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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 19 21
Rank change year-on-year +9 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,538 1,412 1,417
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.85% 10.44% 8.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.45% 11.32% 9.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,718 938 1,016
10th Percentile £400 £379 £413
25th Percentile £453 £438 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £526 £567
Median % change year-on-year +3.28% -7.23% -6.51%
75th Percentile £638 £670 £688
90th Percentile £738 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 3
10th Percentile £50.25 £38.00 £48.40
25th Percentile £55.00 £42.50 £50.88
Median hourly rate £68.50 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.48% -4.55% -29.03%
75th Percentile £95.00 £53.75 £61.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.50 £64.60
England median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year +5.47% -4.48% +2.13%

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 17,566 12,468 15,436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.16% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,659 8,340 10,970
10th Percentile £360 £331 £350
25th Percentile £444 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 235 285
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.16 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £36.25 £32.50 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +7.76% -27.33%
75th Percentile £58.75 £50.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.55 £69.20
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -6.09%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 15 July 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 +3 294 £550 -10.46% 117
West London +11 56 £580 +17.77% 23
South London +1 53 £539 +1.30% 7
East London +6 10 £500 +29.87% 24
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
1 114 (4.49%) Apache Airflow
2 101 (3.98%) Apache Spark
3 99 (3.90%) Confluence
4 74 (2.92%) Apache
5 27 (1.06%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
7 11 (0.43%) Camunda
8 10 (0.39%) SAS
9 9 (0.35%) WebSphere
10 8 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
11 7 (0.28%) CMS
11 7 (0.28%) Ethereum
11 7 (0.28%) OpenStack
12 6 (0.24%) Hyperledger
12 6 (0.24%) nginx
13 5 (0.20%) Anypoint
13 5 (0.20%) Appian
13 5 (0.20%) Mule
13 5 (0.20%) Tomcat
14 3 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 16 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.39%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.16%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.079%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.039%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.039%) Maya
6 1 (0.039%) Trello
Business Applications
1 23 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.39%) Aladdin
3 8 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.28%) Shopify
5 6 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
6 5 (0.20%) Magento
7 4 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
8 3 (0.12%) Endur
8 3 (0.12%) Findur
8 3 (0.12%) SAP BPC
9 2 (0.079%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.079%) SAP CRM
9 2 (0.079%) Temenos T24
10 1 (0.039%) Distributed Ledger
10 1 (0.039%) R3 Corda
10 1 (0.039%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.039%) SAP ERP
10 1 (0.039%) SAP IS-U
10 1 (0.039%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,124 (44.29%) AWS
2 1,121 (44.17%) Azure
3 556 (21.91%) GitHub
4 436 (17.18%) Azure DevOps
5 369 (14.54%) GitHub Actions
6 362 (14.26%) GCP
7 311 (12.25%) Serverless
8 252 (9.93%) Amazon S3
9 216 (8.51%) Power Platform
10 208 (8.20%) AWS Lambda
11 159 (6.26%) AWS CloudFormation
12 145 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
13 119 (4.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 117 (4.61%) Amazon EC2
15 110 (4.33%) Azure AKS
16 109 (4.29%) Entra ID
16 109 (4.29%) Snowflake
17 105 (4.14%) Azure Data Factory
18 100 (3.94%) dbt
19 96 (3.78%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 72 (2.84%) Firewall
2 45 (1.77%) Network Security
3 35 (1.38%) DNS
4 33 (1.30%) VPN
5 28 (1.10%) HTTP
6 22 (0.87%) Internet
7 17 (0.67%) 5G
7 17 (0.67%) WAN
8 12 (0.47%) SD-WAN
9 11 (0.43%) SSL
9 11 (0.43%) TCP/IP
10 10 (0.39%) 3GPP
11 9 (0.35%) BGP
12 8 (0.32%) 4G
12 8 (0.32%) Radio Access Network
13 6 (0.24%) FTP
13 6 (0.24%) OSPF
14 5 (0.20%) Cisco IOS
14 5 (0.20%) Ethernet VPN
14 5 (0.20%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (6.07%) Power BI
2 144 (5.67%) PostgreSQL
3 126 (4.96%) Data Lake
3 126 (4.96%) SQL Server
4 124 (4.89%) Data Warehouse
5 123 (4.85%) NoSQL
6 89 (3.51%) Relational Database
7 83 (3.27%) MongoDB
8 75 (2.96%) Amazon Redshift
9 71 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
9 71 (2.80%) Metadata
10 70 (2.76%) Amazon Athena
11 69 (2.72%) Delta Lake
12 58 (2.29%) BigQuery
13 50 (1.97%) Big Data
13 50 (1.97%) DynamoDB
14 39 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
14 39 (1.54%) Snowflake Schema
15 37 (1.46%) Redis
16 29 (1.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 454 (17.89%) Git
2 392 (15.45%) Jenkins
3 305 (12.02%) GitLab
4 178 (7.01%) JIRA
5 76 (2.99%) Selenium
6 74 (2.92%) JUnit
7 45 (1.77%) Cucumber
8 44 (1.73%) JMeter
8 44 (1.73%) Postman
9 43 (1.69%) Cypress.io
10 42 (1.65%) Gradle
11 41 (1.62%) Mockito
12 39 (1.54%) REST Assured
13 35 (1.38%) MLflow
14 32 (1.26%) Maven
15 28 (1.10%) Bitbucket
15 28 (1.10%) CircleCI
15 28 (1.10%) SonarQube
16 23 (0.91%) Gatling
17 19 (0.75%) Liquibase
General
1 601 (23.68%) Finance
2 590 (23.25%) Social Skills
3 308 (12.14%) Public Sector
4 272 (10.72%) Banking
5 209 (8.23%) Analytical Skills
6 59 (2.32%) Documentation Skills
7 54 (2.13%) Investment Banking
8 52 (2.05%) Retail
9 51 (2.01%) Front Office
10 42 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 39 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
12 28 (1.10%) Law
12 28 (1.10%) Telecoms
13 26 (1.02%) Financial Institution
14 24 (0.95%) Legal
15 22 (0.87%) Marketing
16 14 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
17 13 (0.51%) Manufacturing
17 13 (0.51%) Military
18 11 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 529 (20.84%) Developer
2 430 (16.94%) Senior
3 299 (11.78%) DevOps Engineer
4 280 (11.03%) Architect
5 253 (9.97%) Lead
6 224 (8.83%) Data Engineer
7 159 (6.26%) AWS Engineer
8 149 (5.87%) Azure Engineer
9 133 (5.24%) Cloud Engineer
10 123 (4.85%) Software Engineer
11 118 (4.65%) Java Developer
12 104 (4.10%) Senior Developer
13 103 (4.06%) Platform Engineer
14 84 (3.31%) Full-Stack Developer
15 77 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
16 69 (2.72%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 68 (2.68%) AWS DevOps
18 66 (2.60%) Python Developer
19 64 (2.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
20 60 (2.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 320 (12.61%) REST
2 245 (9.65%) React
3 233 (9.18%) Kafka
4 231 (9.10%) .NET
5 209 (8.23%) RESTful
6 201 (7.92%) Spring
7 174 (6.86%) Spring Boot
8 132 (5.20%) Node.js
9 130 (5.12%) PySpark
10 109 (4.29%) AngularJS
11 91 (3.59%) HTML
12 89 (3.51%) Playwright
13 77 (3.03%) CSS
14 75 (2.96%) OAuth
15 70 (2.76%) JSON
16 63 (2.48%) FastAPI
17 61 (2.40%) SOAP
18 58 (2.29%) GraphQL
19 56 (2.21%) Next.js
20 55 (2.17%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 529 (20.84%) Cloud Native
2 204 (8.04%) Distributed Systems
3 120 (4.73%) Product Ownership
4 94 (3.70%) Onboarding
5 86 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
6 73 (2.88%) AI Agents
7 59 (2.32%) Enterprise Software
8 44 (1.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 40 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
9 40 (1.58%) Mobile App
10 39 (1.54%) Virtual Team
11 38 (1.50%) Algorithms
12 37 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
12 37 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
13 36 (1.42%) Management Information System
14 32 (1.26%) Data Structures
14 32 (1.26%) Fixed Income
14 32 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
14 32 (1.26%) Security Posture
15 30 (1.18%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 173 (6.82%) Linux
2 105 (4.14%) Windows
3 53 (2.09%) Unix
4 29 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 26 (1.02%) Apple iOS
6 25 (0.99%) Android
6 25 (0.99%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.43%) VMS
8 10 (0.39%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.32%) Ubuntu
9 8 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.20%) Solaris
10 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
10 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.12%) zOS
12 2 (0.079%) AIX
13 1 (0.039%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,393 (54.89%) DevOps
2 873 (34.40%) Agile
3 841 (33.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 557 (21.95%) Containerisation
5 540 (21.28%) Test Automation
6 519 (20.45%) AI
7 486 (19.15%) Microservices
8 421 (16.59%) Observability
9 409 (16.12%) Software Engineering
10 365 (14.38%) Analytics
11 341 (13.44%) Problem-Solving
12 335 (13.20%) Data Pipeline
13 317 (12.49%) Data Modelling
14 310 (12.21%) Continuous Improvement
15 303 (11.94%) Data Engineering
16 294 (11.58%) Platform Engineering
17 278 (10.95%) Machine Learning
18 262 (10.32%) Event-Driven
19 258 (10.17%) Migration
20 243 (9.57%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 976 (38.46%) Python
2 681 (26.83%) SQL
3 493 (19.42%) Java
4 273 (10.76%) C#
5 266 (10.48%) TypeScript
6 255 (10.05%) JavaScript
7 185 (7.29%) Bash
8 168 (6.62%) PowerShell
9 92 (3.62%) Bicep
10 58 (2.29%) Go
11 52 (2.05%) Scala
12 48 (1.89%) Apex Code
12 48 (1.89%) Kotlin
13 43 (1.69%) Shell Script
14 35 (1.38%) Ruby
15 29 (1.14%) T-SQL
16 26 (1.02%) PL/SQL
17 17 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 16 (0.63%) Swift
19 15 (0.59%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 659 (25.97%) Security Cleared
2 595 (23.44%) SC Cleared
3 128 (5.04%) Degree
4 94 (3.70%) Azure Certification
5 72 (2.84%) AWS Certification
6 63 (2.48%) DV Cleared
7 59 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 49 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
9 26 (1.02%) Master's Degree
10 20 (0.79%) CISSP
11 19 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 19 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
12 16 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 15 (0.59%) DBS Check
14 14 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
15 12 (0.47%) CISM
15 12 (0.47%) GIAC
15 12 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
16 9 (0.35%) ISTQB
17 8 (0.32%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 221 (8.71%) QA
2 200 (7.88%) Data Quality
3 98 (3.86%) Accessibility
4 59 (2.32%) NIST
5 58 (2.29%) GDPR
6 49 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 34 (1.34%) NCSC
8 31 (1.22%) WCAG
9 19 (0.75%) SLA
10 17 (0.67%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.43%) EU AI Act
12 10 (0.39%) GRC
13 7 (0.28%) ISO 20022
14 6 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.24%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 5 (0.20%) PSD2
16 4 (0.16%) COBIT
16 4 (0.16%) MiFID
16 4 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 645 (25.41%) Docker
2 61 (2.40%) Active Directory
3 36 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.43%) Squid
6 10 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.24%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.12%) HDFS
10 3 (0.12%) vSphere
11 2 (0.079%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.079%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.079%) Postfix
12 1 (0.039%) IAG
12 1 (0.039%) NFS
12 1 (0.039%) OpenSSH
12 1 (0.039%) Samba
12 1 (0.039%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 809 (31.88%) Terraform
2 741 (29.20%) Kubernetes
3 192 (7.57%) Grafana
4 176 (6.93%) Ansible
5 159 (6.26%) Prometheus
6 28 (1.10%) Argo
7 27 (1.06%) Puppet
8 22 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
9 19 (0.75%) Kibana
10 17 (0.67%) Packer
11 12 (0.47%) Progress Chef
12 11 (0.43%) Istio
13 8 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
13 8 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
14 7 (0.28%) Kustomize
15 6 (0.24%) SCCM
16 5 (0.20%) HP Fortify
16 5 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
16 5 (0.20%) Salt
16 5 (0.20%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 362 (14.26%) Microsoft
2 193 (7.60%) Databricks
3 121 (4.77%) Google
4 114 (4.49%) Oracle
5 100 (3.94%) Salesforce
6 97 (3.82%) Splunk
7 52 (2.05%) ServiceNow
8 50 (1.97%) OpenAI
9 39 (1.54%) Dynatrace
10 33 (1.30%) VMware
11 31 (1.22%) Foundry
12 29 (1.14%) IBM
13 28 (1.10%) SAP
14 27 (1.06%) CyberArk
14 27 (1.06%) Informatica
15 26 (1.02%) MuleSoft
16 22 (0.87%) Palantir
17 21 (0.83%) Red Hat
18 20 (0.79%) Cisco
19 14 (0.55%) Okta