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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 16 20
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 -1
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,636 1,489 1,399
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.13% 11.13% 8.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.74% 12.04% 9.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,769 1,014 966
10th Percentile £400 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £438 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £566
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -7.24% -5.67%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £797
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 1
10th Percentile £50.25 £30.63 -
25th Percentile £52.19 £36.88 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £48.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -11.36% -29.03%
75th Percentile £74.50 £53.75 -
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.38 -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -11.56%

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 17,880 12,372 14,463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.06% 92.50% 88.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,699 8,236 9,976
10th Percentile £360 £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 £784 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 254 191
10th Percentile £17.25 £16.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.77 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.47% -12.16% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.44 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +8 329 £550 -10.71% 99
South London +6 64 £538 +1.27% 11
West London +9 54 £560 +13.71% 99
East London +2 10 £590 +13.46% 26
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
1 130 (4.93%) Apache Airflow
2 109 (4.14%) Confluence
3 103 (3.91%) Apache Spark
4 75 (2.85%) Apache
5 30 (1.14%) SharePoint
6 11 (0.42%) Camunda
6 11 (0.42%) CMS
6 11 (0.42%) nginx
7 10 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
8 9 (0.34%) OpenStack
9 7 (0.27%) Anypoint
10 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.23%) WebSphere
11 5 (0.19%) Mule
11 5 (0.19%) SAS
12 4 (0.15%) IIS
12 4 (0.15%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.11%) Apache Pulsar
13 3 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
13 3 (0.11%) Mendix
Applications
1 18 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.53%) Chatbot
3 10 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.15%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.15%) Trello
6 2 (0.076%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.038%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.038%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 29 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.46%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
4 6 (0.23%) Shopify
5 5 (0.19%) Magento
6 4 (0.15%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
7 3 (0.11%) Endur
7 3 (0.11%) Findur
7 3 (0.11%) SAP CRM
8 2 (0.076%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.076%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.076%) Temenos T24
9 1 (0.038%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.038%) Dynamics AX
9 1 (0.038%) SAP BPC
9 1 (0.038%) SAP IS-U
9 1 (0.038%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,206 (45.75%) Azure
2 1,155 (43.82%) AWS
3 593 (22.50%) GitHub
4 474 (17.98%) Azure DevOps
5 398 (15.10%) GitHub Actions
6 395 (14.98%) GCP
7 308 (11.68%) Serverless
8 235 (8.92%) Power Platform
9 232 (8.80%) Amazon S3
10 201 (7.63%) AWS Lambda
11 152 (5.77%) Amazon EKS
12 149 (5.65%) Snowflake
13 137 (5.20%) AWS CloudFormation
14 131 (4.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 129 (4.89%) dbt
16 121 (4.59%) Azure AKS
17 118 (4.48%) Amazon EC2
17 118 (4.48%) Entra ID
18 109 (4.14%) Azure Data Factory
19 91 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 70 (2.66%) Firewall
2 41 (1.56%) Network Security
3 36 (1.37%) DNS
4 35 (1.33%) VPN
5 29 (1.10%) Internet
6 24 (0.91%) HTTP
7 22 (0.83%) TCP/IP
8 21 (0.80%) 5G
9 18 (0.68%) SSL
10 16 (0.61%) WAN
11 13 (0.49%) 3GPP
12 11 (0.42%) Radio Access Network
13 10 (0.38%) 4G
13 10 (0.38%) SD-WAN
14 9 (0.34%) BGP
15 8 (0.30%) SAN
15 8 (0.30%) SSH
16 7 (0.27%) FTP
16 7 (0.27%) LTE
16 7 (0.27%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (6.75%) Power BI
2 165 (6.26%) PostgreSQL
3 155 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
4 137 (5.20%) SQL Server
5 130 (4.93%) NoSQL
6 117 (4.44%) Data Lake
7 106 (4.02%) MongoDB
8 98 (3.72%) Relational Database
9 86 (3.26%) Amazon RDS
10 84 (3.19%) Metadata
11 83 (3.15%) Delta Lake
12 75 (2.85%) Amazon Redshift
13 71 (2.69%) BigQuery
14 55 (2.09%) Redis
15 52 (1.97%) Amazon Athena
16 46 (1.75%) DynamoDB
17 45 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
18 44 (1.67%) Big Data
19 38 (1.44%) Amazon Aurora
20 34 (1.29%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 479 (18.17%) Git
2 423 (16.05%) Jenkins
3 343 (13.01%) GitLab
4 187 (7.09%) JIRA
5 87 (3.30%) Selenium
6 71 (2.69%) JUnit
7 51 (1.93%) Cypress.io
8 46 (1.75%) Gradle
8 46 (1.75%) JMeter
9 39 (1.48%) Bitbucket
9 39 (1.48%) Mockito
10 35 (1.33%) Postman
11 34 (1.29%) Cucumber
12 33 (1.25%) Maven
13 32 (1.21%) SonarQube
14 31 (1.18%) REST Assured
15 29 (1.10%) CircleCI
16 26 (0.99%) MLflow
17 23 (0.87%) Gatling
18 19 (0.72%) Liquibase
General
1 661 (25.08%) Social Skills
2 639 (24.24%) Finance
3 311 (11.80%) Public Sector
4 296 (11.23%) Banking
5 230 (8.73%) Analytical Skills
6 61 (2.31%) Front Office
6 61 (2.31%) Retail
7 57 (2.16%) Investment Banking
8 44 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
8 44 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 33 (1.25%) Telecoms
10 31 (1.18%) Law
10 31 (1.18%) Marketing
11 30 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
12 27 (1.02%) Financial Institution
13 25 (0.95%) Legal
14 15 (0.57%) Local Government
14 15 (0.57%) Military
14 15 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
15 13 (0.49%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 568 (21.55%) Developer
2 471 (17.87%) Senior
3 314 (11.91%) DevOps Engineer
4 302 (11.46%) Architect
5 266 (10.09%) Lead
6 240 (9.10%) Data Engineer
7 155 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
8 141 (5.35%) AWS Engineer
9 132 (5.01%) Software Engineer
10 124 (4.70%) Cloud Engineer
11 119 (4.51%) Senior Developer
12 115 (4.36%) Java Developer
13 102 (3.87%) Platform Engineer
14 92 (3.49%) Full-Stack Developer
15 84 (3.19%) Solutions Architect
16 81 (3.07%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 75 (2.85%) Python Developer
18 66 (2.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 65 (2.47%) Azure DevOps Engineer
20 64 (2.43%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 848 (32.17%) Terraform
2 388 (14.72%) REST
3 270 (10.24%) Kafka
4 257 (9.75%) React
5 242 (9.18%) .NET
6 213 (8.08%) RESTful
7 206 (7.81%) Spring
8 176 (6.68%) Spring Boot
9 138 (5.24%) PySpark
10 126 (4.78%) Node.js
11 106 (4.02%) HTML
12 97 (3.68%) AngularJS
13 90 (3.41%) CSS
13 90 (3.41%) Playwright
14 87 (3.30%) JSON
15 73 (2.77%) OAuth
16 70 (2.66%) FastAPI
17 67 (2.54%) SOAP
18 57 (2.16%) Next.js
18 57 (2.16%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 546 (20.71%) Cloud Native
2 226 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
3 148 (5.61%) Product Ownership
4 109 (4.14%) AI Agents
5 107 (4.06%) Onboarding
6 91 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
7 87 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
8 41 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
8 41 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
8 41 (1.56%) Virtual Team
9 40 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 40 (1.52%) Mobile App
10 37 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
11 36 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
12 35 (1.33%) Management Information System
13 31 (1.18%) Fixed Income
14 30 (1.14%) Algorithms
14 30 (1.14%) Data Structures
14 30 (1.14%) NHS
14 30 (1.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 217 (8.23%) Linux
2 113 (4.29%) Windows
3 69 (2.62%) Unix
4 42 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 30 (1.14%) Android
6 29 (1.10%) Apple iOS
7 28 (1.06%) Windows Server
8 16 (0.61%) VMS
9 14 (0.53%) Ubuntu
10 8 (0.30%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
11 7 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.15%) Solaris
13 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.076%) AIX
15 1 (0.038%) CentOS
15 1 (0.038%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,467 (55.65%) DevOps
2 966 (36.65%) Agile
3 881 (33.42%) Infrastructure as Code
4 573 (21.74%) AI
5 568 (21.55%) Test Automation
6 556 (21.09%) Containerisation
7 527 (19.99%) Microservices
8 482 (18.29%) Observability
9 466 (17.68%) Software Engineering
10 390 (14.80%) Problem-Solving
11 368 (13.96%) Analytics
12 353 (13.39%) Data Pipeline
13 349 (13.24%) Continuous Improvement
14 335 (12.71%) Data Modelling
15 326 (12.37%) Stakeholder Management
16 320 (12.14%) Data Engineering
17 318 (12.06%) Platform Engineering
18 308 (11.68%) Event-Driven
19 280 (10.62%) Migration
20 270 (10.24%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1,048 (39.76%) Python
2 757 (28.72%) SQL
3 543 (20.60%) Java
4 280 (10.62%) JavaScript
5 272 (10.32%) TypeScript
6 270 (10.24%) C#
7 215 (8.16%) PowerShell
8 211 (8.00%) Bash
9 111 (4.21%) Bicep
10 60 (2.28%) Go
11 53 (2.01%) Kotlin
12 52 (1.97%) Shell Script
13 50 (1.90%) Apex Code
14 45 (1.71%) Scala
15 36 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 34 (1.29%) PL/SQL
17 33 (1.25%) Ruby
18 27 (1.02%) T-SQL
19 26 (0.99%) C++
20 24 (0.91%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 689 (26.14%) Security Cleared
2 617 (23.41%) SC Cleared
3 137 (5.20%) Degree
4 106 (4.02%) Azure Certification
5 80 (3.03%) DV Cleared
6 74 (2.81%) AWS Certification
7 64 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
8 48 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
9 25 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
10 24 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 18 (0.68%) CISSP
12 17 (0.64%) Master's Degree
13 14 (0.53%) DBS Check
14 13 (0.49%) ISTQB
15 12 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 12 (0.46%) GIAC
15 12 (0.46%) PhD
16 10 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
16 10 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 9 (0.34%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 240 (9.10%) QA
2 228 (8.65%) Data Quality
3 85 (3.22%) Accessibility
4 53 (2.01%) GDPR
5 46 (1.75%) NIST
6 43 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 27 (1.02%) WCAG
8 25 (0.95%) SLA
9 21 (0.80%) NCSC
10 13 (0.49%) ISO 20022
10 13 (0.49%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.42%) EU AI Act
12 10 (0.38%) GRC
13 7 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 7 (0.27%) SOC 2
14 6 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.19%) MiFID
16 4 (0.15%) COBIT
16 4 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 682 (25.87%) Docker
2 60 (2.28%) Active Directory
3 39 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
4 31 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.49%) Squid
6 8 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.23%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
10 4 (0.15%) Postfix
11 2 (0.076%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.076%) DFS Replication
11 2 (0.076%) Dovecot
11 2 (0.076%) HDFS
11 2 (0.076%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.076%) KVM
11 2 (0.076%) Varnish
11 2 (0.076%) vSphere
12 1 (0.038%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 778 (29.51%) Kubernetes
2 215 (8.16%) Grafana
3 194 (7.36%) Ansible
4 175 (6.64%) Prometheus
5 33 (1.25%) Argo
6 32 (1.21%) Puppet
7 23 (0.87%) Kibana
8 21 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
9 20 (0.76%) Packer
10 16 (0.61%) Progress Chef
11 14 (0.53%) Istio
12 10 (0.38%) Control-M
13 8 (0.30%) Kustomize
14 7 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
14 7 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
14 7 (0.27%) SCCM
15 5 (0.19%) HP Fortify
16 4 (0.15%) ITRS Geneos
16 4 (0.15%) Salt
16 4 (0.15%) Suricata
Vendors
1 434 (16.46%) Microsoft
2 231 (8.76%) Databricks
3 138 (5.24%) Google
3 138 (5.24%) Oracle
4 101 (3.83%) Salesforce
5 99 (3.76%) Splunk
6 68 (2.58%) ServiceNow
7 49 (1.86%) Dynatrace
7 49 (1.86%) OpenAI
8 42 (1.59%) VMware
9 36 (1.37%) IBM
9 36 (1.37%) Informatica
10 28 (1.06%) MuleSoft
10 28 (1.06%) Red Hat
11 27 (1.02%) Foundry
11 27 (1.02%) SAP
12 25 (0.95%) New Relic
13 23 (0.87%) Cisco
14 20 (0.76%) Palantir
15 19 (0.72%) CyberArk