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 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 16 21
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 -5
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 296 169 182
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 12.99% 9.47% 8.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.73% 10.05% 9.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 110 131
10th Percentile £425 £406 £456
25th Percentile £475 £510 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £616 £650
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% -5.23% +7.08%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £738
90th Percentile £738 £800 £818
Central London median daily rate £550 £614 £638
% change year-on-year -10.46% -3.65% +3.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 £26.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £27.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +154.55% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £28.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £70.00 £27.50 -
% change year-on-year +154.55% - -

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 2,010 1,681 1,910
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.20% 94.23% 91.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,381 1,112 1,243
10th Percentile £380 £325 £377
25th Percentile £460 £419 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 22 16
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £19.79
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -25.86% +6.38% -3.18%
75th Percentile £32.05 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £50.59 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.00 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -17.44% +7.67% -1.82%

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 2 September 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 17 (5.74%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (4.39%) Confluence
3 11 (3.72%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.03%) Apache
5 4 (1.35%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.34%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.34%) Camunda
6 1 (0.34%) CMS
6 1 (0.34%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.34%) nginx
6 1 (0.34%) SAS
6 1 (0.34%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.34%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.34%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.69%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.68%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.34%) Magento
4 1 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.34%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.34%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 134 (45.27%) Azure
2 118 (39.86%) AWS
3 65 (21.96%) GitHub
4 55 (18.58%) Azure DevOps
5 43 (14.53%) GCP
6 39 (13.18%) GitHub Actions
7 35 (11.82%) Power Platform
8 34 (11.49%) Serverless
9 24 (8.11%) Amazon S3
9 24 (8.11%) Azure Data Factory
10 20 (6.76%) AWS Lambda
10 20 (6.76%) Snowflake
11 18 (6.08%) Azure AKS
12 16 (5.41%) dbt
13 12 (4.05%) Azure Monitor
13 12 (4.05%) PaaS
14 11 (3.72%) Amazon Kinesis
14 11 (3.72%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (3.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 11 (3.72%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.72%) Firewall
2 6 (2.03%) Network Security
3 5 (1.69%) DNS
4 4 (1.35%) Internet
4 4 (1.35%) VPN
5 3 (1.01%) FTP
6 2 (0.68%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.68%) Multicast
6 2 (0.68%) SSL
7 1 (0.34%) BGP
7 1 (0.34%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.34%) NX-OS
7 1 (0.34%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.34%) TACACS
7 1 (0.34%) VSAN
7 1 (0.34%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (8.45%) Power BI
2 21 (7.09%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (5.07%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (5.07%) SQL Server
4 14 (4.73%) NoSQL
5 12 (4.05%) Data Lake
6 11 (3.72%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (3.72%) Metadata
7 10 (3.38%) Amazon Athena
8 9 (3.04%) MongoDB
8 9 (3.04%) Relational Database
9 8 (2.70%) DynamoDB
9 8 (2.70%) Star Schema
10 7 (2.36%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (2.36%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (2.03%) Delta Lake
12 5 (1.69%) Data Mining
13 4 (1.35%) Data Mart
13 4 (1.35%) Oracle Database
13 4 (1.35%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 48 (16.22%) Git
2 37 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 31 (10.47%) GitLab
4 24 (8.11%) JIRA
5 13 (4.39%) JUnit
6 9 (3.04%) Cucumber
6 9 (3.04%) Mockito
6 9 (3.04%) Postman
6 9 (3.04%) Selenium
7 7 (2.36%) JMeter
8 6 (2.03%) Gradle
8 6 (2.03%) Maven
9 5 (1.69%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.69%) Visual Studio
10 4 (1.35%) Appium
10 4 (1.35%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.01%) Gatling
11 3 (1.01%) REST Assured
11 3 (1.01%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (1.01%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 103 (34.80%) Finance
2 83 (28.04%) Social Skills
3 51 (17.23%) Banking
4 31 (10.47%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (9.12%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.38%) Front Office
6 10 (3.38%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (2.70%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.69%) Marketing
8 5 (1.69%) Retail
9 4 (1.35%) Back Office
9 4 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.35%) Military
9 4 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.01%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.01%) Law
10 3 (1.01%) Legal
10 3 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (19.93%) Developer
1 59 (19.93%) Senior
2 46 (15.54%) Architect
3 35 (11.82%) Data Engineer
4 23 (7.77%) Lead
5 21 (7.09%) Senior Developer
6 19 (6.42%) DevOps Engineer
7 16 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
8 14 (4.73%) Java Developer
9 13 (4.39%) Data Architect
10 12 (4.05%) Cloud Engineer
11 11 (3.72%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 11 (3.72%) Senior Data Engineer
11 11 (3.72%) Software Engineer
12 10 (3.38%) Senior Java Developer
12 10 (3.38%) Solutions Architect
13 9 (3.04%) Automation Engineer
13 9 (3.04%) AWS Engineer
13 9 (3.04%) Python Engineer
13 9 (3.04%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (26.35%) Terraform
2 41 (13.85%) REST
3 33 (11.15%) Kafka
4 30 (10.14%) Spring
5 28 (9.46%) Spring Boot
6 25 (8.45%) .NET
7 23 (7.77%) React
8 18 (6.08%) RESTful
9 17 (5.74%) PySpark
10 16 (5.41%) SOAP
11 13 (4.39%) HTML
12 12 (4.05%) AngularJS
13 11 (3.72%) JSON
13 11 (3.72%) Playwright
14 10 (3.38%) YAML
15 9 (3.04%) Middleware
16 8 (2.70%) CSS
16 8 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
16 8 (2.70%) Web Services
17 7 (2.36%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 89 (30.07%) Cloud Native
2 33 (11.15%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (7.43%) AI Agents
4 12 (4.05%) Onboarding
5 10 (3.38%) Product Ownership
5 10 (3.38%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (3.04%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.35%) Equities
9 4 (1.35%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.35%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.01%) Clustering
10 3 (1.01%) Derivative
10 3 (1.01%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.01%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.01%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.07%) Linux
2 10 (3.38%) Windows
3 9 (3.04%) Unix
4 8 (2.70%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.35%) Android
5 4 (1.35%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.68%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.34%) AIX
7 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (54.73%) DevOps
2 102 (34.46%) Infrastructure as Code
3 88 (29.73%) Agile
4 77 (26.01%) Test Automation
5 71 (23.99%) Containerisation
6 69 (23.31%) AI
7 59 (19.93%) Analytics
7 59 (19.93%) Microservices
8 56 (18.92%) Software Engineering
9 55 (18.58%) Observability
10 52 (17.57%) Data Engineering
11 47 (15.88%) Event-Driven
12 45 (15.20%) Data Modelling
13 44 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
14 42 (14.19%) Stakeholder Management
15 41 (13.85%) Platform Engineering
16 40 (13.51%) Migration
17 39 (13.18%) Data Pipeline
18 33 (11.15%) Machine Learning
19 31 (10.47%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 116 (39.19%) Python
2 83 (28.04%) SQL
3 65 (21.96%) Java
4 39 (13.18%) C#
5 30 (10.14%) TypeScript
6 28 (9.46%) JavaScript
6 28 (9.46%) PowerShell
7 17 (5.74%) Bicep
8 16 (5.41%) Bash
9 8 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 8 (2.70%) Korn
10 5 (1.69%) Apex Code
10 5 (1.69%) Ruby
10 5 (1.69%) Scala
10 5 (1.69%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.35%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.01%) Swift
13 2 (0.68%) ActionScript 2.0
13 2 (0.68%) R
13 2 (0.68%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 78 (26.35%) Security Cleared
2 67 (22.64%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.39%) DV Cleared
4 8 (2.70%) DBS Check
4 8 (2.70%) Degree
5 6 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.69%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.01%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.01%) SnowPro
8 2 (0.68%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.68%) CISSP
8 2 (0.68%) PMP
9 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.34%) CEH
9 1 (0.34%) CHECK Team Leader
9 1 (0.34%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.34%) OSCP
9 1 (0.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (9.46%) QA
2 26 (8.78%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.04%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.36%) EU AI Act
4 7 (2.36%) GDPR
5 6 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.69%) NCSC
6 5 (1.69%) SLA
7 4 (1.35%) NIST
8 2 (0.68%) EMIR
8 2 (0.68%) MiFID
8 2 (0.68%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.68%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 60 (20.27%) Docker
2 8 (2.70%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.68%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.34%) Firmware
6 1 (0.34%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.34%) Varnish
6 1 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 90 (30.41%) Kubernetes
2 20 (6.76%) Grafana
2 20 (6.76%) Prometheus
3 12 (4.05%) Ansible
4 4 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.68%) Puppet
6 1 (0.34%) Argo
6 1 (0.34%) Bosun
6 1 (0.34%) CA Wily
6 1 (0.34%) Consul
6 1 (0.34%) Istio
6 1 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.34%) Packer
6 1 (0.34%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.34%) Salt
6 1 (0.34%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.34%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 59 (19.93%) Microsoft
2 37 (12.50%) Databricks
3 24 (8.11%) Google
4 17 (5.74%) Oracle
5 8 (2.70%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.36%) Dynatrace
6 7 (2.36%) Splunk
6 7 (2.36%) VMware
7 6 (2.03%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.69%) IBM
8 5 (1.69%) SAP
9 4 (1.35%) AppDynamics
9 4 (1.35%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.01%) Foundry
10 3 (1.01%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.68%) Apple
11 2 (0.68%) Informatica
11 2 (0.68%) Palantir
11 2 (0.68%) Software AG
11 2 (0.68%) webMethods