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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 20 23
Rank change year-on-year +9 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,205 1,247 1,315
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.28% 9.97% 7.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.91% 10.81% 8.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,485 860 952
10th Percentile £400 £395 £413
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% -2.35% -9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £688
90th Percentile £750 £838 £801
England median daily rate £525 £525 £551
% change year-on-year - -4.72% -8.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 4
10th Percentile £49.25 £38.25 £49.23
25th Percentile £61.00 £43.13 £52.94
Median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +27.62% -6.67% -29.69%
75th Percentile £95.00 £53.75 £60.81
90th Percentile £95.50 - £64.53
England median hourly rate £66.00 £56.75 £67.00
% change year-on-year +16.30% -15.30% +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 15,848 11,538 15,497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.29% 92.22% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,602 7,808 11,112
10th Percentile £356 £350 £343
25th Percentile £431 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £680
90th Percentile £756 £813 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 178 307
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.30 £15.77
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.11 £20.00
Median hourly rate £36.50 £34.00 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +7.35% +22.13% -27.22%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.69 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.85
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.07% -20.55% +0.69%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 18 May 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 -2 244 £575 - 203
West London +11 68 £603 +52.53% 22
South London +2 53 £525 +6.06% 3
East London +2 11 £450 +80.00% 24
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 (4.85%) Apache Spark
2 86 (3.90%) Apache Airflow
3 63 (2.86%) Apache
4 62 (2.81%) Confluence
5 28 (1.27%) SharePoint
6 11 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (0.45%) Camunda
7 10 (0.45%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.45%) Mendix
8 8 (0.36%) Appian
8 8 (0.36%) OpenStack
8 8 (0.36%) SAS
9 7 (0.32%) Ethereum
9 7 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.27%) Hyperledger
10 6 (0.27%) WebSphere
11 5 (0.23%) IIS
11 5 (0.23%) nginx
12 4 (0.18%) CMS
12 4 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.27%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.14%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.045%) Maya
Business Applications
1 16 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.36%) Aladdin
3 6 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.18%) Magento
4 4 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.14%) Findur
5 3 (0.14%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.14%) Shopify
6 2 (0.091%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.091%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.045%) Actimize
7 1 (0.045%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.045%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.045%) ProductWriter
7 1 (0.045%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.045%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.045%) SDL Web 8
7 1 (0.045%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 1,017 (46.12%) Azure
2 970 (43.99%) AWS
3 512 (23.22%) GitHub
4 392 (17.78%) Azure DevOps
5 336 (15.24%) GCP
6 333 (15.10%) GitHub Actions
7 296 (13.42%) Serverless
8 212 (9.61%) Amazon S3
9 194 (8.80%) Power Platform
10 192 (8.71%) AWS CloudFormation
10 192 (8.71%) AWS Lambda
11 131 (5.94%) Amazon EKS
12 128 (5.80%) Azure Data Factory
13 111 (5.03%) Amazon ECS
14 107 (4.85%) Azure AKS
15 106 (4.81%) Amazon EC2
16 99 (4.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 92 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 87 (3.95%) Entra ID
19 84 (3.81%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 75 (3.40%) Firewall
2 46 (2.09%) Network Security
3 36 (1.63%) DNS
4 25 (1.13%) HTTP
5 21 (0.95%) VPN
6 13 (0.59%) WAN
7 12 (0.54%) SD-WAN
8 8 (0.36%) 3GPP
8 8 (0.36%) 5G
9 7 (0.32%) BGP
9 7 (0.32%) Internet
9 7 (0.32%) SSL
10 6 (0.27%) OSPF
11 5 (0.23%) Ethernet VPN
11 5 (0.23%) FTP
11 5 (0.23%) LTE
11 5 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (0.23%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.23%) VXLAN
12 4 (0.18%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (6.58%) Data Lake
2 133 (6.03%) Power BI
3 132 (5.99%) PostgreSQL
4 125 (5.67%) SQL Server
5 118 (5.35%) NoSQL
6 100 (4.54%) Data Warehouse
7 79 (3.58%) Relational Database
8 78 (3.54%) MongoDB
9 70 (3.17%) Delta Lake
10 67 (3.04%) Amazon RDS
11 62 (2.81%) Metadata
12 61 (2.77%) Amazon Athena
13 60 (2.72%) BigQuery
14 54 (2.45%) Amazon Redshift
14 54 (2.45%) Big Data
15 44 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
16 40 (1.81%) DynamoDB
17 35 (1.59%) Snowflake Schema
18 32 (1.45%) Redis
19 29 (1.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 385 (17.46%) Git
2 363 (16.46%) Jenkins
3 259 (11.75%) GitLab
4 126 (5.71%) JIRA
5 71 (3.22%) Selenium
6 57 (2.59%) JUnit
7 51 (2.31%) MLflow
8 48 (2.18%) Postman
9 43 (1.95%) Cucumber
10 38 (1.72%) JMeter
11 33 (1.50%) Mockito
12 31 (1.41%) REST Assured
13 26 (1.18%) Cypress.io
14 23 (1.04%) Gradle
15 21 (0.95%) Artifactory
16 20 (0.91%) Bitbucket
17 17 (0.77%) CircleCI
17 17 (0.77%) SonarQube
18 16 (0.73%) Liquibase
18 16 (0.73%) Snyk
General
1 512 (23.22%) Finance
2 500 (22.68%) Social Skills
3 259 (11.75%) Public Sector
4 221 (10.02%) Banking
5 168 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
6 49 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
7 47 (2.13%) Front Office
8 40 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
9 39 (1.77%) Investment Banking
10 33 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 32 (1.45%) Retail
12 28 (1.27%) Financial Institution
13 20 (0.91%) Legal
14 19 (0.86%) Telecoms
15 16 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
16 15 (0.68%) Publishing
17 13 (0.59%) Law
17 13 (0.59%) Marketing
18 11 (0.50%) Manufacturing
19 10 (0.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 476 (21.59%) Developer
2 361 (16.37%) Senior
3 253 (11.47%) Architect
4 241 (10.93%) DevOps Engineer
5 221 (10.02%) Data Engineer
6 195 (8.84%) Lead
7 140 (6.35%) Azure Engineer
8 123 (5.58%) AWS Engineer
9 115 (5.22%) Cloud Engineer
10 105 (4.76%) Software Engineer
11 93 (4.22%) Java Developer
12 90 (4.08%) Platform Engineer
13 86 (3.90%) Senior Developer
14 71 (3.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 71 (3.22%) Full-Stack Developer
15 68 (3.08%) Python Developer
16 62 (2.81%) Solutions Architect
17 52 (2.36%) AWS DevOps
17 52 (2.36%) Python Engineer
17 52 (2.36%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 220 (9.98%) Kafka
1 220 (9.98%) React
2 216 (9.80%) REST
3 199 (9.02%) .NET
4 193 (8.75%) RESTful
5 180 (8.16%) Spring
6 161 (7.30%) Spring Boot
7 141 (6.39%) Node.js
8 115 (5.22%) PySpark
9 113 (5.12%) AngularJS
10 80 (3.63%) HTML
11 78 (3.54%) Playwright
12 72 (3.27%) OAuth
13 65 (2.95%) CSS
14 59 (2.68%) Pandas
15 58 (2.63%) FastAPI
16 54 (2.45%) YAML
17 52 (2.36%) OpenTelemetry
18 50 (2.27%) GraphQL
19 47 (2.13%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 460 (20.86%) Cloud Native
2 159 (7.21%) Distributed Systems
3 107 (4.85%) Product Ownership
4 70 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
4 70 (3.17%) Onboarding
5 46 (2.09%) AI Agents
6 39 (1.77%) Algorithms
7 37 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
8 36 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
9 35 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 33 (1.50%) Equities
11 32 (1.45%) Public Cloud
12 29 (1.32%) Virtual Team
13 28 (1.27%) Fixed Income
14 27 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
14 27 (1.22%) Low-Code
14 27 (1.22%) Mobile App
15 26 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
15 26 (1.18%) Management Information System
15 26 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 149 (6.76%) Linux
2 84 (3.81%) Windows
3 40 (1.81%) Unix
4 25 (1.13%) VMS
5 23 (1.04%) Android
6 21 (0.95%) Apple iOS
7 16 (0.73%) Windows Server
8 13 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.23%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.23%) zOS
10 4 (0.18%) Solaris
10 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.091%) AIX
12 2 (0.091%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,223 (55.46%) DevOps
2 758 (34.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 699 (31.70%) Agile
4 514 (23.31%) Containerisation
5 453 (20.54%) Test Automation
6 438 (19.86%) AI
7 420 (19.05%) Microservices
8 373 (16.92%) Observability
9 359 (16.28%) Analytics
10 310 (14.06%) Software Engineering
11 303 (13.74%) Data Modelling
12 299 (13.56%) Problem-Solving
13 285 (12.93%) Data Pipeline
14 271 (12.29%) Data Engineering
15 249 (11.29%) Continuous Improvement
16 239 (10.84%) Machine Learning
17 230 (10.43%) ETL
18 219 (9.93%) Platform Engineering
19 217 (9.84%) Migration
20 205 (9.30%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 848 (38.46%) Python
2 625 (28.34%) SQL
3 415 (18.82%) Java
4 252 (11.43%) C#
5 229 (10.39%) JavaScript
5 229 (10.39%) TypeScript
6 136 (6.17%) Bash
7 134 (6.08%) PowerShell
8 87 (3.95%) Bicep
9 61 (2.77%) Scala
10 42 (1.90%) Go
11 39 (1.77%) Ruby
12 38 (1.72%) Shell Script
13 35 (1.59%) Apex Code
14 30 (1.36%) Kotlin
14 30 (1.36%) PL/SQL
15 28 (1.27%) T-SQL
16 21 (0.95%) C++
17 14 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 13 (0.59%) R
Qualifications
1 572 (25.94%) Security Cleared
2 511 (23.17%) SC Cleared
3 117 (5.31%) Degree
4 89 (4.04%) Azure Certification
5 64 (2.90%) AWS Certification
6 59 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 37 (1.68%) DV Cleared
8 36 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
9 25 (1.13%) Master's Degree
10 23 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
11 17 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 17 (0.77%) CISSP
11 17 (0.77%) ISTQB
12 12 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
12 12 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
13 11 (0.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 9 (0.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 9 (0.41%) CISM
15 8 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
15 8 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (8.25%) QA
2 174 (7.89%) Data Quality
3 76 (3.45%) GDPR
4 64 (2.90%) Accessibility
5 59 (2.68%) NIST
6 51 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 31 (1.41%) NCSC
8 25 (1.13%) PCI DSS
9 24 (1.09%) WCAG
10 22 (1.00%) SLA
11 17 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.41%) ISO 20022
13 7 (0.32%) MiFID
14 6 (0.27%) COBIT
14 6 (0.27%) PSD2
15 5 (0.23%) GRC
15 5 (0.23%) SOC 2
16 4 (0.18%) HL7
16 4 (0.18%) SEPA
17 3 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 607 (27.53%) Docker
2 54 (2.45%) Active Directory
3 36 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.36%) Squid
7 5 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
7 5 (0.23%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
8 4 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.18%) vSphere
9 2 (0.091%) HDFS
9 2 (0.091%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.045%) IAG
10 1 (0.045%) OpenSSH
10 1 (0.045%) Postfix
10 1 (0.045%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 1 (0.045%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 723 (32.79%) Terraform
2 668 (30.29%) Kubernetes
3 148 (6.71%) Ansible
4 147 (6.67%) Grafana
5 131 (5.94%) Prometheus
6 25 (1.13%) Argo
7 24 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (0.91%) Istio
9 19 (0.86%) Puppet
10 15 (0.68%) Kibana
11 11 (0.50%) Progress Chef
12 9 (0.41%) Packer
13 8 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
14 7 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 6 (0.27%) SCCM
16 5 (0.23%) Kustomize
17 4 (0.18%) Karpenter
17 4 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
17 4 (0.18%) Rancher
17 4 (0.18%) Suricata
Vendors
1 348 (15.78%) Microsoft
2 197 (8.93%) Databricks
3 110 (4.99%) Google
4 91 (4.13%) Oracle
5 78 (3.54%) Salesforce
6 73 (3.31%) Splunk
7 54 (2.45%) OpenAI
8 53 (2.40%) ServiceNow
9 30 (1.36%) Dynatrace
10 23 (1.04%) CyberArk
10 23 (1.04%) Foundry
11 22 (1.00%) VMware
12 21 (0.95%) MuleSoft
13 20 (0.91%) Red Hat
13 20 (0.91%) SAP
14 19 (0.86%) IBM
15 15 (0.68%) Cisco
16 13 (0.59%) Informatica
17 12 (0.54%) Okta
18 10 (0.45%) UiPath