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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 17 17
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -1
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 215 184 180
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 9.21% 10.87% 8.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.80% 11.62% 9.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 113 127
10th Percentile £366 £413 £425
25th Percentile £453 £500 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -2.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £725
90th Percentile £743 £785 £807
Central London median daily rate £572 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -2.22% -2.50% -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 1,990 1,584 1,957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.26% 93.62% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,365 1,004 1,368
10th Percentile £356 £356 £350
25th Percentile £450 £454 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -6.25%
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 25 14 11
10th Percentile £17.84 £18.15 £19.92
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.98 £20.22
Median hourly rate £27.50 £28.33 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +7.90% -25.00%
75th Percentile £52.49 £41.48 £40.00
90th Percentile £62.89 £59.25 £41.84
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £28.33 £27.81
% change year-on-year -6.25% +1.85% -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 30 May 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 (7.91%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.26%) Apache
2 7 (3.26%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.26%) Confluence
3 3 (1.40%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.40%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.93%) Camunda
4 2 (0.93%) Ethereum
4 2 (0.93%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.47%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.47%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.47%) nginx
5 1 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.47%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (1.40%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.47%) Maya
Business Applications
1 4 (1.86%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.47%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.47%) Magento
2 1 (0.47%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.47%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.47%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.47%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.47%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 101 (46.98%) AWS
2 86 (40.00%) Azure
3 54 (25.12%) GitHub
4 35 (16.28%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (16.28%) GitHub Actions
5 34 (15.81%) GCP
6 31 (14.42%) Serverless
7 24 (11.16%) Power Platform
8 22 (10.23%) Amazon S3
9 20 (9.30%) AWS Lambda
10 19 (8.84%) Snowflake
11 15 (6.98%) AWS CloudFormation
12 13 (6.05%) Azure AKS
13 12 (5.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (5.58%) dbt
14 11 (5.12%) Azure Data Factory
15 10 (4.65%) Amazon EC2
16 9 (4.19%) Amazon Kinesis
16 9 (4.19%) Entra ID
16 9 (4.19%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.79%) Firewall
2 4 (1.86%) Network Security
3 3 (1.40%) DNS
4 2 (0.93%) FTP
4 2 (0.93%) HTTP
4 2 (0.93%) Multicast
5 1 (0.47%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.47%) Internet
5 1 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.47%) VPN
5 1 (0.47%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.84%) NoSQL
2 17 (7.91%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (7.44%) Power BI
4 11 (5.12%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (5.12%) DynamoDB
5 10 (4.65%) SQL Server
6 9 (4.19%) Metadata
7 8 (3.72%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (3.72%) Relational Database
8 7 (3.26%) MongoDB
8 7 (3.26%) Snowflake Schema
9 6 (2.79%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (2.79%) Data Lake
9 6 (2.79%) Redis
10 5 (2.33%) Apache Cassandra
10 5 (2.33%) Data Mining
11 4 (1.86%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.86%) Big Data
11 4 (1.86%) MySQL
11 4 (1.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 43 (20.00%) Git
2 34 (15.81%) Jenkins
3 21 (9.77%) GitLab
4 19 (8.84%) JIRA
5 11 (5.12%) Postman
6 10 (4.65%) JUnit
7 7 (3.26%) Mockito
8 6 (2.79%) Cucumber
9 5 (2.33%) Gradle
9 5 (2.33%) JMeter
9 5 (2.33%) Selenium
10 4 (1.86%) Liquibase
11 3 (1.40%) Gatling
11 3 (1.40%) Maven
11 3 (1.40%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.93%) Ant
12 2 (0.93%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.93%) Zephyr
13 1 (0.47%) Bitbucket
13 1 (0.47%) MonkeyTalk
General
1 78 (36.28%) Finance
2 49 (22.79%) Social Skills
3 32 (14.88%) Banking
4 20 (9.30%) Public Sector
5 13 (6.05%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.33%) Legal
8 4 (1.86%) Front Office
8 4 (1.86%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.40%) Marketing
9 3 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.93%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.93%) Law
11 1 (0.47%) Advertising
11 1 (0.47%) Local Government
11 1 (0.47%) Military
11 1 (0.47%) Retail
11 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (18.14%) Senior
2 35 (16.28%) Architect
3 34 (15.81%) Developer
4 20 (9.30%) Data Engineer
5 19 (8.84%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (8.37%) Lead
7 16 (7.44%) Senior Developer
8 11 (5.12%) Azure Engineer
8 11 (5.12%) Java Developer
9 10 (4.65%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (4.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 9 (4.19%) Python Engineer
10 9 (4.19%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 9 (4.19%) Snowflake Engineer
10 9 (4.19%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (3.72%) Data Architect
11 8 (3.72%) GCP Engineer
11 8 (3.72%) Security Engineer
11 8 (3.72%) Software Engineer
11 8 (3.72%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (14.88%) Kafka
2 28 (13.02%) Spring
3 27 (12.56%) REST
4 25 (11.63%) Spring Boot
5 23 (10.70%) React
6 13 (6.05%) .NET
7 12 (5.58%) RESTful
8 9 (4.19%) OpenTelemetry
8 9 (4.19%) Playwright
9 8 (3.72%) AngularJS
9 8 (3.72%) Django
9 8 (3.72%) GraphQL
9 8 (3.72%) Node.js
9 8 (3.72%) SOAP
9 8 (3.72%) YAML
10 7 (3.26%) HTML
10 7 (3.26%) PySpark
11 6 (2.79%) JSON
11 6 (2.79%) Model Context Protocol
11 6 (2.79%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 65 (30.23%) Cloud Native
2 27 (12.56%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.65%) AI Agents
4 7 (3.26%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.33%) Clustering
5 5 (2.33%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.33%) Equities
6 4 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.86%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.40%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.40%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.40%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.93%) IoT
8 2 (0.93%) NHS
8 2 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.12%) Linux
2 4 (1.86%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.40%) Unix
4 2 (0.93%) Android
4 2 (0.93%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.93%) Windows
5 1 (0.47%) AIX
5 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.47%) VMS
5 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (52.09%) DevOps
2 80 (37.21%) Infrastructure as Code
3 62 (28.84%) Containerisation
4 57 (26.51%) AI
5 56 (26.05%) Test Automation
6 55 (25.58%) Observability
7 51 (23.72%) Agile
8 45 (20.93%) Analytics
9 40 (18.60%) Microservices
10 38 (17.67%) Data Engineering
11 35 (16.28%) Software Engineering
12 34 (15.81%) Platform Engineering
13 30 (13.95%) Event-Driven
14 29 (13.49%) Data Pipeline
14 29 (13.49%) Migration
15 28 (13.02%) Performance Tuning
16 27 (12.56%) Data Modelling
16 27 (12.56%) Machine Learning
17 24 (11.16%) Roadmaps
18 21 (9.77%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 80 (37.21%) Python
2 51 (23.72%) Java
2 51 (23.72%) SQL
3 22 (10.23%) TypeScript
4 20 (9.30%) C#
5 19 (8.84%) JavaScript
6 14 (6.51%) Bash
7 13 (6.05%) PowerShell
8 12 (5.58%) Bicep
9 6 (2.79%) Korn
9 6 (2.79%) Ruby
10 4 (1.86%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.40%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.93%) Go
12 2 (0.93%) PHP
12 2 (0.93%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.93%) Scala
13 1 (0.47%) ActionScript 2.0
13 1 (0.47%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 52 (24.19%) Security Cleared
2 49 (22.79%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.72%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.79%) DBS Check
4 6 (2.79%) Degree
5 5 (2.33%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.86%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.93%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.93%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.47%) CHECK Team Leader
8 1 (0.47%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.47%) PMP
8 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.91%) QA
2 13 (6.05%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.72%) GDPR
4 7 (3.26%) SLA
5 4 (1.86%) NCSC
6 3 (1.40%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.40%) NIST
7 2 (0.93%) EMIR
7 2 (0.93%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.93%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.93%) MiFID
7 2 (0.93%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.93%) PSD2
7 2 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.93%) SEPA
8 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 63 (29.30%) Docker
2 7 (3.26%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.79%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.47%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.47%) Varnish
4 1 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.47%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 77 (35.81%) Kubernetes
2 56 (26.05%) Terraform
3 19 (8.84%) Prometheus
4 16 (7.44%) Grafana
5 13 (6.05%) Ansible
6 4 (1.86%) Argo
6 4 (1.86%) Istio
6 4 (1.86%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.93%) Puppet
8 1 (0.47%) CA Wily
8 1 (0.47%) Consul
8 1 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.47%) Karpenter
8 1 (0.47%) Kibana
8 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.47%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.47%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.47%) Salt
8 1 (0.47%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.47%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 37 (17.21%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.70%) Databricks
3 16 (7.44%) Google
4 12 (5.58%) Oracle
5 7 (3.26%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.79%) Dynatrace
7 5 (2.33%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.86%) IBM
9 3 (1.40%) Informatica
9 3 (1.40%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.40%) SAP
9 3 (1.40%) Splunk
10 2 (0.93%) Confluent
10 2 (0.93%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.93%) Foundry
10 2 (0.93%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.93%) SimCorp
10 2 (0.93%) Tenable
10 2 (0.93%) Vermilion
10 2 (0.93%) VMware