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 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 14 28
Rank change year-on-year -5 +14 -8
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 188 201 156
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 9.63% 10.94% 6.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.84% 11.91% 7.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 128 112
10th Percentile £344 £413 £425
25th Percentile £413 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £575 £615
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% -6.50% -4.47%
75th Percentile £638 £689 £713
90th Percentile £767 £754 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -8.70% -8.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.75
Median hourly rate - - £48.50
75th Percentile - - £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £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 1,735 1,687 2,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.88% 91.78% 89.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,200 1,030 1,509
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £431 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £781 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -4.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 9 14
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.34 £31.00 £19.18
Median hourly rate £34.25 £38.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.04% +18.46% -7.14%
75th Percentile £46.29 £48.75 £45.52
90th Percentile £55.54 £112.00 £66.70
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -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 22 February 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 8 (4.26%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.72%) Apache Spark
3 6 (3.19%) Confluence
4 3 (1.60%) Apache
5 2 (1.06%) CMS
5 2 (1.06%) Ethereum
5 2 (1.06%) Hyperledger
5 2 (1.06%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.53%) Camunda
6 1 (0.53%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.53%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.53%) Maya
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.06%) Shopify
2 1 (0.53%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.53%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.53%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 87 (46.28%) AWS
2 72 (38.30%) Azure
3 48 (25.53%) GitHub
4 36 (19.15%) GCP
4 36 (19.15%) GitHub Actions
5 29 (15.43%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (13.83%) Serverless
7 19 (10.11%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (9.04%) Amazon S3
9 14 (7.45%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (6.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 12 (6.38%) Snowflake
12 11 (5.85%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (5.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 10 (5.32%) Power Platform
14 8 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (4.26%) Apigee
15 7 (3.72%) AWS Fargate
16 6 (3.19%) Amazon SageMaker
16 6 (3.19%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.66%) Network Security
2 4 (2.13%) DNS
3 3 (1.60%) Firewall
4 2 (1.06%) HTTP
5 1 (0.53%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.45%) Relational Database
2 13 (6.91%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.32%) DynamoDB
3 10 (5.32%) NoSQL
4 9 (4.79%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (4.79%) MySQL
5 8 (4.26%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.19%) Metadata
6 6 (3.19%) Power BI
7 5 (2.66%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (2.66%) BigQuery
7 5 (2.66%) Redis
7 5 (2.66%) SQL Server
8 4 (2.13%) Data Lake
8 4 (2.13%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (1.60%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.60%) Big Data
10 2 (1.06%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.06%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 49 (26.06%) Git
2 35 (18.62%) Jenkins
3 17 (9.04%) GitLab
4 16 (8.51%) JIRA
5 11 (5.85%) Selenium
6 9 (4.79%) Cucumber
7 8 (4.26%) JUnit
8 7 (3.72%) Postman
9 5 (2.66%) Bitbucket
9 5 (2.66%) REST Assured
10 4 (2.13%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.60%) Ant
11 3 (1.60%) Gatling
11 3 (1.60%) Mockito
12 2 (1.06%) Crashlytics
12 2 (1.06%) fastlane
12 2 (1.06%) Gradle
12 2 (1.06%) Snyk
12 2 (1.06%) SoapUI
12 2 (1.06%) WebDriver
General
1 65 (34.57%) Finance
2 49 (26.06%) Social Skills
3 32 (17.02%) Banking
4 10 (5.32%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.26%) Front Office
5 8 (4.26%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.19%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.66%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.60%) Law
10 2 (1.06%) Back Office
10 2 (1.06%) Legal
10 2 (1.06%) Marketing
10 2 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.06%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.53%) Local Government
11 1 (0.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (20.21%) Developer
2 32 (17.02%) Senior
3 28 (14.89%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (9.57%) Architect
5 15 (7.98%) Data Engineer
5 15 (7.98%) Lead
6 13 (6.91%) Python Engineer
7 10 (5.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 10 (5.32%) GCP Engineer
7 10 (5.32%) Senior Developer
8 9 (4.79%) Java Developer
8 9 (4.79%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (3.72%) Cloud Architect
9 7 (3.72%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (2.66%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (2.66%) Azure Engineer
10 5 (2.66%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (2.66%) iOS Developer
10 5 (2.66%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 5 (2.66%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.11%) React
2 17 (9.04%) RESTful
3 16 (8.51%) Node.js
3 16 (8.51%) REST
4 15 (7.98%) Kafka
5 13 (6.91%) CSS
5 13 (6.91%) HTML
5 13 (6.91%) OAuth
5 13 (6.91%) Spring
6 11 (5.85%) .NET
7 10 (5.32%) Spring Boot
8 9 (4.79%) Playwright
9 8 (4.26%) OpenTelemetry
10 7 (3.72%) GraphQL
10 7 (3.72%) JSON
11 6 (3.19%) HTML5
11 6 (3.19%) JWT
11 6 (3.19%) LangGraph
12 5 (2.66%) Model Context Protocol
12 5 (2.66%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 37 (19.68%) Cloud Native
2 16 (8.51%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.85%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.72%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.19%) AI Agents
5 6 (3.19%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.19%) Mobile App
5 6 (3.19%) Virtual Team
6 5 (2.66%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.13%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.13%) Equities
7 4 (2.13%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.13%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.60%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.60%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.60%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.60%) Replication
9 2 (1.06%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.32%) Linux
2 6 (3.19%) Apple iOS
3 4 (2.13%) Android
3 4 (2.13%) Windows
4 1 (0.53%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (47.34%) DevOps
2 64 (34.04%) Infrastructure as Code
3 56 (29.79%) Agile
4 49 (26.06%) Test Automation
5 43 (22.87%) AI
6 41 (21.81%) Containerisation
7 35 (18.62%) Microservices
7 35 (18.62%) Problem-Solving
8 31 (16.49%) Observability
9 27 (14.36%) Analytics
9 27 (14.36%) Design Patterns
10 26 (13.83%) Performance Tuning
11 25 (13.30%) Software Engineering
12 24 (12.77%) Data Engineering
13 23 (12.23%) Data Pipeline
14 21 (11.17%) Machine Learning
15 19 (10.11%) Data Modelling
15 19 (10.11%) Migration
15 19 (10.11%) Platform Engineering
16 18 (9.57%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 75 (39.89%) Python
2 41 (21.81%) Java
3 38 (20.21%) SQL
4 21 (11.17%) JavaScript
5 19 (10.11%) TypeScript
6 13 (6.91%) C#
7 9 (4.79%) Bash
8 5 (2.66%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.66%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.13%) Go
9 4 (2.13%) Ruby
9 4 (2.13%) Swift
10 3 (1.60%) Apex Code
10 3 (1.60%) Korn
10 3 (1.60%) Objective-C
10 3 (1.60%) PHP
11 2 (1.06%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.06%) Rust
11 2 (1.06%) Scala
11 2 (1.06%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 39 (20.74%) SC Cleared
1 39 (20.74%) Security Cleared
2 7 (3.72%) Degree
3 5 (2.66%) AWS Certification
3 5 (2.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.66%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (1.06%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.06%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.53%) CCNA
5 1 (0.53%) CCSP
5 1 (0.53%) CISSP
5 1 (0.53%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.53%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.45%) Data Quality
1 14 (7.45%) GDPR
1 14 (7.45%) QA
2 7 (3.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.19%) PCI DSS
4 5 (2.66%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.60%) NIST
5 3 (1.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.06%) ISO 20022
6 2 (1.06%) ISO 8583
6 2 (1.06%) NCSC
6 2 (1.06%) PSD2
6 2 (1.06%) SEPA
6 2 (1.06%) SLA
7 1 (0.53%) GRC
7 1 (0.53%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 56 (29.79%) Docker
2 8 (4.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 66 (35.11%) Terraform
2 57 (30.32%) Kubernetes
3 19 (10.11%) Ansible
4 9 (4.79%) Prometheus
5 8 (4.26%) Grafana
6 5 (2.66%) Istio
7 4 (2.13%) Argo
7 4 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.06%) Kibana
9 1 (0.53%) Icinga
9 1 (0.53%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.53%) Karpenter
9 1 (0.53%) logstash
9 1 (0.53%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.53%) Packer
Vendors
1 28 (14.89%) Microsoft
2 24 (12.77%) Google
3 21 (11.17%) Databricks
4 9 (4.79%) Oracle
5 7 (3.72%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.66%) Dynatrace
6 5 (2.66%) OpenAI
7 4 (2.13%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.13%) Splunk
8 2 (1.06%) Apple
8 2 (1.06%) Confluent
8 2 (1.06%) IBM
8 2 (1.06%) SimCorp
8 2 (1.06%) Tenable
8 2 (1.06%) UiPath
8 2 (1.06%) Vermilion
9 1 (0.53%) Amplitude
9 1 (0.53%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (0.53%) Sonatype
9 1 (0.53%) Workday