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

6 months to
18 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 2,693 1,556 1,452
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.33% 11.55% 8.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.00% 12.49% 9.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,818 1,033 1,009
10th Percentile £400 £368 £413
25th Percentile £450 £438 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £570
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -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 £67.00 £65.00 £67.25
% change year-on-year +3.08% -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 17,959 12,462 14,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.91% 92.53% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,758 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 302 252 179
10th Percentile £16.52 £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 £57.50 £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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +10 347 £550 -10.20% 310
South London +2 65 £536 -0.97% 21
West London -9 47 £560 +15.45% 94
East London +7 14 £585 +8.33% 30
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
1 127 (4.72%) Apache Airflow
2 115 (4.27%) Confluence
3 104 (3.86%) Apache Spark
4 79 (2.93%) Apache
5 38 (1.41%) SharePoint
6 17 (0.63%) CMS
7 14 (0.52%) Camunda
8 12 (0.45%) nginx
9 8 (0.30%) 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 (0.19%) Mule
13 4 (0.15%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.15%) WebSphere
14 3 (0.11%) Apache Pulsar
14 3 (0.11%) Headless CMS
14 3 (0.11%) IIS
14 3 (0.11%) Mendix
Applications
1 15 (0.56%) Chatbot
1 15 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.15%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.15%) Trello
5 2 (0.074%) 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 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.37%) Aladdin
2 10 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
3 8 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.22%) Shopify
5 5 (0.19%) 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 (0.074%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.074%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.074%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.074%) Temenos T24
9 1 (0.037%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.037%) PeopleSoft HCM
9 1 (0.037%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.037%) SAP IS-U
9 1 (0.037%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,218 (45.23%) Azure
2 1,159 (43.04%) AWS
3 608 (22.58%) GitHub
4 463 (17.19%) Azure DevOps
5 421 (15.63%) GCP
6 414 (15.37%) GitHub Actions
7 320 (11.88%) Serverless
8 242 (8.99%) Amazon S3
9 232 (8.61%) Power Platform
10 207 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
11 162 (6.02%) Amazon EKS
12 155 (5.76%) Snowflake
13 149 (5.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 137 (5.09%) Entra ID
15 134 (4.98%) dbt
16 133 (4.94%) AWS CloudFormation
17 126 (4.68%) Amazon EC2
18 112 (4.16%) Azure AKS
19 110 (4.08%) Azure Data Factory
20 93 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 66 (2.45%) Firewall
2 41 (1.52%) DNS
2 41 (1.52%) Network Security
3 36 (1.34%) VPN
4 29 (1.08%) Internet
5 26 (0.97%) TCP/IP
6 22 (0.82%) HTTP
7 21 (0.78%) 5G
8 19 (0.71%) SSL
9 13 (0.48%) WAN
10 12 (0.45%) 3GPP
11 11 (0.41%) Radio Access Network
11 11 (0.41%) SAN
12 9 (0.33%) 4G
12 9 (0.33%) Kerberos
12 9 (0.33%) SSH
13 7 (0.26%) BGP
13 7 (0.26%) FTP
13 7 (0.26%) SD-WAN
14 6 (0.22%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (6.72%) PostgreSQL
2 178 (6.61%) Power BI
3 153 (5.68%) Data Warehouse
4 138 (5.12%) SQL Server
5 128 (4.75%) NoSQL
6 114 (4.23%) Data Lake
7 105 (3.90%) MongoDB
8 100 (3.71%) Relational Database
9 91 (3.38%) Amazon RDS
10 88 (3.27%) Delta Lake
11 82 (3.04%) Metadata
12 73 (2.71%) BigQuery
13 71 (2.64%) Amazon Redshift
14 56 (2.08%) Redis
15 50 (1.86%) Amazon Athena
16 47 (1.75%) DynamoDB
17 43 (1.60%) MySQL
18 41 (1.52%) Amazon Aurora
18 41 (1.52%) Big Data
19 39 (1.45%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 518 (19.24%) Git
2 437 (16.23%) Jenkins
3 363 (13.48%) GitLab
4 193 (7.17%) JIRA
5 91 (3.38%) Selenium
6 72 (2.67%) JUnit
7 55 (2.04%) Gradle
8 53 (1.97%) Cypress.io
9 47 (1.75%) JMeter
10 45 (1.67%) SonarQube
11 44 (1.63%) Maven
12 43 (1.60%) Cucumber
13 41 (1.52%) Bitbucket
14 37 (1.37%) Mockito
14 37 (1.37%) Postman
15 32 (1.19%) REST Assured
16 27 (1.00%) CircleCI
17 24 (0.89%) Gatling
18 22 (0.82%) MLflow
19 20 (0.74%) Snyk
General
1 689 (25.58%) Social Skills
2 667 (24.77%) Finance
3 320 (11.88%) Banking
4 304 (11.29%) Public Sector
5 249 (9.25%) Analytical Skills
6 73 (2.71%) Front Office
7 66 (2.45%) Retail
8 60 (2.23%) Investment Banking
9 46 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 38 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
11 35 (1.30%) Marketing
12 32 (1.19%) Law
13 30 (1.11%) Telecoms
14 26 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
15 22 (0.82%) Financial Institution
15 22 (0.82%) Legal
16 21 (0.78%) Military
17 20 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
18 18 (0.67%) Local Government
19 17 (0.63%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 569 (21.13%) Developer
2 487 (18.08%) Senior
3 330 (12.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 306 (11.36%) Architect
5 268 (9.95%) Lead
6 250 (9.28%) Data Engineer
7 154 (5.72%) Azure Engineer
8 144 (5.35%) AWS Engineer
9 131 (4.86%) Software Engineer
10 127 (4.72%) Cloud Engineer
11 126 (4.68%) Senior Developer
12 117 (4.34%) Java Developer
13 100 (3.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 96 (3.56%) Platform Engineer
15 92 (3.42%) Full-Stack Developer
16 83 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
17 75 (2.78%) Python Developer
18 70 (2.60%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 69 (2.56%) Senior Data Engineer
20 67 (2.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 880 (32.68%) Terraform
2 410 (15.22%) REST
3 282 (10.47%) Kafka
4 257 (9.54%) React
5 240 (8.91%) .NET
6 217 (8.06%) RESTful
7 208 (7.72%) Spring
8 185 (6.87%) Spring Boot
9 144 (5.35%) PySpark
10 121 (4.49%) Node.js
11 106 (3.94%) HTML
12 95 (3.53%) CSS
13 90 (3.34%) Playwright
14 83 (3.08%) JSON
15 81 (3.01%) AngularJS
16 80 (2.97%) OAuth
17 76 (2.82%) FastAPI
18 71 (2.64%) SOAP
19 62 (2.30%) OAuth2
20 60 (2.23%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 564 (20.94%) Cloud Native
2 229 (8.50%) Distributed Systems
3 161 (5.98%) Product Ownership
4 132 (4.90%) AI Agents
5 118 (4.38%) Onboarding
6 100 (3.71%) Enterprise Software
7 91 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
8 44 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
9 41 (1.52%) Virtual Team
10 40 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
11 39 (1.45%) Data Structures
12 38 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 38 (1.41%) Mobile App
12 38 (1.41%) Security Posture
13 35 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
14 34 (1.26%) Management Information System
15 33 (1.23%) Algorithms
16 32 (1.19%) Replication
17 31 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
17 31 (1.15%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 242 (8.99%) Linux
2 120 (4.46%) Windows
3 77 (2.86%) Unix
4 48 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 32 (1.19%) Windows Server
6 28 (1.04%) Android
7 24 (0.89%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.56%) 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 2 (0.074%) CentOS
14 2 (0.074%) zOS
15 1 (0.037%) AIX
15 1 (0.037%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,494 (55.48%) DevOps
2 974 (36.17%) Agile
3 942 (34.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 627 (23.28%) AI
5 583 (21.65%) Test Automation
6 559 (20.76%) Containerisation
7 531 (19.72%) Microservices
8 525 (19.49%) Observability
9 492 (18.27%) Software Engineering
10 405 (15.04%) Problem-Solving
11 368 (13.67%) Stakeholder Management
12 365 (13.55%) Continuous Improvement
13 363 (13.48%) Analytics
13 363 (13.48%) Data Pipeline
14 343 (12.74%) Data Engineering
15 342 (12.70%) Event-Driven
16 337 (12.51%) Data Modelling
17 333 (12.37%) Platform Engineering
18 300 (11.14%) Technical Leadership
19 288 (10.69%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1,115 (41.40%) Python
2 742 (27.55%) SQL
3 544 (20.20%) Java
4 286 (10.62%) JavaScript
5 271 (10.06%) TypeScript
6 257 (9.54%) C#
7 231 (8.58%) Bash
8 221 (8.21%) PowerShell
9 113 (4.20%) Bicep
10 68 (2.53%) Go
11 57 (2.12%) Kotlin
12 55 (2.04%) Shell Script
13 50 (1.86%) Scala
14 43 (1.60%) Apex Code
15 41 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 30 (1.11%) PL/SQL
17 28 (1.04%) Groovy
17 28 (1.04%) T-SQL
18 27 (1.00%) C++
19 26 (0.97%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 704 (26.14%) Security Cleared
2 628 (23.32%) SC Cleared
3 146 (5.42%) Degree
4 105 (3.90%) Azure Certification
5 88 (3.27%) DV Cleared
6 81 (3.01%) AWS Certification
7 65 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
8 58 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
9 28 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 25 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
11 19 (0.71%) CISSP
11 19 (0.71%) Master's Degree
12 16 (0.59%) DBS Check
12 16 (0.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 14 (0.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 13 (0.48%) ISTQB
15 12 (0.45%) GIAC
16 11 (0.41%) PhD
17 10 (0.37%) CISM
18 9 (0.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 259 (9.62%) QA
2 252 (9.36%) Data Quality
3 83 (3.08%) Accessibility
4 47 (1.75%) GDPR
5 44 (1.63%) NIST
6 43 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 24 (0.89%) NCSC
7 24 (0.89%) WCAG
8 18 (0.67%) SLA
9 14 (0.52%) ISO 20022
10 12 (0.45%) GRC
11 11 (0.41%) EU AI Act
11 11 (0.41%) 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 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.19%) EMIR
System Software
1 688 (25.55%) Docker
2 63 (2.34%) Active Directory
3 40 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
4 32 (1.19%) 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 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
9 4 (0.15%) Postfix
10 2 (0.074%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.074%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.074%) Dovecot
10 2 (0.074%) HDFS
10 2 (0.074%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.074%) KVM
10 2 (0.074%) Varnish
10 2 (0.074%) vSphere
11 1 (0.037%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 804 (29.86%) Kubernetes
2 225 (8.35%) Grafana
3 215 (7.98%) Ansible
4 182 (6.76%) Prometheus
5 37 (1.37%) Argo
6 34 (1.26%) Puppet
7 25 (0.93%) Kibana
8 22 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
9 19 (0.71%) Progress Chef
10 18 (0.67%) Packer
11 11 (0.41%) Control-M
11 11 (0.41%) Istio
11 11 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
12 8 (0.30%) SCCM
13 7 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
13 7 (0.26%) Karpenter
13 7 (0.26%) Kustomize
14 5 (0.19%) Nagios
15 4 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
15 4 (0.15%) systemd
Vendors
1 462 (17.16%) Microsoft
2 253 (9.39%) Databricks
3 157 (5.83%) Google
4 143 (5.31%) Oracle
5 111 (4.12%) Splunk
6 94 (3.49%) Salesforce
7 69 (2.56%) ServiceNow
8 60 (2.23%) OpenAI
9 59 (2.19%) Dynatrace
10 49 (1.82%) VMware
11 40 (1.49%) IBM
12 36 (1.34%) Foundry
13 35 (1.30%) Informatica
14 33 (1.23%) Red Hat
15 31 (1.15%) SAP
16 27 (1.00%) MuleSoft
17 24 (0.89%) New Relic
18 21 (0.78%) CyberArk
19 19 (0.71%) Cisco
20 18 (0.67%) Palantir