CI/CD Contract Job Trends in the City of London

CI/CD
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring CI/CD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 16 19
Rank change year-on-year +6 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 303 163 184
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 13.52% 9.32% 8.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.20% 9.90% 9.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 110 134
10th Percentile £425 £406 £458
25th Percentile £475 £509 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £613 £633
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% -3.16% +5.42%
75th Percentile £641 £688 £738
90th Percentile £738 £800 £807
Central London median daily rate £550 £611 £628
% change year-on-year -10.02% -2.59% +3.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 £26.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £27.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +154.55% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £28.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £70.00 £27.50 -
% change year-on-year +154.55% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,994 1,647 1,942
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.98% 94.17% 91.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,375 1,095 1,226
10th Percentile £368 £321 £375
25th Percentile £458 £415 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £764 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 21 16
10th Percentile £16.98 £17.08 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.15 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +4.26% +8.00%
75th Percentile £32.05 £56.75 £82.19
90th Percentile £50.59 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £28.33 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.74% -19.07% +34.62%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CI/CD relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

CI/CD job vacancy trend in the City of London

CI/CD
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing CI/CD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing CI/CD

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in the City of London over the 6 months to 20 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in the City of London

CI/CD
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing CI/CD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing CI/CD

CI/CD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 15 (4.95%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (4.29%) Confluence
3 11 (3.63%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.31%) Apache
5 4 (1.32%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.66%) CMS
6 2 (0.66%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.33%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.33%) Camunda
7 1 (0.33%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.33%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.33%) nginx
7 1 (0.33%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.99%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.99%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.66%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.33%) Magento
4 1 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.33%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.33%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.33%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 143 (47.19%) Azure
2 118 (38.94%) AWS
3 70 (23.10%) GitHub
4 52 (17.16%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (15.51%) GCP
6 46 (15.18%) GitHub Actions
7 39 (12.87%) Serverless
8 36 (11.88%) Power Platform
9 25 (8.25%) Amazon S3
9 25 (8.25%) Azure Data Factory
10 23 (7.59%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (5.94%) Snowflake
12 17 (5.61%) Azure AKS
13 16 (5.28%) Azure Monitor
14 14 (4.62%) Azure Databricks
15 13 (4.29%) Amazon EKS
15 13 (4.29%) dbt
16 12 (3.96%) Amazon Bedrock
16 12 (3.96%) Amazon Kinesis
16 12 (3.96%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.96%) Firewall
2 6 (1.98%) DNS
2 6 (1.98%) Network Security
3 5 (1.65%) VPN
4 4 (1.32%) Internet
5 3 (0.99%) FTP
6 2 (0.66%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.66%) Multicast
6 2 (0.66%) SSL
7 1 (0.33%) BGP
7 1 (0.33%) DHCP
7 1 (0.33%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.33%) INAP
7 1 (0.33%) NX-OS
7 1 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.33%) RTP
7 1 (0.33%) TACACS
7 1 (0.33%) tcpdump
7 1 (0.33%) VoIP
7 1 (0.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (8.58%) Power BI
2 20 (6.60%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (4.95%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (4.95%) SQL Server
4 14 (4.62%) Data Lake
4 14 (4.62%) NoSQL
5 13 (4.29%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (4.29%) Metadata
6 12 (3.96%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (3.30%) MongoDB
7 10 (3.30%) Relational Database
8 9 (2.97%) Delta Lake
9 7 (2.31%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (2.31%) DynamoDB
9 7 (2.31%) Star Schema
10 5 (1.65%) Amazon QuickSight
10 5 (1.65%) Data Mining
10 5 (1.65%) Semantic Layer
11 4 (1.32%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 48 (15.84%) Git
2 38 (12.54%) Jenkins
3 34 (11.22%) GitLab
4 26 (8.58%) JIRA
5 12 (3.96%) JUnit
6 10 (3.30%) Postman
6 10 (3.30%) Selenium
7 9 (2.97%) Cucumber
7 9 (2.97%) JMeter
8 8 (2.64%) Bitbucket
8 8 (2.64%) Gradle
8 8 (2.64%) Maven
8 8 (2.64%) Mockito
9 5 (1.65%) Visual Studio
10 4 (1.32%) Appium
10 4 (1.32%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.32%) Gatling
11 3 (0.99%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.99%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.99%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 108 (35.64%) Finance
2 87 (28.71%) Social Skills
3 55 (18.15%) Banking
4 36 (11.88%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (7.92%) Public Sector
6 14 (4.62%) Front Office
7 9 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (2.64%) Investment Banking
9 7 (2.31%) Back Office
10 5 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.65%) Marketing
10 5 (1.65%) Retail
11 4 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.32%) Military
11 4 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.99%) Law
12 3 (0.99%) Legal
12 3 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (20.13%) Senior
2 60 (19.80%) Developer
3 50 (16.50%) Architect
4 38 (12.54%) Data Engineer
5 20 (6.60%) Lead
5 20 (6.60%) Senior Developer
6 18 (5.94%) DevOps Engineer
7 14 (4.62%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 14 (4.62%) Azure Engineer
7 14 (4.62%) Cloud Engineer
7 14 (4.62%) Data Architect
7 14 (4.62%) Java Developer
8 13 (4.29%) Senior Data Engineer
8 13 (4.29%) Solutions Architect
9 11 (3.63%) Automation Engineer
9 11 (3.63%) Software Engineer
10 10 (3.30%) AWS Engineer
10 10 (3.30%) Senior Java Developer
11 9 (2.97%) GCP Engineer
12 7 (2.31%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (27.72%) Terraform
2 44 (14.52%) REST
3 32 (10.56%) Kafka
3 32 (10.56%) Spring
4 30 (9.90%) Spring Boot
5 27 (8.91%) .NET
6 22 (7.26%) React
7 19 (6.27%) PySpark
7 19 (6.27%) RESTful
8 16 (5.28%) SOAP
9 15 (4.95%) HTML
10 12 (3.96%) JSON
10 12 (3.96%) Middleware
11 11 (3.63%) AngularJS
12 9 (2.97%) CSS
12 9 (2.97%) Playwright
12 9 (2.97%) RabbitMQ
12 9 (2.97%) YAML
13 8 (2.64%) ActiveMQ
13 8 (2.64%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 92 (30.36%) Cloud Native
2 32 (10.56%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (8.25%) AI Agents
4 16 (5.28%) Onboarding
5 15 (4.95%) Product Ownership
5 15 (4.95%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (3.63%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.32%) CMDB
9 4 (1.32%) Derivative
9 4 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.32%) Equities
9 4 (1.32%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.32%) Private Cloud
10 3 (0.99%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (0.99%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.99%) Mobile Banking
11 2 (0.66%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 19 (6.27%) Linux
2 13 (4.29%) Windows
3 11 (3.63%) Unix
4 7 (2.31%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.98%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.32%) Android
7 1 (0.33%) CentOS
7 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (51.16%) DevOps
2 106 (34.98%) Infrastructure as Code
3 91 (30.03%) Agile
4 79 (26.07%) Test Automation
5 73 (24.09%) Containerisation
6 69 (22.77%) AI
7 59 (19.47%) Analytics
7 59 (19.47%) Observability
7 59 (19.47%) Software Engineering
8 57 (18.81%) Microservices
9 53 (17.49%) Data Engineering
10 49 (16.17%) Event-Driven
11 47 (15.51%) Data Modelling
11 47 (15.51%) Problem-Solving
12 44 (14.52%) Data Pipeline
13 42 (13.86%) Stakeholder Management
14 41 (13.53%) Migration
14 41 (13.53%) Platform Engineering
15 36 (11.88%) Continuous Improvement
16 33 (10.89%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 121 (39.93%) Python
2 85 (28.05%) SQL
3 64 (21.12%) Java
4 38 (12.54%) C#
5 30 (9.90%) PowerShell
6 29 (9.57%) JavaScript
7 25 (8.25%) TypeScript
8 16 (5.28%) Bicep
9 15 (4.95%) Bash
10 11 (3.63%) Korn
11 10 (3.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (1.98%) Scala
13 5 (1.65%) Kotlin
14 4 (1.32%) Apex Code
14 4 (1.32%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.99%) Ruby
15 3 (0.99%) Swift
16 2 (0.66%) ActionScript
16 2 (0.66%) Perl
16 2 (0.66%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 80 (26.40%) Security Cleared
2 67 (22.11%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.29%) DV Cleared
4 8 (2.64%) DBS Check
4 8 (2.64%) Degree
5 5 (1.65%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.32%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.99%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.99%) PMP
8 2 (0.66%) CISSP
8 2 (0.66%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.33%) CHECK Team Leader
9 1 (0.33%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.33%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (10.23%) Data Quality
1 31 (10.23%) QA
2 9 (2.97%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.31%) EU AI Act
4 6 (1.98%) GDPR
4 6 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.65%) NCSC
6 4 (1.32%) NIST
7 3 (0.99%) SLA
8 2 (0.66%) EMIR
8 2 (0.66%) MiFID
8 2 (0.66%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.66%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.33%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.33%) PSD2
9 1 (0.33%) SEPA
9 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 62 (20.46%) Docker
2 6 (1.98%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.66%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.33%) Firmware
6 1 (0.33%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.33%) Varnish
6 1 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 91 (30.03%) Kubernetes
2 24 (7.92%) Grafana
3 20 (6.60%) Prometheus
4 16 (5.28%) Ansible
5 4 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.33%) Argo
6 1 (0.33%) Bosun
6 1 (0.33%) Consul
6 1 (0.33%) Istio
6 1 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.33%) Packer
6 1 (0.33%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.33%) Puppet
6 1 (0.33%) Salt
6 1 (0.33%) SCCM
6 1 (0.33%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 62 (20.46%) Microsoft
2 46 (15.18%) Databricks
3 24 (7.92%) Google
4 15 (4.95%) Oracle
5 12 (3.96%) Splunk
6 11 (3.63%) Dynatrace
7 8 (2.64%) Salesforce
7 8 (2.64%) VMware
8 7 (2.31%) IBM
8 7 (2.31%) MuleSoft
8 7 (2.31%) SAP
8 7 (2.31%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.32%) AppDynamics
9 4 (1.32%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.99%) Foundry
11 2 (0.66%) Apple
11 2 (0.66%) New Relic
11 2 (0.66%) Palantir
11 2 (0.66%) Software AG
11 2 (0.66%) webMethods