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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 17 17
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 -1
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 215 195 184
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 9.28% 11.31% 8.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.96% 12.09% 9.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 117 133
10th Percentile £363 £413 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £715
90th Percentile £763 £768 £798
Central London median daily rate £575 £578 £600
% change year-on-year -0.43% -3.75% -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 1,961 1,613 1,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 84.67% 93.56% 90.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,340 1,012 1,391
10th Percentile £363 £351 £350
25th Percentile £450 £461 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £574 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.14% +2.46% -6.67%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 13 12
10th Percentile £17.69 £22.00 £19.95
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.75 £20.22
Median hourly rate £26.64 £28.15 £25.63
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +9.85% -26.79%
75th Percentile £52.24 £43.75 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £60.75 £41.65
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -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 21 May 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 16 (7.44%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.26%) Confluence
3 6 (2.79%) Apache
3 6 (2.79%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.40%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.40%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.93%) Camunda
5 2 (0.93%) Ethereum
5 2 (0.93%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.47%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.47%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.47%) nginx
6 1 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.47%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (1.40%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.47%) Maya
Business Applications
1 3 (1.40%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.93%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.47%) Magento
3 1 (0.47%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.47%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.47%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.47%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 99 (46.05%) AWS
2 89 (41.40%) Azure
3 52 (24.19%) GitHub
4 37 (17.21%) Azure DevOps
5 35 (16.28%) GitHub Actions
6 33 (15.35%) GCP
7 30 (13.95%) Serverless
8 23 (10.70%) Power Platform
9 21 (9.77%) Amazon S3
10 20 (9.30%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (7.91%) Snowflake
12 15 (6.98%) AWS CloudFormation
13 13 (6.05%) Azure AKS
14 11 (5.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 11 (5.12%) dbt
15 10 (4.65%) Azure Data Factory
16 9 (4.19%) Amazon EC2
16 9 (4.19%) Amazon Kinesis
16 9 (4.19%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 8 (3.72%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.79%) Firewall
2 4 (1.86%) Network Security
3 3 (1.40%) DNS
4 2 (0.93%) FTP
4 2 (0.93%) HTTP
4 2 (0.93%) Multicast
5 1 (0.47%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.47%) Internet
5 1 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.47%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.84%) NoSQL
2 17 (7.91%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (6.98%) Power BI
4 11 (5.12%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (4.65%) DynamoDB
6 9 (4.19%) Metadata
6 9 (4.19%) SQL Server
7 8 (3.72%) Relational Database
8 7 (3.26%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (3.26%) MongoDB
8 7 (3.26%) Snowflake Schema
9 6 (2.79%) Data Lake
9 6 (2.79%) Redis
10 5 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (2.33%) Apache Cassandra
10 5 (2.33%) Data Mining
11 4 (1.86%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.86%) Big Data
11 4 (1.86%) MySQL
11 4 (1.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 41 (19.07%) Git
2 34 (15.81%) Jenkins
3 20 (9.30%) GitLab
4 19 (8.84%) JIRA
5 10 (4.65%) Postman
6 9 (4.19%) JUnit
7 6 (2.79%) Mockito
8 5 (2.33%) Cucumber
8 5 (2.33%) Gradle
8 5 (2.33%) JMeter
8 5 (2.33%) Selenium
9 4 (1.86%) Liquibase
9 4 (1.86%) REST Assured
10 3 (1.40%) Gatling
10 3 (1.40%) Maven
11 2 (0.93%) Ant
11 2 (0.93%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.93%) Zephyr
12 1 (0.47%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.47%) SpecFlow
General
1 77 (35.81%) Finance
2 52 (24.19%) Social Skills
3 33 (15.35%) Banking
4 20 (9.30%) Public Sector
5 13 (6.05%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.33%) Front Office
7 5 (2.33%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.33%) Legal
8 3 (1.40%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.40%) Marketing
8 3 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.47%) Aviation
10 1 (0.47%) Local Government
10 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Police
10 1 (0.47%) Retail
10 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (18.60%) Senior
2 35 (16.28%) Architect
3 34 (15.81%) Developer
4 22 (10.23%) DevOps Engineer
5 18 (8.37%) Data Engineer
5 18 (8.37%) Lead
6 16 (7.44%) Senior Developer
7 12 (5.58%) Azure Engineer
8 11 (5.12%) Java Developer
9 10 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (4.19%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (4.19%) Python Engineer
10 9 (4.19%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 9 (4.19%) Snowflake Engineer
11 8 (3.72%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 8 (3.72%) Cloud Architect
11 8 (3.72%) Data Architect
11 8 (3.72%) GCP Engineer
11 8 (3.72%) Security Engineer
11 8 (3.72%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (13.95%) Kafka
2 27 (12.56%) Spring
3 26 (12.09%) REST
4 24 (11.16%) Spring Boot
5 22 (10.23%) React
6 12 (5.58%) RESTful
7 11 (5.12%) .NET
8 10 (4.65%) Node.js
8 10 (4.65%) OpenTelemetry
9 9 (4.19%) Playwright
10 8 (3.72%) Django
10 8 (3.72%) GraphQL
11 7 (3.26%) AngularJS
11 7 (3.26%) HTML
11 7 (3.26%) SOAP
12 6 (2.79%) JSON
12 6 (2.79%) Model Context Protocol
12 6 (2.79%) PySpark
12 6 (2.79%) Swagger
12 6 (2.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 60 (27.91%) Cloud Native
2 26 (12.09%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.65%) AI Agents
4 9 (4.19%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.33%) Clustering
5 5 (2.33%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.33%) Equities
6 4 (1.86%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.40%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.40%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.40%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.93%) IoT
8 2 (0.93%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.93%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.93%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.12%) Linux
2 4 (1.86%) Windows
3 3 (1.40%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.40%) Unix
4 2 (0.93%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.47%) AIX
5 1 (0.47%) Android
5 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.47%) VMS
5 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (53.95%) DevOps
2 81 (37.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 62 (28.84%) Containerisation
4 57 (26.51%) Agile
5 55 (25.58%) Observability
6 54 (25.12%) AI
6 54 (25.12%) Test Automation
7 41 (19.07%) Microservices
8 40 (18.60%) Analytics
9 35 (16.28%) Data Engineering
9 35 (16.28%) Software Engineering
10 30 (13.95%) Platform Engineering
11 29 (13.49%) Event-Driven
12 28 (13.02%) Data Pipeline
13 27 (12.56%) Machine Learning
13 27 (12.56%) Performance Tuning
14 25 (11.63%) Migration
14 25 (11.63%) Roadmaps
15 24 (11.16%) Data Modelling
16 23 (10.70%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 76 (35.35%) Python
2 50 (23.26%) Java
3 48 (22.33%) SQL
4 22 (10.23%) TypeScript
5 20 (9.30%) JavaScript
6 18 (8.37%) C#
7 14 (6.51%) Bash
7 14 (6.51%) PowerShell
8 11 (5.12%) Bicep
9 5 (2.33%) Ruby
10 4 (1.86%) Apex Code
10 4 (1.86%) Korn
11 3 (1.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.40%) Go
11 3 (1.40%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.93%) PHP
12 2 (0.93%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.93%) Scala
13 1 (0.47%) ActionScript 2.0
13 1 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (24.65%) Security Cleared
2 50 (23.26%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.72%) Degree
4 6 (2.79%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.33%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.33%) DBS Check
6 4 (1.86%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.93%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.93%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.47%) CHECK Team Leader
8 1 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.47%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.44%) QA
2 13 (6.05%) Data Quality
3 11 (5.12%) GDPR
4 7 (3.26%) SLA
5 4 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (1.40%) NCSC
6 3 (1.40%) NIST
6 3 (1.40%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.93%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.93%) EMIR
7 2 (0.93%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.93%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.93%) MiFID
7 2 (0.93%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.93%) PSD2
7 2 (0.93%) SEPA
8 1 (0.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 63 (29.30%) Docker
2 7 (3.26%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.26%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.47%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (0.47%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 77 (35.81%) Kubernetes
2 59 (27.44%) Terraform
3 20 (9.30%) Prometheus
4 17 (7.91%) Grafana
5 15 (6.98%) Ansible
6 4 (1.86%) Argo
6 4 (1.86%) Istio
7 3 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.93%) Puppet
9 1 (0.47%) CA Wily
9 1 (0.47%) Consul
9 1 (0.47%) Icinga
9 1 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.47%) Karpenter
9 1 (0.47%) Kibana
9 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.47%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.47%) Packer
9 1 (0.47%) Salt
9 1 (0.47%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 39 (18.14%) Microsoft
2 18 (8.37%) Databricks
3 15 (6.98%) Google
4 10 (4.65%) Oracle
5 7 (3.26%) Dynatrace
5 7 (3.26%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.33%) OpenAI
6 5 (2.33%) Splunk
7 4 (1.86%) IBM
7 4 (1.86%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.40%) Informatica
8 3 (1.40%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.40%) SAP
9 2 (0.93%) Confluent
9 2 (0.93%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.93%) Foundry
9 2 (0.93%) SimCorp
9 2 (0.93%) Tenable
9 2 (0.93%) Vermilion
9 2 (0.93%) VMware