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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 16 19
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 0
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,648 1,501 1,414
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.16% 11.15% 8.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.79% 12.05% 9.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,781 1,017 982
10th Percentile £400 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £438 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £567
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -7.41% -5.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £788
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 1
10th Percentile £50.25 £30.63 -
25th Percentile £52.19 £36.88 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £48.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -11.36% -26.67%
75th Percentile £74.50 £53.75 -
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.38 -
England median hourly rate £67.60 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -12.75%

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 17,907 12,452 14,448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.46% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,698 8,284 9,876
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 255 193
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.00 £17.30
25th Percentile £19.94 £24.89 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -12.33% -8.75%
75th Percentile £56.63 £49.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.75
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.63%

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 31 August 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 31 August 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 31 August 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 +9 333 £550 -10.20% 126
South London +1 65 £538 +1.27% 17
West London +2 54 £560 +13.71% 101
East London +6 11 £590 +9.26% 28
North London - 1 £650 - 1
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
1 124 (4.68%) Apache Airflow
2 110 (4.15%) Confluence
3 103 (3.89%) Apache Spark
4 76 (2.87%) Apache
5 32 (1.21%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.49%) Camunda
6 13 (0.49%) CMS
7 11 (0.42%) nginx
8 10 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
9 9 (0.34%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.26%) Anypoint
11 6 (0.23%) SAS
11 6 (0.23%) WebSphere
12 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.19%) Mule
13 4 (0.15%) Tomcat
14 3 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
14 3 (0.11%) IIS
14 3 (0.11%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.11%) Mendix
Applications
1 18 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.53%) Chatbot
3 10 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.15%) Trello
6 3 (0.11%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.076%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.038%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.038%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 28 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.49%) Aladdin
3 9 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
4 7 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.23%) Shopify
6 5 (0.19%) Magento
7 4 (0.15%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.11%) Endur
8 3 (0.11%) Findur
8 3 (0.11%) SAP CRM
8 3 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
9 2 (0.076%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.076%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.076%) Temenos T24
10 1 (0.038%) Distributed Ledger
10 1 (0.038%) Dynamics AX
10 1 (0.038%) SAP BPC
10 1 (0.038%) SAP IS-U
10 1 (0.038%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,209 (45.66%) Azure
2 1,158 (43.73%) AWS
3 598 (22.58%) GitHub
4 483 (18.24%) Azure DevOps
5 403 (15.22%) GitHub Actions
6 397 (14.99%) GCP
7 312 (11.78%) Serverless
8 239 (9.03%) Power Platform
9 233 (8.80%) Amazon S3
10 202 (7.63%) AWS Lambda
11 149 (5.63%) Amazon EKS
12 143 (5.40%) Snowflake
13 137 (5.17%) AWS CloudFormation
14 133 (5.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 127 (4.80%) dbt
16 125 (4.72%) Entra ID
17 117 (4.42%) Azure AKS
18 116 (4.38%) Amazon EC2
19 107 (4.04%) Azure Data Factory
20 92 (3.47%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 70 (2.64%) Firewall
2 41 (1.55%) Network Security
3 38 (1.44%) DNS
4 35 (1.32%) VPN
5 29 (1.10%) Internet
6 25 (0.94%) TCP/IP
7 23 (0.87%) HTTP
8 21 (0.79%) 5G
9 18 (0.68%) SSL
10 15 (0.57%) WAN
11 13 (0.49%) 3GPP
12 11 (0.42%) Radio Access Network
12 11 (0.42%) SAN
13 10 (0.38%) 4G
14 9 (0.34%) BGP
14 9 (0.34%) Kerberos
14 9 (0.34%) SD-WAN
15 8 (0.30%) SSH
16 7 (0.26%) FTP
16 7 (0.26%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 182 (6.87%) Power BI
2 168 (6.34%) PostgreSQL
3 153 (5.78%) Data Warehouse
4 135 (5.10%) SQL Server
5 128 (4.83%) NoSQL
6 118 (4.46%) Data Lake
7 101 (3.81%) MongoDB
8 98 (3.70%) Relational Database
9 88 (3.32%) Amazon RDS
10 85 (3.21%) Delta Lake
10 85 (3.21%) Metadata
11 72 (2.72%) Amazon Redshift
12 71 (2.68%) BigQuery
13 55 (2.08%) Redis
14 53 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
15 46 (1.74%) DynamoDB
16 44 (1.66%) Azure SQL Database
17 43 (1.62%) Big Data
18 38 (1.44%) Amazon Aurora
19 36 (1.36%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 489 (18.47%) Git
2 427 (16.13%) Jenkins
3 345 (13.03%) GitLab
4 189 (7.14%) JIRA
5 90 (3.40%) Selenium
6 72 (2.72%) JUnit
7 51 (1.93%) Cypress.io
8 49 (1.85%) Gradle
9 47 (1.77%) JMeter
10 39 (1.47%) Bitbucket
11 38 (1.44%) Mockito
11 38 (1.44%) Postman
12 36 (1.36%) Cucumber
12 36 (1.36%) Maven
13 35 (1.32%) SonarQube
14 32 (1.21%) REST Assured
15 27 (1.02%) CircleCI
16 25 (0.94%) MLflow
17 22 (0.83%) Gatling
18 19 (0.72%) Liquibase
General
1 661 (24.96%) Social Skills
2 645 (24.36%) Finance
3 311 (11.74%) Public Sector
4 297 (11.22%) Banking
5 235 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
6 64 (2.42%) Front Office
7 61 (2.30%) Retail
8 57 (2.15%) Investment Banking
9 44 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
10 43 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 33 (1.25%) Telecoms
12 31 (1.17%) Law
12 31 (1.17%) Marketing
13 30 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
14 27 (1.02%) Financial Institution
15 24 (0.91%) Legal
16 18 (0.68%) Military
17 16 (0.60%) Local Government
17 16 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
18 14 (0.53%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 568 (21.45%) Developer
2 468 (17.67%) Senior
3 318 (12.01%) DevOps Engineer
4 300 (11.33%) Architect
5 264 (9.97%) Lead
6 245 (9.25%) Data Engineer
7 155 (5.85%) Azure Engineer
8 140 (5.29%) AWS Engineer
9 133 (5.02%) Software Engineer
10 124 (4.68%) Cloud Engineer
11 120 (4.53%) Senior Developer
12 114 (4.31%) Java Developer
13 100 (3.78%) Platform Engineer
14 93 (3.51%) Full-Stack Developer
15 84 (3.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 84 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
16 75 (2.83%) Python Developer
17 67 (2.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 66 (2.49%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 63 (2.38%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 855 (32.29%) Terraform
2 389 (14.69%) REST
3 274 (10.35%) Kafka
4 261 (9.86%) React
5 240 (9.06%) .NET
6 218 (8.23%) RESTful
7 207 (7.82%) Spring
8 177 (6.68%) Spring Boot
9 141 (5.32%) PySpark
10 127 (4.80%) Node.js
11 102 (3.85%) HTML
12 92 (3.47%) CSS
13 89 (3.36%) Playwright
14 88 (3.32%) AngularJS
15 87 (3.29%) JSON
16 73 (2.76%) FastAPI
16 73 (2.76%) OAuth
17 68 (2.57%) SOAP
18 56 (2.11%) OAuth2
19 55 (2.08%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 552 (20.85%) Cloud Native
2 229 (8.65%) Distributed Systems
3 151 (5.70%) Product Ownership
4 113 (4.27%) AI Agents
5 105 (3.97%) Onboarding
6 92 (3.47%) Legacy Systems
7 87 (3.29%) Enterprise Software
8 43 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
9 41 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 41 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
9 41 (1.55%) Virtual Team
10 38 (1.44%) Mobile App
11 36 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
12 35 (1.32%) Management Information System
13 33 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
14 32 (1.21%) Data Structures
14 32 (1.21%) Security Posture
15 31 (1.17%) Algorithms
15 31 (1.17%) Fixed Income
16 30 (1.13%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 224 (8.46%) Linux
2 113 (4.27%) Windows
3 71 (2.68%) Unix
4 46 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 31 (1.17%) Windows Server
6 30 (1.13%) Android
7 29 (1.10%) Apple iOS
8 16 (0.60%) VMS
9 14 (0.53%) Ubuntu
10 11 (0.42%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
11 7 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
12 6 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.15%) Solaris
13 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.076%) AIX
15 1 (0.038%) CentOS
15 1 (0.038%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,473 (55.63%) DevOps
2 963 (36.37%) Agile
3 902 (34.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 585 (22.09%) AI
5 568 (21.45%) Test Automation
6 558 (21.07%) Containerisation
7 531 (20.05%) Microservices
8 495 (18.69%) Observability
9 470 (17.75%) Software Engineering
10 389 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
11 366 (13.82%) Analytics
12 351 (13.26%) Data Pipeline
13 348 (13.14%) Continuous Improvement
14 333 (12.58%) Data Modelling
14 333 (12.58%) Stakeholder Management
15 325 (12.27%) Data Engineering
15 325 (12.27%) Platform Engineering
16 317 (11.97%) Event-Driven
17 277 (10.46%) Migration
18 276 (10.42%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1,075 (40.60%) Python
2 751 (28.36%) SQL
3 546 (20.62%) Java
4 280 (10.57%) JavaScript
5 268 (10.12%) C#
6 266 (10.05%) TypeScript
7 221 (8.35%) Bash
8 218 (8.23%) PowerShell
9 112 (4.23%) Bicep
10 64 (2.42%) Go
11 53 (2.00%) Kotlin
12 52 (1.96%) Shell Script
13 49 (1.85%) Apex Code
14 44 (1.66%) Scala
15 41 (1.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 34 (1.28%) Ruby
17 32 (1.21%) PL/SQL
18 27 (1.02%) C++
18 27 (1.02%) T-SQL
19 25 (0.94%) Perl
Qualifications
1 689 (26.02%) Security Cleared
2 618 (23.34%) SC Cleared
3 144 (5.44%) Degree
4 105 (3.97%) Azure Certification
5 83 (3.13%) DV Cleared
6 80 (3.02%) AWS Certification
7 68 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 50 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
9 26 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 26 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
10 19 (0.72%) CISSP
11 17 (0.64%) Master's Degree
12 15 (0.57%) DBS Check
13 14 (0.53%) ISTQB
14 13 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 12 (0.45%) GIAC
15 12 (0.45%) PhD
16 11 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
16 11 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 10 (0.38%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 236 (8.91%) QA
2 232 (8.76%) Data Quality
3 86 (3.25%) Accessibility
4 55 (2.08%) GDPR
5 50 (1.89%) NIST
6 48 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 27 (1.02%) WCAG
8 22 (0.83%) NCSC
8 22 (0.83%) SLA
9 13 (0.49%) ISO 20022
10 12 (0.45%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.42%) EU AI Act
12 10 (0.38%) GRC
13 9 (0.34%) SOC 2
14 7 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 5 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
16 4 (0.15%) COBIT
16 4 (0.15%) MiFID
16 4 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 683 (25.79%) Docker
2 63 (2.38%) Active Directory
3 39 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
4 33 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.49%) Squid
6 7 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.23%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
9 4 (0.15%) Postfix
10 3 (0.11%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.076%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.076%) DFS Replication
11 2 (0.076%) Dovecot
11 2 (0.076%) HDFS
11 2 (0.076%) KVM
11 2 (0.076%) Varnish
11 2 (0.076%) vSphere
12 1 (0.038%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 786 (29.68%) Kubernetes
2 212 (8.01%) Grafana
3 197 (7.44%) Ansible
4 173 (6.53%) Prometheus
5 36 (1.36%) Argo
6 33 (1.25%) Puppet
7 24 (0.91%) Kibana
8 20 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
9 19 (0.72%) Packer
10 17 (0.64%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.49%) Istio
12 10 (0.38%) Control-M
13 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
14 7 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
14 7 (0.26%) Kustomize
14 7 (0.26%) SCCM
15 5 (0.19%) HP Fortify
15 5 (0.19%) Nagios
16 4 (0.15%) Consul
16 4 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 446 (16.84%) Microsoft
2 232 (8.76%) Databricks
3 146 (5.51%) Google
4 140 (5.29%) Oracle
5 100 (3.78%) Salesforce
6 98 (3.70%) Splunk
7 66 (2.49%) ServiceNow
8 51 (1.93%) OpenAI
9 49 (1.85%) Dynatrace
10 46 (1.74%) VMware
11 38 (1.44%) IBM
12 36 (1.36%) Informatica
13 31 (1.17%) Foundry
14 30 (1.13%) Red Hat
15 28 (1.06%) MuleSoft
16 26 (0.98%) SAP
17 23 (0.87%) Cisco
17 23 (0.87%) New Relic
18 20 (0.76%) CyberArk
18 20 (0.76%) Palantir