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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 17 21
Rank change year-on-year +7 +4 -4
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,564 1,446 1,367
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.82% 10.58% 8.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.40% 11.48% 9.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,728 971 968
10th Percentile £400 £375 £412
25th Percentile £453 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £565
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -7.08% -5.83%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £678
90th Percentile £738 £799 £806
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 2
10th Percentile £48.25 £30.63 £56.20
25th Percentile £54.06 £36.88 £58.00
Median hourly rate £61.00 £48.75 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.13% -20.08% -18.67%
75th Percentile £80.63 £53.75 £64.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.38 £65.80
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% -2.99% -1.18%

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 17,802 12,600 14,757
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.04% 92.23% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,756 8,430 10,474
10th Percentile £363 £326 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £651 £675 £688
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 283 240 222
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £20.94 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £34.63
Median % change year-on-year +19.03% -13.36% -20.27%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.30 £71.25
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.88% -37.63% -5.12%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +1 301 £550 -12.00% 115
South London +1 57 £541 +2.05% 6
West London +9 53 £560 +13.71% 32
East London +8 12 £585 +62.50% 22
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
1 113 (4.41%) Apache Airflow
2 101 (3.94%) Confluence
3 95 (3.71%) Apache Spark
4 73 (2.85%) Apache
5 27 (1.05%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
7 10 (0.39%) SAS
8 9 (0.35%) WebSphere
9 8 (0.31%) Camunda
9 8 (0.31%) CMS
9 8 (0.31%) nginx
9 8 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.23%) Anypoint
12 5 (0.20%) Mule
12 5 (0.20%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.16%) Appian
13 4 (0.16%) IIS
14 3 (0.12%) Apache Pulsar
14 3 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 15 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.39%) Chatbot
2 10 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.16%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.12%) Trello
5 2 (0.078%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.039%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.039%) Maya
Business Applications
1 23 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.43%) Aladdin
3 8 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.27%) Shopify
5 6 (0.23%) 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 (0.078%) SAP CRM
9 2 (0.078%) Temenos T24
10 1 (0.039%) Distributed Ledger
10 1 (0.039%) R3 Corda
10 1 (0.039%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.039%) SAP ERP
10 1 (0.039%) SAP IS-U
10 1 (0.039%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,145 (44.66%) Azure
2 1,130 (44.07%) AWS
3 569 (22.19%) GitHub
4 435 (16.97%) Azure DevOps
5 385 (15.02%) GCP
6 381 (14.86%) GitHub Actions
7 304 (11.86%) Serverless
8 243 (9.48%) Amazon S3
9 218 (8.50%) Power Platform
10 201 (7.84%) AWS Lambda
11 150 (5.85%) Amazon EKS
12 146 (5.69%) AWS CloudFormation
13 116 (4.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 116 (4.52%) Entra ID
14 115 (4.49%) Snowflake
15 114 (4.45%) Azure AKS
16 113 (4.41%) Amazon EC2
17 106 (4.13%) dbt
18 101 (3.94%) Azure Data Factory
19 89 (3.47%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 71 (2.77%) Firewall
2 42 (1.64%) Network Security
3 35 (1.37%) DNS
4 34 (1.33%) VPN
5 25 (0.98%) Internet
6 24 (0.94%) HTTP
7 19 (0.74%) 5G
8 16 (0.62%) TCP/IP
8 16 (0.62%) WAN
9 14 (0.55%) SSL
10 11 (0.43%) 4G
11 10 (0.39%) 3GPP
11 10 (0.39%) SD-WAN
12 8 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
13 7 (0.27%) BGP
13 7 (0.27%) LTE
14 6 (0.23%) Cisco IOS
14 6 (0.23%) FTP
15 5 (0.20%) MPLS
15 5 (0.20%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (6.12%) Power BI
2 144 (5.62%) PostgreSQL
3 125 (4.88%) Data Lake
3 125 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
4 123 (4.80%) NoSQL
5 120 (4.68%) SQL Server
6 89 (3.47%) Relational Database
7 86 (3.35%) MongoDB
8 75 (2.93%) Amazon Redshift
8 75 (2.93%) Delta Lake
9 69 (2.69%) Amazon RDS
10 67 (2.61%) Metadata
11 66 (2.57%) Amazon Athena
12 64 (2.50%) BigQuery
13 51 (1.99%) DynamoDB
14 46 (1.79%) Big Data
15 44 (1.72%) Redis
16 41 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
17 36 (1.40%) Snowflake Schema
18 27 (1.05%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 452 (17.63%) Git
2 391 (15.25%) Jenkins
3 309 (12.05%) GitLab
4 178 (6.94%) JIRA
5 74 (2.89%) Selenium
6 68 (2.65%) JUnit
7 45 (1.76%) JMeter
8 44 (1.72%) Cypress.io
9 43 (1.68%) Cucumber
10 42 (1.64%) Gradle
11 39 (1.52%) Mockito
12 38 (1.48%) Postman
13 37 (1.44%) REST Assured
14 36 (1.40%) MLflow
15 33 (1.29%) Bitbucket
16 32 (1.25%) Maven
17 30 (1.17%) SonarQube
18 28 (1.09%) CircleCI
19 25 (0.98%) Gatling
20 19 (0.74%) Liquibase
General
1 607 (23.67%) Finance
2 602 (23.48%) Social Skills
3 318 (12.40%) Public Sector
4 280 (10.92%) Banking
5 202 (7.88%) Analytical Skills
6 58 (2.26%) Front Office
7 54 (2.11%) Investment Banking
8 53 (2.07%) Retail
9 48 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
10 40 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 33 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
12 31 (1.21%) Law
13 30 (1.17%) Telecoms
14 26 (1.01%) Financial Institution
14 26 (1.01%) Legal
15 22 (0.86%) Marketing
16 16 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
17 13 (0.51%) Manufacturing
17 13 (0.51%) Military
18 12 (0.47%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 544 (21.22%) Developer
2 445 (17.36%) Senior
3 295 (11.51%) DevOps Engineer
4 280 (10.92%) Architect
5 260 (10.14%) Lead
6 223 (8.70%) Data Engineer
7 154 (6.01%) AWS Engineer
8 153 (5.97%) Azure Engineer
9 136 (5.30%) Cloud Engineer
10 129 (5.03%) Software Engineer
11 120 (4.68%) Java Developer
12 116 (4.52%) Senior Developer
13 109 (4.25%) Platform Engineer
14 88 (3.43%) Full-Stack Developer
15 83 (3.24%) Solutions Architect
16 76 (2.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 68 (2.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 65 (2.54%) Python Developer
19 63 (2.46%) AWS DevOps
20 59 (2.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 339 (13.22%) REST
2 248 (9.67%) React
3 234 (9.13%) .NET
3 234 (9.13%) Kafka
4 210 (8.19%) RESTful
5 202 (7.88%) Spring
6 172 (6.71%) Spring Boot
7 132 (5.15%) Node.js
8 131 (5.11%) PySpark
9 103 (4.02%) AngularJS
10 101 (3.94%) HTML
11 94 (3.67%) Playwright
12 88 (3.43%) CSS
13 77 (3.00%) JSON
14 75 (2.93%) OAuth
15 67 (2.61%) FastAPI
15 67 (2.61%) SOAP
16 58 (2.26%) OAuth2
17 56 (2.18%) GraphQL
18 55 (2.15%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 528 (20.59%) Cloud Native
2 221 (8.62%) Distributed Systems
3 127 (4.95%) Product Ownership
4 91 (3.55%) Onboarding
5 88 (3.43%) AI Agents
6 84 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
7 69 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
8 47 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 43 (1.68%) Algorithms
10 39 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
11 38 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
11 38 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
12 37 (1.44%) Data Structures
12 37 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
12 37 (1.44%) Mobile App
12 37 (1.44%) Virtual Team
13 35 (1.37%) Management Information System
14 34 (1.33%) Fixed Income
15 32 (1.25%) Security Posture
16 27 (1.05%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 181 (7.06%) Linux
2 109 (4.25%) Windows
3 55 (2.15%) Unix
4 33 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 27 (1.05%) Apple iOS
6 26 (1.01%) Android
6 26 (1.01%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.47%) VMS
8 10 (0.39%) Mac OS
8 10 (0.39%) Ubuntu
9 8 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.20%) Solaris
10 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
10 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.078%) AIX
12 2 (0.078%) zOS
13 1 (0.039%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,407 (54.88%) DevOps
2 899 (35.06%) Agile
3 852 (33.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 563 (21.96%) Containerisation
5 544 (21.22%) Test Automation
6 537 (20.94%) AI
7 512 (19.97%) Microservices
8 440 (17.16%) Software Engineering
9 438 (17.08%) Observability
10 373 (14.55%) Analytics
11 340 (13.26%) Problem-Solving
12 338 (13.18%) Data Pipeline
13 325 (12.68%) Data Modelling
14 317 (12.36%) Continuous Improvement
15 306 (11.93%) Data Engineering
16 304 (11.86%) Platform Engineering
17 278 (10.84%) Event-Driven
17 278 (10.84%) Machine Learning
18 264 (10.30%) Migration
19 259 (10.10%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 978 (38.14%) Python
2 690 (26.91%) SQL
3 509 (19.85%) Java
4 267 (10.41%) C#
5 266 (10.37%) TypeScript
6 261 (10.18%) JavaScript
7 195 (7.61%) Bash
8 173 (6.75%) PowerShell
9 100 (3.90%) Bicep
10 63 (2.46%) Go
11 52 (2.03%) Kotlin
12 50 (1.95%) Apex Code
13 46 (1.79%) Shell Script
14 44 (1.72%) Scala
15 37 (1.44%) Ruby
16 31 (1.21%) PL/SQL
17 27 (1.05%) T-SQL
18 19 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 18 (0.70%) Groovy
20 16 (0.62%) C++
Qualifications
1 652 (25.43%) Security Cleared
2 587 (22.89%) SC Cleared
3 136 (5.30%) Degree
4 100 (3.90%) Azure Certification
5 71 (2.77%) DV Cleared
6 69 (2.69%) AWS Certification
7 62 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 43 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (0.94%) Master's Degree
10 22 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
11 18 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 18 (0.70%) CISSP
12 15 (0.59%) DBS Check
13 13 (0.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 13 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
14 12 (0.47%) CISM
14 12 (0.47%) PhD
14 12 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
15 11 (0.43%) GIAC
16 9 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 227 (8.85%) QA
2 208 (8.11%) Data Quality
3 101 (3.94%) Accessibility
4 60 (2.34%) GDPR
5 49 (1.91%) NIST
6 40 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 34 (1.33%) WCAG
8 23 (0.90%) NCSC
9 19 (0.74%) SLA
10 15 (0.59%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.43%) EU AI Act
11 11 (0.43%) GRC
12 8 (0.31%) SOC 2
13 7 (0.27%) ISO 20022
13 7 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 6 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.20%) PSD2
16 4 (0.16%) COBIT
16 4 (0.16%) MiFID
16 4 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 654 (25.51%) Docker
2 63 (2.46%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
4 28 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.43%) Squid
6 10 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.27%) 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 (0.078%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.078%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.078%) KVM
12 2 (0.078%) Postfix
12 2 (0.078%) Varnish
13 1 (0.039%) IAG
13 1 (0.039%) OpenSSH
13 1 (0.039%) Samba
Systems Management
1 823 (32.10%) Terraform
2 748 (29.17%) Kubernetes
3 199 (7.76%) Grafana
4 188 (7.33%) Ansible
5 165 (6.44%) Prometheus
6 34 (1.33%) Argo
7 27 (1.05%) Puppet
8 22 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
9 19 (0.74%) Kibana
10 18 (0.70%) Packer
11 11 (0.43%) Istio
11 11 (0.43%) Progress Chef
12 10 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
13 8 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
14 7 (0.27%) Kustomize
14 7 (0.27%) SCCM
15 6 (0.23%) vCenter Server
16 5 (0.20%) HP Fortify
16 5 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
16 5 (0.20%) Salt
Vendors
1 376 (14.66%) Microsoft
2 196 (7.64%) Databricks
3 132 (5.15%) Google
4 117 (4.56%) Oracle
5 102 (3.98%) Salesforce
6 89 (3.47%) Splunk
7 58 (2.26%) ServiceNow
8 52 (2.03%) OpenAI
9 43 (1.68%) Dynatrace
10 41 (1.60%) VMware
11 31 (1.21%) IBM
12 30 (1.17%) Foundry
13 28 (1.09%) SAP
14 27 (1.05%) MuleSoft
15 26 (1.01%) Informatica
16 22 (0.86%) Palantir
17 21 (0.82%) Cisco
17 21 (0.82%) Red Hat
18 18 (0.70%) CyberArk
18 18 (0.70%) New Relic