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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 17 25
Rank change year-on-year +6 +8 -9
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,181 1,295 1,264
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.51% 10.19% 7.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.07% 11.08% 8.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,461 919 919
10th Percentile £394 £400 £415
25th Percentile £450 £458 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £567
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +1.41% -9.28%
75th Percentile £645 £709 £688
90th Percentile £738 £838 £800
England median daily rate £520 £540 £560
% change year-on-year -3.70% -3.57% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 4
10th Percentile £49.25 £36.63 £49.23
25th Percentile £61.00 £39.06 £52.94
Median hourly rate £67.00 £43.75 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +53.14% -22.22% -29.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £49.06 £60.81
90th Percentile £95.00 £51.88 £64.53
England median hourly rate £66.50 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.91% -1.54% -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 15,500 11,691 15,679
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.89% 91.95% 88.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,370 7,941 11,223
10th Percentile £355 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £756 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 166 333
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.30 £15.96
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.64 £19.92
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.58 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +15.25% -23.08%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.69 £48.56
90th Percentile £73.08 £63.50 £66.95
England median hourly rate £41.94 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.55% -9.60% -9.09%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -4 245 £561 -2.39% 170
West London +9 73 £603 +47.31% 28
South London +2 62 £525 +8.25% 5
East London -4 9 £450 -15.69% 17
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
1 108 (4.95%) Apache Spark
2 89 (4.08%) Apache Airflow
3 70 (3.21%) Apache
4 62 (2.84%) Confluence
5 34 (1.56%) SharePoint
6 11 (0.50%) HCL Notes
6 11 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (0.46%) Mendix
7 10 (0.46%) SAS
8 9 (0.41%) CMS
8 9 (0.41%) nginx
9 8 (0.37%) Appian
10 7 (0.32%) Camunda
10 7 (0.32%) Ethereum
10 7 (0.32%) IIS
10 7 (0.32%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.28%) Hyperledger
11 6 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
12 5 (0.23%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.092%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.046%) Maya
Business Applications
1 20 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.28%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.14%) Findur
4 3 (0.14%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.092%) Shopify
6 1 (0.046%) Actimize
6 1 (0.046%) Cerner Millennium
6 1 (0.046%) Magento
6 1 (0.046%) NetSuite
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%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.046%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 1,011 (46.35%) Azure
2 972 (44.57%) AWS
3 506 (23.20%) GitHub
4 400 (18.34%) Azure DevOps
5 334 (15.31%) GCP
6 317 (14.53%) GitHub Actions
7 309 (14.17%) Serverless
8 231 (10.59%) Amazon S3
9 211 (9.67%) AWS CloudFormation
10 198 (9.08%) AWS Lambda
11 190 (8.71%) Power Platform
12 133 (6.10%) Azure Data Factory
13 126 (5.78%) Amazon EKS
14 124 (5.69%) Amazon ECS
15 111 (5.09%) Azure AKS
16 100 (4.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 96 (4.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 92 (4.22%) Amazon EC2
19 91 (4.17%) Entra ID
20 81 (3.71%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 72 (3.30%) Firewall
2 44 (2.02%) Network Security
3 36 (1.65%) DNS
4 26 (1.19%) HTTP
5 20 (0.92%) 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 (0.28%) OSPF
10 6 (0.28%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (0.23%) Ethernet VPN
11 5 (0.23%) LTE
11 5 (0.23%) MPLS
11 5 (0.23%) SSL
11 5 (0.23%) VXLAN
12 4 (0.18%) FTP
12 4 (0.18%) IOS XR
12 4 (0.18%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (6.56%) Data Lake
2 142 (6.51%) PostgreSQL
3 132 (6.05%) Power BI
4 127 (5.82%) SQL Server
5 125 (5.73%) NoSQL
6 107 (4.91%) Data Warehouse
7 81 (3.71%) MongoDB
8 77 (3.53%) Relational Database
9 74 (3.39%) Amazon RDS
10 63 (2.89%) Amazon Athena
10 63 (2.89%) Metadata
11 62 (2.84%) Delta Lake
12 59 (2.71%) Amazon Redshift
13 57 (2.61%) BigQuery
14 54 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
15 53 (2.43%) Big Data
16 44 (2.02%) DynamoDB
17 33 (1.51%) Snowflake Schema
17 33 (1.51%) Tableau
18 31 (1.42%) Redis
Development Applications
1 392 (17.97%) Git
2 352 (16.14%) Jenkins
3 253 (11.60%) GitLab
4 143 (6.56%) JIRA
5 78 (3.58%) Selenium
6 59 (2.71%) JUnit
7 49 (2.25%) MLflow
8 48 (2.20%) Cucumber
9 44 (2.02%) Postman
10 35 (1.60%) Cypress.io
10 35 (1.60%) REST Assured
11 34 (1.56%) Mockito
12 28 (1.28%) JMeter
13 23 (1.05%) Bitbucket
14 18 (0.83%) Artifactory
14 18 (0.83%) Maven
14 18 (0.83%) SonarQube
15 17 (0.78%) Liquibase
16 16 (0.73%) Appium
16 16 (0.73%) Gradle
General
1 533 (24.44%) Social Skills
2 507 (23.25%) Finance
3 261 (11.97%) Public Sector
4 218 (10.00%) Banking
5 177 (8.12%) Analytical Skills
6 49 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
7 46 (2.11%) Front Office
8 41 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
9 38 (1.74%) Investment Banking
10 33 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 28 (1.28%) Financial Institution
12 26 (1.19%) Retail
13 23 (1.05%) Legal
14 22 (1.01%) Telecoms
15 17 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
16 16 (0.73%) Law
17 14 (0.64%) Manufacturing
17 14 (0.64%) Marketing
18 13 (0.60%) Publishing
19 10 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 498 (22.83%) Developer
2 340 (15.59%) Senior
3 242 (11.10%) Architect
4 236 (10.82%) DevOps Engineer
5 220 (10.09%) Data Engineer
6 183 (8.39%) Lead
7 136 (6.24%) Azure Engineer
8 131 (6.01%) AWS Engineer
9 108 (4.95%) Cloud Engineer
10 101 (4.63%) Software Engineer
11 99 (4.54%) Platform Engineer
12 92 (4.22%) Java Developer
13 81 (3.71%) Senior Developer
14 76 (3.48%) Full-Stack Developer
15 69 (3.16%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 65 (2.98%) AWS DevOps
17 63 (2.89%) Python Developer
18 60 (2.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 57 (2.61%) Python Engineer
20 56 (2.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 239 (10.96%) React
2 223 (10.22%) Kafka
3 204 (9.35%) REST
4 194 (8.90%) .NET
5 191 (8.76%) RESTful
6 182 (8.34%) Node.js
7 175 (8.02%) Spring
8 151 (6.92%) Spring Boot
9 119 (5.46%) AngularJS
10 110 (5.04%) PySpark
11 88 (4.03%) Playwright
12 86 (3.94%) HTML
13 81 (3.71%) CSS
14 79 (3.62%) OAuth
15 60 (2.75%) YAML
16 52 (2.38%) GraphQL
16 52 (2.38%) Pandas
17 50 (2.29%) OpenTelemetry
18 49 (2.25%) Next.js
19 48 (2.20%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 437 (20.04%) Cloud Native
2 147 (6.74%) Distributed Systems
3 108 (4.95%) Product Ownership
4 66 (3.03%) Onboarding
5 59 (2.71%) Legacy Systems
6 40 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
7 38 (1.74%) AI Agents
8 37 (1.70%) Algorithms
9 32 (1.47%) Mobile App
10 31 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
11 30 (1.38%) Public Cloud
12 29 (1.33%) Virtual Team
13 28 (1.28%) Equities
13 28 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
14 27 (1.24%) Fixed Income
15 26 (1.19%) Management Information System
15 26 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
16 25 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
16 25 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 24 (1.10%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 145 (6.65%) Linux
2 80 (3.67%) Windows
3 33 (1.51%) Unix
4 26 (1.19%) VMS
5 25 (1.15%) Apple iOS
6 23 (1.05%) Android
7 12 (0.55%) 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 1,193 (54.70%) DevOps
2 735 (33.70%) Infrastructure as Code
3 706 (32.37%) Agile
4 503 (23.06%) Containerisation
5 451 (20.68%) Test Automation
6 430 (19.72%) AI
7 420 (19.26%) Microservices
8 371 (17.01%) Analytics
9 355 (16.28%) Observability
10 326 (14.95%) Problem-Solving
11 308 (14.12%) Software Engineering
12 291 (13.34%) Data Modelling
13 280 (12.84%) Data Pipeline
14 265 (12.15%) Data Engineering
15 252 (11.55%) Continuous Improvement
16 243 (11.14%) Machine Learning
17 222 (10.18%) ETL
18 214 (9.81%) Migration
19 212 (9.72%) Full-Stack Development
19 212 (9.72%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 854 (39.16%) Python
2 623 (28.56%) SQL
3 416 (19.07%) Java
4 257 (11.78%) TypeScript
5 255 (11.69%) C#
6 254 (11.65%) JavaScript
7 122 (5.59%) Bash
8 107 (4.91%) PowerShell
9 86 (3.94%) Bicep
10 64 (2.93%) Scala
11 48 (2.20%) Go
12 41 (1.88%) Ruby
13 34 (1.56%) Shell Script
14 30 (1.38%) PL/SQL
15 29 (1.33%) Apex Code
16 28 (1.28%) T-SQL
17 27 (1.24%) Kotlin
18 19 (0.87%) C++
19 11 (0.50%) Formula Language
19 11 (0.50%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 544 (24.94%) Security Cleared
2 481 (22.05%) SC Cleared
3 124 (5.69%) Degree
4 85 (3.90%) Azure Certification
5 70 (3.21%) AWS Certification
6 69 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 41 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 34 (1.56%) DV Cleared
9 25 (1.15%) Master's Degree
10 23 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
11 21 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 18 (0.83%) CISSP
13 16 (0.73%) ISTQB
14 14 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
15 13 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 10 (0.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 10 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
17 9 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 9 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
18 8 (0.37%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (8.34%) QA
2 171 (7.84%) Data Quality
3 86 (3.94%) GDPR
4 67 (3.07%) Accessibility
5 62 (2.84%) NIST
6 56 (2.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 34 (1.56%) NCSC
8 28 (1.28%) WCAG
9 26 (1.19%) PCI DSS
10 20 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 20 (0.92%) SLA
11 9 (0.41%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.32%) NIST 800
13 6 (0.28%) GRC
13 6 (0.28%) PSD2
14 5 (0.23%) HL7
14 5 (0.23%) SOC 2
15 4 (0.18%) COBIT
15 4 (0.18%) MiFID
15 4 (0.18%) SEPA
System Software
1 616 (28.24%) Docker
2 61 (2.80%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.32%) VMware NSX
7 6 (0.28%) vSphere
8 4 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
8 4 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.14%) Squid
10 2 (0.092%) HDFS
10 2 (0.092%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.092%) 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
1 727 (33.33%) Terraform
2 666 (30.54%) Kubernetes
3 139 (6.37%) Ansible
4 131 (6.01%) Grafana
5 116 (5.32%) Prometheus
6 36 (1.65%) Argo
7 24 (1.10%) Istio
8 22 (1.01%) Puppet
9 21 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
10 12 (0.55%) Kibana
11 11 (0.50%) Progress Chef
12 10 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
13 8 (0.37%) Packer
14 7 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 7 (0.32%) Rancher
15 4 (0.18%) Kubeflow
15 4 (0.18%) Opsgenie
15 4 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
15 4 (0.18%) SCCM
15 4 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 352 (16.14%) Microsoft
2 208 (9.54%) Databricks
3 117 (5.36%) Google
4 92 (4.22%) Oracle
5 70 (3.21%) Splunk
6 65 (2.98%) Salesforce
7 58 (2.66%) OpenAI
7 58 (2.66%) ServiceNow
8 24 (1.10%) Dynatrace
9 22 (1.01%) CyberArk
10 21 (0.96%) IBM
10 21 (0.96%) MuleSoft
10 21 (0.96%) Red Hat
11 20 (0.92%) SAP
11 20 (0.92%) VMware
12 17 (0.78%) Foundry
13 15 (0.69%) Cisco
14 12 (0.55%) Okta
14 12 (0.55%) UiPath
15 11 (0.50%) Lotus