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

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 18 24
Rank change year-on-year +6 +6 -8
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,194 1,273 1,295
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.32% 10.13% 7.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.93% 10.98% 8.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,466 893 948
10th Percentile £400 £396 £413
25th Percentile £450 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £575 £556
Median % change year-on-year -6.30% +3.37% -10.64%
75th Percentile £650 £716 £685
90th Percentile £750 £838 £788
England median daily rate £525 £530 £555
% change year-on-year -0.94% -4.45% -7.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 4
10th Percentile £49.25 £38.25 £49.23
25th Percentile £61.00 £43.13 £52.94
Median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +27.62% -6.67% -29.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £53.75 £60.81
90th Percentile £95.00 - £64.53
England median hourly rate £66.50 £61.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% -5.77% -0.92%

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 15,746 11,589 15,691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.45% 92.20% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,536 7,858 11,248
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £813 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 172 322
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.62 £22.73 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.25 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.65% +20.18% -26.92%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.56 £47.34
90th Percentile £74.63 £63.75 £65.68
England median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.05
% change year-on-year +51.53% -16.77% -2.97%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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 5 May 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 -3 249 £575 -1.71% 211
West London +9 70 £603 +47.31% 26
South London +2 55 £525 +6.06% 4
East London +1 11 £450 -16.28% 17
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
1 110 (5.01%) Apache Spark
2 83 (3.78%) Apache Airflow
3 66 (3.01%) Apache
4 61 (2.78%) Confluence
5 29 (1.32%) SharePoint
6 11 (0.50%) HCL Notes
6 11 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (0.46%) Mendix
8 9 (0.41%) Camunda
9 8 (0.36%) Appian
9 8 (0.36%) SAS
10 7 (0.32%) Ethereum
10 7 (0.32%) IIS
10 7 (0.32%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.27%) CMS
11 6 (0.27%) Hyperledger
11 6 (0.27%) nginx
11 6 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
12 5 (0.23%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 18 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.14%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.046%) Maya
Business Applications
1 16 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.27%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.14%) Findur
4 3 (0.14%) Magento
4 3 (0.14%) SAP BPC
4 3 (0.14%) Shopify
5 2 (0.091%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.091%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.046%) Actimize
6 1 (0.046%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.046%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.046%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.046%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.046%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.046%) ProductWriter
6 1 (0.046%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.046%) SDL Web 8
6 1 (0.046%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 1,023 (46.63%) Azure
2 969 (44.17%) AWS
3 509 (23.20%) GitHub
4 402 (18.32%) Azure DevOps
5 342 (15.59%) GCP
6 326 (14.86%) GitHub Actions
7 295 (13.45%) Serverless
8 213 (9.71%) Amazon S3
9 201 (9.16%) AWS CloudFormation
10 190 (8.66%) Power Platform
11 187 (8.52%) AWS Lambda
12 127 (5.79%) Azure Data Factory
13 126 (5.74%) Amazon EKS
14 118 (5.38%) Amazon ECS
15 113 (5.15%) Azure AKS
16 95 (4.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 92 (4.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 92 (4.19%) Amazon EC2
18 88 (4.01%) Entra ID
19 87 (3.97%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 78 (3.56%) Firewall
2 45 (2.05%) Network Security
3 37 (1.69%) DNS
4 27 (1.23%) HTTP
5 23 (1.05%) VPN
6 14 (0.64%) WAN
7 13 (0.59%) SD-WAN
8 8 (0.36%) 3GPP
8 8 (0.36%) 5G
9 7 (0.32%) BGP
9 7 (0.32%) SSL
10 6 (0.27%) OSPF
11 5 (0.23%) Ethernet VPN
11 5 (0.23%) FTP
11 5 (0.23%) Internet
11 5 (0.23%) LTE
11 5 (0.23%) MPLS
11 5 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (0.23%) VXLAN
12 4 (0.18%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (6.56%) Data Lake
2 136 (6.20%) SQL Server
3 133 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
4 132 (6.02%) Power BI
5 120 (5.47%) NoSQL
6 103 (4.69%) Data Warehouse
7 79 (3.60%) Relational Database
8 78 (3.56%) MongoDB
9 69 (3.14%) Delta Lake
10 65 (2.96%) Amazon RDS
11 64 (2.92%) Metadata
12 60 (2.73%) Amazon Athena
13 59 (2.69%) BigQuery
14 58 (2.64%) Amazon Redshift
15 55 (2.51%) Big Data
16 52 (2.37%) Azure SQL Database
17 40 (1.82%) DynamoDB
18 34 (1.55%) Snowflake Schema
19 31 (1.41%) Redis
20 30 (1.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 388 (17.68%) Git
2 367 (16.73%) Jenkins
3 254 (11.58%) GitLab
4 130 (5.93%) JIRA
5 74 (3.37%) Selenium
6 61 (2.78%) JUnit
7 52 (2.37%) MLflow
8 48 (2.19%) Cucumber
9 44 (2.01%) Postman
10 37 (1.69%) Mockito
11 33 (1.50%) REST Assured
12 31 (1.41%) JMeter
13 29 (1.32%) Cypress.io
14 21 (0.96%) Bitbucket
15 19 (0.87%) Artifactory
15 19 (0.87%) Gradle
16 18 (0.82%) SonarQube
17 16 (0.73%) Appium
17 16 (0.73%) CircleCI
17 16 (0.73%) Liquibase
General
1 530 (24.16%) Social Skills
2 524 (23.88%) Finance
3 259 (11.80%) Public Sector
4 222 (10.12%) Banking
5 174 (7.93%) Analytical Skills
6 49 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
7 45 (2.05%) Front Office
8 40 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
9 37 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 36 (1.64%) Investment Banking
11 29 (1.32%) Financial Institution
12 28 (1.28%) Retail
13 22 (1.00%) Legal
14 21 (0.96%) Telecoms
15 17 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
16 15 (0.68%) Law
17 14 (0.64%) Publishing
18 13 (0.59%) Manufacturing
18 13 (0.59%) Marketing
19 10 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 491 (22.38%) Developer
2 352 (16.04%) Senior
3 254 (11.58%) Architect
4 238 (10.85%) DevOps Engineer
5 220 (10.03%) Data Engineer
6 188 (8.57%) Lead
7 135 (6.15%) Azure Engineer
8 119 (5.42%) AWS Engineer
9 109 (4.97%) Cloud Engineer
10 97 (4.42%) Software Engineer
11 93 (4.24%) Java Developer
11 93 (4.24%) Platform Engineer
12 85 (3.87%) Senior Developer
13 73 (3.33%) Full-Stack Developer
14 70 (3.19%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 61 (2.78%) Python Developer
16 59 (2.69%) Solutions Architect
17 57 (2.60%) AWS DevOps
18 54 (2.46%) Python Engineer
19 52 (2.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 222 (10.12%) React
2 220 (10.03%) Kafka
3 209 (9.53%) REST
4 199 (9.07%) .NET
5 192 (8.75%) RESTful
6 187 (8.52%) Spring
7 163 (7.43%) Spring Boot
8 159 (7.25%) Node.js
9 117 (5.33%) AngularJS
10 111 (5.06%) PySpark
11 88 (4.01%) Playwright
12 87 (3.97%) HTML
13 74 (3.37%) CSS
14 70 (3.19%) OAuth
15 57 (2.60%) YAML
16 56 (2.55%) Pandas
17 52 (2.37%) FastAPI
18 51 (2.32%) GraphQL
18 51 (2.32%) OpenTelemetry
19 47 (2.14%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 453 (20.65%) Cloud Native
2 150 (6.84%) Distributed Systems
3 107 (4.88%) Product Ownership
4 71 (3.24%) Onboarding
5 66 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
6 39 (1.78%) AI Agents
6 39 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
7 36 (1.64%) Algorithms
8 32 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
8 32 (1.46%) Public Cloud
9 31 (1.41%) Mobile App
10 29 (1.32%) Equities
10 29 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 29 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
11 27 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
11 27 (1.23%) Management Information System
11 27 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
11 27 (1.23%) Virtual Team
12 25 (1.14%) Fixed Income
12 25 (1.14%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 148 (6.75%) Linux
2 92 (4.19%) Windows
3 36 (1.64%) Unix
4 26 (1.19%) Apple iOS
5 25 (1.14%) Android
5 25 (1.14%) VMS
6 15 (0.68%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.23%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (0.23%) zOS
9 4 (0.18%) Solaris
9 4 (0.18%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.046%) AIX
10 1 (0.046%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,223 (55.74%) DevOps
2 746 (34.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 716 (32.63%) Agile
4 511 (23.29%) Containerisation
5 457 (20.83%) Test Automation
6 435 (19.83%) AI
7 429 (19.55%) Microservices
8 367 (16.73%) Analytics
8 367 (16.73%) Observability
9 316 (14.40%) Problem-Solving
10 306 (13.95%) Software Engineering
11 300 (13.67%) Data Modelling
12 282 (12.85%) Data Pipeline
13 269 (12.26%) Data Engineering
14 257 (11.71%) Continuous Improvement
15 247 (11.26%) Machine Learning
16 224 (10.21%) ETL
17 216 (9.85%) Migration
17 216 (9.85%) Platform Engineering
18 208 (9.48%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 843 (38.42%) Python
2 621 (28.30%) SQL
3 426 (19.42%) Java
4 258 (11.76%) C#
5 245 (11.17%) JavaScript
6 242 (11.03%) TypeScript
7 128 (5.83%) Bash
8 121 (5.52%) PowerShell
9 84 (3.83%) Bicep
10 61 (2.78%) Scala
11 43 (1.96%) Go
12 40 (1.82%) Ruby
13 36 (1.64%) Shell Script
14 33 (1.50%) Apex Code
15 32 (1.46%) PL/SQL
16 29 (1.32%) Kotlin
16 29 (1.32%) T-SQL
17 17 (0.77%) C++
18 14 (0.64%) R
19 13 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 561 (25.57%) Security Cleared
2 501 (22.84%) SC Cleared
3 119 (5.42%) Degree
4 89 (4.06%) Azure Certification
5 70 (3.19%) AWS Certification
6 65 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 41 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
8 34 (1.55%) DV Cleared
9 26 (1.19%) Master's Degree
10 22 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 21 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
12 18 (0.82%) ISTQB
13 17 (0.77%) CISSP
14 14 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
15 13 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 11 (0.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 10 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
18 9 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 8 (0.36%) CCSP
19 8 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (8.66%) QA
2 171 (7.79%) Data Quality
3 83 (3.78%) GDPR
4 64 (2.92%) Accessibility
5 60 (2.73%) NIST
6 54 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 30 (1.37%) NCSC
8 27 (1.23%) PCI DSS
9 24 (1.09%) WCAG
10 22 (1.00%) SLA
11 19 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.41%) ISO 20022
13 7 (0.32%) MiFID
14 6 (0.27%) GRC
14 6 (0.27%) PSD2
15 5 (0.23%) SOC 2
16 4 (0.18%) COBIT
16 4 (0.18%) HL7
16 4 (0.18%) NIST 800
16 4 (0.18%) SEPA
System Software
1 618 (28.17%) Docker
2 56 (2.55%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.32%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.27%) vSphere
8 4 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
8 4 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
8 4 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.14%) Squid
10 2 (0.091%) HDFS
10 2 (0.091%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.046%) IAG
11 1 (0.046%) OpenSSH
11 1 (0.046%) Postfix
11 1 (0.046%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
11 1 (0.046%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 726 (33.09%) Terraform
2 672 (30.63%) Kubernetes
3 143 (6.52%) Grafana
4 139 (6.34%) Ansible
5 125 (5.70%) Prometheus
6 33 (1.50%) Argo
7 23 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (0.96%) Istio
8 21 (0.96%) Puppet
9 14 (0.64%) Kibana
10 11 (0.50%) Progress Chef
11 10 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
11 10 (0.46%) Packer
12 7 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 6 (0.27%) Rancher
13 6 (0.27%) SCCM
14 5 (0.23%) Kustomize
15 4 (0.18%) Kubeflow
15 4 (0.18%) Opsgenie
15 4 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 353 (16.09%) Microsoft
2 199 (9.07%) Databricks
3 114 (5.20%) Google
4 94 (4.28%) Oracle
5 75 (3.42%) Salesforce
6 74 (3.37%) Splunk
7 56 (2.55%) OpenAI
8 54 (2.46%) ServiceNow
9 28 (1.28%) Dynatrace
10 23 (1.05%) CyberArk
10 23 (1.05%) VMware
11 21 (0.96%) MuleSoft
12 20 (0.91%) Red Hat
12 20 (0.91%) SAP
13 19 (0.87%) Foundry
13 19 (0.87%) IBM
14 15 (0.68%) Cisco
15 13 (0.59%) Informatica
16 12 (0.55%) Okta
17 11 (0.50%) UiPath