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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 18 26
Rank change year-on-year -2 +8 -5
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 188 187 167
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 10.02% 9.95% 6.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.26% 10.83% 7.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 119 126
10th Percentile £343 £413 £425
25th Percentile £413 £496 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £603
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.56% -7.31%
75th Percentile £638 £697 £704
90th Percentile £774 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £535 £575 £605
% change year-on-year -6.96% -4.96% -3.20%
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 1,670 1,726 2,156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.02% 91.86% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,168 1,049 1,540
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £426 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +1.19% -4.50%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £543 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -5.65% +2.22% -3.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 9 13
10th Percentile £19.98 £13.45 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.66 £22.00 £18.93
Median hourly rate £31.00 £32.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +18.18% -21.43%
75th Percentile £42.65 £43.75 £46.75
90th Percentile £49.83 £112.00 £69.05
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 29 January 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 9 (4.79%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.72%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.13%) Confluence
4 3 (1.60%) Apache
4 3 (1.60%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.06%) CMS
5 2 (1.06%) Ethereum
5 2 (1.06%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.53%) Camunda
6 1 (0.53%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.53%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.53%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.53%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.53%) R3 Corda
1 1 (0.53%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 88 (46.81%) AWS
2 72 (38.30%) Azure
3 50 (26.60%) GitHub
4 40 (21.28%) GitHub Actions
5 33 (17.55%) GCP
6 31 (16.49%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (14.89%) Serverless
8 22 (11.70%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (10.11%) Amazon S3
10 14 (7.45%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (6.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 13 (6.91%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (5.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 11 (5.85%) Power Platform
12 11 (5.85%) Snowflake
13 10 (5.32%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (4.26%) Apigee
14 8 (4.26%) Azure AKS
15 7 (3.72%) AWS Fargate
15 7 (3.72%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.66%) DNS
2 4 (2.13%) Firewall
2 4 (2.13%) Network Security
3 2 (1.06%) HTTP
4 1 (0.53%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.53%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.45%) Relational Database
2 11 (5.85%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.32%) DynamoDB
4 9 (4.79%) MongoDB
4 9 (4.79%) MySQL
4 9 (4.79%) NoSQL
5 8 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (3.72%) Power BI
7 6 (3.19%) Metadata
7 6 (3.19%) SQL Server
8 5 (2.66%) BigQuery
8 5 (2.66%) Redis
9 4 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (2.13%) Data Lake
9 4 (2.13%) Pinecone
10 3 (1.60%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (1.60%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.60%) Delta Lake
10 3 (1.60%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 45 (23.94%) Git
2 33 (17.55%) Jenkins
3 19 (10.11%) GitLab
4 13 (6.91%) JIRA
5 11 (5.85%) Selenium
6 9 (4.79%) Cucumber
7 8 (4.26%) JUnit
8 6 (3.19%) Bitbucket
8 6 (3.19%) Postman
9 5 (2.66%) Cypress.io
9 5 (2.66%) SonarQube
10 4 (2.13%) REST Assured
11 3 (1.60%) Gatling
11 3 (1.60%) Gradle
11 3 (1.60%) Mockito
11 3 (1.60%) TeamCity
12 2 (1.06%) CocoaPods
12 2 (1.06%) Snyk
12 2 (1.06%) SoapUI
12 2 (1.06%) WebDriver
General
1 71 (37.77%) Finance
2 50 (26.60%) Social Skills
3 34 (18.09%) Banking
4 10 (5.32%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.79%) Front Office
6 7 (3.72%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.19%) Financial Institution
7 6 (3.19%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.60%) Law
9 3 (1.60%) Legal
10 2 (1.06%) Back Office
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 34 (18.09%) Senior
3 28 (14.89%) DevOps Engineer
4 17 (9.04%) Architect
5 16 (8.51%) Data Engineer
6 14 (7.45%) Lead
7 13 (6.91%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 13 (6.91%) Python Engineer
8 10 (5.32%) Platform Engineer
8 10 (5.32%) Senior Developer
9 8 (4.26%) GCP Engineer
10 7 (3.72%) Cloud Architect
10 7 (3.72%) Java Developer
11 6 (3.19%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (3.19%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (3.19%) Cloud Engineer
12 5 (2.66%) Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (2.66%) iOS Developer
12 5 (2.66%) Senior DevOps
12 5 (2.66%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (10.64%) React
2 18 (9.57%) RESTful
3 15 (7.98%) Node.js
3 15 (7.98%) REST
4 14 (7.45%) OAuth
5 13 (6.91%) HTML
6 12 (6.38%) CSS
7 11 (5.85%) Kafka
7 11 (5.85%) Spring
8 10 (5.32%) .NET
8 10 (5.32%) Spring Boot
9 8 (4.26%) AngularJS
9 8 (4.26%) GraphQL
10 7 (3.72%) HTML5
10 7 (3.72%) JSON
10 7 (3.72%) JWT
11 6 (3.19%) LangChain
11 6 (3.19%) LangGraph
11 6 (3.19%) OpenTelemetry
11 6 (3.19%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 33 (17.55%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.45%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.85%) Product Ownership
4 10 (5.32%) AI Agents
5 7 (3.72%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.72%) Virtual Team
6 6 (3.19%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.66%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.66%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.66%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.66%) Fixed Income
8 4 (2.13%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.13%) Equities
8 4 (2.13%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.60%) Replication
10 2 (1.06%) Private Cloud
10 2 (1.06%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.91%) Linux
2 7 (3.72%) Apple iOS
3 6 (3.19%) Windows
4 5 (2.66%) Android
5 2 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.06%) Unix
6 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (50.00%) DevOps
2 60 (31.91%) Infrastructure as Code
3 58 (30.85%) Agile
4 44 (23.40%) Test Automation
5 41 (21.81%) Containerisation
6 39 (20.74%) AI
7 36 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (17.02%) Microservices
9 31 (16.49%) Observability
10 28 (14.89%) Analytics
11 26 (13.83%) Design Patterns
12 24 (12.77%) Performance Tuning
12 24 (12.77%) Software Engineering
13 22 (11.70%) Data Pipeline
14 21 (11.17%) Machine Learning
15 20 (10.64%) Data Governance
16 19 (10.11%) Data Modelling
16 19 (10.11%) Migration
17 18 (9.57%) Data Engineering
17 18 (9.57%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 79 (42.02%) Python
2 39 (20.74%) Java
3 35 (18.62%) SQL
4 20 (10.64%) JavaScript
5 18 (9.57%) TypeScript
6 11 (5.85%) C#
7 10 (5.32%) Bash
8 8 (4.26%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.66%) Kotlin
10 4 (2.13%) Ruby
10 4 (2.13%) Swift
11 3 (1.60%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.60%) Bicep
11 3 (1.60%) Go
11 3 (1.60%) Korn
11 3 (1.60%) Objective-C
11 3 (1.60%) PHP
11 3 (1.60%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.06%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.06%) Rust
Qualifications
1 33 (17.55%) Security Cleared
2 32 (17.02%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.19%) Degree
3 6 (3.19%) MCP
4 4 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.60%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.60%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.06%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.53%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.53%) CCNA
7 1 (0.53%) CCSP
7 1 (0.53%) CISSP
7 1 (0.53%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.53%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.57%) GDPR
2 16 (8.51%) QA
3 13 (6.91%) Data Quality
4 8 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (3.19%) Accessibility
5 6 (3.19%) PCI DSS
6 5 (2.66%) NIST
7 3 (1.60%) EU AI Act
8 2 (1.06%) ISO 20022
8 2 (1.06%) ISO 8583
8 2 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 2 (1.06%) NCSC
8 2 (1.06%) PSD2
8 2 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (1.06%) SEPA
9 1 (0.53%) GRC
9 1 (0.53%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.53%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 53 (28.19%) Docker
2 5 (2.66%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.53%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.53%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 63 (33.51%) Terraform
2 54 (28.72%) Kubernetes
3 19 (10.11%) Ansible
4 12 (6.38%) Prometheus
5 11 (5.85%) Grafana
6 7 (3.72%) Argo
7 6 (3.19%) Istio
8 5 (2.66%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.60%) Kibana
10 2 (1.06%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.53%) Icinga
11 1 (0.53%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.53%) Karpenter
11 1 (0.53%) logstash
11 1 (0.53%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.53%) Packer
11 1 (0.53%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.53%) Puppet
11 1 (0.53%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 28 (14.89%) Microsoft
2 22 (11.70%) Google
3 21 (11.17%) Databricks
4 10 (5.32%) Oracle
5 7 (3.72%) OpenAI
5 7 (3.72%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.72%) Splunk
6 5 (2.66%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.60%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.06%) Apple
8 2 (1.06%) Confluent
8 2 (1.06%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.06%) SimCorp
8 2 (1.06%) Tenable
8 2 (1.06%) UiPath
8 2 (1.06%) Vermilion
9 1 (0.53%) Adobe
9 1 (0.53%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.53%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.53%) SAP