CircleCI Contract Job Trends in London

CircleCI
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring CircleCI skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 328 377
Rank change year-on-year -51 +49 +21
Contract jobs citing CircleCI 16 25 22
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.10% 0.19% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.68% 1.31% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 14 18
10th Percentile £291 £431 £513
25th Percentile £363 £443 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £600 £636
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -5.70% -5.74%
75th Percentile £638 £681 £700
90th Percentile £650 £734 £735
England median daily rate £475 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -20.83% - -11.11%

All Development Application Skills
London

CircleCI falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,352 1,902 2,339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.02% 14.08% 12.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,598 1,257 1,722
10th Percentile £355 £340 £375
25th Percentile £420 £413 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £530 £568
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% -6.61% -5.42%
75th Percentile £637 £675 £675
90th Percentile £732 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £504 £535
% change year-on-year -0.70% -5.89% -6.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 22
10th Percentile £18.75 £34.75 £25.80
25th Percentile £24.81 £45.63 £31.71
Median hourly rate £66.50 £67.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +58.82% -26.09%
75th Percentile £95.00 £83.13 £64.94
90th Percentile £102.50 £90.25 £73.49
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

CircleCI
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CircleCI relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

CircleCI job vacancy trend in London

CircleCI
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing CircleCI.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing CircleCI

CircleCI
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CircleCI in London over the 6 months to 21 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CircleCI in London

CircleCI
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing CircleCI.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing CircleCI

CircleCI
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 CircleCI within the London region over the 6 months to 21 February 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 1 £625 -10.71% 1
CircleCI
England

CircleCI
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) GitHub
2 8 (50.00%) AWS
2 8 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 6 (37.50%) GCP
4 4 (25.00%) Akamai
4 4 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 4 (25.00%) Fastly
4 4 (25.00%) Route 53
4 4 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (12.50%) Adobe Analytics
5 2 (12.50%) Azure
5 2 (12.50%) Bitrise
5 2 (12.50%) Firebase
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (6.25%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (6.25%) Datadog
6 1 (6.25%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (6.25%) Sentry
6 1 (6.25%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) MongoDB
2 4 (25.00%) MySQL
3 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
4 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
4 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (6.25%) Redis
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (31.25%) GitLab
3 4 (25.00%) JUnit
4 2 (12.50%) Git
4 2 (12.50%) Gradle
4 2 (12.50%) Postman
5 1 (6.25%) Android Studio
5 1 (6.25%) Appium
5 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
5 1 (6.25%) Claude Code
5 1 (6.25%) Cypress.io
5 1 (6.25%) Mocha
5 1 (6.25%) Mockito
5 1 (6.25%) Selenium
5 1 (6.25%) TestComplete
5 1 (6.25%) WebDriver
5 1 (6.25%) webpack
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Advertising
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Android Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Quality Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Senior
4 2 (12.50%) Lead
4 2 (12.50%) Lead Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Site Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) iOS Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Java Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) JavaScript Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Lead Android Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Node.js Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Python Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Python Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) React Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Quality Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Software Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) Android Jetpack
1 4 (25.00%) Jetpack Compose
1 4 (25.00%) Kafka
1 4 (25.00%) RxJava
2 3 (18.75%) Dagger
2 3 (18.75%) OkHttp
2 3 (18.75%) RAML
2 3 (18.75%) REST
2 3 (18.75%) WireMock
3 2 (12.50%) GraphQL
3 2 (12.50%) Node.js
3 2 (12.50%) Playwright
3 2 (12.50%) RESTful
4 1 (6.25%) Core Animation
4 1 (6.25%) Core Data
4 1 (6.25%) Enzyme
4 1 (6.25%) Jest
4 1 (6.25%) RxCocoa
4 1 (6.25%) RxSwift
4 1 (6.25%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Product Ownership
2 2 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (12.50%) Legacy Code
2 2 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (12.50%) Virtual Team
3 1 (6.25%) Animation
3 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Android
2 2 (12.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (37.50%) Observability
2 6 (37.50%) Test Automation
3 5 (31.25%) Mentoring
3 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (25.00%) Android Development
4 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (18.75%) Agile
5 3 (18.75%) Architectural Patterns
5 3 (18.75%) MVVM
6 2 (12.50%) B2B
6 2 (12.50%) Data Protection
6 2 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (12.50%) Non-Functional Testing
6 2 (12.50%) OOP
6 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering
6 2 (12.50%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) Python
2 5 (31.25%) Bash
3 4 (25.00%) Go
3 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (25.00%) Kotlin
4 3 (18.75%) Java
4 3 (18.75%) TypeScript
5 2 (12.50%) C#
5 2 (12.50%) Swift
6 1 (6.25%) Objective-C
6 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
6 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
1 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (31.25%) Prometheus
2 5 (31.25%) Terraform
3 4 (25.00%) Ansible
4 1 (6.25%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Splunk
2 2 (12.50%) Adobe
3 1 (6.25%) Apple
3 1 (6.25%) Brightcove
3 1 (6.25%) Google
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle