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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 19 21
Rank change year-on-year +9 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,533 1,398 1,423
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.95% 10.46% 8.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.56% 11.35% 9.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,713 930 1,021
10th Percentile £400 £381 £413
25th Percentile £450 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £567
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -6.53% -7.24%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £806 £813
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 3
10th Percentile £50.25 £38.00 £48.40
25th Percentile £55.00 £42.50 £50.88
Median hourly rate £68.50 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.48% -4.55% -29.03%
75th Percentile £95.00 £53.75 £61.00
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.50 £64.60
England median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £67.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -6.72% +2.13%

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 17,398 12,312 15,542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.95% 92.16% 88.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,552 8,218 11,064
10th Percentile £358 £331 £340
25th Percentile £440 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -5.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £763 £799 £800
England median daily rate £524 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.65% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 230 293
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.96
25th Percentile £22.91 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.73% +7.50% -27.31%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.38 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £68.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -4.70%

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 8 July 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 8 July 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 8 July 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 0 289 £550 -10.71% 98
West London +9 56 £600 +21.83% 25
South London +2 48 £538 +1.03% 7
East London +2 10 £500 +29.87% 22
North London - 1 £650 - 4
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
1 112 (4.42%) Apache Airflow
2 107 (4.22%) Apache Spark
3 97 (3.83%) Confluence
4 72 (2.84%) Apache
5 28 (1.11%) SharePoint
6 13 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
7 11 (0.43%) Camunda
8 10 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (0.39%) SAS
9 9 (0.36%) WebSphere
10 7 (0.28%) CMS
10 7 (0.28%) Ethereum
11 6 (0.24%) Appian
11 6 (0.24%) Hyperledger
11 6 (0.24%) nginx
11 6 (0.24%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.20%) Tomcat
13 4 (0.16%) Anypoint
13 4 (0.16%) Mule
14 3 (0.12%) Mendix
Applications
1 16 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (0.39%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.16%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.12%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.079%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.039%) Maya
Business Applications
1 23 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.39%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.28%) Shopify
4 6 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
5 5 (0.20%) Magento
6 4 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
7 3 (0.12%) Endur
7 3 (0.12%) Findur
7 3 (0.12%) SAP BPC
8 2 (0.079%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.079%) SAP CRM
8 2 (0.079%) Temenos T24
9 1 (0.039%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.039%) R3 Corda
9 1 (0.039%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.039%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.039%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.039%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 1,134 (44.77%) AWS
2 1,122 (44.30%) Azure
3 562 (22.19%) GitHub
4 430 (16.98%) Azure DevOps
5 370 (14.61%) GitHub Actions
6 359 (14.17%) GCP
7 316 (12.48%) Serverless
8 254 (10.03%) Amazon S3
9 218 (8.61%) Power Platform
10 213 (8.41%) AWS Lambda
11 171 (6.75%) AWS CloudFormation
12 146 (5.76%) Amazon EKS
13 120 (4.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 120 (4.74%) Amazon EC2
14 112 (4.42%) Azure AKS
15 111 (4.38%) Snowflake
16 110 (4.34%) Azure Data Factory
17 109 (4.30%) Entra ID
18 104 (4.11%) Amazon ECS
19 97 (3.83%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 72 (2.84%) Firewall
2 46 (1.82%) Network Security
3 33 (1.30%) DNS
3 33 (1.30%) VPN
4 26 (1.03%) HTTP
5 21 (0.83%) Internet
6 17 (0.67%) 5G
6 17 (0.67%) WAN
7 12 (0.47%) SD-WAN
8 11 (0.43%) 3GPP
9 9 (0.36%) SSL
10 8 (0.32%) 4G
10 8 (0.32%) Radio Access Network
10 8 (0.32%) TCP/IP
11 7 (0.28%) BGP
12 6 (0.24%) FTP
12 6 (0.24%) OSPF
13 5 (0.20%) Cisco IOS
13 5 (0.20%) Ethernet VPN
13 5 (0.20%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (6.16%) Power BI
2 145 (5.72%) PostgreSQL
3 130 (5.13%) NoSQL
3 130 (5.13%) SQL Server
4 129 (5.09%) Data Lake
5 126 (4.97%) Data Warehouse
6 93 (3.67%) Relational Database
7 87 (3.43%) MongoDB
8 78 (3.08%) Amazon Redshift
9 74 (2.92%) Amazon RDS
10 72 (2.84%) Amazon Athena
11 71 (2.80%) Delta Lake
12 69 (2.72%) Metadata
13 55 (2.17%) BigQuery
14 52 (2.05%) Big Data
15 49 (1.93%) DynamoDB
16 41 (1.62%) Azure SQL Database
17 39 (1.54%) Snowflake Schema
18 37 (1.46%) Redis
19 31 (1.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 440 (17.37%) Git
2 387 (15.28%) Jenkins
3 304 (12.00%) GitLab
4 173 (6.83%) JIRA
5 75 (2.96%) JUnit
6 72 (2.84%) Selenium
7 45 (1.78%) Postman
8 44 (1.74%) Cucumber
9 43 (1.70%) JMeter
10 41 (1.62%) Mockito
11 39 (1.54%) REST Assured
12 38 (1.50%) Gradle
12 38 (1.50%) MLflow
13 36 (1.42%) Cypress.io
14 27 (1.07%) Bitbucket
14 27 (1.07%) CircleCI
14 27 (1.07%) Maven
15 25 (0.99%) SonarQube
16 21 (0.83%) Gatling
17 19 (0.75%) Liquibase
General
1 606 (23.92%) Finance
2 599 (23.65%) Social Skills
3 306 (12.08%) Public Sector
4 278 (10.98%) Banking
5 199 (7.86%) Analytical Skills
6 59 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
7 57 (2.25%) Investment Banking
8 51 (2.01%) Front Office
9 50 (1.97%) Retail
10 43 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 39 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
12 29 (1.14%) Telecoms
13 28 (1.11%) Law
14 27 (1.07%) Financial Institution
15 25 (0.99%) Legal
16 21 (0.83%) Marketing
17 15 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
17 15 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
18 14 (0.55%) Manufacturing
19 12 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 521 (20.57%) Developer
2 428 (16.90%) Senior
3 297 (11.73%) DevOps Engineer
4 283 (11.17%) Architect
5 249 (9.83%) Lead
6 231 (9.12%) Data Engineer
7 159 (6.28%) AWS Engineer
8 146 (5.76%) Azure Engineer
9 134 (5.29%) Cloud Engineer
10 121 (4.78%) Software Engineer
11 117 (4.62%) Java Developer
12 103 (4.07%) Platform Engineer
13 102 (4.03%) Senior Developer
14 81 (3.20%) Full-Stack Developer
15 77 (3.04%) Solutions Architect
16 69 (2.72%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 69 (2.72%) Python Developer
17 68 (2.68%) AWS DevOps
18 64 (2.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
19 61 (2.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 308 (12.16%) REST
2 246 (9.71%) React
3 238 (9.40%) Kafka
4 228 (9.00%) .NET
5 217 (8.57%) RESTful
6 203 (8.01%) Spring
7 174 (6.87%) Spring Boot
8 134 (5.29%) PySpark
9 129 (5.09%) Node.js
10 112 (4.42%) AngularJS
11 89 (3.51%) HTML
12 85 (3.36%) Playwright
13 79 (3.12%) OAuth
14 75 (2.96%) CSS
15 69 (2.72%) JSON
16 62 (2.45%) FastAPI
17 60 (2.37%) SOAP
18 58 (2.29%) OAuth2
19 57 (2.25%) GraphQL
20 53 (2.09%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 535 (21.12%) Cloud Native
2 194 (7.66%) Distributed Systems
3 119 (4.70%) Product Ownership
4 90 (3.55%) Onboarding
5 88 (3.47%) Legacy Systems
6 71 (2.80%) AI Agents
7 53 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
8 42 (1.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 41 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
10 39 (1.54%) Mobile App
11 38 (1.50%) Virtual Team
12 37 (1.46%) Management Information System
12 37 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
13 34 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
13 34 (1.34%) Security Posture
14 33 (1.30%) Algorithms
14 33 (1.30%) Fixed Income
15 32 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
16 29 (1.14%) Data Structures
17 28 (1.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 177 (6.99%) Linux
2 109 (4.30%) Windows
3 54 (2.13%) Unix
4 27 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (0.95%) Apple iOS
5 24 (0.95%) Windows Server
6 23 (0.91%) Android
7 11 (0.43%) VMS
8 10 (0.39%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.32%) Ubuntu
9 8 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.20%) Solaris
10 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
10 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.16%) zOS
12 3 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
13 2 (0.079%) AIX
14 1 (0.039%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,393 (54.99%) DevOps
2 853 (33.68%) Agile
3 846 (33.40%) Infrastructure as Code
4 569 (22.46%) Containerisation
5 524 (20.69%) Test Automation
6 513 (20.25%) AI
7 480 (18.95%) Microservices
8 419 (16.54%) Observability
9 395 (15.59%) Software Engineering
10 379 (14.96%) Analytics
11 336 (13.26%) Problem-Solving
12 334 (13.19%) Data Pipeline
13 319 (12.59%) Data Modelling
14 308 (12.16%) Continuous Improvement
14 308 (12.16%) Data Engineering
15 294 (11.61%) Platform Engineering
16 277 (10.94%) Machine Learning
17 256 (10.11%) Event-Driven
18 252 (9.95%) Migration
19 243 (9.59%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 973 (38.41%) Python
2 685 (27.04%) SQL
3 492 (19.42%) Java
4 277 (10.94%) C#
5 262 (10.34%) TypeScript
6 249 (9.83%) JavaScript
7 184 (7.26%) Bash
8 165 (6.51%) PowerShell
9 96 (3.79%) Bicep
10 58 (2.29%) Go
11 56 (2.21%) Scala
12 45 (1.78%) Apex Code
13 44 (1.74%) Kotlin
14 41 (1.62%) Shell Script
15 34 (1.34%) Ruby
16 30 (1.18%) T-SQL
17 27 (1.07%) PL/SQL
18 17 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 15 (0.59%) Swift
20 14 (0.55%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 653 (25.78%) Security Cleared
2 586 (23.13%) SC Cleared
3 134 (5.29%) Degree
4 91 (3.59%) Azure Certification
5 70 (2.76%) AWS Certification
6 62 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 60 (2.37%) DV Cleared
8 46 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
9 28 (1.11%) Master's Degree
10 22 (0.87%) CISSP
11 20 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 19 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
13 16 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
14 15 (0.59%) DBS Check
15 12 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 12 (0.47%) CISM
15 12 (0.47%) GIAC
15 12 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
16 10 (0.39%) ISTQB
17 9 (0.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 212 (8.37%) QA
2 201 (7.94%) Data Quality
3 94 (3.71%) Accessibility
4 65 (2.57%) GDPR
5 64 (2.53%) NIST
6 53 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 35 (1.38%) NCSC
8 29 (1.14%) WCAG
9 23 (0.91%) PCI DSS
10 22 (0.87%) SLA
11 11 (0.43%) EU AI Act
12 10 (0.39%) GRC
13 7 (0.28%) ISO 20022
13 7 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.24%) COBIT
14 6 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.24%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 5 (0.20%) PSD2
16 4 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 660 (26.06%) Docker
2 61 (2.41%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
4 22 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.43%) Squid
6 10 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.24%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.12%) vSphere
11 2 (0.079%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.079%) HDFS
11 2 (0.079%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.079%) Postfix
12 1 (0.039%) IAG
12 1 (0.039%) NFS
12 1 (0.039%) OpenSSH
12 1 (0.039%) Samba
12 1 (0.039%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 824 (32.53%) Terraform
2 757 (29.89%) Kubernetes
3 188 (7.42%) Grafana
4 177 (6.99%) Ansible
5 158 (6.24%) Prometheus
6 28 (1.11%) Argo
7 26 (1.03%) Puppet
8 23 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (0.71%) Kibana
10 16 (0.63%) Packer
11 12 (0.47%) Progress Chef
12 11 (0.43%) Istio
13 8 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
13 8 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
14 7 (0.28%) Kustomize
15 6 (0.24%) SCCM
16 5 (0.20%) HP Fortify
16 5 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
16 5 (0.20%) Salt
16 5 (0.20%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 362 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 193 (7.62%) Databricks
3 111 (4.38%) Oracle
4 110 (4.34%) Google
5 98 (3.87%) Salesforce
6 95 (3.75%) Splunk
7 56 (2.21%) ServiceNow
8 52 (2.05%) OpenAI
9 39 (1.54%) Dynatrace
10 33 (1.30%) VMware
11 30 (1.18%) Foundry
12 28 (1.11%) IBM
12 28 (1.11%) Informatica
13 27 (1.07%) CyberArk
13 27 (1.07%) SAP
14 24 (0.95%) MuleSoft
15 22 (0.87%) Palantir
15 22 (0.87%) Red Hat
16 18 (0.71%) Cisco
17 14 (0.55%) Okta