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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 18 21
Rank change year-on-year +8 +3 -4
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,550 1,412 1,433
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.94% 10.46% 8.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.54% 11.35% 9.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,727 939 1,029
10th Percentile £400 £381 £413
25th Percentile £450 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £567
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -6.53% -7.05%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £749 £801 £806
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
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% -29.03%
75th Percentile £95.00 £53.75 £61.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.50 £64.60
England median hourly rate £67.50 £63.75 £67.00
% change year-on-year +5.88% -4.85% +2.13%

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 17,532 12,440 15,649
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.99% 92.14% 88.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,643 8,309 11,135
10th Percentile £360 £331 £340
25th Percentile £440 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -5.58%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £769 £798 £800
England median daily rate £525 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 274 234 293
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.96
25th Percentile £22.87 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £36.75 £32.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.84% +6.67% -27.31%
75th Percentile £58.98 £50.38 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.60 £68.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.07%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 0 292 £550 -10.71% 106
West London +9 58 £580 +17.77% 115
South London +2 48 £538 +1.03% 8
East London +3 10 £500 +29.87% 20
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
1 112 (4.39%) Apache Airflow
2 107 (4.20%) Apache Spark
3 98 (3.84%) Confluence
4 72 (2.82%) Apache
5 27 (1.06%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
7 11 (0.43%) Camunda
8 10 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (0.39%) SAS
9 9 (0.35%) WebSphere
10 7 (0.27%) CMS
10 7 (0.27%) Ethereum
10 7 (0.27%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.24%) Hyperledger
11 6 (0.24%) nginx
12 5 (0.20%) Anypoint
12 5 (0.20%) Appian
12 5 (0.20%) Mule
12 5 (0.20%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 16 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.39%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.16%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.078%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.039%) Maya
Business Applications
1 23 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.39%) 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%) SAP BPC
9 2 (0.078%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.078%) SAP CRM
9 2 (0.078%) Temenos T24
10 1 (0.039%) ProductWriter
10 1 (0.039%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.039%) Salesforce CRM
10 1 (0.039%) SAP ERP
10 1 (0.039%) SAP IS-U
10 1 (0.039%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,143 (44.82%) AWS
2 1,127 (44.20%) Azure
3 566 (22.20%) GitHub
4 431 (16.90%) Azure DevOps
5 372 (14.59%) GitHub Actions
6 361 (14.16%) GCP
7 317 (12.43%) Serverless
8 256 (10.04%) Amazon S3
9 218 (8.55%) Power Platform
10 214 (8.39%) AWS Lambda
11 171 (6.71%) AWS CloudFormation
12 147 (5.76%) Amazon EKS
13 120 (4.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 120 (4.71%) Amazon EC2
14 112 (4.39%) Azure AKS
15 111 (4.35%) Snowflake
16 109 (4.27%) Entra ID
17 108 (4.24%) Azure Data Factory
18 105 (4.12%) Amazon ECS
19 97 (3.80%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 72 (2.82%) Firewall
2 46 (1.80%) Network Security
3 33 (1.29%) DNS
3 33 (1.29%) VPN
4 26 (1.02%) HTTP
5 21 (0.82%) Internet
6 17 (0.67%) 5G
6 17 (0.67%) WAN
7 12 (0.47%) SD-WAN
8 11 (0.43%) 3GPP
9 9 (0.35%) SSL
10 8 (0.31%) 4G
10 8 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
10 8 (0.31%) TCP/IP
11 7 (0.27%) BGP
12 6 (0.24%) FTP
12 6 (0.24%) OSPF
13 5 (0.20%) Cisco IOS
13 5 (0.20%) Ethernet VPN
13 5 (0.20%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (6.08%) Power BI
2 146 (5.73%) PostgreSQL
3 130 (5.10%) NoSQL
4 128 (5.02%) Data Lake
4 128 (5.02%) SQL Server
5 126 (4.94%) Data Warehouse
6 94 (3.69%) Relational Database
7 87 (3.41%) MongoDB
8 78 (3.06%) Amazon Redshift
9 74 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
10 72 (2.82%) Amazon Athena
11 70 (2.75%) Delta Lake
12 69 (2.71%) Metadata
13 55 (2.16%) BigQuery
14 52 (2.04%) Big Data
15 49 (1.92%) DynamoDB
16 41 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
17 39 (1.53%) Snowflake Schema
18 37 (1.45%) Redis
19 31 (1.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 443 (17.37%) Git
2 388 (15.22%) Jenkins
3 305 (11.96%) GitLab
4 176 (6.90%) JIRA
5 75 (2.94%) JUnit
6 73 (2.86%) Selenium
7 46 (1.80%) Postman
8 44 (1.73%) Cucumber
8 44 (1.73%) JMeter
9 41 (1.61%) Mockito
10 40 (1.57%) REST Assured
11 39 (1.53%) Cypress.io
12 38 (1.49%) Gradle
13 37 (1.45%) MLflow
14 27 (1.06%) Bitbucket
14 27 (1.06%) CircleCI
14 27 (1.06%) Maven
15 25 (0.98%) SonarQube
16 22 (0.86%) Gatling
17 19 (0.75%) Liquibase
General
1 606 (23.76%) Finance
2 600 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 306 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 277 (10.86%) Banking
5 201 (7.88%) Analytical Skills
6 58 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
7 57 (2.24%) Investment Banking
8 51 (2.00%) Front Office
8 51 (2.00%) Retail
9 43 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 39 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
11 29 (1.14%) Telecoms
12 28 (1.10%) Law
13 26 (1.02%) Financial Institution
14 25 (0.98%) Legal
15 23 (0.90%) Marketing
16 15 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
16 15 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
17 14 (0.55%) Manufacturing
18 12 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 529 (20.75%) Developer
2 432 (16.94%) Senior
3 301 (11.80%) DevOps Engineer
4 284 (11.14%) Architect
5 252 (9.88%) Lead
6 230 (9.02%) Data Engineer
7 161 (6.31%) AWS Engineer
8 146 (5.73%) Azure Engineer
9 134 (5.25%) Cloud Engineer
10 121 (4.75%) Software Engineer
11 119 (4.67%) Java Developer
12 103 (4.04%) Platform Engineer
12 103 (4.04%) Senior Developer
13 82 (3.22%) Full-Stack Developer
14 77 (3.02%) Solutions Architect
15 69 (2.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 69 (2.71%) AWS DevOps
15 69 (2.71%) Python Developer
16 65 (2.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 62 (2.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 312 (12.24%) REST
2 249 (9.76%) React
3 241 (9.45%) Kafka
4 229 (8.98%) .NET
5 216 (8.47%) RESTful
6 205 (8.04%) Spring
7 176 (6.90%) Spring Boot
8 133 (5.22%) PySpark
9 132 (5.18%) Node.js
10 113 (4.43%) AngularJS
11 90 (3.53%) HTML
12 86 (3.37%) Playwright
13 78 (3.06%) OAuth
14 76 (2.98%) CSS
15 70 (2.75%) JSON
16 61 (2.39%) FastAPI
16 61 (2.39%) SOAP
17 59 (2.31%) GraphQL
18 58 (2.27%) OAuth2
19 52 (2.04%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 536 (21.02%) Cloud Native
2 199 (7.80%) Distributed Systems
3 119 (4.67%) Product Ownership
4 90 (3.53%) Onboarding
5 89 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
6 72 (2.82%) AI Agents
7 54 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
8 45 (1.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 41 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
10 39 (1.53%) Mobile App
11 38 (1.49%) Virtual Team
12 37 (1.45%) Management Information System
12 37 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
13 36 (1.41%) Algorithms
14 34 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
14 34 (1.33%) Security Posture
15 33 (1.29%) Fixed Income
16 32 (1.25%) Data Structures
16 32 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
17 28 (1.10%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 179 (7.02%) Linux
2 108 (4.24%) Windows
3 55 (2.16%) Unix
4 27 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (0.94%) Apple iOS
5 24 (0.94%) Windows Server
6 23 (0.90%) Android
7 11 (0.43%) VMS
8 10 (0.39%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.31%) Ubuntu
9 8 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
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 3 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.078%) AIX
14 1 (0.039%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,399 (54.86%) DevOps
2 862 (33.80%) Agile
3 850 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 574 (22.51%) Containerisation
5 527 (20.67%) Test Automation
6 517 (20.27%) AI
7 488 (19.14%) Microservices
8 424 (16.63%) Observability
9 400 (15.69%) Software Engineering
10 379 (14.86%) Analytics
11 336 (13.18%) Problem-Solving
12 333 (13.06%) Data Pipeline
13 318 (12.47%) Data Modelling
14 308 (12.08%) Continuous Improvement
15 306 (12.00%) Data Engineering
16 297 (11.65%) Platform Engineering
17 276 (10.82%) Machine Learning
18 261 (10.24%) Event-Driven
19 255 (10.00%) Migration
20 242 (9.49%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 976 (38.27%) Python
2 684 (26.82%) SQL
3 498 (19.53%) Java
4 276 (10.82%) C#
5 266 (10.43%) TypeScript
6 251 (9.84%) JavaScript
7 184 (7.22%) Bash
8 165 (6.47%) PowerShell
9 95 (3.73%) Bicep
10 58 (2.27%) Go
11 56 (2.20%) Scala
12 47 (1.84%) Apex Code
13 44 (1.73%) Kotlin
14 41 (1.61%) Shell Script
15 35 (1.37%) Ruby
16 30 (1.18%) T-SQL
17 27 (1.06%) PL/SQL
18 17 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 15 (0.59%) Swift
20 14 (0.55%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 660 (25.88%) Security Cleared
2 593 (23.25%) SC Cleared
3 133 (5.22%) Degree
4 91 (3.57%) Azure Certification
5 70 (2.75%) AWS Certification
6 62 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 61 (2.39%) DV Cleared
8 47 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
9 28 (1.10%) Master's Degree
10 22 (0.86%) CISSP
11 20 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 20 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
12 16 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
13 15 (0.59%) DBS Check
14 12 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 12 (0.47%) CISM
14 12 (0.47%) GIAC
14 12 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
15 10 (0.39%) ISTQB
16 9 (0.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 214 (8.39%) QA
2 200 (7.84%) Data Quality
3 96 (3.76%) Accessibility
4 64 (2.51%) GDPR
5 63 (2.47%) NIST
6 51 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 34 (1.33%) NCSC
8 29 (1.14%) WCAG
9 22 (0.86%) PCI DSS
10 21 (0.82%) SLA
11 11 (0.43%) EU AI Act
12 10 (0.39%) GRC
13 7 (0.27%) ISO 20022
14 6 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.24%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.20%) COBIT
15 5 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 5 (0.20%) PSD2
16 4 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 660 (25.88%) Docker
2 61 (2.39%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.43%) Squid
6 10 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.24%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.12%) vSphere
11 2 (0.078%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.078%) HDFS
11 2 (0.078%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.078%) Postfix
12 1 (0.039%) IAG
12 1 (0.039%) OpenSSH
12 1 (0.039%) Samba
12 1 (0.039%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
12 1 (0.039%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 827 (32.43%) Terraform
2 758 (29.73%) Kubernetes
3 189 (7.41%) Grafana
4 178 (6.98%) Ansible
5 159 (6.24%) Prometheus
6 29 (1.14%) Argo
7 26 (1.02%) Puppet
8 23 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (0.71%) Kibana
10 16 (0.63%) Packer
11 12 (0.47%) Progress Chef
12 11 (0.43%) Istio
13 8 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
13 8 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
14 7 (0.27%) Kustomize
15 6 (0.24%) SCCM
16 5 (0.20%) HP Fortify
16 5 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
16 5 (0.20%) Salt
16 5 (0.20%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 365 (14.31%) Microsoft
2 193 (7.57%) Databricks
3 111 (4.35%) Google
3 111 (4.35%) Oracle
4 102 (4.00%) Salesforce
5 96 (3.76%) Splunk
6 55 (2.16%) ServiceNow
7 51 (2.00%) OpenAI
8 39 (1.53%) Dynatrace
9 33 (1.29%) VMware
10 31 (1.22%) Foundry
11 28 (1.10%) IBM
11 28 (1.10%) Informatica
11 28 (1.10%) SAP
12 26 (1.02%) CyberArk
12 26 (1.02%) MuleSoft
13 22 (0.86%) Palantir
13 22 (0.86%) Red Hat
14 18 (0.71%) Cisco
15 14 (0.55%) Okta