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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 18 27
Rank change year-on-year +8 +9 -12
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,097 1,325 1,239
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.84% 10.21% 6.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.30% 11.21% 7.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,432 952 917
10th Percentile £375 £400 £425
25th Percentile £446 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £725 £688
90th Percentile £738 £838 £800
England median daily rate £513 £550 £553
% change year-on-year -6.77% -0.45% -7.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile £63.25 - £49.60
25th Percentile £65.50 - £53.88
Median hourly rate £68.00 - £57.75
75th Percentile £95.00 - £60.81
90th Percentile - - £64.53
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £62.25
% change year-on-year +3.85% +4.42% -5.11%

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 14,664 11,819 16,084
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.79% 91.08% 88.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,843 7,917 11,504
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £504 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.05% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 161 342
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.50 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year - +17.71% -16.22%
75th Percentile £57.00 £53.75 £49.97
90th Percentile £70.50 £77.50 £69.43
England median hourly rate £30.15 £34.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -11.32% +4.62% -12.16%

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 16 March 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 16 March 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 16 March 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 -2 236 £525 -8.70% 192
West London +7 66 £603 +47.31% 16
South London +5 59 £525 +10.53% 13
East London -3 7 £450 -10.00% 20
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 99 (4.72%) Apache Spark
2 81 (3.86%) Apache Airflow
3 69 (3.29%) Confluence
4 58 (2.77%) Apache
5 31 (1.48%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.57%) CMS
7 11 (0.52%) Ethereum
7 11 (0.52%) HCL Notes
7 11 (0.52%) Hyperledger
8 10 (0.48%) Mendix
8 10 (0.48%) SAS
9 9 (0.43%) Appian
9 9 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
10 7 (0.33%) Camunda
11 6 (0.29%) IIS
11 6 (0.29%) nginx
12 5 (0.24%) Headless CMS
12 5 (0.24%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
12 5 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 22 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.29%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.095%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.048%) Maya
Business Applications
1 16 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.38%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.095%) Endur
4 2 (0.095%) Magento
4 2 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.095%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.095%) Shopify
5 1 (0.048%) Cerner Millennium
5 1 (0.048%) Findur
5 1 (0.048%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.048%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.048%) Orchestrade
5 1 (0.048%) ProductWriter
5 1 (0.048%) R3 Corda
5 1 (0.048%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 959 (45.73%) Azure
2 926 (44.16%) AWS
3 506 (24.13%) GitHub
4 376 (17.93%) Azure DevOps
5 335 (15.98%) GCP
6 319 (15.21%) GitHub Actions
7 309 (14.74%) Serverless
8 207 (9.87%) Amazon S3
9 192 (9.16%) AWS CloudFormation
10 189 (9.01%) AWS Lambda
11 175 (8.35%) Power Platform
12 128 (6.10%) Amazon EKS
13 127 (6.06%) Azure Data Factory
14 117 (5.58%) Amazon ECS
15 98 (4.67%) Azure AKS
16 92 (4.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 91 (4.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 85 (4.05%) Amazon EC2
19 79 (3.77%) Snowflake
20 74 (3.53%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 76 (3.62%) Firewall
2 49 (2.34%) Network Security
3 38 (1.81%) DNS
4 23 (1.10%) VPN
5 20 (0.95%) HTTP
6 17 (0.81%) WAN
7 15 (0.72%) SD-WAN
8 9 (0.43%) SSL
9 8 (0.38%) BGP
10 7 (0.33%) TCP/IP
11 6 (0.29%) 3GPP
11 6 (0.29%) Ethernet VPN
11 6 (0.29%) MPLS
11 6 (0.29%) OSPF
11 6 (0.29%) VXLAN
12 5 (0.24%) 5G
13 4 (0.19%) Internet
13 4 (0.19%) IOS XR
13 4 (0.19%) NX-OS
13 4 (0.19%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (7.01%) PostgreSQL
2 135 (6.44%) Data Lake
3 125 (5.96%) SQL Server
4 124 (5.91%) Power BI
5 117 (5.58%) NoSQL
6 100 (4.77%) Data Warehouse
7 75 (3.58%) Amazon RDS
7 75 (3.58%) MongoDB
8 73 (3.48%) Relational Database
9 59 (2.81%) Azure SQL Database
9 59 (2.81%) Delta Lake
10 57 (2.72%) Amazon Athena
11 55 (2.62%) BigQuery
12 50 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
12 50 (2.38%) Big Data
13 47 (2.24%) Metadata
14 38 (1.81%) DynamoDB
15 33 (1.57%) MySQL
16 32 (1.53%) Redis
17 30 (1.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 394 (18.79%) Git
2 364 (17.36%) Jenkins
3 261 (12.45%) GitLab
4 148 (7.06%) JIRA
5 83 (3.96%) Selenium
6 62 (2.96%) JUnit
7 58 (2.77%) Cucumber
8 52 (2.48%) MLflow
9 46 (2.19%) Postman
10 39 (1.86%) Cypress.io
11 35 (1.67%) JMeter
12 34 (1.62%) REST Assured
13 30 (1.43%) Mockito
14 26 (1.24%) Bitbucket
15 19 (0.91%) Gradle
15 19 (0.91%) Maven
16 18 (0.86%) Gatling
17 17 (0.81%) TeamCity
18 15 (0.72%) SonarQube
18 15 (0.72%) SpecFlow
General
1 538 (25.66%) Social Skills
2 480 (22.89%) Finance
3 238 (11.35%) Public Sector
4 211 (10.06%) Banking
5 178 (8.49%) Analytical Skills
6 46 (2.19%) Front Office
7 45 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
8 43 (2.05%) Investment Banking
9 39 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
10 30 (1.43%) Financial Institution
10 30 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 24 (1.14%) Retail
12 22 (1.05%) Telecoms
13 16 (0.76%) Marketing
14 15 (0.72%) Legal
14 15 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
15 14 (0.67%) Law
16 13 (0.62%) Manufacturing
17 11 (0.52%) Publishing
18 9 (0.43%) Military
Job Titles
1 497 (23.70%) Developer
2 328 (15.64%) Senior
3 225 (10.73%) DevOps Engineer
4 215 (10.25%) Architect
5 205 (9.78%) Data Engineer
6 170 (8.11%) Lead
7 123 (5.87%) AWS Engineer
7 123 (5.87%) Azure Engineer
8 96 (4.58%) Cloud Engineer
9 94 (4.48%) Software Engineer
10 91 (4.34%) Platform Engineer
11 85 (4.05%) Full-Stack Developer
12 80 (3.81%) Senior Developer
13 79 (3.77%) Java Developer
14 70 (3.34%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 64 (3.05%) AWS DevOps
16 58 (2.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 58 (2.77%) Python Engineer
17 56 (2.67%) Python Developer
18 55 (2.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 251 (11.97%) React
2 218 (10.40%) Kafka
3 199 (9.49%) Node.js
4 196 (9.35%) .NET
5 195 (9.30%) REST
6 193 (9.20%) RESTful
7 162 (7.73%) Spring
8 130 (6.20%) AngularJS
9 127 (6.06%) Spring Boot
10 104 (4.96%) Playwright
11 101 (4.82%) PySpark
12 97 (4.63%) CSS
13 95 (4.53%) HTML
14 81 (3.86%) OAuth
15 58 (2.77%) GraphQL
15 58 (2.77%) YAML
16 50 (2.38%) JSON
16 50 (2.38%) PyTorch
16 50 (2.38%) Vue
17 49 (2.34%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 420 (20.03%) Cloud Native
2 117 (5.58%) Distributed Systems
3 98 (4.67%) Product Ownership
4 61 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
5 50 (2.38%) Onboarding
6 47 (2.24%) Mobile App
7 39 (1.86%) Algorithms
8 37 (1.76%) AI Agents
9 32 (1.53%) Public Cloud
10 30 (1.43%) Data Structures
10 30 (1.43%) Derivative
10 30 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
10 30 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
11 28 (1.34%) Equities
12 26 (1.24%) Fixed Income
13 25 (1.19%) Virtual Team
14 24 (1.14%) Data Centre
14 24 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 24 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
14 24 (1.14%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 145 (6.91%) Linux
2 69 (3.29%) Windows
3 34 (1.62%) Apple iOS
4 28 (1.34%) Android
5 27 (1.29%) Unix
5 27 (1.29%) VMS
6 11 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (0.52%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.24%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.24%) zOS
8 4 (0.19%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.095%) Solaris
10 2 (0.095%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.095%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.048%) AIX
11 1 (0.048%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.048%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,161 (55.36%) DevOps
2 680 (32.43%) Agile
3 671 (32.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 469 (22.37%) Containerisation
5 445 (21.22%) Test Automation
6 389 (18.55%) AI
7 381 (18.17%) Microservices
8 375 (17.88%) Problem-Solving
9 348 (16.60%) Analytics
10 331 (15.78%) Observability
11 288 (13.73%) Software Engineering
12 264 (12.59%) Data Modelling
13 261 (12.45%) Data Engineering
14 254 (12.11%) Data Pipeline
15 245 (11.68%) Continuous Improvement
16 236 (11.25%) Machine Learning
17 216 (10.30%) Full-Stack Development
18 214 (10.21%) ETL
19 199 (9.49%) Migration
20 194 (9.25%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 836 (39.87%) Python
2 589 (28.09%) SQL
3 402 (19.17%) Java
4 286 (13.64%) JavaScript
5 275 (13.11%) TypeScript
6 243 (11.59%) C#
7 117 (5.58%) Bash
8 101 (4.82%) PowerShell
9 79 (3.77%) Bicep
10 63 (3.00%) Scala
11 53 (2.53%) Go
12 34 (1.62%) Ruby
13 31 (1.48%) C++
13 31 (1.48%) Kotlin
14 28 (1.34%) T-SQL
15 26 (1.24%) PL/SQL
15 26 (1.24%) Shell Script
16 23 (1.10%) Apex Code
17 18 (0.86%) Swift
18 17 (0.81%) Rust
Qualifications
1 497 (23.70%) Security Cleared
2 433 (20.65%) SC Cleared
3 136 (6.49%) Degree
4 78 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 77 (3.67%) Azure Certification
6 71 (3.39%) AWS Certification
7 34 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
7 34 (1.62%) Master's Degree
8 30 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
9 25 (1.19%) DV Cleared
10 23 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 20 (0.95%) ISTQB
12 19 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
12 19 (0.91%) CISSP
13 14 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
14 12 (0.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 12 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 12 (0.57%) Numerate Degree
15 10 (0.48%) CCSP
16 9 (0.43%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (8.54%) QA
2 151 (7.20%) Data Quality
3 85 (4.05%) GDPR
4 75 (3.58%) Accessibility
5 57 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 54 (2.58%) NIST
7 30 (1.43%) NCSC
8 29 (1.38%) PCI DSS
8 29 (1.38%) WCAG
9 21 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 19 (0.91%) SLA
11 9 (0.43%) HIPAA
12 7 (0.33%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.33%) NIST 800
13 6 (0.29%) MiFID
13 6 (0.29%) PSD2
13 6 (0.29%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.19%) GRC
14 4 (0.19%) HL7
14 4 (0.19%) SEPA
System Software
1 632 (30.14%) Docker
2 51 (2.43%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.38%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.33%) vSphere
8 2 (0.095%) HDFS
8 2 (0.095%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.095%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.095%) zsh
9 1 (0.048%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.048%) IAG
9 1 (0.048%) Squid
Systems Management
1 687 (32.76%) Terraform
2 669 (31.90%) Kubernetes
3 145 (6.91%) Ansible
4 130 (6.20%) Grafana
5 114 (5.44%) Prometheus
6 45 (2.15%) Argo
7 23 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (1.00%) Istio
9 14 (0.67%) Puppet
10 12 (0.57%) Kibana
11 9 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
11 9 (0.43%) Progress Chef
11 9 (0.43%) Rancher
12 8 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
13 7 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 5 (0.24%) Karpenter
14 5 (0.24%) Kubeflow
14 5 (0.24%) Packer
15 4 (0.19%) Opsgenie
15 4 (0.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 317 (15.12%) Microsoft
2 214 (10.21%) Databricks
3 127 (6.06%) Google
4 78 (3.72%) Oracle
5 61 (2.91%) Splunk
6 59 (2.81%) OpenAI
7 55 (2.62%) Salesforce
8 54 (2.58%) ServiceNow
9 27 (1.29%) Dynatrace
9 27 (1.29%) Red Hat
10 21 (1.00%) VMware
11 20 (0.95%) Cisco
11 20 (0.95%) MuleSoft
12 19 (0.91%) SAP
13 17 (0.81%) CyberArk
14 16 (0.76%) Foundry
14 16 (0.76%) IBM
15 13 (0.62%) Apple
15 13 (0.62%) UiPath
16 12 (0.57%) Solace