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 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 19 24
Rank change year-on-year +5 +5 -10
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 1,644 1,439 1,584
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.25% 9.20% 7.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.25% 10.31% 8.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,117 999 1,174
10th Percentile £375 £413 £425
25th Percentile £435 £489 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £699 £713
90th Percentile £725 £802 £800
England median daily rate £515 £550 £592
% change year-on-year -6.45% -7.09% -1.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £29.50 - £60.80
25th Percentile £34.38 - £65.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £72.00
75th Percentile £51.25 - £75.00
90th Percentile £53.50 - £76.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year -3.70% -10.00% +14.32%

All Process and 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 12,407 13,954 18,484
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.43% 89.21% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,152 8,992 13,332
10th Percentile £331 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 168 235
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.43 £18.23
25th Percentile £25.01 £24.42 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.00 £37.79 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -17.97% -2.49% +2.15%
75th Percentile £47.50 £57.81 £62.75
90th Percentile £64.83 £79.13 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +27.14%

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 27 October 2025.

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 27 October 2025.

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 27 October 2025. 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 0 190 £600 -7.69% 531
South London +9 39 £525 -2.42% 6
West London +5 30 £512 +7.79% 35
East London -1 11 £540 +20.00% 45
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 72 (4.38%) Confluence
2 62 (3.77%) Apache Airflow
3 48 (2.92%) Apache Spark
4 32 (1.95%) Apache
5 18 (1.09%) SharePoint
6 14 (0.85%) nginx
7 11 (0.67%) CMS
8 7 (0.43%) SAS
9 5 (0.30%) Camunda
9 5 (0.30%) Ethereum
9 5 (0.30%) Hyperledger
9 5 (0.30%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.24%) Appian
10 4 (0.24%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.24%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.18%) JBoss
11 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.18%) Traefik
12 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
Applications
1 21 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 10 (0.61%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 5 (0.30%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.18%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.061%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.061%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (0.73%) Aladdin
2 11 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.61%) Oracle BPM
4 9 (0.55%) FLEXCUBE
5 8 (0.49%) Endur
6 4 (0.24%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.24%) thinkFolio
7 3 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.12%) Magento
8 2 (0.12%) Orchestrade
8 2 (0.12%) Shopify
9 1 (0.061%) Cerner Millennium
9 1 (0.061%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.061%) ION Anvil
9 1 (0.061%) Maximo
9 1 (0.061%) OpenText MBPM
9 1 (0.061%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.061%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.061%) Siebel CRM
9 1 (0.061%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 750 (45.62%) AWS
2 670 (40.75%) Azure
3 352 (21.41%) GitHub
4 297 (18.07%) GCP
5 240 (14.60%) GitHub Actions
6 228 (13.87%) Azure DevOps
7 178 (10.83%) Serverless
8 129 (7.85%) Amazon S3
9 106 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
10 95 (5.78%) AWS CloudFormation
11 81 (4.93%) Power Platform
12 70 (4.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 66 (4.01%) Amazon EC2
14 61 (3.71%) Amazon ECS
15 59 (3.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 56 (3.41%) Amazon EKS
17 55 (3.35%) Azure AKS
18 54 (3.28%) dbt
19 53 (3.22%) Azure Data Factory
19 53 (3.22%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 67 (4.08%) Firewall
2 58 (3.53%) DNS
3 33 (2.01%) Network Security
4 29 (1.76%) VPN
5 27 (1.64%) TCP/IP
6 23 (1.40%) HTTP
7 18 (1.09%) SSL
8 15 (0.91%) OpenLDAP
9 13 (0.79%) SSH
10 11 (0.67%) SMTP
11 10 (0.61%) BGP
11 10 (0.61%) FTP
11 10 (0.61%) IMAP
11 10 (0.61%) WAN
12 9 (0.55%) SD-WAN
13 7 (0.43%) DHCP
13 7 (0.43%) Multicast
13 7 (0.43%) OSPF
14 6 (0.36%) tcpdump
14 6 (0.36%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (7.73%) PostgreSQL
2 85 (5.17%) NoSQL
3 72 (4.38%) SQL Server
4 64 (3.89%) Data Warehouse
5 57 (3.47%) Power BI
6 56 (3.41%) Amazon RDS
7 52 (3.16%) Data Lake
7 52 (3.16%) Relational Database
8 48 (2.92%) MongoDB
9 45 (2.74%) BigQuery
10 33 (2.01%) DynamoDB
11 32 (1.95%) Delta Lake
12 30 (1.82%) Big Data
13 25 (1.52%) Redis
14 21 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
15 19 (1.16%) Amazon Aurora
15 19 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
16 18 (1.09%) MySQL
17 16 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
17 16 (0.97%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 325 (19.77%) Jenkins
2 311 (18.92%) Git
3 176 (10.71%) GitLab
4 128 (7.79%) JIRA
5 61 (3.71%) Selenium
6 55 (3.35%) SonarQube
7 45 (2.74%) Cypress.io
7 45 (2.74%) JUnit
8 43 (2.62%) Cucumber
9 35 (2.13%) Maven
9 35 (2.13%) TeamCity
10 32 (1.95%) Sonatype Nexus
11 27 (1.64%) Postman
12 25 (1.52%) Artifactory
13 24 (1.46%) Bitbucket
13 24 (1.46%) Gradle
14 23 (1.40%) CircleCI
14 23 (1.40%) JMeter
15 22 (1.34%) MLflow
16 16 (0.97%) REST Assured
General
1 449 (27.31%) Social Skills
2 373 (22.69%) Finance
3 196 (11.92%) Banking
4 162 (9.85%) Public Sector
5 152 (9.25%) Analytical Skills
6 51 (3.10%) Investment Banking
7 35 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
7 35 (2.13%) Front Office
7 35 (2.13%) Marketing
8 32 (1.95%) Telecoms
9 29 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 24 (1.46%) Financial Institution
10 24 (1.46%) Military
11 21 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
12 19 (1.16%) Retail
13 14 (0.85%) Publishing
14 12 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
15 11 (0.67%) Law
16 10 (0.61%) Back Office
16 10 (0.61%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 440 (26.76%) Developer
2 261 (15.88%) Senior
3 216 (13.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 143 (8.70%) Architect
5 116 (7.06%) Data Engineer
6 112 (6.81%) Lead
7 103 (6.27%) Java Developer
8 93 (5.66%) Platform Engineer
9 92 (5.60%) AWS Engineer
10 90 (5.47%) Azure Engineer
11 77 (4.68%) Senior Developer
12 76 (4.62%) Full-Stack Developer
13 68 (4.14%) Python Developer
14 65 (3.95%) Software Engineer
15 58 (3.53%) Cloud Engineer
16 51 (3.10%) AWS DevOps
17 49 (2.98%) Python Engineer
18 47 (2.86%) Consultant
19 44 (2.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
20 43 (2.62%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 202 (12.29%) React
2 160 (9.73%) Kafka
2 160 (9.73%) RESTful
3 157 (9.55%) REST
4 144 (8.76%) Node.js
5 126 (7.66%) .NET
6 118 (7.18%) Spring
7 94 (5.72%) HTML
8 93 (5.66%) AngularJS
9 91 (5.54%) Spring Boot
10 90 (5.47%) CSS
11 61 (3.71%) GraphQL
12 57 (3.47%) JSON
13 55 (3.35%) Playwright
14 53 (3.22%) OAuth
15 47 (2.86%) YAML
16 45 (2.74%) FastAPI
16 45 (2.74%) Vue
17 44 (2.68%) Jest
17 44 (2.68%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 258 (15.69%) Cloud Native
2 102 (6.20%) Distributed Systems
3 61 (3.71%) Product Ownership
4 51 (3.10%) Mobile App
5 40 (2.43%) Algorithms
6 39 (2.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 38 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
8 37 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
9 34 (2.07%) Public Cloud
10 29 (1.76%) Hedge funds
11 28 (1.70%) Onboarding
12 27 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
13 26 (1.58%) Data Structures
13 26 (1.58%) Replication
14 25 (1.52%) Derivative
15 22 (1.34%) AI Agents
15 22 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
16 21 (1.28%) Virtual Team
17 19 (1.16%) Data Centre
17 19 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 165 (10.04%) Linux
2 50 (3.04%) Windows
3 41 (2.49%) Android
3 41 (2.49%) Unix
4 38 (2.31%) Apple iOS
5 23 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (1.09%) VMS
7 16 (0.97%) Windows Server
8 14 (0.85%) Ubuntu
9 10 (0.61%) Amazon Linux
10 9 (0.55%) Solaris
11 8 (0.49%) CentOS
12 5 (0.30%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.061%) AIX
13 1 (0.061%) SUSE
13 1 (0.061%) tvOS
13 1 (0.061%) watchOS
13 1 (0.061%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.061%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 898 (54.62%) DevOps
2 607 (36.92%) Agile
3 527 (32.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 346 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
5 317 (19.28%) Containerisation
6 307 (18.67%) Test Automation
7 303 (18.43%) Microservices
8 230 (13.99%) Software Engineering
9 203 (12.35%) Observability
10 179 (10.89%) Analytics
11 171 (10.40%) Data Pipeline
12 167 (10.16%) AI
13 162 (9.85%) Migration
14 155 (9.43%) Full-Stack Development
15 153 (9.31%) Data Engineering
16 143 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
17 140 (8.52%) Machine Learning
18 138 (8.39%) DevSecOps
19 133 (8.09%) Mentoring
19 133 (8.09%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 687 (41.79%) Python
2 382 (23.24%) Java
3 364 (22.14%) SQL
4 250 (15.21%) JavaScript
5 193 (11.74%) TypeScript
6 186 (11.31%) C#
7 170 (10.34%) Bash
8 126 (7.66%) PowerShell
9 103 (6.27%) Go
10 63 (3.83%) C++
11 53 (3.22%) Bicep
12 30 (1.82%) Kotlin
13 29 (1.76%) Groovy
13 29 (1.76%) Rust
14 28 (1.70%) Scala
15 23 (1.40%) PL/SQL
16 21 (1.28%) Perl
16 21 (1.28%) Shell Script
17 16 (0.97%) PHP
17 16 (0.97%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 311 (18.92%) Security Cleared
2 268 (16.30%) SC Cleared
3 114 (6.93%) Degree
4 56 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 51 (3.10%) AWS Certification
6 47 (2.86%) Azure Certification
7 21 (1.28%) CREST Certified
8 20 (1.22%) DV Cleared
8 20 (1.22%) Master's Degree
9 19 (1.16%) OSCP
10 18 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
11 16 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 16 (0.97%) CISSP
12 15 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
13 14 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
14 13 (0.79%) ISTQB
14 13 (0.79%) Tigerscheme
15 10 (0.61%) CHECK Team Member
16 9 (0.55%) Numerate Degree
17 8 (0.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (7.42%) QA
2 73 (4.44%) Accessibility
2 73 (4.44%) Data Quality
3 63 (3.83%) GDPR
4 38 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 34 (2.07%) NIST
6 20 (1.22%) WCAG
7 19 (1.16%) NCSC
8 15 (0.91%) PCI DSS
9 13 (0.79%) HIPAA
10 11 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
11 9 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 7 (0.43%) MiFID
13 6 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.36%) SLA
14 5 (0.30%) EU AI Act
15 4 (0.24%) NIST 800
15 4 (0.24%) SOC 2
16 3 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 42001
17 2 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 498 (30.29%) Docker
2 48 (2.92%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.67%) Squid
6 10 (0.61%) DFS Replication
6 10 (0.61%) Dovecot
6 10 (0.61%) Postfix
6 10 (0.61%) zsh
7 9 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.24%) NFS
9 4 (0.24%) Veritas File System
9 4 (0.24%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 3 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.18%) vSphere
11 2 (0.12%) HDFS
11 2 (0.12%) KVM
12 1 (0.061%) OpenAM
12 1 (0.061%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 544 (33.09%) Kubernetes
2 504 (30.66%) Terraform
3 154 (9.37%) Ansible
4 136 (8.27%) Grafana
5 130 (7.91%) Prometheus
6 40 (2.43%) Argo
7 26 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
8 23 (1.40%) Progress Chef
9 22 (1.34%) Puppet
10 15 (0.91%) ITRS Geneos
10 15 (0.91%) Kibana
10 15 (0.91%) Nessus
11 14 (0.85%) Nmap
12 12 (0.73%) Istio
13 10 (0.61%) Proxmox
14 7 (0.43%) Packer
15 6 (0.36%) Kubeflow
15 6 (0.36%) logstash
15 6 (0.36%) Rancher
16 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 183 (11.13%) Microsoft
2 129 (7.85%) Databricks
3 121 (7.36%) Google
4 64 (3.89%) Oracle
5 52 (3.16%) Splunk
6 48 (2.92%) Salesforce
7 42 (2.55%) ServiceNow
8 32 (1.95%) Red Hat
9 27 (1.64%) OpenAI
10 23 (1.40%) Dynatrace
11 21 (1.28%) VMware
12 19 (1.16%) Solace
13 18 (1.09%) Cisco
14 17 (1.03%) SAP
14 17 (1.03%) Veracode
15 15 (0.91%) Atlassian
16 12 (0.73%) Palo Alto
17 11 (0.67%) F5
17 11 (0.67%) MuleSoft
18 10 (0.61%) Jaspersoft