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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 19 23
Rank change year-on-year +9 +4 -6
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,444 1,296 1,405
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.78% 10.26% 7.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.38% 11.11% 9.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,642 877 1,012
10th Percentile £400 £389 £413
25th Percentile £450 £440 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £538 £573
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -6.11% -8.03%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £825 £813
England median daily rate £525 £515 £556
% change year-on-year +1.94% -7.33% -7.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 3
10th Percentile £50.25 £38.00 £48.40
25th Percentile £55.00 £42.50 £50.88
Median hourly rate £68.50 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.48% -4.55% -31.25%
75th Percentile £95.00 £53.75 £61.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.50 £64.60
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 17,000 11,667 15,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.91% 92.40% 88.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,345 7,819 11,135
10th Percentile £360 £338 £343
25th Percentile £438 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 214 309
10th Percentile £18.01 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +17.35% -28.75%
75th Percentile £59.99 £49.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.60 £68.15
England median hourly rate £47.00 £26.45 £37.50
% change year-on-year +77.69% -29.47% +6.72%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 25 June 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 -1 277 £566 -5.67% 71
West London +1 50 £603 +22.34% 21
South London -1 46 £514 -3.29% 4
East London +11 13 £450 +80.00% 16
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
1 107 (4.38%) Apache Airflow
2 105 (4.30%) Apache Spark
3 83 (3.40%) Confluence
4 68 (2.78%) Apache
5 27 (1.10%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
6 12 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
7 11 (0.45%) Camunda
8 10 (0.41%) SAS
9 8 (0.33%) Appian
9 8 (0.33%) WebSphere
10 7 (0.29%) CMS
10 7 (0.29%) Ethereum
11 6 (0.25%) Hyperledger
11 6 (0.25%) nginx
11 6 (0.25%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.20%) HCL Notes
12 5 (0.20%) Mendix
12 5 (0.20%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.16%) Mule
Applications
1 17 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.41%) Chatbot
3 10 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.12%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.082%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.041%) Maya
Business Applications
1 20 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.37%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.29%) Shopify
4 5 (0.20%) Magento
4 5 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.12%) Findur
6 3 (0.12%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.082%) Endur
7 2 (0.082%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.082%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.041%) Distributed Ledger
8 1 (0.041%) ProductWriter
8 1 (0.041%) R3 Corda
8 1 (0.041%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.041%) SAP CRM
8 1 (0.041%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.041%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,095 (44.80%) AWS
2 1,084 (44.35%) Azure
3 548 (22.42%) GitHub
4 419 (17.14%) Azure DevOps
5 361 (14.77%) GitHub Actions
6 343 (14.03%) GCP
7 317 (12.97%) Serverless
8 242 (9.90%) Amazon S3
9 214 (8.76%) Power Platform
10 213 (8.72%) AWS Lambda
11 173 (7.08%) AWS CloudFormation
12 135 (5.52%) Amazon EKS
13 120 (4.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 117 (4.79%) Amazon EC2
15 116 (4.75%) Azure Data Factory
16 113 (4.62%) Azure AKS
17 107 (4.38%) Snowflake
18 101 (4.13%) Entra ID
19 100 (4.09%) Amazon ECS
20 92 (3.76%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 79 (3.23%) Firewall
2 53 (2.17%) Network Security
3 35 (1.43%) DNS
4 31 (1.27%) VPN
5 25 (1.02%) HTTP
6 19 (0.78%) Internet
7 16 (0.65%) 5G
7 16 (0.65%) WAN
8 12 (0.49%) SD-WAN
9 11 (0.45%) 3GPP
10 9 (0.37%) SSL
11 8 (0.33%) 4G
11 8 (0.33%) TCP/IP
12 7 (0.29%) BGP
12 7 (0.29%) Radio Access Network
13 6 (0.25%) FTP
13 6 (0.25%) OSPF
14 5 (0.20%) Cisco IOS
14 5 (0.20%) Ethernet VPN
14 5 (0.20%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (6.14%) Power BI
2 144 (5.89%) PostgreSQL
3 137 (5.61%) Data Lake
4 132 (5.40%) NoSQL
4 132 (5.40%) SQL Server
5 119 (4.87%) Data Warehouse
6 92 (3.76%) Relational Database
7 86 (3.52%) MongoDB
8 77 (3.15%) Amazon Redshift
9 75 (3.07%) Amazon RDS
10 71 (2.91%) Amazon Athena
11 70 (2.86%) Delta Lake
12 63 (2.58%) Metadata
13 55 (2.25%) BigQuery
14 52 (2.13%) Big Data
15 51 (2.09%) DynamoDB
16 41 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
17 40 (1.64%) Redis
18 36 (1.47%) Snowflake Schema
19 32 (1.31%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 430 (17.59%) Git
2 375 (15.34%) Jenkins
3 304 (12.44%) GitLab
4 160 (6.55%) JIRA
5 69 (2.82%) JUnit
6 66 (2.70%) Selenium
7 45 (1.84%) Cucumber
7 45 (1.84%) JMeter
8 44 (1.80%) Postman
9 43 (1.76%) MLflow
10 41 (1.68%) Mockito
11 36 (1.47%) Gradle
11 36 (1.47%) REST Assured
12 28 (1.15%) Cypress.io
13 25 (1.02%) Bitbucket
13 25 (1.02%) CircleCI
13 25 (1.02%) SonarQube
14 24 (0.98%) Maven
15 21 (0.86%) Snyk
16 20 (0.82%) Gatling
General
1 586 (23.98%) Finance
2 572 (23.40%) Social Skills
3 298 (12.19%) Public Sector
4 270 (11.05%) Banking
5 179 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
6 55 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
6 55 (2.25%) Investment Banking
7 48 (1.96%) Front Office
8 45 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 45 (1.84%) Retail
9 42 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
10 29 (1.19%) Financial Institution
11 28 (1.15%) Telecoms
12 27 (1.10%) Law
13 25 (1.02%) Legal
14 22 (0.90%) Marketing
15 17 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
16 16 (0.65%) Publishing
17 12 (0.49%) Manufacturing
17 12 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 494 (20.21%) Developer
2 408 (16.69%) Senior
3 286 (11.70%) DevOps Engineer
4 279 (11.42%) Architect
5 233 (9.53%) Lead
6 228 (9.33%) Data Engineer
7 155 (6.34%) AWS Engineer
8 145 (5.93%) Azure Engineer
9 136 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
10 120 (4.91%) Software Engineer
11 111 (4.54%) Java Developer
12 102 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
13 97 (3.97%) Senior Developer
14 76 (3.11%) Full-Stack Developer
14 76 (3.11%) Solutions Architect
15 72 (2.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 69 (2.82%) Python Developer
17 64 (2.62%) AWS DevOps
18 60 (2.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 58 (2.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 289 (11.82%) REST
2 235 (9.62%) React
3 230 (9.41%) Kafka
4 215 (8.80%) .NET
5 208 (8.51%) RESTful
6 197 (8.06%) Spring
7 171 (7.00%) Spring Boot
8 134 (5.48%) PySpark
9 117 (4.79%) Node.js
10 108 (4.42%) AngularJS
11 89 (3.64%) OAuth
12 82 (3.36%) HTML
13 69 (2.82%) Playwright
14 68 (2.78%) CSS
15 67 (2.74%) FastAPI
16 62 (2.54%) JSON
16 62 (2.54%) OAuth2
17 58 (2.37%) Pandas
18 56 (2.29%) SOAP
19 50 (2.05%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 520 (21.28%) Cloud Native
2 186 (7.61%) Distributed Systems
3 110 (4.50%) Product Ownership
4 88 (3.60%) Legacy Systems
5 81 (3.31%) Onboarding
6 68 (2.78%) AI Agents
7 46 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
8 43 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
9 41 (1.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 37 (1.51%) Management Information System
11 36 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
12 35 (1.43%) Algorithms
12 35 (1.43%) Mobile App
12 35 (1.43%) Virtual Team
13 34 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
14 32 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
14 32 (1.31%) Fixed Income
14 32 (1.31%) Public Cloud
15 29 (1.19%) Security Posture
16 28 (1.15%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 164 (6.71%) Linux
2 102 (4.17%) Windows
3 49 (2.00%) Unix
4 25 (1.02%) Apple iOS
5 24 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 21 (0.86%) Android
7 20 (0.82%) Windows Server
8 18 (0.74%) VMS
9 8 (0.33%) Ubuntu
9 8 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.29%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.20%) Solaris
11 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
11 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.16%) zOS
13 2 (0.082%) AIX
13 2 (0.082%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.041%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,329 (54.38%) DevOps
2 820 (33.55%) Infrastructure as Code
3 805 (32.94%) Agile
4 547 (22.38%) Containerisation
5 516 (21.11%) AI
6 492 (20.13%) Test Automation
7 465 (19.03%) Microservices
8 408 (16.69%) Observability
9 381 (15.59%) Analytics
10 378 (15.47%) Software Engineering
11 327 (13.38%) Data Modelling
12 320 (13.09%) Data Pipeline
12 320 (13.09%) Problem-Solving
13 309 (12.64%) Data Engineering
14 290 (11.87%) Continuous Improvement
15 283 (11.58%) Platform Engineering
16 277 (11.33%) Machine Learning
17 254 (10.39%) Migration
18 240 (9.82%) Event-Driven
19 239 (9.78%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 950 (38.87%) Python
2 680 (27.82%) SQL
3 473 (19.35%) Java
4 272 (11.13%) C#
5 238 (9.74%) TypeScript
6 235 (9.62%) JavaScript
7 165 (6.75%) Bash
8 155 (6.34%) PowerShell
9 94 (3.85%) Bicep
10 52 (2.13%) Scala
11 50 (2.05%) Go
12 42 (1.72%) Apex Code
13 39 (1.60%) Shell Script
14 37 (1.51%) Kotlin
14 37 (1.51%) Ruby
15 27 (1.10%) T-SQL
16 26 (1.06%) PL/SQL
17 15 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 13 (0.53%) Groovy
18 13 (0.53%) Swift
Qualifications
1 612 (25.04%) Security Cleared
2 546 (22.34%) SC Cleared
3 128 (5.24%) Degree
4 95 (3.89%) Azure Certification
5 71 (2.91%) AWS Certification
6 57 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 56 (2.29%) DV Cleared
8 37 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
9 26 (1.06%) Master's Degree
10 22 (0.90%) CISSP
10 22 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
11 21 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 16 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
13 15 (0.61%) DBS Check
14 14 (0.57%) ISTQB
15 12 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 12 (0.49%) CISM
15 12 (0.49%) GIAC
15 12 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
16 9 (0.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 203 (8.31%) QA
2 192 (7.86%) Data Quality
3 82 (3.36%) Accessibility
4 70 (2.86%) NIST
5 67 (2.74%) GDPR
6 56 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (1.31%) NCSC
8 26 (1.06%) PCI DSS
8 26 (1.06%) WCAG
9 22 (0.90%) SLA
10 10 (0.41%) EU AI Act
10 10 (0.41%) GRC
10 10 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 8 (0.33%) ISO 20022
12 6 (0.25%) COBIT
12 6 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.25%) PSD2
12 6 (0.25%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 5 (0.20%) SEPA
System Software
1 644 (26.35%) Docker
2 60 (2.45%) Active Directory
3 38 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.33%) Squid
7 6 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
8 5 (0.20%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.12%) vSphere
10 2 (0.082%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.082%) HDFS
10 2 (0.082%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.082%) Postfix
11 1 (0.041%) IAG
11 1 (0.041%) OpenSSH
11 1 (0.041%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
11 1 (0.041%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 798 (32.65%) Terraform
2 733 (29.99%) Kubernetes
3 176 (7.20%) Ansible
4 167 (6.83%) Grafana
5 150 (6.14%) Prometheus
6 25 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (0.94%) Puppet
8 19 (0.78%) Argo
9 18 (0.74%) Kibana
10 14 (0.57%) Packer
11 12 (0.49%) Istio
12 11 (0.45%) Progress Chef
13 8 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
14 6 (0.25%) Kustomize
14 6 (0.25%) SCCM
15 5 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 5 (0.20%) HP Fortify
15 5 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
15 5 (0.20%) Salt
Vendors
1 349 (14.28%) Microsoft
2 191 (7.82%) Databricks
3 109 (4.46%) Google
4 100 (4.09%) Oracle
5 92 (3.76%) Salesforce
6 85 (3.48%) Splunk
7 57 (2.33%) OpenAI
7 57 (2.33%) ServiceNow
8 39 (1.60%) Dynatrace
9 30 (1.23%) VMware
10 27 (1.10%) Informatica
11 26 (1.06%) Foundry
12 24 (0.98%) CyberArk
12 24 (0.98%) IBM
12 24 (0.98%) Red Hat
12 24 (0.98%) SAP
13 23 (0.94%) MuleSoft
14 21 (0.86%) Palantir
15 18 (0.74%) Cisco
16 14 (0.57%) Palo Alto