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

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 18 25
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 -10
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 1,985 1,374 1,300
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.00% 10.12% 7.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.35% 11.16% 7.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,370 957 983
10th Percentile £369 £406 £425
25th Percentile £433 £490 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £595 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +3.48% -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £688
90th Percentile £735 £836 £800
England median daily rate £513 £551 £563
% change year-on-year -6.99% -2.04% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile £63.25 - £50.55
25th Percentile £65.50 - £56.25
Median hourly rate £68.00 - £58.00
75th Percentile £95.00 - £67.00
90th Percentile - - £70.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +6.70%

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 13,830 12,308 16,432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.61% 90.65% 88.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,214 7,868 11,762
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 153 345
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.02
25th Percentile £25.15 £25.75 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +23.33% -15.49%
75th Percentile £56.13 £55.25 £51.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.89 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.04% - -

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 15 February 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 15 February 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 15 February 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 -6 215 £525 -8.70% 107
West London +10 73 £603 +47.31% 25
South London +8 61 £525 -2.42% 8
East London -7 7 £450 -14.69% 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 82 (4.13%) Apache Spark
2 68 (3.43%) Confluence
3 55 (2.77%) Apache Airflow
4 49 (2.47%) Apache
5 34 (1.71%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.60%) CMS
7 11 (0.55%) Appian
7 11 (0.55%) Ethereum
7 11 (0.55%) Hyperledger
8 10 (0.50%) HCL Notes
9 9 (0.45%) Mendix
9 9 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (0.45%) nginx
10 7 (0.35%) Camunda
11 6 (0.30%) SAS
12 5 (0.25%) Headless CMS
12 5 (0.25%) IIS
13 4 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 3 (0.15%) Tomcat
14 3 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 23 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.30%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.20%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 3 (0.15%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.050%) Maya
7 1 (0.050%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.050%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.25%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.10%) Endur
3 2 (0.10%) Magento
3 2 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.10%) Shopify
4 1 (0.050%) Actimize
4 1 (0.050%) Cerner Millennium
4 1 (0.050%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.050%) Maximo
4 1 (0.050%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.050%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.050%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.050%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.050%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.050%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.050%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.050%) ProductWriter
4 1 (0.050%) thinkFolio
4 1 (0.050%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 884 (44.53%) Azure
2 878 (44.23%) AWS
3 478 (24.08%) GitHub
4 332 (16.73%) Azure DevOps
5 324 (16.32%) GCP
6 313 (15.77%) GitHub Actions
7 290 (14.61%) Serverless
8 188 (9.47%) Amazon S3
9 178 (8.97%) AWS Lambda
10 171 (8.61%) AWS CloudFormation
11 153 (7.71%) Power Platform
12 120 (6.05%) Amazon EKS
13 115 (5.79%) Amazon ECS
14 110 (5.54%) Azure Data Factory
15 97 (4.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 89 (4.48%) Azure AKS
17 76 (3.83%) Azure Logic Apps
17 76 (3.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 75 (3.78%) Amazon EC2
19 70 (3.53%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 77 (3.88%) Firewall
2 51 (2.57%) Network Security
3 47 (2.37%) DNS
4 26 (1.31%) VPN
5 22 (1.11%) HTTP
6 15 (0.76%) SSL
7 13 (0.65%) TCP/IP
7 13 (0.65%) WAN
8 11 (0.55%) SD-WAN
9 5 (0.25%) Wireshark
10 4 (0.20%) BGP
10 4 (0.20%) DHCP
10 4 (0.20%) FTP
10 4 (0.20%) IMAP
10 4 (0.20%) Kerberos
10 4 (0.20%) LAN
10 4 (0.20%) Multicast
10 4 (0.20%) OpenLDAP
10 4 (0.20%) SMTP
10 4 (0.20%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (7.30%) PostgreSQL
2 119 (5.99%) SQL Server
3 110 (5.54%) Data Lake
4 108 (5.44%) Power BI
5 107 (5.39%) NoSQL
6 82 (4.13%) Data Warehouse
7 74 (3.73%) Amazon RDS
8 69 (3.48%) MongoDB
9 68 (3.43%) Relational Database
10 46 (2.32%) Azure SQL Database
11 45 (2.27%) BigQuery
11 45 (2.27%) Delta Lake
12 44 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
13 37 (1.86%) Amazon Redshift
14 35 (1.76%) Big Data
14 35 (1.76%) DynamoDB
14 35 (1.76%) Metadata
14 35 (1.76%) MySQL
15 33 (1.66%) Redis
16 28 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 361 (18.19%) Jenkins
2 357 (17.98%) Git
3 257 (12.95%) GitLab
4 145 (7.30%) JIRA
5 73 (3.68%) Selenium
6 50 (2.52%) Cucumber
6 50 (2.52%) JUnit
7 45 (2.27%) MLflow
8 41 (2.07%) Cypress.io
9 40 (2.02%) Postman
10 31 (1.56%) JMeter
11 29 (1.46%) REST Assured
12 23 (1.16%) TeamCity
13 22 (1.11%) Bitbucket
14 21 (1.06%) Maven
15 20 (1.01%) Gradle
15 20 (1.01%) Mockito
16 17 (0.86%) SonarQube
17 16 (0.81%) Gatling
18 14 (0.71%) webpack
General
1 525 (26.45%) Social Skills
2 439 (22.12%) Finance
3 220 (11.08%) Public Sector
4 194 (9.77%) Banking
5 159 (8.01%) Analytical Skills
6 45 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
7 44 (2.22%) Front Office
8 41 (2.07%) Investment Banking
9 34 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 34 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
10 30 (1.51%) Financial Institution
11 26 (1.31%) Marketing
12 23 (1.16%) Retail
12 23 (1.16%) Telecoms
13 18 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
14 15 (0.76%) Manufacturing
15 12 (0.60%) Law
16 11 (0.55%) Military
17 10 (0.50%) Legal
17 10 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 490 (24.69%) Developer
2 303 (15.26%) Senior
3 257 (12.95%) DevOps Engineer
4 191 (9.62%) Architect
5 176 (8.87%) Data Engineer
6 142 (7.15%) Lead
7 120 (6.05%) AWS Engineer
8 113 (5.69%) Azure Engineer
9 92 (4.63%) Full-Stack Developer
10 87 (4.38%) Senior Developer
11 85 (4.28%) Cloud Engineer
11 85 (4.28%) Software Engineer
12 84 (4.23%) Platform Engineer
13 82 (4.13%) Java Developer
14 72 (3.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 66 (3.32%) AWS DevOps
16 61 (3.07%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 56 (2.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 55 (2.77%) Python Developer
18 55 (2.77%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 254 (12.80%) React
2 206 (10.38%) Kafka
3 201 (10.13%) Node.js
4 188 (9.47%) RESTful
5 182 (9.17%) REST
6 166 (8.36%) .NET
7 154 (7.76%) Spring
8 124 (6.25%) Spring Boot
9 110 (5.54%) AngularJS
10 98 (4.94%) Playwright
11 95 (4.79%) CSS
12 85 (4.28%) HTML
12 85 (4.28%) OAuth
13 79 (3.98%) PySpark
14 72 (3.63%) GraphQL
15 62 (3.12%) YAML
16 53 (2.67%) JSON
17 49 (2.47%) Vue
18 48 (2.42%) FastAPI
18 48 (2.42%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 383 (19.29%) Cloud Native
2 121 (6.10%) Distributed Systems
3 89 (4.48%) Product Ownership
4 51 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
5 47 (2.37%) Onboarding
6 46 (2.32%) Mobile App
7 40 (2.02%) Algorithms
8 37 (1.86%) AI Agents
9 35 (1.76%) Public Cloud
10 31 (1.56%) Derivative
11 30 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
12 25 (1.26%) Data Structures
12 25 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 25 (1.26%) Low-Code
13 24 (1.21%) Equities
13 24 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
13 24 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
13 24 (1.21%) Security Posture
14 23 (1.16%) Fixed Income
15 22 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 167 (8.41%) Linux
2 66 (3.32%) Windows
3 36 (1.81%) Apple iOS
4 31 (1.56%) VMS
5 30 (1.51%) Android
5 30 (1.51%) Unix
6 16 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.55%) Windows Server
8 9 (0.45%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.30%) CentOS
9 6 (0.30%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.30%) Solaris
10 5 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
10 5 (0.25%) zOS
11 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,098 (55.31%) DevOps
2 658 (33.15%) Agile
3 656 (33.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 452 (22.77%) Containerisation
5 410 (20.65%) Test Automation
6 381 (19.19%) Problem-Solving
7 354 (17.83%) Microservices
8 335 (16.88%) AI
9 299 (15.06%) Analytics
10 296 (14.91%) Observability
11 272 (13.70%) Software Engineering
12 222 (11.18%) Data Pipeline
13 220 (11.08%) Data Engineering
14 211 (10.63%) Full-Stack Development
15 203 (10.23%) Continuous Improvement
16 201 (10.13%) Machine Learning
17 200 (10.08%) Data Modelling
18 187 (9.42%) ETL
19 183 (9.22%) Mentoring
20 174 (8.77%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 784 (39.50%) Python
2 478 (24.08%) SQL
3 393 (19.80%) Java
4 280 (14.11%) JavaScript
5 273 (13.75%) TypeScript
6 209 (10.53%) C#
7 129 (6.50%) Bash
8 100 (5.04%) PowerShell
9 72 (3.63%) Bicep
10 66 (3.32%) Go
11 59 (2.97%) Scala
12 37 (1.86%) C++
13 32 (1.61%) Kotlin
14 31 (1.56%) Ruby
15 26 (1.31%) T-SQL
16 25 (1.26%) PL/SQL
17 22 (1.11%) Rust
18 20 (1.01%) Shell Script
19 18 (0.91%) Apex Code
19 18 (0.91%) Swift
Qualifications
1 461 (23.22%) Security Cleared
2 400 (20.15%) SC Cleared
3 128 (6.45%) Degree
4 70 (3.53%) Azure Certification
4 70 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 69 (3.48%) AWS Certification
6 34 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 31 (1.56%) Master's Degree
8 30 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
9 26 (1.31%) DV Cleared
10 23 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 18 (0.91%) CISSP
11 18 (0.91%) ISTQB
12 13 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
12 13 (0.65%) Numerate Degree
13 12 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
14 11 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 10 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 9 (0.45%) OSCP
17 8 (0.40%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (7.96%) QA
2 123 (6.20%) Data Quality
3 85 (4.28%) GDPR
4 75 (3.78%) Accessibility
5 54 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 50 (2.52%) NIST
7 27 (1.36%) NCSC
7 27 (1.36%) PCI DSS
8 26 (1.31%) WCAG
9 21 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 12 (0.60%) SLA
11 10 (0.50%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.30%) MiFID
12 6 (0.30%) NIST 800
13 5 (0.25%) ISO 20022
13 5 (0.25%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.20%) EU AI Act
14 4 (0.20%) GRC
14 4 (0.20%) PERC
14 4 (0.20%) SEPA
System Software
1 632 (31.84%) Docker
2 48 (2.42%) Active Directory
3 38 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.40%) vSphere
6 7 (0.35%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.30%) Squid
7 6 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.30%) zsh
8 4 (0.20%) DFS Replication
8 4 (0.20%) Dovecot
8 4 (0.20%) Postfix
8 4 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.10%) HDFS
10 2 (0.10%) NFS
10 2 (0.10%) Veritas File System
10 2 (0.10%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 1 (0.050%) KVM
11 1 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 674 (33.95%) Kubernetes
1 674 (33.95%) Terraform
2 150 (7.56%) Ansible
3 128 (6.45%) Grafana
4 113 (5.69%) Prometheus
5 49 (2.47%) Argo
6 28 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
7 22 (1.11%) Istio
8 14 (0.71%) Kibana
9 12 (0.60%) Progress Chef
9 12 (0.60%) Puppet
10 10 (0.50%) ITRS Geneos
11 8 (0.40%) Rancher
12 7 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
13 6 (0.30%) Nessus
14 5 (0.25%) Docker Swarm
14 5 (0.25%) Karpenter
14 5 (0.25%) vCenter Server
15 4 (0.20%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 291 (14.66%) Microsoft
2 197 (9.92%) Databricks
3 124 (6.25%) Google
4 75 (3.78%) Oracle
5 62 (3.12%) OpenAI
6 61 (3.07%) Splunk
7 51 (2.57%) Salesforce
7 51 (2.57%) ServiceNow
8 34 (1.71%) Red Hat
9 26 (1.31%) Dynatrace
9 26 (1.31%) VMware
10 21 (1.06%) CyberArk
11 19 (0.96%) SAP
12 16 (0.81%) MuleSoft
13 14 (0.71%) Cisco
14 13 (0.65%) Solace
14 13 (0.65%) UiPath
15 12 (0.60%) Adobe
15 12 (0.60%) IBM
16 11 (0.55%) Apple