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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 16 19
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 -3
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 261 189 184
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 10.94% 10.07% 8.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.57% 10.72% 9.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 120 131
10th Percentile £421 £406 £425
25th Percentile £475 £519 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - -
75th Percentile £650 £700 £750
90th Percentile £727 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £625 £608
% change year-on-year -12.00% +2.88% -2.80%
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 2,076 1,763 1,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.01% 93.98% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,402 1,149 1,284
10th Percentile £368 £331 £363
25th Percentile £456 £425 £463
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 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 22 17
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.57 £19.53
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 £29.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.45% +10.19% -22.86%
75th Percentile £41.25 £54.75 £78.75
90th Percentile £60.78 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £31.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -25.29% +3.33% -14.29%

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 29 July 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 14 (5.36%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (4.60%) Confluence
3 7 (2.68%) Apache
3 7 (2.68%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.92%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.15%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.38%) Camunda
6 1 (0.38%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.38%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.38%) nginx
6 1 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.38%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (0.77%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.38%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (1.92%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.77%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.38%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.38%) Magento
3 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.38%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.38%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.38%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 104 (39.85%) AWS
2 103 (39.46%) Azure
3 62 (23.75%) GitHub
4 40 (15.33%) Azure DevOps
5 37 (14.18%) GCP
5 37 (14.18%) GitHub Actions
6 33 (12.64%) Power Platform
7 29 (11.11%) Serverless
8 24 (9.20%) Amazon S3
9 19 (7.28%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (6.51%) Snowflake
11 14 (5.36%) Azure AKS
11 14 (5.36%) Azure Data Factory
12 12 (4.60%) Amazon Kinesis
12 12 (4.60%) dbt
13 11 (4.21%) Amazon Bedrock
13 11 (4.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (4.21%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (4.21%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (3.83%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.45%) Firewall
2 7 (2.68%) Network Security
3 4 (1.53%) VPN
4 3 (1.15%) DNS
4 3 (1.15%) FTP
5 2 (0.77%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.77%) Internet
5 2 (0.77%) Multicast
6 1 (0.38%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.38%) SSL
6 1 (0.38%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (9.20%) Power BI
2 18 (6.90%) NoSQL
3 16 (6.13%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (5.75%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (4.98%) SQL Server
6 11 (4.21%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (4.21%) DynamoDB
7 10 (3.83%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (3.83%) MongoDB
8 8 (3.07%) Data Lake
9 7 (2.68%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (2.68%) Metadata
9 7 (2.68%) Relational Database
10 6 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (2.30%) Star Schema
11 5 (1.92%) Data Mining
11 5 (1.92%) Snowflake Schema
12 4 (1.53%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (1.53%) Data Mart
12 4 (1.53%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 45 (17.24%) Git
2 35 (13.41%) Jenkins
3 25 (9.58%) GitLab
4 22 (8.43%) JIRA
5 14 (5.36%) JUnit
6 9 (3.45%) Cucumber
6 9 (3.45%) Mockito
6 9 (3.45%) Postman
7 7 (2.68%) Selenium
8 6 (2.30%) Gradle
8 6 (2.30%) JMeter
9 4 (1.53%) Liquibase
9 4 (1.53%) Maven
9 4 (1.53%) REST Assured
10 3 (1.15%) Appium
10 3 (1.15%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.15%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.15%) Gatling
11 2 (0.77%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.77%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 93 (35.63%) Finance
2 73 (27.97%) Social Skills
3 42 (16.09%) Banking
4 23 (8.81%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (8.81%) Public Sector
5 9 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (2.68%) Front Office
7 6 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.92%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.53%) Military
9 4 (1.53%) Retail
10 3 (1.15%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.15%) Law
10 3 (1.15%) Legal
11 2 (0.77%) Back Office
11 2 (0.77%) Marketing
11 2 (0.77%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.38%) Advertising
12 1 (0.38%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 49 (18.77%) Senior
2 44 (16.86%) Developer
3 37 (14.18%) Architect
4 26 (9.96%) Data Engineer
5 22 (8.43%) Lead
6 20 (7.66%) DevOps Engineer
7 18 (6.90%) Senior Developer
8 14 (5.36%) Software Engineer
9 13 (4.98%) Java Developer
10 12 (4.60%) Azure Engineer
11 10 (3.83%) Cloud Engineer
11 10 (3.83%) Data Architect
11 10 (3.83%) Python Engineer
12 9 (3.45%) Security Engineer
12 9 (3.45%) Senior Java Developer
12 9 (3.45%) Technical Architect
13 8 (3.07%) Automation Engineer
13 8 (3.07%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 8 (3.07%) Platform Engineer
13 8 (3.07%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (13.03%) Kafka
1 34 (13.03%) REST
2 31 (11.88%) Spring
3 27 (10.34%) Spring Boot
4 25 (9.58%) React
5 18 (6.90%) .NET
6 14 (5.36%) Playwright
6 14 (5.36%) RESTful
7 12 (4.60%) PySpark
7 12 (4.60%) SOAP
8 11 (4.21%) AngularJS
8 11 (4.21%) HTML
8 11 (4.21%) Node.js
9 9 (3.45%) GraphQL
10 7 (2.68%) CSS
10 7 (2.68%) JSON
10 7 (2.68%) RabbitMQ
10 7 (2.68%) YAML
11 6 (2.30%) Middleware
11 6 (2.30%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 78 (29.89%) Cloud Native
2 34 (13.03%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (6.13%) AI Agents
4 9 (3.45%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.68%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.53%) Clustering
8 4 (1.53%) Equities
8 4 (1.53%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.53%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.53%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.15%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.15%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.15%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.21%) Linux
2 9 (3.45%) Apple iOS
3 8 (3.07%) Unix
4 4 (1.53%) Android
4 4 (1.53%) Windows
5 3 (1.15%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.77%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.38%) AIX
7 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (52.49%) DevOps
2 85 (32.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 72 (27.59%) Agile
4 70 (26.82%) Test Automation
5 68 (26.05%) Containerisation
6 60 (22.99%) AI
7 54 (20.69%) Observability
8 53 (20.31%) Analytics
9 52 (19.92%) Microservices
10 48 (18.39%) Software Engineering
11 43 (16.48%) Data Engineering
12 42 (16.09%) Event-Driven
13 41 (15.71%) Platform Engineering
14 38 (14.56%) Data Modelling
15 37 (14.18%) Migration
16 35 (13.41%) Stakeholder Management
17 31 (11.88%) Data Pipeline
18 29 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
18 29 (11.11%) Roadmaps
19 28 (10.73%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 87 (33.33%) Python
2 65 (24.90%) SQL
3 58 (22.22%) Java
4 27 (10.34%) TypeScript
5 26 (9.96%) C#
6 22 (8.43%) JavaScript
7 16 (6.13%) PowerShell
8 14 (5.36%) Bash
9 12 (4.60%) Bicep
10 6 (2.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (1.92%) Apex Code
11 5 (1.92%) Korn
11 5 (1.92%) Ruby
11 5 (1.92%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.15%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.15%) Swift
13 2 (0.77%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.77%) ActionScript 2.0
13 2 (0.77%) Go
13 2 (0.77%) Scala
Qualifications
1 69 (26.44%) Security Cleared
2 62 (23.75%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.60%) DV Cleared
4 8 (3.07%) DBS Check
4 8 (3.07%) Degree
5 6 (2.30%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.15%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.77%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.77%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.38%) CHECK Team Leader
10 1 (0.38%) CISSP
10 1 (0.38%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.38%) PMP
10 1 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.34%) QA
2 14 (5.36%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.07%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.68%) EU AI Act
4 7 (2.68%) SLA
5 6 (2.30%) GDPR
6 5 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.92%) NCSC
7 4 (1.53%) NIST
8 2 (0.77%) EMIR
8 2 (0.77%) MiFID
8 2 (0.77%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.77%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 61 (23.37%) Docker
2 8 (3.07%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.38%) Firmware
5 1 (0.38%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 1 (0.38%) Varnish
5 1 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.38%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 84 (32.18%) Kubernetes
2 63 (24.14%) Terraform
3 19 (7.28%) Grafana
3 19 (7.28%) Prometheus
4 11 (4.21%) Ansible
5 4 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.77%) Puppet
7 1 (0.38%) Argo
7 1 (0.38%) Bosun
7 1 (0.38%) CA Wily
7 1 (0.38%) Consul
7 1 (0.38%) Istio
7 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.38%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.38%) Salt
7 1 (0.38%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.38%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 49 (18.77%) Microsoft
2 26 (9.96%) Databricks
3 21 (8.05%) Google
4 15 (5.75%) Oracle
5 9 (3.45%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.68%) Splunk
7 6 (2.30%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.92%) IBM
8 5 (1.92%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.92%) SAP
9 4 (1.53%) AppDynamics
9 4 (1.53%) VMware
10 3 (1.15%) Apple
10 3 (1.15%) Informatica
10 3 (1.15%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.77%) Fortinet
11 2 (0.77%) Software AG
11 2 (0.77%) Sybase
11 2 (0.77%) webMethods
11 2 (0.77%) Workday