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 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 16 20
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 -1
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,650 1,485 1,391
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.15% 11.11% 8.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.77% 12.01% 9.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,782 1,008 970
10th Percentile £400 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £438 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £567
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -7.41% -5.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £741 £794
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 1
10th Percentile £50.25 £30.63 -
25th Percentile £52.19 £36.88 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £48.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -11.36% -29.03%
75th Percentile £74.50 £53.75 -
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.38 -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -12.75%

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 17,945 12,360 14,445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.05% 92.46% 88.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,728 8,229 9,956
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
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 290 253 193
10th Percentile £17.23 £16.60 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.77 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.49 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% -10.03% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.25 £49.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -

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 28 August 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 28 August 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 28 August 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 +8 335 £550 -10.20% 171
South London +5 64 £538 +1.27% 18
West London +3 54 £560 +13.71% 103
East London +6 11 £590 +9.26% 28
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
1 128 (4.83%) Apache Airflow
2 110 (4.15%) Confluence
3 103 (3.89%) Apache Spark
4 76 (2.87%) Apache
5 29 (1.09%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.49%) Camunda
7 12 (0.45%) CMS
8 11 (0.42%) nginx
9 10 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
10 9 (0.34%) OpenStack
11 7 (0.26%) Anypoint
12 6 (0.23%) SAS
12 6 (0.23%) WebSphere
13 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
13 5 (0.19%) Mule
14 4 (0.15%) Tomcat
15 3 (0.11%) Apache Pulsar
15 3 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
15 3 (0.11%) IIS
15 3 (0.11%) Mendix
Applications
1 18 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.53%) Chatbot
3 10 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.15%) Trello
6 3 (0.11%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.075%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.038%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.038%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 27 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.49%) Aladdin
3 8 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
4 7 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.23%) Shopify
6 5 (0.19%) Magento
7 4 (0.15%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.11%) Endur
8 3 (0.11%) Findur
8 3 (0.11%) SAP CRM
8 3 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
9 2 (0.075%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.075%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.075%) Temenos T24
10 1 (0.038%) Distributed Ledger
10 1 (0.038%) Dynamics AX
10 1 (0.038%) SAP BPC
10 1 (0.038%) SAP IS-U
10 1 (0.038%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,208 (45.58%) Azure
2 1,164 (43.92%) AWS
3 596 (22.49%) GitHub
4 481 (18.15%) Azure DevOps
5 400 (15.09%) GitHub Actions
6 399 (15.06%) GCP
7 314 (11.85%) Serverless
8 239 (9.02%) Power Platform
9 235 (8.87%) Amazon S3
10 205 (7.74%) AWS Lambda
11 150 (5.66%) Amazon EKS
12 147 (5.55%) Snowflake
13 137 (5.17%) AWS CloudFormation
14 134 (5.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 131 (4.94%) dbt
16 123 (4.64%) Entra ID
17 121 (4.57%) Azure AKS
18 117 (4.42%) Amazon EC2
19 110 (4.15%) Azure Data Factory
20 92 (3.47%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 69 (2.60%) Firewall
2 43 (1.62%) Network Security
3 36 (1.36%) DNS
4 35 (1.32%) VPN
5 29 (1.09%) Internet
6 25 (0.94%) TCP/IP
7 23 (0.87%) HTTP
8 21 (0.79%) 5G
9 18 (0.68%) SSL
10 15 (0.57%) WAN
11 13 (0.49%) 3GPP
12 11 (0.42%) Radio Access Network
12 11 (0.42%) SAN
13 10 (0.38%) 4G
14 9 (0.34%) BGP
14 9 (0.34%) Kerberos
14 9 (0.34%) SD-WAN
15 8 (0.30%) SSH
16 7 (0.26%) FTP
16 7 (0.26%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (6.83%) Power BI
2 169 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
3 153 (5.77%) Data Warehouse
4 137 (5.17%) SQL Server
5 130 (4.91%) NoSQL
6 116 (4.38%) Data Lake
7 103 (3.89%) MongoDB
8 98 (3.70%) Relational Database
9 88 (3.32%) Amazon RDS
10 87 (3.28%) Metadata
11 86 (3.25%) Delta Lake
12 73 (2.75%) Amazon Redshift
13 71 (2.68%) BigQuery
14 55 (2.08%) Redis
15 53 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
16 46 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
16 46 (1.74%) DynamoDB
17 43 (1.62%) Big Data
18 38 (1.43%) Amazon Aurora
19 35 (1.32%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 489 (18.45%) Git
2 431 (16.26%) Jenkins
3 349 (13.17%) GitLab
4 189 (7.13%) JIRA
5 89 (3.36%) Selenium
6 74 (2.79%) JUnit
7 51 (1.92%) Cypress.io
8 49 (1.85%) Gradle
9 46 (1.74%) JMeter
10 40 (1.51%) Mockito
11 39 (1.47%) Bitbucket
12 36 (1.36%) Maven
12 36 (1.36%) Postman
13 35 (1.32%) Cucumber
13 35 (1.32%) SonarQube
14 32 (1.21%) REST Assured
15 27 (1.02%) CircleCI
16 25 (0.94%) MLflow
17 22 (0.83%) Gatling
18 19 (0.72%) Liquibase
General
1 665 (25.09%) Social Skills
2 646 (24.38%) Finance
3 310 (11.70%) Public Sector
4 298 (11.25%) Banking
5 234 (8.83%) Analytical Skills
6 64 (2.42%) Front Office
7 61 (2.30%) Retail
8 57 (2.15%) Investment Banking
9 44 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
10 43 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 33 (1.25%) Telecoms
12 31 (1.17%) Law
12 31 (1.17%) Marketing
13 30 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
14 27 (1.02%) Financial Institution
15 25 (0.94%) Legal
16 18 (0.68%) Military
17 15 (0.57%) Local Government
17 15 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
18 14 (0.53%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 566 (21.36%) Developer
2 475 (17.92%) Senior
3 317 (11.96%) DevOps Engineer
4 301 (11.36%) Architect
5 263 (9.92%) Lead
6 248 (9.36%) Data Engineer
7 158 (5.96%) Azure Engineer
8 142 (5.36%) AWS Engineer
9 131 (4.94%) Software Engineer
10 125 (4.72%) Cloud Engineer
11 122 (4.60%) Senior Developer
12 115 (4.34%) Java Developer
13 102 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
14 93 (3.51%) Full-Stack Developer
15 84 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
16 81 (3.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 75 (2.83%) Python Developer
18 68 (2.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 66 (2.49%) Azure DevOps Engineer
20 63 (2.38%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 857 (32.34%) Terraform
2 387 (14.60%) REST
3 277 (10.45%) Kafka
4 265 (10.00%) React
5 238 (8.98%) .NET
6 216 (8.15%) RESTful
7 207 (7.81%) Spring
8 177 (6.68%) Spring Boot
9 143 (5.40%) PySpark
10 128 (4.83%) Node.js
11 102 (3.85%) HTML
12 92 (3.47%) CSS
13 91 (3.43%) AngularJS
14 88 (3.32%) Playwright
15 87 (3.28%) JSON
16 73 (2.75%) OAuth
17 70 (2.64%) FastAPI
18 68 (2.57%) SOAP
19 57 (2.15%) Next.js
20 56 (2.11%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 552 (20.83%) Cloud Native
2 229 (8.64%) Distributed Systems
3 149 (5.62%) Product Ownership
4 111 (4.19%) AI Agents
5 105 (3.96%) Onboarding
6 92 (3.47%) Legacy Systems
7 87 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
8 43 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
9 41 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
9 41 (1.55%) Virtual Team
10 40 (1.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 39 (1.47%) Mobile App
12 37 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
13 35 (1.32%) Management Information System
14 34 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
15 32 (1.21%) Data Structures
15 32 (1.21%) Security Posture
16 31 (1.17%) Algorithms
16 31 (1.17%) Fixed Income
17 30 (1.13%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 225 (8.49%) Linux
2 113 (4.26%) Windows
3 71 (2.68%) Unix
4 46 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 30 (1.13%) Android
6 29 (1.09%) Apple iOS
6 29 (1.09%) Windows Server
7 16 (0.60%) VMS
8 14 (0.53%) Ubuntu
9 11 (0.42%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
10 7 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
11 6 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.15%) Solaris
12 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.075%) AIX
14 1 (0.038%) CentOS
14 1 (0.038%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,471 (55.51%) DevOps
2 959 (36.19%) Agile
3 898 (33.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 580 (21.89%) AI
5 565 (21.32%) Test Automation
6 558 (21.06%) Containerisation
7 531 (20.04%) Microservices
8 494 (18.64%) Observability
9 467 (17.62%) Software Engineering
10 390 (14.72%) Problem-Solving
11 372 (14.04%) Analytics
12 355 (13.40%) Data Pipeline
13 350 (13.21%) Continuous Improvement
14 335 (12.64%) Data Modelling
15 332 (12.53%) Stakeholder Management
16 327 (12.34%) Data Engineering
17 326 (12.30%) Platform Engineering
18 315 (11.89%) Event-Driven
19 282 (10.64%) Migration
20 276 (10.42%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1,072 (40.45%) Python
2 759 (28.64%) SQL
3 545 (20.57%) Java
4 279 (10.53%) JavaScript
5 269 (10.15%) TypeScript
6 266 (10.04%) C#
7 221 (8.34%) Bash
8 216 (8.15%) PowerShell
9 112 (4.23%) Bicep
10 64 (2.42%) Go
11 53 (2.00%) Kotlin
12 51 (1.92%) Shell Script
13 49 (1.85%) Apex Code
14 45 (1.70%) Scala
15 40 (1.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 34 (1.28%) Ruby
17 32 (1.21%) PL/SQL
18 27 (1.02%) C++
19 26 (0.98%) Perl
19 26 (0.98%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 687 (25.92%) Security Cleared
2 616 (23.25%) SC Cleared
3 141 (5.32%) Degree
4 106 (4.00%) Azure Certification
5 83 (3.13%) DV Cleared
6 78 (2.94%) AWS Certification
7 67 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
8 50 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
9 26 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 26 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
10 19 (0.72%) CISSP
11 17 (0.64%) Master's Degree
12 15 (0.57%) DBS Check
13 14 (0.53%) ISTQB
14 12 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 12 (0.45%) GIAC
14 12 (0.45%) PhD
15 10 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
15 10 (0.38%) CISM
15 10 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 235 (8.87%) QA
2 232 (8.75%) Data Quality
3 85 (3.21%) Accessibility
4 54 (2.04%) GDPR
5 48 (1.81%) NIST
6 45 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 27 (1.02%) WCAG
8 25 (0.94%) SLA
9 22 (0.83%) NCSC
10 13 (0.49%) ISO 20022
10 13 (0.49%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.42%) EU AI Act
12 10 (0.38%) GRC
13 7 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 7 (0.26%) SOC 2
14 6 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
16 4 (0.15%) COBIT
16 4 (0.15%) MiFID
16 4 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 687 (25.92%) Docker
2 62 (2.34%) Active Directory
3 39 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
4 33 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.49%) Squid
6 7 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.23%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
9 4 (0.15%) Postfix
10 2 (0.075%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.075%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.075%) Dovecot
10 2 (0.075%) HDFS
10 2 (0.075%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.075%) KVM
10 2 (0.075%) Varnish
10 2 (0.075%) vSphere
11 1 (0.038%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 788 (29.74%) Kubernetes
2 216 (8.15%) Grafana
3 198 (7.47%) Ansible
4 177 (6.68%) Prometheus
5 36 (1.36%) Argo
6 33 (1.25%) Puppet
7 24 (0.91%) Kibana
8 20 (0.75%) Packer
8 20 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
9 17 (0.64%) Progress Chef
10 14 (0.53%) Istio
11 10 (0.38%) Control-M
12 8 (0.30%) Kustomize
13 7 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
13 7 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
13 7 (0.26%) SCCM
14 5 (0.19%) HP Fortify
14 5 (0.19%) Nagios
15 4 (0.15%) ITRS Geneos
15 4 (0.15%) Salt
Vendors
1 445 (16.79%) Microsoft
2 234 (8.83%) Databricks
3 144 (5.43%) Google
4 139 (5.25%) Oracle
5 102 (3.85%) Splunk
6 100 (3.77%) Salesforce
7 66 (2.49%) ServiceNow
8 50 (1.89%) OpenAI
9 49 (1.85%) Dynatrace
10 45 (1.70%) VMware
11 38 (1.43%) IBM
12 36 (1.36%) Informatica
13 30 (1.13%) Red Hat
14 29 (1.09%) Foundry
15 28 (1.06%) MuleSoft
16 26 (0.98%) SAP
17 23 (0.87%) New Relic
18 22 (0.83%) Cisco
19 20 (0.75%) CyberArk
19 20 (0.75%) Palantir