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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 15 19
Rank change year-on-year +4 +4 +2
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 2,713 1,563 1,467
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.48% 11.70% 9.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.19% 12.63% 10.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,850 1,046 1,021
10th Percentile £400 £368 £413
25th Percentile £450 £438 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £738 £738 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.39% -6.77% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 0
10th Percentile £53.88 £29.75 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £35.00 -
Median hourly rate £61.00 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +35.56% - -
75th Percentile £80.63 £53.75 -
90th Percentile £97.50 £54.50 -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £68.75
% change year-on-year +3.85% -5.45% -8.33%

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 17,861 12,373 14,498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.73% 92.58% 89.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,722 8,170 9,513
10th Percentile £358 £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 £669 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 317 241 181
10th Percentile £16.19 £17.08 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.00 £24.15
Median hourly rate £32.63 £30.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.75% -17.81% -2.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%

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 28 September 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 28 September 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 28 September 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 +12 344 £550 -9.84% 269
South London +2 68 £535 -1.15% 21
West London -10 48 £560 +15.45% 97
East London +4 10 £585 +8.33% 23
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
1 130 (4.79%) Apache Airflow
2 116 (4.28%) Confluence
3 104 (3.83%) Apache Spark
4 82 (3.02%) Apache
5 38 (1.40%) SharePoint
6 17 (0.63%) CMS
7 15 (0.55%) Camunda
8 12 (0.44%) nginx
9 8 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.26%) Anypoint
10 7 (0.26%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.18%) Mule
12 5 (0.18%) SAS
12 5 (0.18%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.15%) IIS
14 3 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
14 3 (0.11%) JBoss
14 3 (0.11%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 15 (0.55%) Chatbot
1 15 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.15%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.15%) Trello
5 2 (0.074%) CPLEX
6 1 (0.037%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.037%) Gliffy
6 1 (0.037%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.037%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 1 (0.037%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.037%) Sketch
6 1 (0.037%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 26 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.37%) Aladdin
2 10 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
2 10 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.22%) Shopify
4 5 (0.18%) Magento
5 4 (0.15%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.15%) Temenos T24
6 3 (0.11%) Endur
6 3 (0.11%) SAP CRM
7 2 (0.074%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.074%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.074%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.074%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.037%) Distributed Ledger
8 1 (0.037%) FIS Private Capital Suite
8 1 (0.037%) PeopleSoft HCM
8 1 (0.037%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 1,214 (44.75%) Azure
2 1,166 (42.98%) AWS
3 612 (22.56%) GitHub
4 458 (16.88%) Azure DevOps
5 420 (15.48%) GCP
6 412 (15.19%) GitHub Actions
7 326 (12.02%) Serverless
8 242 (8.92%) Amazon S3
9 226 (8.33%) Power Platform
10 213 (7.85%) AWS Lambda
11 173 (6.38%) Amazon EKS
12 151 (5.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 151 (5.57%) Snowflake
13 142 (5.23%) Entra ID
14 133 (4.90%) AWS CloudFormation
15 131 (4.83%) dbt
16 127 (4.68%) Amazon EC2
17 105 (3.87%) Azure AKS
18 101 (3.72%) Azure Data Factory
19 91 (3.35%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 62 (2.29%) Firewall
2 44 (1.62%) Network Security
3 42 (1.55%) DNS
4 33 (1.22%) VPN
5 30 (1.11%) Internet
6 26 (0.96%) TCP/IP
7 20 (0.74%) 5G
7 20 (0.74%) HTTP
7 20 (0.74%) SSL
8 12 (0.44%) 3GPP
9 11 (0.41%) Radio Access Network
9 11 (0.41%) SAN
10 10 (0.37%) SSH
10 10 (0.37%) WAN
11 9 (0.33%) 4G
11 9 (0.33%) Kerberos
12 7 (0.26%) BGP
12 7 (0.26%) FTP
13 6 (0.22%) OpenLDAP
14 5 (0.18%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 189 (6.97%) PostgreSQL
2 171 (6.30%) Power BI
3 153 (5.64%) Data Warehouse
4 135 (4.98%) SQL Server
5 128 (4.72%) NoSQL
6 118 (4.35%) Data Lake
7 109 (4.02%) MongoDB
8 101 (3.72%) Relational Database
9 92 (3.39%) Amazon RDS
10 88 (3.24%) Delta Lake
11 78 (2.88%) Metadata
12 73 (2.69%) BigQuery
13 71 (2.62%) Amazon Redshift
14 59 (2.17%) Redis
15 50 (1.84%) Amazon Athena
16 48 (1.77%) MySQL
17 46 (1.70%) DynamoDB
18 41 (1.51%) Amazon Aurora
18 41 (1.51%) Big Data
19 40 (1.47%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 524 (19.31%) Git
2 438 (16.14%) Jenkins
3 366 (13.49%) GitLab
4 193 (7.11%) JIRA
5 98 (3.61%) Selenium
6 77 (2.84%) JUnit
7 57 (2.10%) Gradle
8 55 (2.03%) Cypress.io
9 52 (1.92%) Cucumber
10 49 (1.81%) JMeter
11 46 (1.70%) Maven
12 44 (1.62%) Bitbucket
12 44 (1.62%) SonarQube
13 42 (1.55%) Postman
14 38 (1.40%) Mockito
15 34 (1.25%) REST Assured
16 26 (0.96%) CircleCI
17 25 (0.92%) Gatling
18 22 (0.81%) MLflow
19 21 (0.77%) Claude Code
General
1 685 (25.25%) Social Skills
2 678 (24.99%) Finance
3 330 (12.16%) Banking
4 299 (11.02%) Public Sector
5 254 (9.36%) Analytical Skills
6 74 (2.73%) Front Office
7 67 (2.47%) Retail
8 61 (2.25%) Investment Banking
9 45 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 36 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
11 35 (1.29%) Marketing
12 30 (1.11%) Law
13 28 (1.03%) Telecoms
14 26 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
15 23 (0.85%) Financial Institution
15 23 (0.85%) Military
16 18 (0.66%) Back Office
16 18 (0.66%) Legal
16 18 (0.66%) Local Government
17 17 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 571 (21.05%) Developer
2 502 (18.50%) Senior
3 328 (12.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 299 (11.02%) Architect
5 268 (9.88%) Lead
6 249 (9.18%) Data Engineer
7 150 (5.53%) Azure Engineer
8 145 (5.34%) AWS Engineer
9 131 (4.83%) Senior Developer
10 130 (4.79%) Software Engineer
11 125 (4.61%) Cloud Engineer
12 118 (4.35%) Java Developer
13 103 (3.80%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 96 (3.54%) Full-Stack Developer
15 95 (3.50%) Platform Engineer
16 79 (2.91%) Solutions Architect
17 73 (2.69%) Python Developer
18 72 (2.65%) Senior Data Engineer
19 69 (2.54%) Azure DevOps Engineer
20 66 (2.43%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 882 (32.51%) Terraform
2 429 (15.81%) REST
3 296 (10.91%) Kafka
4 259 (9.55%) React
5 246 (9.07%) .NET
6 223 (8.22%) RESTful
7 214 (7.89%) Spring
8 191 (7.04%) Spring Boot
9 139 (5.12%) PySpark
10 115 (4.24%) Node.js
11 108 (3.98%) HTML
12 95 (3.50%) CSS
13 92 (3.39%) Playwright
14 91 (3.35%) OAuth
15 83 (3.06%) JSON
16 79 (2.91%) SOAP
17 78 (2.88%) FastAPI
18 76 (2.80%) AngularJS
19 67 (2.47%) Middleware
20 65 (2.40%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 575 (21.19%) Cloud Native
2 228 (8.40%) Distributed Systems
3 160 (5.90%) Product Ownership
4 140 (5.16%) AI Agents
5 119 (4.39%) Onboarding
6 108 (3.98%) Enterprise Software
7 92 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
8 44 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
9 41 (1.51%) Virtual Team
10 40 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
11 39 (1.44%) Data Structures
11 39 (1.44%) Mobile App
12 37 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 37 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
13 36 (1.33%) Security Posture
14 34 (1.25%) Management Information System
15 33 (1.22%) Replication
16 32 (1.18%) Algorithms
16 32 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
17 31 (1.14%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 253 (9.33%) Linux
2 124 (4.57%) Windows
3 82 (3.02%) Unix
4 48 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 32 (1.18%) Windows Server
6 29 (1.07%) Android
7 25 (0.92%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.52%) VMS
9 13 (0.48%) Ubuntu
10 11 (0.41%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
12 6 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
13 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
14 3 (0.11%) Solaris
14 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.11%) zOS
15 2 (0.074%) CentOS
15 2 (0.074%) Mac OS X
16 1 (0.037%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,495 (55.11%) DevOps
2 989 (36.45%) Agile
3 934 (34.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 646 (23.81%) AI
5 608 (22.41%) Test Automation
6 541 (19.94%) Containerisation
7 525 (19.35%) Observability
8 523 (19.28%) Microservices
9 493 (18.17%) Software Engineering
10 409 (15.08%) Problem-Solving
11 388 (14.30%) Stakeholder Management
12 373 (13.75%) Continuous Improvement
13 359 (13.23%) Data Pipeline
14 356 (13.12%) Analytics
15 347 (12.79%) Event-Driven
16 340 (12.53%) Data Engineering
17 336 (12.38%) Platform Engineering
18 330 (12.16%) Data Modelling
19 304 (11.21%) Technical Leadership
20 289 (10.65%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1,131 (41.69%) Python
2 737 (27.17%) SQL
3 549 (20.24%) Java
4 297 (10.95%) JavaScript
5 272 (10.03%) TypeScript
6 260 (9.58%) C#
7 233 (8.59%) Bash
8 219 (8.07%) PowerShell
9 111 (4.09%) Bicep
10 76 (2.80%) Go
11 61 (2.25%) Kotlin
12 58 (2.14%) Shell Script
13 49 (1.81%) Scala
14 40 (1.47%) Apex Code
14 40 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 30 (1.11%) Groovy
16 28 (1.03%) C++
16 28 (1.03%) PL/SQL
17 27 (1.00%) T-SQL
18 25 (0.92%) Perl
Qualifications
1 711 (26.21%) Security Cleared
2 633 (23.33%) SC Cleared
3 153 (5.64%) Degree
4 99 (3.65%) Azure Certification
5 93 (3.43%) DV Cleared
6 84 (3.10%) AWS Certification
7 70 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
8 59 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 24 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
11 22 (0.81%) CISSP
11 22 (0.81%) Master's Degree
12 21 (0.77%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 16 (0.59%) DBS Check
14 14 (0.52%) ISTQB
15 13 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 11 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
16 11 (0.41%) PhD
17 10 (0.37%) CISM
17 10 (0.37%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 268 (9.88%) QA
2 248 (9.14%) Data Quality
3 85 (3.13%) Accessibility
4 43 (1.58%) GDPR
4 43 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 42 (1.55%) NIST
6 24 (0.88%) NCSC
7 23 (0.85%) WCAG
8 18 (0.66%) SLA
9 15 (0.55%) ISO 20022
10 12 (0.44%) GRC
11 11 (0.41%) SOC 2
12 10 (0.37%) EU AI Act
13 9 (0.33%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.29%) Basel III
15 7 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
16 6 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 6 (0.22%) MiFID
17 5 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
17 5 (0.18%) EMIR
System Software
1 685 (25.25%) Docker
2 63 (2.32%) Active Directory
3 39 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
4 32 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.48%) Squid
6 7 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.22%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.18%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
9 4 (0.15%) Postfix
10 3 (0.11%) HDFS
11 2 (0.074%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.074%) DFS Replication
11 2 (0.074%) Dovecot
11 2 (0.074%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.074%) KVM
11 2 (0.074%) RACF
11 2 (0.074%) Varnish
11 2 (0.074%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 813 (29.97%) Kubernetes
2 223 (8.22%) Grafana
3 221 (8.15%) Ansible
4 181 (6.67%) Prometheus
5 38 (1.40%) Argo
6 32 (1.18%) Puppet
7 27 (1.00%) Kibana
8 24 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
9 19 (0.70%) Packer
10 15 (0.55%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.44%) Istio
11 12 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
12 11 (0.41%) Control-M
13 8 (0.29%) SCCM
14 7 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
14 7 (0.26%) Karpenter
14 7 (0.26%) Kustomize
15 6 (0.22%) HP Fortify
16 5 (0.18%) Nagios
16 5 (0.18%) systemd
Vendors
1 466 (17.18%) Microsoft
2 255 (9.40%) Databricks
3 165 (6.08%) Google
4 137 (5.05%) Oracle
5 113 (4.17%) Splunk
6 88 (3.24%) Salesforce
7 66 (2.43%) OpenAI
8 65 (2.40%) ServiceNow
9 60 (2.21%) Dynatrace
10 49 (1.81%) VMware
11 44 (1.62%) IBM
12 38 (1.40%) Foundry
13 34 (1.25%) SAP
14 33 (1.22%) Informatica
15 32 (1.18%) Red Hat
16 26 (0.96%) MuleSoft
17 23 (0.85%) New Relic
18 21 (0.77%) CyberArk
19 19 (0.70%) Cisco
20 18 (0.66%) Palantir