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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 16 16
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 +1
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 240 188 197
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 9.91% 10.73% 9.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.56% 11.44% 10.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 120 143
10th Percentile £410 £413 £425
25th Percentile £463 £506 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £611 £625
Median % change year-on-year -10.02% -2.20% -0.99%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £750
90th Percentile £725 £800 £824
Central London median daily rate £551 £611 £600
% change year-on-year -9.94% +1.88% -4.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - £46.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £48.50
75th Percentile £75.00 - £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £70.00 - £48.50

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 2,077 1,643 1,948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.76% 93.78% 90.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,401 1,050 1,354
10th Percentile £365 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £551 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% -4.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 18 14
10th Percentile £17.53 £16.90 £20.01
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.98 £20.29
Median hourly rate £23.16 £29.75 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -22.15% +11.74% -23.93%
75th Percentile £43.00 £54.75 £40.00
90th Percentile £60.78 £71.25 £47.73
Central London median hourly rate £27.25 £30.04 £27.41
% change year-on-year -9.27% +9.60% -21.70%

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 26 June 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 18 (7.50%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (4.58%) Confluence
3 8 (3.33%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.92%) Apache
5 3 (1.25%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.25%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.83%) Camunda
6 2 (0.83%) Ethereum
6 2 (0.83%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.42%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.42%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.42%) nginx
7 1 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.42%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.42%) Maya
Business Applications
1 4 (1.67%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.42%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.42%) Magento
3 1 (0.42%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.42%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.42%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.42%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 105 (43.75%) AWS
2 94 (39.17%) Azure
3 56 (23.33%) GitHub
4 35 (14.58%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (14.58%) GitHub Actions
5 33 (13.75%) GCP
5 33 (13.75%) Serverless
6 31 (12.92%) Power Platform
7 24 (10.00%) Amazon S3
8 20 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (7.92%) Snowflake
10 15 (6.25%) Azure AKS
11 13 (5.42%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (5.42%) dbt
12 12 (5.00%) Amazon Bedrock
13 10 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (4.17%) Amazon Kinesis
13 10 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
13 10 (4.17%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.75%) Firewall
2 6 (2.50%) Network Security
3 4 (1.67%) VPN
4 3 (1.25%) DNS
4 3 (1.25%) FTP
5 2 (0.83%) HTTP
5 2 (0.83%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.83%) Multicast
6 1 (0.42%) Internet
6 1 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.42%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (9.17%) Power BI
2 20 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 16 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (5.42%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (4.58%) DynamoDB
5 11 (4.58%) SQL Server
6 10 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (4.17%) MongoDB
7 9 (3.75%) Amazon Athena
8 8 (3.33%) Metadata
8 8 (3.33%) Relational Database
9 7 (2.92%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (2.50%) Data Lake
10 6 (2.50%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (2.08%) Data Mining
12 4 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (1.67%) Data Mart
12 4 (1.67%) Oracle Database
12 4 (1.67%) Redis
12 4 (1.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 50 (20.83%) Git
2 34 (14.17%) Jenkins
3 24 (10.00%) JIRA
4 22 (9.17%) GitLab
5 15 (6.25%) JUnit
6 11 (4.58%) Postman
7 10 (4.17%) Mockito
8 8 (3.33%) Cucumber
9 6 (2.50%) Gradle
10 5 (2.08%) JMeter
10 5 (2.08%) REST Assured
10 5 (2.08%) Selenium
11 4 (1.67%) Liquibase
12 3 (1.25%) Gatling
12 3 (1.25%) Maven
13 2 (0.83%) Ant
13 2 (0.83%) Appium
13 2 (0.83%) Visual Studio
13 2 (0.83%) Xcode
13 2 (0.83%) XCUITest
General
1 90 (37.50%) Finance
2 64 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 40 (16.67%) Banking
4 21 (8.75%) Public Sector
5 18 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.08%) Legal
8 4 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.67%) Front Office
8 4 (1.67%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.67%) Marketing
8 4 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.25%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.25%) Law
10 2 (0.83%) Military
11 1 (0.42%) Advertising
11 1 (0.42%) Aviation
11 1 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.42%) Police
11 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (17.08%) Senior
2 39 (16.25%) Developer
3 37 (15.42%) Architect
4 24 (10.00%) Data Engineer
5 23 (9.58%) Lead
6 20 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
7 16 (6.67%) Senior Developer
8 13 (5.42%) Java Developer
9 11 (4.58%) Azure Engineer
10 10 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (4.17%) Software Engineer
11 9 (3.75%) Automation Engineer
11 9 (3.75%) Cloud Engineer
11 9 (3.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 9 (3.75%) GCP Engineer
11 9 (3.75%) Security Engineer
11 9 (3.75%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 9 (3.75%) Snowflake Engineer
12 8 (3.33%) Senior Java Developer
12 8 (3.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (15.00%) Kafka
2 32 (13.33%) REST
3 31 (12.92%) Spring
4 28 (11.67%) Spring Boot
5 22 (9.17%) React
6 15 (6.25%) .NET
6 15 (6.25%) RESTful
7 11 (4.58%) Playwright
8 10 (4.17%) SOAP
9 9 (3.75%) GraphQL
9 9 (3.75%) PySpark
10 8 (3.33%) HTML
10 8 (3.33%) YAML
11 7 (2.92%) AngularJS
11 7 (2.92%) JSON
11 7 (2.92%) Node.js
11 7 (2.92%) OpenTelemetry
11 7 (2.92%) WireMock
12 6 (2.50%) Gherkin
12 6 (2.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 73 (30.42%) Cloud Native
2 26 (10.83%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (5.83%) AI Agents
4 10 (4.17%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.50%) Equities
5 6 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.50%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.08%) Clustering
6 5 (2.08%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.25%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.25%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.25%) Mobile Banking
8 3 (1.25%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.83%) IoT
9 2 (0.83%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.75%) Linux
2 7 (2.92%) Apple iOS
3 5 (2.08%) Unix
4 4 (1.67%) Windows
5 2 (0.83%) Android
5 2 (0.83%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.83%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.42%) AIX
6 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (50.83%) DevOps
2 82 (34.17%) Infrastructure as Code
3 66 (27.50%) Agile
4 65 (27.08%) Containerisation
5 63 (26.25%) Test Automation
6 59 (24.58%) AI
7 52 (21.67%) Observability
8 50 (20.83%) Analytics
9 44 (18.33%) Microservices
10 42 (17.50%) Data Engineering
11 40 (16.67%) Software Engineering
12 38 (15.83%) Platform Engineering
13 33 (13.75%) Event-Driven
13 33 (13.75%) Migration
14 31 (12.92%) Data Modelling
15 30 (12.50%) Machine Learning
16 29 (12.08%) Data Pipeline
16 29 (12.08%) Stakeholder Management
17 27 (11.25%) Performance Tuning
18 25 (10.42%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 80 (33.33%) Python
2 56 (23.33%) SQL
3 52 (21.67%) Java
4 25 (10.42%) C#
4 25 (10.42%) TypeScript
5 16 (6.67%) JavaScript
6 15 (6.25%) PowerShell
7 14 (5.83%) Bash
8 11 (4.58%) Bicep
9 5 (2.08%) Ruby
10 4 (1.67%) Apex Code
10 4 (1.67%) Korn
10 4 (1.67%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.25%) Swift
12 2 (0.83%) ActionScript
12 2 (0.83%) ActionScript 2.0
12 2 (0.83%) Go
12 2 (0.83%) Scala
13 1 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (25.42%) Security Cleared
2 57 (23.75%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.17%) DV Cleared
4 8 (3.33%) DBS Check
5 7 (2.92%) Degree
6 5 (2.08%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.25%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.83%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.83%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.42%) CEH
9 1 (0.42%) CHECK Team Leader
9 1 (0.42%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.42%) OSCP
9 1 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.75%) QA
2 13 (5.42%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.33%) GDPR
4 7 (2.92%) SLA
5 6 (2.50%) Accessibility
5 6 (2.50%) EU AI Act
6 4 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.67%) NCSC
7 3 (1.25%) NIST
8 2 (0.83%) EMIR
8 2 (0.83%) MiFID
8 2 (0.83%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.83%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.42%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.42%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.42%) PSD2
9 1 (0.42%) SEPA
9 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 60 (25.00%) Docker
2 8 (3.33%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.92%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.42%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.42%) Varnish
4 1 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.42%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.42%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 82 (34.17%) Kubernetes
2 59 (24.58%) Terraform
3 18 (7.50%) Prometheus
4 17 (7.08%) Grafana
5 12 (5.00%) Ansible
6 4 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.83%) Argo
7 2 (0.83%) Istio
7 2 (0.83%) Puppet
8 1 (0.42%) CA Wily
8 1 (0.42%) Consul
8 1 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.42%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.42%) Salt
8 1 (0.42%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.42%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 38 (15.83%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.58%) Databricks
3 17 (7.08%) Google
4 12 (5.00%) Oracle
5 8 (3.33%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.50%) Dynatrace
7 5 (2.08%) IBM
8 4 (1.67%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.67%) Splunk
9 3 (1.25%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.25%) Informatica
9 3 (1.25%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.25%) SAP
9 3 (1.25%) VMware
10 2 (0.83%) Apple
10 2 (0.83%) Axway
10 2 (0.83%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.83%) Software AG
10 2 (0.83%) Sybase
10 2 (0.83%) webMethods