
5 6 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
6 5 (0.20%) Magento
7 4 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
8 3 (0.12%) Endur
8 3 (0.12%) Findur
8 3 (0.12%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.12%) SAP BPC
9 2 (0.078%) SAP CRM
9 2 (0.078%) Temenos T24
10 1 (0.039%) Distributed Ledger
10 1 (0.039%) PeopleSoft HCM
10 1 (0.039%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.039%) SAP ERP
10 1 (0.039%) SAP IS-U
10 1 (0.039%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,141 (44.75%) Azure
2 1,114 (43.69%) AWS
3 560 (21.96%) GitHub
4 436 (17.10%) Azure DevOps
5 380 (14.90%) GCP
6 379 (14.86%) GitHub Actions
7 299 (11.73%) Serverless
8 241 (9.45%) Amazon S3
9 222 (8.71%) Power Platform
10 200 (7.84%) AWS Lambda
11 148 (5.80%) Amazon EKS
12 140 (5.49%) AWS CloudFormation
13 117 (4.59%) Snowflake
14 116 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 116 (4.55%) Entra ID
15 113 (4.43%) Azure AKS
16 112 (4.39%) Amazon EC2
17 107 (4.20%) dbt
18 101 (3.96%) Azure Data Factory
19 86 (3.37%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 71 (2.78%) Firewall
2 43 (1.69%) Network Security
3 35 (1.37%) VPN
4 34 (1.33%) DNS
5 26 (1.02%) Internet
6 22 (0.86%) HTTP
7 19 (0.75%) 5G
8 16 (0.63%) TCP/IP
8 16 (0.63%) WAN
9 14 (0.55%) SSL
10 11 (0.43%) 4G
11 10 (0.39%) 3GPP
11 10 (0.39%) SD-WAN
12 8 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
13 7 (0.27%) BGP
13 7 (0.27%) LTE
14 6 (0.24%) Cisco IOS
14 6 (0.24%) FTP
15 5 (0.20%) MPLS
15 5 (0.20%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (6.35%) Power BI
2 143 (5.61%) PostgreSQL
3 131 (5.14%) Data Warehouse
4 122 (4.78%) Data Lake
4 122 (4.78%) NoSQL
5 121 (4.75%) SQL Server
6 90 (3.53%) Relational Database
7 88 (3.45%) MongoDB
8 75 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
9 74 (2.90%) Delta Lake
10 68 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
11 67 (2.63%) Metadata
12 64 (2.51%) Amazon Athena
13 61 (2.39%) BigQuery
14 51 (2.00%) DynamoDB
15 46 (1.80%) Big Data
16 42 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
16 42 (1.65%) Redis
17 36 (1.41%) Snowflake Schema
18 28 (1.10%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 444 (17.41%) Git
2 389 (15.25%) Jenkins
3 307 (12.04%) GitLab
4 180 (7.06%) JIRA
5 71 (2.78%) Selenium
6 66 (2.59%) JUnit
7 46 (1.80%) JMeter
8 43 (1.69%) Cypress.io
9 41 (1.61%) Gradle
10 39 (1.53%) Cucumber
11 38 (1.49%) Mockito
11 38 (1.49%) Postman
12 35 (1.37%) Bitbucket
12 35 (1.37%) REST Assured
13 34 (1.33%) MLflow
14 31 (1.22%) Maven
15 29 (1.14%) CircleCI
15 29 (1.14%) SonarQube
16 24 (0.94%) Gatling
17 20 (0.78%) Liquibase
General
1 611 (23.96%) Finance
2 599 (23.49%) Social Skills
3 314 (12.31%) Public Sector
4 279 (10.94%) Banking
5 198 (7.76%) Analytical Skills
6 56 (2.20%) Front Office
7 55 (2.16%) Investment Banking
7 55 (2.16%) Retail
8 46 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
9 40 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 33 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
11 31 (1.22%) Law
12 30 (1.18%) Telecoms
13 26 (1.02%) Financial Institution
14 25 (0.98%) Legal
15 24 (0.94%) Marketing
16 16 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
17 13 (0.51%) Manufacturing
17 13 (0.51%) Military
18 12 (0.47%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 547 (21.45%) Developer
2 448 (17.57%) Senior
3 289 (11.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 282 (11.06%) Architect
5 260 (10.20%) Lead
6 223 (8.75%) Data Engineer
7 151 (5.92%) Azure Engineer
8 149 (5.84%) AWS Engineer
9 132 (5.18%) Cloud Engineer
10 129 (5.06%) Software Engineer
11 118 (4.63%) Senior Developer
12 116 (4.55%) Java Developer
13 110 (4.31%) Platform Engineer
14 91 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
15 82 (3.22%) Solutions Architect
16 73 (2.86%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 69 (2.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 65 (2.55%) Python Developer
19 62 (2.43%) AWS DevOps
20 58 (2.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 340 (13.33%) REST
2 249 (9.76%) React
3 238 (9.33%) .NET
4 232 (9.10%) Kafka
5 205 (8.04%) RESTful
6 198 (7.76%) Spring
7 168 (6.59%) Spring Boot
8 131 (5.14%) Node.js
8 131 (5.14%) PySpark
9 104 (4.08%) AngularJS
10 101 (3.96%) HTML
11 92 (3.61%) Playwright
12 87 (3.41%) CSS
13 74 (2.90%) OAuth
14 73 (2.86%) JSON
15 66 (2.59%) FastAPI
15 66 (2.59%) SOAP
16 59 (2.31%) OAuth2
17 56 (2.20%) GraphQL
18 55 (2.16%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 526 (20.63%) Cloud Native
2 223 (8.75%) Distributed Systems
3 126 (4.94%) Product Ownership
4 92 (3.61%) Onboarding
5 88 (3.45%) AI Agents
6 83 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
7 70 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
8 45 (1.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 40 (1.57%) Algorithms
10 39 (1.53%) Mobile App
11 38 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
11 38 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
12 37 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
12 37 (1.45%) Data Structures
12 37 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
12 37 (1.45%) Virtual Team
13 36 (1.41%) Management Information System
14 33 (1.29%) Fixed Income
15 32 (1.25%) Security Posture
16 26 (1.02%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 182 (7.14%) Linux
2 108 (4.24%) Windows
3 56 (2.20%) Unix
4 35 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 29 (1.14%) Apple iOS
6 28 (1.10%) Android
7 26 (1.02%) Windows Server
8 12 (0.47%) VMS
9 11 (0.43%) Ubuntu
10 10 (0.39%) Mac OS
11 8 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (0.20%) Solaris
12 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
12 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.078%) AIX
14 2 (0.078%) zOS
15 1 (0.039%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,400 (54.90%) DevOps
2 900 (35.29%) Agile
3 844 (33.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 558 (21.88%) Containerisation
5 541 (21.22%) Test Automation
6 537 (21.06%) AI
7 510 (20.00%) Microservices
8 439 (17.22%) Observability
8 439 (17.22%) Software Engineering
9 373 (14.63%) Analytics
10 339 (13.29%) Problem-Solving
11 337 (13.22%) Data Pipeline
12 328 (12.86%) Data Modelling
13 320 (12.55%) Continuous Improvement
14 305 (11.96%) Data Engineering
15 301 (11.80%) Platform Engineering
16 282 (11.06%) Event-Driven
17 271 (10.63%) Machine Learning
18 263 (10.31%) Migration
19 260 (10.20%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 973 (38.16%) Python
2 684 (26.82%) SQL
3 506 (19.84%) Java
4 265 (10.39%) C#
5 262 (10.27%) JavaScript
5 262 (10.27%) TypeScript
6 197 (7.73%) Bash
7 171 (6.71%) PowerShell
8 100 (3.92%) Bicep
9 64 (2.51%) Go
10 54 (2.12%) Kotlin
11 50 (1.96%) Apex Code
12 45 (1.76%) Shell Script
13 44 (1.73%) Scala
14 35 (1.37%) Ruby
15 31 (1.22%) PL/SQL
16 27 (1.06%) T-SQL
17 22 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 19 (0.75%) Groovy
19 18 (0.71%) Swift
Qualifications
1 647 (25.37%) Security Cleared
2 585 (22.94%) SC Cleared
3 134 (5.25%) Degree
4 99 (3.88%) Azure Certification
5 71 (2.78%) DV Cleared
6 66 (2.59%) AWS Certification
7 61 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
8 41 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 22 (0.86%) Master's Degree
9 22 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
10 19 (0.75%) CISSP
11 16 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 15 (0.59%) DBS Check
13 13 (0.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 13 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
14 12 (0.47%) CISM
14 12 (0.47%) PhD
15 11 (0.43%) GIAC
15 11 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
16 10 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 229 (8.98%) QA
2 207 (8.12%) Data Quality
3 102 (4.00%) Accessibility
4 59 (2.31%) GDPR
5 49 (1.92%) NIST
6 41 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 34 (1.33%) WCAG
8 23 (0.90%) NCSC
9 19 (0.75%) SLA
10 15 (0.59%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.43%) EU AI Act
12 10 (0.39%) GRC
13 8 (0.31%) SOC 2
14 7 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.27%) ISO 20022
14 7 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 4 (0.16%) COBIT
15 4 (0.16%) MiFID
15 4 (0.16%) PSD2
15 4 (0.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 648 (25.41%) Docker
2 61 (2.39%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
4 29 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.43%) Squid
6 9 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.27%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
10 4 (0.16%) vSphere
11 3 (0.12%) HDFS
12 2 (0.078%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.078%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.078%) KVM
12 2 (0.078%) Postfix
12 2 (0.078%) Varnish
13 1 (0.039%) IAG
13 1 (0.039%) OpenSSH
13 1 (0.039%) Samba
Systems Management
1 812 (31.84%) Terraform
2 745 (29.22%) Kubernetes
3 201 (7.88%) Grafana
4 183 (7.18%) Ansible
5 166 (6.51%) Prometheus
6 33 (1.29%) Argo
7 28 (1.10%) Puppet
8 21 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
9 20 (0.78%) Kibana
10 18 (0.71%) Packer
11 12 (0.47%) Progress Chef
12 11 (0.43%) Istio
13 9 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
14 8 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
15 7 (0.27%) Kustomize
15 7 (0.27%) SCCM
16 6 (0.24%) vCenter Server
17 5 (0.20%) HP Fortify
17 5 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
17 5 (0.20%) Salt
Vendors
1 381 (14.94%) Microsoft
2 198 (7.76%) Databricks
3 130 (5.10%) Google
4 115 (4.51%) Oracle
5 103 (4.04%) Salesforce
6 89 (3.49%) Splunk
7 58 (2.27%) ServiceNow
8 48 (1.88%) OpenAI
9 44 (1.73%) Dynatrace
10 42 (1.65%) VMware
11 31 (1.22%) IBM
12 29 (1.14%) Foundry
13 28 (1.10%) SAP
14 26 (1.02%) Informatica
14 26 (1.02%) MuleSoft
15 22 (0.86%) Palantir
15 22 (0.86%) Red Hat
16 21 (0.82%) Cisco
17 19 (0.75%) New Relic
18 18 (0.71%) CyberArk