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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 18 26
Rank change year-on-year +7 +8 -11
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,078 1,324 1,246
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.87% 10.23% 6.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.32% 11.23% 7.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,429 947 925
10th Percentile £375 £405 £425
25th Percentile £438 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +1.74% -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £725 £688
90th Percentile £738 £838 £800
England median daily rate £515 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -6.45% -1.79% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile £63.25 - £49.60
25th Percentile £65.50 - £53.88
Median hourly rate £68.00 - £57.75
75th Percentile £95.00 - £60.81
90th Percentile - - £64.53
England median hourly rate £66.00 £65.00 £67.38
% change year-on-year +1.54% -3.54% +2.71%

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 14,510 11,786 16,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.86% 91.05% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,757 7,831 11,538
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 158 353
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.32 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.05 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.25 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% +16.88% -16.22%
75th Percentile £56.85 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.77 £69.90
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -9.72%

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 11 March 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 11 March 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 11 March 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 -4 235 £540 -6.09% 110
West London +7 65 £603 +47.31% 46
South London +6 63 £525 +8.25% 37
East London -2 7 £450 -10.00% 42
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 95 (4.57%) Apache Spark
2 75 (3.61%) Apache Airflow
3 67 (3.22%) Confluence
4 55 (2.65%) Apache
5 33 (1.59%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.58%) CMS
6 12 (0.58%) SAS
7 11 (0.53%) Ethereum
7 11 (0.53%) HCL Notes
7 11 (0.53%) Hyperledger
8 10 (0.48%) Appian
8 10 (0.48%) Mendix
9 9 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
10 7 (0.34%) Camunda
11 6 (0.29%) IIS
11 6 (0.29%) nginx
12 5 (0.24%) Headless CMS
12 5 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
13 4 (0.19%) WebSphere
14 3 (0.14%) OpenStack
Applications
1 21 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.29%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.096%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.048%) Maya
Business Applications
1 16 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.38%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.096%) Endur
3 2 (0.096%) Magento
3 2 (0.096%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.096%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.096%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.096%) Shopify
4 1 (0.048%) Actimize
4 1 (0.048%) Cerner Millennium
4 1 (0.048%) Maximo
4 1 (0.048%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.048%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.048%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.048%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.048%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.048%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.048%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.048%) ProductWriter
4 1 (0.048%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 941 (45.28%) Azure
2 921 (44.32%) AWS
3 493 (23.72%) GitHub
4 363 (17.47%) Azure DevOps
5 333 (16.03%) GCP
6 313 (15.06%) GitHub Actions
7 305 (14.68%) Serverless
8 204 (9.82%) Amazon S3
9 189 (9.10%) AWS CloudFormation
10 187 (9.00%) AWS Lambda
11 172 (8.28%) Power Platform
12 127 (6.11%) Amazon EKS
13 121 (5.82%) Azure Data Factory
14 117 (5.63%) Amazon ECS
15 99 (4.76%) Azure AKS
16 90 (4.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 90 (4.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 83 (3.99%) Amazon EC2
18 77 (3.71%) Snowflake
19 74 (3.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 76 (3.66%) Firewall
2 49 (2.36%) Network Security
3 38 (1.83%) DNS
4 23 (1.11%) VPN
5 18 (0.87%) HTTP
6 17 (0.82%) WAN
7 15 (0.72%) SD-WAN
8 9 (0.43%) SSL
9 8 (0.38%) BGP
9 8 (0.38%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.29%) Ethernet VPN
10 6 (0.29%) MPLS
10 6 (0.29%) OSPF
10 6 (0.29%) VXLAN
11 5 (0.24%) Wireshark
12 4 (0.19%) Cisco IOS
12 4 (0.19%) Cisco IPT
12 4 (0.19%) DHCP
12 4 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
12 4 (0.19%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (7.12%) PostgreSQL
2 129 (6.21%) Data Lake
3 125 (6.02%) SQL Server
4 123 (5.92%) Power BI
5 120 (5.77%) NoSQL
6 95 (4.57%) Data Warehouse
7 75 (3.61%) MongoDB
8 72 (3.46%) Amazon RDS
9 71 (3.42%) Relational Database
10 56 (2.69%) Amazon Athena
10 56 (2.69%) Azure SQL Database
10 56 (2.69%) Delta Lake
11 53 (2.55%) BigQuery
12 48 (2.31%) Amazon Redshift
12 48 (2.31%) Big Data
13 43 (2.07%) Metadata
14 38 (1.83%) DynamoDB
15 33 (1.59%) MySQL
15 33 (1.59%) Redis
16 29 (1.40%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 389 (18.72%) Git
2 359 (17.28%) Jenkins
3 256 (12.32%) GitLab
4 146 (7.03%) JIRA
5 81 (3.90%) Selenium
6 60 (2.89%) Cucumber
6 60 (2.89%) JUnit
7 50 (2.41%) MLflow
8 42 (2.02%) Postman
9 37 (1.78%) Cypress.io
10 33 (1.59%) JMeter
11 31 (1.49%) REST Assured
12 25 (1.20%) Bitbucket
12 25 (1.20%) Mockito
13 21 (1.01%) Maven
14 19 (0.91%) TeamCity
15 18 (0.87%) Gatling
15 18 (0.87%) Gradle
16 16 (0.77%) SonarQube
17 15 (0.72%) SpecFlow
General
1 532 (25.60%) Social Skills
2 470 (22.62%) Finance
3 233 (11.21%) Public Sector
4 210 (10.11%) Banking
5 171 (8.23%) Analytical Skills
6 46 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
7 44 (2.12%) Front Office
8 40 (1.92%) Investment Banking
9 36 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
10 30 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 29 (1.40%) Financial Institution
12 24 (1.15%) Retail
13 21 (1.01%) Telecoms
14 18 (0.87%) Marketing
15 15 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (0.63%) Law
16 13 (0.63%) Legal
16 13 (0.63%) Manufacturing
17 10 (0.48%) Publishing
18 9 (0.43%) Military
Job Titles
1 500 (24.06%) Developer
2 325 (15.64%) Senior
3 227 (10.92%) DevOps Engineer
4 211 (10.15%) Architect
5 195 (9.38%) Data Engineer
6 169 (8.13%) Lead
7 126 (6.06%) AWS Engineer
8 121 (5.82%) Azure Engineer
9 99 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
10 94 (4.52%) Software Engineer
11 90 (4.33%) Platform Engineer
12 86 (4.14%) Full-Stack Developer
13 84 (4.04%) Senior Developer
14 83 (3.99%) Java Developer
15 72 (3.46%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 65 (3.13%) AWS DevOps
17 59 (2.84%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 57 (2.74%) Python Engineer
19 55 (2.65%) Python Developer
19 55 (2.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 249 (11.98%) React
2 214 (10.30%) Kafka
3 203 (9.77%) Node.js
4 195 (9.38%) .NET
5 190 (9.14%) RESTful
6 189 (9.10%) REST
7 161 (7.75%) Spring
8 127 (6.11%) AngularJS
9 123 (5.92%) Spring Boot
10 103 (4.96%) Playwright
11 97 (4.67%) CSS
12 95 (4.57%) HTML
12 95 (4.57%) PySpark
13 81 (3.90%) OAuth
14 63 (3.03%) GraphQL
15 56 (2.69%) YAML
16 50 (2.41%) JSON
16 50 (2.41%) PyTorch
17 49 (2.36%) FastAPI
17 49 (2.36%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 407 (19.59%) Cloud Native
2 114 (5.49%) Distributed Systems
3 96 (4.62%) Product Ownership
4 58 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
5 50 (2.41%) Onboarding
6 47 (2.26%) Mobile App
7 38 (1.83%) AI Agents
7 38 (1.83%) Algorithms
8 32 (1.54%) Public Cloud
9 30 (1.44%) Data Structures
9 30 (1.44%) Derivative
9 30 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
10 29 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
11 26 (1.25%) Equities
12 25 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
12 25 (1.20%) Fixed Income
12 25 (1.20%) Low-Code
13 24 (1.15%) Data Centre
13 24 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 24 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 144 (6.93%) Linux
2 69 (3.32%) Windows
3 36 (1.73%) Apple iOS
4 27 (1.30%) Android
5 26 (1.25%) VMS
6 24 (1.15%) Unix
7 13 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.53%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.24%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.24%) zOS
10 4 (0.19%) Solaris
10 4 (0.19%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.096%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.096%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.048%) AIX
13 1 (0.048%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.048%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,145 (55.10%) DevOps
2 671 (32.29%) Agile
3 664 (31.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 460 (22.14%) Containerisation
5 436 (20.98%) Test Automation
6 389 (18.72%) AI
7 379 (18.24%) Problem-Solving
8 375 (18.05%) Microservices
9 338 (16.27%) Analytics
10 322 (15.50%) Observability
11 285 (13.72%) Software Engineering
12 255 (12.27%) Data Modelling
13 250 (12.03%) Data Engineering
14 242 (11.65%) Data Pipeline
15 239 (11.50%) Continuous Improvement
16 234 (11.26%) Machine Learning
17 217 (10.44%) Full-Stack Development
18 212 (10.20%) ETL
19 195 (9.38%) Mentoring
20 191 (9.19%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 823 (39.61%) Python
2 571 (27.48%) SQL
3 397 (19.10%) Java
4 285 (13.72%) JavaScript
5 277 (13.33%) TypeScript
6 241 (11.60%) C#
7 118 (5.68%) Bash
8 98 (4.72%) PowerShell
9 75 (3.61%) Bicep
10 61 (2.94%) Scala
11 54 (2.60%) Go
12 32 (1.54%) Ruby
13 31 (1.49%) C++
14 30 (1.44%) Kotlin
15 28 (1.35%) T-SQL
16 26 (1.25%) PL/SQL
17 22 (1.06%) Apex Code
17 22 (1.06%) Shell Script
18 19 (0.91%) Swift
19 17 (0.82%) Rust
Qualifications
1 489 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 428 (20.60%) SC Cleared
3 132 (6.35%) Degree
4 77 (3.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 74 (3.56%) Azure Certification
6 70 (3.37%) AWS Certification
7 34 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
8 31 (1.49%) Master's Degree
9 30 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 25 (1.20%) DV Cleared
11 23 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 19 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
12 19 (0.91%) ISTQB
13 18 (0.87%) CISSP
14 14 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
15 13 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 12 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 12 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
17 10 (0.48%) CCSP
18 9 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (8.57%) QA
2 141 (6.79%) Data Quality
3 87 (4.19%) GDPR
4 76 (3.66%) Accessibility
5 56 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 53 (2.55%) NIST
7 29 (1.40%) NCSC
7 29 (1.40%) PCI DSS
7 29 (1.40%) WCAG
8 22 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 17 (0.82%) SLA
10 9 (0.43%) HIPAA
11 7 (0.34%) ISO 20022
11 7 (0.34%) NIST 800
12 6 (0.29%) MiFID
12 6 (0.29%) PSD2
12 6 (0.29%) SOC 2
13 4 (0.19%) GRC
13 4 (0.19%) HL7
13 4 (0.19%) SEPA
System Software
1 629 (30.27%) Docker
2 51 (2.45%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.38%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.34%) vSphere
8 3 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.096%) HDFS
9 2 (0.096%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.096%) zsh
10 1 (0.048%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.048%) IAG
10 1 (0.048%) NFS
10 1 (0.048%) Squid
10 1 (0.048%) Veritas File System
10 1 (0.048%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 683 (32.87%) Terraform
2 672 (32.34%) Kubernetes
3 149 (7.17%) Ansible
4 129 (6.21%) Grafana
5 112 (5.39%) Prometheus
6 44 (2.12%) Argo
7 23 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (0.96%) Istio
9 14 (0.67%) Puppet
10 12 (0.58%) Kibana
11 11 (0.53%) Progress Chef
12 9 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
13 8 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
13 8 (0.38%) Rancher
14 7 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 5 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
15 5 (0.24%) Karpenter
15 5 (0.24%) Kubeflow
15 5 (0.24%) Packer
16 4 (0.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 313 (15.06%) Microsoft
2 209 (10.06%) Databricks
3 129 (6.21%) Google
4 74 (3.56%) Oracle
5 61 (2.94%) Splunk
6 60 (2.89%) OpenAI
7 56 (2.69%) ServiceNow
8 54 (2.60%) Salesforce
9 29 (1.40%) Red Hat
10 26 (1.25%) Dynatrace
11 24 (1.15%) VMware
12 20 (0.96%) Cisco
13 19 (0.91%) MuleSoft
13 19 (0.91%) SAP
14 18 (0.87%) CyberArk
15 15 (0.72%) Foundry
16 14 (0.67%) IBM
17 13 (0.63%) Apple
17 13 (0.63%) UiPath
18 12 (0.58%) Solace