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

6 months to
1 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 1,850 1,417 1,314
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.83% 9.69% 7.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.02% 10.75% 8.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,270 990 985
10th Percentile £375 £406 £425
25th Percentile £442 £495 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £594 £588
Median % change year-on-year -11.58% +1.06% -6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £700
90th Percentile £725 £810 £800
England median daily rate £518 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -5.91% -3.51% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile £36.90 - £56.78
25th Percentile £52.88 - £57.56
Median hourly rate £64.75 - £61.50
75th Percentile £67.38 - £66.75
90th Percentile £68.95 - £69.90
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -13.33% +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 13,193 13,182 16,214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.50% 90.18% 89.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,713 8,439 11,605
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £756 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 163 243
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.13 £17.15
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £31.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.13 £54.50 £58.38
90th Percentile £69.12 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +26.76%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +1 219 £550 -8.33% 500
West London +5 59 £603 +30.27% 17
South London +13 58 £525 -2.42% 11
East London -7 11 £530 +6.00% 23
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 79 (4.27%) Confluence
2 63 (3.41%) Apache Spark
3 61 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
4 37 (2.00%) Apache
5 30 (1.62%) SharePoint
6 17 (0.92%) nginx
7 13 (0.70%) CMS
8 8 (0.43%) HCL Notes
9 7 (0.38%) Mendix
10 6 (0.32%) SAS
11 5 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 5 (0.27%) Appian
11 5 (0.27%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.27%) Headless CMS
11 5 (0.27%) Hyperledger
11 5 (0.27%) IIS
12 4 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.22%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.16%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.16%) Traefik
Applications
1 24 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 10 (0.54%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 7 (0.38%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.16%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.054%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.54%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.22%) Endur
3 4 (0.22%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.22%) thinkFolio
4 2 (0.11%) Magento
4 2 (0.11%) Orchestrade
4 2 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.11%) Shopify
5 1 (0.054%) Cerner Millennium
5 1 (0.054%) ION Anvil
5 1 (0.054%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.054%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.054%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.054%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.054%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.054%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.054%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.054%) Siebel CRM
5 1 (0.054%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 826 (44.65%) AWS
2 811 (43.84%) Azure
3 440 (23.78%) GitHub
4 308 (16.65%) GitHub Actions
5 306 (16.54%) Azure DevOps
6 303 (16.38%) GCP
7 262 (14.16%) Serverless
8 180 (9.73%) Amazon S3
9 155 (8.38%) AWS Lambda
10 129 (6.97%) AWS CloudFormation
11 128 (6.92%) Power Platform
12 102 (5.51%) Amazon EKS
13 101 (5.46%) Amazon ECS
14 97 (5.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 92 (4.97%) Azure Data Factory
16 86 (4.65%) Azure AKS
17 81 (4.38%) Amazon EC2
18 71 (3.84%) Azure Logic Apps
19 67 (3.62%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 66 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 85 (4.59%) Firewall
2 65 (3.51%) DNS
3 40 (2.16%) Network Security
4 28 (1.51%) VPN
5 22 (1.19%) HTTP
6 19 (1.03%) TCP/IP
7 15 (0.81%) OpenLDAP
7 15 (0.81%) SSL
8 12 (0.65%) SSH
8 12 (0.65%) WAN
9 11 (0.59%) SMTP
10 10 (0.54%) FTP
10 10 (0.54%) IMAP
10 10 (0.54%) SD-WAN
11 8 (0.43%) DHCP
12 6 (0.32%) tcpdump
12 6 (0.32%) Wireshark
13 5 (0.27%) BGP
13 5 (0.27%) MPLS
14 4 (0.22%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (7.73%) PostgreSQL
2 107 (5.78%) SQL Server
3 105 (5.68%) NoSQL
4 91 (4.92%) Power BI
5 89 (4.81%) Data Lake
6 76 (4.11%) Data Warehouse
7 75 (4.05%) Amazon RDS
8 62 (3.35%) MongoDB
9 57 (3.08%) Relational Database
10 42 (2.27%) BigQuery
11 40 (2.16%) Azure SQL Database
11 40 (2.16%) Delta Lake
12 33 (1.78%) DynamoDB
13 32 (1.73%) Amazon Athena
14 30 (1.62%) Amazon Redshift
14 30 (1.62%) Big Data
15 29 (1.57%) Metadata
15 29 (1.57%) MySQL
16 27 (1.46%) Redis
17 26 (1.41%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 359 (19.41%) Jenkins
2 332 (17.95%) Git
3 232 (12.54%) GitLab
4 146 (7.89%) JIRA
5 72 (3.89%) Selenium
6 47 (2.54%) Cucumber
6 47 (2.54%) Cypress.io
7 43 (2.32%) JUnit
8 37 (2.00%) Postman
9 31 (1.68%) SonarQube
9 31 (1.68%) TeamCity
10 30 (1.62%) MLflow
11 29 (1.57%) JMeter
12 27 (1.46%) Maven
13 25 (1.35%) Bitbucket
14 24 (1.30%) Sonatype Nexus
15 21 (1.14%) Gradle
16 20 (1.08%) REST Assured
17 18 (0.97%) CircleCI
17 18 (0.97%) Mockito
General
1 489 (26.43%) Social Skills
2 415 (22.43%) Finance
3 213 (11.51%) Banking
4 195 (10.54%) Public Sector
5 136 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
6 54 (2.92%) Investment Banking
7 48 (2.59%) Front Office
8 34 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
9 33 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 29 (1.57%) Financial Institution
11 27 (1.46%) Marketing
12 26 (1.41%) Telecoms
13 20 (1.08%) Retail
14 16 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
15 15 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
16 14 (0.76%) Military
16 14 (0.76%) Publishing
17 13 (0.70%) Manufacturing
18 11 (0.59%) Electronics
19 10 (0.54%) Law
Job Titles
1 478 (25.84%) Developer
2 290 (15.68%) Senior
3 248 (13.41%) DevOps Engineer
4 156 (8.43%) Architect
5 146 (7.89%) Data Engineer
6 118 (6.38%) Lead
7 109 (5.89%) AWS Engineer
8 106 (5.73%) Azure Engineer
9 103 (5.57%) Platform Engineer
10 89 (4.81%) Senior Developer
11 86 (4.65%) Software Engineer
12 85 (4.59%) Java Developer
13 82 (4.43%) Full-Stack Developer
14 66 (3.57%) AWS DevOps
15 64 (3.46%) Python Engineer
16 61 (3.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 60 (3.24%) Cloud Engineer
18 54 (2.92%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 54 (2.92%) Python Developer
19 51 (2.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 236 (12.76%) React
2 198 (10.70%) Node.js
3 197 (10.65%) Kafka
4 180 (9.73%) RESTful
5 166 (8.97%) REST
6 165 (8.92%) .NET
7 133 (7.19%) Spring
8 110 (5.95%) AngularJS
9 107 (5.78%) Spring Boot
10 92 (4.97%) CSS
11 89 (4.81%) HTML
12 83 (4.49%) Playwright
13 72 (3.89%) GraphQL
14 70 (3.78%) OAuth
15 65 (3.51%) YAML
16 61 (3.30%) PySpark
17 59 (3.19%) JSON
18 54 (2.92%) .NET Core
19 51 (2.76%) Vue
20 50 (2.70%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 339 (18.32%) Cloud Native
2 129 (6.97%) Distributed Systems
3 78 (4.22%) Product Ownership
4 50 (2.70%) Mobile App
5 38 (2.05%) AI Agents
6 37 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
7 36 (1.95%) Derivative
7 36 (1.95%) Onboarding
8 31 (1.68%) Replication
9 30 (1.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 29 (1.57%) Algorithms
10 29 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
10 29 (1.57%) Hedge funds
11 27 (1.46%) Public Cloud
12 26 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
13 24 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
14 23 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
15 22 (1.19%) Equities
15 22 (1.19%) Fixed Income
16 21 (1.14%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 172 (9.30%) Linux
2 69 (3.73%) Windows
3 38 (2.05%) Apple iOS
4 37 (2.00%) Android
5 33 (1.78%) VMS
6 25 (1.35%) Unix
7 20 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 18 (0.97%) Windows Server
9 15 (0.81%) Ubuntu
10 10 (0.54%) Amazon Linux
11 7 (0.38%) CentOS
11 7 (0.38%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.38%) Solaris
12 2 (0.11%) zOS
13 1 (0.054%) tvOS
13 1 (0.054%) watchOS
13 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,051 (56.81%) DevOps
2 649 (35.08%) Agile
3 608 (32.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 390 (21.08%) Containerisation
5 368 (19.89%) Test Automation
6 365 (19.73%) Problem-Solving
7 353 (19.08%) Microservices
8 274 (14.81%) Software Engineering
9 260 (14.05%) AI
10 258 (13.95%) Observability
11 243 (13.14%) Analytics
12 207 (11.19%) Data Pipeline
13 185 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
14 177 (9.57%) Data Engineering
15 172 (9.30%) Migration
16 170 (9.19%) Machine Learning
17 163 (8.81%) Continuous Improvement
18 160 (8.65%) Data Modelling
19 155 (8.38%) ETL
19 155 (8.38%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 736 (39.78%) Python
2 436 (23.57%) SQL
3 382 (20.65%) Java
4 272 (14.70%) JavaScript
5 250 (13.51%) TypeScript
6 208 (11.24%) C#
7 142 (7.68%) Bash
8 112 (6.05%) PowerShell
9 81 (4.38%) Go
10 66 (3.57%) Bicep
11 49 (2.65%) C++
12 38 (2.05%) Scala
13 28 (1.51%) Kotlin
13 28 (1.51%) Rust
14 27 (1.46%) Ruby
15 25 (1.35%) PL/SQL
16 23 (1.24%) T-SQL
17 20 (1.08%) Groovy
18 17 (0.92%) Apex Code
18 17 (0.92%) PHP
Qualifications
1 406 (21.95%) Security Cleared
2 356 (19.24%) SC Cleared
3 124 (6.70%) Degree
4 69 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 66 (3.57%) AWS Certification
6 65 (3.51%) Azure Certification
7 26 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 26 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
8 24 (1.30%) Master's Degree
9 21 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 20 (1.08%) MCP
11 16 (0.86%) CISSP
11 16 (0.86%) DV Cleared
11 16 (0.86%) ISTQB
12 13 (0.70%) Numerate Degree
13 12 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
14 9 (0.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 8 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 7 (0.38%) CCSP
16 7 (0.38%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (7.95%) QA
2 93 (5.03%) Data Quality
3 84 (4.54%) GDPR
4 64 (3.46%) Accessibility
5 50 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 41 (2.22%) NIST
7 22 (1.19%) WCAG
8 19 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 18 (0.97%) PCI DSS
10 14 (0.76%) NCSC
11 10 (0.54%) HIPAA
11 10 (0.54%) MiFID
12 8 (0.43%) SLA
13 6 (0.32%) NIST 800
14 5 (0.27%) EU AI Act
14 5 (0.27%) SOC 2
15 4 (0.22%) PERC
16 3 (0.16%) HL7
16 3 (0.16%) ISO 20022
16 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 594 (32.11%) Docker
2 54 (2.92%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.65%) Squid
6 10 (0.54%) DFS Replication
6 10 (0.54%) Dovecot
6 10 (0.54%) Postfix
7 8 (0.43%) zsh
8 6 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.32%) vSphere
9 5 (0.27%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.22%) NFS
10 4 (0.22%) Veritas File System
10 4 (0.22%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 4 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.16%) HDFS
11 3 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.054%) etcd
12 1 (0.054%) KVM
Systems Management
1 625 (33.78%) Kubernetes
2 623 (33.68%) Terraform
3 162 (8.76%) Ansible
4 149 (8.05%) Grafana
5 133 (7.19%) Prometheus
6 50 (2.70%) Argo
7 24 (1.30%) Istio
7 24 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (1.08%) Progress Chef
9 18 (0.97%) Kibana
10 16 (0.86%) ITRS Geneos
11 15 (0.81%) Puppet
12 12 (0.65%) Nessus
13 10 (0.54%) Proxmox
14 9 (0.49%) Rancher
15 7 (0.38%) logstash
15 7 (0.38%) Packer
16 6 (0.32%) Red Hat Satellite
17 5 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
17 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 257 (13.89%) Microsoft
2 180 (9.73%) Databricks
3 128 (6.92%) Google
4 76 (4.11%) Oracle
5 52 (2.81%) Splunk
6 51 (2.76%) Salesforce
6 51 (2.76%) ServiceNow
7 46 (2.49%) OpenAI
8 35 (1.89%) Red Hat
9 29 (1.57%) Dynatrace
10 24 (1.30%) VMware
11 18 (0.97%) SAP
11 18 (0.97%) Solace
12 17 (0.92%) Cisco
13 16 (0.86%) Atlassian
13 16 (0.86%) MuleSoft
14 11 (0.59%) Apple
14 11 (0.59%) Palo Alto
15 10 (0.54%) Jaspersoft
15 10 (0.54%) Qualys