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 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 15 27
Rank change year-on-year -5 +12 -6
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 186 193 159
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 9.73% 10.62% 6.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.93% 11.61% 7.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 120 117
10th Percentile £343 £413 £425
25th Percentile £413 £491 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £638 £695 £713
90th Percentile £788 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -8.70% -8.00% -1.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.75
Median hourly rate - - £48.50
75th Percentile - - £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £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 1,702 1,663 2,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.06% 91.47% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,180 996 1,520
10th Percentile £352 £363 £350
25th Percentile £428 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £569
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +1.05% -5.17%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £778 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 8 13
10th Percentile £20.10 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £23.30 £28.94 £18.93
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.05% +62.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £45.08 £64.56 £46.75
90th Percentile £54.94 £112.00 £69.05
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -17.60%

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 11 February 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 8 (4.30%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.76%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.15%) Confluence
4 3 (1.61%) Apache
4 3 (1.61%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.08%) CMS
5 2 (1.08%) Ethereum
5 2 (1.08%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.54%) Camunda
6 1 (0.54%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.54%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.08%) Shopify
2 1 (0.54%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.54%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.54%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.54%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 84 (45.16%) AWS
2 72 (38.71%) Azure
3 48 (25.81%) GitHub
4 38 (20.43%) GitHub Actions
5 35 (18.82%) GCP
6 30 (16.13%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (13.44%) Serverless
8 19 (10.22%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (8.60%) Amazon S3
10 13 (6.99%) AWS CloudFormation
11 12 (6.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 11 (5.91%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (5.91%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 11 (5.91%) Snowflake
13 10 (5.38%) Power Platform
14 9 (4.84%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (4.30%) Apigee
16 7 (3.76%) Azure AKS
16 7 (3.76%) Azure Key Vault
17 6 (3.23%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.69%) Network Security
2 4 (2.15%) DNS
2 4 (2.15%) Firewall
3 2 (1.08%) HTTP
4 1 (0.54%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.53%) Relational Database
2 12 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (4.84%) DynamoDB
3 9 (4.84%) MySQL
3 9 (4.84%) NoSQL
4 8 (4.30%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.76%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (3.23%) Metadata
6 6 (3.23%) Power BI
6 6 (3.23%) SQL Server
7 5 (2.69%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (2.69%) BigQuery
7 5 (2.69%) Redis
8 3 (1.61%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (1.61%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.61%) Pinecone
8 3 (1.61%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.08%) CockroachDB
9 2 (1.08%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 43 (23.12%) Git
2 32 (17.20%) Jenkins
3 17 (9.14%) GitLab
4 14 (7.53%) JIRA
5 10 (5.38%) Selenium
6 9 (4.84%) Cucumber
7 7 (3.76%) JUnit
8 6 (3.23%) Postman
9 5 (2.69%) Bitbucket
9 5 (2.69%) REST Assured
10 4 (2.15%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.61%) Gatling
11 3 (1.61%) Mockito
12 2 (1.08%) CocoaPods
12 2 (1.08%) Crashlytics
12 2 (1.08%) fastlane
12 2 (1.08%) Gradle
12 2 (1.08%) Snyk
12 2 (1.08%) SonarQube
12 2 (1.08%) TeamCity
General
1 68 (36.56%) Finance
2 51 (27.42%) Social Skills
3 33 (17.74%) Banking
4 9 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (4.84%) Front Office
5 8 (4.30%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.23%) Financial Institution
6 6 (3.23%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.61%) Law
9 3 (1.61%) Legal
10 2 (1.08%) Back Office
10 2 (1.08%) Marketing
10 2 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.08%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.54%) Local Government
11 1 (0.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (20.97%) Developer
2 31 (16.67%) Senior
3 28 (15.05%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (9.68%) Architect
5 16 (8.60%) Lead
6 13 (6.99%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 13 (6.99%) Data Engineer
7 12 (6.45%) Python Engineer
8 10 (5.38%) Platform Engineer
8 10 (5.38%) Senior Developer
9 9 (4.84%) GCP Engineer
10 8 (4.30%) Java Developer
11 7 (3.76%) Cloud Architect
12 6 (3.23%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (3.23%) Full-Stack Developer
13 5 (2.69%) AWS Engineer
13 5 (2.69%) Azure Engineer
13 5 (2.69%) iOS Developer
13 5 (2.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 5 (2.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.22%) React
2 16 (8.60%) Node.js
2 16 (8.60%) REST
2 16 (8.60%) RESTful
3 14 (7.53%) OAuth
4 13 (6.99%) HTML
4 13 (6.99%) Kafka
5 12 (6.45%) CSS
6 11 (5.91%) .NET
7 10 (5.38%) Spring
8 9 (4.84%) Playwright
8 9 (4.84%) Spring Boot
9 8 (4.30%) GraphQL
9 8 (4.30%) OpenTelemetry
10 7 (3.76%) HTML5
10 7 (3.76%) JSON
10 7 (3.76%) JWT
11 6 (3.23%) AngularJS
11 6 (3.23%) LangChain
11 6 (3.23%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 34 (18.28%) Cloud Native
2 15 (8.06%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.38%) Product Ownership
4 9 (4.84%) AI Agents
5 7 (3.76%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.23%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.23%) Mobile App
6 6 (3.23%) Virtual Team
7 5 (2.69%) Algorithms
7 5 (2.69%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.69%) Fixed Income
8 4 (2.15%) Equities
8 4 (2.15%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.61%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.61%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.61%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.99%) Linux
2 7 (3.76%) Apple iOS
3 5 (2.69%) Android
4 4 (2.15%) Windows
5 2 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (47.31%) DevOps
2 64 (34.41%) Infrastructure as Code
3 56 (30.11%) Agile
4 47 (25.27%) Test Automation
5 41 (22.04%) AI
6 38 (20.43%) Containerisation
7 36 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (17.20%) Microservices
9 30 (16.13%) Observability
10 26 (13.98%) Design Patterns
11 25 (13.44%) Analytics
12 24 (12.90%) Performance Tuning
13 23 (12.37%) Machine Learning
13 23 (12.37%) Software Engineering
14 22 (11.83%) Data Pipeline
15 20 (10.75%) Generative AI
16 19 (10.22%) Data Engineering
17 18 (9.68%) Data Governance
17 18 (9.68%) Platform Engineering
18 17 (9.14%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 77 (41.40%) Python
2 39 (20.97%) Java
3 33 (17.74%) SQL
4 20 (10.75%) JavaScript
5 18 (9.68%) TypeScript
6 13 (6.99%) C#
7 10 (5.38%) Bash
8 7 (3.76%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.69%) Kotlin
10 4 (2.15%) Go
10 4 (2.15%) Ruby
10 4 (2.15%) Swift
11 3 (1.61%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.61%) Bicep
11 3 (1.61%) Korn
11 3 (1.61%) Objective-C
11 3 (1.61%) PHP
11 3 (1.61%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.08%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.08%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 36 (19.35%) Security Cleared
2 35 (18.82%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.76%) Degree
4 4 (2.15%) AWS Certification
4 4 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.15%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.08%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.08%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.54%) CCNA
6 1 (0.54%) CCSP
6 1 (0.54%) CISSP
6 1 (0.54%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.54%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.14%) GDPR
2 14 (7.53%) QA
3 13 (6.99%) Data Quality
4 8 (4.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (3.23%) Accessibility
5 6 (3.23%) NIST
5 6 (3.23%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.61%) EU AI Act
7 2 (1.08%) ISO 20022
7 2 (1.08%) ISO 8583
7 2 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 2 (1.08%) NCSC
7 2 (1.08%) PSD2
7 2 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.08%) SEPA
8 1 (0.54%) GRC
8 1 (0.54%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.54%) SLA
8 1 (0.54%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 51 (27.42%) Docker
2 6 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 64 (34.41%) Terraform
2 57 (30.65%) Kubernetes
3 17 (9.14%) Ansible
4 11 (5.91%) Prometheus
5 10 (5.38%) Grafana
6 6 (3.23%) Argo
7 5 (2.69%) Istio
8 4 (2.15%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.08%) Kibana
9 2 (1.08%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.54%) Icinga
10 1 (0.54%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.54%) Karpenter
10 1 (0.54%) logstash
10 1 (0.54%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.54%) Packer
10 1 (0.54%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 27 (14.52%) Microsoft
2 23 (12.37%) Google
3 19 (10.22%) Databricks
4 9 (4.84%) Oracle
5 7 (3.76%) OpenAI
6 6 (3.23%) Salesforce
6 6 (3.23%) Splunk
7 4 (2.15%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.61%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.08%) Apple
9 2 (1.08%) Confluent
9 2 (1.08%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.08%) SimCorp
9 2 (1.08%) UiPath
9 2 (1.08%) Vermilion
10 1 (0.54%) Adobe
10 1 (0.54%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.54%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.54%) SAP
10 1 (0.54%) TIBCO