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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 20 23
Rank change year-on-year +8 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,210 1,226 1,316
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.28% 9.90% 7.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.90% 10.73% 8.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,494 842 953
10th Percentile £400 £396 £413
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -2.22% -9.64%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £688
90th Percentile £750 £838 £801
England median daily rate £525 £525 £551
% change year-on-year - -4.63% -8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 4
10th Percentile £49.25 £38.25 £49.23
25th Percentile £61.00 £43.13 £52.94
Median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +27.62% -6.67% -29.69%
75th Percentile £95.00 £53.75 £60.81
90th Percentile £95.50 - £64.53
England median hourly rate £65.00 £59.63 £67.00
% change year-on-year +9.01% -11.01% +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 15,896 11,429 15,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.31% 92.26% 88.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,636 7,715 11,109
10th Percentile £358 £350 £343
25th Percentile £431 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £680
90th Percentile £760 £812 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 185 307
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.10 £15.77
25th Percentile £25.25 £22.90 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% +22.13% -25.44%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.85
England median hourly rate £46.11 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +60.37% -21.23% -1.75%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -3 245 £575 - 176
West London +11 65 £603 +38.09% 37
South London +2 52 £521 +5.30% 27
East London +2 11 £450 +80.00% 34
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
1 109 (4.93%) Apache Spark
2 88 (3.98%) Apache Airflow
3 65 (2.94%) Apache
4 63 (2.85%) Confluence
5 28 (1.27%) SharePoint
6 11 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (0.45%) Camunda
7 10 (0.45%) HCL Notes
7 10 (0.45%) Mendix
8 8 (0.36%) Appian
8 8 (0.36%) OpenStack
8 8 (0.36%) SAS
9 7 (0.32%) Ethereum
9 7 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.27%) Hyperledger
10 6 (0.27%) WebSphere
11 5 (0.23%) IIS
11 5 (0.23%) nginx
12 4 (0.18%) CMS
12 4 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 20 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.27%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.14%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.045%) Maya
Business Applications
1 16 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.36%) Aladdin
3 6 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.23%) Magento
5 4 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.14%) Findur
6 3 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.14%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.14%) Shopify
7 2 (0.090%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.045%) Actimize
8 1 (0.045%) Endur
8 1 (0.045%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.045%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.045%) ProductWriter
8 1 (0.045%) R3 Corda
8 1 (0.045%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.045%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.045%) SDL Web 8
8 1 (0.045%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 1,025 (46.38%) Azure
2 976 (44.16%) AWS
3 509 (23.03%) GitHub
4 398 (18.01%) Azure DevOps
5 336 (15.20%) GCP
6 328 (14.84%) GitHub Actions
7 298 (13.48%) Serverless
8 212 (9.59%) Amazon S3
9 195 (8.82%) Power Platform
10 193 (8.73%) AWS Lambda
11 184 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
12 129 (5.84%) Azure Data Factory
13 126 (5.70%) Amazon EKS
14 107 (4.84%) Amazon EC2
15 106 (4.80%) Amazon ECS
16 104 (4.71%) Azure AKS
17 98 (4.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 92 (4.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 86 (3.89%) Entra ID
19 86 (3.89%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 72 (3.26%) Firewall
2 44 (1.99%) Network Security
3 36 (1.63%) DNS
4 25 (1.13%) HTTP
5 20 (0.90%) VPN
6 13 (0.59%) WAN
7 12 (0.54%) SD-WAN
8 8 (0.36%) 3GPP
8 8 (0.36%) 5G
8 8 (0.36%) Internet
9 7 (0.32%) BGP
9 7 (0.32%) SSL
10 6 (0.27%) OSPF
11 5 (0.23%) Ethernet VPN
11 5 (0.23%) FTP
11 5 (0.23%) LTE
11 5 (0.23%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (0.23%) TCP/IP
11 5 (0.23%) VXLAN
12 4 (0.18%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (6.61%) Data Lake
2 134 (6.06%) Power BI
3 131 (5.93%) PostgreSQL
4 129 (5.84%) SQL Server
5 121 (5.48%) NoSQL
6 100 (4.52%) Data Warehouse
7 81 (3.67%) Relational Database
8 77 (3.48%) MongoDB
9 72 (3.26%) Delta Lake
10 69 (3.12%) Amazon RDS
11 65 (2.94%) Metadata
12 61 (2.76%) Amazon Athena
13 60 (2.71%) BigQuery
14 55 (2.49%) Big Data
15 53 (2.40%) Amazon Redshift
16 46 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
17 42 (1.90%) DynamoDB
18 36 (1.63%) Snowflake Schema
19 31 (1.40%) Redis
20 30 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 391 (17.69%) Git
2 358 (16.20%) Jenkins
3 258 (11.67%) GitLab
4 127 (5.75%) JIRA
5 73 (3.30%) Selenium
6 57 (2.58%) JUnit
7 50 (2.26%) MLflow
8 48 (2.17%) Postman
9 43 (1.95%) Cucumber
10 39 (1.76%) JMeter
11 33 (1.49%) Mockito
12 31 (1.40%) REST Assured
13 28 (1.27%) Cypress.io
14 24 (1.09%) Gradle
15 21 (0.95%) Artifactory
16 20 (0.90%) Bitbucket
17 18 (0.81%) CircleCI
17 18 (0.81%) SonarQube
18 16 (0.72%) Liquibase
18 16 (0.72%) Snyk
General
1 518 (23.44%) Finance
2 504 (22.81%) Social Skills
3 259 (11.72%) Public Sector
4 222 (10.05%) Banking
5 169 (7.65%) Analytical Skills
6 50 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
7 47 (2.13%) Front Office
8 40 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
8 40 (1.81%) Investment Banking
9 34 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 33 (1.49%) Retail
11 28 (1.27%) Financial Institution
12 20 (0.90%) Legal
13 19 (0.86%) Telecoms
14 17 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
15 15 (0.68%) Publishing
16 14 (0.63%) Marketing
17 13 (0.59%) Law
18 11 (0.50%) Manufacturing
19 10 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 476 (21.54%) Developer
2 365 (16.52%) Senior
3 255 (11.54%) Architect
4 244 (11.04%) DevOps Engineer
5 220 (9.95%) Data Engineer
6 198 (8.96%) Lead
7 140 (6.33%) Azure Engineer
8 123 (5.57%) AWS Engineer
9 117 (5.29%) Cloud Engineer
10 104 (4.71%) Software Engineer
11 92 (4.16%) Java Developer
12 89 (4.03%) Platform Engineer
13 87 (3.94%) Senior Developer
14 70 (3.17%) Python Developer
15 69 (3.12%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 69 (3.12%) Full-Stack Developer
16 63 (2.85%) Solutions Architect
17 53 (2.40%) Security Engineer
18 50 (2.26%) AWS DevOps
19 49 (2.22%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 223 (10.09%) REST
2 221 (10.00%) React
3 220 (9.95%) Kafka
4 200 (9.05%) .NET
5 192 (8.69%) RESTful
6 180 (8.14%) Spring
7 161 (7.29%) Spring Boot
8 137 (6.20%) Node.js
9 117 (5.29%) PySpark
10 113 (5.11%) AngularJS
11 80 (3.62%) HTML
12 75 (3.39%) Playwright
13 73 (3.30%) OAuth
14 66 (2.99%) CSS
15 59 (2.67%) Pandas
16 58 (2.62%) FastAPI
17 54 (2.44%) YAML
18 51 (2.31%) OpenTelemetry
19 48 (2.17%) Django
19 48 (2.17%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 453 (20.50%) Cloud Native
2 161 (7.29%) Distributed Systems
3 107 (4.84%) Product Ownership
4 74 (3.35%) Legacy Systems
5 71 (3.21%) Onboarding
6 46 (2.08%) AI Agents
7 39 (1.76%) Algorithms
8 38 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
9 36 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
10 35 (1.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 33 (1.49%) Equities
12 29 (1.31%) Public Cloud
12 29 (1.31%) Virtual Team
13 28 (1.27%) Fixed Income
13 28 (1.27%) Low-Code
14 27 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
14 27 (1.22%) Derivative
14 27 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
14 27 (1.22%) Management Information System
15 26 (1.18%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 149 (6.74%) Linux
2 85 (3.85%) Windows
3 41 (1.86%) Unix
4 25 (1.13%) VMS
5 21 (0.95%) Android
6 20 (0.90%) Apple iOS
7 17 (0.77%) Windows Server
8 12 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.23%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.23%) zOS
10 4 (0.18%) Solaris
10 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.090%) AIX
12 2 (0.090%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,227 (55.52%) DevOps
2 746 (33.76%) Infrastructure as Code
3 699 (31.63%) Agile
4 509 (23.03%) Containerisation
5 446 (20.18%) Test Automation
6 443 (20.05%) AI
7 426 (19.28%) Microservices
8 372 (16.83%) Observability
9 358 (16.20%) Analytics
10 311 (14.07%) Software Engineering
11 305 (13.80%) Data Modelling
12 292 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
13 284 (12.85%) Data Pipeline
14 276 (12.49%) Data Engineering
15 253 (11.45%) Continuous Improvement
16 239 (10.81%) Machine Learning
17 232 (10.50%) ETL
18 224 (10.14%) Platform Engineering
19 217 (9.82%) Migration
20 204 (9.23%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 849 (38.42%) Python
2 640 (28.96%) SQL
3 421 (19.05%) Java
4 253 (11.45%) C#
5 232 (10.50%) JavaScript
6 221 (10.00%) TypeScript
7 136 (6.15%) PowerShell
8 135 (6.11%) Bash
9 87 (3.94%) Bicep
10 60 (2.71%) Scala
11 41 (1.86%) Go
12 40 (1.81%) Ruby
13 38 (1.72%) Shell Script
14 35 (1.58%) Apex Code
15 31 (1.40%) PL/SQL
16 29 (1.31%) Kotlin
17 28 (1.27%) T-SQL
18 23 (1.04%) C++
19 14 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 13 (0.59%) R
Qualifications
1 571 (25.84%) Security Cleared
2 512 (23.17%) SC Cleared
3 121 (5.48%) Degree
4 92 (4.16%) Azure Certification
5 64 (2.90%) AWS Certification
6 58 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 40 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
7 40 (1.81%) DV Cleared
8 26 (1.18%) Master's Degree
9 23 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
10 17 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 17 (0.77%) CISSP
10 17 (0.77%) ISTQB
11 12 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
11 12 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
12 11 (0.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 9 (0.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 9 (0.41%) CISM
13 9 (0.41%) DBS Check
14 8 (0.36%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (8.19%) QA
2 174 (7.87%) Data Quality
3 76 (3.44%) GDPR
4 65 (2.94%) Accessibility
5 59 (2.67%) NIST
6 50 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 31 (1.40%) NCSC
8 24 (1.09%) PCI DSS
8 24 (1.09%) WCAG
9 22 (1.00%) SLA
10 17 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (0.41%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.32%) MiFID
13 6 (0.27%) COBIT
13 6 (0.27%) PSD2
14 5 (0.23%) GRC
14 5 (0.23%) SOC 2
15 4 (0.18%) HL7
15 4 (0.18%) SEPA
16 3 (0.14%) HIPAA
System Software
1 609 (27.56%) Docker
2 54 (2.44%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.36%) Squid
7 5 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
7 5 (0.23%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
8 4 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.18%) vSphere
9 2 (0.090%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.090%) Postfix
10 1 (0.045%) HDFS
10 1 (0.045%) IAG
10 1 (0.045%) OpenSSH
10 1 (0.045%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 1 (0.045%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 712 (32.22%) Terraform
2 677 (30.63%) Kubernetes
3 148 (6.70%) Ansible
4 146 (6.61%) Grafana
5 130 (5.88%) Prometheus
6 25 (1.13%) Argo
6 25 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (0.86%) Istio
8 18 (0.81%) Puppet
9 17 (0.77%) Kibana
10 10 (0.45%) Progress Chef
11 9 (0.41%) Packer
12 8 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
13 7 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 6 (0.27%) SCCM
15 5 (0.23%) Kustomize
16 4 (0.18%) Karpenter
16 4 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
16 4 (0.18%) Suricata
17 3 (0.14%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 347 (15.70%) Microsoft
2 202 (9.14%) Databricks
3 108 (4.89%) Google
4 96 (4.34%) Oracle
5 78 (3.53%) Salesforce
6 74 (3.35%) Splunk
7 53 (2.40%) OpenAI
7 53 (2.40%) ServiceNow
8 30 (1.36%) Dynatrace
9 23 (1.04%) CyberArk
9 23 (1.04%) Foundry
9 23 (1.04%) VMware
10 21 (0.95%) MuleSoft
11 20 (0.90%) IBM
11 20 (0.90%) Red Hat
11 20 (0.90%) SAP
12 15 (0.68%) Cisco
13 14 (0.63%) Informatica
14 12 (0.54%) Okta
15 10 (0.45%) UiPath