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 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 16 19
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 0
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,659 1,476 1,415
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.27% 11.12% 8.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.90% 12.03% 9.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,787 997 983
10th Percentile £400 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £438 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £567
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -7.41% -5.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £742 £788
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% -26.67%
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% - -13.33%

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 17,851 12,273 14,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.10% 92.44% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,673 8,157 9,874
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 254 194
10th Percentile £17.53 £17.00 £17.33
25th Percentile £20.02 £24.83 £22.28
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.75 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.81% -11.81% -10.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £85.43 £63.75 £71.69
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 2 September 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 2 September 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 2 September 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 +10 338 £550 -10.46% 153
South London +4 66 £538 +1.18% 18
West London +3 51 £560 +13.71% 99
East London +7 12 £590 +9.26% 27
North London - 1 £650 - 1
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
1 128 (4.81%) Apache Airflow
2 112 (4.21%) Confluence
3 103 (3.87%) Apache Spark
4 76 (2.86%) Apache
5 36 (1.35%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.49%) Camunda
6 13 (0.49%) CMS
7 11 (0.41%) nginx
8 10 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
9 8 (0.30%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.26%) Anypoint
11 6 (0.23%) SAS
11 6 (0.23%) WebSphere
12 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.19%) Mule
13 4 (0.15%) Mendix
13 4 (0.15%) Tomcat
14 3 (0.11%) Apache Pulsar
14 3 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
14 3 (0.11%) Jupyter
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%) Trello
6 3 (0.11%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.075%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.038%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.038%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 28 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.49%) Aladdin
3 9 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
4 7 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.23%) Shopify
6 5 (0.19%) Magento
7 4 (0.15%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.11%) Endur
8 3 (0.11%) Findur
8 3 (0.11%) SAP CRM
8 3 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
9 2 (0.075%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.075%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.075%) Temenos T24
10 1 (0.038%) Distributed Ledger
10 1 (0.038%) Dynamics AX
10 1 (0.038%) SAP BPC
10 1 (0.038%) SAP IS-U
10 1 (0.038%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,212 (45.58%) Azure
2 1,164 (43.78%) AWS
3 602 (22.64%) GitHub
4 485 (18.24%) Azure DevOps
5 404 (15.19%) GitHub Actions
6 401 (15.08%) GCP
7 319 (12.00%) Serverless
8 237 (8.91%) Amazon S3
9 236 (8.88%) Power Platform
10 206 (7.75%) AWS Lambda
11 150 (5.64%) Amazon EKS
11 150 (5.64%) Snowflake
12 136 (5.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 135 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
14 131 (4.93%) dbt
15 125 (4.70%) Entra ID
16 116 (4.36%) Amazon EC2
17 113 (4.25%) Azure AKS
18 110 (4.14%) Azure Data Factory
19 88 (3.31%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 67 (2.52%) Firewall
2 41 (1.54%) Network Security
3 36 (1.35%) DNS
4 35 (1.32%) VPN
5 27 (1.02%) Internet
6 25 (0.94%) TCP/IP
7 23 (0.86%) HTTP
8 21 (0.79%) 5G
9 19 (0.71%) SSL
10 14 (0.53%) WAN
11 13 (0.49%) 3GPP
12 11 (0.41%) Radio Access Network
12 11 (0.41%) SAN
13 9 (0.34%) 4G
13 9 (0.34%) Kerberos
14 8 (0.30%) BGP
14 8 (0.30%) SD-WAN
14 8 (0.30%) SSH
15 7 (0.26%) FTP
16 6 (0.23%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (6.77%) Power BI
2 174 (6.54%) PostgreSQL
3 155 (5.83%) Data Warehouse
4 134 (5.04%) SQL Server
5 127 (4.78%) NoSQL
6 118 (4.44%) Data Lake
7 100 (3.76%) MongoDB
7 100 (3.76%) Relational Database
8 88 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
8 88 (3.31%) Delta Lake
9 86 (3.23%) Metadata
10 72 (2.71%) Amazon Redshift
11 70 (2.63%) BigQuery
12 55 (2.07%) Redis
13 51 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
14 47 (1.77%) DynamoDB
15 44 (1.65%) Big Data
16 42 (1.58%) Azure SQL Database
17 40 (1.50%) Amazon Aurora
18 38 (1.43%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 495 (18.62%) Git
2 430 (16.17%) Jenkins
3 346 (13.01%) GitLab
4 190 (7.15%) JIRA
5 89 (3.35%) Selenium
6 74 (2.78%) JUnit
7 51 (1.92%) Cypress.io
8 50 (1.88%) Gradle
9 47 (1.77%) JMeter
10 41 (1.54%) Mockito
11 39 (1.47%) Bitbucket
12 38 (1.43%) Maven
12 38 (1.43%) Postman
13 36 (1.35%) Cucumber
13 36 (1.35%) SonarQube
14 32 (1.20%) REST Assured
15 27 (1.02%) CircleCI
15 27 (1.02%) MLflow
16 22 (0.83%) Gatling
17 20 (0.75%) Liquibase
General
1 670 (25.20%) Social Skills
2 648 (24.37%) Finance
3 313 (11.77%) Public Sector
4 302 (11.36%) Banking
5 243 (9.14%) Analytical Skills
6 66 (2.48%) Front Office
7 61 (2.29%) Investment Banking
7 61 (2.29%) Retail
8 44 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 42 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
10 33 (1.24%) Law
10 33 (1.24%) Telecoms
11 32 (1.20%) Marketing
12 31 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
13 27 (1.02%) Financial Institution
14 23 (0.86%) Legal
15 19 (0.71%) Military
16 17 (0.64%) Local Government
17 16 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
18 14 (0.53%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 573 (21.55%) Developer
2 476 (17.90%) Senior
3 315 (11.85%) DevOps Engineer
4 299 (11.24%) Architect
5 264 (9.93%) Lead
6 251 (9.44%) Data Engineer
7 156 (5.87%) Azure Engineer
8 139 (5.23%) AWS Engineer
9 132 (4.96%) Software Engineer
10 125 (4.70%) Senior Developer
11 122 (4.59%) Cloud Engineer
12 115 (4.32%) Java Developer
13 99 (3.72%) Platform Engineer
14 94 (3.54%) Full-Stack Developer
15 89 (3.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 84 (3.16%) Solutions Architect
17 77 (2.90%) Python Developer
18 68 (2.56%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 66 (2.48%) Azure DevOps Engineer
20 63 (2.37%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 854 (32.12%) Terraform
2 399 (15.01%) REST
3 278 (10.46%) Kafka
4 265 (9.97%) React
5 242 (9.10%) .NET
6 219 (8.24%) RESTful
7 209 (7.86%) Spring
8 181 (6.81%) Spring Boot
9 141 (5.30%) PySpark
10 126 (4.74%) Node.js
11 102 (3.84%) HTML
12 92 (3.46%) CSS
13 90 (3.38%) AngularJS
14 89 (3.35%) Playwright
15 85 (3.20%) JSON
16 76 (2.86%) OAuth
17 75 (2.82%) FastAPI
18 70 (2.63%) SOAP
19 59 (2.22%) OAuth2
20 57 (2.14%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 556 (20.91%) Cloud Native
2 231 (8.69%) Distributed Systems
3 155 (5.83%) Product Ownership
4 120 (4.51%) AI Agents
5 108 (4.06%) Onboarding
6 93 (3.50%) Enterprise Software
7 92 (3.46%) Legacy Systems
8 43 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
9 41 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
10 40 (1.50%) Virtual Team
11 39 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 37 (1.39%) Mobile App
13 36 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
13 36 (1.35%) Management Information System
14 34 (1.28%) Data Structures
15 33 (1.24%) Algorithms
15 33 (1.24%) Security Posture
15 33 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
16 31 (1.17%) Enterprise Cloud
17 30 (1.13%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 222 (8.35%) Linux
2 111 (4.17%) Windows
3 73 (2.75%) Unix
4 46 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 31 (1.17%) Windows Server
6 29 (1.09%) Android
7 28 (1.05%) Apple iOS
8 16 (0.60%) VMS
9 14 (0.53%) Ubuntu
10 11 (0.41%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
11 7 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
12 6 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.15%) Solaris
13 4 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.075%) AIX
15 1 (0.038%) CentOS
15 1 (0.038%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,473 (55.40%) DevOps
2 972 (36.56%) Agile
3 900 (33.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 596 (22.41%) AI
5 570 (21.44%) Test Automation
6 558 (20.99%) Containerisation
7 531 (19.97%) Microservices
8 496 (18.65%) Observability
9 477 (17.94%) Software Engineering
10 390 (14.67%) Problem-Solving
11 370 (13.92%) Analytics
12 358 (13.46%) Data Pipeline
13 351 (13.20%) Continuous Improvement
14 341 (12.82%) Data Modelling
15 337 (12.67%) Stakeholder Management
16 335 (12.60%) Data Engineering
17 324 (12.19%) Event-Driven
17 324 (12.19%) Platform Engineering
18 279 (10.49%) Migration
18 279 (10.49%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1,095 (41.18%) Python
2 750 (28.21%) SQL
3 547 (20.57%) Java
4 284 (10.68%) JavaScript
5 271 (10.19%) TypeScript
6 266 (10.00%) C#
7 220 (8.27%) Bash
8 215 (8.09%) PowerShell
9 113 (4.25%) Bicep
10 64 (2.41%) Go
11 54 (2.03%) Kotlin
11 54 (2.03%) Shell Script
12 48 (1.81%) Scala
13 47 (1.77%) Apex Code
14 40 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 34 (1.28%) Ruby
16 32 (1.20%) PL/SQL
17 26 (0.98%) C++
17 26 (0.98%) T-SQL
18 25 (0.94%) Perl
Qualifications
1 689 (25.91%) Security Cleared
2 619 (23.28%) SC Cleared
3 149 (5.60%) Degree
4 103 (3.87%) Azure Certification
5 85 (3.20%) DV Cleared
6 79 (2.97%) AWS Certification
7 71 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 53 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
9 26 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 26 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
10 19 (0.71%) CISSP
11 18 (0.68%) Master's Degree
12 15 (0.56%) DBS Check
13 14 (0.53%) ISTQB
13 14 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 13 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 12 (0.45%) GIAC
15 12 (0.45%) PhD
16 10 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
16 10 (0.38%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 241 (9.06%) Data Quality
2 238 (8.95%) QA
3 82 (3.08%) Accessibility
4 53 (1.99%) GDPR
5 48 (1.81%) NIST
6 47 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 26 (0.98%) WCAG
8 23 (0.86%) SLA
9 21 (0.79%) NCSC
10 13 (0.49%) ISO 20022
11 11 (0.41%) EU AI Act
11 11 (0.41%) GRC
11 11 (0.41%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.38%) SOC 2
13 7 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 5 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.19%) MiFID
16 4 (0.15%) Basel III
16 4 (0.15%) COBIT
System Software
1 686 (25.80%) Docker
2 62 (2.33%) Active Directory
3 39 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
4 33 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.49%) Squid
6 7 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.23%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
9 4 (0.15%) Postfix
10 3 (0.11%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.075%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.075%) DFS Replication
11 2 (0.075%) Dovecot
11 2 (0.075%) HDFS
11 2 (0.075%) KVM
11 2 (0.075%) Varnish
11 2 (0.075%) vSphere
12 1 (0.038%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 783 (29.45%) Kubernetes
2 212 (7.97%) Grafana
3 196 (7.37%) Ansible
4 173 (6.51%) Prometheus
5 36 (1.35%) Argo
6 33 (1.24%) Puppet
7 24 (0.90%) Kibana
8 20 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
9 19 (0.71%) Packer
10 17 (0.64%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.49%) Istio
12 10 (0.38%) Control-M
13 9 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
14 7 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
14 7 (0.26%) Kustomize
14 7 (0.26%) SCCM
15 5 (0.19%) HP Fortify
15 5 (0.19%) Nagios
16 4 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
16 4 (0.15%) Salt
Vendors
1 451 (16.96%) Microsoft
2 239 (8.99%) Databricks
3 147 (5.53%) Google
4 144 (5.42%) Oracle
5 99 (3.72%) Splunk
6 98 (3.69%) Salesforce
7 65 (2.44%) ServiceNow
8 56 (2.11%) OpenAI
9 49 (1.84%) Dynatrace
10 46 (1.73%) VMware
11 38 (1.43%) IBM
12 37 (1.39%) Informatica
13 34 (1.28%) Foundry
14 30 (1.13%) Red Hat
15 27 (1.02%) MuleSoft
16 26 (0.98%) SAP
17 23 (0.86%) New Relic
18 21 (0.79%) Cisco
19 20 (0.75%) CyberArk
19 20 (0.75%) Palantir