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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 17 27
Rank change year-on-year +5 +10 -11
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,168 1,286 1,252
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.54% 10.17% 6.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.06% 11.10% 7.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,456 916 915
10th Percentile £394 £400 £417
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £567
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +1.41% -9.28%
75th Percentile £646 £713 £688
90th Percentile £739 £838 £800
England median daily rate £520 £550 £552
% change year-on-year -5.45% -0.32% -8.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 4
10th Percentile £48.25 - £49.23
25th Percentile £59.13 £51.25 £52.94
Median hourly rate £67.00 £52.50 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +27.62% -6.67% -29.69%
75th Percentile £80.00 £53.75 £60.81
90th Percentile £95.00 - £64.53
England median hourly rate £67.50 £64.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +4.65% +12.17% -12.35%

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 15,419 11,590 15,847
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 91.69% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,329 7,865 11,333
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £758 £800 £790
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 165 335
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.11 £15.97
25th Percentile £22.41 £24.18 £19.74
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.67% -23.08%
75th Percentile £56.00 £50.75 £49.94
90th Percentile £72.50 £64.50 £66.90
England median hourly rate £40.52 £32.05 £33.78
% change year-on-year +26.43% -5.11% -9.93%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -2 251 £550 -4.35% 202
West London +9 72 £603 +47.31% 22
South London +2 62 £525 +8.25% 9
East London -4 9 £450 -15.69% 13
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 99 (4.57%) Apache Spark
2 81 (3.74%) Apache Airflow
3 65 (3.00%) Apache
4 63 (2.91%) Confluence
5 34 (1.57%) SharePoint
6 11 (0.51%) HCL Notes
6 11 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.51%) SAS
7 10 (0.46%) CMS
7 10 (0.46%) Mendix
8 9 (0.42%) nginx
9 8 (0.37%) Appian
10 7 (0.32%) Ethereum
10 7 (0.32%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.28%) Camunda
11 6 (0.28%) Hyperledger
11 6 (0.28%) IIS
11 6 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
12 5 (0.23%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 20 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.23%) 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 21 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.28%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.14%) Findur
3 3 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.14%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.092%) Shopify
5 1 (0.046%) Actimize
5 1 (0.046%) Cerner Millennium
5 1 (0.046%) Endur
5 1 (0.046%) Magento
5 1 (0.046%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.046%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.046%) ProductWriter
5 1 (0.046%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 998 (46.03%) Azure
2 973 (44.88%) AWS
3 505 (23.29%) GitHub
4 398 (18.36%) Azure DevOps
5 330 (15.22%) GCP
6 316 (14.58%) GitHub Actions
7 313 (14.44%) Serverless
8 223 (10.29%) Amazon S3
9 209 (9.64%) AWS CloudFormation
10 196 (9.04%) AWS Lambda
11 188 (8.67%) Power Platform
12 131 (6.04%) Amazon EKS
13 128 (5.90%) Azure Data Factory
14 119 (5.49%) Amazon ECS
15 110 (5.07%) Azure AKS
16 97 (4.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 97 (4.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 92 (4.24%) Amazon EC2
18 86 (3.97%) Entra ID
19 81 (3.74%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 72 (3.32%) Firewall
2 44 (2.03%) Network Security
3 36 (1.66%) DNS
4 26 (1.20%) HTTP
5 20 (0.92%) VPN
6 12 (0.55%) WAN
7 11 (0.51%) 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
10 6 (0.28%) SSL
11 5 (0.23%) Ethernet VPN
11 5 (0.23%) LTE
11 5 (0.23%) MPLS
11 5 (0.23%) VXLAN
12 4 (0.18%) Internet
12 4 (0.18%) IOS XR
12 4 (0.18%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (6.41%) Data Lake
2 137 (6.32%) PostgreSQL
3 132 (6.09%) Power BI
4 124 (5.72%) NoSQL
4 124 (5.72%) SQL Server
5 108 (4.98%) Data Warehouse
6 78 (3.60%) MongoDB
7 77 (3.55%) Relational Database
8 73 (3.37%) Amazon RDS
9 60 (2.77%) Delta Lake
10 59 (2.72%) Amazon Athena
10 59 (2.72%) Metadata
11 56 (2.58%) BigQuery
12 55 (2.54%) Amazon Redshift
13 54 (2.49%) Azure SQL Database
14 51 (2.35%) Big Data
15 44 (2.03%) DynamoDB
16 34 (1.57%) Snowflake Schema
17 33 (1.52%) Redis
18 31 (1.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 398 (18.36%) Git
2 345 (15.91%) Jenkins
3 253 (11.67%) GitLab
4 144 (6.64%) JIRA
5 78 (3.60%) Selenium
6 60 (2.77%) JUnit
7 50 (2.31%) Cucumber
7 50 (2.31%) MLflow
8 44 (2.03%) Postman
9 36 (1.66%) Cypress.io
9 36 (1.66%) REST Assured
10 34 (1.57%) Mockito
11 29 (1.34%) JMeter
12 23 (1.06%) Bitbucket
13 18 (0.83%) Artifactory
14 17 (0.78%) Gradle
14 17 (0.78%) Liquibase
14 17 (0.78%) Maven
15 16 (0.74%) Appium
15 16 (0.74%) SonarQube
General
1 535 (24.68%) Social Skills
2 506 (23.34%) Finance
3 250 (11.53%) Public Sector
4 228 (10.52%) Banking
5 172 (7.93%) Analytical Skills
6 48 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
7 45 (2.08%) Front Office
8 42 (1.94%) Investment Banking
9 40 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
10 36 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 30 (1.38%) Financial Institution
12 23 (1.06%) Legal
12 23 (1.06%) Retail
13 22 (1.01%) Telecoms
14 17 (0.78%) Marketing
15 16 (0.74%) Law
15 16 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (0.60%) Manufacturing
17 12 (0.55%) Publishing
18 10 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 501 (23.11%) Developer
2 336 (15.50%) Senior
3 238 (10.98%) DevOps Engineer
4 234 (10.79%) Architect
5 218 (10.06%) Data Engineer
6 185 (8.53%) Lead
7 134 (6.18%) Azure Engineer
8 131 (6.04%) AWS Engineer
9 105 (4.84%) Cloud Engineer
9 105 (4.84%) Software Engineer
10 102 (4.70%) Platform Engineer
11 91 (4.20%) Java Developer
12 83 (3.83%) Senior Developer
13 76 (3.51%) Full-Stack Developer
14 69 (3.18%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 65 (3.00%) Python Developer
16 64 (2.95%) AWS DevOps
17 59 (2.72%) Python Engineer
18 58 (2.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 57 (2.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 241 (11.12%) React
2 224 (10.33%) Kafka
3 201 (9.27%) REST
4 192 (8.86%) RESTful
5 191 (8.81%) .NET
5 191 (8.81%) Node.js
6 173 (7.98%) Spring
7 146 (6.73%) Spring Boot
8 123 (5.67%) AngularJS
9 108 (4.98%) PySpark
10 90 (4.15%) Playwright
11 83 (3.83%) HTML
12 80 (3.69%) CSS
13 78 (3.60%) OAuth
14 62 (2.86%) YAML
15 55 (2.54%) GraphQL
16 53 (2.44%) Pandas
17 51 (2.35%) OpenTelemetry
18 50 (2.31%) FastAPI
19 47 (2.17%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 436 (20.11%) Cloud Native
2 142 (6.55%) Distributed Systems
3 104 (4.80%) Product Ownership
4 63 (2.91%) Onboarding
5 58 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
6 39 (1.80%) AI Agents
6 39 (1.80%) Algorithms
7 36 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
8 33 (1.52%) Mobile App
9 31 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
10 30 (1.38%) Public Cloud
10 30 (1.38%) Virtual Team
11 29 (1.34%) Equities
12 28 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
13 27 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
13 27 (1.25%) Fixed Income
14 26 (1.20%) Data Structures
14 26 (1.20%) Derivative
14 26 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 25 (1.15%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 143 (6.60%) Linux
2 73 (3.37%) Windows
3 31 (1.43%) Unix
4 27 (1.25%) Apple iOS
4 27 (1.25%) VMS
5 24 (1.11%) Android
6 11 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.46%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.23%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.23%) zOS
9 4 (0.18%) Solaris
9 4 (0.18%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.046%) AIX
11 1 (0.046%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,187 (54.75%) DevOps
2 728 (33.58%) Infrastructure as Code
3 698 (32.20%) Agile
4 501 (23.11%) Containerisation
5 447 (20.62%) Test Automation
6 423 (19.51%) AI
7 422 (19.46%) Microservices
8 370 (17.07%) Analytics
9 358 (16.51%) Observability
10 339 (15.64%) Problem-Solving
11 305 (14.07%) Software Engineering
12 286 (13.19%) Data Modelling
13 275 (12.68%) Data Pipeline
14 266 (12.27%) Data Engineering
15 254 (11.72%) Continuous Improvement
16 243 (11.21%) Machine Learning
17 224 (10.33%) ETL
18 212 (9.78%) Platform Engineering
19 206 (9.50%) Full-Stack Development
20 204 (9.41%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 851 (39.25%) Python
2 614 (28.32%) SQL
3 417 (19.23%) Java
4 264 (12.18%) TypeScript
5 251 (11.58%) C#
5 251 (11.58%) JavaScript
6 125 (5.77%) Bash
7 104 (4.80%) PowerShell
8 85 (3.92%) Bicep
9 59 (2.72%) Scala
10 49 (2.26%) Go
11 42 (1.94%) Ruby
12 34 (1.57%) Shell Script
13 29 (1.34%) Apex Code
13 29 (1.34%) PL/SQL
14 28 (1.29%) Kotlin
15 27 (1.25%) T-SQL
16 24 (1.11%) C++
17 11 (0.51%) C
17 11 (0.51%) LotusScript
Qualifications
1 539 (24.86%) Security Cleared
2 476 (21.96%) SC Cleared
3 127 (5.86%) Degree
4 81 (3.74%) Azure Certification
5 72 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 70 (3.23%) AWS Certification
7 38 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 34 (1.57%) DV Cleared
9 26 (1.20%) Master's Degree
10 24 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
11 22 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 17 (0.78%) ISTQB
13 16 (0.74%) CISSP
14 14 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
15 13 (0.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 10 (0.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 10 (0.46%) Numerate Degree
16 10 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
17 9 (0.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
18 8 (0.37%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (8.39%) QA
2 166 (7.66%) Data Quality
3 86 (3.97%) GDPR
4 69 (3.18%) Accessibility
5 61 (2.81%) NIST
6 56 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (1.48%) NCSC
8 30 (1.38%) WCAG
9 26 (1.20%) PCI DSS
10 20 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 20 (0.92%) SLA
11 7 (0.32%) ISO 20022
12 6 (0.28%) GRC
12 6 (0.28%) NIST 800
12 6 (0.28%) PSD2
13 5 (0.23%) HL7
13 5 (0.23%) MiFID
13 5 (0.23%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.18%) COBIT
14 4 (0.18%) HIPAA
System Software
1 622 (28.69%) Docker
2 57 (2.63%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.32%) VMware NSX
6 7 (0.32%) vSphere
7 4 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
7 4 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.092%) HDFS
8 2 (0.092%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.046%) IAG
9 1 (0.046%) OpenSSH
9 1 (0.046%) Squid
9 1 (0.046%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
9 1 (0.046%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 723 (33.35%) Terraform
2 670 (30.90%) Kubernetes
3 139 (6.41%) Ansible
4 126 (5.81%) Grafana
5 114 (5.26%) Prometheus
6 38 (1.75%) Argo
7 24 (1.11%) Istio
8 22 (1.01%) Puppet
8 22 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
9 11 (0.51%) Progress Chef
10 10 (0.46%) Kibana
11 8 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
11 8 (0.37%) Rancher
12 7 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (0.32%) Packer
13 5 (0.23%) Karpenter
14 4 (0.18%) Kubeflow
14 4 (0.18%) Opsgenie
14 4 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
14 4 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 350 (16.14%) Microsoft
2 208 (9.59%) Databricks
3 119 (5.49%) Google
4 90 (4.15%) Oracle
5 67 (3.09%) Splunk
6 64 (2.95%) Salesforce
7 61 (2.81%) ServiceNow
8 57 (2.63%) OpenAI
9 27 (1.25%) Dynatrace
10 22 (1.01%) Red Hat
11 21 (0.97%) IBM
11 21 (0.97%) MuleSoft
11 21 (0.97%) VMware
12 20 (0.92%) CyberArk
13 18 (0.83%) SAP
14 17 (0.78%) Foundry
15 15 (0.69%) Cisco
16 11 (0.51%) Lotus
16 11 (0.51%) Okta
16 11 (0.51%) UiPath