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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 16 18
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 259 195 193
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 10.74% 10.48% 9.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.39% 11.14% 9.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 123 137
10th Percentile £413 £408 £425
25th Percentile £469 £506 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - -
75th Percentile £650 £700 £750
90th Percentile £734 £800 £830
Central London median daily rate £550 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -12.00% +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 2,090 1,750 1,936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.69% 94.04% 91.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,413 1,126 1,324
10th Percentile £368 £335 £363
25th Percentile £456 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £677 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £565
% change year-on-year - -2.65% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 21 19
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £19.88
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £20.25 £31.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.68% -22.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £42.56 £56.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £60.25 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £32.50 £30.41
% change year-on-year -28.74% +6.89% -13.13%

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 22 July 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 (5.79%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (4.63%) Confluence
3 7 (2.70%) Apache
3 7 (2.70%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.16%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.16%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.77%) Camunda
6 1 (0.39%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.39%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.39%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.39%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.39%) nginx
6 1 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.39%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (0.77%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.39%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (1.93%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.77%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.39%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.39%) Magento
3 1 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.39%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.39%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.39%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.39%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 103 (39.77%) AWS
2 100 (38.61%) Azure
3 62 (23.94%) GitHub
4 38 (14.67%) Azure DevOps
4 38 (14.67%) GitHub Actions
5 37 (14.29%) GCP
6 31 (11.97%) Power Platform
7 30 (11.58%) Serverless
8 25 (9.65%) Amazon S3
9 20 (7.72%) AWS Lambda
10 18 (6.95%) Snowflake
11 14 (5.41%) Azure AKS
12 12 (4.63%) Amazon Kinesis
12 12 (4.63%) Azure Data Factory
12 12 (4.63%) dbt
13 11 (4.25%) Amazon Bedrock
13 11 (4.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (4.25%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (4.25%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (4.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.47%) Firewall
2 6 (2.32%) Network Security
3 4 (1.54%) VPN
4 3 (1.16%) DNS
4 3 (1.16%) FTP
5 2 (0.77%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.77%) Internet
5 2 (0.77%) Multicast
6 1 (0.39%) HTTP
6 1 (0.39%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.39%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.49%) Power BI
2 19 (7.34%) NoSQL
3 15 (5.79%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (4.25%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (4.25%) DynamoDB
5 11 (4.25%) SQL Server
6 10 (3.86%) Amazon Athena
6 10 (3.86%) MongoDB
7 8 (3.09%) Data Lake
7 8 (3.09%) Metadata
8 7 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (2.70%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.93%) Data Mining
9 5 (1.93%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (1.54%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.54%) Data Mart
10 4 (1.54%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.54%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 48 (18.53%) Git
2 34 (13.13%) Jenkins
3 25 (9.65%) GitLab
4 22 (8.49%) JIRA
5 15 (5.79%) JUnit
6 9 (3.47%) Cucumber
6 9 (3.47%) Mockito
6 9 (3.47%) Postman
7 7 (2.70%) Selenium
8 6 (2.32%) Gradle
9 5 (1.93%) JMeter
10 4 (1.54%) Liquibase
10 4 (1.54%) Maven
10 4 (1.54%) REST Assured
11 3 (1.16%) Appium
11 3 (1.16%) Bitbucket
11 3 (1.16%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.77%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.77%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.77%) Zephyr
General
1 93 (35.91%) Finance
2 70 (27.03%) Social Skills
3 44 (16.99%) Banking
4 23 (8.88%) Public Sector
5 22 (8.49%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.47%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (2.70%) Front Office
8 5 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.93%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.54%) Legal
9 4 (1.54%) Military
10 3 (1.16%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.16%) Law
11 2 (0.77%) Back Office
11 2 (0.77%) Marketing
11 2 (0.77%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.39%) Advertising
12 1 (0.39%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.39%) Retail
Job Titles
1 47 (18.15%) Senior
2 40 (15.44%) Developer
3 38 (14.67%) Architect
4 27 (10.42%) Data Engineer
5 23 (8.88%) Lead
6 21 (8.11%) DevOps Engineer
7 16 (6.18%) Senior Developer
8 14 (5.41%) Software Engineer
9 12 (4.63%) Azure Engineer
9 12 (4.63%) Java Developer
10 10 (3.86%) Cloud Engineer
10 10 (3.86%) Data Architect
10 10 (3.86%) Python Engineer
11 9 (3.47%) GCP Engineer
11 9 (3.47%) Platform Engineer
11 9 (3.47%) Security Engineer
11 9 (3.47%) Solutions Architect
11 9 (3.47%) Technical Architect
12 8 (3.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 8 (3.09%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (13.51%) Kafka
1 35 (13.51%) REST
2 32 (12.36%) Spring
3 28 (10.81%) Spring Boot
4 24 (9.27%) React
5 18 (6.95%) .NET
6 14 (5.41%) Playwright
6 14 (5.41%) RESTful
7 12 (4.63%) PySpark
7 12 (4.63%) SOAP
8 10 (3.86%) AngularJS
8 10 (3.86%) GraphQL
8 10 (3.86%) HTML
8 10 (3.86%) Node.js
9 7 (2.70%) CSS
9 7 (2.70%) JSON
9 7 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (2.70%) YAML
10 6 (2.32%) Middleware
10 6 (2.32%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 77 (29.73%) Cloud Native
2 32 (12.36%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (6.18%) AI Agents
4 10 (3.86%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.32%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (1.93%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.54%) Clustering
8 4 (1.54%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.54%) Equities
8 4 (1.54%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.16%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.16%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.16%) Mobile Banking
9 3 (1.16%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.86%) Linux
2 9 (3.47%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.70%) Unix
4 4 (1.54%) Android
5 3 (1.16%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.16%) Windows
6 2 (0.77%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.39%) AIX
7 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (51.74%) DevOps
2 83 (32.05%) Infrastructure as Code
3 71 (27.41%) Test Automation
4 68 (26.25%) Agile
5 67 (25.87%) Containerisation
6 59 (22.78%) AI
7 54 (20.85%) Observability
8 51 (19.69%) Analytics
8 51 (19.69%) Microservices
9 48 (18.53%) Software Engineering
10 44 (16.99%) Data Engineering
11 42 (16.22%) Event-Driven
11 42 (16.22%) Platform Engineering
12 36 (13.90%) Data Modelling
13 35 (13.51%) Migration
14 33 (12.74%) Stakeholder Management
15 32 (12.36%) Data Pipeline
16 29 (11.20%) Roadmaps
17 28 (10.81%) Machine Learning
17 28 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 85 (32.82%) Python
2 63 (24.32%) SQL
3 57 (22.01%) Java
4 28 (10.81%) TypeScript
5 26 (10.04%) C#
6 21 (8.11%) JavaScript
7 15 (5.79%) PowerShell
8 14 (5.41%) Bash
9 12 (4.63%) Bicep
10 6 (2.32%) Apex Code
11 5 (1.93%) Ruby
11 5 (1.93%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (1.16%) Korn
13 3 (1.16%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.16%) Swift
14 2 (0.77%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.77%) ActionScript 2.0
14 2 (0.77%) Go
14 2 (0.77%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 70 (27.03%) Security Cleared
2 63 (24.32%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.02%) DV Cleared
4 8 (3.09%) DBS Check
4 8 (3.09%) Degree
5 6 (2.32%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.16%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.77%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.77%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.39%) CHECK Team Leader
10 1 (0.39%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.39%) PMP
10 1 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.65%) QA
2 14 (5.41%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.09%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.70%) EU AI Act
4 7 (2.70%) SLA
5 6 (2.32%) GDPR
6 5 (1.93%) NCSC
7 4 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (1.16%) NIST
9 2 (0.77%) EMIR
9 2 (0.77%) MiFID
9 2 (0.77%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.77%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 61 (23.55%) Docker
2 8 (3.09%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.39%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.39%) Varnish
4 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.39%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 85 (32.82%) Kubernetes
2 63 (24.32%) Terraform
3 18 (6.95%) Grafana
3 18 (6.95%) Prometheus
4 11 (4.25%) Ansible
5 4 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.77%) Puppet
7 1 (0.39%) Argo
7 1 (0.39%) CA Wily
7 1 (0.39%) Consul
7 1 (0.39%) Istio
7 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.39%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.39%) Salt
7 1 (0.39%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.39%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 47 (18.15%) Microsoft
2 24 (9.27%) Databricks
3 21 (8.11%) Google
4 15 (5.79%) Oracle
5 10 (3.86%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.32%) Splunk
7 5 (1.93%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.93%) IBM
7 5 (1.93%) MuleSoft
7 5 (1.93%) SAP
8 3 (1.16%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.16%) Apple
8 3 (1.16%) Informatica
8 3 (1.16%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.16%) VMware
9 2 (0.77%) Foundry
9 2 (0.77%) Palantir
9 2 (0.77%) Software AG
9 2 (0.77%) Sybase
9 2 (0.77%) webMethods