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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 17 27
Rank change year-on-year +4 +10 -11
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,137 1,297 1,226
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.62% 10.29% 6.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.10% 11.26% 7.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,444 934 900
10th Percentile £394 £400 £419
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +1.32% -9.20%
75th Percentile £640 £713 £688
90th Percentile £743 £838 £800
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 4
10th Percentile £47.25 - £49.23
25th Percentile £56.50 £51.25 £52.94
Median hourly rate £66.00 £52.50 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% -6.67% -27.42%
75th Percentile £82.50 £53.75 £60.81
90th Percentile £95.00 - £64.53
England median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £59.75
% change year-on-year +5.47% +7.11% -8.92%

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 15,153 11,521 15,917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.47% 91.42% 88.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,178 7,819 11,391
10th Percentile £355 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 167 332
10th Percentile £18.09 £18.65 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.16 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.67% -23.08%
75th Percentile £57.10 £50.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.25 £65.00 £67.90
England median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -4 248 £550 -4.35% 202
West London +7 70 £603 +47.31% 22
South London +3 59 £525 +8.25% 9
East London 0 11 £450 -10.00% 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
1 101 (4.73%) Apache Spark
2 81 (3.79%) Apache Airflow
3 66 (3.09%) Apache
4 65 (3.04%) Confluence
5 31 (1.45%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.56%) CMS
7 11 (0.51%) HCL Notes
7 11 (0.51%) SAS
8 10 (0.47%) Mendix
9 9 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (0.42%) nginx
10 8 (0.37%) Appian
11 7 (0.33%) Ethereum
12 6 (0.28%) Camunda
12 6 (0.28%) Hyperledger
12 6 (0.28%) IIS
12 6 (0.28%) OpenStack
12 6 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
13 5 (0.23%) Headless CMS
13 5 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 22 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.19%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.094%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.047%) Maya
Business Applications
1 19 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.23%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.14%) Findur
4 3 (0.14%) Magento
4 3 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.14%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.094%) Shopify
6 1 (0.047%) Actimize
6 1 (0.047%) Cerner Millennium
6 1 (0.047%) Endur
6 1 (0.047%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.047%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.047%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.047%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.047%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.047%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.047%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.047%) ProductWriter
6 1 (0.047%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 999 (46.75%) Azure
2 953 (44.60%) AWS
3 514 (24.05%) GitHub
4 397 (18.58%) Azure DevOps
5 342 (16.00%) GCP
6 326 (15.26%) GitHub Actions
7 310 (14.51%) Serverless
8 214 (10.01%) Amazon S3
9 202 (9.45%) AWS CloudFormation
10 193 (9.03%) AWS Lambda
11 188 (8.80%) Power Platform
12 129 (6.04%) Azure Data Factory
13 128 (5.99%) Amazon EKS
14 119 (5.57%) Amazon ECS
15 108 (5.05%) Azure AKS
16 98 (4.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 93 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 89 (4.16%) Amazon EC2
19 81 (3.79%) Snowflake
20 79 (3.70%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 75 (3.51%) Firewall
2 44 (2.06%) Network Security
3 38 (1.78%) DNS
4 26 (1.22%) VPN
5 25 (1.17%) HTTP
6 17 (0.80%) WAN
7 16 (0.75%) SD-WAN
8 7 (0.33%) 3GPP
8 7 (0.33%) 5G
8 7 (0.33%) 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 (0.19%) Cisco IPT
11 4 (0.19%) Internet
11 4 (0.19%) IOS XR
11 4 (0.19%) NX-OS
11 4 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (6.41%) Data Lake
2 135 (6.32%) PostgreSQL
3 133 (6.22%) Power BI
4 126 (5.90%) SQL Server
5 118 (5.52%) NoSQL
6 108 (5.05%) Data Warehouse
7 77 (3.60%) Relational Database
8 75 (3.51%) MongoDB
9 74 (3.46%) Amazon RDS
10 60 (2.81%) Delta Lake
11 57 (2.67%) Amazon Athena
11 57 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
12 56 (2.62%) BigQuery
13 55 (2.57%) Metadata
14 51 (2.39%) Amazon Redshift
14 51 (2.39%) Big Data
15 42 (1.97%) DynamoDB
16 33 (1.54%) Tableau
17 30 (1.40%) Redis
17 30 (1.40%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 397 (18.58%) Git
2 355 (16.61%) Jenkins
3 257 (12.03%) GitLab
4 143 (6.69%) JIRA
5 77 (3.60%) Selenium
6 61 (2.85%) JUnit
7 52 (2.43%) Cucumber
8 50 (2.34%) MLflow
9 44 (2.06%) Postman
10 37 (1.73%) Cypress.io
11 36 (1.68%) REST Assured
12 33 (1.54%) JMeter
12 33 (1.54%) Mockito
13 24 (1.12%) Bitbucket
14 19 (0.89%) Maven
15 16 (0.75%) Appium
15 16 (0.75%) Gatling
15 16 (0.75%) Gradle
15 16 (0.75%) Liquibase
16 15 (0.70%) SonarQube
General
1 530 (24.80%) Social Skills
2 490 (22.93%) Finance
3 249 (11.65%) Public Sector
4 222 (10.39%) Banking
5 172 (8.05%) Analytical Skills
6 47 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
7 44 (2.06%) Front Office
8 40 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
8 40 (1.87%) Investment Banking
9 32 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 29 (1.36%) Financial Institution
11 24 (1.12%) Retail
12 22 (1.03%) Telecoms
13 21 (0.98%) Legal
14 18 (0.84%) Marketing
15 15 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
16 14 (0.66%) Law
17 12 (0.56%) Manufacturing
17 12 (0.56%) Publishing
18 10 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 499 (23.35%) Developer
2 332 (15.54%) Senior
3 235 (11.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 228 (10.67%) Architect
5 214 (10.01%) Data Engineer
6 180 (8.42%) Lead
7 133 (6.22%) Azure Engineer
8 123 (5.76%) AWS Engineer
9 101 (4.73%) Cloud Engineer
10 100 (4.68%) Software Engineer
11 99 (4.63%) Platform Engineer
12 87 (4.07%) Java Developer
13 82 (3.84%) Senior Developer
14 79 (3.70%) Full-Stack Developer
15 73 (3.42%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 64 (2.99%) Python Developer
17 62 (2.90%) AWS DevOps
17 62 (2.90%) Python Engineer
18 56 (2.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 56 (2.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 243 (11.37%) React
2 225 (10.53%) Kafka
3 199 (9.31%) REST
4 192 (8.98%) Node.js
5 189 (8.84%) RESTful
6 187 (8.75%) .NET
7 166 (7.77%) Spring
8 137 (6.41%) Spring Boot
9 124 (5.80%) AngularJS
10 108 (5.05%) PySpark
11 97 (4.54%) Playwright
12 86 (4.02%) CSS
13 85 (3.98%) HTML
14 79 (3.70%) OAuth
15 60 (2.81%) YAML
16 54 (2.53%) GraphQL
17 51 (2.39%) Pandas
18 50 (2.34%) FastAPI
19 47 (2.20%) OpenTelemetry
20 46 (2.15%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 434 (20.31%) Cloud Native
2 140 (6.55%) Distributed Systems
3 104 (4.87%) Product Ownership
4 59 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
5 56 (2.62%) Onboarding
6 40 (1.87%) Algorithms
7 38 (1.78%) AI Agents
8 34 (1.59%) Public Cloud
9 32 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
9 32 (1.50%) Mobile App
10 29 (1.36%) Equities
11 28 (1.31%) Virtual Team
12 27 (1.26%) Data Structures
12 27 (1.26%) Derivative
12 27 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
13 26 (1.22%) Fixed Income
13 26 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
14 25 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
14 25 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 23 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 139 (6.50%) Linux
2 68 (3.18%) Windows
3 30 (1.40%) Unix
4 29 (1.36%) Apple iOS
5 28 (1.31%) VMS
6 23 (1.08%) Android
7 10 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.47%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.23%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.23%) zOS
9 4 (0.19%) Solaris
9 4 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (0.14%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.047%) AIX
11 1 (0.047%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,174 (54.94%) DevOps
2 714 (33.41%) Infrastructure as Code
3 690 (32.29%) Agile
4 496 (23.21%) Containerisation
5 445 (20.82%) Test Automation
6 417 (19.51%) AI
7 404 (18.91%) Microservices
8 355 (16.61%) Analytics
9 349 (16.33%) Observability
10 343 (16.05%) Problem-Solving
11 302 (14.13%) Software Engineering
12 285 (13.34%) Data Modelling
13 274 (12.82%) Data Pipeline
14 268 (12.54%) Data Engineering
15 248 (11.61%) Continuous Improvement
16 244 (11.42%) Machine Learning
17 226 (10.58%) ETL
18 208 (9.73%) Full-Stack Development
19 204 (9.55%) Platform Engineering
20 203 (9.50%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 854 (39.96%) Python
2 601 (28.12%) SQL
3 406 (19.00%) Java
4 267 (12.49%) TypeScript
5 257 (12.03%) JavaScript
6 243 (11.37%) C#
7 117 (5.47%) Bash
8 100 (4.68%) PowerShell
9 84 (3.93%) Bicep
10 60 (2.81%) Scala
11 51 (2.39%) Go
12 41 (1.92%) Ruby
13 34 (1.59%) Shell Script
14 29 (1.36%) PL/SQL
15 28 (1.31%) T-SQL
16 27 (1.26%) Apex Code
17 26 (1.22%) C++
18 25 (1.17%) Kotlin
19 12 (0.56%) Swift
20 11 (0.51%) C
Qualifications
1 527 (24.66%) Security Cleared
2 464 (21.71%) SC Cleared
3 129 (6.04%) Degree
4 79 (3.70%) Azure Certification
5 73 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 70 (3.28%) AWS Certification
7 36 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 31 (1.45%) DV Cleared
9 27 (1.26%) Master's Degree
10 26 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
11 22 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 17 (0.80%) CISSP
12 17 (0.80%) ISTQB
13 14 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
14 13 (0.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 11 (0.51%) Numerate Degree
16 10 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
17 9 (0.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 9 (0.42%) CISM
18 8 (0.37%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 180 (8.42%) QA
2 164 (7.67%) Data Quality
3 87 (4.07%) GDPR
4 71 (3.32%) Accessibility
5 58 (2.71%) NIST
6 56 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (1.50%) NCSC
8 30 (1.40%) WCAG
9 27 (1.26%) PCI DSS
10 20 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 20 (0.94%) SLA
11 7 (0.33%) ISO 20022
12 6 (0.28%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.28%) MiFID
12 6 (0.28%) NIST 800
12 6 (0.28%) PSD2
13 5 (0.23%) HL7
13 5 (0.23%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.19%) GRC
14 4 (0.19%) SEPA
System Software
1 626 (29.29%) Docker
2 51 (2.39%) Active Directory
3 30 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.33%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.33%) vSphere
7 4 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
7 4 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.094%) HDFS
9 1 (0.047%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.047%) IAG
9 1 (0.047%) Squid
9 1 (0.047%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
9 1 (0.047%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 718 (33.60%) Terraform
2 667 (31.21%) Kubernetes
3 136 (6.36%) Ansible
4 129 (6.04%) Grafana
5 113 (5.29%) Prometheus
6 38 (1.78%) Argo
7 20 (0.94%) Istio
8 19 (0.89%) Puppet
8 19 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (0.61%) Progress Chef
10 10 (0.47%) Kibana
11 8 (0.37%) Rancher
12 7 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
13 6 (0.28%) Packer
14 5 (0.23%) Karpenter
15 4 (0.19%) Kubeflow
15 4 (0.19%) Opsgenie
15 4 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
15 4 (0.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 340 (15.91%) Microsoft
2 213 (9.97%) Databricks
3 122 (5.71%) Google
4 88 (4.12%) Oracle
5 65 (3.04%) Splunk
6 63 (2.95%) Salesforce
7 57 (2.67%) OpenAI
7 57 (2.67%) ServiceNow
8 26 (1.22%) Dynatrace
9 22 (1.03%) Red Hat
10 21 (0.98%) MuleSoft
11 20 (0.94%) IBM
12 19 (0.89%) SAP
12 19 (0.89%) VMware
13 18 (0.84%) Cisco
13 18 (0.84%) CyberArk
14 17 (0.80%) Foundry
15 12 (0.56%) Okta
15 12 (0.56%) UiPath
16 11 (0.51%) Lotus