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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 19 19
Rank change year-on-year +10 0 -2
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 309 161 186
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 13.65% 9.14% 8.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.34% 9.69% 9.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 108 136
10th Percentile £421 £411 £459
25th Percentile £475 £511 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £614 £633
Median % change year-on-year -10.46% -2.89% +5.33%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £738
90th Percentile £738 £800 £785
Central London median daily rate £550 £613 £626
% change year-on-year -10.20% -2.20% +1.83%
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 2,014 1,661 1,914
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.96% 94.27% 92.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,388 1,107 1,213
10th Percentile £368 £325 £375
25th Percentile £456 £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 £763 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 22 17
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.20
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £20.22
Median hourly rate £21.75 £28.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% +4.91% +8.00%
75th Percentile £32.57 £53.50 £78.75
90th Percentile £51.54 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.57 £31.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.19% -10.71% +34.62%

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 17 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 (5.50%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (4.53%) Confluence
3 11 (3.56%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.27%) Apache
5 4 (1.29%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.65%) CMS
6 2 (0.65%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.32%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.32%) Camunda
7 1 (0.32%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.32%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.32%) nginx
7 1 (0.32%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.29%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.97%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.65%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.32%) Magento
4 1 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.32%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.32%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 145 (46.93%) Azure
2 122 (39.48%) AWS
3 70 (22.65%) GitHub
4 52 (16.83%) Azure DevOps
5 48 (15.53%) GCP
6 45 (14.56%) GitHub Actions
7 38 (12.30%) Serverless
8 37 (11.97%) Power Platform
9 26 (8.41%) Amazon S3
9 26 (8.41%) Azure Data Factory
10 23 (7.44%) AWS Lambda
11 19 (6.15%) Snowflake
12 18 (5.83%) Azure AKS
13 15 (4.85%) Azure Monitor
13 15 (4.85%) dbt
14 13 (4.21%) Amazon EKS
14 13 (4.21%) Amazon Kinesis
14 13 (4.21%) Azure Databricks
15 12 (3.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 12 (3.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.88%) Firewall
2 6 (1.94%) DNS
2 6 (1.94%) Network Security
3 5 (1.62%) VPN
4 4 (1.29%) Internet
5 3 (0.97%) FTP
6 2 (0.65%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.65%) Multicast
6 2 (0.65%) SSL
7 1 (0.32%) BGP
7 1 (0.32%) DHCP
7 1 (0.32%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.32%) Intelligent Network
7 1 (0.32%) NX-OS
7 1 (0.32%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.32%) tcpdump
7 1 (0.32%) VoIP
7 1 (0.32%) VSAN
7 1 (0.32%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.32%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (8.41%) Power BI
2 21 (6.80%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (5.50%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (5.18%) SQL Server
5 14 (4.53%) Data Lake
5 14 (4.53%) NoSQL
6 13 (4.21%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (4.21%) Metadata
7 12 (3.88%) Amazon Athena
8 11 (3.56%) Relational Database
9 9 (2.91%) MongoDB
10 8 (2.59%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (2.59%) Delta Lake
10 8 (2.59%) Star Schema
11 7 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (2.27%) DynamoDB
12 5 (1.62%) Amazon QuickSight
12 5 (1.62%) Data Mining
13 4 (1.29%) Big Data
13 4 (1.29%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 47 (15.21%) Git
2 37 (11.97%) Jenkins
3 34 (11.00%) GitLab
4 25 (8.09%) JIRA
5 12 (3.88%) JUnit
6 9 (2.91%) JMeter
6 9 (2.91%) Selenium
7 8 (2.59%) Bitbucket
7 8 (2.59%) Cucumber
7 8 (2.59%) Gradle
7 8 (2.59%) Maven
7 8 (2.59%) Mockito
7 8 (2.59%) Postman
8 5 (1.62%) Visual Studio
9 4 (1.29%) Appium
9 4 (1.29%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.29%) Gatling
10 3 (0.97%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.97%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 3 (0.97%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 110 (35.60%) Finance
2 87 (28.16%) Social Skills
3 55 (17.80%) Banking
4 36 (11.65%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (8.09%) Public Sector
6 14 (4.53%) Front Office
7 10 (3.24%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (2.59%) Investment Banking
9 7 (2.27%) Back Office
10 5 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.62%) Marketing
10 5 (1.62%) Retail
11 4 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.29%) Military
11 4 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.97%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.97%) Law
12 3 (0.97%) Legal
12 3 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.97%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 62 (20.06%) Senior
2 59 (19.09%) Developer
3 51 (16.50%) Architect
4 39 (12.62%) Data Engineer
5 21 (6.80%) Lead
6 20 (6.47%) DevOps Engineer
6 20 (6.47%) Senior Developer
7 14 (4.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 14 (4.53%) Azure Engineer
7 14 (4.53%) Cloud Engineer
7 14 (4.53%) Data Architect
7 14 (4.53%) Java Developer
8 13 (4.21%) Senior Data Engineer
8 13 (4.21%) Solutions Architect
9 12 (3.88%) Software Engineer
10 10 (3.24%) Automation Engineer
10 10 (3.24%) AWS Engineer
10 10 (3.24%) Senior Java Developer
11 9 (2.91%) GCP Engineer
12 8 (2.59%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (27.51%) Terraform
2 45 (14.56%) REST
3 33 (10.68%) Kafka
3 33 (10.68%) Spring
4 31 (10.03%) Spring Boot
5 27 (8.74%) .NET
6 23 (7.44%) React
7 19 (6.15%) PySpark
7 19 (6.15%) RESTful
8 16 (5.18%) SOAP
9 14 (4.53%) HTML
10 11 (3.56%) AngularJS
10 11 (3.56%) JSON
11 10 (3.24%) Middleware
11 10 (3.24%) RabbitMQ
12 9 (2.91%) CSS
12 9 (2.91%) Playwright
12 9 (2.91%) YAML
13 8 (2.59%) ActiveMQ
13 8 (2.59%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 94 (30.42%) Cloud Native
2 35 (11.33%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (8.09%) AI Agents
4 16 (5.18%) Onboarding
5 15 (4.85%) Product Ownership
6 13 (4.21%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (3.56%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.29%) CMDB
10 4 (1.29%) Derivative
10 4 (1.29%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.29%) Equities
10 4 (1.29%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.29%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.97%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.97%) Mobile App
11 3 (0.97%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 19 (6.15%) Linux
2 13 (4.21%) Windows
3 11 (3.56%) Unix
4 8 (2.59%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.94%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.29%) Android
7 2 (0.65%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.32%) CentOS
8 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (51.78%) DevOps
2 110 (35.60%) Infrastructure as Code
3 89 (28.80%) Agile
4 78 (25.24%) Test Automation
5 76 (24.60%) Containerisation
6 71 (22.98%) AI
7 62 (20.06%) Analytics
8 61 (19.74%) Microservices
9 60 (19.42%) Software Engineering
10 58 (18.77%) Observability
11 55 (17.80%) Data Engineering
12 52 (16.83%) Event-Driven
13 47 (15.21%) Data Modelling
13 47 (15.21%) Problem-Solving
14 45 (14.56%) Data Pipeline
15 43 (13.92%) Platform Engineering
16 42 (13.59%) Stakeholder Management
17 41 (13.27%) Migration
18 37 (11.97%) Continuous Improvement
19 33 (10.68%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 122 (39.48%) Python
2 87 (28.16%) SQL
3 65 (21.04%) Java
4 38 (12.30%) C#
5 30 (9.71%) PowerShell
6 29 (9.39%) JavaScript
7 27 (8.74%) TypeScript
8 16 (5.18%) Bicep
9 15 (4.85%) Bash
10 11 (3.56%) Korn
11 9 (2.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (1.62%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.62%) Scala
13 4 (1.29%) Apex Code
13 4 (1.29%) Ruby
13 4 (1.29%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.97%) Swift
15 2 (0.65%) ActionScript 2.0
15 2 (0.65%) R
15 2 (0.65%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 79 (25.57%) Security Cleared
2 67 (21.68%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.21%) DV Cleared
4 9 (2.91%) Degree
5 8 (2.59%) DBS Check
6 5 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.29%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.97%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.97%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.97%) PMP
9 2 (0.65%) CISSP
9 2 (0.65%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.65%) SnowPro
9 2 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.32%) CEH
10 1 (0.32%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.32%) MOS
10 1 (0.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (10.03%) Data Quality
1 31 (10.03%) QA
2 9 (2.91%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.27%) EU AI Act
4 6 (1.94%) GDPR
4 6 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.62%) NCSC
6 4 (1.29%) NIST
7 3 (0.97%) SLA
8 2 (0.65%) EMIR
8 2 (0.65%) MiFID
8 2 (0.65%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.65%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.32%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.32%) PSD2
9 1 (0.32%) SEPA
9 1 (0.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 62 (20.06%) Docker
2 6 (1.94%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.65%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.32%) Firmware
6 1 (0.32%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.32%) Varnish
6 1 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 91 (29.45%) Kubernetes
2 24 (7.77%) Grafana
3 20 (6.47%) Prometheus
4 16 (5.18%) Ansible
5 4 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.32%) Argo
6 1 (0.32%) Bosun
6 1 (0.32%) Consul
6 1 (0.32%) Istio
6 1 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.32%) Packer
6 1 (0.32%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.32%) Puppet
6 1 (0.32%) Salt
6 1 (0.32%) SCCM
6 1 (0.32%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.32%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 60 (19.42%) Microsoft
2 43 (13.92%) Databricks
3 25 (8.09%) Google
4 16 (5.18%) Oracle
5 11 (3.56%) Dynatrace
5 11 (3.56%) Splunk
6 8 (2.59%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.27%) VMware
8 6 (1.94%) IBM
8 6 (1.94%) MuleSoft
8 6 (1.94%) SAP
8 6 (1.94%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.29%) AppDynamics
9 4 (1.29%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.97%) Foundry
11 2 (0.65%) Adyen
11 2 (0.65%) Apple
11 2 (0.65%) New Relic
11 2 (0.65%) Software AG
11 2 (0.65%) Workday