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 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 18 25
Rank change year-on-year +7 +7 -9
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,189 1,274 1,283
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.42% 10.06% 7.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.01% 10.92% 8.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,461 898 939
10th Percentile £400 £392 £413
25th Percentile £450 £458 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +1.77% -9.24%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £688
90th Percentile £750 £838 £788
England median daily rate £525 £538 £563
% change year-on-year -2.33% -4.44% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 4
10th Percentile £49.25 £38.25 £49.23
25th Percentile £61.00 £43.13 £52.94
Median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +27.62% -6.67% -29.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £53.75 £60.81
90th Percentile £95.00 - £64.53
England median hourly rate £65.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.80% -3.85% -0.92%

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 15,626 11,665 15,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.63% 92.10% 88.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,463 7,932 11,228
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £759 £813 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 173 325
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £22.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.90% +21.05% -26.92%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £46.86
90th Percentile £73.75 £63.65 £66.30
England median hourly rate £44.00 £30.45 £35.00
% change year-on-year +44.50% -13.00% -6.67%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 28 April 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 -2 248 £574 -1.12% 217
West London +11 71 £603 +47.31% 19
South London +2 56 £525 +8.25% 3
East London -4 9 £450 -20.70% 16
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
1 109 (4.98%) Apache Spark
2 88 (4.02%) Apache Airflow
3 66 (3.02%) Apache
4 62 (2.83%) Confluence
5 31 (1.42%) SharePoint
6 11 (0.50%) HCL Notes
6 11 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (0.46%) Mendix
8 9 (0.41%) nginx
9 8 (0.37%) Appian
9 8 (0.37%) Camunda
10 7 (0.32%) Ethereum
10 7 (0.32%) IIS
10 7 (0.32%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.32%) SAS
11 6 (0.27%) CMS
11 6 (0.27%) Hyperledger
11 6 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
12 5 (0.23%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 17 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.091%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.046%) Maya
Business Applications
1 17 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.27%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.14%) Findur
4 3 (0.14%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.091%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.091%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.091%) Shopify
6 1 (0.046%) Actimize
6 1 (0.046%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.046%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.046%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.046%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.046%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.046%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.046%) ProductWriter
6 1 (0.046%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.046%) SDL Web 8
6 1 (0.046%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 1,018 (46.51%) Azure
2 978 (44.68%) AWS
3 517 (23.62%) GitHub
4 405 (18.50%) Azure DevOps
5 337 (15.40%) GCP
6 328 (14.98%) GitHub Actions
7 311 (14.21%) Serverless
8 226 (10.32%) Amazon S3
9 209 (9.55%) AWS CloudFormation
10 197 (9.00%) AWS Lambda
11 190 (8.68%) Power Platform
12 130 (5.94%) Azure Data Factory
13 126 (5.76%) Amazon EKS
14 124 (5.66%) Amazon ECS
15 114 (5.21%) Azure AKS
16 97 (4.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 97 (4.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 91 (4.16%) Amazon EC2
18 89 (4.07%) Entra ID
19 86 (3.93%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 77 (3.52%) Firewall
2 45 (2.06%) Network Security
3 40 (1.83%) DNS
4 26 (1.19%) HTTP
5 24 (1.10%) VPN
6 12 (0.55%) WAN
7 11 (0.50%) SD-WAN
8 8 (0.37%) 3GPP
8 8 (0.37%) 5G
9 7 (0.32%) BGP
10 6 (0.27%) OSPF
10 6 (0.27%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (0.23%) Ethernet VPN
11 5 (0.23%) FTP
11 5 (0.23%) LTE
11 5 (0.23%) MPLS
11 5 (0.23%) SSL
11 5 (0.23%) VXLAN
12 4 (0.18%) IOS XR
12 4 (0.18%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (6.58%) Data Lake
2 135 (6.17%) PostgreSQL
3 133 (6.08%) Power BI
4 132 (6.03%) SQL Server
5 122 (5.57%) NoSQL
6 106 (4.84%) Data Warehouse
7 79 (3.61%) MongoDB
8 74 (3.38%) Relational Database
9 70 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
10 65 (2.97%) Delta Lake
11 63 (2.88%) Metadata
12 61 (2.79%) Amazon Redshift
13 60 (2.74%) Amazon Athena
14 57 (2.60%) BigQuery
15 56 (2.56%) Big Data
16 52 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
17 44 (2.01%) DynamoDB
18 34 (1.55%) Snowflake Schema
19 33 (1.51%) Tableau
20 30 (1.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 389 (17.77%) Git
2 359 (16.40%) Jenkins
3 254 (11.60%) GitLab
4 136 (6.21%) JIRA
5 75 (3.43%) Selenium
6 60 (2.74%) JUnit
7 52 (2.38%) MLflow
8 49 (2.24%) Cucumber
9 44 (2.01%) Postman
10 35 (1.60%) Mockito
11 34 (1.55%) REST Assured
12 33 (1.51%) Cypress.io
13 28 (1.28%) JMeter
14 24 (1.10%) Bitbucket
15 19 (0.87%) SonarQube
16 18 (0.82%) Artifactory
16 18 (0.82%) Gradle
17 17 (0.78%) Maven
18 16 (0.73%) Liquibase
18 16 (0.73%) SpecFlow
General
1 528 (24.12%) Social Skills
2 522 (23.85%) Finance
3 257 (11.74%) Public Sector
4 222 (10.14%) Banking
5 177 (8.09%) Analytical Skills
6 49 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
7 46 (2.10%) Front Office
8 41 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
9 39 (1.78%) Investment Banking
10 36 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 29 (1.32%) Financial Institution
12 26 (1.19%) Retail
13 24 (1.10%) Legal
14 22 (1.01%) Telecoms
15 17 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
16 14 (0.64%) Law
16 14 (0.64%) Manufacturing
17 13 (0.59%) Marketing
17 13 (0.59%) Publishing
18 10 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 494 (22.57%) Developer
2 343 (15.67%) Senior
3 248 (11.33%) Architect
4 239 (10.92%) DevOps Engineer
5 217 (9.91%) Data Engineer
6 183 (8.36%) Lead
7 137 (6.26%) Azure Engineer
8 129 (5.89%) AWS Engineer
9 108 (4.93%) Cloud Engineer
10 99 (4.52%) Platform Engineer
11 96 (4.39%) Software Engineer
12 94 (4.29%) Java Developer
13 83 (3.79%) Senior Developer
14 74 (3.38%) Full-Stack Developer
15 69 (3.15%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 62 (2.83%) AWS DevOps
17 61 (2.79%) Python Developer
18 58 (2.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 58 (2.65%) Solutions Architect
19 57 (2.60%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 227 (10.37%) React
2 222 (10.14%) Kafka
3 206 (9.41%) REST
4 195 (8.91%) .NET
5 190 (8.68%) RESTful
6 183 (8.36%) Spring
7 174 (7.95%) Node.js
8 158 (7.22%) Spring Boot
9 118 (5.39%) AngularJS
10 111 (5.07%) PySpark
11 88 (4.02%) Playwright
12 84 (3.84%) HTML
13 77 (3.52%) OAuth
14 76 (3.47%) CSS
15 60 (2.74%) YAML
16 55 (2.51%) Pandas
17 54 (2.47%) GraphQL
18 51 (2.33%) FastAPI
18 51 (2.33%) OpenTelemetry
19 46 (2.10%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 450 (20.56%) Cloud Native
2 153 (6.99%) Distributed Systems
3 106 (4.84%) Product Ownership
4 67 (3.06%) Onboarding
5 62 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
6 41 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
7 39 (1.78%) AI Agents
8 37 (1.69%) Algorithms
9 33 (1.51%) Mobile App
10 32 (1.46%) Public Cloud
11 31 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
12 29 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
13 28 (1.28%) Equities
13 28 (1.28%) Virtual Team
14 27 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
14 27 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 27 (1.23%) Management Information System
15 26 (1.19%) Fixed Income
15 26 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
16 24 (1.10%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 148 (6.76%) Linux
2 85 (3.88%) Windows
3 35 (1.60%) Unix
4 26 (1.19%) VMS
5 25 (1.14%) Apple iOS
6 24 (1.10%) Android
7 15 (0.69%) Windows Server
8 11 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.23%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.23%) zOS
10 4 (0.18%) Solaris
10 4 (0.18%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.046%) AIX
11 1 (0.046%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,209 (55.23%) DevOps
2 749 (34.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 716 (32.71%) Agile
4 516 (23.57%) Containerisation
5 453 (20.69%) Test Automation
6 430 (19.64%) AI
7 424 (19.37%) Microservices
8 374 (17.09%) Analytics
9 362 (16.54%) Observability
10 325 (14.85%) Problem-Solving
11 307 (14.02%) Software Engineering
12 290 (13.25%) Data Modelling
13 281 (12.84%) Data Pipeline
14 269 (12.29%) Data Engineering
15 252 (11.51%) Continuous Improvement
16 245 (11.19%) Machine Learning
17 222 (10.14%) ETL
18 217 (9.91%) Platform Engineering
19 215 (9.82%) Migration
20 208 (9.50%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 853 (38.97%) Python
2 625 (28.55%) SQL
3 422 (19.28%) Java
4 259 (11.83%) C#
5 247 (11.28%) TypeScript
6 245 (11.19%) JavaScript
7 123 (5.62%) Bash
8 111 (5.07%) PowerShell
9 89 (4.07%) Bicep
10 61 (2.79%) Scala
11 45 (2.06%) Go
12 43 (1.96%) Ruby
13 35 (1.60%) Shell Script
14 32 (1.46%) PL/SQL
15 29 (1.32%) Apex Code
16 28 (1.28%) Kotlin
16 28 (1.28%) T-SQL
17 18 (0.82%) C++
18 12 (0.55%) R
19 11 (0.50%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 555 (25.35%) Security Cleared
2 494 (22.57%) SC Cleared
3 123 (5.62%) Degree
4 85 (3.88%) Azure Certification
5 72 (3.29%) AWS Certification
6 69 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 41 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
8 34 (1.55%) DV Cleared
9 26 (1.19%) Master's Degree
10 23 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 21 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
12 18 (0.82%) CISSP
13 17 (0.78%) ISTQB
14 14 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
15 13 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 11 (0.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 10 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
18 9 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 8 (0.37%) CCSP
19 8 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 188 (8.59%) QA
2 169 (7.72%) Data Quality
3 87 (3.97%) GDPR
4 62 (2.83%) Accessibility
5 60 (2.74%) NIST
6 54 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (1.46%) NCSC
8 26 (1.19%) PCI DSS
9 23 (1.05%) WCAG
10 20 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 20 (0.91%) SLA
11 9 (0.41%) ISO 20022
12 6 (0.27%) GRC
12 6 (0.27%) MiFID
12 6 (0.27%) PSD2
13 5 (0.23%) NIST 800
13 5 (0.23%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.18%) COBIT
14 4 (0.18%) HL7
14 4 (0.18%) SEPA
System Software
1 625 (28.55%) Docker
2 58 (2.65%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.32%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.27%) vSphere
8 4 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
8 4 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.14%) Squid
10 2 (0.091%) HDFS
10 2 (0.091%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.091%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.046%) IAG
11 1 (0.046%) OpenSSH
11 1 (0.046%) Postfix
11 1 (0.046%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
11 1 (0.046%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 732 (33.44%) Terraform
2 676 (30.88%) Kubernetes
3 141 (6.44%) Ansible
4 140 (6.40%) Grafana
5 124 (5.66%) Prometheus
6 34 (1.55%) Argo
7 22 (1.01%) Istio
7 22 (1.01%) Puppet
7 22 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (0.64%) Kibana
9 11 (0.50%) Progress Chef
10 10 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (0.46%) Packer
11 7 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 6 (0.27%) Rancher
13 5 (0.23%) Kustomize
14 4 (0.18%) Kubeflow
14 4 (0.18%) Opsgenie
14 4 (0.18%) SCCM
14 4 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 354 (16.17%) Microsoft
2 201 (9.18%) Databricks
3 115 (5.25%) Google
4 94 (4.29%) Oracle
5 74 (3.38%) Splunk
6 65 (2.97%) Salesforce
7 58 (2.65%) OpenAI
8 54 (2.47%) ServiceNow
9 28 (1.28%) Dynatrace
10 22 (1.01%) CyberArk
10 22 (1.01%) VMware
11 21 (0.96%) IBM
11 21 (0.96%) MuleSoft
11 21 (0.96%) Red Hat
11 21 (0.96%) SAP
12 18 (0.82%) Foundry
13 15 (0.69%) Cisco
14 13 (0.59%) Okta
15 12 (0.55%) UiPath
16 11 (0.50%) Lotus