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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 16 15
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 253 198 203
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 10.39% 10.57% 9.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.05% 11.26% 10.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 124 145
10th Percentile £411 £413 £425
25th Percentile £464 £506 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £611 £615
Median % change year-on-year -10.02% -0.61% -1.60%
75th Percentile £638 £697 £738
90th Percentile £725 £800 £822
Central London median daily rate £550 £610 £600
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% -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 2,100 1,759 1,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.21% 93.86% 91.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,419 1,135 1,349
10th Percentile £368 £350 £363
25th Percentile £453 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £686 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 21 18
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £19.49
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.29
Median hourly rate £21.00 £31.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.26% +14.81% -22.86%
75th Percentile £42.13 £56.75 £48.15
90th Percentile £59.72 £63.75 £82.88
Central London median hourly rate £24.47 £32.50 £27.81
% change year-on-year -24.72% +16.86% -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 13 July 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 (6.72%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (4.74%) Confluence
3 7 (2.77%) Apache
3 7 (2.77%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.19%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.19%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.79%) Camunda
5 2 (0.79%) Ethereum
5 2 (0.79%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.40%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.40%) nginx
6 1 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.40%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (1.98%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.40%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.40%) Magento
3 1 (0.40%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.40%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.40%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.40%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.40%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 108 (42.69%) AWS
2 96 (37.94%) Azure
3 58 (22.92%) GitHub
4 36 (14.23%) Azure DevOps
4 36 (14.23%) GitHub Actions
5 34 (13.44%) GCP
5 34 (13.44%) Serverless
6 32 (12.65%) Power Platform
7 27 (10.67%) Amazon S3
8 22 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (7.11%) Snowflake
10 14 (5.53%) Azure AKS
11 13 (5.14%) dbt
12 12 (4.74%) Amazon Bedrock
12 12 (4.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 12 (4.74%) Amazon EC2
12 12 (4.74%) Amazon Kinesis
12 12 (4.74%) Azure Data Factory
13 10 (3.95%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (3.95%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.56%) Firewall
2 6 (2.37%) Network Security
3 4 (1.58%) VPN
4 3 (1.19%) DNS
4 3 (1.19%) FTP
5 2 (0.79%) HTTP
5 2 (0.79%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.79%) Multicast
6 1 (0.40%) Internet
6 1 (0.40%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.40%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.09%) Power BI
2 19 (7.51%) NoSQL
3 15 (5.93%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (5.53%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (4.74%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (4.74%) DynamoDB
6 11 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
6 11 (4.35%) SQL Server
7 10 (3.95%) Metadata
7 10 (3.95%) MongoDB
8 8 (3.16%) Data Lake
9 7 (2.77%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (2.77%) Relational Database
10 6 (2.37%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (1.98%) Data Mining
12 4 (1.58%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (1.58%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.58%) Data Mart
12 4 (1.58%) Star Schema
12 4 (1.58%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 51 (20.16%) Git
2 34 (13.44%) Jenkins
3 27 (10.67%) GitLab
4 25 (9.88%) JIRA
5 16 (6.32%) JUnit
6 11 (4.35%) Postman
7 10 (3.95%) Mockito
8 9 (3.56%) Cucumber
9 6 (2.37%) Gradle
9 6 (2.37%) Selenium
10 5 (1.98%) JMeter
10 5 (1.98%) REST Assured
11 4 (1.58%) Liquibase
11 4 (1.58%) Maven
12 3 (1.19%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.79%) Ant
13 2 (0.79%) Cypress.io
13 2 (0.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 2 (0.79%) Visual Studio
13 2 (0.79%) Xcode
General
1 96 (37.94%) Finance
2 66 (26.09%) Social Skills
3 44 (17.39%) Banking
4 23 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 21 (8.30%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.77%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (1.98%) Investment Banking
7 5 (1.98%) Legal
8 4 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.58%) Front Office
8 4 (1.58%) Military
8 4 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.19%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.19%) Law
10 2 (0.79%) Back Office
10 2 (0.79%) Marketing
10 2 (0.79%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.40%) Police
11 1 (0.40%) Retail
Job Titles
1 48 (18.97%) Senior
2 39 (15.42%) Developer
3 38 (15.02%) Architect
4 26 (10.28%) Data Engineer
5 22 (8.70%) Lead
6 21 (8.30%) DevOps Engineer
7 16 (6.32%) Senior Developer
8 13 (5.14%) Software Engineer
9 12 (4.74%) Java Developer
10 11 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
10 11 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (3.95%) Automation Engineer
12 9 (3.56%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (3.56%) Data Architect
12 9 (3.56%) GCP Engineer
12 9 (3.56%) Security Engineer
12 9 (3.56%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 9 (3.56%) Snowflake Engineer
12 9 (3.56%) Technical Architect
13 8 (3.16%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (14.23%) Kafka
2 34 (13.44%) REST
3 33 (13.04%) Spring
4 29 (11.46%) Spring Boot
5 22 (8.70%) React
6 16 (6.32%) .NET
7 14 (5.53%) RESTful
8 13 (5.14%) Playwright
9 11 (4.35%) PySpark
10 10 (3.95%) GraphQL
10 10 (3.95%) Node.js
10 10 (3.95%) SOAP
11 9 (3.56%) AngularJS
11 9 (3.56%) HTML
12 8 (3.16%) YAML
13 7 (2.77%) WireMock
14 6 (2.37%) Gherkin
14 6 (2.37%) OpenTelemetry
14 6 (2.37%) RabbitMQ
14 6 (2.37%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 76 (30.04%) Cloud Native
2 28 (11.07%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (5.53%) AI Agents
4 11 (4.35%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.37%) Mobile App
6 5 (1.98%) Clustering
6 5 (1.98%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.98%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.58%) Equities
7 4 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.19%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.19%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.19%) Mobile Banking
8 3 (1.19%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.95%) Linux
2 8 (3.16%) Apple iOS
3 6 (2.37%) Unix
4 4 (1.58%) Windows
5 3 (1.19%) Android
5 3 (1.19%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.79%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.40%) AIX
7 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (50.99%) DevOps
2 82 (32.41%) Infrastructure as Code
3 69 (27.27%) Test Automation
4 68 (26.88%) Agile
5 63 (24.90%) Containerisation
6 55 (21.74%) AI
7 53 (20.95%) Observability
8 49 (19.37%) Analytics
9 47 (18.58%) Microservices
10 43 (17.00%) Software Engineering
11 42 (16.60%) Data Engineering
11 42 (16.60%) Platform Engineering
12 37 (14.62%) Event-Driven
13 35 (13.83%) Data Modelling
14 34 (13.44%) Migration
15 31 (12.25%) Data Pipeline
16 29 (11.46%) Stakeholder Management
17 27 (10.67%) Machine Learning
18 26 (10.28%) Business Intelligence
18 26 (10.28%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 86 (33.99%) Python
2 59 (23.32%) SQL
3 57 (22.53%) Java
4 27 (10.67%) TypeScript
5 25 (9.88%) C#
6 20 (7.91%) JavaScript
7 15 (5.93%) PowerShell
8 14 (5.53%) Bash
9 10 (3.95%) Bicep
10 6 (2.37%) Ruby
11 4 (1.58%) Apex Code
11 4 (1.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (1.58%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.19%) Korn
12 3 (1.19%) Scala
12 3 (1.19%) Swift
13 2 (0.79%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.79%) ActionScript 2.0
13 2 (0.79%) Go
13 2 (0.79%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 69 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 63 (24.90%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.95%) DV Cleared
4 8 (3.16%) DBS Check
4 8 (3.16%) Degree
5 5 (1.98%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.19%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.79%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.79%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.40%) CEH
8 1 (0.40%) CHECK Team Leader
8 1 (0.40%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.40%) OSCP
8 1 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.49%) QA
2 13 (5.14%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.16%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.77%) EU AI Act
4 7 (2.77%) SLA
5 6 (2.37%) GDPR
6 5 (1.98%) NCSC
7 4 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (1.19%) NIST
9 2 (0.79%) EMIR
9 2 (0.79%) MiFID
9 2 (0.79%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.79%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 60 (23.72%) Docker
2 8 (3.16%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.77%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.40%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.40%) Varnish
4 1 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.40%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 85 (33.60%) Kubernetes
2 60 (23.72%) Terraform
3 18 (7.11%) Grafana
3 18 (7.11%) Prometheus
4 12 (4.74%) Ansible
5 4 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.79%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.79%) Puppet
7 1 (0.40%) Argo
7 1 (0.40%) CA Wily
7 1 (0.40%) Consul
7 1 (0.40%) Istio
7 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.40%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.40%) Salt
7 1 (0.40%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.40%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 42 (16.60%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.09%) Databricks
3 18 (7.11%) Google
4 13 (5.14%) Oracle
5 9 (3.56%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.37%) Splunk
7 5 (1.98%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.98%) IBM
8 4 (1.58%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.58%) SAP
9 3 (1.19%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.19%) Apple
9 3 (1.19%) Informatica
9 3 (1.19%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.19%) VMware
10 2 (0.79%) Axway
10 2 (0.79%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.79%) Software AG
10 2 (0.79%) Sybase
10 2 (0.79%) webMethods