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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 16 17
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 230 183 196
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 9.49% 10.59% 8.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.09% 11.31% 9.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 117 142
10th Percentile £410 £413 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £608
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -1.23% -2.80%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £738
90th Percentile £736 £800 £824
Central London median daily rate £574 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.42% - -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 2,074 1,618 1,976
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.56% 93.63% 90.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,389 1,032 1,374
10th Percentile £363 £355 £361
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £566
Median % change year-on-year - -2.87% -5.63%
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 18 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 (7.83%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (4.35%) Confluence
3 8 (3.48%) Apache Spark
4 7 (3.04%) Apache
5 3 (1.30%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.30%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.87%) Camunda
6 2 (0.87%) Ethereum
6 2 (0.87%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.43%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.43%) nginx
7 1 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.43%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (1.30%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.43%) Maya
Business Applications
1 3 (1.30%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.43%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.43%) Magento
2 1 (0.43%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.43%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.43%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.43%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 102 (44.35%) AWS
2 90 (39.13%) Azure
3 52 (22.61%) GitHub
4 35 (15.22%) GitHub Actions
5 33 (14.35%) Azure DevOps
6 32 (13.91%) GCP
6 32 (13.91%) Serverless
7 29 (12.61%) Power Platform
8 24 (10.43%) Amazon S3
9 20 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
10 19 (8.26%) Snowflake
11 15 (6.52%) Azure AKS
12 13 (5.65%) AWS CloudFormation
12 13 (5.65%) dbt
13 11 (4.78%) Amazon Bedrock
14 10 (4.35%) Amazon Kinesis
14 10 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (3.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (3.91%) Amazon EC2
15 9 (3.91%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.04%) Firewall
2 5 (2.17%) Network Security
3 3 (1.30%) FTP
3 3 (1.30%) VPN
4 2 (0.87%) DNS
4 2 (0.87%) HTTP
4 2 (0.87%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.87%) Multicast
5 1 (0.43%) Internet
5 1 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.43%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (9.13%) NoSQL
2 20 (8.70%) Power BI
3 15 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (5.65%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (4.78%) SQL Server
6 10 (4.35%) DynamoDB
7 9 (3.91%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (3.91%) MongoDB
8 8 (3.48%) Amazon Athena
8 8 (3.48%) Metadata
8 8 (3.48%) Relational Database
9 7 (3.04%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (2.61%) Data Lake
10 6 (2.61%) Redis
10 6 (2.61%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (2.17%) Data Mining
12 4 (1.74%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (1.74%) Big Data
12 4 (1.74%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.74%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 46 (20.00%) Git
2 33 (14.35%) Jenkins
3 22 (9.57%) JIRA
4 21 (9.13%) GitLab
5 12 (5.22%) JUnit
6 10 (4.35%) Postman
7 9 (3.91%) Mockito
8 7 (3.04%) Cucumber
9 6 (2.61%) Gradle
10 5 (2.17%) JMeter
11 4 (1.74%) Gatling
11 4 (1.74%) Liquibase
11 4 (1.74%) REST Assured
11 4 (1.74%) Selenium
12 3 (1.30%) Maven
13 2 (0.87%) Ant
13 2 (0.87%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.87%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 2 (0.87%) Visual Studio
13 2 (0.87%) XCUITest
General
1 86 (37.39%) Finance
2 62 (26.96%) Social Skills
3 37 (16.09%) Banking
4 20 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 17 (7.39%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.04%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.17%) Legal
8 4 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.74%) Front Office
8 4 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.30%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.30%) Law
9 3 (1.30%) Marketing
10 2 (0.87%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.87%) Military
11 1 (0.43%) Advertising
11 1 (0.43%) Aviation
11 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.43%) Police
11 1 (0.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (16.96%) Senior
2 37 (16.09%) Architect
3 35 (15.22%) Developer
4 23 (10.00%) Data Engineer
5 21 (9.13%) Lead
6 19 (8.26%) DevOps Engineer
7 15 (6.52%) Senior Developer
8 13 (5.65%) Java Developer
9 10 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
9 10 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (4.35%) Software Engineer
10 9 (3.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 9 (3.91%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 9 (3.91%) Snowflake Engineer
10 9 (3.91%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (3.48%) Cloud Architect
11 8 (3.48%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (3.48%) Data Architect
11 8 (3.48%) Security Engineer
11 8 (3.48%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (15.22%) Kafka
2 30 (13.04%) REST
3 29 (12.61%) Spring
4 26 (11.30%) Spring Boot
5 23 (10.00%) React
6 13 (5.65%) .NET
6 13 (5.65%) RESTful
7 10 (4.35%) Playwright
8 9 (3.91%) PySpark
8 9 (3.91%) SOAP
9 8 (3.48%) GraphQL
9 8 (3.48%) JSON
9 8 (3.48%) OpenTelemetry
10 7 (3.04%) AngularJS
10 7 (3.04%) Django
10 7 (3.04%) HTML
10 7 (3.04%) Node.js
10 7 (3.04%) YAML
11 6 (2.61%) Swagger
11 6 (2.61%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 69 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 25 (10.87%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (6.09%) AI Agents
4 10 (4.35%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.17%) Clustering
5 5 (2.17%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.17%) Equities
5 5 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.17%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.30%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.30%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.30%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.87%) IoT
8 2 (0.87%) Mobile Banking
8 2 (0.87%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.48%) Linux
2 6 (2.61%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.74%) Unix
3 4 (1.74%) Windows
4 2 (0.87%) Android
4 2 (0.87%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.87%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.43%) AIX
5 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (50.43%) DevOps
2 82 (35.65%) Infrastructure as Code
3 62 (26.96%) Containerisation
4 60 (26.09%) Agile
5 59 (25.65%) AI
5 59 (25.65%) Test Automation
6 52 (22.61%) Observability
7 49 (21.30%) Analytics
8 42 (18.26%) Data Engineering
9 41 (17.83%) Microservices
10 38 (16.52%) Software Engineering
11 37 (16.09%) Platform Engineering
12 32 (13.91%) Event-Driven
12 32 (13.91%) Migration
13 31 (13.48%) Data Pipeline
14 30 (13.04%) Machine Learning
15 29 (12.61%) Data Modelling
16 28 (12.17%) Performance Tuning
16 28 (12.17%) Stakeholder Management
17 25 (10.87%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 79 (34.35%) Python
2 55 (23.91%) SQL
3 49 (21.30%) Java
4 24 (10.43%) TypeScript
5 22 (9.57%) C#
6 17 (7.39%) JavaScript
7 15 (6.52%) PowerShell
8 14 (6.09%) Bash
9 12 (5.22%) Bicep
10 5 (2.17%) Korn
11 4 (1.74%) Apex Code
11 4 (1.74%) Ruby
12 3 (1.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.30%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.87%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.87%) ActionScript 2.0
13 2 (0.87%) Scala
13 2 (0.87%) Swift
14 1 (0.43%) Go
14 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 56 (24.35%) Security Cleared
2 52 (22.61%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.48%) DBS Check
3 8 (3.48%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.61%) Degree
5 5 (2.17%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.30%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.87%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.87%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.43%) CHECK Team Leader
9 1 (0.43%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.43%) PMP
9 1 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.70%) QA
2 13 (5.65%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.48%) GDPR
4 7 (3.04%) SLA
5 5 (2.17%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.74%) EU AI Act
6 4 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.74%) NCSC
7 3 (1.30%) NIST
8 2 (0.87%) EMIR
8 2 (0.87%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.87%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.87%) MiFID
8 2 (0.87%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.87%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.87%) PSD2
8 2 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.87%) SEPA
9 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 59 (25.65%) Docker
2 7 (3.04%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.04%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.43%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (0.43%) Varnish
3 1 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 79 (34.35%) Kubernetes
2 59 (25.65%) Terraform
3 19 (8.26%) Prometheus
4 17 (7.39%) Grafana
5 13 (5.65%) Ansible
6 4 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.30%) Argo
7 3 (1.30%) Istio
8 2 (0.87%) Puppet
9 1 (0.43%) CA Wily
9 1 (0.43%) Consul
9 1 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.43%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.43%) Salt
9 1 (0.43%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.43%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 35 (15.22%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.00%) Databricks
3 16 (6.96%) Google
4 10 (4.35%) Oracle
5 8 (3.48%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.61%) Dynatrace
7 5 (2.17%) IBM
7 5 (2.17%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.30%) Informatica
8 3 (1.30%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.30%) SAP
8 3 (1.30%) Splunk
8 3 (1.30%) VMware
9 2 (0.87%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.87%) Apple
9 2 (0.87%) Foundry
9 2 (0.87%) Palantir
9 2 (0.87%) Sybase
9 2 (0.87%) Vermilion
9 2 (0.87%) webMethods