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 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 15 26
Rank change year-on-year -6 +11 -7
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 192 203 156
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 9.72% 11.14% 6.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.91% 12.15% 7.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 129 107
10th Percentile £349 £413 £425
25th Percentile £413 £488 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -5.51%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £714
90th Percentile £771 £753 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -4.00%
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 1,760 1,671 2,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.07% 91.66% 89.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,211 1,031 1,502
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £433 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £669 £686 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 10 13
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £26.25 £18.93
Median hourly rate £34.25 £35.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.52% +42.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £48.67 £47.50 £41.84
90th Percentile £59.72 £112.00 £49.55
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 1 March 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 (4.69%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (4.17%) Apache Spark
3 7 (3.65%) Confluence
4 4 (2.08%) Apache
5 2 (1.04%) CMS
5 2 (1.04%) Ethereum
5 2 (1.04%) Hyperledger
5 2 (1.04%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.04%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.52%) Camunda
6 1 (0.52%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.52%) Maya
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.04%) Shopify
2 1 (0.52%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.52%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.52%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 87 (45.31%) AWS
2 75 (39.06%) Azure
3 50 (26.04%) GitHub
4 36 (18.75%) GitHub Actions
5 34 (17.71%) GCP
6 31 (16.15%) Azure DevOps
7 25 (13.02%) Serverless
8 18 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (8.85%) Amazon S3
10 14 (7.29%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (6.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 12 (6.25%) Snowflake
13 11 (5.73%) Amazon ECS
13 11 (5.73%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 11 (5.73%) Power Platform
14 8 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (4.17%) Apigee
15 7 (3.65%) Amazon EC2
15 7 (3.65%) AWS Fargate
15 7 (3.65%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.60%) Network Security
2 3 (1.56%) DNS
2 3 (1.56%) Firewall
3 2 (1.04%) HTTP
4 1 (0.52%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.81%) Relational Database
2 13 (6.77%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (5.73%) NoSQL
4 10 (5.21%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (5.21%) DynamoDB
5 9 (4.69%) MongoDB
5 9 (4.69%) MySQL
6 7 (3.65%) Power BI
7 6 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (3.13%) Metadata
7 6 (3.13%) SQL Server
8 5 (2.60%) BigQuery
8 5 (2.60%) Data Lake
8 5 (2.60%) Redis
9 4 (2.08%) Big Data
9 4 (2.08%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (1.04%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 50 (26.04%) Git
2 34 (17.71%) Jenkins
3 18 (9.38%) GitLab
4 17 (8.85%) JIRA
5 11 (5.73%) Cucumber
5 11 (5.73%) Selenium
6 9 (4.69%) JUnit
7 8 (4.17%) Postman
8 5 (2.60%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.60%) REST Assured
9 4 (2.08%) Cypress.io
9 4 (2.08%) Mockito
10 3 (1.56%) Gatling
11 2 (1.04%) Ant
11 2 (1.04%) Crashlytics
11 2 (1.04%) fastlane
11 2 (1.04%) JMeter
11 2 (1.04%) SoapUI
11 2 (1.04%) TeamCity
11 2 (1.04%) Xcode
General
1 68 (35.42%) Finance
2 51 (26.56%) Social Skills
3 33 (17.19%) Banking
4 12 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.17%) Front Office
5 8 (4.17%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.13%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.60%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.56%) Law
10 2 (1.04%) Back Office
10 2 (1.04%) Legal
10 2 (1.04%) Marketing
10 2 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.04%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.52%) Local Government
11 1 (0.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (19.27%) Developer
2 32 (16.67%) Senior
3 28 (14.58%) DevOps Engineer
4 17 (8.85%) Architect
5 16 (8.33%) Data Engineer
6 15 (7.81%) Lead
7 12 (6.25%) Python Engineer
8 10 (5.21%) GCP Engineer
8 10 (5.21%) Platform Engineer
8 10 (5.21%) Senior Developer
9 9 (4.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 8 (4.17%) Java Developer
11 7 (3.65%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (3.13%) Cloud Architect
13 5 (2.60%) AWS Engineer
13 5 (2.60%) Azure Engineer
13 5 (2.60%) Full-Stack Developer
13 5 (2.60%) iOS Developer
13 5 (2.60%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 5 (2.60%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (9.90%) React
2 18 (9.38%) REST
3 17 (8.85%) Node.js
4 16 (8.33%) Kafka
4 16 (8.33%) RESTful
5 13 (6.77%) .NET
5 13 (6.77%) HTML
5 13 (6.77%) Spring
6 12 (6.25%) CSS
6 12 (6.25%) OAuth
7 11 (5.73%) Playwright
8 10 (5.21%) Spring Boot
9 8 (4.17%) GraphQL
9 8 (4.17%) OpenTelemetry
10 7 (3.65%) JSON
11 6 (3.13%) AngularJS
11 6 (3.13%) LangGraph
12 5 (2.60%) JWT
12 5 (2.60%) Model Context Protocol
12 5 (2.60%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 37 (19.27%) Cloud Native
2 16 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.21%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.65%) Data Centre
4 7 (3.65%) Mobile App
5 6 (3.13%) AI Agents
5 6 (3.13%) Data Structures
5 6 (3.13%) Virtual Team
6 5 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.08%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.08%) Equities
7 4 (2.08%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.56%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.56%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.56%) Replication
8 3 (1.56%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.04%) Clustering
9 2 (1.04%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.21%) Linux
2 7 (3.65%) Apple iOS
3 4 (2.08%) Android
3 4 (2.08%) Windows
4 1 (0.52%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.52%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (46.88%) DevOps
2 65 (33.85%) Infrastructure as Code
3 58 (30.21%) Agile
4 53 (27.60%) Test Automation
5 42 (21.88%) AI
6 41 (21.35%) Containerisation
7 34 (17.71%) Microservices
8 33 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
9 32 (16.67%) Observability
10 29 (15.10%) Software Engineering
11 28 (14.58%) Analytics
12 26 (13.54%) Design Patterns
12 26 (13.54%) Performance Tuning
13 25 (13.02%) Data Engineering
14 23 (11.98%) Data Pipeline
15 21 (10.94%) Machine Learning
15 21 (10.94%) Platform Engineering
16 19 (9.90%) Data Modelling
16 19 (9.90%) Migration
17 17 (8.85%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 74 (38.54%) Python
2 40 (20.83%) Java
3 39 (20.31%) SQL
4 22 (11.46%) JavaScript
5 20 (10.42%) TypeScript
6 16 (8.33%) C#
7 9 (4.69%) Bash
8 5 (2.60%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.60%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.08%) Go
9 4 (2.08%) Ruby
9 4 (2.08%) Swift
10 3 (1.56%) Apex Code
10 3 (1.56%) Korn
10 3 (1.56%) Objective-C
10 3 (1.56%) PHP
11 2 (1.04%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.04%) Rust
11 2 (1.04%) Scala
11 2 (1.04%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 40 (20.83%) SC Cleared
1 40 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 7 (3.65%) Degree
3 5 (2.60%) AWS Certification
3 5 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (2.60%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (1.04%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.04%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.52%) CCNA
5 1 (0.52%) CCSP
5 1 (0.52%) CISSP
5 1 (0.52%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.52%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.81%) Data Quality
1 15 (7.81%) QA
2 13 (6.77%) GDPR
3 7 (3.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.13%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.60%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.56%) NIST
6 3 (1.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.04%) ISO 20022
7 2 (1.04%) ISO 8583
7 2 (1.04%) NCSC
7 2 (1.04%) PSD2
7 2 (1.04%) SEPA
7 2 (1.04%) SLA
8 1 (0.52%) GRC
8 1 (0.52%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 56 (29.17%) Docker
2 8 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 65 (33.85%) Terraform
2 58 (30.21%) Kubernetes
3 19 (9.90%) Ansible
4 9 (4.69%) Prometheus
5 8 (4.17%) Grafana
6 5 (2.60%) Istio
7 4 (2.08%) Argo
8 3 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.04%) Kibana
10 1 (0.52%) Icinga
10 1 (0.52%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.52%) Karpenter
10 1 (0.52%) logstash
10 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.52%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.52%) Packer
Vendors
1 30 (15.63%) Microsoft
2 22 (11.46%) Google
3 21 (10.94%) Databricks
4 9 (4.69%) Oracle
5 7 (3.65%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.60%) Dynatrace
7 4 (2.08%) OpenAI
7 4 (2.08%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.08%) Splunk
8 3 (1.56%) Apple
9 2 (1.04%) Confluent
9 2 (1.04%) IBM
9 2 (1.04%) SimCorp
9 2 (1.04%) Tenable
9 2 (1.04%) UiPath
9 2 (1.04%) Vermilion
10 1 (0.52%) Amplitude
10 1 (0.52%) LogicMonitor
10 1 (0.52%) Sonatype
10 1 (0.52%) Workday