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 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 20 23
Rank change year-on-year +10 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,337 1,220 1,341
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.50% 9.98% 7.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.08% 10.81% 8.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,569 822 961
10th Percentile £400 £394 £413
25th Percentile £450 £447 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £542 £565
Median % change year-on-year +0.55% -4.16% -9.24%
75th Percentile £645 £688 £688
90th Percentile £750 £837 £815
England median daily rate £525 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.94% -6.36% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 3
10th Percentile £50.25 £39.88 £48.40
25th Percentile £55.00 £47.19 £50.88
Median hourly rate £68.50 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.48% -4.55% -31.25%
75th Percentile £95.00 £54.06 £61.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.63 £64.60
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year +14.54% -18.93% +6.70%

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 16,594 11,281 15,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.76% 92.27% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,070 7,533 11,092
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £435 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 198 317
10th Percentile £18.48 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.17 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.70 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.17% +14.72% -27.31%
75th Percentile £58.75 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £79.25 £63.75 £68.30
England median hourly rate £47.25 £28.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +65.79% -24.00% +4.17%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -2 251 £575 -2.95% 163
West London +12 56 £603 +21.41% 20
South London -2 43 £513 -6.82%
East London +5 12 £450 +80.00% 16
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
1 106 (4.54%) Apache Spark
2 102 (4.36%) Apache Airflow
3 74 (3.17%) Confluence
4 68 (2.91%) Apache
5 29 (1.24%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
7 11 (0.47%) Camunda
8 10 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
9 9 (0.39%) SAS
10 8 (0.34%) Appian
10 8 (0.34%) HCL Notes
10 8 (0.34%) Mendix
10 8 (0.34%) OpenStack
11 7 (0.30%) CMS
11 7 (0.30%) Ethereum
11 7 (0.30%) WebSphere
12 6 (0.26%) Hyperledger
12 6 (0.26%) nginx
13 5 (0.21%) Tomcat
14 3 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 20 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.39%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.13%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.13%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.086%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.043%) Maya
Business Applications
1 17 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.39%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.26%) Shopify
5 5 (0.21%) Magento
5 5 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.13%) Findur
7 3 (0.13%) SAP BPC
8 2 (0.086%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.086%) SAP S/4HANA
9 1 (0.043%) Endur
9 1 (0.043%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.043%) ProductWriter
9 1 (0.043%) R3 Corda
9 1 (0.043%) SAP CRM
9 1 (0.043%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.043%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,050 (44.93%) Azure
2 1,039 (44.46%) AWS
3 538 (23.02%) GitHub
4 406 (17.37%) Azure DevOps
5 351 (15.02%) GitHub Actions
6 343 (14.68%) GCP
7 313 (13.39%) Serverless
8 230 (9.84%) Amazon S3
9 209 (8.94%) AWS Lambda
9 209 (8.94%) Power Platform
10 181 (7.74%) AWS CloudFormation
11 138 (5.91%) Amazon EKS
12 122 (5.22%) Azure Data Factory
13 114 (4.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 113 (4.84%) Amazon EC2
15 107 (4.58%) Azure AKS
16 106 (4.54%) Snowflake
17 99 (4.24%) Amazon ECS
18 95 (4.07%) Entra ID
19 84 (3.59%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 79 (3.38%) Firewall
2 47 (2.01%) Network Security
3 37 (1.58%) DNS
4 26 (1.11%) VPN
5 25 (1.07%) HTTP
6 14 (0.60%) WAN
7 13 (0.56%) Internet
8 12 (0.51%) SD-WAN
9 11 (0.47%) 5G
10 9 (0.39%) 3GPP
10 9 (0.39%) SSL
11 7 (0.30%) BGP
12 6 (0.26%) OSPF
12 6 (0.26%) TCP/IP
13 5 (0.21%) 4G
13 5 (0.21%) Ethernet VPN
13 5 (0.21%) FTP
13 5 (0.21%) LTE
13 5 (0.21%) VXLAN
14 4 (0.17%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (6.25%) Data Lake
2 145 (6.20%) Power BI
3 138 (5.91%) PostgreSQL
4 136 (5.82%) SQL Server
5 121 (5.18%) NoSQL
6 112 (4.79%) Data Warehouse
7 83 (3.55%) Relational Database
8 80 (3.42%) MongoDB
9 75 (3.21%) Amazon RDS
10 72 (3.08%) Delta Lake
11 69 (2.95%) Amazon Athena
12 64 (2.74%) Amazon Redshift
13 62 (2.65%) Metadata
14 61 (2.61%) BigQuery
15 52 (2.23%) Big Data
16 48 (2.05%) DynamoDB
17 44 (1.88%) Azure SQL Database
18 36 (1.54%) Redis
18 36 (1.54%) Snowflake Schema
19 32 (1.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 404 (17.29%) Git
2 356 (15.23%) Jenkins
3 277 (11.85%) GitLab
4 140 (5.99%) JIRA
5 67 (2.87%) Selenium
6 62 (2.65%) JUnit
7 48 (2.05%) MLflow
8 46 (1.97%) Postman
9 43 (1.84%) Cucumber
10 42 (1.80%) JMeter
11 37 (1.58%) Mockito
12 33 (1.41%) Gradle
13 31 (1.33%) REST Assured
14 28 (1.20%) Cypress.io
15 24 (1.03%) CircleCI
16 22 (0.94%) Artifactory
16 22 (0.94%) SonarQube
17 20 (0.86%) Bitbucket
18 19 (0.81%) Liquibase
18 19 (0.81%) Maven
General
1 555 (23.75%) Finance
2 537 (22.98%) Social Skills
3 274 (11.72%) Public Sector
4 234 (10.01%) Banking
5 164 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
6 55 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
7 45 (1.93%) Front Office
8 44 (1.88%) Investment Banking
9 42 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
10 40 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 40 (1.71%) Retail
11 28 (1.20%) Financial Institution
12 22 (0.94%) Legal
12 22 (0.94%) Telecoms
13 20 (0.86%) Law
14 18 (0.77%) Marketing
15 17 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
16 16 (0.68%) Publishing
17 11 (0.47%) Manufacturing
17 11 (0.47%) Military
Job Titles
1 480 (20.54%) Developer
2 389 (16.65%) Senior
3 270 (11.55%) Architect
4 264 (11.30%) DevOps Engineer
5 222 (9.50%) Data Engineer
6 217 (9.29%) Lead
7 145 (6.20%) AWS Engineer
8 139 (5.95%) Azure Engineer
9 132 (5.65%) Cloud Engineer
10 112 (4.79%) Software Engineer
11 94 (4.02%) Java Developer
11 94 (4.02%) Platform Engineer
11 94 (4.02%) Senior Developer
12 74 (3.17%) Full-Stack Developer
13 73 (3.12%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 71 (3.04%) Python Developer
14 71 (3.04%) Solutions Architect
15 57 (2.44%) AWS DevOps
16 54 (2.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 53 (2.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 256 (10.95%) REST
2 235 (10.06%) React
3 220 (9.41%) Kafka
4 212 (9.07%) .NET
5 197 (8.43%) RESTful
6 182 (7.79%) Spring
7 167 (7.15%) Spring Boot
8 125 (5.35%) Node.js
9 118 (5.05%) PySpark
10 116 (4.96%) AngularJS
11 85 (3.64%) OAuth
12 81 (3.47%) HTML
13 70 (3.00%) CSS
14 69 (2.95%) Playwright
15 65 (2.78%) FastAPI
16 58 (2.48%) Pandas
17 57 (2.44%) OAuth2
18 55 (2.35%) JSON
19 52 (2.23%) OpenTelemetry
20 51 (2.18%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 498 (21.31%) Cloud Native
2 171 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
3 106 (4.54%) Product Ownership
4 83 (3.55%) Legacy Systems
5 77 (3.29%) Onboarding
6 57 (2.44%) AI Agents
7 42 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
8 38 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
8 38 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 36 (1.54%) Algorithms
10 33 (1.41%) Mobile App
11 32 (1.37%) Public Cloud
11 32 (1.37%) Virtual Team
12 31 (1.33%) Fixed Income
12 31 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
13 30 (1.28%) Equities
13 30 (1.28%) Management Information System
13 30 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
14 29 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
15 27 (1.16%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 155 (6.63%) Linux
2 90 (3.85%) Windows
3 45 (1.93%) Unix
4 24 (1.03%) Android
5 23 (0.98%) Apple iOS
6 22 (0.94%) VMS
7 19 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 18 (0.77%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.26%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.21%) Solaris
10 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
10 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.17%) zOS
12 3 (0.13%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.086%) AIX
13 2 (0.086%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,280 (54.77%) DevOps
2 803 (34.36%) Infrastructure as Code
3 724 (30.98%) Agile
4 516 (22.08%) Containerisation
5 494 (21.14%) AI
6 466 (19.94%) Test Automation
7 443 (18.96%) Microservices
8 404 (17.29%) Observability
9 377 (16.13%) Analytics
10 343 (14.68%) Software Engineering
11 319 (13.65%) Data Modelling
12 309 (13.22%) Data Pipeline
13 300 (12.84%) Problem-Solving
14 299 (12.79%) Data Engineering
15 278 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
16 264 (11.30%) Machine Learning
17 254 (10.87%) Platform Engineering
18 242 (10.36%) Migration
19 236 (10.10%) ETL
20 219 (9.37%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 909 (38.90%) Python
2 674 (28.84%) SQL
3 440 (18.83%) Java
4 255 (10.91%) C#
5 232 (9.93%) JavaScript
6 230 (9.84%) TypeScript
7 157 (6.72%) PowerShell
8 155 (6.63%) Bash
9 90 (3.85%) Bicep
10 55 (2.35%) Scala
11 40 (1.71%) Shell Script
12 39 (1.67%) Go
13 38 (1.63%) Apex Code
13 38 (1.63%) Ruby
14 37 (1.58%) Kotlin
15 30 (1.28%) PL/SQL
16 27 (1.16%) T-SQL
17 18 (0.77%) C++
18 13 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 11 (0.47%) Swift
Qualifications
1 577 (24.69%) Security Cleared
2 518 (22.17%) SC Cleared
3 121 (5.18%) Degree
4 99 (4.24%) Azure Certification
5 69 (2.95%) AWS Certification
6 56 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 46 (1.97%) DV Cleared
8 42 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
9 23 (0.98%) Master's Degree
9 23 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
10 19 (0.81%) CISSP
11 18 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 16 (0.68%) ISTQB
13 14 (0.60%) DBS Check
14 13 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
15 12 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
16 10 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 9 (0.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 9 (0.39%) CISM
18 8 (0.34%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 191 (8.17%) QA
2 180 (7.70%) Data Quality
3 73 (3.12%) GDPR
4 72 (3.08%) Accessibility
5 64 (2.74%) NIST
6 52 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 30 (1.28%) NCSC
8 26 (1.11%) WCAG
9 24 (1.03%) PCI DSS
10 23 (0.98%) SLA
11 14 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.39%) GRC
12 9 (0.39%) ISO 20022
13 7 (0.30%) PSD2
14 6 (0.26%) COBIT
15 5 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.21%) EU AI Act
15 5 (0.21%) MiFID
15 5 (0.21%) SOC 2
16 4 (0.17%) SEPA
System Software
1 612 (26.19%) Docker
2 58 (2.48%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.39%) Squid
7 7 (0.30%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
9 5 (0.21%) vSphere
10 2 (0.086%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.086%) Postfix
11 1 (0.043%) HDFS
11 1 (0.043%) IAG
11 1 (0.043%) OpenSSH
11 1 (0.043%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
11 1 (0.043%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 768 (32.86%) Terraform
2 692 (29.61%) Kubernetes
3 166 (7.10%) Ansible
4 157 (6.72%) Grafana
5 144 (6.16%) Prometheus
6 28 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (1.03%) Argo
8 21 (0.90%) Istio
9 20 (0.86%) Kibana
9 20 (0.86%) Puppet
10 11 (0.47%) Packer
10 11 (0.47%) Progress Chef
11 8 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
12 7 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 6 (0.26%) Kustomize
13 6 (0.26%) SCCM
14 5 (0.21%) Oracle RMAN
15 4 (0.17%) FortiGate
15 4 (0.17%) Karpenter
15 4 (0.17%) Salt
Vendors
1 349 (14.93%) Microsoft
2 197 (8.43%) Databricks
3 116 (4.96%) Google
4 104 (4.45%) Oracle
5 88 (3.77%) Salesforce
6 77 (3.29%) Splunk
7 55 (2.35%) OpenAI
8 52 (2.23%) ServiceNow
9 33 (1.41%) Dynatrace
10 30 (1.28%) VMware
11 25 (1.07%) Red Hat
12 24 (1.03%) CyberArk
12 24 (1.03%) Foundry
12 24 (1.03%) IBM
12 24 (1.03%) SAP
13 22 (0.94%) MuleSoft
14 17 (0.73%) Cisco
14 17 (0.73%) Informatica
15 13 (0.56%) Sybase
16 12 (0.51%) Palo Alto