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 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 20 23
Rank change year-on-year +10 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,292 1,198 1,320
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.50% 9.93% 7.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.08% 10.75% 8.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,545 813 952
10th Percentile £400 £394 £413
25th Percentile £450 £449 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% -2.65% -8.13%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £750 £838 £815
England median daily rate £525 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +0.96% -5.45% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 3
10th Percentile £49.25 £39.88 £48.40
25th Percentile £61.00 £47.19 £50.88
Median hourly rate £70.00 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -4.55% -31.25%
75th Percentile £95.00 £54.06 £61.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.63 £64.60
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £67.50
% change year-on-year +14.54% -15.93% +2.89%

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 16,273 11,140 15,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.73% 92.30% 88.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,862 7,463 11,094
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £435 £430 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 193 320
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £36.75 £32.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.84% +14.29% -28.59%
75th Percentile £58.94 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.88 £63.20 £68.08
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.60 £37.50
% change year-on-year +64.34% -23.73% +0.54%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 3 June 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 -3 249 £575 -4.17% 182
West London +10 56 £603 +21.77% 17
South London -2 45 £513 -1.91% 5
East London +5 12 £450 +80.00% 23
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
1 106 (4.62%) Apache Spark
2 100 (4.36%) Apache Airflow
3 71 (3.10%) Confluence
4 68 (2.97%) Apache
5 29 (1.27%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
7 11 (0.48%) Camunda
8 10 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
9 9 (0.39%) SAS
10 8 (0.35%) Appian
10 8 (0.35%) HCL Notes
10 8 (0.35%) Mendix
10 8 (0.35%) OpenStack
11 7 (0.31%) CMS
11 7 (0.31%) Ethereum
11 7 (0.31%) WebSphere
12 6 (0.26%) Hyperledger
12 6 (0.26%) nginx
13 5 (0.22%) Tomcat
14 3 (0.13%) WebLogic
Applications
1 19 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.39%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.13%) Adobe XD
4 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.13%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.044%) Maya
Business Applications
1 16 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.39%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.22%) Magento
4 5 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
4 5 (0.22%) Shopify
5 3 (0.13%) Findur
5 3 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.13%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.087%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.044%) Endur
7 1 (0.044%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.044%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.044%) ProductWriter
7 1 (0.044%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.044%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.044%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.044%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,042 (45.46%) Azure
2 1,008 (43.98%) AWS
3 526 (22.95%) GitHub
4 405 (17.67%) Azure DevOps
5 340 (14.83%) GitHub Actions
6 336 (14.66%) GCP
7 305 (13.31%) Serverless
8 225 (9.82%) Amazon S3
9 206 (8.99%) Power Platform
10 202 (8.81%) AWS Lambda
11 179 (7.81%) AWS CloudFormation
12 134 (5.85%) Amazon EKS
13 126 (5.50%) Azure Data Factory
14 114 (4.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 113 (4.93%) Amazon EC2
16 106 (4.62%) Azure AKS
17 104 (4.54%) Snowflake
18 101 (4.41%) Amazon ECS
19 92 (4.01%) Entra ID
20 86 (3.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 76 (3.32%) Firewall
2 46 (2.01%) Network Security
3 35 (1.53%) DNS
4 24 (1.05%) HTTP
4 24 (1.05%) VPN
5 14 (0.61%) WAN
6 12 (0.52%) Internet
6 12 (0.52%) SD-WAN
7 9 (0.39%) 3GPP
7 9 (0.39%) 5G
7 9 (0.39%) SSL
8 7 (0.31%) BGP
9 6 (0.26%) OSPF
9 6 (0.26%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
10 5 (0.22%) FTP
10 5 (0.22%) LTE
10 5 (0.22%) VXLAN
11 4 (0.17%) IOS XR
11 4 (0.17%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (6.20%) Power BI
2 141 (6.15%) Data Lake
3 135 (5.89%) PostgreSQL
4 134 (5.85%) SQL Server
5 122 (5.32%) NoSQL
6 109 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
7 80 (3.49%) Relational Database
8 77 (3.36%) MongoDB
9 73 (3.18%) Amazon RDS
10 72 (3.14%) Delta Lake
11 63 (2.75%) Amazon Athena
11 63 (2.75%) Metadata
12 61 (2.66%) BigQuery
13 58 (2.53%) Amazon Redshift
14 52 (2.27%) Big Data
15 49 (2.14%) DynamoDB
16 44 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
17 38 (1.66%) Snowflake Schema
18 33 (1.44%) Redis
18 33 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 400 (17.45%) Git
2 351 (15.31%) Jenkins
3 271 (11.82%) GitLab
4 137 (5.98%) JIRA
5 68 (2.97%) Selenium
6 62 (2.71%) JUnit
7 48 (2.09%) MLflow
8 47 (2.05%) Postman
9 43 (1.88%) Cucumber
10 41 (1.79%) JMeter
11 37 (1.61%) Mockito
12 31 (1.35%) Gradle
12 31 (1.35%) REST Assured
13 26 (1.13%) Cypress.io
14 22 (0.96%) Artifactory
14 22 (0.96%) Bitbucket
14 22 (0.96%) CircleCI
15 20 (0.87%) SonarQube
16 19 (0.83%) Liquibase
17 18 (0.79%) Gatling
General
1 551 (24.04%) Finance
2 525 (22.91%) Social Skills
3 265 (11.56%) Public Sector
4 234 (10.21%) Banking
5 162 (7.07%) Analytical Skills
6 54 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
7 46 (2.01%) Front Office
8 44 (1.92%) Investment Banking
9 41 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 41 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
10 38 (1.66%) Retail
11 28 (1.22%) Financial Institution
12 22 (0.96%) Legal
13 20 (0.87%) Law
13 20 (0.87%) Telecoms
14 18 (0.79%) Marketing
15 17 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
16 16 (0.70%) Publishing
17 11 (0.48%) Manufacturing
17 11 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 472 (20.59%) Developer
2 381 (16.62%) Senior
3 262 (11.43%) Architect
4 256 (11.17%) DevOps Engineer
5 225 (9.82%) Data Engineer
6 217 (9.47%) Lead
7 138 (6.02%) Azure Engineer
8 135 (5.89%) AWS Engineer
9 129 (5.63%) Cloud Engineer
10 108 (4.71%) Software Engineer
11 92 (4.01%) Platform Engineer
12 90 (3.93%) Java Developer
12 90 (3.93%) Senior Developer
13 70 (3.05%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 70 (3.05%) Python Developer
14 69 (3.01%) Full-Stack Developer
15 67 (2.92%) Solutions Architect
16 53 (2.31%) Security Engineer
17 52 (2.27%) AWS DevOps
17 52 (2.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 245 (10.69%) REST
2 227 (9.90%) React
3 215 (9.38%) Kafka
4 210 (9.16%) .NET
5 195 (8.51%) RESTful
6 178 (7.77%) Spring
7 162 (7.07%) Spring Boot
8 125 (5.45%) Node.js
9 118 (5.15%) PySpark
10 114 (4.97%) AngularJS
11 82 (3.58%) OAuth
12 78 (3.40%) HTML
13 69 (3.01%) Playwright
14 67 (2.92%) CSS
15 61 (2.66%) FastAPI
16 59 (2.57%) Pandas
17 54 (2.36%) OAuth2
18 53 (2.31%) YAML
19 50 (2.18%) JSON
19 50 (2.18%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 480 (20.94%) Cloud Native
2 162 (7.07%) Distributed Systems
3 106 (4.62%) Product Ownership
4 79 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
5 76 (3.32%) Onboarding
6 52 (2.27%) AI Agents
7 40 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
8 39 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
9 36 (1.57%) Algorithms
9 36 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 32 (1.40%) Public Cloud
11 31 (1.35%) Virtual Team
12 30 (1.31%) Equities
12 30 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
12 30 (1.31%) Management Information System
12 30 (1.31%) Mobile App
13 29 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
13 29 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
14 27 (1.18%) Fixed Income
14 27 (1.18%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 154 (6.72%) Linux
2 90 (3.93%) Windows
3 43 (1.88%) Unix
4 24 (1.05%) Android
5 23 (1.00%) VMS
6 22 (0.96%) Apple iOS
7 19 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 18 (0.79%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.26%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.22%) Solaris
10 5 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
10 5 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.22%) zOS
11 3 (0.13%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.087%) AIX
12 2 (0.087%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,262 (55.06%) DevOps
2 782 (34.12%) Infrastructure as Code
3 710 (30.98%) Agile
4 501 (21.86%) Containerisation
5 469 (20.46%) AI
6 460 (20.07%) Test Automation
7 427 (18.63%) Microservices
8 388 (16.93%) Observability
9 370 (16.14%) Analytics
10 329 (14.35%) Software Engineering
11 317 (13.83%) Data Modelling
12 302 (13.18%) Data Pipeline
13 290 (12.65%) Data Engineering
14 289 (12.61%) Problem-Solving
15 269 (11.74%) Continuous Improvement
16 251 (10.95%) Machine Learning
17 247 (10.78%) Platform Engineering
18 237 (10.34%) Migration
19 235 (10.25%) ETL
20 211 (9.21%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 888 (38.74%) Python
2 665 (29.01%) SQL
3 429 (18.72%) Java
4 254 (11.08%) C#
5 222 (9.69%) JavaScript
6 221 (9.64%) TypeScript
7 156 (6.81%) PowerShell
8 153 (6.68%) Bash
9 90 (3.93%) Bicep
10 55 (2.40%) Scala
11 42 (1.83%) Go
12 39 (1.70%) Shell Script
13 38 (1.66%) Apex Code
14 36 (1.57%) Ruby
15 35 (1.53%) Kotlin
16 30 (1.31%) PL/SQL
17 27 (1.18%) T-SQL
18 19 (0.83%) C++
19 14 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 11 (0.48%) C
Qualifications
1 571 (24.91%) Security Cleared
2 513 (22.38%) SC Cleared
3 123 (5.37%) Degree
4 96 (4.19%) Azure Certification
5 67 (2.92%) AWS Certification
6 56 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 44 (1.92%) DV Cleared
8 40 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
9 25 (1.09%) Master's Degree
10 23 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
11 18 (0.79%) CISSP
12 17 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 16 (0.70%) DBS Check
14 15 (0.65%) ISTQB
15 13 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
16 12 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
17 10 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 10 (0.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 9 (0.39%) CISM
19 8 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (8.29%) QA
2 172 (7.50%) Data Quality
3 73 (3.18%) GDPR
4 66 (2.88%) Accessibility
5 62 (2.71%) NIST
6 52 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 31 (1.35%) NCSC
8 24 (1.05%) PCI DSS
8 24 (1.05%) WCAG
9 22 (0.96%) SLA
10 14 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (0.39%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.31%) PSD2
13 6 (0.26%) COBIT
13 6 (0.26%) GRC
14 5 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
14 5 (0.22%) MiFID
14 5 (0.22%) SOC 2
15 4 (0.17%) SEPA
16 3 (0.13%) PMO
System Software
1 604 (26.35%) Docker
2 56 (2.44%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.39%) Squid
7 6 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.26%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
8 5 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
8 5 (0.22%) vSphere
9 2 (0.087%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.087%) Postfix
10 1 (0.044%) HDFS
10 1 (0.044%) IAG
10 1 (0.044%) OpenSSH
10 1 (0.044%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 1 (0.044%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 743 (32.42%) Terraform
2 678 (29.58%) Kubernetes
3 158 (6.89%) Ansible
4 152 (6.63%) Grafana
5 138 (6.02%) Prometheus
6 27 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
7 25 (1.09%) Argo
8 21 (0.92%) Istio
9 20 (0.87%) Puppet
10 19 (0.83%) Kibana
11 11 (0.48%) Packer
11 11 (0.48%) Progress Chef
12 8 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
13 7 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 6 (0.26%) Kustomize
14 6 (0.26%) SCCM
15 5 (0.22%) Oracle RMAN
16 4 (0.17%) Karpenter
16 4 (0.17%) Salt
16 4 (0.17%) Suricata
Vendors
1 349 (15.23%) Microsoft
2 200 (8.73%) Databricks
3 112 (4.89%) Google
4 102 (4.45%) Oracle
5 86 (3.75%) Salesforce
6 74 (3.23%) Splunk
7 54 (2.36%) OpenAI
8 49 (2.14%) ServiceNow
9 31 (1.35%) Dynatrace
10 27 (1.18%) VMware
11 24 (1.05%) CyberArk
11 24 (1.05%) Foundry
11 24 (1.05%) IBM
11 24 (1.05%) Red Hat
12 23 (1.00%) SAP
13 22 (0.96%) MuleSoft
14 17 (0.74%) Informatica
15 15 (0.65%) Cisco
16 12 (0.52%) Okta
16 12 (0.52%) Palo Alto