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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 17 20
Rank change year-on-year +6 +3 -3
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,611 1,470 1,363
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.00% 10.87% 8.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.59% 11.76% 9.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,740 995 958
10th Percentile £400 £371 £413
25th Percentile £450 £438 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £569
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -7.69% -5.21%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £801
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.34% -6.73% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 2
10th Percentile £48.25 £30.63 £56.20
25th Percentile £54.06 £36.88 £58.00
Median hourly rate £61.00 £48.75 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.13% -20.08% -21.29%
75th Percentile £80.63 £53.75 £64.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.38 £65.80
England median hourly rate £67.25 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.46% - -10.34%

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 17,900 12,495 14,396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.11% 92.36% 88.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,760 8,322 10,079
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £662 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £777 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 253 201
10th Percentile £17.07 £16.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.71
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -17.39% -12.41%
75th Percentile £56.25 £48.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.87%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 +6 323 £550 -11.36% 150
South London +3 66 £538 +1.90% 18
West London +7 51 £560 +13.71% 42
East London +2 11 £588 +33.52% 18
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
1 130 (4.98%) Apache Airflow
2 103 (3.94%) Apache Spark
3 101 (3.87%) Confluence
4 78 (2.99%) Apache
5 30 (1.15%) SharePoint
6 11 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
7 10 (0.38%) CMS
7 10 (0.38%) SAS
8 9 (0.34%) Camunda
9 8 (0.31%) nginx
9 8 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.27%) Anypoint
11 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.23%) WebSphere
12 5 (0.19%) Mule
13 4 (0.15%) IIS
13 4 (0.15%) Tomcat
14 3 (0.11%) Apache Pulsar
14 3 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
14 3 (0.11%) Mendix
Applications
1 16 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.54%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.15%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.15%) Trello
5 2 (0.077%) CPLEX
5 2 (0.077%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 26 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.46%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (0.23%) Shopify
5 5 (0.19%) Magento
6 4 (0.15%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
7 3 (0.11%) Endur
7 3 (0.11%) Findur
7 3 (0.11%) SAP BPC
7 3 (0.11%) SAP CRM
8 2 (0.077%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.077%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.077%) Temenos T24
9 1 (0.038%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.038%) SAP IS-U
9 1 (0.038%) SDL Web 8
9 1 (0.038%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,183 (45.31%) Azure
2 1,146 (43.89%) AWS
3 591 (22.64%) GitHub
4 465 (17.81%) Azure DevOps
5 399 (15.28%) GitHub Actions
6 390 (14.94%) GCP
7 296 (11.34%) Serverless
8 239 (9.15%) Amazon S3
9 228 (8.73%) Power Platform
10 202 (7.74%) AWS Lambda
11 149 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
12 144 (5.52%) AWS CloudFormation
13 139 (5.32%) Snowflake
14 126 (4.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 122 (4.67%) dbt
16 121 (4.63%) Entra ID
17 118 (4.52%) Amazon EC2
18 115 (4.40%) Azure AKS
19 110 (4.21%) Azure Data Factory
20 87 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 74 (2.83%) Firewall
2 43 (1.65%) Network Security
3 36 (1.38%) DNS
3 36 (1.38%) VPN
4 29 (1.11%) Internet
5 22 (0.84%) HTTP
6 20 (0.77%) 5G
7 18 (0.69%) SSL
7 18 (0.69%) TCP/IP
8 16 (0.61%) WAN
9 11 (0.42%) 3GPP
9 11 (0.42%) 4G
10 10 (0.38%) SD-WAN
11 9 (0.34%) BGP
11 9 (0.34%) Radio Access Network
12 7 (0.27%) Ethernet VPN
12 7 (0.27%) LTE
12 7 (0.27%) VXLAN
13 6 (0.23%) Cisco IOS
13 6 (0.23%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 173 (6.63%) Power BI
2 152 (5.82%) Data Warehouse
2 152 (5.82%) PostgreSQL
3 129 (4.94%) SQL Server
4 124 (4.75%) NoSQL
5 120 (4.60%) Data Lake
6 95 (3.64%) MongoDB
7 93 (3.56%) Relational Database
8 81 (3.10%) Amazon RDS
9 80 (3.06%) Delta Lake
10 78 (2.99%) Metadata
11 76 (2.91%) Amazon Redshift
12 72 (2.76%) BigQuery
13 62 (2.37%) Amazon Athena
14 48 (1.84%) Big Data
14 48 (1.84%) Redis
15 46 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
15 46 (1.76%) DynamoDB
16 35 (1.34%) Snowflake Schema
17 33 (1.26%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 464 (17.77%) Git
2 411 (15.74%) Jenkins
3 330 (12.64%) GitLab
4 181 (6.93%) JIRA
5 79 (3.03%) Selenium
6 70 (2.68%) JUnit
7 46 (1.76%) Cypress.io
8 45 (1.72%) Gradle
9 44 (1.69%) JMeter
10 39 (1.49%) Cucumber
10 39 (1.49%) Mockito
11 38 (1.46%) Postman
12 37 (1.42%) Bitbucket
13 36 (1.38%) Maven
14 32 (1.23%) SonarQube
15 30 (1.15%) REST Assured
16 27 (1.03%) CircleCI
17 26 (1.00%) MLflow
18 22 (0.84%) Gatling
19 20 (0.77%) Snyk
General
1 638 (24.44%) Social Skills
2 636 (24.36%) Finance
3 306 (11.72%) Public Sector
4 294 (11.26%) Banking
5 216 (8.27%) Analytical Skills
6 58 (2.22%) Front Office
6 58 (2.22%) Retail
7 57 (2.18%) Investment Banking
8 44 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
9 42 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 30 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
10 30 (1.15%) Law
10 30 (1.15%) Telecoms
11 29 (1.11%) Financial Institution
11 29 (1.11%) Marketing
12 24 (0.92%) Legal
13 15 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
14 14 (0.54%) Local Government
15 13 (0.50%) Manufacturing
15 13 (0.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 555 (21.26%) Developer
2 472 (18.08%) Senior
3 292 (11.18%) DevOps Engineer
4 286 (10.95%) Architect
5 272 (10.42%) Lead
6 238 (9.12%) Data Engineer
7 156 (5.97%) Azure Engineer
8 147 (5.63%) AWS Engineer
9 134 (5.13%) Cloud Engineer
9 134 (5.13%) Software Engineer
10 121 (4.63%) Senior Developer
11 115 (4.40%) Java Developer
12 106 (4.06%) Platform Engineer
13 87 (3.33%) Full-Stack Developer
14 85 (3.26%) Solutions Architect
15 75 (2.87%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 68 (2.60%) Python Developer
17 66 (2.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 63 (2.41%) Python Engineer
19 62 (2.37%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 367 (14.06%) REST
2 257 (9.84%) Kafka
3 251 (9.61%) React
4 244 (9.35%) .NET
5 207 (7.93%) RESTful
6 203 (7.77%) Spring
7 172 (6.59%) Spring Boot
8 135 (5.17%) PySpark
9 125 (4.79%) Node.js
10 103 (3.94%) AngularJS
10 103 (3.94%) HTML
11 89 (3.41%) Playwright
12 86 (3.29%) CSS
13 80 (3.06%) JSON
14 69 (2.64%) OAuth
15 68 (2.60%) FastAPI
16 67 (2.57%) SOAP
17 58 (2.22%) Next.js
18 56 (2.14%) GraphQL
19 55 (2.11%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 541 (20.72%) Cloud Native
2 221 (8.46%) Distributed Systems
3 134 (5.13%) Product Ownership
4 99 (3.79%) AI Agents
4 99 (3.79%) Onboarding
5 84 (3.22%) Legacy Systems
6 79 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
7 43 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
8 42 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 41 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
10 39 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
11 38 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
11 38 (1.46%) Virtual Team
12 36 (1.38%) Mobile App
13 34 (1.30%) Management Information System
14 33 (1.26%) Data Structures
15 31 (1.19%) Algorithms
15 31 (1.19%) Fixed Income
16 30 (1.15%) Security Posture
17 27 (1.03%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 200 (7.66%) Linux
2 112 (4.29%) Windows
3 64 (2.45%) Unix
4 38 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 29 (1.11%) Android
6 28 (1.07%) Apple iOS
7 27 (1.03%) Windows Server
8 11 (0.42%) Ubuntu
8 11 (0.42%) VMS
9 9 (0.34%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.15%) Solaris
11 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
11 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.077%) AIX
13 1 (0.038%) CentOS
13 1 (0.038%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,445 (55.34%) DevOps
2 933 (35.73%) Agile
3 864 (33.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 556 (21.29%) AI
5 551 (21.10%) Test Automation
6 548 (20.99%) Containerisation
7 517 (19.80%) Microservices
8 455 (17.43%) Observability
9 452 (17.31%) Software Engineering
10 373 (14.29%) Analytics
11 368 (14.09%) Problem-Solving
12 355 (13.60%) Data Pipeline
13 339 (12.98%) Continuous Improvement
13 339 (12.98%) Data Modelling
14 316 (12.10%) Data Engineering
15 307 (11.76%) Platform Engineering
16 295 (11.30%) Event-Driven
17 293 (11.22%) Stakeholder Management
18 275 (10.53%) Migration
19 264 (10.11%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,016 (38.91%) Python
2 732 (28.04%) SQL
3 530 (20.30%) Java
4 283 (10.84%) JavaScript
5 275 (10.53%) C#
6 266 (10.19%) TypeScript
7 203 (7.77%) PowerShell
8 200 (7.66%) Bash
9 107 (4.10%) Bicep
10 58 (2.22%) Go
11 53 (2.03%) Kotlin
12 50 (1.91%) Apex Code
13 46 (1.76%) Scala
14 45 (1.72%) Shell Script
15 35 (1.34%) PL/SQL
16 33 (1.26%) Ruby
17 32 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 27 (1.03%) T-SQL
19 24 (0.92%) C++
20 21 (0.80%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 674 (25.81%) Security Cleared
2 612 (23.44%) SC Cleared
3 131 (5.02%) Degree
4 99 (3.79%) Azure Certification
5 73 (2.80%) DV Cleared
6 72 (2.76%) AWS Certification
7 59 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 44 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
9 22 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 21 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
11 20 (0.77%) CISSP
12 18 (0.69%) Master's Degree
13 14 (0.54%) DBS Check
14 13 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 12 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
15 12 (0.46%) GIAC
15 12 (0.46%) ISTQB
15 12 (0.46%) PhD
16 11 (0.42%) CISM
17 8 (0.31%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 227 (8.69%) QA
2 220 (8.43%) Data Quality
3 90 (3.45%) Accessibility
4 58 (2.22%) GDPR
5 48 (1.84%) NIST
6 44 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 28 (1.07%) WCAG
8 23 (0.88%) NCSC
9 22 (0.84%) SLA
10 14 (0.54%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.42%) EU AI Act
11 11 (0.42%) ISO 20022
12 9 (0.34%) GRC
13 7 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 7 (0.27%) SOC 2
14 6 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 5 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
16 4 (0.15%) COBIT
16 4 (0.15%) MiFID
System Software
1 663 (25.39%) Docker
2 62 (2.37%) Active Directory
3 38 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
4 30 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.42%) Squid
6 10 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.23%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.077%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.077%) HDFS
11 2 (0.077%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.077%) KVM
11 2 (0.077%) Postfix
11 2 (0.077%) Varnish
11 2 (0.077%) vSphere
12 1 (0.038%) Firmware
12 1 (0.038%) IAG
12 1 (0.038%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 834 (31.94%) Terraform
2 763 (29.22%) Kubernetes
3 199 (7.62%) Grafana
4 189 (7.24%) Ansible
5 166 (6.36%) Prometheus
6 33 (1.26%) Puppet
7 31 (1.19%) Argo
8 22 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
9 20 (0.77%) Kibana
9 20 (0.77%) Packer
10 15 (0.57%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.46%) Istio
12 9 (0.34%) Control-M
12 9 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
13 8 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
13 8 (0.31%) Kustomize
14 7 (0.27%) SCCM
15 5 (0.19%) HP Fortify
15 5 (0.19%) Salt
16 4 (0.15%) Suricata
Vendors
1 403 (15.43%) Microsoft
2 215 (8.23%) Databricks
3 139 (5.32%) Google
4 128 (4.90%) Oracle
5 104 (3.98%) Salesforce
6 91 (3.49%) Splunk
7 68 (2.60%) ServiceNow
8 46 (1.76%) Dynatrace
9 43 (1.65%) OpenAI
10 42 (1.61%) VMware
11 33 (1.26%) Informatica
12 32 (1.23%) IBM
13 29 (1.11%) SAP
14 28 (1.07%) Foundry
15 27 (1.03%) MuleSoft
15 27 (1.03%) Red Hat
16 24 (0.92%) Cisco
17 23 (0.88%) New Relic
18 21 (0.80%) Palantir
19 19 (0.73%) CyberArk