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

6 months to
16 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 2,383 1,238 1,377
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.61% 10.04% 7.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.20% 10.87% 8.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,596 839 988
10th Percentile £400 £390 £413
25th Percentile £450 £447 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £540 £565
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% -4.42% -8.43%
75th Percentile £641 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £825 £813
England median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 3
10th Percentile £50.25 £39.88 £48.40
25th Percentile £55.00 £47.19 £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 £54.06 £61.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.63 £64.60
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £67.50
% change year-on-year +14.54% -15.93% +2.89%

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 16,786 11,384 15,545
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.80% 92.33% 88.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,180 7,623 11,100
10th Percentile £360 £343 £342
25th Percentile £435 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £518 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.46% -0.98% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 205 314
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £34.00 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% +16.24% -26.18%
75th Percentile £58.92 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.70
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +70.91% -26.67% +7.05%

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 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 16 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 16 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 -2 267 £572 -4.67% 95
West London +5 54 £603 +21.41% 26
South London -2 43 £513 -5.31% 3
East London +7 12 £450 +80.00% 19
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
1 103 (4.32%) Apache Airflow
1 103 (4.32%) Apache Spark
2 79 (3.32%) Confluence
3 67 (2.81%) Apache
4 26 (1.09%) SharePoint
5 12 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.46%) Camunda
6 11 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
7 9 (0.38%) SAS
8 8 (0.34%) Appian
8 8 (0.34%) WebSphere
9 7 (0.29%) CMS
9 7 (0.29%) Ethereum
9 7 (0.29%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.25%) HCL Notes
10 6 (0.25%) Hyperledger
10 6 (0.25%) Mendix
10 6 (0.25%) nginx
11 5 (0.21%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.13%) WebLogic
Applications
1 18 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.46%) Chatbot
3 10 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.13%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.13%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.084%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.042%) Maya
Business Applications
1 17 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.38%) Aladdin
3 6 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.25%) Shopify
4 5 (0.21%) Magento
4 5 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.13%) Findur
6 3 (0.13%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.084%) Endur
7 2 (0.084%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.084%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.042%) Distributed Ledger
8 1 (0.042%) ProductWriter
8 1 (0.042%) R3 Corda
8 1 (0.042%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.042%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.042%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.042%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,064 (44.65%) AWS
2 1,062 (44.57%) Azure
3 551 (23.12%) GitHub
4 410 (17.21%) Azure DevOps
5 359 (15.07%) GitHub Actions
6 336 (14.10%) GCP
7 315 (13.22%) Serverless
8 239 (10.03%) Amazon S3
9 215 (9.02%) Power Platform
10 212 (8.90%) AWS Lambda
11 178 (7.47%) AWS CloudFormation
12 138 (5.79%) Amazon EKS
13 121 (5.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 121 (5.08%) Azure Data Factory
14 117 (4.91%) Amazon EC2
15 112 (4.70%) Azure AKS
16 104 (4.36%) Snowflake
17 100 (4.20%) Amazon ECS
18 95 (3.99%) Entra ID
19 86 (3.61%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 79 (3.32%) Firewall
2 51 (2.14%) Network Security
3 33 (1.38%) DNS
4 28 (1.17%) VPN
5 25 (1.05%) HTTP
6 16 (0.67%) Internet
7 15 (0.63%) WAN
8 13 (0.55%) 5G
9 12 (0.50%) SD-WAN
10 11 (0.46%) SSL
11 10 (0.42%) 3GPP
12 8 (0.34%) TCP/IP
13 7 (0.29%) BGP
14 6 (0.25%) 4G
14 6 (0.25%) FTP
14 6 (0.25%) OSPF
15 5 (0.21%) Ethernet VPN
15 5 (0.21%) LTE
15 5 (0.21%) Radio Access Network
15 5 (0.21%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (6.17%) Power BI
2 143 (6.00%) Data Lake
3 140 (5.87%) PostgreSQL
4 133 (5.58%) SQL Server
5 125 (5.25%) NoSQL
6 115 (4.83%) Data Warehouse
7 86 (3.61%) Relational Database
8 84 (3.52%) MongoDB
9 76 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
10 72 (3.02%) Amazon Athena
11 71 (2.98%) Delta Lake
12 68 (2.85%) Amazon Redshift
13 62 (2.60%) Metadata
14 60 (2.52%) BigQuery
15 52 (2.18%) Big Data
16 49 (2.06%) DynamoDB
17 41 (1.72%) Redis
18 40 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
19 35 (1.47%) Snowflake Schema
20 30 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 420 (17.62%) Git
2 366 (15.36%) Jenkins
3 292 (12.25%) GitLab
4 152 (6.38%) JIRA
5 65 (2.73%) JUnit
6 64 (2.69%) Selenium
7 47 (1.97%) MLflow
8 43 (1.80%) Cucumber
8 43 (1.80%) Postman
9 42 (1.76%) JMeter
10 38 (1.59%) Mockito
11 35 (1.47%) Gradle
12 33 (1.38%) REST Assured
13 27 (1.13%) Cypress.io
14 25 (1.05%) CircleCI
15 24 (1.01%) SonarQube
16 23 (0.97%) Bitbucket
17 22 (0.92%) Maven
18 21 (0.88%) Artifactory
19 19 (0.80%) Liquibase
General
1 573 (24.05%) Finance
2 554 (23.25%) Social Skills
3 283 (11.88%) Public Sector
4 251 (10.53%) Banking
5 165 (6.92%) Analytical Skills
6 56 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
7 47 (1.97%) Investment Banking
8 46 (1.93%) Front Office
9 44 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 44 (1.85%) Retail
10 41 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
11 27 (1.13%) Financial Institution
12 26 (1.09%) Law
12 26 (1.09%) Telecoms
13 24 (1.01%) Legal
14 19 (0.80%) Marketing
15 17 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
16 16 (0.67%) Publishing
17 13 (0.55%) Military
18 11 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 486 (20.39%) Developer
2 403 (16.91%) Senior
3 275 (11.54%) DevOps Engineer
4 274 (11.50%) Architect
5 226 (9.48%) Lead
6 224 (9.40%) Data Engineer
7 149 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
8 140 (5.87%) Azure Engineer
9 137 (5.75%) Cloud Engineer
10 113 (4.74%) Software Engineer
11 101 (4.24%) Platform Engineer
12 100 (4.20%) Senior Developer
13 99 (4.15%) Java Developer
14 76 (3.19%) Full-Stack Developer
15 74 (3.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 72 (3.02%) Solutions Architect
17 71 (2.98%) Python Developer
18 63 (2.64%) AWS DevOps
19 59 (2.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
20 54 (2.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 273 (11.46%) REST
2 236 (9.90%) React
3 224 (9.40%) Kafka
4 205 (8.60%) .NET
5 204 (8.56%) RESTful
6 187 (7.85%) Spring
7 170 (7.13%) Spring Boot
8 126 (5.29%) Node.js
9 124 (5.20%) PySpark
10 115 (4.83%) AngularJS
11 87 (3.65%) OAuth
12 82 (3.44%) HTML
13 68 (2.85%) CSS
14 67 (2.81%) Playwright
15 66 (2.77%) FastAPI
16 60 (2.52%) OAuth2
17 59 (2.48%) Pandas
18 58 (2.43%) JSON
19 53 (2.22%) OpenTelemetry
20 52 (2.18%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 513 (21.53%) Cloud Native
2 179 (7.51%) Distributed Systems
3 106 (4.45%) Product Ownership
4 83 (3.48%) Legacy Systems
5 80 (3.36%) Onboarding
6 63 (2.64%) AI Agents
7 42 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
8 41 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
9 39 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 37 (1.55%) Algorithms
11 33 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
11 33 (1.38%) Mobile App
11 33 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
12 32 (1.34%) Fixed Income
12 32 (1.34%) Management Information System
12 32 (1.34%) Public Cloud
12 32 (1.34%) Virtual Team
13 30 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
14 28 (1.17%) Data Structures
14 28 (1.17%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 156 (6.55%) Linux
2 93 (3.90%) Windows
3 47 (1.97%) Unix
4 24 (1.01%) Android
4 24 (1.01%) Apple iOS
5 23 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (0.80%) Windows Server
7 18 (0.76%) VMS
8 8 (0.34%) Ubuntu
9 7 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (0.25%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.21%) Solaris
11 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
11 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.17%) zOS
13 2 (0.084%) AIX
13 2 (0.084%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.042%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,301 (54.60%) DevOps
2 822 (34.49%) Infrastructure as Code
3 754 (31.64%) Agile
4 536 (22.49%) Containerisation
5 519 (21.78%) AI
6 473 (19.85%) Test Automation
7 454 (19.05%) Microservices
8 413 (17.33%) Observability
9 380 (15.95%) Analytics
10 360 (15.11%) Software Engineering
11 322 (13.51%) Data Modelling
12 311 (13.05%) Problem-Solving
13 310 (13.01%) Data Pipeline
14 305 (12.80%) Data Engineering
15 286 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
16 274 (11.50%) Machine Learning
17 269 (11.29%) Platform Engineering
18 241 (10.11%) Migration
19 234 (9.82%) ETL
20 224 (9.40%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 936 (39.28%) Python
2 674 (28.28%) SQL
3 450 (18.88%) Java
4 255 (10.70%) C#
5 233 (9.78%) TypeScript
6 229 (9.61%) JavaScript
7 159 (6.67%) PowerShell
8 158 (6.63%) Bash
9 91 (3.82%) Bicep
10 55 (2.31%) Scala
11 42 (1.76%) Apex Code
11 42 (1.76%) Go
12 38 (1.59%) Ruby
13 37 (1.55%) Kotlin
13 37 (1.55%) Shell Script
14 29 (1.22%) PL/SQL
15 28 (1.17%) T-SQL
16 15 (0.63%) C++
16 15 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 12 (0.50%) Swift
Qualifications
1 592 (24.84%) Security Cleared
2 531 (22.28%) SC Cleared
3 122 (5.12%) Degree
4 99 (4.15%) Azure Certification
5 76 (3.19%) AWS Certification
6 55 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 47 (1.97%) DV Cleared
8 42 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
9 26 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
10 25 (1.05%) Master's Degree
11 22 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 21 (0.88%) CISSP
13 15 (0.63%) DBS Check
13 15 (0.63%) ISTQB
14 14 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
15 12 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 12 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
16 10 (0.42%) CISM
16 10 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 9 (0.38%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 189 (7.93%) QA
2 187 (7.85%) Data Quality
3 77 (3.23%) Accessibility
4 71 (2.98%) GDPR
5 65 (2.73%) NIST
6 53 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 31 (1.30%) NCSC
8 26 (1.09%) PCI DSS
8 26 (1.09%) WCAG
9 21 (0.88%) SLA
10 12 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (0.38%) GRC
11 9 (0.38%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.29%) PSD2
13 6 (0.25%) COBIT
13 6 (0.25%) EU AI Act
13 6 (0.25%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.21%) MiFID
14 5 (0.21%) SEPA
System Software
1 635 (26.65%) Docker
2 57 (2.39%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.38%) Squid
7 6 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.25%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
9 4 (0.17%) vSphere
10 2 (0.084%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.084%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.084%) Postfix
11 1 (0.042%) HDFS
11 1 (0.042%) IAG
11 1 (0.042%) OpenSSH
11 1 (0.042%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
11 1 (0.042%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 789 (33.11%) Terraform
2 709 (29.75%) Kubernetes
3 171 (7.18%) Ansible
4 164 (6.88%) Grafana
5 149 (6.25%) Prometheus
6 28 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
7 26 (1.09%) Argo
8 20 (0.84%) Istio
8 20 (0.84%) Puppet
9 18 (0.76%) Kibana
10 13 (0.55%) Packer
11 11 (0.46%) Progress Chef
12 9 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
13 8 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 6 (0.25%) Kustomize
14 6 (0.25%) SCCM
15 5 (0.21%) HP Fortify
15 5 (0.21%) Oracle RMAN
16 4 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
16 4 (0.17%) Salt
Vendors
1 347 (14.56%) Microsoft
2 190 (7.97%) Databricks
3 115 (4.83%) Google
4 100 (4.20%) Oracle
5 91 (3.82%) Salesforce
6 82 (3.44%) Splunk
7 57 (2.39%) OpenAI
8 56 (2.35%) ServiceNow
9 38 (1.59%) Dynatrace
10 30 (1.26%) VMware
11 25 (1.05%) Foundry
11 25 (1.05%) IBM
12 24 (1.01%) CyberArk
12 24 (1.01%) Red Hat
12 24 (1.01%) SAP
13 23 (0.97%) MuleSoft
14 20 (0.84%) Informatica
15 18 (0.76%) Cisco
16 14 (0.59%) Palantir
16 14 (0.59%) Palo Alto