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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 14 26
Rank change year-on-year -6 +12 -10
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 225 214 159
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 10.26% 12.31% 6.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.76% 13.33% 7.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 135 111
10th Percentile £356 £413 £425
25th Percentile £413 £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -3.61%
75th Percentile £638 £686 £713
90th Percentile £758 £750 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -3.23%
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 1,913 1,605 2,049
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.19% 92.29% 89.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,321 1,035 1,449
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
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 £670 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £771 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 9 11
10th Percentile - £22.00 £18.93
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.07
Median hourly rate £30.03 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.12% +24.00% -38.27%
75th Percentile £48.67 £48.75 £40.92
90th Percentile £57.93 £71.00 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £31.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -15.77% +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 5 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 15 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (4.00%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.67%) Apache
4 5 (2.22%) Confluence
5 3 (1.33%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.33%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.89%) Camunda
6 2 (0.89%) Ethereum
6 2 (0.89%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.44%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.44%) CMS
7 1 (0.44%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.44%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.44%) nginx
7 1 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.44%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.44%) Maya
1 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.33%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.89%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.89%) Shopify
3 1 (0.44%) Magento
3 1 (0.44%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.44%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.44%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 104 (46.22%) AWS
2 97 (43.11%) Azure
3 63 (28.00%) GitHub
4 41 (18.22%) Azure DevOps
5 40 (17.78%) GitHub Actions
6 39 (17.33%) GCP
7 33 (14.67%) Serverless
8 24 (10.67%) Amazon S3
9 23 (10.22%) AWS Lambda
10 18 (8.00%) Snowflake
11 17 (7.56%) Power Platform
12 16 (7.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 16 (7.11%) AWS CloudFormation
13 13 (5.78%) dbt
13 13 (5.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 11 (4.89%) Amazon ECS
14 11 (4.89%) Azure AKS
15 9 (4.00%) Amazon Kinesis
15 9 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
16 8 (3.56%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.22%) Network Security
2 4 (1.78%) Firewall
3 2 (0.89%) DNS
3 2 (0.89%) HTTP
4 1 (0.44%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.56%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (7.11%) NoSQL
3 15 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (6.22%) DynamoDB
4 14 (6.22%) Relational Database
5 12 (5.33%) MongoDB
6 11 (4.89%) Power BI
7 9 (4.00%) SQL Server
8 8 (3.56%) Metadata
9 7 (3.11%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (3.11%) Data Lake
9 7 (3.11%) MySQL
9 7 (3.11%) Snowflake Schema
10 6 (2.67%) Apache Cassandra
11 5 (2.22%) Big Data
11 5 (2.22%) Redis
11 5 (2.22%) Tableau
12 4 (1.78%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.78%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 54 (24.00%) Git
2 33 (14.67%) Jenkins
3 18 (8.00%) GitLab
4 14 (6.22%) JIRA
5 11 (4.89%) JUnit
6 10 (4.44%) Cucumber
7 8 (3.56%) Postman
7 8 (3.56%) Selenium
8 7 (3.11%) Mockito
9 5 (2.22%) REST Assured
10 4 (1.78%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.78%) Gradle
11 3 (1.33%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.33%) Liquibase
11 3 (1.33%) Maven
12 2 (0.89%) Ant
12 2 (0.89%) Gatling
12 2 (0.89%) SoapUI
13 1 (0.44%) Introscope
13 1 (0.44%) JMeter
General
1 76 (33.78%) Finance
2 57 (25.33%) Social Skills
3 33 (14.67%) Banking
4 15 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 13 (5.78%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.56%) Front Office
7 6 (2.67%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.78%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.78%) Legal
9 4 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.33%) Law
10 3 (1.33%) Marketing
11 2 (0.89%) Back Office
11 2 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.44%) Games
12 1 (0.44%) Local Government
12 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (17.78%) Developer
2 38 (16.89%) Senior
3 29 (12.89%) DevOps Engineer
4 27 (12.00%) Architect
5 22 (9.78%) Data Engineer
6 19 (8.44%) Lead
7 14 (6.22%) Python Engineer
8 12 (5.33%) Senior Developer
9 11 (4.89%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (4.44%) Azure Engineer
10 10 (4.44%) GCP Engineer
10 10 (4.44%) Java Developer
11 9 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
11 9 (4.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 9 (4.00%) Snowflake Engineer
12 8 (3.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 8 (3.56%) Security Engineer
13 7 (3.11%) Cloud Architect
13 7 (3.11%) Software Engineer
13 7 (3.11%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (12.44%) Kafka
2 24 (10.67%) REST
3 23 (10.22%) React
3 23 (10.22%) Spring
4 19 (8.44%) Spring Boot
5 18 (8.00%) Node.js
6 16 (7.11%) RESTful
7 11 (4.89%) .NET
7 11 (4.89%) OAuth
7 11 (4.89%) OpenTelemetry
7 11 (4.89%) Playwright
8 10 (4.44%) HTML
9 9 (4.00%) CSS
10 8 (3.56%) AngularJS
10 8 (3.56%) Django
11 7 (3.11%) GraphQL
11 7 (3.11%) SOAP
12 6 (2.67%) JSON
12 6 (2.67%) LangGraph
13 5 (2.22%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 52 (23.11%) Cloud Native
2 29 (12.89%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (4.89%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.11%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.67%) AI Agents
5 6 (2.67%) Virtual Team
6 5 (2.22%) Clustering
6 5 (2.22%) Fixed Income
6 5 (2.22%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.78%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.78%) Equities
8 3 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.33%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.33%) Replication
8 3 (1.33%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.89%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.44%) Linux
2 6 (2.67%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.78%) Android
3 4 (1.78%) Windows
4 2 (0.89%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.89%) Unix
5 1 (0.44%) AIX
5 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (52.00%) DevOps
2 81 (36.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 64 (28.44%) Agile
4 55 (24.44%) Test Automation
5 52 (23.11%) AI
5 52 (23.11%) Containerisation
6 47 (20.89%) Microservices
7 45 (20.00%) Observability
8 38 (16.89%) Analytics
9 36 (16.00%) Software Engineering
10 34 (15.11%) Data Engineering
11 32 (14.22%) Data Pipeline
12 31 (13.78%) Performance Tuning
13 27 (12.00%) Data Modelling
13 27 (12.00%) Migration
13 27 (12.00%) Platform Engineering
14 26 (11.56%) Problem-Solving
15 25 (11.11%) Machine Learning
16 22 (9.78%) SDLC
17 21 (9.33%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 84 (37.33%) Python
2 53 (23.56%) SQL
3 51 (22.67%) Java
4 23 (10.22%) TypeScript
5 21 (9.33%) JavaScript
6 19 (8.44%) C#
7 12 (5.33%) Bash
8 8 (3.56%) PowerShell
9 7 (3.11%) Bicep
10 6 (2.67%) Ruby
11 4 (1.78%) Apex Code
11 4 (1.78%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.33%) Go
12 3 (1.33%) Korn
12 3 (1.33%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.89%) Objective-C
13 2 (0.89%) PHP
13 2 (0.89%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.89%) Scala
13 2 (0.89%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 45 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 45 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (4.44%) Degree
3 8 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (2.67%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.22%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.22%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.89%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.89%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.44%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.44%) OSCP
8 1 (0.44%) SANS
8 1 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.44%) Data Quality
2 17 (7.56%) QA
3 12 (5.33%) GDPR
4 6 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.67%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.67%) SLA
5 4 (1.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.33%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.33%) NCSC
6 3 (1.33%) NIST
7 2 (0.89%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.89%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.89%) PSD2
7 2 (0.89%) SEPA
8 1 (0.44%) GRC
8 1 (0.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 66 (29.33%) Docker
2 8 (3.56%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (2.67%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.44%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.44%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 76 (33.78%) Terraform
2 70 (31.11%) Kubernetes
3 15 (6.67%) Ansible
4 13 (5.78%) Grafana
4 13 (5.78%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.22%) Istio
6 4 (1.78%) Argo
7 2 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.44%) CA Wily
8 1 (0.44%) Icinga
8 1 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.44%) Karpenter
8 1 (0.44%) Kibana
8 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.44%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.44%) Packer
8 1 (0.44%) Puppet
8 1 (0.44%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 41 (18.22%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.22%) Google
3 22 (9.78%) Databricks
4 12 (5.33%) Oracle
5 7 (3.11%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.22%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.78%) IBM
7 4 (1.78%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.78%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.78%) Splunk
8 3 (1.33%) Informatica
8 3 (1.33%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.89%) Apple
9 2 (0.89%) Confluent
9 2 (0.89%) SAP
9 2 (0.89%) SimCorp
9 2 (0.89%) Tenable
9 2 (0.89%) UiPath
9 2 (0.89%) Vermilion
10 1 (0.44%) Adobe