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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 16 19
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 +1
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,716 1,539 1,432
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.36% 11.41% 8.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.02% 12.32% 9.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,820 1,030 999
10th Percentile £400 £367 £413
25th Percentile £450 £438 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £525 £570
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -7.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £738 £738 £795
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% -26.67%
75th Percentile £74.50 £53.75 -
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.38 -
England median hourly rate £66.66 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.55% - -13.33%

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 18,084 12,490 14,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.97% 92.58% 89.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,813 8,262 9,757
10th Percentile £359 £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 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 302 257 180
10th Percentile £16.71 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.25 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.16% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.38 £48.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £86.15 £63.75 £72.19
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +0.58%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 12 September 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 +13 349 £550 -10.02% 239
South London +3 66 £536 +0.89% 20
West London -6 50 £560 +15.45% 82
East London +6 13 £588 +8.80% 33
North London - 1 £650 - 1
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
1 135 (4.97%) Apache Airflow
2 115 (4.23%) Confluence
3 101 (3.72%) Apache Spark
4 80 (2.95%) Apache
5 38 (1.40%) SharePoint
6 15 (0.55%) CMS
7 14 (0.52%) Camunda
8 11 (0.41%) nginx
9 9 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
10 8 (0.29%) OpenStack
11 7 (0.26%) Anypoint
12 6 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
12 6 (0.22%) SAS
13 5 (0.18%) Mule
13 5 (0.18%) WebSphere
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 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.55%) Chatbot
3 10 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.15%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.15%) Trello
6 2 (0.074%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.037%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.037%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.037%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 1 (0.037%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 27 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
3 9 (0.33%) Aladdin
4 6 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.22%) Shopify
5 5 (0.18%) Magento
5 5 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (0.15%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.11%) Endur
7 3 (0.11%) Findur
7 3 (0.11%) SAP CRM
8 2 (0.074%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.074%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.074%) Temenos T24
9 1 (0.037%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.037%) Dynamics AX
9 1 (0.037%) SAP BPC
9 1 (0.037%) SAP IS-U
9 1 (0.037%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,226 (45.14%) Azure
2 1,175 (43.26%) AWS
3 620 (22.83%) GitHub
4 473 (17.42%) Azure DevOps
5 423 (15.57%) GitHub Actions
6 416 (15.32%) GCP
7 326 (12.00%) Serverless
8 243 (8.95%) Amazon S3
9 238 (8.76%) Power Platform
10 212 (7.81%) AWS Lambda
11 162 (5.96%) Amazon EKS
12 155 (5.71%) Snowflake
13 144 (5.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 137 (5.04%) AWS CloudFormation
14 137 (5.04%) dbt
15 130 (4.79%) Entra ID
16 124 (4.57%) Amazon EC2
17 113 (4.16%) Azure Data Factory
18 111 (4.09%) Azure AKS
19 91 (3.35%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 66 (2.43%) Firewall
2 42 (1.55%) Network Security
3 37 (1.36%) DNS
4 35 (1.29%) VPN
5 29 (1.07%) Internet
6 25 (0.92%) TCP/IP
7 23 (0.85%) HTTP
8 22 (0.81%) 5G
9 19 (0.70%) SSL
10 14 (0.52%) 3GPP
11 13 (0.48%) WAN
12 12 (0.44%) Radio Access Network
13 11 (0.41%) SAN
14 9 (0.33%) 4G
14 9 (0.33%) Kerberos
15 8 (0.29%) SSH
16 7 (0.26%) BGP
16 7 (0.26%) FTP
16 7 (0.26%) SD-WAN
17 6 (0.22%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 182 (6.70%) PostgreSQL
2 180 (6.63%) Power BI
3 158 (5.82%) Data Warehouse
4 140 (5.15%) SQL Server
5 128 (4.71%) NoSQL
6 119 (4.38%) Data Lake
7 107 (3.94%) MongoDB
8 105 (3.87%) Relational Database
9 91 (3.35%) Amazon RDS
10 89 (3.28%) Delta Lake
11 85 (3.13%) Metadata
12 73 (2.69%) Amazon Redshift
13 72 (2.65%) BigQuery
14 55 (2.03%) Redis
15 50 (1.84%) Amazon Athena
16 48 (1.77%) DynamoDB
17 42 (1.55%) Amazon Aurora
17 42 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
17 42 (1.55%) Big Data
17 42 (1.55%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 513 (18.89%) Git
2 440 (16.20%) Jenkins
3 354 (13.03%) GitLab
4 191 (7.03%) JIRA
5 88 (3.24%) Selenium
6 77 (2.84%) JUnit
7 57 (2.10%) Gradle
8 53 (1.95%) Cypress.io
9 48 (1.77%) JMeter
10 44 (1.62%) SonarQube
11 43 (1.58%) Maven
12 42 (1.55%) Cucumber
12 42 (1.55%) Mockito
13 40 (1.47%) Bitbucket
14 38 (1.40%) Postman
15 35 (1.29%) REST Assured
16 27 (0.99%) CircleCI
17 25 (0.92%) MLflow
18 23 (0.85%) Gatling
19 19 (0.70%) Liquibase
General
1 684 (25.18%) Social Skills
2 676 (24.89%) Finance
3 318 (11.71%) Banking
4 310 (11.41%) Public Sector
5 250 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
6 72 (2.65%) Front Office
7 68 (2.50%) Retail
8 59 (2.17%) Investment Banking
9 46 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 39 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
11 34 (1.25%) Marketing
12 33 (1.22%) Law
13 32 (1.18%) Telecoms
14 29 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
15 24 (0.88%) Financial Institution
16 23 (0.85%) Legal
17 20 (0.74%) Military
18 19 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
19 17 (0.63%) Local Government
20 15 (0.55%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 585 (21.54%) Developer
2 491 (18.08%) Senior
3 329 (12.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 307 (11.30%) Architect
5 266 (9.79%) Lead
6 258 (9.50%) Data Engineer
7 152 (5.60%) Azure Engineer
8 142 (5.23%) AWS Engineer
9 132 (4.86%) Software Engineer
10 130 (4.79%) Senior Developer
11 122 (4.49%) Cloud Engineer
12 119 (4.38%) Java Developer
13 97 (3.57%) Platform Engineer
14 96 (3.53%) Full-Stack Developer
15 95 (3.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 83 (3.06%) Solutions Architect
17 80 (2.95%) Python Developer
18 69 (2.54%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 69 (2.54%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 67 (2.47%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 882 (32.47%) Terraform
2 409 (15.06%) REST
3 288 (10.60%) Kafka
4 268 (9.87%) React
5 241 (8.87%) .NET
6 223 (8.21%) RESTful
7 215 (7.92%) Spring
8 192 (7.07%) Spring Boot
9 148 (5.45%) PySpark
10 120 (4.42%) Node.js
11 108 (3.98%) HTML
12 96 (3.53%) CSS
13 92 (3.39%) Playwright
14 88 (3.24%) AngularJS
15 85 (3.13%) JSON
16 80 (2.95%) FastAPI
17 77 (2.84%) OAuth
18 73 (2.69%) SOAP
19 59 (2.17%) OAuth2
20 58 (2.14%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 567 (20.88%) Cloud Native
2 234 (8.62%) Distributed Systems
3 163 (6.00%) Product Ownership
4 127 (4.68%) AI Agents
5 113 (4.16%) Onboarding
6 98 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
7 91 (3.35%) Legacy Systems
8 46 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
9 42 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
9 42 (1.55%) Virtual Team
10 40 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 38 (1.40%) Data Structures
12 37 (1.36%) Security Posture
13 36 (1.33%) Mobile App
13 36 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
14 35 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
14 35 (1.29%) Management Information System
15 33 (1.22%) Algorithms
15 33 (1.22%) Replication
16 32 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 236 (8.69%) Linux
2 115 (4.23%) Windows
3 77 (2.84%) Unix
4 47 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 32 (1.18%) Windows Server
6 29 (1.07%) Android
7 27 (0.99%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.55%) VMS
9 13 (0.48%) Ubuntu
10 11 (0.41%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
11 7 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
12 6 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.15%) Solaris
13 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.074%) CentOS
14 2 (0.074%) zOS
15 1 (0.037%) AIX
15 1 (0.037%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,502 (55.30%) DevOps
2 981 (36.12%) Agile
3 937 (34.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 615 (22.64%) AI
5 589 (21.69%) Test Automation
6 575 (21.17%) Containerisation
7 542 (19.96%) Microservices
8 515 (18.96%) Observability
9 494 (18.19%) Software Engineering
10 405 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
11 370 (13.62%) Data Pipeline
12 367 (13.51%) Analytics
13 362 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
14 360 (13.25%) Stakeholder Management
15 345 (12.70%) Data Engineering
16 344 (12.67%) Data Modelling
17 343 (12.63%) Event-Driven
18 332 (12.22%) Platform Engineering
19 289 (10.64%) Migration
19 289 (10.64%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1,123 (41.35%) Python
2 759 (27.95%) SQL
3 556 (20.47%) Java
4 288 (10.60%) JavaScript
5 278 (10.24%) TypeScript
6 261 (9.61%) C#
7 229 (8.43%) Bash
8 218 (8.03%) PowerShell
9 113 (4.16%) Bicep
10 65 (2.39%) Go
11 58 (2.14%) Kotlin
12 54 (1.99%) Shell Script
13 49 (1.80%) Scala
14 43 (1.58%) Apex Code
15 41 (1.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 32 (1.18%) PL/SQL
16 32 (1.18%) Ruby
17 28 (1.03%) T-SQL
18 27 (0.99%) C++
19 26 (0.96%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 710 (26.14%) Security Cleared
2 635 (23.38%) SC Cleared
3 149 (5.49%) Degree
4 103 (3.79%) Azure Certification
5 90 (3.31%) DV Cleared
6 83 (3.06%) AWS Certification
7 67 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 54 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
9 28 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 24 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
11 20 (0.74%) CISSP
12 19 (0.70%) Master's Degree
13 16 (0.59%) DBS Check
13 16 (0.59%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 14 (0.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 13 (0.48%) GIAC
16 12 (0.44%) ISTQB
16 12 (0.44%) PhD
17 11 (0.41%) CISM
18 9 (0.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 253 (9.32%) QA
2 251 (9.24%) Data Quality
3 84 (3.09%) Accessibility
4 49 (1.80%) GDPR
5 46 (1.69%) NIST
6 44 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 25 (0.92%) WCAG
8 24 (0.88%) NCSC
9 20 (0.74%) SLA
10 14 (0.52%) ISO 20022
11 11 (0.41%) EU AI Act
11 11 (0.41%) GRC
12 10 (0.37%) SOC 2
13 9 (0.33%) PCI DSS
14 7 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 6 (0.22%) MiFID
16 5 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
16 5 (0.18%) COBIT
16 5 (0.18%) EMIR
System Software
1 701 (25.81%) Docker
2 62 (2.28%) Active Directory
3 39 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
4 32 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.48%) Squid
6 7 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.22%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
8 5 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.15%) Postfix
10 2 (0.074%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.074%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.074%) Dovecot
10 2 (0.074%) HDFS
10 2 (0.074%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.074%) KVM
10 2 (0.074%) Varnish
10 2 (0.074%) vSphere
11 1 (0.037%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 809 (29.79%) Kubernetes
2 218 (8.03%) Grafana
3 210 (7.73%) Ansible
4 178 (6.55%) Prometheus
5 38 (1.40%) Argo
6 33 (1.22%) Puppet
7 24 (0.88%) Kibana
8 20 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (0.66%) Packer
9 18 (0.66%) Progress Chef
10 12 (0.44%) Istio
11 11 (0.41%) Control-M
11 11 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
12 8 (0.29%) SCCM
13 7 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
13 7 (0.26%) Karpenter
13 7 (0.26%) Kustomize
14 5 (0.18%) Nagios
15 4 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
15 4 (0.15%) Salt
Vendors
1 458 (16.86%) Microsoft
2 250 (9.20%) Databricks
3 153 (5.63%) Google
4 150 (5.52%) Oracle
5 102 (3.76%) Splunk
6 96 (3.53%) Salesforce
7 65 (2.39%) ServiceNow
8 59 (2.17%) OpenAI
9 54 (1.99%) Dynatrace
10 48 (1.77%) VMware
11 41 (1.51%) IBM
12 37 (1.36%) Foundry
13 36 (1.33%) Informatica
14 32 (1.18%) Red Hat
15 28 (1.03%) SAP
16 25 (0.92%) MuleSoft
17 23 (0.85%) New Relic
18 21 (0.77%) CyberArk
19 20 (0.74%) Cisco
20 19 (0.70%) Palantir