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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 16 17
Rank change year-on-year +4 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 284 188 183
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.94% 9.99% 8.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.65% 10.61% 9.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 120 133
10th Percentile £423 £406 £426
25th Percentile £470 £519 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - +4.12%
75th Percentile £649 £696 £738
90th Percentile £726 £800 £824
Central London median daily rate £550 £625 £615
% change year-on-year -12.00% +1.63% +1.69%
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 2,081 1,772 1,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.47% 94.21% 91.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,418 1,161 1,284
10th Percentile £375 £329 £375
25th Percentile £456 £425 £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 £765 £791
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 21 17
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £15.20
25th Percentile £18.18 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £19.50 £28.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% +5.56% -1.82%
75th Percentile £37.17 £56.75 £78.75
90th Percentile £61.83 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £30.04 £27.00
% change year-on-year -22.89% +11.24% -22.86%

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 10 August 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 14 (4.93%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (4.58%) Confluence
3 8 (2.82%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.46%) Apache
5 5 (1.76%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.06%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.35%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.35%) Camunda
7 1 (0.35%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.35%) nginx
7 1 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.35%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.35%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (1.76%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.70%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.35%) Magento
4 1 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.35%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.35%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 119 (41.90%) Azure
2 109 (38.38%) AWS
3 70 (24.65%) GitHub
4 48 (16.90%) Azure DevOps
5 42 (14.79%) GCP
5 42 (14.79%) GitHub Actions
6 36 (12.68%) Power Platform
7 32 (11.27%) Serverless
8 25 (8.80%) Amazon S3
9 20 (7.04%) AWS Lambda
10 19 (6.69%) Azure Data Factory
11 17 (5.99%) Azure AKS
11 17 (5.99%) Snowflake
12 13 (4.58%) Amazon Kinesis
13 12 (4.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (4.23%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (4.23%) Azure Monitor
13 12 (4.23%) Entra ID
13 12 (4.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 12 (4.23%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.87%) Firewall
2 6 (2.11%) Network Security
3 5 (1.76%) DNS
4 4 (1.41%) Internet
4 4 (1.41%) VPN
5 3 (1.06%) FTP
6 2 (0.70%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.70%) Multicast
6 2 (0.70%) SSL
7 1 (0.35%) BGP
7 1 (0.35%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.35%) NX-OS
7 1 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.35%) TACACS
7 1 (0.35%) VSAN
7 1 (0.35%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.15%) Power BI
2 17 (5.99%) NoSQL
3 16 (5.63%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (5.28%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (5.28%) SQL Server
5 12 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (3.87%) Amazon Athena
6 11 (3.87%) Data Lake
7 10 (3.52%) DynamoDB
7 10 (3.52%) MongoDB
8 8 (2.82%) Metadata
9 7 (2.46%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (2.46%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (2.46%) Relational Database
9 7 (2.46%) Star Schema
10 5 (1.76%) Big Data
10 5 (1.76%) Data Mining
10 5 (1.76%) Delta Lake
10 5 (1.76%) Snowflake Schema
11 4 (1.41%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 48 (16.90%) Git
2 40 (14.08%) Jenkins
3 32 (11.27%) GitLab
4 23 (8.10%) JIRA
5 14 (4.93%) JUnit
6 11 (3.87%) Postman
7 10 (3.52%) Cucumber
8 9 (3.17%) Mockito
8 9 (3.17%) Selenium
9 6 (2.11%) Gradle
9 6 (2.11%) JMeter
10 4 (1.41%) Appium
10 4 (1.41%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.41%) Liquibase
10 4 (1.41%) Maven
11 3 (1.06%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.06%) Gatling
11 3 (1.06%) REST Assured
11 3 (1.06%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.70%) Ant
General
1 98 (34.51%) Finance
2 77 (27.11%) Social Skills
3 44 (15.49%) Banking
4 26 (9.15%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (7.75%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.52%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (2.46%) Front Office
8 6 (2.11%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.41%) Marketing
10 4 (1.41%) Military
10 4 (1.41%) Retail
11 3 (1.06%) Back Office
11 3 (1.06%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.06%) Law
11 3 (1.06%) Legal
12 2 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 52 (18.31%) Senior
2 46 (16.20%) Developer
3 42 (14.79%) Architect
4 30 (10.56%) Data Engineer
5 22 (7.75%) Lead
6 21 (7.39%) DevOps Engineer
7 18 (6.34%) Senior Developer
8 13 (4.58%) Azure Engineer
8 13 (4.58%) Cloud Engineer
8 13 (4.58%) Software Engineer
9 12 (4.23%) Data Architect
9 12 (4.23%) Java Developer
10 10 (3.52%) Automation Engineer
10 10 (3.52%) Python Engineer
11 9 (3.17%) Azure Architect
11 9 (3.17%) GCP Engineer
11 9 (3.17%) Platform Engineer
11 9 (3.17%) Senior Java Developer
11 9 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
11 9 (3.17%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (13.03%) REST
2 35 (12.32%) Kafka
3 31 (10.92%) Spring
4 27 (9.51%) Spring Boot
5 24 (8.45%) React
6 19 (6.69%) .NET
7 16 (5.63%) RESTful
8 15 (5.28%) PySpark
9 13 (4.58%) Playwright
9 13 (4.58%) SOAP
10 12 (4.23%) AngularJS
10 12 (4.23%) HTML
11 9 (3.17%) GraphQL
11 9 (3.17%) JSON
11 9 (3.17%) Node.js
12 8 (2.82%) Middleware
12 8 (2.82%) RabbitMQ
12 8 (2.82%) YAML
13 6 (2.11%) CSS
13 6 (2.11%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 81 (28.52%) Cloud Native
2 32 (11.27%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (6.69%) AI Agents
4 11 (3.87%) Onboarding
5 10 (3.52%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.76%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.41%) Clustering
10 4 (1.41%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.41%) Equities
10 4 (1.41%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.41%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.06%) Derivative
11 3 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.06%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.93%) Linux
2 9 (3.17%) Apple iOS
2 9 (3.17%) Unix
2 9 (3.17%) Windows
3 4 (1.41%) Android
3 4 (1.41%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.06%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.35%) AIX
5 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (53.52%) DevOps
2 95 (33.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 79 (27.82%) Agile
4 77 (27.11%) Test Automation
5 75 (26.41%) Containerisation
6 65 (22.89%) AI
7 56 (19.72%) Analytics
7 56 (19.72%) Microservices
7 56 (19.72%) Observability
8 52 (18.31%) Software Engineering
9 48 (16.90%) Data Engineering
10 44 (15.49%) Event-Driven
11 43 (15.14%) Migration
12 42 (14.79%) Data Modelling
13 41 (14.44%) Platform Engineering
14 38 (13.38%) Stakeholder Management
15 36 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
16 35 (12.32%) Data Pipeline
17 30 (10.56%) Mentoring
18 29 (10.21%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 100 (35.21%) Python
2 72 (25.35%) SQL
3 61 (21.48%) Java
4 33 (11.62%) C#
5 28 (9.86%) TypeScript
6 26 (9.15%) JavaScript
7 24 (8.45%) PowerShell
8 16 (5.63%) Bash
9 15 (5.28%) Bicep
10 7 (2.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (2.46%) Korn
11 5 (1.76%) Apex Code
11 5 (1.76%) Ruby
11 5 (1.76%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.06%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.06%) Scala
12 3 (1.06%) Swift
13 2 (0.70%) ActionScript 2.0
13 2 (0.70%) Go
13 2 (0.70%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 79 (27.82%) Security Cleared
2 70 (24.65%) SC Cleared
3 14 (4.93%) DV Cleared
4 9 (3.17%) Degree
5 8 (2.82%) DBS Check
6 7 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.76%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.70%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.70%) CISSP
8 2 (0.70%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.70%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.35%) CEH
9 1 (0.35%) CHECK Team Leader
9 1 (0.35%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.35%) OSCP
9 1 (0.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (9.86%) QA
2 17 (5.99%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.82%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.46%) EU AI Act
4 7 (2.46%) GDPR
4 7 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.46%) SLA
5 5 (1.76%) NCSC
6 4 (1.41%) NIST
7 2 (0.70%) EMIR
7 2 (0.70%) MiFID
7 2 (0.70%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.70%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 69 (24.30%) Docker
2 9 (3.17%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.82%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.70%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.35%) Firmware
6 1 (0.35%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.35%) Varnish
6 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 94 (33.10%) Kubernetes
2 76 (26.76%) Terraform
3 20 (7.04%) Grafana
3 20 (7.04%) Prometheus
4 14 (4.93%) Ansible
5 4 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.70%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.70%) Puppet
7 1 (0.35%) Argo
7 1 (0.35%) Bosun
7 1 (0.35%) CA Wily
7 1 (0.35%) Consul
7 1 (0.35%) Istio
7 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.35%) Packer
7 1 (0.35%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.35%) Salt
7 1 (0.35%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 57 (20.07%) Microsoft
2 31 (10.92%) Databricks
3 27 (9.51%) Google
4 15 (5.28%) Oracle
5 9 (3.17%) Salesforce
6 8 (2.82%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.82%) Splunk
7 6 (2.11%) IBM
7 6 (2.11%) MuleSoft
7 6 (2.11%) VMware
8 5 (1.76%) SAP
9 4 (1.41%) AppDynamics
9 4 (1.41%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.41%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.06%) Apple
10 3 (1.06%) Informatica
11 2 (0.70%) Foundry
11 2 (0.70%) Software AG
11 2 (0.70%) Sybase
11 2 (0.70%) webMethods