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 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 15 26
Rank change year-on-year -6 +11 -9
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 223 210 159
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 10.02% 11.99% 7.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.61% 12.95% 7.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 129 111
10th Percentile £356 £411 £425
25th Percentile £425 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £684 £715
90th Percentile £750 £750 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
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 1,920 1,621 2,018
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.29% 92.58% 90.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,322 1,035 1,426
10th Percentile £363 £363 £351
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £764 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 10 14
10th Percentile - £22.00 £17.58
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.07 £32.83 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.32% +36.77% -36.42%
75th Percentile £52.16 £47.50 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £67.38 £47.73
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £31.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -14.34% +11.47% -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 17 April 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 13 (5.83%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.69%) Apache
2 6 (2.69%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.69%) Confluence
3 3 (1.35%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.35%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.90%) Camunda
4 2 (0.90%) Ethereum
4 2 (0.90%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.45%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.45%) CMS
5 1 (0.45%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.45%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.45%) nginx
5 1 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.45%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.45%) Maya
Business Applications
1 3 (1.35%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.90%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.90%) Shopify
3 1 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.45%) Magento
3 1 (0.45%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.45%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.45%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 108 (48.43%) AWS
2 93 (41.70%) Azure
3 58 (26.01%) GitHub
4 40 (17.94%) GCP
5 37 (16.59%) Azure DevOps
6 36 (16.14%) GitHub Actions
7 33 (14.80%) Serverless
8 27 (12.11%) Amazon S3
9 25 (11.21%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (7.62%) Snowflake
11 16 (7.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (7.17%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (7.17%) Power Platform
12 13 (5.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 11 (4.93%) Azure AKS
13 11 (4.93%) dbt
14 10 (4.48%) Amazon ECS
14 10 (4.48%) Amazon Kinesis
15 9 (4.04%) Amazon EC2
15 9 (4.04%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.69%) Firewall
2 4 (1.79%) Network Security
3 2 (0.90%) DNS
3 2 (0.90%) HTTP
4 1 (0.45%) FTP
4 1 (0.45%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.45%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.45%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.07%) NoSQL
2 17 (7.62%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (6.28%) DynamoDB
4 13 (5.83%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (5.83%) Relational Database
5 12 (5.38%) MongoDB
6 10 (4.48%) Metadata
7 9 (4.04%) Power BI
8 8 (3.59%) SQL Server
9 7 (3.14%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (3.14%) Data Lake
9 7 (3.14%) MySQL
9 7 (3.14%) Snowflake Schema
10 6 (2.69%) Apache Cassandra
10 6 (2.69%) Redis
11 5 (2.24%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (2.24%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (2.24%) BigQuery
11 5 (2.24%) Data Mining
12 4 (1.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 51 (22.87%) Git
2 31 (13.90%) Jenkins
3 19 (8.52%) GitLab
4 17 (7.62%) JIRA
5 11 (4.93%) JUnit
6 8 (3.59%) Cucumber
7 7 (3.14%) Mockito
7 7 (3.14%) Postman
7 7 (3.14%) Selenium
8 4 (1.79%) Gradle
8 4 (1.79%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.35%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.35%) Liquibase
9 3 (1.35%) Maven
10 2 (0.90%) Ant
10 2 (0.90%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.90%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.90%) Gatling
11 1 (0.45%) Crashlytics
11 1 (0.45%) TestRail
General
1 73 (32.74%) Finance
2 55 (24.66%) Social Skills
3 29 (13.00%) Banking
4 19 (8.52%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.69%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.24%) Front Office
7 5 (2.24%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.79%) Law
8 4 (1.79%) Legal
8 4 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.35%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.35%) Marketing
10 1 (0.45%) Back Office
10 1 (0.45%) Games
10 1 (0.45%) Military
10 1 (0.45%) Retail
10 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (17.49%) Developer
2 37 (16.59%) Senior
3 30 (13.45%) Architect
4 29 (13.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 20 (8.97%) Data Engineer
5 20 (8.97%) Lead
6 12 (5.38%) Python Engineer
7 11 (4.93%) Senior Developer
8 10 (4.48%) Azure Engineer
8 10 (4.48%) Cloud Engineer
8 10 (4.48%) GCP Engineer
8 10 (4.48%) Java Developer
8 10 (4.48%) Platform Engineer
9 9 (4.04%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 9 (4.04%) Snowflake Engineer
10 8 (3.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 8 (3.59%) Security Engineer
10 8 (3.59%) Software Engineer
11 7 (3.14%) Technical Architect
12 6 (2.69%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (11.66%) Kafka
2 24 (10.76%) REST
2 24 (10.76%) Spring
3 23 (10.31%) React
4 20 (8.97%) Spring Boot
5 17 (7.62%) Node.js
6 15 (6.73%) RESTful
7 11 (4.93%) OpenTelemetry
8 10 (4.48%) .NET
8 10 (4.48%) OAuth
8 10 (4.48%) Playwright
9 9 (4.04%) HTML
10 8 (3.59%) AngularJS
10 8 (3.59%) CSS
10 8 (3.59%) Django
10 8 (3.59%) GraphQL
11 7 (3.14%) SOAP
12 6 (2.69%) JSON
12 6 (2.69%) Model Context Protocol
13 5 (2.24%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 53 (23.77%) Cloud Native
2 28 (12.56%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (4.93%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.14%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.69%) AI Agents
6 5 (2.24%) Clustering
6 5 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.24%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.24%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.79%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.35%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.35%) Equities
8 3 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.35%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.35%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.35%) Replication
8 3 (1.35%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.93%) Linux
2 5 (2.24%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.79%) Windows
4 3 (1.35%) Android
5 2 (0.90%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.90%) Unix
6 1 (0.45%) AIX
6 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (51.57%) DevOps
2 82 (36.77%) Infrastructure as Code
3 64 (28.70%) Agile
4 54 (24.22%) Containerisation
5 53 (23.77%) AI
5 53 (23.77%) Test Automation
6 49 (21.97%) Microservices
7 47 (21.08%) Observability
8 40 (17.94%) Analytics
9 36 (16.14%) Software Engineering
10 31 (13.90%) Data Engineering
11 30 (13.45%) Data Pipeline
11 30 (13.45%) Performance Tuning
12 26 (11.66%) Machine Learning
12 26 (11.66%) Migration
12 26 (11.66%) Platform Engineering
13 25 (11.21%) Data Modelling
14 24 (10.76%) Problem-Solving
15 22 (9.87%) Event-Driven
16 21 (9.42%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 82 (36.77%) Python
2 49 (21.97%) Java
3 48 (21.52%) SQL
4 23 (10.31%) TypeScript
5 19 (8.52%) JavaScript
6 18 (8.07%) C#
7 13 (5.83%) Bash
8 8 (3.59%) Bicep
9 7 (3.14%) PowerShell
10 6 (2.69%) Ruby
11 4 (1.79%) Apex Code
11 4 (1.79%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.35%) Go
12 3 (1.35%) Korn
12 3 (1.35%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.90%) Objective-C
13 2 (0.90%) PHP
13 2 (0.90%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.90%) Scala
13 2 (0.90%) Swift
Qualifications
1 49 (21.97%) Security Cleared
2 46 (20.63%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.59%) Degree
4 6 (2.69%) Azure Certification
4 6 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.24%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.24%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.90%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.90%) OSCP
7 2 (0.90%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.45%) CHECK Team Leader
8 1 (0.45%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.62%) Data Quality
2 16 (7.17%) QA
3 11 (4.93%) GDPR
4 6 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.69%) SLA
5 5 (2.24%) NCSC
5 5 (2.24%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.79%) NIST
6 4 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.90%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.90%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.90%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.90%) PSD2
7 2 (0.90%) SEPA
8 1 (0.45%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.45%) GRC
System Software
1 65 (29.15%) Docker
2 8 (3.59%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (3.14%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.45%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.45%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 72 (32.29%) Kubernetes
1 72 (32.29%) Terraform
2 16 (7.17%) Ansible
2 16 (7.17%) Prometheus
3 14 (6.28%) Grafana
4 6 (2.69%) Istio
5 4 (1.79%) Argo
6 2 (0.90%) Puppet
6 2 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.45%) CA Wily
7 1 (0.45%) Consul
7 1 (0.45%) Icinga
7 1 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.45%) Karpenter
7 1 (0.45%) Kibana
7 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.45%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.45%) Packer
7 1 (0.45%) Salt
7 1 (0.45%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 38 (17.04%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.87%) Google
3 20 (8.97%) Databricks
4 12 (5.38%) Oracle
5 7 (3.14%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.69%) Dynatrace
7 5 (2.24%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.79%) IBM
8 4 (1.79%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.79%) Splunk
9 3 (1.35%) Informatica
9 3 (1.35%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.35%) SAP
10 2 (0.90%) Apple
10 2 (0.90%) Confluent
10 2 (0.90%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.90%) SimCorp
10 2 (0.90%) Tenable
10 2 (0.90%) Vermilion
11 1 (0.45%) Axway