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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 17 20
Rank change year-on-year +6 +3 -3
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,597 1,446 1,352
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.94% 10.63% 8.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.54% 11.53% 9.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,750 978 953
10th Percentile £400 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £438 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £530 £567
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -6.53% -5.50%
75th Percentile £638 £659 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £809
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -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% -18.67%
75th Percentile £80.63 £53.75 £64.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.38 £65.80
England median hourly rate £66.66 £65.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year +2.55% -2.99% -4.29%

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 17,865 12,538 14,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.00% 92.17% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,797 8,407 10,335
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -0.94% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 245 209
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.94 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.33% -11.76% -18.07%
75th Percentile £56.63 £49.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.38
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -39.40% -2.35%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 31 July 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 +8 313 £550 -12.00% 141
South London +1 56 £543 +2.36% 10
West London +9 52 £560 +13.71% 41
East London +6 12 £585 +62.50% 21
North London - 1 £650 - 3
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
1 122 (4.70%) Apache Airflow
2 103 (3.97%) Confluence
3 97 (3.74%) Apache Spark
4 77 (2.96%) Apache
5 31 (1.19%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.50%) Palantir Foundry
7 10 (0.39%) SAS
8 9 (0.35%) CMS
8 9 (0.35%) nginx
8 9 (0.35%) WebSphere
9 8 (0.31%) Camunda
9 8 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.27%) Anypoint
10 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.19%) Mule
11 5 (0.19%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.15%) IIS
13 3 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
13 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 17 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.46%) Chatbot
3 10 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.15%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.12%) Trello
7 2 (0.077%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.039%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.039%) Maya
Business Applications
1 25 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.42%) Aladdin
3 8 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.27%) Shopify
5 6 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
6 5 (0.19%) Magento
7 4 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
8 3 (0.12%) Endur
8 3 (0.12%) Findur
8 3 (0.12%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.12%) SAP BPC
9 2 (0.077%) SAP CRM
9 2 (0.077%) Temenos T24
10 1 (0.039%) Distributed Ledger
10 1 (0.039%) PeopleSoft HCM
10 1 (0.039%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.039%) SAP ERP
10 1 (0.039%) SAP IS-U
10 1 (0.039%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,170 (45.05%) Azure
2 1,136 (43.74%) AWS
3 579 (22.29%) GitHub
4 452 (17.40%) Azure DevOps
5 389 (14.98%) GitHub Actions
6 388 (14.94%) GCP
7 302 (11.63%) Serverless
8 243 (9.36%) Amazon S3
9 227 (8.74%) Power Platform
10 201 (7.74%) AWS Lambda
11 149 (5.74%) Amazon EKS
12 141 (5.43%) AWS CloudFormation
13 127 (4.89%) Snowflake
14 118 (4.54%) dbt
15 117 (4.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 117 (4.51%) Entra ID
16 116 (4.47%) Azure AKS
17 113 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
18 109 (4.20%) Azure Data Factory
19 88 (3.39%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 74 (2.85%) Firewall
2 43 (1.66%) Network Security
3 37 (1.42%) DNS
4 35 (1.35%) VPN
5 27 (1.04%) Internet
6 22 (0.85%) HTTP
7 19 (0.73%) 5G
8 16 (0.62%) TCP/IP
8 16 (0.62%) WAN
9 15 (0.58%) SSL
10 11 (0.42%) 4G
11 10 (0.39%) 3GPP
11 10 (0.39%) SD-WAN
12 8 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
13 7 (0.27%) BGP
13 7 (0.27%) LTE
14 6 (0.23%) Cisco IOS
14 6 (0.23%) FTP
15 5 (0.19%) MPLS
15 5 (0.19%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (6.43%) Power BI
2 146 (5.62%) PostgreSQL
3 143 (5.51%) Data Warehouse
4 125 (4.81%) NoSQL
5 124 (4.77%) Data Lake
5 124 (4.77%) SQL Server
6 92 (3.54%) Relational Database
7 89 (3.43%) MongoDB
8 77 (2.96%) Amazon Redshift
9 76 (2.93%) Delta Lake
10 70 (2.70%) Metadata
11 68 (2.62%) Amazon RDS
12 66 (2.54%) BigQuery
13 64 (2.46%) Amazon Athena
14 52 (2.00%) DynamoDB
15 48 (1.85%) Big Data
16 45 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
17 44 (1.69%) Redis
18 37 (1.42%) Snowflake Schema
19 30 (1.16%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 451 (17.37%) Git
2 401 (15.44%) Jenkins
3 321 (12.36%) GitLab
4 182 (7.01%) JIRA
5 72 (2.77%) Selenium
6 69 (2.66%) JUnit
7 46 (1.77%) JMeter
8 44 (1.69%) Cypress.io
9 42 (1.62%) Gradle
10 41 (1.58%) Cucumber
11 39 (1.50%) Mockito
12 38 (1.46%) Postman
13 36 (1.39%) Bitbucket
13 36 (1.39%) REST Assured
14 33 (1.27%) MLflow
15 32 (1.23%) Maven
16 30 (1.16%) SonarQube
17 29 (1.12%) CircleCI
18 24 (0.92%) Gatling
19 21 (0.81%) Liquibase
General
1 623 (23.99%) Finance
2 612 (23.57%) Social Skills
3 320 (12.32%) Public Sector
4 284 (10.94%) Banking
5 205 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
6 59 (2.27%) Retail
7 56 (2.16%) Front Office
7 56 (2.16%) Investment Banking
8 46 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
9 40 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 33 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
11 30 (1.16%) Law
11 30 (1.16%) Telecoms
12 28 (1.08%) Financial Institution
12 28 (1.08%) Marketing
13 25 (0.96%) Legal
14 16 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
15 15 (0.58%) Manufacturing
16 13 (0.50%) Local Government
16 13 (0.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 559 (21.52%) Developer
2 459 (17.67%) Senior
3 291 (11.21%) DevOps Engineer
4 286 (11.01%) Architect
5 266 (10.24%) Lead
6 230 (8.86%) Data Engineer
7 153 (5.89%) Azure Engineer
8 148 (5.70%) AWS Engineer
9 136 (5.24%) Cloud Engineer
10 132 (5.08%) Software Engineer
11 120 (4.62%) Senior Developer
12 117 (4.51%) Java Developer
13 109 (4.20%) Platform Engineer
14 95 (3.66%) Full-Stack Developer
15 82 (3.16%) Solutions Architect
16 73 (2.81%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 69 (2.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 65 (2.50%) Python Developer
19 63 (2.43%) AWS DevOps
20 58 (2.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 346 (13.32%) REST
2 254 (9.78%) React
3 243 (9.36%) .NET
4 236 (9.09%) Kafka
5 208 (8.01%) RESTful
6 201 (7.74%) Spring
7 171 (6.58%) Spring Boot
8 137 (5.28%) Node.js
9 132 (5.08%) PySpark
10 105 (4.04%) AngularJS
11 103 (3.97%) HTML
12 93 (3.58%) Playwright
13 89 (3.43%) CSS
14 75 (2.89%) JSON
14 75 (2.89%) OAuth
15 68 (2.62%) SOAP
16 66 (2.54%) FastAPI
17 59 (2.27%) OAuth2
18 56 (2.16%) GraphQL
19 55 (2.12%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 539 (20.75%) Cloud Native
2 224 (8.63%) Distributed Systems
3 128 (4.93%) Product Ownership
4 93 (3.58%) Onboarding
5 92 (3.54%) AI Agents
6 86 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
7 72 (2.77%) Enterprise Software
8 45 (1.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 40 (1.54%) Algorithms
10 39 (1.50%) Mobile App
11 38 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
11 38 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
11 38 (1.46%) Virtual Team
12 37 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
12 37 (1.42%) Data Structures
12 37 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
13 36 (1.39%) Management Information System
14 33 (1.27%) Fixed Income
15 32 (1.23%) Security Posture
16 26 (1.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 184 (7.09%) Linux
2 110 (4.24%) Windows
3 58 (2.23%) Unix
4 35 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 29 (1.12%) Android
5 29 (1.12%) Apple iOS
6 28 (1.08%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.42%) Ubuntu
7 11 (0.42%) VMS
8 10 (0.39%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.19%) Solaris
10 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
10 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
12 2 (0.077%) AIX
12 2 (0.077%) zOS
13 1 (0.039%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,429 (55.03%) DevOps
2 922 (35.50%) Agile
3 861 (33.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 563 (21.68%) Containerisation
5 554 (21.33%) AI
6 552 (21.26%) Test Automation
7 516 (19.87%) Microservices
8 452 (17.40%) Observability
9 448 (17.25%) Software Engineering
10 381 (14.67%) Analytics
11 351 (13.52%) Data Pipeline
12 349 (13.44%) Problem-Solving
13 337 (12.98%) Data Modelling
14 327 (12.59%) Continuous Improvement
15 318 (12.24%) Data Engineering
16 305 (11.74%) Platform Engineering
17 287 (11.05%) Event-Driven
18 275 (10.59%) Machine Learning
19 271 (10.44%) Full-Stack Development
20 269 (10.36%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 992 (38.20%) Python
2 704 (27.11%) SQL
3 518 (19.95%) Java
4 272 (10.47%) C#
5 271 (10.44%) JavaScript
6 269 (10.36%) TypeScript
7 202 (7.78%) Bash
8 178 (6.85%) PowerShell
9 102 (3.93%) Bicep
10 63 (2.43%) Go
11 57 (2.19%) Kotlin
12 50 (1.93%) Apex Code
13 48 (1.85%) Shell Script
14 47 (1.81%) Scala
15 35 (1.35%) Ruby
16 31 (1.19%) PL/SQL
17 29 (1.12%) T-SQL
18 24 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 19 (0.73%) C++
19 19 (0.73%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 661 (25.45%) Security Cleared
2 597 (22.99%) SC Cleared
3 135 (5.20%) Degree
4 99 (3.81%) Azure Certification
5 73 (2.81%) DV Cleared
6 66 (2.54%) AWS Certification
7 62 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
8 42 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
9 23 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (0.81%) Master's Degree
11 19 (0.73%) CISSP
12 16 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 15 (0.58%) DBS Check
14 13 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 13 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
15 12 (0.46%) CISM
15 12 (0.46%) PhD
16 11 (0.42%) GIAC
16 11 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
17 10 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 234 (9.01%) QA
2 214 (8.24%) Data Quality
3 105 (4.04%) Accessibility
4 59 (2.27%) GDPR
5 49 (1.89%) NIST
6 41 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 34 (1.31%) WCAG
8 23 (0.89%) NCSC
9 20 (0.77%) SLA
10 15 (0.58%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.42%) EU AI Act
12 10 (0.39%) GRC
13 8 (0.31%) SOC 2
14 7 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 6 (0.23%) ISO 20022
16 4 (0.15%) COBIT
16 4 (0.15%) MiFID
16 4 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 3 (0.12%) NIST 800
System Software
1 663 (25.53%) Docker
2 62 (2.39%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
4 29 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.42%) Squid
6 9 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.27%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
10 4 (0.15%) vSphere
11 3 (0.12%) HDFS
12 2 (0.077%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.077%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.077%) KVM
12 2 (0.077%) Postfix
12 2 (0.077%) Varnish
13 1 (0.039%) Firmware
13 1 (0.039%) IAG
13 1 (0.039%) OpenSSH
Systems Management
1 827 (31.84%) Terraform
2 761 (29.30%) Kubernetes
3 203 (7.82%) Grafana
4 185 (7.12%) Ansible
5 167 (6.43%) Prometheus
6 34 (1.31%) Argo
7 28 (1.08%) Puppet
8 21 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
9 20 (0.77%) Kibana
10 18 (0.69%) Packer
11 12 (0.46%) Progress Chef
12 11 (0.42%) Istio
13 9 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
14 8 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
15 7 (0.27%) Kustomize
15 7 (0.27%) SCCM
16 6 (0.23%) vCenter Server
17 5 (0.19%) Control-M
17 5 (0.19%) HP Fortify
17 5 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 392 (15.09%) Microsoft
2 209 (8.05%) Databricks
3 135 (5.20%) Google
4 116 (4.47%) Oracle
5 103 (3.97%) Salesforce
6 91 (3.50%) Splunk
7 61 (2.35%) ServiceNow
8 47 (1.81%) OpenAI
9 46 (1.77%) Dynatrace
10 42 (1.62%) VMware
11 31 (1.19%) IBM
12 29 (1.12%) Informatica
13 28 (1.08%) Foundry
13 28 (1.08%) SAP
14 27 (1.04%) MuleSoft
15 23 (0.89%) Red Hat
16 22 (0.85%) Palantir
17 21 (0.81%) Cisco
17 21 (0.81%) New Relic
18 18 (0.69%) CyberArk