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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 17 20
Rank change year-on-year +7 +3 -1
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 300 163 179
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 13.62% 9.44% 8.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.24% 10.01% 9.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 111 130
10th Percentile £425 £406 £462
25th Percentile £474 £510 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £613 £650
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% -5.77% +8.33%
75th Percentile £639 £688 £750
90th Percentile £738 £800 £802
Central London median daily rate £550 £610 £650
% change year-on-year -9.84% -6.15% +7.84%
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 1,968 1,629 1,952
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.37% 94.33% 91.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,358 1,094 1,216
10th Percentile £368 £325 £371
25th Percentile £455 £423 £475
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 £792
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 19 19
10th Percentile £16.91 £16.96 £15.60
25th Percentile £17.60 £22.88 £21.25
Median hourly rate £20.25 £28.15 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.06% -26.88% +40.00%
75th Percentile £29.78 £50.25 £102.25
90th Percentile £51.54 £68.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £28.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -12.28% -18.57% +30.84%

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 28 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 14 (4.67%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (4.33%) Confluence
3 11 (3.67%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.00%) Apache
5 4 (1.33%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.67%) CMS
6 2 (0.67%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.33%) Anypoint
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 (0.67%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.33%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.00%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.00%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.67%) 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
1 140 (46.67%) Azure
2 114 (38.00%) AWS
3 68 (22.67%) GitHub
4 51 (17.00%) Azure DevOps
5 45 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
6 44 (14.67%) GCP
7 39 (13.00%) Serverless
8 36 (12.00%) Power Platform
9 25 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
10 24 (8.00%) Amazon S3
11 23 (7.67%) AWS Lambda
12 17 (5.67%) Snowflake
13 16 (5.33%) Azure AKS
14 14 (4.67%) Azure Databricks
14 14 (4.67%) Azure Monitor
15 13 (4.33%) Amazon EKS
15 13 (4.33%) dbt
16 12 (4.00%) Amazon Bedrock
16 12 (4.00%) SaaS
17 11 (3.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.00%) Firewall
2 6 (2.00%) DNS
2 6 (2.00%) Network Security
3 5 (1.67%) VPN
4 4 (1.33%) Internet
5 3 (1.00%) FTP
6 2 (0.67%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.67%) Multicast
6 2 (0.67%) SSL
7 1 (0.33%) BGP
7 1 (0.33%) DHCP
7 1 (0.33%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.33%) Intelligent Network
7 1 (0.33%) NX-OS
7 1 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.33%) tcpdump
7 1 (0.33%) VoIP
7 1 (0.33%) VSAN
7 1 (0.33%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (8.67%) Power BI
2 20 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (4.67%) Data Lake
4 14 (4.67%) SQL Server
5 13 (4.33%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (4.33%) NoSQL
6 12 (4.00%) Amazon Athena
6 12 (4.00%) Metadata
7 9 (3.00%) Delta Lake
7 9 (3.00%) MongoDB
7 9 (3.00%) Relational Database
8 7 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (2.33%) Star Schema
9 6 (2.00%) DynamoDB
10 5 (1.67%) Data Mining
10 5 (1.67%) Semantic Layer
11 4 (1.33%) Big Data
11 4 (1.33%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 46 (15.33%) Git
2 39 (13.00%) Jenkins
3 35 (11.67%) GitLab
4 26 (8.67%) JIRA
5 12 (4.00%) JUnit
6 11 (3.67%) Postman
7 10 (3.33%) Selenium
8 9 (3.00%) Cucumber
8 9 (3.00%) JMeter
9 8 (2.67%) Bitbucket
9 8 (2.67%) Gradle
9 8 (2.67%) Mockito
10 7 (2.33%) Maven
11 5 (1.67%) Visual Studio
12 4 (1.33%) Appium
12 4 (1.33%) Cypress.io
12 4 (1.33%) Gatling
12 4 (1.33%) SonarQube
13 3 (1.00%) REST Assured
13 3 (1.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 106 (35.33%) Finance
2 85 (28.33%) Social Skills
3 55 (18.33%) Banking
4 36 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (7.33%) Public Sector
6 15 (5.00%) Front Office
7 9 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (2.67%) Investment Banking
9 7 (2.33%) Back Office
10 6 (2.00%) Marketing
11 5 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.67%) Retail
12 4 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.33%) Military
12 4 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (1.00%) Law
13 3 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.67%) Legal
14 2 (0.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 59 (19.67%) Developer
1 59 (19.67%) Senior
2 51 (17.00%) Architect
3 37 (12.33%) Data Engineer
4 20 (6.67%) Lead
5 19 (6.33%) Senior Developer
6 17 (5.67%) DevOps Engineer
7 14 (4.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 14 (4.67%) Cloud Engineer
7 14 (4.67%) Data Architect
7 14 (4.67%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (4.33%) Automation Engineer
8 13 (4.33%) Azure Engineer
8 13 (4.33%) Java Developer
8 13 (4.33%) Senior Data Engineer
9 11 (3.67%) Software Engineer
10 10 (3.33%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (3.00%) GCP Engineer
11 9 (3.00%) Senior Java Developer
12 7 (2.33%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (27.67%) Terraform
2 44 (14.67%) REST
3 31 (10.33%) Kafka
4 30 (10.00%) Spring
5 28 (9.33%) Spring Boot
6 27 (9.00%) .NET
7 22 (7.33%) React
8 19 (6.33%) PySpark
8 19 (6.33%) RESTful
9 17 (5.67%) SOAP
10 16 (5.33%) HTML
11 13 (4.33%) Middleware
12 12 (4.00%) JSON
13 11 (3.67%) AngularJS
14 9 (3.00%) CSS
14 9 (3.00%) Playwright
14 9 (3.00%) YAML
15 8 (2.67%) Node.js
15 8 (2.67%) RabbitMQ
15 8 (2.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 90 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 29 (9.67%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (8.33%) AI Agents
4 17 (5.67%) Onboarding
5 15 (5.00%) Product Ownership
5 15 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (3.67%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.67%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.67%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.67%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.33%) CMDB
10 4 (1.33%) Derivative
10 4 (1.33%) Equities
11 3 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (1.00%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.00%) Mobile Banking
12 2 (0.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 19 (6.33%) Linux
2 13 (4.33%) Windows
3 11 (3.67%) Unix
4 8 (2.67%) Apple iOS
5 6 (2.00%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.67%) Android
7 1 (0.33%) CentOS
7 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (50.67%) DevOps
2 105 (35.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 92 (30.67%) Agile
4 80 (26.67%) Test Automation
5 69 (23.00%) Containerisation
6 67 (22.33%) AI
7 59 (19.67%) Analytics
8 57 (19.00%) Software Engineering
9 56 (18.67%) Observability
10 54 (18.00%) Microservices
11 53 (17.67%) Data Engineering
12 47 (15.67%) Data Modelling
12 47 (15.67%) Event-Driven
12 47 (15.67%) Problem-Solving
13 43 (14.33%) Stakeholder Management
14 42 (14.00%) Data Pipeline
15 41 (13.67%) Platform Engineering
16 40 (13.33%) Migration
17 37 (12.33%) Continuous Improvement
18 33 (11.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 120 (40.00%) Python
2 83 (27.67%) SQL
3 61 (20.33%) Java
4 37 (12.33%) C#
5 30 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 29 (9.67%) PowerShell
7 25 (8.33%) TypeScript
8 15 (5.00%) Bicep
9 14 (4.67%) Bash
10 11 (3.67%) Korn
11 10 (3.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (2.00%) Kotlin
12 6 (2.00%) Scala
13 4 (1.33%) Swift
14 3 (1.00%) Apex Code
14 3 (1.00%) Ruby
14 3 (1.00%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.67%) ActionScript 2.0
15 2 (0.67%) Perl
15 2 (0.67%) R
Qualifications
1 80 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 67 (22.33%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.33%) DV Cleared
4 9 (3.00%) Degree
5 8 (2.67%) DBS Check
6 5 (1.67%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.33%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.00%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.00%) PMP
9 2 (0.67%) CISSP
9 2 (0.67%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.33%) CHECK Team Leader
10 1 (0.33%) CompTIA CySA+
10 1 (0.33%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.33%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 30 (10.00%) QA
2 10 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.33%) EU AI Act
4 6 (2.00%) GDPR
4 6 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.67%) NCSC
6 4 (1.33%) NIST
7 2 (0.67%) EMIR
7 2 (0.67%) MiFID
7 2 (0.67%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.67%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.67%) SLA
8 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.33%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.33%) PSD2
8 1 (0.33%) SEPA
8 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 58 (19.33%) Docker
2 5 (1.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.67%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.33%) Firmware
5 1 (0.33%) Varnish
5 1 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 88 (29.33%) Kubernetes
2 22 (7.33%) Grafana
3 19 (6.33%) Prometheus
4 17 (5.67%) Ansible
5 4 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.33%) Argo
6 1 (0.33%) Bosun
6 1 (0.33%) Consul
6 1 (0.33%) HP Fortify
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%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 62 (20.67%) Microsoft
2 46 (15.33%) Databricks
3 23 (7.67%) Google
4 14 (4.67%) Oracle
5 12 (4.00%) Dynatrace
5 12 (4.00%) Splunk
6 8 (2.67%) Salesforce
6 8 (2.67%) VMware
7 7 (2.33%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.00%) IBM
8 6 (2.00%) MuleSoft
8 6 (2.00%) SAP
9 4 (1.33%) AppDynamics
9 4 (1.33%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.00%) Foundry
11 2 (0.67%) Adyen
11 2 (0.67%) Apple
11 2 (0.67%) New Relic
11 2 (0.67%) Software AG
11 2 (0.67%) Workday