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

6 months to
26 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 2,455 1,311 1,397
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.84% 10.33% 7.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.43% 11.17% 8.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,650 886 1,004
10th Percentile £400 £392 £413
25th Percentile £450 £441 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £540 £574
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% -7.83%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £825 £813
England median daily rate £525 £517 £560
% change year-on-year +1.65% -7.77% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 3
10th Percentile £50.25 £38.00 £48.40
25th Percentile £55.00 £42.50 £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 £53.75 £61.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.50 £64.60
England median hourly rate £65.00 £59.63 £67.25
% change year-on-year +9.01% -11.34% +2.51%

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 17,012 11,732 15,563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.97% 92.40% 88.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,345 7,858 11,109
10th Percentile £360 £336 £340
25th Percentile £438 £425 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 220 302
10th Percentile £17.96 £16.50 £15.54
25th Percentile £25.24 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% +7.50% -25.00%
75th Percentile £59.72 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.30 £67.90
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% +8.48%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -1 277 £551 -9.94% 74
West London +3 52 £603 +22.34% 21
South London 0 45 £515 -3.29% 4
East London +11 13 £450 +80.00% 20
North London - 1 £650 - 2
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
1 108 (4.40%) Apache Airflow
2 106 (4.32%) Apache Spark
3 84 (3.42%) Confluence
4 69 (2.81%) Apache
5 27 (1.10%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
7 11 (0.45%) Camunda
7 11 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (0.41%) SAS
9 8 (0.33%) WebSphere
10 7 (0.29%) Appian
10 7 (0.29%) CMS
10 7 (0.29%) Ethereum
11 6 (0.24%) Hyperledger
11 6 (0.24%) nginx
11 6 (0.24%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.20%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.16%) Anypoint
13 4 (0.16%) Mendix
13 4 (0.16%) Mule
Applications
1 17 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.45%) Chatbot
2 11 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.12%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.081%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.041%) Maya
Business Applications
1 21 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.37%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.29%) Shopify
4 5 (0.20%) Magento
4 5 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.12%) Findur
6 3 (0.12%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.081%) Endur
7 2 (0.081%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.081%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.041%) Distributed Ledger
8 1 (0.041%) ProductWriter
8 1 (0.041%) R3 Corda
8 1 (0.041%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.041%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.041%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.041%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,100 (44.81%) AWS
2 1,088 (44.32%) Azure
3 548 (22.32%) GitHub
4 421 (17.15%) Azure DevOps
5 358 (14.58%) GitHub Actions
6 345 (14.05%) GCP
7 322 (13.12%) Serverless
8 243 (9.90%) Amazon S3
9 214 (8.72%) AWS Lambda
10 213 (8.68%) Power Platform
11 174 (7.09%) AWS CloudFormation
12 135 (5.50%) Amazon EKS
13 121 (4.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 116 (4.73%) Amazon EC2
15 115 (4.68%) Azure AKS
15 115 (4.68%) Azure Data Factory
16 107 (4.36%) Snowflake
17 101 (4.11%) Amazon ECS
17 101 (4.11%) Entra ID
18 93 (3.79%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 78 (3.18%) Firewall
2 52 (2.12%) Network Security
3 35 (1.43%) DNS
4 31 (1.26%) VPN
5 25 (1.02%) HTTP
6 19 (0.77%) Internet
7 16 (0.65%) 5G
7 16 (0.65%) WAN
8 12 (0.49%) SD-WAN
9 11 (0.45%) 3GPP
10 9 (0.37%) SSL
11 8 (0.33%) 4G
11 8 (0.33%) TCP/IP
12 7 (0.29%) BGP
12 7 (0.29%) Radio Access Network
13 6 (0.24%) FTP
13 6 (0.24%) OSPF
14 5 (0.20%) Cisco IOS
14 5 (0.20%) Ethernet VPN
14 5 (0.20%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (6.07%) Power BI
2 146 (5.95%) PostgreSQL
3 135 (5.50%) Data Lake
4 133 (5.42%) NoSQL
5 131 (5.34%) SQL Server
6 121 (4.93%) Data Warehouse
7 91 (3.71%) Relational Database
8 87 (3.54%) MongoDB
9 77 (3.14%) Amazon Redshift
10 75 (3.05%) Amazon RDS
11 71 (2.89%) Amazon Athena
12 69 (2.81%) Delta Lake
13 65 (2.65%) Metadata
14 56 (2.28%) BigQuery
15 52 (2.12%) Big Data
16 51 (2.08%) DynamoDB
17 42 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
18 40 (1.63%) Redis
19 37 (1.51%) Snowflake Schema
20 32 (1.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 435 (17.72%) Git
2 378 (15.40%) Jenkins
3 306 (12.46%) GitLab
4 162 (6.60%) JIRA
5 71 (2.89%) JUnit
6 67 (2.73%) Selenium
7 46 (1.87%) JMeter
8 44 (1.79%) Cucumber
8 44 (1.79%) Postman
9 42 (1.71%) MLflow
10 41 (1.67%) Mockito
11 37 (1.51%) Gradle
11 37 (1.51%) REST Assured
12 29 (1.18%) Cypress.io
13 26 (1.06%) CircleCI
14 25 (1.02%) Bitbucket
14 25 (1.02%) Maven
14 25 (1.02%) SonarQube
15 21 (0.86%) Gatling
16 20 (0.81%) Snyk
General
1 589 (23.99%) Finance
2 576 (23.46%) Social Skills
3 300 (12.22%) Public Sector
4 270 (11.00%) Banking
5 181 (7.37%) Analytical Skills
6 55 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
6 55 (2.24%) Investment Banking
7 48 (1.96%) Front Office
8 45 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 45 (1.83%) Retail
9 41 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
10 28 (1.14%) Financial Institution
10 28 (1.14%) Law
10 28 (1.14%) Telecoms
11 25 (1.02%) Legal
12 22 (0.90%) Marketing
13 16 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
14 15 (0.61%) Publishing
15 12 (0.49%) Manufacturing
15 12 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 502 (20.45%) Developer
2 409 (16.66%) Senior
3 287 (11.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 278 (11.32%) Architect
5 234 (9.53%) Lead
6 226 (9.21%) Data Engineer
7 156 (6.35%) AWS Engineer
8 146 (5.95%) Azure Engineer
9 135 (5.50%) Cloud Engineer
10 120 (4.89%) Software Engineer
11 114 (4.64%) Java Developer
12 103 (4.20%) Platform Engineer
13 97 (3.95%) Senior Developer
14 77 (3.14%) Full-Stack Developer
15 76 (3.10%) Solutions Architect
16 70 (2.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 70 (2.85%) Python Developer
17 65 (2.65%) AWS DevOps
18 61 (2.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 60 (2.44%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 291 (11.85%) REST
2 238 (9.69%) React
3 231 (9.41%) Kafka
4 218 (8.88%) .NET
5 210 (8.55%) RESTful
6 200 (8.15%) Spring
7 172 (7.01%) Spring Boot
8 132 (5.38%) PySpark
9 121 (4.93%) Node.js
10 111 (4.52%) AngularJS
11 88 (3.58%) OAuth
12 83 (3.38%) HTML
13 72 (2.93%) Playwright
14 68 (2.77%) CSS
15 65 (2.65%) FastAPI
15 65 (2.65%) JSON
16 62 (2.53%) OAuth2
17 56 (2.28%) Pandas
17 56 (2.28%) SOAP
18 54 (2.20%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 525 (21.38%) Cloud Native
2 187 (7.62%) Distributed Systems
3 113 (4.60%) Product Ownership
4 88 (3.58%) Legacy Systems
5 81 (3.30%) Onboarding
6 70 (2.85%) AI Agents
7 47 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
8 42 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
9 41 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 39 (1.59%) Management Information System
11 36 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
12 35 (1.43%) Algorithms
12 35 (1.43%) Mobile App
12 35 (1.43%) Virtual Team
13 34 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
14 32 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
14 32 (1.30%) Fixed Income
14 32 (1.30%) Public Cloud
15 31 (1.26%) Security Posture
16 28 (1.14%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 166 (6.76%) Linux
2 103 (4.20%) Windows
3 49 (2.00%) Unix
4 25 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (0.98%) Apple iOS
6 21 (0.86%) Android
6 21 (0.86%) Windows Server
7 18 (0.73%) VMS
8 8 (0.33%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.29%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.20%) Solaris
10 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
10 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.16%) zOS
12 2 (0.081%) AIX
12 2 (0.081%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.041%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,336 (54.42%) DevOps
2 828 (33.73%) Infrastructure as Code
3 817 (33.28%) Agile
4 552 (22.48%) Containerisation
5 520 (21.18%) AI
6 499 (20.33%) Test Automation
7 467 (19.02%) Microservices
8 408 (16.62%) Observability
9 381 (15.52%) Analytics
10 379 (15.44%) Software Engineering
11 325 (13.24%) Data Modelling
12 321 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
13 318 (12.95%) Data Pipeline
14 306 (12.46%) Data Engineering
15 294 (11.98%) Continuous Improvement
16 283 (11.53%) Platform Engineering
17 276 (11.24%) Machine Learning
18 257 (10.47%) Migration
19 245 (9.98%) Event-Driven
20 238 (9.69%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 950 (38.70%) Python
2 680 (27.70%) SQL
3 475 (19.35%) Java
4 274 (11.16%) C#
5 244 (9.94%) TypeScript
6 237 (9.65%) JavaScript
7 169 (6.88%) Bash
8 155 (6.31%) PowerShell
9 95 (3.87%) Bicep
10 52 (2.12%) Scala
11 50 (2.04%) Go
12 42 (1.71%) Apex Code
13 40 (1.63%) Shell Script
14 38 (1.55%) Kotlin
15 36 (1.47%) Ruby
16 28 (1.14%) T-SQL
17 26 (1.06%) PL/SQL
18 15 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 14 (0.57%) SOQL
20 13 (0.53%) Swift
Qualifications
1 617 (25.13%) Security Cleared
2 551 (22.44%) SC Cleared
3 129 (5.25%) Degree
4 95 (3.87%) Azure Certification
5 71 (2.89%) AWS Certification
6 58 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 57 (2.32%) DV Cleared
8 39 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 26 (1.06%) Master's Degree
10 22 (0.90%) CISSP
11 21 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 21 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
12 16 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
13 15 (0.61%) DBS Check
14 14 (0.57%) ISTQB
15 12 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 12 (0.49%) CISM
15 12 (0.49%) GIAC
15 12 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
16 9 (0.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 207 (8.43%) QA
2 192 (7.82%) Data Quality
3 87 (3.54%) Accessibility
4 70 (2.85%) NIST
5 66 (2.69%) GDPR
6 56 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (1.30%) NCSC
8 26 (1.06%) PCI DSS
8 26 (1.06%) WCAG
9 22 (0.90%) SLA
10 10 (0.41%) EU AI Act
10 10 (0.41%) GRC
11 9 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 8 (0.33%) ISO 20022
13 6 (0.24%) COBIT
13 6 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.24%) PSD2
13 6 (0.24%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 5 (0.20%) SEPA
System Software
1 648 (26.40%) Docker
2 59 (2.40%) Active Directory
3 38 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.33%) Squid
7 6 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
8 5 (0.20%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.12%) vSphere
10 2 (0.081%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.081%) HDFS
10 2 (0.081%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.081%) Postfix
11 1 (0.041%) IAG
11 1 (0.041%) OpenSSH
11 1 (0.041%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
11 1 (0.041%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 806 (32.83%) Terraform
2 741 (30.18%) Kubernetes
3 178 (7.25%) Ansible
4 171 (6.97%) Grafana
5 152 (6.19%) Prometheus
6 25 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (0.98%) Puppet
8 20 (0.81%) Argo
9 18 (0.73%) Kibana
10 14 (0.57%) Packer
11 12 (0.49%) Istio
11 12 (0.49%) Progress Chef
12 8 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
13 6 (0.24%) Kustomize
13 6 (0.24%) SCCM
14 5 (0.20%) HP Fortify
14 5 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
14 5 (0.20%) Salt
15 4 (0.16%) Suricata
Vendors
1 353 (14.38%) Microsoft
2 189 (7.70%) Databricks
3 109 (4.44%) Google
4 99 (4.03%) Oracle
5 92 (3.75%) Salesforce
6 87 (3.54%) Splunk
7 58 (2.36%) ServiceNow
8 56 (2.28%) OpenAI
9 39 (1.59%) Dynatrace
10 30 (1.22%) VMware
11 27 (1.10%) Informatica
12 26 (1.06%) Foundry
13 24 (0.98%) CyberArk
13 24 (0.98%) IBM
13 24 (0.98%) Red Hat
13 24 (0.98%) SAP
14 23 (0.94%) MuleSoft
15 21 (0.86%) Palantir
16 18 (0.73%) Cisco
17 13 (0.53%) Sybase