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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 17 21
Rank change year-on-year +6 +4 -4
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,613 1,454 1,351
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.96% 10.71% 8.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.55% 11.60% 9.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,746 989 948
10th Percentile £400 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £438 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £569
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -7.69% -5.21%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £761 £806
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 2
10th Percentile £48.25 £30.63 £56.20
25th Percentile £54.06 £36.88 £58.00
Median hourly rate £61.00 £48.75 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.13% -20.08% -21.29%
75th Percentile £80.63 £53.75 £64.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.38 £65.80
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -10.34%

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 17,959 12,532 14,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.08% 92.33% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,817 8,377 10,112
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 296 248 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.05
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -17.15% -13.73%
75th Percentile £56.25 £47.81 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.08 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.78%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 +8 324 £550 -12.00% 170
South London +2 70 £538 +1.99% 15
West London +9 51 £560 +13.71% 38
East London +7 11 £588 +63.19% 14
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
1 129 (4.94%) Apache Airflow
2 106 (4.06%) Confluence
3 97 (3.71%) Apache Spark
4 76 (2.91%) Apache
5 30 (1.15%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
7 10 (0.38%) SAS
8 9 (0.34%) Camunda
8 9 (0.34%) CMS
8 9 (0.34%) nginx
8 9 (0.34%) WebSphere
9 8 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.27%) Anypoint
11 6 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.19%) Mule
12 5 (0.19%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.15%) IIS
14 3 (0.11%) Apache Pulsar
14 3 (0.11%) Mendix
14 3 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 17 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.54%) Chatbot
3 9 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.15%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.15%) Trello
5 2 (0.077%) CPLEX
5 2 (0.077%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.038%) Maya
Business Applications
1 25 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.46%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.23%) Shopify
5 5 (0.19%) Magento
5 5 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
7 3 (0.11%) Endur
7 3 (0.11%) Findur
7 3 (0.11%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.11%) SAP BPC
7 3 (0.11%) SAP CRM
8 2 (0.077%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.077%) Temenos T24
9 1 (0.038%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.038%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.038%) SAP IS-U
9 1 (0.038%) SDL Web 8
9 1 (0.038%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,179 (45.12%) Azure
2 1,143 (43.74%) AWS
3 597 (22.85%) GitHub
4 465 (17.80%) Azure DevOps
5 400 (15.31%) GitHub Actions
6 388 (14.85%) GCP
7 300 (11.48%) Serverless
8 239 (9.15%) Amazon S3
9 228 (8.73%) Power Platform
10 203 (7.77%) AWS Lambda
11 154 (5.89%) Amazon EKS
12 144 (5.51%) AWS CloudFormation
13 136 (5.20%) Snowflake
14 126 (4.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 120 (4.59%) dbt
15 120 (4.59%) Entra ID
16 118 (4.52%) Amazon EC2
17 117 (4.48%) Azure AKS
18 108 (4.13%) Azure Data Factory
19 90 (3.44%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 75 (2.87%) Firewall
2 43 (1.65%) Network Security
3 36 (1.38%) DNS
3 36 (1.38%) VPN
4 29 (1.11%) Internet
5 23 (0.88%) HTTP
6 19 (0.73%) 5G
7 17 (0.65%) SSL
7 17 (0.65%) TCP/IP
8 16 (0.61%) WAN
9 11 (0.42%) 4G
10 10 (0.38%) 3GPP
10 10 (0.38%) SD-WAN
11 8 (0.31%) BGP
11 8 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
12 7 (0.27%) LTE
13 6 (0.23%) Cisco IOS
13 6 (0.23%) Ethernet VPN
13 6 (0.23%) FTP
13 6 (0.23%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (6.66%) Power BI
2 152 (5.82%) Data Warehouse
3 149 (5.70%) PostgreSQL
4 125 (4.78%) SQL Server
5 124 (4.75%) NoSQL
6 122 (4.67%) Data Lake
7 93 (3.56%) MongoDB
8 90 (3.44%) Relational Database
9 81 (3.10%) Delta Lake
10 80 (3.06%) Amazon RDS
11 74 (2.83%) Amazon Redshift
11 74 (2.83%) Metadata
12 69 (2.64%) BigQuery
13 60 (2.30%) Amazon Athena
14 49 (1.88%) DynamoDB
14 49 (1.88%) Redis
15 48 (1.84%) Big Data
16 45 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
17 37 (1.42%) Snowflake Schema
18 32 (1.22%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 465 (17.80%) Git
2 412 (15.77%) Jenkins
3 330 (12.63%) GitLab
4 187 (7.16%) JIRA
5 79 (3.02%) Selenium
6 69 (2.64%) JUnit
7 48 (1.84%) Cypress.io
8 45 (1.72%) JMeter
9 44 (1.68%) Gradle
10 40 (1.53%) Cucumber
11 39 (1.49%) Bitbucket
11 39 (1.49%) Mockito
12 38 (1.45%) Postman
13 35 (1.34%) Maven
14 33 (1.26%) SonarQube
15 32 (1.22%) REST Assured
16 28 (1.07%) CircleCI
16 28 (1.07%) MLflow
17 23 (0.88%) Gatling
18 21 (0.80%) Liquibase
General
1 634 (24.26%) Finance
2 627 (24.00%) Social Skills
3 320 (12.25%) Public Sector
4 293 (11.21%) Banking
5 211 (8.08%) Analytical Skills
6 57 (2.18%) Front Office
6 57 (2.18%) Retail
7 56 (2.14%) Investment Banking
8 43 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
8 43 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 33 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
10 30 (1.15%) Law
11 29 (1.11%) Financial Institution
11 29 (1.11%) Marketing
11 29 (1.11%) Telecoms
12 24 (0.92%) Legal
13 15 (0.57%) Local Government
13 15 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
14 13 (0.50%) Manufacturing
14 13 (0.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 555 (21.24%) Developer
2 474 (18.14%) Senior
3 294 (11.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 284 (10.87%) Architect
5 274 (10.49%) Lead
6 235 (8.99%) Data Engineer
7 158 (6.05%) Azure Engineer
8 149 (5.70%) AWS Engineer
9 137 (5.24%) Software Engineer
10 135 (5.17%) Cloud Engineer
11 121 (4.63%) Senior Developer
12 113 (4.32%) Java Developer
13 109 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
14 89 (3.41%) Full-Stack Developer
15 83 (3.18%) Solutions Architect
16 73 (2.79%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 69 (2.64%) Python Developer
18 68 (2.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
19 63 (2.41%) AWS DevOps
20 61 (2.33%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 359 (13.74%) REST
2 254 (9.72%) React
3 247 (9.45%) Kafka
4 244 (9.34%) .NET
5 206 (7.88%) RESTful
6 202 (7.73%) Spring
7 169 (6.47%) Spring Boot
8 136 (5.20%) PySpark
9 130 (4.98%) Node.js
10 105 (4.02%) HTML
11 104 (3.98%) AngularJS
12 91 (3.48%) Playwright
13 88 (3.37%) CSS
14 79 (3.02%) JSON
15 71 (2.72%) OAuth
16 68 (2.60%) FastAPI
17 66 (2.53%) SOAP
18 58 (2.22%) Next.js
18 58 (2.22%) OAuth2
19 56 (2.14%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 538 (20.59%) Cloud Native
2 219 (8.38%) Distributed Systems
3 136 (5.20%) Product Ownership
4 98 (3.75%) Onboarding
5 97 (3.71%) AI Agents
6 87 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
7 77 (2.95%) Enterprise Software
8 42 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 40 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
10 39 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
10 39 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
11 37 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
11 37 (1.42%) Management Information System
11 37 (1.42%) Virtual Team
12 36 (1.38%) Mobile App
13 33 (1.26%) Data Structures
14 32 (1.22%) Algorithms
14 32 (1.22%) Fixed Income
15 31 (1.19%) Security Posture
16 28 (1.07%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 197 (7.54%) Linux
2 110 (4.21%) Windows
3 63 (2.41%) Unix
4 38 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 29 (1.11%) Apple iOS
6 28 (1.07%) Android
6 28 (1.07%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.46%) VMS
8 11 (0.42%) Ubuntu
9 9 (0.34%) Mac OS
10 8 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
11 5 (0.19%) Solaris
11 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
11 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.077%) AIX
13 1 (0.038%) CentOS
13 1 (0.038%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,453 (55.61%) DevOps
2 938 (35.90%) Agile
3 867 (33.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 565 (21.62%) Test Automation
5 562 (21.51%) Containerisation
6 553 (21.16%) AI
7 519 (19.86%) Microservices
8 460 (17.60%) Software Engineering
9 451 (17.26%) Observability
10 376 (14.39%) Analytics
11 362 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
12 356 (13.62%) Data Pipeline
13 338 (12.94%) Data Modelling
14 335 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
15 318 (12.17%) Data Engineering
16 304 (11.63%) Platform Engineering
17 289 (11.06%) Event-Driven
18 279 (10.68%) Stakeholder Management
19 269 (10.29%) Machine Learning
19 269 (10.29%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1,020 (39.04%) Python
2 722 (27.63%) SQL
3 530 (20.28%) Java
4 287 (10.98%) JavaScript
5 275 (10.52%) C#
6 269 (10.29%) TypeScript
7 204 (7.81%) Bash
8 196 (7.50%) PowerShell
9 107 (4.09%) Bicep
10 57 (2.18%) Go
11 54 (2.07%) Kotlin
12 49 (1.88%) Apex Code
13 47 (1.80%) Shell Script
14 45 (1.72%) Scala
15 34 (1.30%) Ruby
16 33 (1.26%) PL/SQL
17 30 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 27 (1.03%) T-SQL
19 25 (0.96%) C++
20 21 (0.80%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 687 (26.29%) Security Cleared
2 622 (23.80%) SC Cleared
3 132 (5.05%) Degree
4 102 (3.90%) Azure Certification
5 75 (2.87%) DV Cleared
6 74 (2.83%) AWS Certification
7 62 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 48 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
9 22 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 21 (0.80%) CISSP
11 19 (0.73%) Master's Degree
12 15 (0.57%) DBS Check
13 13 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 13 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
14 12 (0.46%) CISM
14 12 (0.46%) GIAC
14 12 (0.46%) PhD
15 11 (0.42%) ISTQB
16 9 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 231 (8.84%) QA
2 219 (8.38%) Data Quality
3 98 (3.75%) Accessibility
4 58 (2.22%) GDPR
5 49 (1.88%) NIST
6 45 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 33 (1.26%) WCAG
8 23 (0.88%) NCSC
9 21 (0.80%) SLA
10 14 (0.54%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.42%) EU AI Act
12 10 (0.38%) ISO 20022
13 9 (0.34%) GRC
14 7 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 7 (0.27%) SOC 2
15 6 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 4 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
16 4 (0.15%) COBIT
16 4 (0.15%) MiFID
System Software
1 681 (26.06%) Docker
2 61 (2.33%) Active Directory
3 38 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
4 31 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.42%) Squid
6 10 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.23%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.077%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.077%) HDFS
10 2 (0.077%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.077%) KVM
10 2 (0.077%) Postfix
10 2 (0.077%) Varnish
10 2 (0.077%) vSphere
11 1 (0.038%) IAG
11 1 (0.038%) OpenSSH
11 1 (0.038%) Samba
Systems Management
1 837 (32.03%) Terraform
2 764 (29.24%) Kubernetes
3 197 (7.54%) Grafana
4 186 (7.12%) Ansible
5 164 (6.28%) Prometheus
6 32 (1.22%) Puppet
7 31 (1.19%) Argo
8 22 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
9 20 (0.77%) Packer
10 19 (0.73%) Kibana
11 15 (0.57%) Progress Chef
12 12 (0.46%) Istio
13 9 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
14 8 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
14 8 (0.31%) Kustomize
15 7 (0.27%) Control-M
15 7 (0.27%) SCCM
16 5 (0.19%) HP Fortify
16 5 (0.19%) Oracle RMAN
16 5 (0.19%) Salt
Vendors
1 400 (15.31%) Microsoft
2 210 (8.04%) Databricks
3 136 (5.20%) Google
4 120 (4.59%) Oracle
5 103 (3.94%) Salesforce
6 91 (3.48%) Splunk
7 66 (2.53%) ServiceNow
8 47 (1.80%) Dynatrace
9 44 (1.68%) OpenAI
10 43 (1.65%) VMware
11 35 (1.34%) IBM
12 31 (1.19%) Informatica
13 29 (1.11%) Foundry
13 29 (1.11%) SAP
14 28 (1.07%) MuleSoft
15 25 (0.96%) Red Hat
16 23 (0.88%) New Relic
17 22 (0.84%) Cisco
18 21 (0.80%) Palantir
19 18 (0.69%) CyberArk