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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 14 19
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 +3
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,792 1,620 1,469
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.80% 12.09% 9.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.51% 13.07% 10.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,917 1,089 1,020
10th Percentile £400 £367 £413
25th Percentile £450 £435 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £644 £688
90th Percentile £738 £727 £800
England median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 0
10th Percentile £54.25 £29.75 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £35.00 -
Median hourly rate £57.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% - -
75th Percentile £73.00 £53.75 -
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.50 -
England median hourly rate £67.25 £65.00 £68.75
% change year-on-year +3.46% -5.45% -8.33%

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 17,999 12,398 14,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.95% 92.52% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,778 8,176 9,391
10th Percentile £360 £331 £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 £664 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 243 184
10th Percentile £15.96 £18.03 £17.33
25th Percentile £18.75 £25.01 £24.17
Median hourly rate £33.60 £30.00 £36.65
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -18.14% -8.18%
75th Percentile £61.50 £47.25 £56.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £64.55 £78.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -4.49%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 10 October 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 +10 347 £550 -8.33% 293
South London +2 68 £537 +0.85% 18
West London -4 50 £560 +13.71% 57
East London +5 11 £585 +8.33% 23
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
1 137 (4.91%) Apache Airflow
2 115 (4.12%) Confluence
3 113 (4.05%) Apache Spark
4 86 (3.08%) Apache
5 36 (1.29%) SharePoint
6 20 (0.72%) CMS
7 15 (0.54%) nginx
8 14 (0.50%) Camunda
9 8 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.25%) Anypoint
10 7 (0.25%) SAS
11 6 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.18%) IIS
12 5 (0.18%) Mule
12 5 (0.18%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.18%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
14 3 (0.11%) Headless CMS
14 3 (0.11%) JBoss
14 3 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 20 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.54%) Chatbot
3 8 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.18%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.14%) Trello
6 2 (0.072%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.036%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.036%) Gliffy
7 1 (0.036%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.036%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 1 (0.036%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.036%) Sketch
7 1 (0.036%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 27 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.32%) Aladdin
3 9 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (0.21%) Shopify
5 5 (0.18%) Temenos T24
6 4 (0.14%) Magento
6 4 (0.14%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.11%) Cloudability
7 3 (0.11%) Endur
7 3 (0.11%) SAP CRM
7 3 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.072%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.072%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.072%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.036%) Dynamics AX
9 1 (0.036%) SAP IS-U
9 1 (0.036%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,267 (45.38%) Azure
2 1,193 (42.73%) AWS
3 626 (22.42%) GitHub
4 470 (16.83%) Azure DevOps
5 443 (15.87%) GCP
6 429 (15.37%) GitHub Actions
7 333 (11.93%) Serverless
8 244 (8.74%) Amazon S3
9 227 (8.13%) Power Platform
10 212 (7.59%) AWS Lambda
11 187 (6.70%) Amazon EKS
12 158 (5.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 157 (5.62%) Snowflake
14 150 (5.37%) Entra ID
15 138 (4.94%) AWS CloudFormation
16 131 (4.69%) Amazon EC2
17 130 (4.66%) dbt
18 114 (4.08%) Azure AKS
19 105 (3.76%) Azure Data Factory
20 99 (3.55%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 65 (2.33%) Firewall
2 51 (1.83%) DNS
3 47 (1.68%) Network Security
4 40 (1.43%) VPN
5 32 (1.15%) Internet
6 29 (1.04%) TCP/IP
7 21 (0.75%) SSL
8 18 (0.64%) 5G
9 17 (0.61%) HTTP
10 12 (0.43%) WAN
11 11 (0.39%) Radio Access Network
11 11 (0.39%) SAN
12 10 (0.36%) 3GPP
13 9 (0.32%) 4G
13 9 (0.32%) BGP
13 9 (0.32%) Kerberos
13 9 (0.32%) SSH
14 7 (0.25%) OpenLDAP
15 6 (0.21%) SD-WAN
16 5 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 206 (7.38%) PostgreSQL
2 170 (6.09%) Power BI
3 153 (5.48%) SQL Server
4 152 (5.44%) Data Warehouse
5 131 (4.69%) NoSQL
6 115 (4.12%) Data Lake
7 112 (4.01%) MongoDB
8 111 (3.98%) Relational Database
9 103 (3.69%) Amazon RDS
10 89 (3.19%) Delta Lake
11 85 (3.04%) Metadata
12 73 (2.61%) BigQuery
13 69 (2.47%) Amazon Redshift
14 59 (2.11%) Redis
15 52 (1.86%) MySQL
16 49 (1.76%) Amazon Athena
17 47 (1.68%) Big Data
17 47 (1.68%) DynamoDB
17 47 (1.68%) Oracle Database
18 45 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 549 (19.66%) Git
2 457 (16.37%) Jenkins
3 380 (13.61%) GitLab
4 193 (6.91%) JIRA
5 106 (3.80%) Selenium
6 83 (2.97%) JUnit
7 64 (2.29%) Gradle
8 61 (2.18%) Cucumber
9 58 (2.08%) Cypress.io
10 51 (1.83%) Maven
11 49 (1.76%) JMeter
12 47 (1.68%) Bitbucket
13 45 (1.61%) Postman
13 45 (1.61%) SonarQube
14 39 (1.40%) Mockito
15 33 (1.18%) REST Assured
16 28 (1.00%) CircleCI
17 26 (0.93%) Gatling
18 23 (0.82%) Claude Code
18 23 (0.82%) MLflow
General
1 724 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 702 (25.14%) Finance
3 346 (12.39%) Banking
4 313 (11.21%) Public Sector
5 284 (10.17%) Analytical Skills
6 78 (2.79%) Front Office
7 71 (2.54%) Retail
8 69 (2.47%) Investment Banking
9 43 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 42 (1.50%) Marketing
11 33 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
12 31 (1.11%) Law
13 30 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
14 29 (1.04%) Telecoms
15 27 (0.97%) Financial Institution
16 24 (0.86%) Back Office
17 21 (0.75%) Local Government
17 21 (0.75%) Military
18 18 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
19 17 (0.61%) Billing
Job Titles
1 576 (20.63%) Developer
2 519 (18.59%) Senior
3 351 (12.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 294 (10.53%) Architect
5 287 (10.28%) Lead
6 256 (9.17%) Data Engineer
7 152 (5.44%) Azure Engineer
8 146 (5.23%) AWS Engineer
9 131 (4.69%) Senior Developer
10 130 (4.66%) Software Engineer
11 124 (4.44%) Cloud Engineer
12 119 (4.26%) Java Developer
13 107 (3.83%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 100 (3.58%) Full-Stack Developer
15 94 (3.37%) Platform Engineer
16 80 (2.87%) Solutions Architect
17 76 (2.72%) Python Developer
18 75 (2.69%) Senior Data Engineer
19 72 (2.58%) Azure DevOps Engineer
20 69 (2.47%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 924 (33.09%) Terraform
2 457 (16.37%) REST
3 311 (11.14%) Kafka
4 267 (9.56%) .NET
5 261 (9.35%) React
6 227 (8.13%) RESTful
7 218 (7.81%) Spring
8 194 (6.95%) Spring Boot
9 149 (5.34%) PySpark
10 116 (4.15%) Node.js
11 114 (4.08%) HTML
12 103 (3.69%) Playwright
13 102 (3.65%) CSS
14 98 (3.51%) OAuth
15 88 (3.15%) AngularJS
15 88 (3.15%) JSON
16 82 (2.94%) FastAPI
17 79 (2.83%) SOAP
18 73 (2.61%) Middleware
19 69 (2.47%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 594 (21.28%) Cloud Native
2 232 (8.31%) Distributed Systems
3 166 (5.95%) Product Ownership
4 144 (5.16%) AI Agents
5 119 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
5 119 (4.26%) Onboarding
6 100 (3.58%) Legacy Systems
7 48 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
8 44 (1.58%) Data Structures
9 43 (1.54%) Mobile App
10 39 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
10 39 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
11 38 (1.36%) Replication
11 38 (1.36%) Security Posture
11 38 (1.36%) Virtual Team
12 37 (1.33%) Management Information System
13 36 (1.29%) Algorithms
13 36 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 33 (1.18%) Public Cloud
15 32 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 266 (9.53%) Linux
2 128 (4.58%) Windows
3 81 (2.90%) Unix
4 49 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 33 (1.18%) Windows Server
6 30 (1.07%) Android
7 26 (0.93%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.50%) Ubuntu
8 14 (0.50%) VMS
9 12 (0.43%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
11 6 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.11%) Mac OS X
13 3 (0.11%) zOS
14 2 (0.072%) CentOS
14 2 (0.072%) Solaris
14 2 (0.072%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.036%) AIX
15 1 (0.036%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,551 (55.55%) DevOps
2 1,023 (36.64%) Agile
3 970 (34.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 662 (23.71%) AI
5 645 (23.10%) Test Automation
6 547 (19.59%) Observability
7 542 (19.41%) Containerisation
8 526 (18.84%) Microservices
9 517 (18.52%) Software Engineering
10 434 (15.54%) Problem-Solving
11 416 (14.90%) Stakeholder Management
12 408 (14.61%) Continuous Improvement
13 371 (13.29%) Data Pipeline
14 363 (13.00%) Event-Driven
15 360 (12.89%) Analytics
16 358 (12.82%) Data Engineering
17 357 (12.79%) Platform Engineering
18 336 (12.03%) Data Modelling
19 320 (11.46%) Technical Leadership
20 307 (11.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1,189 (42.59%) Python
2 761 (27.26%) SQL
3 557 (19.95%) Java
4 316 (11.32%) JavaScript
5 287 (10.28%) TypeScript
6 272 (9.74%) C#
7 251 (8.99%) Bash
8 236 (8.45%) PowerShell
9 122 (4.37%) Bicep
10 80 (2.87%) Go
11 63 (2.26%) Kotlin
12 59 (2.11%) Shell Script
13 51 (1.83%) Scala
14 41 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 37 (1.33%) Apex Code
16 35 (1.25%) Groovy
17 29 (1.04%) C++
18 28 (1.00%) T-SQL
19 27 (0.97%) PL/SQL
20 25 (0.90%) Perl
Qualifications
1 739 (26.47%) Security Cleared
2 660 (23.64%) SC Cleared
3 165 (5.91%) Degree
4 97 (3.47%) Azure Certification
5 96 (3.44%) AWS Certification
6 94 (3.37%) DV Cleared
7 80 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 63 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
9 29 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 25 (0.90%) CISSP
11 24 (0.86%) Master's Degree
12 23 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
13 19 (0.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 17 (0.61%) ISTQB
15 16 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 15 (0.54%) DBS Check
17 12 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
18 11 (0.39%) CISM
18 11 (0.39%) GIAC
18 11 (0.39%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 281 (10.06%) QA
2 268 (9.60%) Data Quality
3 92 (3.30%) Accessibility
4 44 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 42 (1.50%) GDPR
6 39 (1.40%) NIST
7 24 (0.86%) NCSC
7 24 (0.86%) WCAG
8 17 (0.61%) SLA
9 16 (0.57%) SOC 2
10 15 (0.54%) ISO 20022
11 11 (0.39%) GRC
12 10 (0.36%) EU AI Act
12 10 (0.36%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.29%) Basel III
14 6 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 6 (0.21%) MiFID
15 5 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.18%) EMIR
System Software
1 710 (25.43%) Docker
2 62 (2.22%) Active Directory
3 38 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
4 30 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.47%) Squid
6 10 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.21%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.14%) HDFS
9 4 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
9 4 (0.14%) Postfix
10 2 (0.072%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.072%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.072%) Dovecot
10 2 (0.072%) KVM
10 2 (0.072%) RACF
10 2 (0.072%) Time Sharing Option
10 2 (0.072%) vSphere
11 1 (0.036%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 844 (30.23%) Kubernetes
2 235 (8.42%) Grafana
3 226 (8.09%) Ansible
4 181 (6.48%) Prometheus
5 43 (1.54%) Argo
6 34 (1.22%) Puppet
7 33 (1.18%) Kibana
8 22 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (0.64%) Progress Chef
10 17 (0.61%) Packer
11 13 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
12 11 (0.39%) Control-M
12 11 (0.39%) Istio
13 8 (0.29%) Karpenter
13 8 (0.29%) SCCM
14 7 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
14 7 (0.25%) Kustomize
15 6 (0.21%) HP Fortify
16 5 (0.18%) Nagios
16 5 (0.18%) systemd
Vendors
1 493 (17.66%) Microsoft
2 273 (9.78%) Databricks
3 177 (6.34%) Google
4 149 (5.34%) Oracle
5 115 (4.12%) Splunk
6 90 (3.22%) Salesforce
7 68 (2.44%) OpenAI
8 65 (2.33%) Dynatrace
8 65 (2.33%) ServiceNow
9 46 (1.65%) VMware
10 45 (1.61%) Foundry
11 44 (1.58%) IBM
12 34 (1.22%) Informatica
12 34 (1.22%) SAP
13 33 (1.18%) Red Hat
14 30 (1.07%) MuleSoft
15 23 (0.82%) New Relic
16 21 (0.75%) CyberArk
17 18 (0.64%) Cisco
17 18 (0.64%) Palantir