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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 15 22
Rank change year-on-year -5 +7 -5
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 219 210 167
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 9.79% 11.85% 7.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.41% 12.77% 8.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 128 117
10th Percentile £356 £411 £425
25th Percentile £430 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £684 £715
90th Percentile £755 £750 £793
Central London median daily rate £567 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -1.35% -4.17% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - £46.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £48.50
75th Percentile £75.00 - £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £70.00 - £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 1,920 1,645 1,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.79% 92.83% 90.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,314 1,049 1,408
10th Percentile £363 £363 £352
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -5.83%
75th Percentile £675 £678 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 11 13
10th Percentile £17.99 £22.00 £19.13
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £30.03 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.12% +24.00% -42.20%
75th Percentile £51.00 £46.25 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £63.75 £48.57
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £30.04 £27.81
% change year-on-year -13.07% +8.00% -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 April 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 12 (5.48%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.74%) Apache
2 6 (2.74%) Confluence
3 4 (1.83%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.37%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.37%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.91%) Camunda
5 2 (0.91%) Ethereum
5 2 (0.91%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.46%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.46%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.46%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.46%) nginx
6 1 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.46%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.46%) Maya
Business Applications
1 3 (1.37%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.91%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.91%) Shopify
3 1 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.46%) Magento
3 1 (0.46%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.46%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.46%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.46%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 108 (49.32%) AWS
2 90 (41.10%) Azure
3 57 (26.03%) GitHub
4 40 (18.26%) GCP
5 37 (16.89%) Azure DevOps
6 35 (15.98%) GitHub Actions
7 33 (15.07%) Serverless
8 27 (12.33%) Amazon S3
9 25 (11.42%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (7.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 16 (7.31%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (7.31%) Power Platform
10 16 (7.31%) Snowflake
11 13 (5.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 11 (5.02%) Azure AKS
13 10 (4.57%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (4.57%) Amazon Kinesis
13 10 (4.57%) dbt
14 9 (4.11%) Amazon EC2
14 9 (4.11%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.74%) Firewall
2 4 (1.83%) Network Security
3 2 (0.91%) DNS
3 2 (0.91%) HTTP
4 1 (0.46%) FTP
4 1 (0.46%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.46%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.22%) NoSQL
1 18 (8.22%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (6.39%) DynamoDB
3 12 (5.48%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (5.48%) MongoDB
3 12 (5.48%) Relational Database
4 10 (4.57%) Metadata
5 9 (4.11%) Power BI
6 8 (3.65%) SQL Server
7 7 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (3.20%) Data Lake
7 7 (3.20%) MySQL
7 7 (3.20%) Snowflake Schema
8 6 (2.74%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (2.74%) Redis
9 5 (2.28%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (2.28%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (2.28%) BigQuery
9 5 (2.28%) Data Mining
10 4 (1.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 49 (22.37%) Git
2 31 (14.16%) Jenkins
3 19 (8.68%) GitLab
4 16 (7.31%) JIRA
5 11 (5.02%) JUnit
6 8 (3.65%) Cucumber
6 8 (3.65%) Postman
7 7 (3.20%) Mockito
7 7 (3.20%) Selenium
8 4 (1.83%) Gradle
8 4 (1.83%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.37%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.37%) Liquibase
9 3 (1.37%) Maven
10 2 (0.91%) Ant
10 2 (0.91%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.91%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.91%) Gatling
10 2 (0.91%) JMeter
11 1 (0.46%) TestRail
General
1 73 (33.33%) Finance
2 54 (24.66%) Social Skills
3 29 (13.24%) Banking
4 19 (8.68%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.48%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.28%) Front Office
7 5 (2.28%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.83%) Law
8 4 (1.83%) Legal
8 4 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.37%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.37%) Marketing
10 1 (0.46%) Back Office
10 1 (0.46%) Games
10 1 (0.46%) Local Government
10 1 (0.46%) Military
10 1 (0.46%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (17.81%) Developer
2 36 (16.44%) Senior
3 30 (13.70%) Architect
4 29 (13.24%) DevOps Engineer
5 19 (8.68%) Lead
6 18 (8.22%) Data Engineer
7 11 (5.02%) Python Engineer
7 11 (5.02%) Senior Developer
8 10 (4.57%) Azure Engineer
8 10 (4.57%) Cloud Engineer
8 10 (4.57%) GCP Engineer
8 10 (4.57%) Java Developer
8 10 (4.57%) Platform Engineer
9 9 (4.11%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 9 (4.11%) Snowflake Engineer
10 8 (3.65%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 8 (3.65%) Security Engineer
10 8 (3.65%) Software Engineer
11 7 (3.20%) Technical Architect
12 6 (2.74%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (11.42%) Kafka
1 25 (11.42%) Spring
2 24 (10.96%) REST
3 23 (10.50%) React
4 21 (9.59%) Spring Boot
5 17 (7.76%) Node.js
6 14 (6.39%) RESTful
7 11 (5.02%) OpenTelemetry
8 10 (4.57%) .NET
8 10 (4.57%) HTML
8 10 (4.57%) Playwright
9 8 (3.65%) AngularJS
9 8 (3.65%) CSS
9 8 (3.65%) Django
9 8 (3.65%) GraphQL
9 8 (3.65%) OAuth
10 7 (3.20%) SOAP
11 6 (2.74%) JSON
11 6 (2.74%) Model Context Protocol
12 5 (2.28%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 54 (24.66%) Cloud Native
2 28 (12.79%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.02%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.20%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.74%) AI Agents
6 5 (2.28%) Clustering
6 5 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.83%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.83%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.83%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.37%) Equities
8 3 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.37%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.37%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.37%) Replication
8 3 (1.37%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.91%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.91%) IoT
9 2 (0.91%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.02%) Linux
2 4 (1.83%) Apple iOS
2 4 (1.83%) Windows
3 3 (1.37%) Android
4 2 (0.91%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.91%) Unix
5 1 (0.46%) AIX
5 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.46%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (52.97%) DevOps
2 82 (37.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 63 (28.77%) Agile
4 56 (25.57%) Containerisation
5 53 (24.20%) Test Automation
6 50 (22.83%) AI
7 48 (21.92%) Microservices
7 48 (21.92%) Observability
8 39 (17.81%) Analytics
9 35 (15.98%) Software Engineering
10 30 (13.70%) Data Engineering
11 28 (12.79%) Data Pipeline
11 28 (12.79%) Performance Tuning
12 26 (11.87%) Migration
13 25 (11.42%) Machine Learning
14 24 (10.96%) Data Modelling
14 24 (10.96%) Platform Engineering
15 22 (10.05%) Event-Driven
15 22 (10.05%) Problem-Solving
16 20 (9.13%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 81 (36.99%) Python
2 50 (22.83%) Java
3 46 (21.00%) SQL
4 23 (10.50%) TypeScript
5 20 (9.13%) JavaScript
6 18 (8.22%) C#
7 14 (6.39%) Bash
8 8 (3.65%) Bicep
8 8 (3.65%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.74%) Ruby
10 4 (1.83%) Apex Code
10 4 (1.83%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.37%) Go
11 3 (1.37%) Korn
11 3 (1.37%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.91%) PHP
12 2 (0.91%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.46%) ActionScript
13 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.46%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 51 (23.29%) Security Cleared
2 48 (21.92%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.65%) Degree
4 6 (2.74%) Azure Certification
4 6 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.28%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.28%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.91%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.91%) OSCP
7 2 (0.91%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.46%) CHECK Team Leader
8 1 (0.46%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.46%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.31%) Data Quality
1 16 (7.31%) QA
2 11 (5.02%) GDPR
3 6 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.74%) SLA
4 5 (2.28%) NCSC
4 5 (2.28%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.83%) NIST
5 4 (1.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.91%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.91%) ISO 8583
6 2 (0.91%) NIST 800
6 2 (0.91%) PSD2
6 2 (0.91%) SEPA
7 1 (0.46%) GRC
System Software
1 65 (29.68%) Docker
2 8 (3.65%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (3.20%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.46%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.46%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 72 (32.88%) Kubernetes
2 70 (31.96%) Terraform
3 17 (7.76%) Ansible
3 17 (7.76%) Prometheus
4 15 (6.85%) Grafana
5 6 (2.74%) Istio
6 4 (1.83%) Argo
7 2 (0.91%) Puppet
8 1 (0.46%) CA Wily
8 1 (0.46%) Consul
8 1 (0.46%) Icinga
8 1 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.46%) Karpenter
8 1 (0.46%) Kibana
8 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.46%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.46%) Packer
8 1 (0.46%) Salt
8 1 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.46%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 38 (17.35%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.59%) Google
3 16 (7.31%) Databricks
4 12 (5.48%) Oracle
5 7 (3.20%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.74%) Dynatrace
7 5 (2.28%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.83%) IBM
8 4 (1.83%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.83%) Splunk
9 3 (1.37%) Informatica
9 3 (1.37%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.37%) SAP
10 2 (0.91%) Confluent
10 2 (0.91%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.91%) SimCorp
10 2 (0.91%) Tenable
10 2 (0.91%) Vermilion
11 1 (0.46%) Amplitude
11 1 (0.46%) UiPath