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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 17 21
Rank change year-on-year +7 +4 -4
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,540 1,428 1,373
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.78% 10.51% 8.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.36% 11.40% 9.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,710 958 971
10th Percentile £400 £375 £413
25th Percentile £453 £438 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £565
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -7.08% -5.83%
75th Percentile £638 £662 £688
90th Percentile £738 £800 £810
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 2
10th Percentile £48.25 £38.00 £56.20
25th Percentile £54.06 £42.50 £58.00
Median hourly rate £61.00 £52.50 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.19% -13.93% -18.67%
75th Percentile £80.63 £53.75 £64.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.50 £65.80
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% -2.99% -1.18%

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 17,688 12,531 14,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.00% 92.21% 88.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,675 8,382 10,562
10th Percentile £363 £329 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £651 £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 279 239 238
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.66 £21.13
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.03% -11.76% -20.93%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £53.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.35 £71.25
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +86.88% -37.13% -8.32%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +2 301 £550 -12.00% 120
South London +2 57 £541 +1.81% 7
West London +11 53 £560 +13.71% 35
East London +5 11 £543 +50.69% 22
North London - 1 £650 - 2
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
1 112 (4.41%) Apache Airflow
2 101 (3.98%) Confluence
3 93 (3.66%) Apache Spark
4 71 (2.80%) Apache
5 27 (1.06%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
7 10 (0.39%) SAS
8 9 (0.35%) WebSphere
9 8 (0.31%) Camunda
9 8 (0.31%) CMS
9 8 (0.31%) nginx
9 8 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.24%) Anypoint
12 5 (0.20%) Mule
12 5 (0.20%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.16%) Appian
14 3 (0.12%) Apache Pulsar
14 3 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
14 3 (0.12%) Jupyter
Applications
1 15 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.39%) Chatbot
2 10 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.16%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.079%) CPLEX
5 2 (0.079%) Trello
6 1 (0.039%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.039%) Maya
Business Applications
1 23 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.43%) Aladdin
3 8 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.28%) Shopify
5 6 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
6 5 (0.20%) Magento
7 4 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.16%) 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 (0.079%) SAP CRM
9 2 (0.079%) Temenos T24
10 1 (0.039%) Distributed Ledger
10 1 (0.039%) R3 Corda
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 1,131 (44.53%) Azure
2 1,116 (43.94%) AWS
3 568 (22.36%) GitHub
4 433 (17.05%) Azure DevOps
5 381 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
6 379 (14.92%) GCP
7 302 (11.89%) Serverless
8 242 (9.53%) Amazon S3
9 217 (8.54%) Power Platform
10 199 (7.83%) AWS Lambda
11 149 (5.87%) Amazon EKS
12 146 (5.75%) AWS CloudFormation
13 116 (4.57%) Entra ID
14 114 (4.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 114 (4.49%) Azure AKS
15 113 (4.45%) Amazon EC2
16 111 (4.37%) Snowflake
17 106 (4.17%) dbt
18 101 (3.98%) Azure Data Factory
19 88 (3.46%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 71 (2.80%) Firewall
2 42 (1.65%) Network Security
3 35 (1.38%) DNS
4 33 (1.30%) VPN
5 25 (0.98%) Internet
6 24 (0.94%) HTTP
7 19 (0.75%) 5G
8 16 (0.63%) TCP/IP
9 15 (0.59%) WAN
10 12 (0.47%) SSL
11 11 (0.43%) 4G
12 10 (0.39%) 3GPP
12 10 (0.39%) SD-WAN
13 8 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
14 7 (0.28%) BGP
14 7 (0.28%) LTE
15 6 (0.24%) Cisco IOS
15 6 (0.24%) FTP
16 5 (0.20%) MPLS
16 5 (0.20%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (6.14%) Power BI
2 142 (5.59%) PostgreSQL
3 124 (4.88%) Data Lake
4 123 (4.84%) Data Warehouse
5 122 (4.80%) NoSQL
6 118 (4.65%) SQL Server
7 88 (3.46%) Relational Database
8 83 (3.27%) MongoDB
9 74 (2.91%) Amazon Redshift
10 73 (2.87%) Delta Lake
11 68 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
12 67 (2.64%) Metadata
13 65 (2.56%) Amazon Athena
14 63 (2.48%) BigQuery
15 51 (2.01%) DynamoDB
16 46 (1.81%) Big Data
17 43 (1.69%) Redis
18 40 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
19 36 (1.42%) Snowflake Schema
20 27 (1.06%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 447 (17.60%) Git
2 391 (15.39%) Jenkins
3 303 (11.93%) GitLab
4 177 (6.97%) JIRA
5 74 (2.91%) Selenium
6 68 (2.68%) JUnit
7 45 (1.77%) JMeter
8 44 (1.73%) Cypress.io
9 43 (1.69%) Cucumber
10 42 (1.65%) Gradle
11 39 (1.54%) Mockito
12 38 (1.50%) Postman
13 37 (1.46%) REST Assured
14 36 (1.42%) MLflow
15 32 (1.26%) Bitbucket
15 32 (1.26%) Maven
16 30 (1.18%) SonarQube
17 28 (1.10%) CircleCI
18 25 (0.98%) Gatling
19 19 (0.75%) Liquibase
General
1 595 (23.43%) Social Skills
2 594 (23.39%) Finance
3 316 (12.44%) Public Sector
4 274 (10.79%) Banking
5 202 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
6 56 (2.20%) Front Office
7 54 (2.13%) Investment Banking
8 53 (2.09%) Retail
9 49 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
10 39 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 33 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
12 31 (1.22%) Law
13 30 (1.18%) Telecoms
14 26 (1.02%) Legal
15 24 (0.94%) Financial Institution
16 22 (0.87%) Marketing
17 16 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
18 13 (0.51%) Manufacturing
18 13 (0.51%) Military
19 12 (0.47%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 540 (21.26%) Developer
2 443 (17.44%) Senior
3 293 (11.54%) DevOps Engineer
4 278 (10.94%) Architect
5 259 (10.20%) Lead
6 218 (8.58%) Data Engineer
7 153 (6.02%) AWS Engineer
8 149 (5.87%) Azure Engineer
9 132 (5.20%) Cloud Engineer
10 125 (4.92%) Software Engineer
11 118 (4.65%) Java Developer
12 115 (4.53%) Senior Developer
13 106 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
14 88 (3.46%) Full-Stack Developer
15 80 (3.15%) Solutions Architect
16 74 (2.91%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 68 (2.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 65 (2.56%) Python Developer
19 63 (2.48%) AWS DevOps
20 59 (2.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 335 (13.19%) REST
2 248 (9.76%) React
3 234 (9.21%) .NET
4 230 (9.06%) Kafka
5 210 (8.27%) RESTful
6 199 (7.83%) Spring
7 169 (6.65%) Spring Boot
8 132 (5.20%) Node.js
9 129 (5.08%) PySpark
10 103 (4.06%) AngularJS
11 101 (3.98%) HTML
12 93 (3.66%) Playwright
13 88 (3.46%) CSS
14 76 (2.99%) JSON
15 72 (2.83%) OAuth
16 66 (2.60%) FastAPI
17 65 (2.56%) SOAP
18 56 (2.20%) GraphQL
18 56 (2.20%) OAuth2
19 55 (2.17%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 522 (20.55%) Cloud Native
2 221 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
3 124 (4.88%) Product Ownership
4 88 (3.46%) Onboarding
5 86 (3.39%) AI Agents
6 83 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
7 66 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
8 46 (1.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 42 (1.65%) Algorithms
10 39 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
11 38 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
12 37 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
12 37 (1.46%) Mobile App
12 37 (1.46%) Virtual Team
13 35 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
13 35 (1.38%) Management Information System
14 34 (1.34%) Data Structures
14 34 (1.34%) Fixed Income
15 32 (1.26%) Security Posture
16 27 (1.06%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 179 (7.05%) Linux
2 107 (4.21%) Windows
3 55 (2.17%) Unix
4 33 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 27 (1.06%) Apple iOS
6 26 (1.02%) Android
7 25 (0.98%) Windows Server
8 12 (0.47%) VMS
9 10 (0.39%) Mac OS
9 10 (0.39%) Ubuntu
10 8 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.20%) Solaris
11 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
11 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.079%) AIX
13 2 (0.079%) zOS
14 1 (0.039%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,398 (55.04%) DevOps
2 895 (35.24%) Agile
3 842 (33.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 558 (21.97%) Containerisation
5 540 (21.26%) Test Automation
6 532 (20.94%) AI
7 508 (20.00%) Microservices
8 433 (17.05%) Observability
9 429 (16.89%) Software Engineering
10 365 (14.37%) Analytics
11 336 (13.23%) Problem-Solving
12 333 (13.11%) Data Pipeline
13 320 (12.60%) Data Modelling
14 314 (12.36%) Continuous Improvement
15 302 (11.89%) Platform Engineering
16 301 (11.85%) Data Engineering
17 274 (10.79%) Machine Learning
18 272 (10.71%) Event-Driven
19 263 (10.35%) Migration
20 258 (10.16%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 965 (37.99%) Python
2 681 (26.81%) SQL
3 501 (19.72%) Java
4 266 (10.47%) C#
4 266 (10.47%) TypeScript
5 260 (10.24%) JavaScript
6 194 (7.64%) Bash
7 171 (6.73%) PowerShell
8 99 (3.90%) Bicep
9 63 (2.48%) Go
10 51 (2.01%) Kotlin
11 48 (1.89%) Apex Code
12 46 (1.81%) Shell Script
13 44 (1.73%) Scala
14 36 (1.42%) Ruby
15 30 (1.18%) PL/SQL
16 27 (1.06%) T-SQL
17 18 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 17 (0.67%) Groovy
19 16 (0.63%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 648 (25.51%) Security Cleared
2 584 (22.99%) SC Cleared
3 134 (5.28%) Degree
4 99 (3.90%) Azure Certification
5 70 (2.76%) DV Cleared
6 69 (2.72%) AWS Certification
7 60 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
8 43 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (0.94%) Master's Degree
10 22 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
11 18 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 18 (0.71%) CISSP
12 15 (0.59%) DBS Check
13 13 (0.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 13 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
14 12 (0.47%) CISM
14 12 (0.47%) PhD
14 12 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
15 11 (0.43%) GIAC
16 9 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 229 (9.02%) QA
2 204 (8.03%) Data Quality
3 101 (3.98%) Accessibility
4 60 (2.36%) GDPR
5 50 (1.97%) NIST
6 40 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 34 (1.34%) WCAG
8 24 (0.94%) NCSC
9 19 (0.75%) SLA
10 15 (0.59%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.43%) EU AI Act
11 11 (0.43%) GRC
12 8 (0.31%) SOC 2
13 7 (0.28%) ISO 20022
13 7 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 6 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.20%) PSD2
16 4 (0.16%) COBIT
16 4 (0.16%) MiFID
16 4 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 649 (25.55%) Docker
2 63 (2.48%) Active Directory
3 37 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
4 28 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.43%) Squid
6 10 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.28%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
10 4 (0.16%) vSphere
11 3 (0.12%) HDFS
12 2 (0.079%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.079%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.079%) KVM
12 2 (0.079%) Postfix
12 2 (0.079%) Varnish
13 1 (0.039%) IAG
13 1 (0.039%) OpenSSH
13 1 (0.039%) Samba
Systems Management
1 812 (31.97%) Terraform
2 740 (29.13%) Kubernetes
3 199 (7.83%) Grafana
4 187 (7.36%) Ansible
5 164 (6.46%) Prometheus
6 33 (1.30%) Argo
7 26 (1.02%) Puppet
8 22 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
9 19 (0.75%) Kibana
10 18 (0.71%) Packer
11 11 (0.43%) Istio
12 10 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
12 10 (0.39%) Progress Chef
13 8 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
14 7 (0.28%) Kustomize
14 7 (0.28%) SCCM
15 6 (0.24%) vCenter Server
16 5 (0.20%) HP Fortify
16 5 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
16 5 (0.20%) Salt
Vendors
1 377 (14.84%) Microsoft
2 193 (7.60%) Databricks
3 131 (5.16%) Google
4 116 (4.57%) Oracle
5 100 (3.94%) Salesforce
6 90 (3.54%) Splunk
7 57 (2.24%) ServiceNow
8 52 (2.05%) OpenAI
9 43 (1.69%) Dynatrace
10 40 (1.57%) VMware
11 30 (1.18%) Foundry
11 30 (1.18%) IBM
12 28 (1.10%) SAP
13 27 (1.06%) MuleSoft
14 26 (1.02%) Informatica
15 22 (0.87%) Palantir
16 21 (0.83%) Cisco
16 21 (0.83%) Red Hat
17 18 (0.71%) CyberArk
17 18 (0.71%) New Relic