CI/CD Contract Job Trends
CI/CD
UK
The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring CI/CD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 20 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 9 | 15 | 25 |
| Rank change year-on-year | +6 | +10 | +2 |
| Contract jobs citing CI/CD | 6,466 | 3,679 | 2,737 |
| As % of all contract jobs in the UK | 11.74% | 11.09% | 7.38% |
| As % of the Processes & Methodologies category | 13.81% | 12.25% | 8.58% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 4,404 | 2,504 | 1,840 |
| 10th Percentile | £372 | £363 | £388 |
| 25th Percentile | £425 | £425 | £450 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £520 | £510 | £550 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +1.96% | -7.27% | -4.35% |
| 75th Percentile | £619 | £605 | £650 |
| 90th Percentile | £705 | £700 | £750 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate | £500 | £500 | £500 |
| % change year-on-year | - | - | -9.09% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 137 | 43 | 65 |
| 10th Percentile | £46.50 | £52.00 | £55.55 |
| 25th Percentile | £57.00 | £61.50 | £65.00 |
| Median hourly rate | £67.70 | £65.00 | £67.50 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +4.15% | -3.70% | -10.00% |
| 75th Percentile | £77.50 | £67.00 | £70.00 |
| 90th Percentile | £93.75 | £69.40 | £74.00 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate | £68.61 | £65.00 | £68.75 |
| % change year-on-year | +5.55% | -5.45% | -8.33% |
All Process & Methodology Skills
UK
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.
| 6 months to 20 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills | 46,825 | 30,024 | 31,898 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK | 85.04% | 90.49% | 86.05% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 28,142 | 18,651 | 19,172 |
| 10th Percentile | £325 | £294 | £310 |
| 25th Percentile | £425 | £404 | £413 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £525 | £500 | £525 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +5.00% | -4.76% | -2.33% |
| 75th Percentile | £638 | £623 | £638 |
| 90th Percentile | £738 | £725 | £750 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate | £500 | £475 | £500 |
| % change year-on-year | +5.26% | -5.00% | - |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 3,488 | 1,923 | 1,198 |
| 10th Percentile | £13.51 | £14.38 | £15.00 |
| 25th Percentile | £16.75 | £17.30 | £20.12 |
| Median hourly rate | £37.24 | £25.08 | £39.50 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +48.51% | -36.52% | -7.06% |
| 75th Percentile | £65.00 | £42.50 | £65.00 |
| 90th Percentile | £78.75 | £65.25 | £73.75 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate | £37.24 | £22.27 | £40.00 |
| % change year-on-year | +67.26% | -44.34% | -5.88% |
CI/CD Job Vacancy Trend
Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CI/CD relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.
CI/CD Daily Rate Trend
Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CI/CD.
CI/CD Daily Rate Histogram
Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD over the 6 months to 20 October 2026.
CI/CD Hourly Rate Trend
Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CI/CD.
CI/CD Hourly Rate Histogram
Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CI/CD over the 6 months to 20 October 2026.
CI/CD Top 18 Contract Job Locations
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 UK over the 6 months to 20 October 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| England | +7 | 5,386 | £525 | +2.44% | 5,107 |
| London | +4 | 2,902 | £535 | +1.90% | 2,707 |
| UK excluding London | +6 | 2,679 | £500 | - | 2,660 |
| Work from Home | +3 | 1,984 | £520 | +4.00% | 2,502 |
| North of England | +4 | 1,029 | £500 | +2.30% | 833 |
| Yorkshire | +3 | 499 | £500 | - | 255 |
| South East | +3 | 490 | £533 | +6.50% | 515 |
| North West | +5 | 405 | £525 | +11.46% | 439 |
| Midlands | -6 | 390 | £469 | -6.20% | 268 |
| West Midlands | -5 | 339 | £470 | -10.48% | 190 |
| Scotland | -1 | 300 | £438 | -12.50% | 296 |
| South West | +3 | 289 | £550 | - | 302 |
| East of England | -6 | 139 | £505 | +1.00% | 224 |
| North East | -3 | 133 | £450 | -7.69% | 143 |
| Wales | +4 | 50 | £413 | -12.00% | 77 |
| East Midlands | -25 | 50 | £447 | +6.30% | 78 |
| Northern Ireland | +22 | 25 | £575 | - | 147 |
| Channel Islands | - | 1 | £450 | - | 2 |
CI/CD Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Processes & Methodologies
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DevOps | 56.0% | 3,618 |
| 2 | Agile | 39.1% | 2,525 |
| 3 | Infrastructure as Code | 34.7% | 2,241 |
| 4 | Test Automation | 26.2% | 1,694 |
| 5 | Containerisation | 20.6% | 1,332 |
| 6 | AI | 20.5% | 1,323 |
| 7 | Microservices | 20.3% | 1,314 |
| 8 | Observability | 20.3% | 1,312 |
| 9 | Software Engineering | 18.1% | 1,171 |
| 10 | Continuous Improvement | 16.6% | 1,076 |
| 11 | Problem-Solving | 16.5% | 1,069 |
| 12 | Platform Engineering | 13.9% | 902 |
| 13 | Stakeholder Management | 13.6% | 877 |
| 14 | Event-Driven | 12.0% | 773 |
| 15 | Technical Leadership | 11.8% | 763 |
| 16 | Analytics | 11.6% | 748 |
| 17 | Scrum | 11.0% | 713 |
| 18 | Data Pipeline | 10.9% | 704 |
| 19 | Validation | 10.9% | 702 |
| 20 | Migration | 10.7% | 693 |