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

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 18 25
Rank change year-on-year +5 +7 -10
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 1,809 1,380 1,305
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.75% 9.79% 7.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.95% 10.85% 8.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,243 969 981
10th Percentile £375 £406 £425
25th Percentile £438 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £598 £595
Median % change year-on-year -12.18% +0.47% -4.80%
75th Percentile £638 £703 £700
90th Percentile £725 £810 £800
England median daily rate £519 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -5.73% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £36.90 - £56.60
25th Percentile £52.88 - £57.13
Median hourly rate £64.75 - £58.00
75th Percentile £67.38 - £65.38
90th Percentile £68.95 - £69.35
England median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year -3.70% -10.00% +14.32%

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 12,967 12,718 16,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.39% 90.24% 89.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,558 8,128 11,528
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -5.46%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 155 254
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.16 £16.78
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.13 £54.50 £54.03
90th Percentile £69.36 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £43.84
% change year-on-year -27.63% -20.73% +25.25%

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 10 January 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 10 January 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 10 January 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 +2 208 £550 -5.98% 144
South London +9 59 £525 -2.42% 23
West London +4 59 £603 +30.27% 19
East London -6 9 £450 -12.41% 20
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 78 (4.31%) Confluence
2 58 (3.21%) Apache Spark
3 57 (3.15%) Apache Airflow
4 35 (1.93%) Apache
5 33 (1.82%) SharePoint
6 16 (0.88%) nginx
7 13 (0.72%) CMS
8 10 (0.55%) HCL Notes
9 9 (0.50%) Mendix
10 7 (0.39%) Appian
11 6 (0.33%) SAS
12 5 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 5 (0.28%) Ethereum
12 5 (0.28%) Headless CMS
12 5 (0.28%) Hyperledger
12 5 (0.28%) IIS
12 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
13 4 (0.22%) WebLogic
14 3 (0.17%) Camunda
14 3 (0.17%) Tomcat
Applications
1 24 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 10 (0.55%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 7 (0.39%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.17%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.055%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.33%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.17%) Endur
4 2 (0.11%) Magento
4 2 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.11%) Shopify
5 1 (0.055%) Actimize
5 1 (0.055%) Cerner Millennium
5 1 (0.055%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.055%) ION Anvil
5 1 (0.055%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.055%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.055%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.055%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.055%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.055%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.055%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.055%) Orchestrade
5 1 (0.055%) Siebel CRM
5 1 (0.055%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 801 (44.28%) AWS
2 788 (43.56%) Azure
3 443 (24.49%) GitHub
4 312 (17.25%) GitHub Actions
5 301 (16.64%) Azure DevOps
6 292 (16.14%) GCP
7 263 (14.54%) Serverless
8 180 (9.95%) Amazon S3
9 157 (8.68%) AWS Lambda
10 131 (7.24%) Power Platform
11 130 (7.19%) AWS CloudFormation
12 104 (5.75%) Amazon EKS
13 102 (5.64%) Amazon ECS
14 96 (5.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 94 (5.20%) Azure Data Factory
16 90 (4.98%) Azure AKS
17 81 (4.48%) Amazon EC2
18 71 (3.92%) Azure Logic Apps
19 67 (3.70%) Azure Functions
20 64 (3.54%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 84 (4.64%) Firewall
2 60 (3.32%) DNS
3 45 (2.49%) Network Security
4 25 (1.38%) VPN
5 20 (1.11%) HTTP
6 18 (1.00%) TCP/IP
7 15 (0.83%) OpenLDAP
7 15 (0.83%) SSL
8 12 (0.66%) SSH
8 12 (0.66%) WAN
9 11 (0.61%) SMTP
10 10 (0.55%) FTP
10 10 (0.55%) IMAP
10 10 (0.55%) SD-WAN
11 8 (0.44%) DHCP
12 5 (0.28%) BGP
12 5 (0.28%) MPLS
12 5 (0.28%) tcpdump
12 5 (0.28%) Wireshark
13 4 (0.22%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (7.74%) PostgreSQL
2 107 (5.91%) SQL Server
3 98 (5.42%) NoSQL
4 93 (5.14%) Power BI
5 88 (4.86%) Data Lake
6 76 (4.20%) Amazon RDS
7 70 (3.87%) Data Warehouse
8 60 (3.32%) MongoDB
9 57 (3.15%) Relational Database
10 40 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
11 39 (2.16%) BigQuery
12 37 (2.05%) Delta Lake
13 32 (1.77%) DynamoDB
14 30 (1.66%) Amazon Athena
15 29 (1.60%) MySQL
16 28 (1.55%) Big Data
16 28 (1.55%) Redis
17 27 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
17 27 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
18 26 (1.44%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 348 (19.24%) Jenkins
2 322 (17.80%) Git
3 230 (12.71%) GitLab
4 143 (7.90%) JIRA
5 70 (3.87%) Selenium
6 47 (2.60%) Cucumber
7 43 (2.38%) Cypress.io
8 42 (2.32%) JUnit
9 34 (1.88%) Postman
10 32 (1.77%) MLflow
11 30 (1.66%) SonarQube
11 30 (1.66%) TeamCity
12 28 (1.55%) JMeter
13 25 (1.38%) Maven
14 24 (1.33%) Bitbucket
14 24 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
15 20 (1.11%) Gradle
16 18 (1.00%) Mockito
16 18 (1.00%) REST Assured
17 16 (0.88%) CircleCI
General
1 478 (26.42%) Social Skills
2 413 (22.83%) Finance
3 203 (11.22%) Banking
4 192 (10.61%) Public Sector
5 131 (7.24%) Analytical Skills
6 47 (2.60%) Investment Banking
7 44 (2.43%) Front Office
8 34 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
9 32 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 30 (1.66%) Financial Institution
11 26 (1.44%) Marketing
11 26 (1.44%) Telecoms
12 19 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
12 19 (1.05%) Retail
13 16 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
14 14 (0.77%) Military
14 14 (0.77%) Publishing
15 13 (0.72%) Manufacturing
16 11 (0.61%) Electronics
17 10 (0.55%) Law
Job Titles
1 465 (25.70%) Developer
2 284 (15.70%) Senior
3 248 (13.71%) DevOps Engineer
4 148 (8.18%) Architect
5 146 (8.07%) Data Engineer
6 117 (6.47%) Lead
7 108 (5.97%) AWS Engineer
8 103 (5.69%) Azure Engineer
9 100 (5.53%) Platform Engineer
10 85 (4.70%) Senior Developer
11 81 (4.48%) Full-Stack Developer
12 80 (4.42%) Software Engineer
13 77 (4.26%) Java Developer
14 65 (3.59%) AWS DevOps
15 64 (3.54%) Python Engineer
16 63 (3.48%) Cloud Engineer
17 60 (3.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 56 (3.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 53 (2.93%) Python Developer
20 52 (2.87%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 231 (12.77%) React
2 195 (10.78%) Node.js
3 190 (10.50%) Kafka
4 170 (9.40%) RESTful
5 162 (8.96%) REST
6 158 (8.73%) .NET
7 128 (7.08%) Spring
8 102 (5.64%) Spring Boot
9 101 (5.58%) AngularJS
10 87 (4.81%) CSS
11 83 (4.59%) HTML
11 83 (4.59%) Playwright
12 74 (4.09%) OAuth
13 70 (3.87%) GraphQL
14 66 (3.65%) YAML
15 62 (3.43%) PySpark
16 55 (3.04%) JSON
17 52 (2.87%) FastAPI
18 49 (2.71%) Vue
19 47 (2.60%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 337 (18.63%) Cloud Native
2 124 (6.85%) Distributed Systems
3 73 (4.04%) Product Ownership
4 45 (2.49%) Mobile App
5 38 (2.10%) AI Agents
5 38 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
6 35 (1.93%) Onboarding
7 32 (1.77%) Derivative
8 31 (1.71%) Replication
9 28 (1.55%) Algorithms
9 28 (1.55%) Public Cloud
10 26 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
10 26 (1.44%) Hedge funds
11 24 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
11 24 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 23 (1.27%) Equities
13 22 (1.22%) Data Structures
14 21 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
14 21 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
15 20 (1.11%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 166 (9.18%) Linux
2 69 (3.81%) Windows
3 36 (1.99%) Android
3 36 (1.99%) Apple iOS
4 35 (1.93%) VMS
5 23 (1.27%) Unix
6 19 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 17 (0.94%) Windows Server
8 14 (0.77%) Ubuntu
9 10 (0.55%) Amazon Linux
10 7 (0.39%) Solaris
11 6 (0.33%) CentOS
12 5 (0.28%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.11%) zOS
14 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,029 (56.88%) DevOps
2 627 (34.66%) Agile
3 597 (33.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 387 (21.39%) Containerisation
5 362 (20.01%) Problem-Solving
6 355 (19.62%) Test Automation
7 333 (18.41%) Microservices
8 260 (14.37%) AI
9 259 (14.32%) Software Engineering
10 255 (14.10%) Observability
11 236 (13.05%) Analytics
12 202 (11.17%) Data Pipeline
13 181 (10.01%) Full-Stack Development
14 177 (9.78%) Data Engineering
15 169 (9.34%) Migration
16 165 (9.12%) Machine Learning
17 163 (9.01%) Continuous Improvement
18 161 (8.90%) Data Modelling
19 152 (8.40%) ETL
19 152 (8.40%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 722 (39.91%) Python
2 427 (23.60%) SQL
3 364 (20.12%) Java
4 264 (14.59%) JavaScript
5 242 (13.38%) TypeScript
6 201 (11.11%) C#
7 136 (7.52%) Bash
8 107 (5.91%) PowerShell
9 78 (4.31%) Go
10 66 (3.65%) Bicep
11 48 (2.65%) C++
12 38 (2.10%) Scala
13 29 (1.60%) Ruby
14 26 (1.44%) Rust
15 25 (1.38%) Kotlin
16 23 (1.27%) PL/SQL
16 23 (1.27%) T-SQL
17 19 (1.05%) Groovy
18 17 (0.94%) PHP
19 15 (0.83%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 406 (22.44%) Security Cleared
2 356 (19.68%) SC Cleared
3 121 (6.69%) Degree
4 65 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 64 (3.54%) Azure Certification
6 63 (3.48%) AWS Certification
7 27 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
8 25 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (1.33%) Master's Degree
10 20 (1.11%) MCP
11 19 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 17 (0.94%) DV Cleared
12 17 (0.94%) ISTQB
13 14 (0.77%) CISSP
14 13 (0.72%) Numerate Degree
15 11 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
16 8 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 8 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 7 (0.39%) OSCP
18 6 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (7.85%) QA
2 94 (5.20%) Data Quality
3 82 (4.53%) GDPR
4 61 (3.37%) Accessibility
5 48 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 40 (2.21%) NIST
7 21 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 21 (1.16%) WCAG
8 19 (1.05%) PCI DSS
9 15 (0.83%) NCSC
10 9 (0.50%) HIPAA
10 9 (0.50%) SLA
11 7 (0.39%) MiFID
12 6 (0.33%) NIST 800
13 5 (0.28%) EU AI Act
14 4 (0.22%) PERC
14 4 (0.22%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.17%) HL7
15 3 (0.17%) ISO 20022
15 3 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 590 (32.61%) Docker
2 54 (2.99%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.66%) Squid
6 10 (0.55%) DFS Replication
6 10 (0.55%) Dovecot
6 10 (0.55%) Postfix
7 8 (0.44%) zsh
8 6 (0.33%) vSphere
9 5 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.28%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.22%) NFS
10 4 (0.22%) Veritas File System
10 4 (0.22%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 3 (0.17%) HDFS
11 3 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.055%) etcd
12 1 (0.055%) KVM
Systems Management
1 618 (34.16%) Kubernetes
2 612 (33.83%) Terraform
3 153 (8.46%) Ansible
4 144 (7.96%) Grafana
5 126 (6.97%) Prometheus
6 49 (2.71%) Argo
7 25 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
8 23 (1.27%) Istio
9 17 (0.94%) Kibana
10 16 (0.88%) Progress Chef
11 14 (0.77%) Puppet
12 13 (0.72%) ITRS Geneos
13 11 (0.61%) Nessus
14 10 (0.55%) Proxmox
15 9 (0.50%) Rancher
16 7 (0.39%) Packer
17 6 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 6 (0.33%) logstash
17 6 (0.33%) Red Hat Satellite
18 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 257 (14.21%) Microsoft
2 174 (9.62%) Databricks
3 120 (6.63%) Google
4 74 (4.09%) Oracle
5 53 (2.93%) Splunk
6 52 (2.87%) ServiceNow
7 49 (2.71%) Salesforce
8 46 (2.54%) OpenAI
9 35 (1.93%) Red Hat
10 29 (1.60%) Dynatrace
11 23 (1.27%) VMware
12 17 (0.94%) Cisco
12 17 (0.94%) SAP
13 16 (0.88%) Atlassian
14 15 (0.83%) MuleSoft
14 15 (0.83%) Solace
15 12 (0.66%) Palo Alto
16 11 (0.61%) Apple
16 11 (0.61%) CyberArk
17 10 (0.55%) Lotus