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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 15 18
Rank change year-on-year +4 +3 +2
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,729 1,556 1,452
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.40% 11.55% 8.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.07% 12.49% 9.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,847 1,033 1,009
10th Percentile £400 £368 £413
25th Percentile £450 £438 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £525 £570
Median % change year-on-year +2.02% -7.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £738 £738 £789
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 1
10th Percentile £49.25 £30.63 -
25th Percentile - £36.88 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £48.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -11.36% -26.67%
75th Percentile £75.00 £53.75 -
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.38 -
England median hourly rate £67.25 £65.00 £67.25
% change year-on-year +3.46% -3.35% -10.33%

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 18,107 12,462 14,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.93% 92.53% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,868 8,244 9,685
10th Percentile £360 £327 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £675
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 306 252 179
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.01 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.24% -9.29% -9.58%
75th Percentile £57.38 £49.56 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 +11 351 £550 -10.20% 315
South London +2 65 £536 -0.97% 23
West London -10 47 £560 +15.45% 97
East London +7 14 £585 +8.33% 29
North London - 1 £650 - 3
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
1 127 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
2 116 (4.25%) Confluence
3 104 (3.81%) Apache Spark
4 79 (2.89%) Apache
5 38 (1.39%) SharePoint
6 18 (0.66%) CMS
7 16 (0.59%) Camunda
8 12 (0.44%) nginx
9 8 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.26%) Anypoint
10 7 (0.26%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.22%) SAS
12 5 (0.18%) Mule
13 4 (0.15%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
14 3 (0.11%) IIS
14 3 (0.11%) JBoss
14 3 (0.11%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.11%) Mendix
Applications
1 15 (0.55%) Chatbot
1 15 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.15%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.15%) Trello
5 2 (0.073%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.037%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.037%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.037%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 1 (0.037%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 26 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.37%) Aladdin
2 10 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
3 8 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.22%) Shopify
5 5 (0.18%) Magento
6 4 (0.15%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.11%) Endur
7 3 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.11%) SAP CRM
8 2 (0.073%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.073%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.073%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.073%) Temenos T24
9 1 (0.037%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.037%) FIS Private Capital Suite
9 1 (0.037%) PeopleSoft HCM
9 1 (0.037%) SAP IS-U
9 1 (0.037%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,231 (45.11%) Azure
2 1,178 (43.17%) AWS
3 617 (22.61%) GitHub
4 467 (17.11%) Azure DevOps
5 430 (15.76%) GCP
6 417 (15.28%) GitHub Actions
7 328 (12.02%) Serverless
8 244 (8.94%) Amazon S3
9 233 (8.54%) Power Platform
10 211 (7.73%) AWS Lambda
11 167 (6.12%) Amazon EKS
12 157 (5.75%) Snowflake
13 150 (5.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 139 (5.09%) Entra ID
15 138 (5.06%) AWS CloudFormation
16 134 (4.91%) dbt
17 127 (4.65%) Amazon EC2
18 112 (4.10%) Azure AKS
19 110 (4.03%) Azure Data Factory
20 93 (3.41%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 66 (2.42%) Firewall
2 42 (1.54%) Network Security
3 41 (1.50%) DNS
4 36 (1.32%) VPN
5 29 (1.06%) Internet
6 26 (0.95%) TCP/IP
7 22 (0.81%) HTTP
8 21 (0.77%) 5G
9 19 (0.70%) SSL
10 13 (0.48%) WAN
11 12 (0.44%) 3GPP
12 11 (0.40%) Radio Access Network
12 11 (0.40%) SAN
13 9 (0.33%) 4G
13 9 (0.33%) Kerberos
13 9 (0.33%) SSH
14 7 (0.26%) BGP
14 7 (0.26%) FTP
14 7 (0.26%) SD-WAN
15 6 (0.22%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (6.78%) PostgreSQL
2 178 (6.52%) Power BI
3 153 (5.61%) Data Warehouse
4 140 (5.13%) SQL Server
5 130 (4.76%) NoSQL
6 115 (4.21%) Data Lake
7 109 (3.99%) MongoDB
8 104 (3.81%) Relational Database
9 93 (3.41%) Amazon RDS
10 88 (3.22%) Delta Lake
11 82 (3.00%) Metadata
12 73 (2.67%) BigQuery
13 71 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
14 57 (2.09%) Redis
15 50 (1.83%) Amazon Athena
16 48 (1.76%) DynamoDB
17 44 (1.61%) MySQL
18 42 (1.54%) Amazon Aurora
19 41 (1.50%) Big Data
20 40 (1.47%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 527 (19.31%) Git
2 442 (16.20%) Jenkins
3 366 (13.41%) GitLab
4 196 (7.18%) JIRA
5 95 (3.48%) Selenium
6 76 (2.78%) JUnit
7 56 (2.05%) Gradle
8 54 (1.98%) Cypress.io
9 48 (1.76%) Cucumber
10 47 (1.72%) JMeter
11 46 (1.69%) Maven
12 45 (1.65%) SonarQube
13 42 (1.54%) Bitbucket
14 39 (1.43%) Mockito
15 38 (1.39%) Postman
16 32 (1.17%) REST Assured
17 27 (0.99%) CircleCI
18 24 (0.88%) Gatling
19 22 (0.81%) MLflow
20 20 (0.73%) Snyk
General
1 702 (25.72%) Social Skills
2 679 (24.88%) Finance
3 327 (11.98%) Banking
4 304 (11.14%) Public Sector
5 253 (9.27%) Analytical Skills
6 74 (2.71%) Front Office
7 67 (2.46%) Retail
8 60 (2.20%) Investment Banking
9 48 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 38 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
11 35 (1.28%) Marketing
12 32 (1.17%) Law
13 30 (1.10%) Telecoms
14 27 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
15 22 (0.81%) Financial Institution
15 22 (0.81%) Legal
15 22 (0.81%) Military
16 20 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
17 18 (0.66%) Local Government
18 17 (0.62%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 575 (21.07%) Developer
2 495 (18.14%) Senior
3 332 (12.17%) DevOps Engineer
4 308 (11.29%) Architect
5 271 (9.93%) Lead
6 252 (9.23%) Data Engineer
7 154 (5.64%) Azure Engineer
8 147 (5.39%) AWS Engineer
9 132 (4.84%) Software Engineer
10 129 (4.73%) Senior Developer
11 127 (4.65%) Cloud Engineer
12 119 (4.36%) Java Developer
13 102 (3.74%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 99 (3.63%) Platform Engineer
15 93 (3.41%) Full-Stack Developer
16 83 (3.04%) Solutions Architect
17 76 (2.78%) Python Developer
18 70 (2.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 70 (2.57%) Senior Data Engineer
19 67 (2.46%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 893 (32.72%) Terraform
2 416 (15.24%) REST
3 289 (10.59%) Kafka
4 259 (9.49%) React
5 243 (8.90%) .NET
6 221 (8.10%) RESTful
7 211 (7.73%) Spring
8 188 (6.89%) Spring Boot
9 145 (5.31%) PySpark
10 121 (4.43%) Node.js
11 108 (3.96%) HTML
12 96 (3.52%) CSS
13 91 (3.33%) Playwright
14 83 (3.04%) JSON
14 83 (3.04%) OAuth
15 81 (2.97%) AngularJS
16 78 (2.86%) FastAPI
17 74 (2.71%) SOAP
18 63 (2.31%) Middleware
18 63 (2.31%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 573 (21.00%) Cloud Native
2 232 (8.50%) Distributed Systems
3 161 (5.90%) Product Ownership
4 135 (4.95%) AI Agents
5 119 (4.36%) Onboarding
6 102 (3.74%) Enterprise Software
7 91 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
8 45 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
9 42 (1.54%) Virtual Team
10 40 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
11 39 (1.43%) Data Structures
11 39 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 38 (1.39%) Mobile App
12 38 (1.39%) Security Posture
12 38 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
13 34 (1.25%) Management Information System
14 33 (1.21%) Algorithms
14 33 (1.21%) Replication
15 31 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
15 31 (1.14%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 248 (9.09%) Linux
2 122 (4.47%) Windows
3 79 (2.89%) Unix
4 49 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 33 (1.21%) Windows Server
6 28 (1.03%) Android
7 24 (0.88%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.55%) VMS
9 13 (0.48%) Ubuntu
10 10 (0.37%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
11 7 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
12 6 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.15%) Solaris
13 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.11%) zOS
15 2 (0.073%) CentOS
16 1 (0.037%) AIX
16 1 (0.037%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,511 (55.37%) DevOps
2 991 (36.31%) Agile
3 954 (34.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 638 (23.38%) AI
5 599 (21.95%) Test Automation
6 566 (20.74%) Containerisation
7 537 (19.68%) Microservices
8 532 (19.49%) Observability
9 497 (18.21%) Software Engineering
10 413 (15.13%) Problem-Solving
11 376 (13.78%) Stakeholder Management
12 372 (13.63%) Continuous Improvement
13 368 (13.48%) Data Pipeline
14 363 (13.30%) Analytics
15 347 (12.72%) Event-Driven
16 344 (12.61%) Data Engineering
17 339 (12.42%) Data Modelling
18 338 (12.39%) Platform Engineering
19 302 (11.07%) Technical Leadership
20 290 (10.63%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1,135 (41.59%) Python
2 750 (27.48%) SQL
3 556 (20.37%) Java
4 290 (10.63%) JavaScript
5 275 (10.08%) TypeScript
6 262 (9.60%) C#
7 234 (8.57%) Bash
8 223 (8.17%) PowerShell
9 113 (4.14%) Bicep
10 74 (2.71%) Go
11 58 (2.13%) Kotlin
12 56 (2.05%) Shell Script
13 51 (1.87%) Scala
14 43 (1.58%) Apex Code
15 41 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 30 (1.10%) Groovy
16 30 (1.10%) PL/SQL
17 29 (1.06%) T-SQL
18 27 (0.99%) C++
19 26 (0.95%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 714 (26.16%) Security Cleared
2 637 (23.34%) SC Cleared
3 149 (5.46%) Degree
4 106 (3.88%) Azure Certification
5 88 (3.22%) DV Cleared
6 84 (3.08%) AWS Certification
7 67 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 58 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
9 28 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 25 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
11 21 (0.77%) CISSP
12 19 (0.70%) Master's Degree
13 17 (0.62%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 16 (0.59%) DBS Check
15 14 (0.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 13 (0.48%) ISTQB
17 12 (0.44%) GIAC
18 11 (0.40%) PhD
19 10 (0.37%) CISM
20 9 (0.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 264 (9.67%) QA
2 252 (9.23%) Data Quality
3 84 (3.08%) Accessibility
4 47 (1.72%) GDPR
5 45 (1.65%) NIST
6 43 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 24 (0.88%) NCSC
7 24 (0.88%) WCAG
8 18 (0.66%) SLA
9 14 (0.51%) ISO 20022
10 12 (0.44%) GRC
11 11 (0.40%) EU AI Act
11 11 (0.40%) SOC 2
12 9 (0.33%) PCI DSS
13 7 (0.26%) Basel III
13 7 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 6 (0.22%) MiFID
15 5 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.18%) EMIR
System Software
1 698 (25.58%) Docker
2 63 (2.31%) Active Directory
3 40 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
4 33 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.48%) Squid
6 7 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.22%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
9 4 (0.15%) Postfix
10 2 (0.073%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.073%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.073%) Dovecot
10 2 (0.073%) HDFS
10 2 (0.073%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.073%) KVM
10 2 (0.073%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.073%) Varnish
10 2 (0.073%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 818 (29.97%) Kubernetes
2 228 (8.35%) Grafana
3 219 (8.02%) Ansible
4 185 (6.78%) Prometheus
5 37 (1.36%) Argo
6 35 (1.28%) Puppet
7 25 (0.92%) Kibana
8 23 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
9 19 (0.70%) Packer
9 19 (0.70%) Progress Chef
10 11 (0.40%) Control-M
10 11 (0.40%) Istio
10 11 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (0.29%) SCCM
12 7 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
12 7 (0.26%) Karpenter
12 7 (0.26%) Kustomize
13 5 (0.18%) HP Fortify
13 5 (0.18%) Nagios
14 4 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 467 (17.11%) Microsoft
2 256 (9.38%) Databricks
3 162 (5.94%) Google
4 146 (5.35%) Oracle
5 114 (4.18%) Splunk
6 94 (3.44%) Salesforce
7 70 (2.57%) ServiceNow
8 63 (2.31%) OpenAI
9 61 (2.24%) Dynatrace
10 50 (1.83%) VMware
11 44 (1.61%) IBM
12 38 (1.39%) Foundry
13 35 (1.28%) Informatica
14 34 (1.25%) Red Hat
15 31 (1.14%) SAP
16 27 (0.99%) MuleSoft
17 24 (0.88%) New Relic
18 21 (0.77%) CyberArk
19 19 (0.70%) Cisco
20 18 (0.66%) Palantir