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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 17 18
Rank change year-on-year +4 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 284 185 186
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 12.04% 9.89% 9.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.75% 10.49% 9.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 119 134
10th Percentile £425 £400 £441
25th Percentile £475 £513 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £633
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -1.19% +5.42%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £738
90th Percentile £738 £790 £823
Central London median daily rate £550 £621 £625
% change year-on-year -11.36% -0.72% +4.17%
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 2,065 1,763 1,899
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.57% 94.28% 91.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,415 1,157 1,269
10th Percentile £380 £325 £381
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 £774 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 22 16
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £19.79
Median hourly rate £19.50 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -31.16% +6.38% -3.18%
75th Percentile £33.10 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.65 £29.07 £26.78
% change year-on-year -15.22% +8.55% -23.49%

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 16 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 15 (5.28%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (3.87%) Confluence
3 8 (2.82%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.46%) Apache
5 5 (1.76%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.35%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.35%) Camunda
6 1 (0.35%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.35%) nginx
6 1 (0.35%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.35%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
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%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.35%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.35%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 124 (43.66%) Azure
2 110 (38.73%) AWS
3 69 (24.30%) GitHub
4 50 (17.61%) Azure DevOps
5 42 (14.79%) GitHub Actions
6 41 (14.44%) GCP
7 36 (12.68%) Power Platform
8 31 (10.92%) Serverless
9 25 (8.80%) Amazon S3
10 20 (7.04%) AWS Lambda
11 19 (6.69%) Azure Data Factory
12 18 (6.34%) Azure AKS
12 18 (6.34%) Snowflake
13 13 (4.58%) Amazon Kinesis
13 13 (4.58%) dbt
14 12 (4.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 12 (4.23%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (4.23%) Azure Monitor
14 12 (4.23%) Entra ID
14 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 25 (8.80%) Power BI
2 17 (5.99%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (5.63%) NoSQL
4 15 (5.28%) SQL Server
5 13 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (3.87%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (3.87%) Data Lake
6 11 (3.87%) MongoDB
7 10 (3.52%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (3.52%) DynamoDB
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%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 45 (15.85%) Git
2 39 (13.73%) Jenkins
3 32 (11.27%) GitLab
4 21 (7.39%) 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%) Maven
10 4 (1.41%) Visual Studio
11 3 (1.06%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.06%) Gatling
11 3 (1.06%) REST Assured
11 3 (1.06%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 101 (35.56%) Finance
2 79 (27.82%) Social Skills
3 46 (16.20%) Banking
4 27 (9.51%) 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 48 (16.90%) Developer
3 42 (14.79%) Architect
4 31 (10.92%) Data Engineer
5 21 (7.39%) Lead
6 18 (6.34%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (6.34%) Senior Developer
7 15 (5.28%) 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
10 10 (3.52%) Solutions Architect
11 9 (3.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 9 (3.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 9 (3.17%) Senior Java Developer
12 8 (2.82%) Security Engineer
12 8 (2.82%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (13.03%) REST
2 34 (11.97%) Kafka
3 29 (10.21%) Spring
4 27 (9.51%) Spring Boot
5 24 (8.45%) React
6 19 (6.69%) .NET
7 16 (5.63%) RESTful
8 14 (4.93%) PySpark
9 13 (4.58%) HTML
9 13 (4.58%) SOAP
10 12 (4.23%) AngularJS
10 12 (4.23%) Playwright
11 10 (3.52%) YAML
12 9 (3.17%) GraphQL
12 9 (3.17%) JSON
13 8 (2.82%) Middleware
13 8 (2.82%) Node.js
13 8 (2.82%) RabbitMQ
14 7 (2.46%) CSS
15 6 (2.11%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 78 (27.46%) Cloud Native
2 31 (10.92%) 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
6 8 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.41%) Clustering
9 4 (1.41%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.41%) Equities
9 4 (1.41%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.41%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.41%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.06%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.06%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
10 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
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (53.17%) DevOps
2 93 (32.75%) Infrastructure as Code
3 81 (28.52%) Agile
4 77 (27.11%) Test Automation
5 73 (25.70%) Containerisation
6 65 (22.89%) AI
7 55 (19.37%) Analytics
7 55 (19.37%) Observability
8 54 (19.01%) Microservices
9 51 (17.96%) Software Engineering
10 47 (16.55%) Data Engineering
11 44 (15.49%) Event-Driven
12 42 (14.79%) Data Modelling
12 42 (14.79%) Migration
13 41 (14.44%) Platform Engineering
14 39 (13.73%) Stakeholder Management
15 38 (13.38%) Problem-Solving
16 35 (12.32%) Data Pipeline
17 30 (10.56%) Mentoring
18 29 (10.21%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 102 (35.92%) Python
2 74 (26.06%) SQL
3 62 (21.83%) Java
4 34 (11.97%) C#
5 28 (9.86%) TypeScript
6 27 (9.51%) JavaScript
6 27 (9.51%) PowerShell
7 16 (5.63%) Bicep
8 14 (4.93%) Bash
9 7 (2.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 7 (2.46%) Korn
10 5 (1.76%) Apex Code
10 5 (1.76%) Ruby
10 5 (1.76%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.41%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.06%) Scala
12 3 (1.06%) Swift
13 2 (0.70%) ActionScript 2.0
13 2 (0.70%) R
13 2 (0.70%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 77 (27.11%) Security Cleared
2 67 (23.59%) SC Cleared
3 14 (4.93%) DV Cleared
4 8 (2.82%) DBS Check
4 8 (2.82%) Degree
5 6 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.76%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.70%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.70%) CISSP
7 2 (0.70%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.70%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.35%) CHECK Team Leader
8 1 (0.35%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.35%) OSCP
8 1 (0.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.21%) QA
2 18 (6.34%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.17%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.82%) GDPR
5 7 (2.46%) EU AI Act
5 7 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.46%) SLA
6 5 (1.76%) NCSC
7 4 (1.41%) NIST
8 2 (0.70%) EMIR
8 2 (0.70%) MiFID
8 2 (0.70%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.70%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 65 (22.89%) Docker
2 9 (3.17%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.11%) 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 93 (32.75%) Kubernetes
2 73 (25.70%) Terraform
3 19 (6.69%) Grafana
3 19 (6.69%) Prometheus
4 12 (4.23%) 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 56 (19.72%) Microsoft
2 31 (10.92%) Databricks
3 26 (9.15%) Google
4 16 (5.63%) Oracle
5 9 (3.17%) Salesforce
6 8 (2.82%) Splunk
7 7 (2.46%) Dynatrace
7 7 (2.46%) VMware
8 6 (2.11%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.76%) IBM
9 5 (1.76%) SAP
10 4 (1.41%) AppDynamics
10 4 (1.41%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.41%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.06%) Apple
11 3 (1.06%) Informatica
12 2 (0.70%) Fortinet
12 2 (0.70%) Software AG
12 2 (0.70%) Sybase
12 2 (0.70%) webMethods