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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 17 26
Rank change year-on-year +5 +9 -10
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,180 1,293 1,246
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.59% 10.21% 6.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.13% 11.11% 7.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,470 915 909
10th Percentile £394 £400 £419
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +0.88% -8.80%
75th Percentile £644 £721 £688
90th Percentile £738 £838 £800
England median daily rate £520 £544 £563
% change year-on-year -4.32% -3.38% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 4
10th Percentile £49.25 - £49.23
25th Percentile £61.00 £51.25 £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 £67.50 £64.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +4.65% +4.03% -5.42%

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 15,428 11,636 15,825
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.09% 91.87% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,331 7,886 11,336
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £428 £440 £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 £755 £800 £799
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 168 334
10th Percentile £18.37 £16.48 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.75 £19.65
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.58 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +15.25% -22.58%
75th Percentile £57.00 £50.56 £49.00
90th Percentile £72.90 £63.40 £66.93
England median hourly rate £41.56 £31.76 £34.21
% change year-on-year +30.84% -7.16% -8.77%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 16 April 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 -2 250 £550 -4.35% 175
West London +10 72 £603 +47.31% 27
South London +3 62 £525 +8.25% 5
East London -4 9 £450 -15.69% 22
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
1 107 (4.91%) Apache Spark
2 88 (4.04%) Apache Airflow
3 67 (3.07%) Apache
4 62 (2.84%) Confluence
5 34 (1.56%) SharePoint
6 11 (0.50%) HCL Notes
6 11 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.50%) SAS
7 10 (0.46%) CMS
7 10 (0.46%) Mendix
8 9 (0.41%) nginx
9 8 (0.37%) Appian
10 7 (0.32%) Camunda
10 7 (0.32%) Ethereum
10 7 (0.32%) IIS
10 7 (0.32%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.28%) Hyperledger
11 6 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
12 5 (0.23%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.092%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.046%) Maya
Business Applications
1 20 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.28%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.14%) Findur
3 3 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.14%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.092%) Shopify
5 1 (0.046%) Actimize
5 1 (0.046%) Cerner Millennium
5 1 (0.046%) Endur
5 1 (0.046%) Magento
5 1 (0.046%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.046%) ProductWriter
5 1 (0.046%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.046%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 1,000 (45.87%) Azure
2 979 (44.91%) AWS
3 505 (23.17%) GitHub
4 395 (18.12%) Azure DevOps
5 328 (15.05%) GCP
6 317 (14.54%) GitHub Actions
7 314 (14.40%) Serverless
8 230 (10.55%) Amazon S3
9 210 (9.63%) AWS CloudFormation
10 203 (9.31%) AWS Lambda
11 189 (8.67%) Power Platform
12 129 (5.92%) Amazon EKS
12 129 (5.92%) Azure Data Factory
13 124 (5.69%) Amazon ECS
14 111 (5.09%) Azure AKS
15 98 (4.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 98 (4.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 91 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
17 88 (4.04%) Entra ID
18 81 (3.72%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 71 (3.26%) Firewall
2 44 (2.02%) Network Security
3 36 (1.65%) DNS
4 26 (1.19%) HTTP
5 20 (0.92%) VPN
6 12 (0.55%) WAN
7 11 (0.50%) SD-WAN
8 8 (0.37%) 3GPP
8 8 (0.37%) 5G
9 7 (0.32%) BGP
10 6 (0.28%) OSPF
10 6 (0.28%) Reverse Proxy
10 6 (0.28%) SSL
11 5 (0.23%) Ethernet VPN
11 5 (0.23%) LTE
11 5 (0.23%) MPLS
11 5 (0.23%) VXLAN
12 4 (0.18%) Internet
12 4 (0.18%) IOS XR
12 4 (0.18%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (6.65%) PostgreSQL
2 140 (6.42%) Data Lake
3 132 (6.06%) Power BI
4 128 (5.87%) NoSQL
4 128 (5.87%) SQL Server
5 110 (5.05%) Data Warehouse
6 82 (3.76%) MongoDB
7 78 (3.58%) Relational Database
8 75 (3.44%) Amazon RDS
9 63 (2.89%) Amazon Athena
10 60 (2.75%) Metadata
11 59 (2.71%) Delta Lake
12 58 (2.66%) Amazon Redshift
13 56 (2.57%) BigQuery
14 55 (2.52%) Big Data
15 54 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
16 45 (2.06%) DynamoDB
17 35 (1.61%) Snowflake Schema
18 33 (1.51%) Tableau
19 32 (1.47%) Redis
Development Applications
1 396 (18.17%) Git
2 359 (16.47%) Jenkins
3 255 (11.70%) GitLab
4 145 (6.65%) JIRA
5 79 (3.62%) Selenium
6 60 (2.75%) JUnit
7 51 (2.34%) Cucumber
8 50 (2.29%) MLflow
9 45 (2.06%) Postman
10 36 (1.65%) REST Assured
11 35 (1.61%) Cypress.io
12 34 (1.56%) Mockito
13 28 (1.28%) JMeter
14 23 (1.06%) Bitbucket
15 18 (0.83%) Artifactory
16 17 (0.78%) Gradle
16 17 (0.78%) Liquibase
16 17 (0.78%) Maven
16 17 (0.78%) SonarQube
17 16 (0.73%) Appium
General
1 533 (24.45%) Social Skills
2 508 (23.30%) Finance
3 251 (11.51%) Public Sector
4 224 (10.28%) Banking
5 175 (8.03%) Analytical Skills
6 49 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
7 43 (1.97%) Front Office
8 41 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
8 41 (1.88%) Investment Banking
9 34 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 28 (1.28%) Financial Institution
11 24 (1.10%) Retail
12 23 (1.06%) Legal
13 22 (1.01%) Telecoms
14 16 (0.73%) Law
14 16 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
15 15 (0.69%) Marketing
16 14 (0.64%) Manufacturing
17 13 (0.60%) Publishing
18 11 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 507 (23.26%) Developer
2 337 (15.46%) Senior
3 239 (10.96%) DevOps Engineer
4 238 (10.92%) Architect
5 221 (10.14%) Data Engineer
6 186 (8.53%) Lead
7 133 (6.10%) Azure Engineer
8 132 (6.06%) AWS Engineer
9 106 (4.86%) Cloud Engineer
10 102 (4.68%) Software Engineer
11 100 (4.59%) Platform Engineer
12 94 (4.31%) Java Developer
13 82 (3.76%) Senior Developer
14 79 (3.62%) Full-Stack Developer
15 69 (3.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 66 (3.03%) Python Developer
17 65 (2.98%) AWS DevOps
18 60 (2.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 58 (2.66%) Python Engineer
20 56 (2.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 242 (11.10%) React
2 226 (10.37%) Kafka
3 204 (9.36%) REST
4 196 (8.99%) RESTful
5 193 (8.85%) .NET
6 188 (8.62%) Node.js
7 177 (8.12%) Spring
8 151 (6.93%) Spring Boot
9 121 (5.55%) AngularJS
10 108 (4.95%) PySpark
11 88 (4.04%) Playwright
12 87 (3.99%) HTML
13 82 (3.76%) CSS
14 79 (3.62%) OAuth
15 62 (2.84%) YAML
16 55 (2.52%) GraphQL
17 53 (2.43%) Pandas
18 50 (2.29%) FastAPI
18 50 (2.29%) OpenTelemetry
19 48 (2.20%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 440 (20.18%) Cloud Native
2 143 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
3 109 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 63 (2.89%) Onboarding
5 58 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
6 39 (1.79%) AI Agents
7 38 (1.74%) Algorithms
8 36 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
9 33 (1.51%) Mobile App
10 31 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
11 30 (1.38%) Public Cloud
12 29 (1.33%) Virtual Team
13 28 (1.28%) Equities
13 28 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
14 26 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
14 26 (1.19%) Data Structures
14 26 (1.19%) Fixed Income
14 26 (1.19%) Management Information System
15 25 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 24 (1.10%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 146 (6.70%) Linux
2 76 (3.49%) Windows
3 34 (1.56%) Unix
4 27 (1.24%) Apple iOS
4 27 (1.24%) VMS
5 24 (1.10%) Android
6 11 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.46%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.23%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.23%) zOS
9 4 (0.18%) Solaris
9 4 (0.18%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.046%) AIX
11 1 (0.046%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,189 (54.54%) DevOps
2 735 (33.72%) Infrastructure as Code
3 704 (32.29%) Agile
4 505 (23.17%) Containerisation
5 450 (20.64%) Test Automation
6 426 (19.54%) AI
7 425 (19.50%) Microservices
8 368 (16.88%) Analytics
9 359 (16.47%) Observability
10 332 (15.23%) Problem-Solving
11 309 (14.17%) Software Engineering
12 290 (13.30%) Data Modelling
13 276 (12.66%) Data Pipeline
14 265 (12.16%) Data Engineering
15 255 (11.70%) Continuous Improvement
16 242 (11.10%) Machine Learning
17 224 (10.28%) ETL
18 214 (9.82%) Full-Stack Development
19 212 (9.72%) Platform Engineering
20 209 (9.59%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 855 (39.22%) Python
2 623 (28.58%) SQL
3 421 (19.31%) Java
4 262 (12.02%) TypeScript
5 254 (11.65%) JavaScript
6 253 (11.61%) C#
7 122 (5.60%) Bash
8 102 (4.68%) PowerShell
9 85 (3.90%) Bicep
10 66 (3.03%) Scala
11 48 (2.20%) Go
12 41 (1.88%) Ruby
13 34 (1.56%) Shell Script
14 31 (1.42%) PL/SQL
15 29 (1.33%) T-SQL
16 28 (1.28%) Apex Code
17 27 (1.24%) Kotlin
18 20 (0.92%) C++
19 11 (0.50%) Formula Language
19 11 (0.50%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 543 (24.91%) Security Cleared
2 478 (21.93%) SC Cleared
3 124 (5.69%) Degree
4 82 (3.76%) Azure Certification
5 70 (3.21%) AWS Certification
6 69 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 42 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
8 34 (1.56%) DV Cleared
9 25 (1.15%) Master's Degree
10 23 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
11 22 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 17 (0.78%) CISSP
12 17 (0.78%) ISTQB
13 14 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
14 13 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 10 (0.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 10 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
16 9 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 9 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
17 8 (0.37%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 184 (8.44%) QA
2 168 (7.71%) Data Quality
3 84 (3.85%) GDPR
4 69 (3.17%) Accessibility
5 61 (2.80%) NIST
6 55 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 34 (1.56%) NCSC
8 29 (1.33%) WCAG
9 25 (1.15%) PCI DSS
10 20 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 20 (0.92%) SLA
11 9 (0.41%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.32%) NIST 800
13 6 (0.28%) GRC
13 6 (0.28%) PSD2
14 5 (0.23%) HL7
14 5 (0.23%) SOC 2
15 4 (0.18%) COBIT
15 4 (0.18%) MiFID
15 4 (0.18%) SEPA
System Software
1 625 (28.67%) Docker
2 58 (2.66%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.32%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.32%) vSphere
7 4 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
7 4 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.092%) HDFS
8 2 (0.092%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.092%) Squid
9 1 (0.046%) IAG
9 1 (0.046%) OpenSSH
9 1 (0.046%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
9 1 (0.046%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 729 (33.44%) Terraform
2 670 (30.73%) Kubernetes
3 141 (6.47%) Ansible
4 130 (5.96%) Grafana
5 115 (5.28%) Prometheus
6 36 (1.65%) Argo
7 24 (1.10%) Istio
8 22 (1.01%) Puppet
8 22 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (0.64%) Kibana
10 11 (0.50%) Progress Chef
11 8 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
12 7 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (0.32%) Packer
12 7 (0.32%) Rancher
13 4 (0.18%) Karpenter
13 4 (0.18%) Kubeflow
13 4 (0.18%) Opsgenie
13 4 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
13 4 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 349 (16.01%) Microsoft
2 207 (9.50%) Databricks
3 118 (5.41%) Google
4 93 (4.27%) Oracle
5 69 (3.17%) Splunk
6 63 (2.89%) Salesforce
7 60 (2.75%) ServiceNow
8 57 (2.61%) OpenAI
9 26 (1.19%) Dynatrace
10 22 (1.01%) CyberArk
11 21 (0.96%) IBM
11 21 (0.96%) Red Hat
11 21 (0.96%) VMware
12 20 (0.92%) MuleSoft
12 20 (0.92%) SAP
13 17 (0.78%) Foundry
14 15 (0.69%) Cisco
15 12 (0.55%) Okta
16 11 (0.50%) Lotus
16 11 (0.50%) UiPath