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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 15 15
Rank change year-on-year -5 0 +2
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 240 187 197
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 9.88% 10.75% 9.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.53% 11.47% 10.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 119 144
10th Percentile £410 £413 £425
25th Percentile £463 £506 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -0.99%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £750
90th Percentile £729 £800 £823
Central London median daily rate £566 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -5.67% - -4.95%
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 2,082 1,631 1,958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.71% 93.74% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,404 1,042 1,364
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 17 14
10th Percentile £17.56 £19.80 £20.01
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.29
Median hourly rate £24.47 £31.00 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -21.08% +16.43% -23.93%
75th Percentile £42.91 £56.75 £40.00
90th Percentile £60.25 £73.75 £47.73
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £31.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -11.29% +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 25 June 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 18 (7.50%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (4.58%) Confluence
3 8 (3.33%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.92%) Apache
5 3 (1.25%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.25%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.83%) Camunda
6 2 (0.83%) Ethereum
6 2 (0.83%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.42%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.42%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.42%) nginx
7 1 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.42%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.42%) Maya
Business Applications
1 4 (1.67%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.42%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.42%) Magento
3 1 (0.42%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.42%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.42%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.42%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 106 (44.17%) AWS
2 93 (38.75%) Azure
3 55 (22.92%) GitHub
4 35 (14.58%) GitHub Actions
5 34 (14.17%) Azure DevOps
6 33 (13.75%) GCP
7 32 (13.33%) Serverless
8 31 (12.92%) Power Platform
9 24 (10.00%) Amazon S3
10 20 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
11 19 (7.92%) Snowflake
12 15 (6.25%) Azure AKS
13 13 (5.42%) AWS CloudFormation
13 13 (5.42%) dbt
14 12 (5.00%) Amazon Bedrock
15 10 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 10 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (4.17%) Amazon Kinesis
15 10 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
15 10 (4.17%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.75%) Firewall
2 6 (2.50%) Network Security
3 4 (1.67%) VPN
4 3 (1.25%) DNS
4 3 (1.25%) FTP
5 2 (0.83%) HTTP
5 2 (0.83%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.83%) Multicast
6 1 (0.42%) Internet
6 1 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.42%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (9.17%) Power BI
2 19 (7.92%) NoSQL
3 15 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (5.42%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (4.58%) DynamoDB
5 11 (4.58%) SQL Server
6 10 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (3.75%) Amazon Athena
7 9 (3.75%) MongoDB
8 8 (3.33%) Metadata
8 8 (3.33%) Relational Database
9 7 (2.92%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (2.50%) Data Lake
10 6 (2.50%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (2.08%) Data Mining
12 4 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (1.67%) Data Mart
12 4 (1.67%) Oracle Database
12 4 (1.67%) Redis
12 4 (1.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 49 (20.42%) Git
2 34 (14.17%) Jenkins
3 24 (10.00%) JIRA
4 22 (9.17%) GitLab
5 14 (5.83%) JUnit
6 11 (4.58%) Postman
7 10 (4.17%) Mockito
8 8 (3.33%) Cucumber
9 6 (2.50%) Gradle
10 5 (2.08%) JMeter
10 5 (2.08%) REST Assured
10 5 (2.08%) Selenium
11 4 (1.67%) Liquibase
12 3 (1.25%) Gatling
12 3 (1.25%) Maven
13 2 (0.83%) Ant
13 2 (0.83%) Appium
13 2 (0.83%) Visual Studio
13 2 (0.83%) Xcode
13 2 (0.83%) XCUITest
General
1 91 (37.92%) Finance
2 64 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 40 (16.67%) Banking
4 21 (8.75%) Public Sector
5 18 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.08%) Legal
8 4 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.67%) Front Office
8 4 (1.67%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.67%) Marketing
8 4 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.25%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.25%) Law
10 2 (0.83%) Military
11 1 (0.42%) Advertising
11 1 (0.42%) Aviation
11 1 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.42%) Police
11 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (17.08%) Senior
2 38 (15.83%) Architect
2 38 (15.83%) Developer
3 24 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 23 (9.58%) Lead
5 20 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
6 16 (6.67%) Senior Developer
7 12 (5.00%) Java Developer
8 11 (4.58%) Azure Engineer
9 10 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (4.17%) Software Engineer
10 9 (3.75%) Automation Engineer
10 9 (3.75%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (3.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 9 (3.75%) GCP Engineer
10 9 (3.75%) Security Engineer
10 9 (3.75%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 9 (3.75%) Snowflake Engineer
10 9 (3.75%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (3.33%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (15.00%) Kafka
2 31 (12.92%) REST
3 30 (12.50%) Spring
4 27 (11.25%) Spring Boot
5 22 (9.17%) React
6 15 (6.25%) .NET
7 14 (5.83%) RESTful
8 11 (4.58%) Playwright
9 10 (4.17%) SOAP
10 9 (3.75%) PySpark
11 8 (3.33%) GraphQL
11 8 (3.33%) YAML
12 7 (2.92%) HTML
12 7 (2.92%) JSON
12 7 (2.92%) Node.js
12 7 (2.92%) OpenTelemetry
12 7 (2.92%) WireMock
13 6 (2.50%) AngularJS
13 6 (2.50%) Gherkin
13 6 (2.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 73 (30.42%) Cloud Native
2 27 (11.25%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (5.83%) AI Agents
4 10 (4.17%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.50%) Equities
5 6 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.50%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.08%) Clustering
6 5 (2.08%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.25%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.25%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.25%) Mobile Banking
8 3 (1.25%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.83%) IoT
9 2 (0.83%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.75%) Linux
2 7 (2.92%) Apple iOS
3 5 (2.08%) Unix
4 4 (1.67%) Windows
5 2 (0.83%) Android
5 2 (0.83%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.83%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.42%) AIX
6 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (50.83%) DevOps
2 81 (33.75%) Infrastructure as Code
3 65 (27.08%) Agile
4 64 (26.67%) Containerisation
5 62 (25.83%) Test Automation
6 59 (24.58%) AI
7 52 (21.67%) Observability
8 50 (20.83%) Analytics
9 43 (17.92%) Data Engineering
9 43 (17.92%) Microservices
10 40 (16.67%) Software Engineering
11 39 (16.25%) Platform Engineering
12 33 (13.75%) Event-Driven
12 33 (13.75%) Migration
13 31 (12.92%) Data Modelling
14 30 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
14 30 (12.50%) Machine Learning
15 29 (12.08%) Stakeholder Management
16 27 (11.25%) Performance Tuning
17 25 (10.42%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 80 (33.33%) Python
2 55 (22.92%) SQL
3 51 (21.25%) Java
4 25 (10.42%) C#
5 24 (10.00%) TypeScript
6 16 (6.67%) JavaScript
7 15 (6.25%) PowerShell
8 14 (5.83%) Bash
9 11 (4.58%) Bicep
10 5 (2.08%) Korn
10 5 (2.08%) Ruby
11 4 (1.67%) Apex Code
11 4 (1.67%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.25%) Swift
13 2 (0.83%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.83%) ActionScript 2.0
13 2 (0.83%) Go
13 2 (0.83%) Scala
14 1 (0.42%) Jython
Qualifications
1 61 (25.42%) Security Cleared
2 57 (23.75%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.17%) DV Cleared
4 8 (3.33%) DBS Check
5 6 (2.50%) Degree
6 5 (2.08%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.25%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.83%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.83%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.42%) CEH
10 1 (0.42%) CHECK Team Leader
10 1 (0.42%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.42%) PMP
10 1 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.33%) QA
2 13 (5.42%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.33%) GDPR
4 7 (2.92%) SLA
5 6 (2.50%) Accessibility
5 6 (2.50%) EU AI Act
6 4 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.67%) NCSC
7 3 (1.25%) NIST
8 2 (0.83%) EMIR
8 2 (0.83%) MiFID
8 2 (0.83%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.83%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.42%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.42%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.42%) PSD2
9 1 (0.42%) SEPA
9 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 59 (24.58%) Docker
2 8 (3.33%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.92%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.42%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.42%) Varnish
4 1 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.42%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.42%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 81 (33.75%) Kubernetes
2 58 (24.17%) Terraform
3 18 (7.50%) Prometheus
4 17 (7.08%) Grafana
5 12 (5.00%) Ansible
6 4 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.83%) Argo
7 2 (0.83%) Istio
7 2 (0.83%) Puppet
8 1 (0.42%) CA Wily
8 1 (0.42%) Consul
8 1 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.42%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.42%) Salt
8 1 (0.42%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.42%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 37 (15.42%) Microsoft
2 24 (10.00%) Databricks
3 17 (7.08%) Google
4 12 (5.00%) Oracle
5 8 (3.33%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.50%) Dynatrace
7 5 (2.08%) IBM
8 4 (1.67%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.67%) Splunk
9 3 (1.25%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.25%) Informatica
9 3 (1.25%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.25%) SAP
9 3 (1.25%) VMware
10 2 (0.83%) Apple
10 2 (0.83%) Axway
10 2 (0.83%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.83%) Software AG
10 2 (0.83%) Sybase
10 2 (0.83%) webMethods