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

6 months to
22 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 2,527 1,415 1,379
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.75% 10.43% 8.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.34% 11.32% 9.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,699 944 981
10th Percentile £400 £377 £410
25th Percentile £454 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £526 £567
Median % change year-on-year +4.56% -7.23% -5.50%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £688
90th Percentile £738 £800 £813
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 3
10th Percentile £48.25 £38.00 £48.40
25th Percentile £54.06 £42.50 £50.88
Median hourly rate £61.00 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.19% -4.55% -26.67%
75th Percentile £80.63 £53.75 £61.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.50 £64.60
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% -2.99% +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 17,625 12,495 14,990
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.94% 92.13% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,646 8,354 10,656
10th Percentile £363 £330 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 277 234 247
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.66 £21.05
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.90 £33.55
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -7.89% -21.98%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.25
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.98%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 +3 301 £550 -12.00% 146
South London +2 55 £541 -0.07% 7
West London +14 53 £560 +13.71% 27
East London +5 11 £543 +40.91% 24
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
1 112 (4.43%) Apache Airflow
2 101 (4.00%) Confluence
3 92 (3.64%) Apache Spark
4 68 (2.69%) Apache
5 26 (1.03%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
7 10 (0.40%) SAS
8 9 (0.36%) Camunda
8 9 (0.36%) WebSphere
9 8 (0.32%) CMS
9 8 (0.32%) nginx
9 8 (0.32%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.24%) Anypoint
12 5 (0.20%) Mule
12 5 (0.20%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.16%) Appian
14 3 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
14 3 (0.12%) Ethereum
14 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
Applications
1 15 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.40%) Chatbot
2 10 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (0.16%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.079%) CPLEX
4 2 (0.079%) Trello
5 1 (0.040%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.040%) Maya
Business Applications
1 22 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.44%) Aladdin
3 8 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.28%) 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%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.12%) SAP BPC
9 2 (0.079%) SAP CRM
9 2 (0.079%) Temenos T24
10 1 (0.040%) Distributed Ledger
10 1 (0.040%) R3 Corda
10 1 (0.040%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.040%) SAP ERP
10 1 (0.040%) SAP IS-U
10 1 (0.040%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,120 (44.32%) Azure
2 1,103 (43.65%) AWS
3 561 (22.20%) GitHub
4 428 (16.94%) Azure DevOps
5 374 (14.80%) GitHub Actions
6 372 (14.72%) GCP
7 301 (11.91%) Serverless
8 242 (9.58%) Amazon S3
9 214 (8.47%) Power Platform
10 199 (7.87%) AWS Lambda
11 146 (5.78%) AWS CloudFormation
12 141 (5.58%) Amazon EKS
13 113 (4.47%) Azure AKS
13 113 (4.47%) Entra ID
13 113 (4.47%) Snowflake
14 112 (4.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 112 (4.43%) Amazon EC2
15 103 (4.08%) Azure Data Factory
15 103 (4.08%) dbt
16 86 (3.40%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 70 (2.77%) Firewall
2 42 (1.66%) Network Security
3 34 (1.35%) DNS
4 33 (1.31%) VPN
5 25 (0.99%) HTTP
5 25 (0.99%) Internet
6 19 (0.75%) 5G
7 16 (0.63%) TCP/IP
8 15 (0.59%) WAN
9 11 (0.44%) 4G
10 10 (0.40%) 3GPP
10 10 (0.40%) SD-WAN
10 10 (0.40%) SSL
11 8 (0.32%) Radio Access Network
12 7 (0.28%) BGP
12 7 (0.28%) LTE
13 6 (0.24%) Cisco IOS
13 6 (0.24%) FTP
14 5 (0.20%) Ethernet VPN
14 5 (0.20%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (6.05%) Power BI
2 142 (5.62%) PostgreSQL
3 125 (4.95%) Data Warehouse
4 124 (4.91%) Data Lake
5 123 (4.87%) NoSQL
6 119 (4.71%) SQL Server
7 86 (3.40%) Relational Database
8 81 (3.21%) MongoDB
9 74 (2.93%) Amazon Redshift
10 70 (2.77%) Delta Lake
11 68 (2.69%) Metadata
12 67 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
13 65 (2.57%) Amazon Athena
14 61 (2.41%) BigQuery
15 50 (1.98%) DynamoDB
16 48 (1.90%) Big Data
17 39 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
18 38 (1.50%) Redis
19 36 (1.42%) Snowflake Schema
20 27 (1.07%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 447 (17.69%) Git
2 389 (15.39%) Jenkins
3 301 (11.91%) GitLab
4 178 (7.04%) JIRA
5 74 (2.93%) Selenium
6 68 (2.69%) JUnit
7 44 (1.74%) Cucumber
7 44 (1.74%) Cypress.io
8 43 (1.70%) JMeter
9 42 (1.66%) Gradle
10 39 (1.54%) Mockito
11 38 (1.50%) Postman
12 37 (1.46%) REST Assured
13 34 (1.35%) MLflow
14 32 (1.27%) Maven
15 31 (1.23%) Bitbucket
16 29 (1.15%) SonarQube
17 27 (1.07%) CircleCI
18 23 (0.91%) Gatling
19 19 (0.75%) Liquibase
General
1 596 (23.59%) Finance
2 588 (23.27%) Social Skills
3 312 (12.35%) Public Sector
4 272 (10.76%) Banking
5 201 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
6 55 (2.18%) Front Office
7 54 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
8 53 (2.10%) Investment Banking
9 51 (2.02%) Retail
10 41 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 37 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
12 30 (1.19%) Telecoms
13 29 (1.15%) Law
14 26 (1.03%) Legal
15 24 (0.95%) Financial Institution
16 22 (0.87%) Marketing
17 15 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
18 13 (0.51%) Manufacturing
18 13 (0.51%) Military
19 12 (0.47%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 535 (21.17%) Developer
2 435 (17.21%) Senior
3 295 (11.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 279 (11.04%) Architect
5 258 (10.21%) Lead
6 219 (8.67%) Data Engineer
7 151 (5.98%) AWS Engineer
8 148 (5.86%) Azure Engineer
9 132 (5.22%) Cloud Engineer
10 120 (4.75%) Software Engineer
11 115 (4.55%) Java Developer
12 108 (4.27%) Senior Developer
13 99 (3.92%) Platform Engineer
14 87 (3.44%) Full-Stack Developer
15 80 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
16 73 (2.89%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 67 (2.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 66 (2.61%) Python Developer
19 64 (2.53%) AWS DevOps
20 60 (2.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 326 (12.90%) REST
2 246 (9.73%) React
3 233 (9.22%) .NET
4 227 (8.98%) Kafka
5 202 (7.99%) RESTful
6 193 (7.64%) Spring
7 164 (6.49%) Spring Boot
8 131 (5.18%) Node.js
9 127 (5.03%) PySpark
10 105 (4.16%) AngularJS
11 100 (3.96%) HTML
12 93 (3.68%) Playwright
13 87 (3.44%) CSS
14 75 (2.97%) JSON
15 73 (2.89%) OAuth
16 65 (2.57%) SOAP
17 63 (2.49%) FastAPI
18 57 (2.26%) GraphQL
18 57 (2.26%) OAuth2
19 55 (2.18%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 515 (20.38%) Cloud Native
2 212 (8.39%) Distributed Systems
3 123 (4.87%) Product Ownership
4 90 (3.56%) Onboarding
5 84 (3.32%) AI Agents
5 84 (3.32%) Legacy Systems
6 64 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
7 45 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 43 (1.70%) Algorithms
9 39 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
10 38 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
10 38 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
10 38 (1.50%) Virtual Team
11 37 (1.46%) Mobile App
12 35 (1.39%) Fixed Income
12 35 (1.39%) Management Information System
13 34 (1.35%) Data Structures
14 33 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
15 32 (1.27%) Security Posture
16 29 (1.15%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 179 (7.08%) Linux
2 105 (4.16%) Windows
3 55 (2.18%) Unix
4 33 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 27 (1.07%) Apple iOS
6 26 (1.03%) Android
7 25 (0.99%) Windows Server
8 12 (0.47%) VMS
9 10 (0.40%) Mac OS
9 10 (0.40%) Ubuntu
10 8 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.20%) Solaris
11 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
11 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.079%) AIX
13 2 (0.079%) zOS
14 1 (0.040%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,391 (55.05%) DevOps
2 885 (35.02%) Agile
3 831 (32.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 549 (21.73%) Containerisation
5 540 (21.37%) Test Automation
6 530 (20.97%) AI
7 502 (19.87%) Microservices
8 419 (16.58%) Observability
9 416 (16.46%) Software Engineering
10 365 (14.44%) Analytics
11 336 (13.30%) Data Pipeline
12 334 (13.22%) Problem-Solving
13 316 (12.50%) Data Modelling
14 312 (12.35%) Continuous Improvement
15 300 (11.87%) Data Engineering
16 294 (11.63%) Platform Engineering
17 272 (10.76%) Machine Learning
18 266 (10.53%) Event-Driven
19 260 (10.29%) Migration
20 254 (10.05%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 961 (38.03%) Python
2 677 (26.79%) SQL
3 490 (19.39%) Java
4 266 (10.53%) C#
5 264 (10.45%) TypeScript
6 257 (10.17%) JavaScript
7 190 (7.52%) Bash
8 171 (6.77%) PowerShell
9 98 (3.88%) Bicep
10 60 (2.37%) Go
11 50 (1.98%) Apex Code
11 50 (1.98%) Kotlin
12 45 (1.78%) Shell Script
13 43 (1.70%) Scala
14 35 (1.39%) Ruby
15 29 (1.15%) PL/SQL
16 27 (1.07%) T-SQL
17 17 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 17 (0.67%) Groovy
18 16 (0.63%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 647 (25.60%) Security Cleared
2 584 (23.11%) SC Cleared
3 134 (5.30%) Degree
4 98 (3.88%) Azure Certification
5 68 (2.69%) DV Cleared
6 67 (2.65%) AWS Certification
7 59 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 43 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (0.95%) Master's Degree
10 21 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
11 19 (0.75%) CISSP
12 17 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 15 (0.59%) DBS Check
14 14 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
15 13 (0.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 12 (0.47%) CISM
16 12 (0.47%) GIAC
16 12 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
17 11 (0.44%) PhD
18 8 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 226 (8.94%) QA
2 201 (7.95%) Data Quality
3 101 (4.00%) Accessibility
4 59 (2.33%) GDPR
5 55 (2.18%) NIST
6 45 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 34 (1.35%) WCAG
8 28 (1.11%) NCSC
9 19 (0.75%) SLA
10 16 (0.63%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.44%) EU AI Act
11 11 (0.44%) GRC
12 8 (0.32%) SOC 2
13 7 (0.28%) ISO 20022
13 7 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 6 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.20%) PSD2
16 4 (0.16%) COBIT
16 4 (0.16%) MiFID
16 4 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 640 (25.33%) Docker
2 64 (2.53%) Active Directory
3 38 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
4 27 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.44%) Squid
6 10 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.28%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
10 4 (0.16%) vSphere
11 3 (0.12%) HDFS
12 2 (0.079%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.079%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.079%) KVM
12 2 (0.079%) Postfix
12 2 (0.079%) Varnish
13 1 (0.040%) IAG
13 1 (0.040%) OpenSSH
13 1 (0.040%) Samba
Systems Management
1 803 (31.78%) Terraform
2 733 (29.01%) Kubernetes
3 197 (7.80%) Grafana
4 184 (7.28%) Ansible
5 160 (6.33%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.19%) Argo
7 26 (1.03%) Puppet
8 22 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
9 19 (0.75%) Kibana
10 18 (0.71%) Packer
11 11 (0.44%) Istio
12 10 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
12 10 (0.40%) Progress Chef
13 8 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
14 7 (0.28%) Kustomize
14 7 (0.28%) SCCM
15 6 (0.24%) vCenter Server
16 5 (0.20%) HP Fortify
16 5 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
16 5 (0.20%) Salt
Vendors
1 374 (14.80%) Microsoft
2 190 (7.52%) Databricks
3 129 (5.10%) Google
4 114 (4.51%) Oracle
5 101 (4.00%) Salesforce
6 91 (3.60%) Splunk
7 55 (2.18%) ServiceNow
8 53 (2.10%) OpenAI
9 40 (1.58%) Dynatrace
10 39 (1.54%) VMware
11 30 (1.19%) Foundry
11 30 (1.19%) IBM
12 28 (1.11%) SAP
13 27 (1.07%) MuleSoft
14 26 (1.03%) Informatica
15 22 (0.87%) Palantir
16 21 (0.83%) Cisco
16 21 (0.83%) CyberArk
16 21 (0.83%) Red Hat
17 15 (0.59%) Okta