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 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 17 27
Rank change year-on-year +5 +10 -11
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,164 1,299 1,239
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.51% 10.26% 6.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.01% 11.20% 7.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,465 932 907
10th Percentile £393 £400 £419
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £567
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +1.41% -9.28%
75th Percentile £644 £713 £688
90th Percentile £750 £838 £793
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 4
10th Percentile £48.25 - £49.23
25th Percentile £59.13 £51.25 £52.94
Median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +27.62% -6.67% -29.69%
75th Percentile £80.00 £53.75 £60.81
90th Percentile £95.00 - £64.53
England median hourly rate £67.50 £64.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +4.65% +12.17% -12.35%

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 15,441 11,594 15,826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.26% 91.57% 88.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,365 7,865 11,315
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £760 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 169 332
10th Percentile £18.20 £18.12 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.18 £19.83
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.06
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.43% -22.92%
75th Percentile £56.13 £50.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £65.00 £66.98
England median hourly rate £39.00 £32.50 £33.07
% change year-on-year +20.00% -1.71% -11.83%

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 8 April 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 8 April 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 8 April 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 -3 256 £550 -4.35% 202
West London +8 72 £603 +47.31% 22
South London +4 60 £525 +8.25% 9
East London -2 10 £450 -15.69% 13
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
1 102 (4.71%) Apache Spark
2 81 (3.74%) Apache Airflow
3 67 (3.10%) Apache
4 63 (2.91%) Confluence
5 34 (1.57%) SharePoint
6 11 (0.51%) CMS
6 11 (0.51%) HCL Notes
6 11 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.51%) SAS
7 10 (0.46%) Mendix
8 9 (0.42%) nginx
9 8 (0.37%) Appian
10 7 (0.32%) Ethereum
11 6 (0.28%) Camunda
11 6 (0.28%) Hyperledger
11 6 (0.28%) IIS
11 6 (0.28%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
12 5 (0.23%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 22 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.092%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.046%) Maya
Business Applications
1 19 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.28%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.14%) Findur
3 3 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.14%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.092%) Magento
4 2 (0.092%) Shopify
5 1 (0.046%) Actimize
5 1 (0.046%) Cerner Millennium
5 1 (0.046%) Endur
5 1 (0.046%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.046%) ProductWriter
5 1 (0.046%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 1,002 (46.30%) Azure
2 965 (44.59%) AWS
3 509 (23.52%) GitHub
4 399 (18.44%) Azure DevOps
5 331 (15.30%) GCP
6 323 (14.93%) GitHub Actions
7 317 (14.65%) Serverless
8 218 (10.07%) Amazon S3
9 209 (9.66%) AWS CloudFormation
10 196 (9.06%) AWS Lambda
11 191 (8.83%) Power Platform
12 131 (6.05%) Azure Data Factory
13 130 (6.01%) Amazon EKS
14 119 (5.50%) Amazon ECS
15 110 (5.08%) Azure AKS
16 100 (4.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 95 (4.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 90 (4.16%) Amazon EC2
19 84 (3.88%) Entra ID
20 83 (3.84%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 71 (3.28%) Firewall
2 43 (1.99%) Network Security
3 36 (1.66%) DNS
4 25 (1.16%) HTTP
5 21 (0.97%) VPN
6 12 (0.55%) WAN
7 11 (0.51%) SD-WAN
8 7 (0.32%) 3GPP
8 7 (0.32%) 5G
8 7 (0.32%) BGP
9 6 (0.28%) OSPF
9 6 (0.28%) SSL
10 5 (0.23%) Ethernet VPN
10 5 (0.23%) MPLS
10 5 (0.23%) VXLAN
11 4 (0.18%) Cisco IPT
11 4 (0.18%) Internet
11 4 (0.18%) IOS XR
11 4 (0.18%) NX-OS
11 4 (0.18%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (6.56%) Data Lake
2 137 (6.33%) PostgreSQL
3 135 (6.24%) Power BI
4 125 (5.78%) SQL Server
5 123 (5.68%) NoSQL
6 111 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
7 77 (3.56%) Relational Database
8 76 (3.51%) MongoDB
9 74 (3.42%) Amazon RDS
10 61 (2.82%) Delta Lake
11 58 (2.68%) Metadata
12 57 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
12 57 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
13 55 (2.54%) BigQuery
14 51 (2.36%) Amazon Redshift
14 51 (2.36%) Big Data
15 44 (2.03%) DynamoDB
16 33 (1.52%) Tableau
17 32 (1.48%) Snowflake Schema
18 31 (1.43%) Redis
Development Applications
1 399 (18.44%) Git
2 352 (16.27%) Jenkins
3 251 (11.60%) GitLab
4 142 (6.56%) JIRA
5 79 (3.65%) Selenium
6 61 (2.82%) JUnit
7 52 (2.40%) Cucumber
8 50 (2.31%) MLflow
9 45 (2.08%) Postman
10 36 (1.66%) Cypress.io
10 36 (1.66%) REST Assured
11 34 (1.57%) Mockito
12 30 (1.39%) JMeter
13 24 (1.11%) Bitbucket
14 19 (0.88%) Maven
15 18 (0.83%) Gradle
16 17 (0.79%) Liquibase
17 16 (0.74%) Appium
18 15 (0.69%) CircleCI
18 15 (0.69%) SonarQube
General
1 534 (24.68%) Social Skills
2 501 (23.15%) Finance
3 247 (11.41%) Public Sector
4 228 (10.54%) Banking
5 175 (8.09%) Analytical Skills
6 46 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
6 46 (2.13%) Front Office
7 43 (1.99%) Investment Banking
8 40 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
9 33 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 30 (1.39%) Financial Institution
11 23 (1.06%) Legal
11 23 (1.06%) Retail
12 21 (0.97%) Telecoms
13 17 (0.79%) Marketing
14 16 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
15 14 (0.65%) Law
16 11 (0.51%) Manufacturing
16 11 (0.51%) Publishing
17 10 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 503 (23.24%) Developer
2 335 (15.48%) Senior
3 239 (11.04%) DevOps Engineer
4 233 (10.77%) Architect
5 218 (10.07%) Data Engineer
6 185 (8.55%) Lead
7 133 (6.15%) Azure Engineer
8 126 (5.82%) AWS Engineer
9 104 (4.81%) Software Engineer
10 102 (4.71%) Cloud Engineer
10 102 (4.71%) Platform Engineer
11 91 (4.21%) Java Developer
12 83 (3.84%) Senior Developer
13 77 (3.56%) Full-Stack Developer
14 70 (3.23%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 65 (3.00%) Python Developer
16 64 (2.96%) AWS DevOps
17 61 (2.82%) Python Engineer
18 58 (2.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 56 (2.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 240 (11.09%) React
2 227 (10.49%) Kafka
3 199 (9.20%) REST
4 192 (8.87%) .NET
4 192 (8.87%) Node.js
4 192 (8.87%) RESTful
5 173 (7.99%) Spring
6 145 (6.70%) Spring Boot
7 123 (5.68%) AngularJS
8 107 (4.94%) PySpark
9 91 (4.21%) Playwright
10 84 (3.88%) HTML
11 81 (3.74%) CSS
12 79 (3.65%) OAuth
13 62 (2.87%) YAML
14 55 (2.54%) GraphQL
15 52 (2.40%) Pandas
16 50 (2.31%) FastAPI
16 50 (2.31%) OpenTelemetry
17 47 (2.17%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 435 (20.10%) Cloud Native
2 142 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
3 108 (4.99%) Product Ownership
4 59 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
5 57 (2.63%) Onboarding
6 39 (1.80%) Algorithms
7 38 (1.76%) AI Agents
8 34 (1.57%) Mobile App
9 33 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
10 30 (1.39%) Virtual Team
11 29 (1.34%) Equities
11 29 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
11 29 (1.34%) Public Cloud
12 28 (1.29%) Derivative
13 27 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
13 27 (1.25%) Fixed Income
13 27 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
14 26 (1.20%) Data Structures
15 25 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 24 (1.11%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 143 (6.61%) Linux
2 69 (3.19%) Windows
3 32 (1.48%) Unix
4 29 (1.34%) Apple iOS
4 29 (1.34%) VMS
5 25 (1.16%) Android
6 11 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.46%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.23%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.23%) zOS
9 4 (0.18%) Solaris
9 4 (0.18%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.046%) AIX
11 1 (0.046%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,184 (54.71%) DevOps
2 722 (33.36%) Infrastructure as Code
3 701 (32.39%) Agile
4 499 (23.06%) Containerisation
5 443 (20.47%) Test Automation
6 425 (19.64%) AI
7 415 (19.18%) Microservices
8 365 (16.87%) Analytics
9 354 (16.36%) Observability
10 347 (16.04%) Problem-Solving
11 308 (14.23%) Software Engineering
12 290 (13.40%) Data Modelling
13 279 (12.89%) Data Pipeline
14 270 (12.48%) Data Engineering
15 258 (11.92%) Continuous Improvement
16 246 (11.37%) Machine Learning
17 230 (10.63%) ETL
18 209 (9.66%) Platform Engineering
19 208 (9.61%) Full-Stack Development
20 204 (9.43%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 857 (39.60%) Python
2 612 (28.28%) SQL
3 416 (19.22%) Java
4 263 (12.15%) TypeScript
5 253 (11.69%) JavaScript
6 251 (11.60%) C#
7 123 (5.68%) Bash
8 105 (4.85%) PowerShell
9 86 (3.97%) Bicep
10 60 (2.77%) Scala
11 50 (2.31%) Go
12 42 (1.94%) Ruby
13 35 (1.62%) Shell Script
14 28 (1.29%) Kotlin
14 28 (1.29%) PL/SQL
14 28 (1.29%) T-SQL
15 27 (1.25%) Apex Code
16 26 (1.20%) C++
17 12 (0.55%) R
17 12 (0.55%) Swift
Qualifications
1 534 (24.68%) Security Cleared
2 470 (21.72%) SC Cleared
3 130 (6.01%) Degree
4 82 (3.79%) Azure Certification
5 74 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 70 (3.23%) AWS Certification
7 37 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 32 (1.48%) DV Cleared
9 27 (1.25%) Master's Degree
10 26 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
11 22 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 17 (0.79%) ISTQB
13 16 (0.74%) CISSP
14 14 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
15 13 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 11 (0.51%) Numerate Degree
17 10 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
18 9 (0.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 9 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
19 8 (0.37%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (8.41%) QA
2 167 (7.72%) Data Quality
3 88 (4.07%) GDPR
4 71 (3.28%) Accessibility
5 59 (2.73%) NIST
6 56 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (1.48%) NCSC
8 30 (1.39%) WCAG
9 26 (1.20%) PCI DSS
10 20 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 20 (0.92%) SLA
11 7 (0.32%) ISO 20022
12 6 (0.28%) NIST 800
12 6 (0.28%) PSD2
13 5 (0.23%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.23%) HL7
13 5 (0.23%) MiFID
13 5 (0.23%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.18%) COBIT
14 4 (0.18%) GRC
System Software
1 620 (28.65%) Docker
2 55 (2.54%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.32%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.32%) vSphere
7 4 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
7 4 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.092%) HDFS
9 1 (0.046%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.046%) IAG
9 1 (0.046%) OpenSSH
9 1 (0.046%) Squid
9 1 (0.046%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
9 1 (0.046%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 725 (33.50%) Terraform
2 666 (30.78%) Kubernetes
3 136 (6.28%) Ansible
4 127 (5.87%) Grafana
5 112 (5.18%) Prometheus
6 39 (1.80%) Argo
7 22 (1.02%) Istio
7 22 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (0.92%) Puppet
9 13 (0.60%) Progress Chef
10 10 (0.46%) Kibana
11 8 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (0.37%) Rancher
12 7 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 6 (0.28%) Packer
14 5 (0.23%) Karpenter
15 4 (0.18%) Kubeflow
15 4 (0.18%) Opsgenie
15 4 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
15 4 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 347 (16.04%) Microsoft
2 213 (9.84%) Databricks
3 120 (5.55%) Google
4 90 (4.16%) Oracle
5 66 (3.05%) Splunk
6 63 (2.91%) Salesforce
7 58 (2.68%) OpenAI
7 58 (2.68%) ServiceNow
8 26 (1.20%) Dynatrace
9 23 (1.06%) Red Hat
10 21 (0.97%) MuleSoft
11 20 (0.92%) IBM
11 20 (0.92%) VMware
12 19 (0.88%) CyberArk
13 18 (0.83%) SAP
14 17 (0.79%) Foundry
15 14 (0.65%) Cisco
16 12 (0.55%) UiPath
17 11 (0.51%) Lotus
17 11 (0.51%) Okta