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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 18 27
Rank change year-on-year +7 +9 -12
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,104 1,309 1,237
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.81% 10.21% 6.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.27% 11.21% 7.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,438 941 915
10th Percentile £375 £404 £425
25th Percentile £447 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £725 £688
90th Percentile £738 £838 £800
England median daily rate £515 £550 £553
% change year-on-year -6.45% -0.45% -7.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 4
10th Percentile £56.50 - £49.60
25th Percentile £62.69 - £53.88
Median hourly rate £67.00 - £57.75
75th Percentile £88.75 - £60.81
90th Percentile £95.00 - £64.53
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £62.25
% change year-on-year +3.85% +4.42% -5.11%

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 14,745 11,676 16,083
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.75% 91.09% 88.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,877 7,820 11,502
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 162 343
10th Percentile £18.14 £20.05 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.70 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% +18.35% -18.49%
75th Percentile £56.98 £53.75 £49.94
90th Percentile £71.50 £77.25 £69.35
England median hourly rate £31.00 £33.11 £32.50
% change year-on-year -6.37% +1.88% -11.33%

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 18 March 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 March 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 March 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 -2 240 £540 -6.09% 223
West London +6 68 £603 +47.31% 13
South London +4 59 £525 +10.53% 11
East London -5 7 £450 -10.00% 16
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
1 100 (4.75%) Apache Spark
2 85 (4.04%) Apache Airflow
3 68 (3.23%) Confluence
4 59 (2.80%) Apache
5 31 (1.47%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.57%) CMS
7 11 (0.52%) Ethereum
7 11 (0.52%) HCL Notes
7 11 (0.52%) Hyperledger
8 10 (0.48%) Mendix
8 10 (0.48%) SAS
9 9 (0.43%) Appian
9 9 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.29%) Camunda
10 6 (0.29%) IIS
10 6 (0.29%) nginx
11 5 (0.24%) Headless CMS
11 5 (0.24%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
11 5 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 24 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.29%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.095%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.048%) Maya
Business Applications
1 16 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.33%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.14%) Findur
5 2 (0.095%) Endur
5 2 (0.095%) Magento
5 2 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.095%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.095%) Shopify
6 1 (0.048%) Cerner Millennium
6 1 (0.048%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.048%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.048%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.048%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.048%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.048%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.048%) Orchestrade
6 1 (0.048%) ProductWriter
6 1 (0.048%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.048%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 963 (45.77%) Azure
2 932 (44.30%) AWS
3 509 (24.19%) GitHub
4 376 (17.87%) Azure DevOps
5 336 (15.97%) GCP
6 320 (15.21%) GitHub Actions
7 310 (14.73%) Serverless
8 210 (9.98%) Amazon S3
9 195 (9.27%) AWS CloudFormation
10 191 (9.08%) AWS Lambda
11 177 (8.41%) Power Platform
12 131 (6.23%) Amazon EKS
13 124 (5.89%) Azure Data Factory
14 117 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
15 98 (4.66%) Azure AKS
16 92 (4.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 91 (4.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 86 (4.09%) Amazon EC2
19 80 (3.80%) Snowflake
20 73 (3.47%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 75 (3.56%) Firewall
2 49 (2.33%) Network Security
3 38 (1.81%) DNS
4 23 (1.09%) VPN
5 20 (0.95%) HTTP
6 17 (0.81%) WAN
7 15 (0.71%) SD-WAN
8 9 (0.43%) SSL
9 8 (0.38%) BGP
10 7 (0.33%) TCP/IP
11 6 (0.29%) 3GPP
11 6 (0.29%) Ethernet VPN
11 6 (0.29%) MPLS
11 6 (0.29%) OSPF
11 6 (0.29%) VXLAN
12 5 (0.24%) 5G
13 4 (0.19%) Internet
13 4 (0.19%) IOS XR
13 4 (0.19%) NX-OS
13 4 (0.19%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (6.94%) PostgreSQL
2 136 (6.46%) Data Lake
3 127 (6.04%) Power BI
4 125 (5.94%) SQL Server
5 117 (5.56%) NoSQL
6 104 (4.94%) Data Warehouse
7 76 (3.61%) Amazon RDS
8 75 (3.56%) MongoDB
8 75 (3.56%) Relational Database
9 59 (2.80%) Delta Lake
10 58 (2.76%) Amazon Athena
10 58 (2.76%) Azure SQL Database
11 56 (2.66%) BigQuery
12 50 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
12 50 (2.38%) Big Data
13 48 (2.28%) Metadata
14 39 (1.85%) DynamoDB
15 33 (1.57%) MySQL
16 32 (1.52%) Tableau
17 31 (1.47%) Redis
Development Applications
1 393 (18.68%) Git
2 362 (17.21%) Jenkins
3 258 (12.26%) GitLab
4 145 (6.89%) JIRA
5 80 (3.80%) Selenium
6 62 (2.95%) JUnit
7 57 (2.71%) Cucumber
8 54 (2.57%) MLflow
9 45 (2.14%) Postman
10 38 (1.81%) Cypress.io
11 35 (1.66%) JMeter
11 35 (1.66%) REST Assured
12 31 (1.47%) Mockito
13 26 (1.24%) Bitbucket
14 19 (0.90%) Gradle
14 19 (0.90%) Maven
15 17 (0.81%) Gatling
15 17 (0.81%) TeamCity
16 15 (0.71%) Appium
16 15 (0.71%) SpecFlow
General
1 534 (25.38%) Social Skills
2 480 (22.81%) Finance
3 244 (11.60%) Public Sector
4 211 (10.03%) Banking
5 176 (8.37%) Analytical Skills
6 46 (2.19%) Front Office
7 45 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
8 42 (2.00%) Investment Banking
9 40 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
10 30 (1.43%) Financial Institution
11 29 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 23 (1.09%) Retail
13 20 (0.95%) Telecoms
14 15 (0.71%) Legal
14 15 (0.71%) Marketing
14 15 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
15 14 (0.67%) Law
16 11 (0.52%) Manufacturing
16 11 (0.52%) Publishing
17 9 (0.43%) Military
Job Titles
1 502 (23.86%) Developer
2 327 (15.54%) Senior
3 223 (10.60%) DevOps Engineer
4 212 (10.08%) Architect
5 209 (9.93%) Data Engineer
6 171 (8.13%) Lead
7 124 (5.89%) AWS Engineer
8 122 (5.80%) Azure Engineer
9 96 (4.56%) Cloud Engineer
9 96 (4.56%) Software Engineer
10 94 (4.47%) Platform Engineer
11 85 (4.04%) Full-Stack Developer
12 82 (3.90%) Senior Developer
13 80 (3.80%) Java Developer
14 69 (3.28%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 64 (3.04%) AWS DevOps
16 60 (2.85%) Python Engineer
17 58 (2.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 58 (2.76%) Python Developer
18 55 (2.61%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 250 (11.88%) React
2 222 (10.55%) Kafka
3 197 (9.36%) Node.js
4 195 (9.27%) REST
5 192 (9.13%) .NET
5 192 (9.13%) RESTful
6 165 (7.84%) Spring
7 131 (6.23%) AngularJS
8 130 (6.18%) Spring Boot
9 104 (4.94%) Playwright
10 99 (4.71%) PySpark
11 97 (4.61%) CSS
12 96 (4.56%) HTML
13 80 (3.80%) OAuth
14 58 (2.76%) GraphQL
14 58 (2.76%) YAML
15 51 (2.42%) FastAPI
16 50 (2.38%) JSON
16 50 (2.38%) PyTorch
16 50 (2.38%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 423 (20.10%) Cloud Native
2 120 (5.70%) Distributed Systems
3 97 (4.61%) Product Ownership
4 62 (2.95%) Legacy Systems
5 49 (2.33%) Onboarding
6 45 (2.14%) Mobile App
7 41 (1.95%) Algorithms
8 36 (1.71%) AI Agents
9 32 (1.52%) Public Cloud
10 31 (1.47%) Data Structures
10 31 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
11 30 (1.43%) Derivative
12 29 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
13 28 (1.33%) Equities
14 26 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
14 26 (1.24%) Fixed Income
15 25 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 25 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
16 24 (1.14%) Data Centre
16 24 (1.14%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 143 (6.80%) Linux
2 68 (3.23%) Windows
3 35 (1.66%) Apple iOS
4 27 (1.28%) Android
4 27 (1.28%) Unix
4 27 (1.28%) VMS
5 11 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (0.52%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.24%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.24%) zOS
7 4 (0.19%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.095%) Solaris
9 2 (0.095%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.095%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.048%) AIX
10 1 (0.048%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,155 (54.90%) DevOps
2 682 (32.41%) Agile
3 677 (32.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 476 (22.62%) Containerisation
5 440 (20.91%) Test Automation
6 395 (18.77%) AI
7 383 (18.20%) Microservices
8 371 (17.63%) Problem-Solving
9 349 (16.59%) Analytics
10 335 (15.92%) Observability
11 293 (13.93%) Software Engineering
12 266 (12.64%) Data Modelling
13 263 (12.50%) Data Engineering
14 255 (12.12%) Data Pipeline
15 247 (11.74%) Continuous Improvement
16 239 (11.36%) Machine Learning
17 215 (10.22%) Full-Stack Development
18 214 (10.17%) ETL
19 198 (9.41%) Migration
20 195 (9.27%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 842 (40.02%) Python
2 595 (28.28%) SQL
3 402 (19.11%) Java
4 279 (13.26%) JavaScript
5 273 (12.98%) TypeScript
6 246 (11.69%) C#
7 117 (5.56%) Bash
8 97 (4.61%) PowerShell
9 76 (3.61%) Bicep
10 63 (2.99%) Scala
11 52 (2.47%) Go
12 37 (1.76%) Ruby
13 30 (1.43%) C++
13 30 (1.43%) Kotlin
14 28 (1.33%) PL/SQL
14 28 (1.33%) T-SQL
15 27 (1.28%) Shell Script
16 23 (1.09%) Apex Code
17 18 (0.86%) Swift
18 16 (0.76%) Rust
Qualifications
1 506 (24.05%) Security Cleared
2 442 (21.01%) SC Cleared
3 135 (6.42%) Degree
4 78 (3.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 73 (3.47%) Azure Certification
6 70 (3.33%) AWS Certification
7 34 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
8 32 (1.52%) Master's Degree
9 27 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
10 26 (1.24%) DV Cleared
11 23 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 20 (0.95%) ISTQB
13 19 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
13 19 (0.90%) CISSP
14 13 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
15 12 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 12 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 12 (0.57%) Numerate Degree
16 10 (0.48%) CCSP
17 9 (0.43%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (8.51%) QA
2 154 (7.32%) Data Quality
3 87 (4.13%) GDPR
4 76 (3.61%) Accessibility
5 57 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 55 (2.61%) NIST
7 30 (1.43%) NCSC
7 30 (1.43%) WCAG
8 29 (1.38%) PCI DSS
9 21 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 19 (0.90%) SLA
11 9 (0.43%) HIPAA
12 7 (0.33%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.33%) NIST 800
13 6 (0.29%) MiFID
13 6 (0.29%) PSD2
13 6 (0.29%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.19%) GRC
14 4 (0.19%) HL7
14 4 (0.19%) SEPA
System Software
1 630 (29.94%) Docker
2 50 (2.38%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.38%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.33%) vSphere
8 2 (0.095%) HDFS
8 2 (0.095%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.095%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.048%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.048%) IAG
9 1 (0.048%) Squid
9 1 (0.048%) zsh
Systems Management
1 688 (32.70%) Terraform
2 666 (31.65%) Kubernetes
3 144 (6.84%) Ansible
4 131 (6.23%) Grafana
5 115 (5.47%) Prometheus
6 44 (2.09%) Argo
7 23 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (1.00%) Istio
9 14 (0.67%) Puppet
10 11 (0.52%) Kibana
11 9 (0.43%) Progress Chef
11 9 (0.43%) Rancher
12 8 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
12 8 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
13 7 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 5 (0.24%) Karpenter
14 5 (0.24%) Kubeflow
14 5 (0.24%) Packer
15 4 (0.19%) Opsgenie
15 4 (0.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 321 (15.26%) Microsoft
2 211 (10.03%) Databricks
3 127 (6.04%) Google
4 80 (3.80%) Oracle
5 62 (2.95%) Splunk
6 59 (2.80%) OpenAI
7 54 (2.57%) Salesforce
7 54 (2.57%) ServiceNow
8 27 (1.28%) Dynatrace
8 27 (1.28%) Red Hat
9 21 (1.00%) VMware
10 20 (0.95%) Cisco
10 20 (0.95%) MuleSoft
11 18 (0.86%) SAP
12 16 (0.76%) CyberArk
12 16 (0.76%) Foundry
13 15 (0.71%) IBM
14 13 (0.62%) UiPath
15 12 (0.57%) Citrix
15 12 (0.57%) Solace