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 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 16 18
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 216 191 180
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 9.33% 11.32% 8.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.00% 12.09% 9.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 115 130
10th Percentile £363 £413 £425
25th Percentile £455 £500 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -2.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £638 £695 £715
90th Percentile £763 £783 £800
Central London median daily rate £575 £583 £600
% change year-on-year -1.29% -2.92% -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 1,963 1,580 1,960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 84.76% 93.60% 90.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,342 993 1,378
10th Percentile £359 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +1.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £558 £550
% change year-on-year -1.35% +1.36% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 12 12
10th Percentile £17.69 £22.18 £19.95
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.43 £20.22
Median hourly rate £26.64 £29.58 £25.63
Median % change year-on-year -9.94% +15.41% -26.79%
75th Percentile £52.24 £45.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.25 £41.65
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -20.54%

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 22 May 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 17 (7.87%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.24%) Apache
2 7 (3.24%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.24%) Confluence
3 3 (1.39%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.39%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.93%) Camunda
4 2 (0.93%) Ethereum
4 2 (0.93%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.46%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.46%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.46%) nginx
5 1 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.46%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (1.39%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.46%) Maya
Business Applications
1 3 (1.39%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.93%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.46%) Magento
3 1 (0.46%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.46%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.46%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.46%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 100 (46.30%) AWS
2 88 (40.74%) Azure
3 53 (24.54%) GitHub
4 36 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 35 (16.20%) GitHub Actions
6 33 (15.28%) GCP
7 31 (14.35%) Serverless
8 23 (10.65%) Power Platform
9 22 (10.19%) Amazon S3
10 21 (9.72%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (7.87%) Snowflake
12 15 (6.94%) AWS CloudFormation
13 13 (6.02%) Azure AKS
14 12 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 11 (5.09%) Azure Data Factory
15 11 (5.09%) dbt
16 10 (4.63%) Amazon EC2
17 9 (4.17%) Amazon Kinesis
17 9 (4.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 8 (3.70%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.78%) Firewall
2 4 (1.85%) Network Security
3 3 (1.39%) DNS
4 2 (0.93%) FTP
4 2 (0.93%) HTTP
4 2 (0.93%) Multicast
5 1 (0.46%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.46%) Internet
5 1 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.46%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.46%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.80%) NoSQL
2 17 (7.87%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (6.94%) Power BI
4 11 (5.09%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (5.09%) DynamoDB
5 10 (4.63%) SQL Server
6 9 (4.17%) Metadata
7 8 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (3.70%) Relational Database
8 7 (3.24%) MongoDB
8 7 (3.24%) Snowflake Schema
9 6 (2.78%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (2.78%) Data Lake
9 6 (2.78%) Redis
10 5 (2.31%) Apache Cassandra
10 5 (2.31%) Data Mining
11 4 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.85%) Big Data
11 4 (1.85%) Delta Lake
11 4 (1.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 43 (19.91%) Git
2 35 (16.20%) Jenkins
3 21 (9.72%) GitLab
4 19 (8.80%) JIRA
5 11 (5.09%) Postman
6 10 (4.63%) JUnit
7 7 (3.24%) Mockito
8 6 (2.78%) Cucumber
9 5 (2.31%) Gradle
9 5 (2.31%) JMeter
9 5 (2.31%) Selenium
10 4 (1.85%) Liquibase
10 4 (1.85%) REST Assured
11 3 (1.39%) Gatling
11 3 (1.39%) Maven
12 2 (0.93%) Ant
12 2 (0.93%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.93%) Zephyr
13 1 (0.46%) Bitbucket
13 1 (0.46%) SpecFlow
General
1 78 (36.11%) Finance
2 51 (23.61%) Social Skills
3 35 (16.20%) Banking
4 19 (8.80%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.24%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.31%) Front Office
7 5 (2.31%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.31%) Legal
8 3 (1.39%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.39%) Marketing
8 3 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.46%) Aviation
10 1 (0.46%) Games
10 1 (0.46%) Law
10 1 (0.46%) Military
10 1 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.46%) Police
Job Titles
1 39 (18.06%) Senior
2 35 (16.20%) Architect
3 34 (15.74%) Developer
4 22 (10.19%) DevOps Engineer
5 20 (9.26%) Data Engineer
6 19 (8.80%) Lead
7 16 (7.41%) Senior Developer
8 12 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
9 11 (5.09%) Java Developer
10 10 (4.63%) Solutions Architect
11 9 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
11 9 (4.17%) Python Engineer
11 9 (4.17%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 9 (4.17%) Snowflake Engineer
12 8 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 8 (3.70%) Cloud Architect
12 8 (3.70%) Data Architect
12 8 (3.70%) GCP Engineer
12 8 (3.70%) Security Engineer
12 8 (3.70%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (14.81%) Kafka
2 28 (12.96%) Spring
3 26 (12.04%) REST
4 25 (11.57%) Spring Boot
5 22 (10.19%) React
6 12 (5.56%) RESTful
7 11 (5.09%) .NET
8 10 (4.63%) Node.js
8 10 (4.63%) OpenTelemetry
9 9 (4.17%) Playwright
10 8 (3.70%) Django
10 8 (3.70%) GraphQL
10 8 (3.70%) SOAP
11 7 (3.24%) AngularJS
11 7 (3.24%) HTML
11 7 (3.24%) PySpark
11 7 (3.24%) YAML
12 6 (2.78%) JSON
12 6 (2.78%) Model Context Protocol
12 6 (2.78%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 62 (28.70%) Cloud Native
2 26 (12.04%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.63%) AI Agents
4 8 (3.70%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.31%) Clustering
5 5 (2.31%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.31%) Equities
6 4 (1.85%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.39%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.39%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.39%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.93%) IoT
8 2 (0.93%) NHS
8 2 (0.93%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.09%) Linux
2 4 (1.85%) Windows
3 3 (1.39%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.39%) Unix
4 2 (0.93%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.46%) AIX
5 1 (0.46%) Android
5 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.46%) VMS
5 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (53.70%) DevOps
2 81 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 62 (28.70%) Containerisation
4 56 (25.93%) Agile
5 55 (25.46%) Observability
6 54 (25.00%) AI
6 54 (25.00%) Test Automation
7 42 (19.44%) Analytics
8 41 (18.98%) Microservices
9 37 (17.13%) Data Engineering
10 35 (16.20%) Software Engineering
11 31 (14.35%) Platform Engineering
12 29 (13.43%) Data Pipeline
12 29 (13.43%) Event-Driven
13 27 (12.50%) Machine Learning
13 27 (12.50%) Migration
13 27 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
14 25 (11.57%) Data Modelling
14 25 (11.57%) Roadmaps
15 22 (10.19%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 78 (36.11%) Python
2 51 (23.61%) Java
3 50 (23.15%) SQL
4 22 (10.19%) TypeScript
5 20 (9.26%) JavaScript
6 19 (8.80%) C#
7 14 (6.48%) Bash
7 14 (6.48%) PowerShell
8 11 (5.09%) Bicep
9 5 (2.31%) Ruby
10 4 (1.85%) Apex Code
10 4 (1.85%) Korn
11 3 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.39%) Go
11 3 (1.39%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.93%) PHP
12 2 (0.93%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.93%) Scala
13 1 (0.46%) ActionScript 2.0
13 1 (0.46%) XPath
Qualifications
1 52 (24.07%) Security Cleared
2 49 (22.69%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.70%) Degree
4 6 (2.78%) DBS Check
4 6 (2.78%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.31%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.85%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.93%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.93%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.46%) CCNA
8 1 (0.46%) CEH
8 1 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.46%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.41%) QA
2 13 (6.02%) Data Quality
3 11 (5.09%) GDPR
4 7 (3.24%) SLA
5 4 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.39%) NCSC
6 3 (1.39%) NIST
6 3 (1.39%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.93%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.93%) EMIR
7 2 (0.93%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.93%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.93%) MiFID
7 2 (0.93%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.93%) PSD2
7 2 (0.93%) SEPA
8 1 (0.46%) WCAG
System Software
1 64 (29.63%) Docker
2 7 (3.24%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.24%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.46%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (0.46%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 78 (36.11%) Kubernetes
2 59 (27.31%) Terraform
3 20 (9.26%) Prometheus
4 17 (7.87%) Grafana
5 15 (6.94%) Ansible
6 4 (1.85%) Argo
6 4 (1.85%) Istio
7 3 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.93%) Puppet
9 1 (0.46%) CA Wily
9 1 (0.46%) Consul
9 1 (0.46%) Icinga
9 1 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.46%) Karpenter
9 1 (0.46%) Kibana
9 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.46%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.46%) Packer
9 1 (0.46%) Salt
9 1 (0.46%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 38 (17.59%) Microsoft
2 20 (9.26%) Databricks
3 15 (6.94%) Google
4 10 (4.63%) Oracle
5 7 (3.24%) Dynatrace
5 7 (3.24%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.31%) OpenAI
6 5 (2.31%) Splunk
7 4 (1.85%) IBM
7 4 (1.85%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.39%) Informatica
8 3 (1.39%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.39%) SAP
9 2 (0.93%) Confluent
9 2 (0.93%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.93%) Foundry
9 2 (0.93%) SimCorp
9 2 (0.93%) Tenable
9 2 (0.93%) Vermilion
9 2 (0.93%) VMware