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 30 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 18 27
Rank change year-on-year +7 +9 -11
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,136 1,313 1,230
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.70% 10.33% 6.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.18% 11.30% 7.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,438 949 902
10th Percentile £393 £400 £419
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +1.32% -9.20%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £688
90th Percentile £738 £838 £800
England median daily rate £515 £550 £553
% change year-on-year -6.36% -0.45% -7.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 5
10th Percentile £47.25 - £50.05
25th Percentile £56.50 £51.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate £66.00 £52.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% -8.70% -28.13%
75th Percentile £82.50 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £95.00 - £63.70
England median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £58.00
% change year-on-year +5.47% +10.34% -11.59%

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 15,060 11,622 15,941
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.56% 91.41% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,095 7,890 11,411
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £428 £443 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £677 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 170 337
10th Percentile £18.13 £18.91 £15.98
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.05% -22.67%
75th Percentile £57.37 £51.07 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £65.25 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.71 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +12.95% - -13.33%

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 30 March 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 30 March 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 30 March 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 -5 246 £550 -4.35% 202
West London +6 69 £603 +47.31% 22
South London +2 59 £525 +8.25% 9
East London +1 11 £450 -10.00% 13
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
1 100 (4.68%) Apache Spark
2 82 (3.84%) Apache Airflow
3 66 (3.09%) Confluence
4 63 (2.95%) Apache
5 31 (1.45%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.56%) CMS
7 11 (0.51%) HCL Notes
7 11 (0.51%) SAS
8 10 (0.47%) Mendix
9 9 (0.42%) Ethereum
9 9 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
10 8 (0.37%) Appian
10 8 (0.37%) Hyperledger
11 7 (0.33%) Camunda
11 7 (0.33%) nginx
12 6 (0.28%) IIS
12 6 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
13 5 (0.23%) Headless CMS
13 5 (0.23%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 22 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.19%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.094%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.047%) Maya
Business Applications
1 18 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.23%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.14%) Findur
5 2 (0.094%) Magento
5 2 (0.094%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.094%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.094%) Shopify
6 1 (0.047%) Cerner Millennium
6 1 (0.047%) Endur
6 1 (0.047%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.047%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.047%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.047%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.047%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.047%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.047%) Orchestrade
6 1 (0.047%) ProductWriter
6 1 (0.047%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.047%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,001 (46.86%) Azure
2 955 (44.71%) AWS
3 511 (23.92%) GitHub
4 398 (18.63%) Azure DevOps
5 345 (16.15%) GCP
6 326 (15.26%) GitHub Actions
7 311 (14.56%) Serverless
8 215 (10.07%) Amazon S3
9 201 (9.41%) AWS CloudFormation
10 191 (8.94%) AWS Lambda
11 184 (8.61%) Power Platform
12 130 (6.09%) Azure Data Factory
13 129 (6.04%) Amazon EKS
14 119 (5.57%) Amazon ECS
15 105 (4.92%) Azure AKS
16 96 (4.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 94 (4.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 90 (4.21%) Amazon EC2
19 83 (3.89%) Snowflake
20 78 (3.65%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 77 (3.60%) Firewall
2 46 (2.15%) Network Security
3 40 (1.87%) DNS
4 27 (1.26%) VPN
5 23 (1.08%) HTTP
6 19 (0.89%) WAN
7 17 (0.80%) SD-WAN
8 8 (0.37%) BGP
8 8 (0.37%) TCP/IP
9 7 (0.33%) SSL
10 6 (0.28%) 3GPP
10 6 (0.28%) 5G
10 6 (0.28%) Ethernet VPN
10 6 (0.28%) MPLS
10 6 (0.28%) OSPF
10 6 (0.28%) VXLAN
11 5 (0.23%) Multicast
12 4 (0.19%) 4G
12 4 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
12 4 (0.19%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (6.41%) Data Lake
2 136 (6.37%) PostgreSQL
3 131 (6.13%) Power BI
4 128 (5.99%) SQL Server
5 118 (5.52%) NoSQL
6 106 (4.96%) Data Warehouse
7 77 (3.60%) Relational Database
8 74 (3.46%) Amazon RDS
8 74 (3.46%) MongoDB
9 59 (2.76%) Delta Lake
10 57 (2.67%) Amazon Athena
10 57 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
11 55 (2.57%) BigQuery
12 53 (2.48%) Metadata
13 51 (2.39%) Big Data
14 50 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
15 42 (1.97%) DynamoDB
16 33 (1.54%) Tableau
17 32 (1.50%) Redis
18 31 (1.45%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 399 (18.68%) Git
2 362 (16.95%) Jenkins
3 260 (12.17%) GitLab
4 147 (6.88%) JIRA
5 78 (3.65%) Selenium
6 61 (2.86%) JUnit
7 54 (2.53%) Cucumber
8 53 (2.48%) MLflow
9 44 (2.06%) Postman
10 36 (1.69%) Cypress.io
10 36 (1.69%) REST Assured
11 33 (1.54%) JMeter
12 32 (1.50%) Mockito
13 26 (1.22%) Bitbucket
14 18 (0.84%) Maven
15 17 (0.80%) Gatling
16 16 (0.75%) Appium
16 16 (0.75%) Liquibase
16 16 (0.75%) SpecFlow
17 15 (0.70%) Artifactory
General
1 538 (25.19%) Social Skills
2 489 (22.89%) Finance
3 248 (11.61%) Public Sector
4 217 (10.16%) Banking
5 176 (8.24%) Analytical Skills
6 46 (2.15%) Front Office
7 45 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
8 42 (1.97%) Investment Banking
9 40 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
10 32 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 30 (1.40%) Financial Institution
12 26 (1.22%) Retail
13 21 (0.98%) Telecoms
14 19 (0.89%) Legal
15 17 (0.80%) Marketing
16 15 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
17 14 (0.66%) Law
18 12 (0.56%) Manufacturing
18 12 (0.56%) Publishing
19 10 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 496 (23.22%) Developer
2 334 (15.64%) Senior
3 233 (10.91%) DevOps Engineer
4 225 (10.53%) Architect
5 216 (10.11%) Data Engineer
6 177 (8.29%) Lead
7 129 (6.04%) Azure Engineer
8 123 (5.76%) AWS Engineer
9 100 (4.68%) Platform Engineer
10 99 (4.63%) Cloud Engineer
10 99 (4.63%) Software Engineer
11 83 (3.89%) Java Developer
11 83 (3.89%) Senior Developer
12 80 (3.75%) Full-Stack Developer
13 74 (3.46%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 64 (3.00%) Python Developer
14 64 (3.00%) Python Engineer
15 61 (2.86%) AWS DevOps
16 57 (2.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 55 (2.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 244 (11.42%) React
2 227 (10.63%) Kafka
3 203 (9.50%) REST
4 195 (9.13%) Node.js
5 188 (8.80%) .NET
6 187 (8.75%) RESTful
7 163 (7.63%) Spring
8 135 (6.32%) Spring Boot
9 131 (6.13%) AngularJS
10 107 (5.01%) PySpark
11 101 (4.73%) Playwright
12 90 (4.21%) CSS
13 89 (4.17%) HTML
14 77 (3.60%) OAuth
15 61 (2.86%) YAML
16 55 (2.57%) GraphQL
17 52 (2.43%) FastAPI
18 49 (2.29%) Pandas
19 48 (2.25%) PyTorch
20 47 (2.20%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 428 (20.04%) Cloud Native
2 136 (6.37%) Distributed Systems
3 99 (4.63%) Product Ownership
4 59 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
5 54 (2.53%) Onboarding
6 40 (1.87%) Algorithms
7 37 (1.73%) AI Agents
8 34 (1.59%) Public Cloud
9 33 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
10 32 (1.50%) Mobile App
11 30 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
12 28 (1.31%) Equities
13 27 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
13 27 (1.26%) Derivative
13 27 (1.26%) Virtual Team
14 26 (1.22%) Data Structures
14 26 (1.22%) Fixed Income
14 26 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 26 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
15 24 (1.12%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 145 (6.79%) Linux
2 68 (3.18%) Windows
3 29 (1.36%) Apple iOS
3 29 (1.36%) Unix
4 28 (1.31%) VMS
5 23 (1.08%) Android
6 11 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (0.51%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.23%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.23%) zOS
8 4 (0.19%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.14%) Solaris
9 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.047%) AIX
10 1 (0.047%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,175 (55.01%) DevOps
2 715 (33.47%) Infrastructure as Code
3 689 (32.26%) Agile
4 495 (23.17%) Containerisation
5 449 (21.02%) Test Automation
6 409 (19.15%) AI
7 398 (18.63%) Microservices
8 359 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
9 354 (16.57%) Observability
10 350 (16.39%) Analytics
11 304 (14.23%) Software Engineering
12 279 (13.06%) Data Modelling
13 270 (12.64%) Data Engineering
13 270 (12.64%) Data Pipeline
14 251 (11.75%) Continuous Improvement
15 244 (11.42%) Machine Learning
16 222 (10.39%) ETL
17 209 (9.78%) Full-Stack Development
18 204 (9.55%) Platform Engineering
19 200 (9.36%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 865 (40.50%) Python
2 600 (28.09%) SQL
3 405 (18.96%) Java
4 269 (12.59%) TypeScript
5 264 (12.36%) JavaScript
6 246 (11.52%) C#
7 124 (5.81%) Bash
8 105 (4.92%) PowerShell
9 80 (3.75%) Bicep
10 62 (2.90%) Scala
11 53 (2.48%) Go
12 39 (1.83%) Ruby
13 32 (1.50%) Shell Script
14 28 (1.31%) C++
14 28 (1.31%) PL/SQL
14 28 (1.31%) T-SQL
15 25 (1.17%) Apex Code
16 23 (1.08%) Kotlin
17 12 (0.56%) Swift
18 11 (0.51%) R
Qualifications
1 521 (24.39%) Security Cleared
2 457 (21.40%) SC Cleared
3 127 (5.95%) Degree
4 78 (3.65%) Azure Certification
5 72 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 71 (3.32%) AWS Certification
7 35 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
8 28 (1.31%) DV Cleared
8 28 (1.31%) Master's Degree
9 27 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
10 23 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 18 (0.84%) CISSP
11 18 (0.84%) ISTQB
12 15 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (0.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 11 (0.51%) Numerate Degree
15 10 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
16 9 (0.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 9 (0.42%) CISM
17 8 (0.37%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (8.33%) QA
2 162 (7.58%) Data Quality
3 86 (4.03%) GDPR
4 72 (3.37%) Accessibility
5 58 (2.72%) NIST
6 55 (2.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (1.50%) NCSC
8 30 (1.40%) WCAG
9 27 (1.26%) PCI DSS
10 21 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 20 (0.94%) SLA
12 7 (0.33%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.33%) NIST 800
13 6 (0.28%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.28%) MiFID
13 6 (0.28%) PSD2
14 5 (0.23%) HL7
14 5 (0.23%) SOC 2
15 4 (0.19%) GRC
15 4 (0.19%) SEPA
System Software
1 632 (29.59%) Docker
2 52 (2.43%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.37%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.33%) vSphere
8 3 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.094%) HDFS
10 1 (0.047%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.047%) IAG
10 1 (0.047%) Squid
10 1 (0.047%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 718 (33.61%) Terraform
2 664 (31.09%) Kubernetes
3 141 (6.60%) Ansible
4 136 (6.37%) Grafana
5 118 (5.52%) Prometheus
6 38 (1.78%) Argo
7 20 (0.94%) Istio
8 19 (0.89%) Puppet
8 19 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (0.61%) Progress Chef
10 11 (0.51%) Kibana
11 8 (0.37%) ITRS Geneos
11 8 (0.37%) Rancher
12 7 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (0.23%) Karpenter
13 5 (0.23%) Packer
14 4 (0.19%) Kubeflow
14 4 (0.19%) Opsgenie
14 4 (0.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 336 (15.73%) Microsoft
2 212 (9.93%) Databricks
3 122 (5.71%) Google
4 87 (4.07%) Oracle
5 66 (3.09%) Splunk
6 61 (2.86%) Salesforce
7 59 (2.76%) ServiceNow
8 56 (2.62%) OpenAI
9 27 (1.26%) Dynatrace
10 22 (1.03%) MuleSoft
10 22 (1.03%) Red Hat
11 19 (0.89%) VMware
12 18 (0.84%) Cisco
12 18 (0.84%) CyberArk
12 18 (0.84%) IBM
12 18 (0.84%) SAP
13 17 (0.80%) Foundry
14 13 (0.61%) UiPath
15 12 (0.56%) Atlassian
15 12 (0.56%) Solace