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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 16 16
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 0
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 237 182 200
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 9.77% 10.53% 9.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.40% 11.23% 10.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 116 145
10th Percentile £410 £413 £425
25th Percentile £463 £504 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £638 £700 £750
90th Percentile £732 £800 £822
Central London median daily rate £566 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -5.67% - -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 2,079 1,620 1,977
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.73% 93.75% 90.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,399 1,028 1,379
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 16 14
10th Percentile £17.56 £19.25 £20.01
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.43 £20.29
Median hourly rate £24.47 £29.75 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -17.76% +11.74% -23.93%
75th Percentile £42.91 £52.50 £40.00
90th Percentile £60.25 £76.25 £47.73
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -5.40% +4.53% -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 20 June 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 18 (7.59%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (4.22%) Confluence
3 8 (3.38%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.95%) Apache
5 3 (1.27%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.27%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.84%) Camunda
6 2 (0.84%) Ethereum
6 2 (0.84%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.42%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.42%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.42%) nginx
7 1 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.42%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (1.27%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.42%) Maya
Business Applications
1 3 (1.27%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.42%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.42%) Magento
2 1 (0.42%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.42%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.42%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.42%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 105 (44.30%) AWS
2 93 (39.24%) Azure
3 55 (23.21%) GitHub
4 36 (15.19%) GitHub Actions
5 34 (14.35%) Azure DevOps
6 33 (13.92%) GCP
6 33 (13.92%) Serverless
7 30 (12.66%) Power Platform
8 25 (10.55%) Amazon S3
9 21 (8.86%) AWS Lambda
10 19 (8.02%) Snowflake
11 16 (6.75%) Azure AKS
12 13 (5.49%) AWS CloudFormation
12 13 (5.49%) dbt
13 12 (5.06%) Amazon Bedrock
14 10 (4.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (4.22%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (4.22%) Amazon Kinesis
14 10 (4.22%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (3.80%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.38%) Firewall
2 5 (2.11%) Network Security
3 4 (1.69%) VPN
4 3 (1.27%) DNS
4 3 (1.27%) FTP
5 2 (0.84%) HTTP
5 2 (0.84%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.84%) Multicast
6 1 (0.42%) Internet
6 1 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.42%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.86%) NoSQL
1 21 (8.86%) Power BI
2 15 (6.33%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (5.49%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (4.64%) DynamoDB
4 11 (4.64%) SQL Server
5 10 (4.22%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (3.80%) Amazon Athena
6 9 (3.80%) MongoDB
7 8 (3.38%) Metadata
7 8 (3.38%) Relational Database
8 7 (2.95%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (2.53%) Data Lake
9 6 (2.53%) Redis
9 6 (2.53%) Snowflake Schema
10 5 (2.11%) Data Mining
10 5 (2.11%) Pinecone
11 4 (1.69%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (1.69%) Big Data
11 4 (1.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 48 (20.25%) Git
2 34 (14.35%) Jenkins
3 23 (9.70%) JIRA
4 22 (9.28%) GitLab
5 14 (5.91%) JUnit
6 11 (4.64%) Postman
7 10 (4.22%) Mockito
8 8 (3.38%) Cucumber
9 6 (2.53%) Gradle
10 5 (2.11%) JMeter
11 4 (1.69%) Gatling
11 4 (1.69%) Liquibase
11 4 (1.69%) REST Assured
11 4 (1.69%) Selenium
12 3 (1.27%) Maven
13 2 (0.84%) Ant
13 2 (0.84%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.84%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 2 (0.84%) Visual Studio
13 2 (0.84%) XCUITest
General
1 89 (37.55%) Finance
2 63 (26.58%) Social Skills
3 38 (16.03%) Banking
4 20 (8.44%) Public Sector
5 17 (7.17%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.95%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.11%) Legal
8 4 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.69%) Front Office
8 4 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.27%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.27%) Law
9 3 (1.27%) Marketing
10 2 (0.84%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.84%) Military
11 1 (0.42%) Advertising
11 1 (0.42%) Aviation
11 1 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.42%) Police
11 1 (0.42%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (17.30%) Senior
2 37 (15.61%) Architect
3 36 (15.19%) Developer
4 23 (9.70%) Data Engineer
5 22 (9.28%) Lead
6 20 (8.44%) DevOps Engineer
7 16 (6.75%) Senior Developer
8 13 (5.49%) Java Developer
9 11 (4.64%) Azure Engineer
10 10 (4.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 10 (4.22%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (4.22%) Software Engineer
11 9 (3.80%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 9 (3.80%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 9 (3.80%) Snowflake Engineer
11 9 (3.80%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (3.38%) Automation Engineer
12 8 (3.38%) Data Architect
12 8 (3.38%) GCP Engineer
12 8 (3.38%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (15.19%) Kafka
2 31 (13.08%) REST
2 31 (13.08%) Spring
3 28 (11.81%) Spring Boot
4 24 (10.13%) React
5 14 (5.91%) .NET
6 13 (5.49%) RESTful
7 10 (4.22%) Playwright
7 10 (4.22%) SOAP
8 9 (3.80%) PySpark
9 8 (3.38%) GraphQL
9 8 (3.38%) JSON
9 8 (3.38%) OpenTelemetry
9 8 (3.38%) YAML
10 7 (2.95%) AngularJS
10 7 (2.95%) Django
10 7 (2.95%) HTML
10 7 (2.95%) Node.js
10 7 (2.95%) WireMock
11 6 (2.53%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 70 (29.54%) Cloud Native
2 26 (10.97%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (6.33%) AI Agents
4 10 (4.22%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.11%) Clustering
5 5 (2.11%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.11%) Equities
5 5 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.11%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.27%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.27%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.27%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.84%) IoT
8 2 (0.84%) Mobile Banking
8 2 (0.84%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.38%) Linux
2 6 (2.53%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.69%) Unix
3 4 (1.69%) Windows
4 2 (0.84%) Android
4 2 (0.84%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.84%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.42%) AIX
5 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (50.21%) DevOps
2 83 (35.02%) Infrastructure as Code
3 65 (27.43%) Containerisation
4 62 (26.16%) Agile
5 61 (25.74%) Test Automation
6 60 (25.32%) AI
7 53 (22.36%) Observability
8 49 (20.68%) Analytics
9 44 (18.57%) Microservices
10 42 (17.72%) Data Engineering
11 39 (16.46%) Software Engineering
12 37 (15.61%) Platform Engineering
13 33 (13.92%) Event-Driven
14 32 (13.50%) Migration
15 31 (13.08%) Data Pipeline
15 31 (13.08%) Machine Learning
16 29 (12.24%) Data Modelling
16 29 (12.24%) Stakeholder Management
17 28 (11.81%) Performance Tuning
18 25 (10.55%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 81 (34.18%) Python
2 56 (23.63%) SQL
3 51 (21.52%) Java
4 25 (10.55%) TypeScript
5 24 (10.13%) C#
6 17 (7.17%) JavaScript
7 15 (6.33%) PowerShell
8 14 (5.91%) Bash
9 12 (5.06%) Bicep
10 5 (2.11%) Korn
11 4 (1.69%) Apex Code
11 4 (1.69%) Ruby
12 3 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.27%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.84%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.84%) ActionScript 2.0
13 2 (0.84%) Go
13 2 (0.84%) Scala
13 2 (0.84%) Swift
14 1 (0.42%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 58 (24.47%) Security Cleared
2 54 (22.78%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.80%) DV Cleared
4 8 (3.38%) DBS Check
5 6 (2.53%) Degree
6 5 (2.11%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.27%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.84%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.84%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.42%) CHECK Team Leader
10 1 (0.42%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.42%) PMP
10 1 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.44%) QA
2 13 (5.49%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.38%) GDPR
4 7 (2.95%) SLA
5 5 (2.11%) Accessibility
5 5 (2.11%) EU AI Act
6 4 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.69%) NCSC
7 3 (1.27%) NIST
8 2 (0.84%) EMIR
8 2 (0.84%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.84%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.84%) MiFID
8 2 (0.84%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.84%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.84%) PSD2
8 2 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.84%) SEPA
9 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 60 (25.32%) Docker
2 7 (2.95%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.95%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.42%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (0.42%) Varnish
3 1 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.42%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.42%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 82 (34.60%) Kubernetes
2 60 (25.32%) Terraform
3 20 (8.44%) Prometheus
4 18 (7.59%) Grafana
5 13 (5.49%) Ansible
6 4 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.27%) Argo
7 3 (1.27%) Istio
8 2 (0.84%) Puppet
9 1 (0.42%) CA Wily
9 1 (0.42%) Consul
9 1 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.42%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.42%) Salt
9 1 (0.42%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.42%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 36 (15.19%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.70%) Databricks
3 16 (6.75%) Google
4 10 (4.22%) Oracle
5 8 (3.38%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.95%) Dynatrace
7 5 (2.11%) IBM
7 5 (2.11%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.69%) Splunk
9 3 (1.27%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.27%) Informatica
9 3 (1.27%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.27%) SAP
9 3 (1.27%) VMware
10 2 (0.84%) Apple
10 2 (0.84%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.84%) SimCorp
10 2 (0.84%) Software AG
10 2 (0.84%) Sybase
10 2 (0.84%) webMethods