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

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 18 27
Rank change year-on-year +7 +9 -12
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,075 1,341 1,248
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.87% 10.18% 6.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.29% 11.19% 7.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,427 952 927
10th Percentile £375 £404 £425
25th Percentile £438 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +1.74% -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £725 £688
90th Percentile £738 £838 £800
England median daily rate £515 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -6.36% -1.79% -6.67%
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 £65.00 £65.00 £67.38
% change year-on-year - -3.54% +2.71%

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 14,518 11,989 16,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.05% 90.98% 88.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,761 7,892 11,520
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.19% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 162 352
10th Percentile £18.06 £20.45 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.84 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -18.92%
75th Percentile £56.25 £53.31 £50.00
90th Percentile £69.49 £77.25 £69.95
England median hourly rate £29.61 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -14.17% +6.15% -7.29%

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 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 8 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 8 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 -5 229 £525 -9.09% 196
West London +7 68 £603 +47.31% 32
South London +6 61 £525 +8.25% 27
East London -3 7 £450 -10.00% 30
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 91 (4.39%) Apache Spark
2 74 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
3 68 (3.28%) Confluence
4 54 (2.60%) Apache
5 34 (1.64%) SharePoint
6 12 (0.58%) CMS
6 12 (0.58%) SAS
7 11 (0.53%) Ethereum
7 11 (0.53%) HCL Notes
7 11 (0.53%) Hyperledger
8 10 (0.48%) Appian
8 10 (0.48%) Mendix
8 10 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
9 7 (0.34%) Camunda
10 6 (0.29%) IIS
10 6 (0.29%) nginx
11 5 (0.24%) Headless CMS
12 4 (0.19%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.19%) WebLogic
12 4 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 21 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.29%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
5 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.096%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.048%) Maya
Business Applications
1 16 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.39%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.096%) Endur
3 2 (0.096%) Magento
3 2 (0.096%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.096%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.096%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.096%) Shopify
4 1 (0.048%) Actimize
4 1 (0.048%) Cerner Millennium
4 1 (0.048%) Maximo
4 1 (0.048%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.048%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.048%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.048%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.048%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.048%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.048%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.048%) ProductWriter
4 1 (0.048%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 935 (45.06%) Azure
2 920 (44.34%) AWS
3 496 (23.90%) GitHub
4 354 (17.06%) Azure DevOps
5 339 (16.34%) GCP
6 315 (15.18%) GitHub Actions
7 301 (14.51%) Serverless
8 199 (9.59%) Amazon S3
9 188 (9.06%) AWS CloudFormation
10 184 (8.87%) AWS Lambda
11 168 (8.10%) Power Platform
12 128 (6.17%) Amazon EKS
13 119 (5.73%) Azure Data Factory
14 116 (5.59%) Amazon ECS
15 95 (4.58%) Azure AKS
16 88 (4.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 87 (4.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 82 (3.95%) Amazon EC2
19 75 (3.61%) Snowflake
20 74 (3.57%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 79 (3.81%) Firewall
2 49 (2.36%) Network Security
3 41 (1.98%) DNS
4 23 (1.11%) VPN
5 20 (0.96%) HTTP
6 17 (0.82%) WAN
7 15 (0.72%) SD-WAN
8 11 (0.53%) SSL
9 8 (0.39%) BGP
9 8 (0.39%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.29%) Ethernet VPN
10 6 (0.29%) MPLS
10 6 (0.29%) OSPF
10 6 (0.29%) VXLAN
11 5 (0.24%) Wireshark
12 4 (0.19%) Cisco IOS
12 4 (0.19%) Cisco IPT
12 4 (0.19%) Multicast
12 4 (0.19%) Reverse Proxy
12 4 (0.19%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (7.08%) PostgreSQL
2 126 (6.07%) Data Lake
3 125 (6.02%) SQL Server
4 119 (5.73%) NoSQL
4 119 (5.73%) Power BI
5 93 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
6 75 (3.61%) MongoDB
7 71 (3.42%) Amazon RDS
7 71 (3.42%) Relational Database
8 56 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
9 55 (2.65%) Delta Lake
10 54 (2.60%) Amazon Athena
11 53 (2.55%) BigQuery
12 47 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
13 44 (2.12%) Big Data
14 42 (2.02%) Metadata
15 38 (1.83%) DynamoDB
16 34 (1.64%) MySQL
17 32 (1.54%) Redis
18 28 (1.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 383 (18.46%) Git
2 365 (17.59%) Jenkins
3 260 (12.53%) GitLab
4 150 (7.23%) JIRA
5 79 (3.81%) Selenium
6 60 (2.89%) JUnit
7 59 (2.84%) Cucumber
8 49 (2.36%) MLflow
9 41 (1.98%) Postman
10 38 (1.83%) Cypress.io
11 32 (1.54%) JMeter
12 31 (1.49%) REST Assured
13 25 (1.20%) Bitbucket
13 25 (1.20%) Mockito
14 21 (1.01%) Maven
15 20 (0.96%) TeamCity
16 18 (0.87%) Gatling
17 17 (0.82%) Gradle
18 16 (0.77%) SonarQube
19 14 (0.67%) webpack
General
1 529 (25.49%) Social Skills
2 471 (22.70%) Finance
3 234 (11.28%) Public Sector
4 209 (10.07%) Banking
5 166 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
6 45 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
7 44 (2.12%) Front Office
8 40 (1.93%) Investment Banking
9 36 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
10 31 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 30 (1.45%) Financial Institution
12 24 (1.16%) Retail
13 19 (0.92%) Marketing
13 19 (0.92%) Telecoms
14 15 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
15 13 (0.63%) Manufacturing
16 12 (0.58%) Law
17 11 (0.53%) Legal
18 10 (0.48%) Publishing
19 9 (0.43%) Military
Job Titles
1 501 (24.14%) Developer
2 324 (15.61%) Senior
3 233 (11.23%) DevOps Engineer
4 204 (9.83%) Architect
5 191 (9.20%) Data Engineer
6 168 (8.10%) Lead
7 125 (6.02%) AWS Engineer
8 118 (5.69%) Azure Engineer
9 97 (4.67%) Cloud Engineer
10 94 (4.53%) Software Engineer
11 90 (4.34%) Platform Engineer
12 87 (4.19%) Full-Stack Developer
13 85 (4.10%) Senior Developer
14 83 (4.00%) Java Developer
15 72 (3.47%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 65 (3.13%) AWS DevOps
17 59 (2.84%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 56 (2.70%) Python Engineer
19 55 (2.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
20 54 (2.60%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 251 (12.10%) React
2 208 (10.02%) Kafka
3 205 (9.88%) Node.js
4 191 (9.20%) .NET
5 190 (9.16%) RESTful
6 186 (8.96%) REST
7 159 (7.66%) Spring
8 127 (6.12%) AngularJS
9 124 (5.98%) Spring Boot
10 105 (5.06%) Playwright
11 99 (4.77%) CSS
11 99 (4.77%) HTML
12 92 (4.43%) PySpark
13 81 (3.90%) OAuth
14 64 (3.08%) GraphQL
15 58 (2.80%) YAML
16 51 (2.46%) Vue
17 50 (2.41%) JSON
17 50 (2.41%) PyTorch
18 48 (2.31%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 409 (19.71%) Cloud Native
2 112 (5.40%) Distributed Systems
3 95 (4.58%) Product Ownership
4 56 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
5 50 (2.41%) Onboarding
6 47 (2.27%) Mobile App
7 39 (1.88%) Algorithms
8 37 (1.78%) AI Agents
9 34 (1.64%) Public Cloud
10 30 (1.45%) Data Structures
10 30 (1.45%) Derivative
11 29 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
11 29 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
12 26 (1.25%) Equities
13 25 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
13 25 (1.20%) Fixed Income
13 25 (1.20%) Low-Code
14 24 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 24 (1.16%) Virtual Team
15 23 (1.11%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 149 (7.18%) Linux
2 67 (3.23%) Windows
3 36 (1.73%) Apple iOS
4 28 (1.35%) VMS
5 27 (1.30%) Android
6 26 (1.25%) Unix
7 15 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.48%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.29%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.24%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.24%) zOS
11 4 (0.19%) CentOS
11 4 (0.19%) Solaris
12 3 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.096%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.096%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.048%) AIX
14 1 (0.048%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,147 (55.28%) DevOps
2 673 (32.43%) Agile
3 669 (32.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 463 (22.31%) Containerisation
5 437 (21.06%) Test Automation
6 384 (18.51%) AI
7 377 (18.17%) Problem-Solving
8 373 (17.98%) Microservices
9 330 (15.90%) Analytics
10 320 (15.42%) Observability
11 282 (13.59%) Software Engineering
12 247 (11.90%) Data Modelling
13 243 (11.71%) Data Engineering
14 239 (11.52%) Continuous Improvement
14 239 (11.52%) Data Pipeline
15 228 (10.99%) Machine Learning
16 218 (10.51%) Full-Stack Development
17 209 (10.07%) ETL
18 193 (9.30%) Mentoring
19 185 (8.92%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 822 (39.61%) Python
2 558 (26.89%) SQL
3 395 (19.04%) Java
4 291 (14.02%) JavaScript
5 280 (13.49%) TypeScript
6 238 (11.47%) C#
7 122 (5.88%) Bash
8 97 (4.67%) PowerShell
9 74 (3.57%) Bicep
10 61 (2.94%) Scala
11 60 (2.89%) Go
12 32 (1.54%) C++
13 31 (1.49%) Ruby
14 30 (1.45%) Kotlin
15 28 (1.35%) T-SQL
16 26 (1.25%) PL/SQL
17 22 (1.06%) Apex Code
17 22 (1.06%) Shell Script
18 19 (0.92%) Swift
19 17 (0.82%) Rust
Qualifications
1 488 (23.52%) Security Cleared
2 425 (20.48%) SC Cleared
3 128 (6.17%) Degree
4 73 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 70 (3.37%) Azure Certification
6 69 (3.33%) AWS Certification
7 34 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
8 31 (1.49%) Master's Degree
9 28 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
10 26 (1.25%) DV Cleared
11 24 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 19 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
13 18 (0.87%) CISSP
13 18 (0.87%) ISTQB
14 14 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
15 13 (0.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 12 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 12 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
17 10 (0.48%) CCSP
18 9 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (8.48%) QA
2 137 (6.60%) Data Quality
3 83 (4.00%) GDPR
4 77 (3.71%) Accessibility
5 51 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 50 (2.41%) NIST
7 29 (1.40%) NCSC
7 29 (1.40%) WCAG
8 28 (1.35%) PCI DSS
9 22 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 15 (0.72%) SLA
11 9 (0.43%) HIPAA
12 7 (0.34%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.34%) NIST 800
13 6 (0.29%) MiFID
13 6 (0.29%) PSD2
14 4 (0.19%) GRC
14 4 (0.19%) HL7
14 4 (0.19%) SEPA
14 4 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 634 (30.55%) Docker
2 52 (2.51%) Active Directory
3 38 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.39%) VMware NSX
7 7 (0.34%) vSphere
8 3 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.096%) HDFS
9 2 (0.096%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.096%) zsh
10 1 (0.048%) etcd
10 1 (0.048%) IAG
10 1 (0.048%) NFS
10 1 (0.048%) Squid
10 1 (0.048%) Veritas File System
10 1 (0.048%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 684 (32.96%) Terraform
2 679 (32.72%) Kubernetes
3 154 (7.42%) Ansible
4 129 (6.22%) Grafana
5 112 (5.40%) Prometheus
6 46 (2.22%) Argo
7 24 (1.16%) Istio
7 24 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (0.67%) Puppet
9 13 (0.63%) Kibana
10 11 (0.53%) Progress Chef
11 10 (0.48%) ITRS Geneos
12 9 (0.43%) Rancher
13 8 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
14 7 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 5 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
15 5 (0.24%) Karpenter
15 5 (0.24%) Kubeflow
15 5 (0.24%) Packer
16 4 (0.19%) logstash
Vendors
1 306 (14.75%) Microsoft
2 206 (9.93%) Databricks
3 128 (6.17%) Google
4 76 (3.66%) Oracle
5 63 (3.04%) Splunk
6 59 (2.84%) OpenAI
7 57 (2.75%) ServiceNow
8 54 (2.60%) Salesforce
9 31 (1.49%) Red Hat
10 26 (1.25%) Dynatrace
11 25 (1.20%) VMware
12 20 (0.96%) Cisco
13 19 (0.92%) MuleSoft
13 19 (0.92%) SAP
14 18 (0.87%) CyberArk
15 14 (0.67%) Foundry
15 14 (0.67%) IBM
16 13 (0.63%) Apple
16 13 (0.63%) Solace
16 13 (0.63%) UiPath