GoCD Contract Job Trends in London

GoCD Continuous Delivery Server
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring GoCD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 373 - 400
Rank change year-on-year - - +142
Contract jobs citing GoCD 4 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.028% - 0.027%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.18% - 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £475
25th Percentile £513 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.70%
75th Percentile £538 - £738
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £505 - £466
% change year-on-year - - +8.76%

All Development Application Skills
London

GoCD 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 2,250 2,056 2,412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.57% 13.85% 12.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,533 1,348 1,772
10th Percentile £352 £345 £389
25th Percentile £425 £424 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £788
England median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 22
10th Percentile £37.65 £28.75 £25.42
25th Percentile £42.63 £41.88 £30.31
Median hourly rate £56.50 £67.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.30% +58.82% -26.09%
75th Percentile £86.88 £83.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £110.00 £90.25 £73.74
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

GoCD
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

GoCD job vacancy trend in London

GoCD
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing GoCD

GoCD
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Datadog
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) GitLab
2 2 (50.00%) SonarQube
2 2 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (50.00%) TeamCity
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Rust Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) JWT
2 1 (25.00%) OpenAPI
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Application Security
3 2 (50.00%) Architectural Design
3 2 (50.00%) Asynchronous Programming
3 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
3 2 (50.00%) Concurrent Programming
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Garbage Collection
3 2 (50.00%) Green IT
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) IT Strategy
3 2 (50.00%) Memory Management
3 2 (50.00%) Multithreading
3 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
4 1 (25.00%) LLM
4 1 (25.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Go
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) R
2 2 (50.00%) Rust
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) rkt
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (25.00%) Google