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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 16 27
Rank change year-on-year -5 +11 -5
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 179 192 165
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 9.51% 10.35% 6.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.70% 11.31% 7.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 120 121
10th Percentile £334 £413 £425
25th Percentile £413 £498 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £605
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.96% -6.92%
75th Percentile £638 £695 £713
90th Percentile £783 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £615
% change year-on-year -8.70% -6.50% -1.60%
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 1,673 1,697 2,148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.85% 91.48% 89.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,162 1,014 1,533
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £429 £463 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +0.88% -4.20%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £779 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -6.09% +2.22% -3.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 8 14
10th Percentile £20.06 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.06 £28.94 £19.18
Median hourly rate £31.00 £40.50 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.46% +28.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £42.65 £64.56 £45.06
90th Percentile £52.64 £112.00 £66.70
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -4.10%

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 8 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 (4.47%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.91%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.23%) Confluence
4 3 (1.68%) Apache
4 3 (1.68%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.12%) CMS
5 2 (1.12%) Ethereum
5 2 (1.12%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.56%) Camunda
6 1 (0.56%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.56%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.56%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.56%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.56%) R3 Corda
1 1 (0.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 82 (45.81%) AWS
2 69 (38.55%) Azure
3 46 (25.70%) GitHub
4 36 (20.11%) GitHub Actions
5 32 (17.88%) GCP
6 29 (16.20%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (13.97%) Serverless
8 19 (10.61%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (8.94%) Amazon S3
10 12 (6.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 12 (6.70%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (6.15%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (6.15%) Snowflake
12 10 (5.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 10 (5.59%) Power Platform
13 9 (5.03%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (4.47%) Apigee
15 7 (3.91%) Azure AKS
15 7 (3.91%) Azure Key Vault
16 6 (3.35%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.23%) DNS
1 4 (2.23%) Firewall
1 4 (2.23%) Network Security
2 2 (1.12%) HTTP
3 1 (0.56%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.56%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.26%) Relational Database
2 11 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (5.03%) DynamoDB
3 9 (5.03%) MySQL
3 9 (5.03%) NoSQL
4 8 (4.47%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.91%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (3.35%) Metadata
6 6 (3.35%) Power BI
7 5 (2.79%) BigQuery
7 5 (2.79%) Redis
7 5 (2.79%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.23%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.68%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (1.68%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.68%) Pinecone
9 3 (1.68%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (1.12%) CockroachDB
10 2 (1.12%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.12%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 43 (24.02%) Git
2 31 (17.32%) Jenkins
3 17 (9.50%) GitLab
4 13 (7.26%) JIRA
5 9 (5.03%) Cucumber
5 9 (5.03%) Selenium
6 7 (3.91%) JUnit
7 6 (3.35%) Postman
8 5 (2.79%) Bitbucket
9 4 (2.23%) REST Assured
10 3 (1.68%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.68%) Gatling
10 3 (1.68%) Mockito
10 3 (1.68%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.68%) TeamCity
11 2 (1.12%) Crashlytics
11 2 (1.12%) JMeter
11 2 (1.12%) SoapUI
11 2 (1.12%) WebDriver
11 2 (1.12%) Xcode
General
1 69 (38.55%) Finance
2 48 (26.82%) Social Skills
3 33 (18.44%) Banking
4 9 (5.03%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.03%) Front Office
5 7 (3.91%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.35%) Financial Institution
6 6 (3.35%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.68%) Law
8 3 (1.68%) Legal
9 2 (1.12%) Back Office
9 2 (1.12%) Marketing
9 2 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.12%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.56%) Local Government
10 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (21.79%) Developer
2 30 (16.76%) Senior
3 26 (14.53%) DevOps Engineer
4 17 (9.50%) Architect
5 15 (8.38%) Lead
6 13 (7.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 13 (7.26%) Data Engineer
7 12 (6.70%) Python Engineer
8 10 (5.59%) Platform Engineer
8 10 (5.59%) Senior Developer
9 8 (4.47%) Java Developer
10 7 (3.91%) Cloud Architect
10 7 (3.91%) GCP Engineer
11 6 (3.35%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (3.35%) Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (2.79%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 5 (2.79%) AWS Engineer
12 5 (2.79%) Azure Engineer
12 5 (2.79%) iOS Developer
12 5 (2.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (10.06%) React
2 16 (8.94%) RESTful
3 15 (8.38%) Node.js
3 15 (8.38%) REST
4 14 (7.82%) OAuth
5 13 (7.26%) Kafka
6 12 (6.70%) HTML
7 11 (6.15%) CSS
8 10 (5.59%) .NET
8 10 (5.59%) Spring
9 9 (5.03%) Spring Boot
10 8 (4.47%) GraphQL
10 8 (4.47%) OpenTelemetry
11 7 (3.91%) JSON
11 7 (3.91%) JWT
12 6 (3.35%) AngularJS
12 6 (3.35%) HTML5
12 6 (3.35%) Model Context Protocol
12 6 (3.35%) OAuth2
12 6 (3.35%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 32 (17.88%) Cloud Native
2 15 (8.38%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.59%) Product Ownership
4 9 (5.03%) AI Agents
5 7 (3.91%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.35%) Mobile App
6 6 (3.35%) Virtual Team
7 5 (2.79%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.79%) Fixed Income
8 4 (2.23%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.23%) Data Centre
8 4 (2.23%) Equities
8 4 (2.23%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.68%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.68%) Replication
10 2 (1.12%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.26%) Linux
2 7 (3.91%) Apple iOS
3 5 (2.79%) Android
3 5 (2.79%) Windows
4 2 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.56%) Unix
5 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (46.93%) DevOps
2 59 (32.96%) Infrastructure as Code
3 54 (30.17%) Agile
4 45 (25.14%) Test Automation
5 39 (21.79%) AI
6 38 (21.23%) Containerisation
7 35 (19.55%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (17.88%) Microservices
9 29 (16.20%) Observability
10 25 (13.97%) Analytics
10 25 (13.97%) Design Patterns
11 24 (13.41%) Performance Tuning
12 23 (12.85%) Software Engineering
13 22 (12.29%) Data Pipeline
13 22 (12.29%) Machine Learning
14 20 (11.17%) Generative AI
15 19 (10.61%) Data Engineering
16 18 (10.06%) Data Governance
16 18 (10.06%) Platform Engineering
17 17 (9.50%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 77 (43.02%) Python
2 38 (21.23%) Java
3 34 (18.99%) SQL
4 18 (10.06%) JavaScript
5 17 (9.50%) TypeScript
6 11 (6.15%) C#
7 10 (5.59%) Bash
8 8 (4.47%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.79%) Kotlin
10 4 (2.23%) Ruby
10 4 (2.23%) Swift
11 3 (1.68%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.68%) Bicep
11 3 (1.68%) Go
11 3 (1.68%) Korn
11 3 (1.68%) Objective-C
11 3 (1.68%) PHP
11 3 (1.68%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.12%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.12%) Rust
Qualifications
1 32 (17.88%) Security Cleared
2 31 (17.32%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.91%) Degree
4 4 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.68%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.68%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.12%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.56%) CCNA
7 1 (0.56%) CCSP
7 1 (0.56%) CISSP
7 1 (0.56%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.56%) OSCP
7 1 (0.56%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.50%) GDPR
2 13 (7.26%) Data Quality
2 13 (7.26%) QA
3 8 (4.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.35%) Accessibility
4 6 (3.35%) NIST
4 6 (3.35%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.68%) EU AI Act
6 2 (1.12%) ISO 20022
6 2 (1.12%) ISO 8583
6 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 2 (1.12%) NCSC
6 2 (1.12%) PSD2
6 2 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.12%) SEPA
7 1 (0.56%) GRC
7 1 (0.56%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.56%) SLA
7 1 (0.56%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 50 (27.93%) Docker
2 5 (2.79%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.56%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 59 (32.96%) Terraform
2 52 (29.05%) Kubernetes
3 18 (10.06%) Ansible
4 11 (6.15%) Prometheus
5 10 (5.59%) Grafana
6 6 (3.35%) Argo
7 5 (2.79%) Istio
8 4 (2.23%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.68%) Kibana
10 2 (1.12%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.56%) Icinga
11 1 (0.56%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.56%) Karpenter
11 1 (0.56%) logstash
11 1 (0.56%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.56%) Packer
11 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.56%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 27 (15.08%) Microsoft
2 21 (11.73%) Google
3 19 (10.61%) Databricks
4 9 (5.03%) Oracle
5 7 (3.91%) OpenAI
6 6 (3.35%) Salesforce
6 6 (3.35%) Splunk
7 4 (2.23%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.68%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.12%) Apple
9 2 (1.12%) Confluent
9 2 (1.12%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.12%) SimCorp
9 2 (1.12%) UiPath
9 2 (1.12%) Vermilion
10 1 (0.56%) Adobe
10 1 (0.56%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.56%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.56%) SAP
10 1 (0.56%) TIBCO