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 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 18 25
Rank change year-on-year +4 +7 -10
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 1,838 1,440 1,338
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.76% 9.60% 7.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.97% 10.65% 8.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,268 1,007 1,002
10th Percentile £364 £406 £425
25th Percentile £438 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £593 £588
Median % change year-on-year -11.39% +0.85% -6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £700
90th Percentile £725 £810 £800
England median daily rate £515 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -6.36% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile £36.90 - £56.95
25th Percentile £52.88 - £58.00
Median hourly rate £64.75 - £65.00
75th Percentile £67.38 - £72.00
90th Percentile £68.95 - £73.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £66.25 £75.00
% change year-on-year -1.89% -11.67% +14.32%

All Process and 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 13,161 13,523 16,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.38% 90.14% 89.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,663 8,690 11,795
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.18% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £681
90th Percentile £763 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 165 236
10th Percentile £18.06 £18.04 £18.42
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £21.38
Median hourly rate £30.25 £36.50 £33.35
Median % change year-on-year -17.12% +9.46% -13.52%
75th Percentile £52.66 £55.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.20 £80.75 £74.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +24.47%

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 24 December 2025.

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 24 December 2025.

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 24 December 2025. 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 +2 212 £550 -8.33% 278
West London +7 59 £603 +30.27% 28
South London +11 58 £525 -2.42% 30
East London -4 11 £540 +8.00% 24
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 80 (4.35%) Confluence
2 66 (3.59%) Apache Airflow
3 60 (3.26%) Apache Spark
4 37 (2.01%) Apache
5 28 (1.52%) SharePoint
6 17 (0.92%) nginx
7 13 (0.71%) CMS
8 7 (0.38%) HCL Notes
9 6 (0.33%) Mendix
9 6 (0.33%) SAS
10 5 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.27%) Ethereum
10 5 (0.27%) Headless CMS
10 5 (0.27%) Hyperledger
10 5 (0.27%) IIS
11 4 (0.22%) Appian
11 4 (0.22%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.22%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.16%) Camunda
12 3 (0.16%) Traefik
Applications
1 23 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.54%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 6 (0.33%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.16%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.054%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.54%) Aladdin
3 6 (0.33%) Endur
4 4 (0.22%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.22%) thinkFolio
5 3 (0.16%) Shopify
6 2 (0.11%) Magento
6 2 (0.11%) Orchestrade
6 2 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.054%) Cerner Millennium
7 1 (0.054%) ION Anvil
7 1 (0.054%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.054%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.054%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.054%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.054%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.054%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.054%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.054%) Siebel CRM
7 1 (0.054%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 828 (45.05%) AWS
2 786 (42.76%) Azure
3 428 (23.29%) GitHub
4 306 (16.65%) GCP
4 306 (16.65%) GitHub Actions
5 302 (16.43%) Azure DevOps
6 249 (13.55%) Serverless
7 176 (9.58%) Amazon S3
8 151 (8.22%) AWS Lambda
9 128 (6.96%) AWS CloudFormation
10 114 (6.20%) Power Platform
11 101 (5.50%) Amazon ECS
12 97 (5.28%) Amazon EKS
13 93 (5.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 83 (4.52%) Azure Data Factory
15 82 (4.46%) Amazon EC2
15 82 (4.46%) Azure AKS
16 68 (3.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 66 (3.59%) Azure Logic Apps
18 65 (3.54%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 84 (4.57%) Firewall
2 66 (3.59%) DNS
3 37 (2.01%) Network Security
4 30 (1.63%) VPN
5 21 (1.14%) HTTP
5 21 (1.14%) TCP/IP
6 17 (0.92%) SSL
7 15 (0.82%) OpenLDAP
8 12 (0.65%) SSH
8 12 (0.65%) WAN
9 11 (0.60%) SMTP
10 10 (0.54%) FTP
10 10 (0.54%) IMAP
10 10 (0.54%) SD-WAN
11 7 (0.38%) DHCP
12 6 (0.33%) BGP
12 6 (0.33%) tcpdump
12 6 (0.33%) Wireshark
13 5 (0.27%) MPLS
13 5 (0.27%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (7.78%) PostgreSQL
2 100 (5.44%) SQL Server
3 98 (5.33%) NoSQL
4 81 (4.41%) Power BI
5 74 (4.03%) Data Lake
6 72 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
6 72 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
7 64 (3.48%) MongoDB
8 56 (3.05%) Relational Database
9 42 (2.29%) BigQuery
10 39 (2.12%) Delta Lake
11 33 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
12 31 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
12 31 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
12 31 (1.69%) DynamoDB
13 29 (1.58%) Big Data
14 27 (1.47%) Metadata
14 27 (1.47%) MySQL
15 23 (1.25%) Amazon Aurora
16 22 (1.20%) Redis
Development Applications
1 365 (19.86%) Jenkins
2 337 (18.34%) Git
3 230 (12.51%) GitLab
4 144 (7.83%) JIRA
5 72 (3.92%) Selenium
6 48 (2.61%) Cypress.io
7 46 (2.50%) JUnit
8 45 (2.45%) Cucumber
9 36 (1.96%) Postman
10 33 (1.80%) SonarQube
11 30 (1.63%) TeamCity
12 28 (1.52%) MLflow
13 27 (1.47%) Maven
14 26 (1.41%) JMeter
15 25 (1.36%) Bitbucket
15 25 (1.36%) Sonatype Nexus
16 21 (1.14%) Gradle
16 21 (1.14%) Mockito
17 20 (1.09%) CircleCI
17 20 (1.09%) REST Assured
General
1 484 (26.33%) Social Skills
2 403 (21.93%) Finance
3 208 (11.32%) Banking
4 193 (10.50%) Public Sector
5 144 (7.83%) Analytical Skills
6 53 (2.88%) Investment Banking
7 46 (2.50%) Front Office
8 36 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
9 32 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 30 (1.63%) Financial Institution
11 29 (1.58%) Marketing
12 27 (1.47%) Telecoms
13 21 (1.14%) Retail
14 17 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
15 15 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (0.71%) Manufacturing
16 13 (0.71%) Military
16 13 (0.71%) Publishing
17 11 (0.60%) Electronics
17 11 (0.60%) Law
Job Titles
1 476 (25.90%) Developer
2 296 (16.10%) Senior
3 245 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 153 (8.32%) Architect
5 146 (7.94%) Data Engineer
6 120 (6.53%) Lead
7 112 (6.09%) AWS Engineer
8 104 (5.66%) Platform Engineer
9 101 (5.50%) Azure Engineer
10 90 (4.90%) Senior Developer
11 89 (4.84%) Java Developer
12 84 (4.57%) Software Engineer
13 82 (4.46%) Full-Stack Developer
14 68 (3.70%) AWS DevOps
15 64 (3.48%) Python Engineer
16 62 (3.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 61 (3.32%) Cloud Engineer
18 57 (3.10%) Python Developer
19 52 (2.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
20 50 (2.72%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 236 (12.84%) React
2 204 (11.10%) Node.js
3 195 (10.61%) Kafka
4 175 (9.52%) RESTful
5 164 (8.92%) REST
6 162 (8.81%) .NET
7 135 (7.34%) Spring
8 108 (5.88%) AngularJS
9 106 (5.77%) Spring Boot
10 92 (5.01%) CSS
11 90 (4.90%) HTML
12 83 (4.52%) Playwright
13 70 (3.81%) GraphQL
14 66 (3.59%) YAML
15 59 (3.21%) JSON
15 59 (3.21%) OAuth
16 56 (3.05%) PySpark
17 53 (2.88%) .NET Core
18 52 (2.83%) Vue
19 47 (2.56%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 331 (18.01%) Cloud Native
2 125 (6.80%) Distributed Systems
3 80 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 53 (2.88%) Mobile App
5 38 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
6 36 (1.96%) Onboarding
7 34 (1.85%) AI Agents
8 32 (1.74%) Derivative
9 31 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
9 31 (1.69%) Hedge funds
9 31 (1.69%) Replication
10 29 (1.58%) Algorithms
10 29 (1.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 26 (1.41%) Public Cloud
12 25 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
12 25 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
13 23 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
14 22 (1.20%) Data Structures
14 22 (1.20%) Fixed Income
15 21 (1.14%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 176 (9.58%) Linux
2 67 (3.65%) Windows
3 39 (2.12%) Android
3 39 (2.12%) Apple iOS
4 28 (1.52%) Unix
4 28 (1.52%) VMS
5 20 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (1.03%) Windows Server
7 15 (0.82%) Ubuntu
8 10 (0.54%) Amazon Linux
9 7 (0.38%) CentOS
9 7 (0.38%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.38%) Solaris
10 2 (0.11%) zOS
11 1 (0.054%) tvOS
11 1 (0.054%) watchOS
11 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,050 (57.13%) DevOps
2 660 (35.91%) Agile
3 605 (32.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 387 (21.06%) Containerisation
5 368 (20.02%) Problem-Solving
6 367 (19.97%) Test Automation
7 353 (19.21%) Microservices
8 273 (14.85%) Software Engineering
9 246 (13.38%) Observability
10 233 (12.68%) AI
11 232 (12.62%) Analytics
12 201 (10.94%) Data Pipeline
13 181 (9.85%) Data Engineering
14 177 (9.63%) Full-Stack Development
15 171 (9.30%) Migration
16 164 (8.92%) Machine Learning
17 159 (8.65%) Continuous Improvement
18 154 (8.38%) Mentoring
19 150 (8.16%) Platform Engineering
20 148 (8.05%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 732 (39.83%) Python
2 417 (22.69%) SQL
3 388 (21.11%) Java
4 270 (14.69%) JavaScript
5 245 (13.33%) TypeScript
6 209 (11.37%) C#
7 150 (8.16%) Bash
8 118 (6.42%) PowerShell
9 93 (5.06%) Go
10 66 (3.59%) Bicep
11 48 (2.61%) C++
12 37 (2.01%) Scala
13 30 (1.63%) Kotlin
14 29 (1.58%) Rust
15 25 (1.36%) PL/SQL
16 24 (1.31%) Ruby
17 23 (1.25%) T-SQL
18 21 (1.14%) Groovy
19 18 (0.98%) Apex Code
19 18 (0.98%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 407 (22.14%) Security Cleared
2 359 (19.53%) SC Cleared
3 123 (6.69%) Degree
4 67 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 66 (3.59%) AWS Certification
6 61 (3.32%) Azure Certification
7 26 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
8 24 (1.31%) Master's Degree
8 24 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
9 19 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 18 (0.98%) DV Cleared
11 17 (0.92%) CISSP
12 14 (0.76%) ISTQB
13 13 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
14 11 (0.60%) MCP
14 11 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
15 10 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 9 (0.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 8 (0.44%) OSCP
18 7 (0.38%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (7.78%) QA
2 84 (4.57%) Data Quality
3 83 (4.52%) GDPR
4 66 (3.59%) Accessibility
5 51 (2.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 41 (2.23%) NIST
7 21 (1.14%) WCAG
8 16 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 15 (0.82%) PCI DSS
10 14 (0.76%) NCSC
11 10 (0.54%) HIPAA
12 9 (0.49%) MiFID
12 9 (0.49%) SLA
13 6 (0.33%) NIST 800
14 5 (0.27%) EU AI Act
14 5 (0.27%) SOC 2
15 4 (0.22%) PERC
16 3 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
16 3 (0.16%) HL7
16 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 598 (32.54%) Docker
2 53 (2.88%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.65%) Squid
6 10 (0.54%) DFS Replication
6 10 (0.54%) Dovecot
6 10 (0.54%) Postfix
7 8 (0.44%) zsh
8 6 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.33%) vSphere
9 5 (0.27%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.22%) NFS
10 4 (0.22%) Veritas File System
10 4 (0.22%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 4 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.16%) HDFS
11 3 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.054%) etcd
12 1 (0.054%) KVM
Systems Management
1 631 (34.33%) Kubernetes
2 627 (34.11%) Terraform
3 166 (9.03%) Ansible
4 153 (8.32%) Grafana
5 135 (7.34%) Prometheus
6 51 (2.77%) Argo
7 23 (1.25%) Istio
7 23 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
8 22 (1.20%) Progress Chef
9 18 (0.98%) Kibana
9 18 (0.98%) Puppet
10 16 (0.87%) ITRS Geneos
11 12 (0.65%) Nessus
12 10 (0.54%) Proxmox
13 9 (0.49%) Rancher
14 8 (0.44%) Packer
15 7 (0.38%) logstash
16 6 (0.33%) Red Hat Satellite
17 5 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
17 5 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 242 (13.17%) Microsoft
2 176 (9.58%) Databricks
3 128 (6.96%) Google
4 74 (4.03%) Oracle
5 54 (2.94%) Splunk
6 53 (2.88%) Salesforce
7 51 (2.77%) ServiceNow
8 42 (2.29%) OpenAI
9 33 (1.80%) Red Hat
10 26 (1.41%) Dynatrace
11 24 (1.31%) VMware
12 20 (1.09%) SAP
13 18 (0.98%) Cisco
13 18 (0.98%) Solace
14 17 (0.92%) MuleSoft
15 16 (0.87%) Atlassian
16 11 (0.60%) CyberArk
16 11 (0.60%) Palo Alto
17 10 (0.54%) Jaspersoft
17 10 (0.54%) Qualys