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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 17 19
Rank change year-on-year +6 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,633 1,457 1,356
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.98% 10.73% 8.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.56% 11.62% 9.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,760 986 952
10th Percentile £400 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £438 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £567
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -7.41% -5.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £770 £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 £67.25 £65.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year +3.46% -1.52% -8.97%

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 18,082 12,534 14,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.16% 92.32% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,899 8,375 10,138
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 £660 £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 298 249 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.05
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.61 £30.00 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.68% -14.89% -15.06%
75th Percentile £56.81 £48.75 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.05 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 +6 332 £550 -12.00% 171
South London 0 62 £540 +1.93% 15
West London +6 51 £560 +13.71% 36
East London +5 12 £585 +62.50% 16
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
1 127 (4.82%) Apache Airflow
2 105 (3.99%) Confluence
3 98 (3.72%) Apache Spark
4 76 (2.89%) Apache
5 31 (1.18%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
7 10 (0.38%) SAS
8 9 (0.34%) Camunda
8 9 (0.34%) CMS
8 9 (0.34%) nginx
8 9 (0.34%) WebSphere
9 8 (0.30%) 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 (0.11%) Apache Pulsar
13 3 (0.11%) Mendix
13 3 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 17 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.53%) Chatbot
3 9 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.15%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.15%) Trello
5 2 (0.076%) CPLEX
5 2 (0.076%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.038%) Maya
Business Applications
1 26 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.46%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.27%) Shopify
4 5 (0.19%) Magento
4 5 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.11%) Endur
6 3 (0.11%) Findur
6 3 (0.11%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.11%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.076%) SAP CRM
7 2 (0.076%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.076%) Temenos T24
8 1 (0.038%) Distributed Ledger
8 1 (0.038%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.038%) SAP IS-U
8 1 (0.038%) SDL Web 8
8 1 (0.038%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,190 (45.20%) Azure
2 1,139 (43.26%) AWS
3 598 (22.71%) GitHub
4 469 (17.81%) Azure DevOps
5 402 (15.27%) GitHub Actions
6 398 (15.12%) GCP
7 297 (11.28%) Serverless
8 240 (9.12%) Amazon S3
9 228 (8.66%) Power Platform
10 200 (7.60%) AWS Lambda
11 153 (5.81%) Amazon EKS
12 143 (5.43%) AWS CloudFormation
13 131 (4.98%) Snowflake
14 122 (4.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 121 (4.60%) Entra ID
16 119 (4.52%) Azure AKS
16 119 (4.52%) dbt
17 116 (4.41%) Amazon EC2
18 110 (4.18%) Azure Data Factory
19 89 (3.38%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 73 (2.77%) Firewall
2 44 (1.67%) Network Security
3 36 (1.37%) DNS
4 35 (1.33%) VPN
5 29 (1.10%) Internet
6 23 (0.87%) HTTP
7 19 (0.72%) 5G
8 17 (0.65%) SSL
8 17 (0.65%) TCP/IP
9 16 (0.61%) WAN
10 11 (0.42%) 4G
11 10 (0.38%) 3GPP
11 10 (0.38%) SD-WAN
12 8 (0.30%) BGP
12 8 (0.30%) Radio Access Network
13 7 (0.27%) LTE
14 6 (0.23%) Cisco IOS
14 6 (0.23%) Ethernet VPN
14 6 (0.23%) FTP
14 6 (0.23%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (6.61%) Power BI
2 150 (5.70%) Data Warehouse
3 146 (5.55%) PostgreSQL
4 125 (4.75%) Data Lake
5 124 (4.71%) NoSQL
5 124 (4.71%) SQL Server
6 92 (3.49%) MongoDB
7 90 (3.42%) Relational Database
8 80 (3.04%) Delta Lake
9 75 (2.85%) Amazon RDS
10 74 (2.81%) Amazon Redshift
11 73 (2.77%) Metadata
12 68 (2.58%) BigQuery
13 63 (2.39%) Amazon Athena
14 50 (1.90%) DynamoDB
15 48 (1.82%) Big Data
16 47 (1.79%) Redis
17 46 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
18 36 (1.37%) Snowflake Schema
19 31 (1.18%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 468 (17.77%) Git
2 409 (15.53%) Jenkins
3 333 (12.65%) GitLab
4 188 (7.14%) JIRA
5 81 (3.08%) Selenium
6 69 (2.62%) JUnit
7 49 (1.86%) Cypress.io
8 47 (1.79%) JMeter
9 44 (1.67%) Gradle
10 41 (1.56%) Cucumber
11 39 (1.48%) Bitbucket
11 39 (1.48%) Mockito
11 39 (1.48%) Postman
12 35 (1.33%) Maven
13 33 (1.25%) REST Assured
13 33 (1.25%) SonarQube
14 29 (1.10%) CircleCI
14 29 (1.10%) MLflow
15 25 (0.95%) Gatling
16 21 (0.80%) Liquibase
General
1 633 (24.04%) Finance
2 630 (23.93%) Social Skills
3 318 (12.08%) Public Sector
4 296 (11.24%) Banking
5 212 (8.05%) Analytical Skills
6 59 (2.24%) Retail
7 58 (2.20%) Front Office
8 56 (2.13%) Investment Banking
9 45 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
10 43 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 34 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
12 30 (1.14%) Telecoms
13 29 (1.10%) Financial Institution
13 29 (1.10%) Law
13 29 (1.10%) Marketing
14 24 (0.91%) Legal
15 15 (0.57%) Local Government
15 15 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
16 14 (0.53%) Manufacturing
17 13 (0.49%) Military
Job Titles
1 563 (21.38%) Developer
2 470 (17.85%) Senior
3 296 (11.24%) DevOps Engineer
4 290 (11.01%) Architect
5 273 (10.37%) Lead
6 233 (8.85%) Data Engineer
7 157 (5.96%) Azure Engineer
8 151 (5.73%) AWS Engineer
9 138 (5.24%) Software Engineer
10 136 (5.17%) Cloud Engineer
11 122 (4.63%) Senior Developer
12 115 (4.37%) Java Developer
13 111 (4.22%) Platform Engineer
14 94 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
15 84 (3.19%) Solutions Architect
16 71 (2.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 68 (2.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 68 (2.58%) Python Developer
18 64 (2.43%) AWS DevOps
19 60 (2.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 364 (13.82%) REST
2 258 (9.80%) React
3 245 (9.30%) .NET
3 245 (9.30%) Kafka
4 211 (8.01%) RESTful
5 204 (7.75%) Spring
6 171 (6.49%) Spring Boot
7 135 (5.13%) PySpark
8 134 (5.09%) Node.js
9 106 (4.03%) HTML
10 104 (3.95%) AngularJS
11 97 (3.68%) Playwright
12 89 (3.38%) CSS
13 79 (3.00%) JSON
14 74 (2.81%) OAuth
15 68 (2.58%) FastAPI
16 66 (2.51%) SOAP
17 59 (2.24%) OAuth2
18 58 (2.20%) GraphQL
19 57 (2.16%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 543 (20.62%) Cloud Native
2 221 (8.39%) Distributed Systems
3 135 (5.13%) Product Ownership
4 97 (3.68%) Onboarding
5 95 (3.61%) AI Agents
6 86 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
7 76 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
8 43 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 40 (1.52%) Mobile App
10 39 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
10 39 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
11 38 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
11 38 (1.44%) Virtual Team
12 37 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
13 36 (1.37%) Management Information System
14 34 (1.29%) Algorithms
14 34 (1.29%) Data Structures
15 33 (1.25%) Fixed Income
16 30 (1.14%) Security Posture
17 27 (1.03%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 192 (7.29%) Linux
2 112 (4.25%) Windows
3 62 (2.35%) Unix
4 36 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 30 (1.14%) Apple iOS
6 29 (1.10%) Android
7 28 (1.06%) Windows Server
8 12 (0.46%) VMS
9 11 (0.42%) Ubuntu
10 10 (0.38%) Mac OS
11 8 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (0.19%) Solaris
12 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
12 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
14 2 (0.076%) AIX
15 1 (0.038%) CentOS
15 1 (0.038%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,457 (55.34%) DevOps
2 940 (35.70%) Agile
3 869 (33.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 570 (21.65%) Test Automation
5 565 (21.46%) Containerisation
6 555 (21.08%) AI
7 522 (19.83%) Microservices
8 463 (17.58%) Software Engineering
9 456 (17.32%) Observability
10 383 (14.55%) Analytics
11 362 (13.75%) Problem-Solving
12 356 (13.52%) Data Pipeline
13 342 (12.99%) Data Modelling
14 336 (12.76%) Continuous Improvement
15 320 (12.15%) Data Engineering
16 307 (11.66%) Platform Engineering
17 289 (10.98%) Event-Driven
18 275 (10.44%) Machine Learning
19 273 (10.37%) Full-Stack Development
19 273 (10.37%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1,017 (38.63%) Python
2 716 (27.19%) SQL
3 532 (20.21%) Java
4 290 (11.01%) JavaScript
5 281 (10.67%) C#
6 275 (10.44%) TypeScript
7 200 (7.60%) Bash
8 191 (7.25%) PowerShell
9 105 (3.99%) Bicep
10 60 (2.28%) Go
11 58 (2.20%) Kotlin
12 49 (1.86%) Apex Code
13 48 (1.82%) Shell Script
14 47 (1.79%) Scala
15 34 (1.29%) Ruby
16 33 (1.25%) PL/SQL
17 30 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 27 (1.03%) T-SQL
19 21 (0.80%) C++
20 19 (0.72%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 681 (25.86%) Security Cleared
2 615 (23.36%) SC Cleared
3 135 (5.13%) Degree
4 102 (3.87%) Azure Certification
5 75 (2.85%) DV Cleared
6 70 (2.66%) AWS Certification
7 63 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
8 45 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
9 22 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (0.80%) CISSP
11 20 (0.76%) Master's Degree
12 19 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 15 (0.57%) DBS Check
14 13 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 13 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
15 12 (0.46%) CISM
15 12 (0.46%) GIAC
15 12 (0.46%) ISTQB
15 12 (0.46%) PhD
16 10 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 239 (9.08%) QA
2 216 (8.20%) Data Quality
3 101 (3.84%) Accessibility
4 58 (2.20%) GDPR
5 49 (1.86%) NIST
6 44 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 35 (1.33%) WCAG
8 23 (0.87%) NCSC
9 21 (0.80%) SLA
10 14 (0.53%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.42%) EU AI Act
12 10 (0.38%) ISO 20022
13 9 (0.34%) GRC
14 7 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 7 (0.27%) SOC 2
15 6 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 4 (0.15%) COBIT
16 4 (0.15%) MiFID
17 3 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 682 (25.90%) Docker
2 61 (2.32%) Active Directory
3 40 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
4 31 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.42%) Squid
6 10 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.23%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.11%) HDFS
11 2 (0.076%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.076%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.076%) KVM
11 2 (0.076%) Postfix
11 2 (0.076%) Varnish
11 2 (0.076%) vSphere
12 1 (0.038%) IAG
12 1 (0.038%) OpenSSH
12 1 (0.038%) Samba
Systems Management
1 837 (31.79%) Terraform
2 769 (29.21%) Kubernetes
3 198 (7.52%) Grafana
4 186 (7.06%) Ansible
5 163 (6.19%) Prometheus
6 32 (1.22%) Argo
7 30 (1.14%) Puppet
8 21 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
9 19 (0.72%) Packer
10 18 (0.68%) Kibana
11 13 (0.49%) Progress Chef
12 12 (0.46%) Istio
13 9 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
14 8 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
14 8 (0.30%) Kustomize
15 7 (0.27%) Control-M
15 7 (0.27%) SCCM
16 5 (0.19%) HP Fortify
16 5 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
16 5 (0.19%) Salt
Vendors
1 405 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 211 (8.01%) Databricks
3 142 (5.39%) Google
4 119 (4.52%) Oracle
5 102 (3.87%) Salesforce
6 93 (3.53%) Splunk
7 64 (2.43%) ServiceNow
8 46 (1.75%) Dynatrace
8 46 (1.75%) OpenAI
9 43 (1.63%) VMware
10 34 (1.29%) IBM
11 30 (1.14%) Informatica
12 29 (1.10%) Foundry
13 28 (1.06%) SAP
14 27 (1.03%) MuleSoft
15 23 (0.87%) Red Hat
16 22 (0.84%) Cisco
16 22 (0.84%) New Relic
17 21 (0.80%) Palantir
18 18 (0.68%) CyberArk