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 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 17 19
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 287 175 188
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 12.39% 9.65% 9.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.12% 10.23% 9.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 112 133
10th Percentile £425 £407 £452
25th Percentile £475 £523 £527
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £738
90th Percentile £738 £799 £824
Central London median daily rate £550 £616 £626
% change year-on-year -10.71% -1.64% +4.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 £26.25 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £27.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +154.55% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £28.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £70.00 £27.50 -
% change year-on-year +154.55% - -

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 2,033 1,710 1,903
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.74% 94.32% 91.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,397 1,123 1,253
10th Percentile £381 £325 £375
25th Percentile £460 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 22 16
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £19.79
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -25.86% +6.38% -3.18%
75th Percentile £33.10 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.00 £29.07 £26.78
% change year-on-year -17.44% +8.55% -23.49%

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 25 August 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 (5.92%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (3.83%) Confluence
3 10 (3.48%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.09%) Apache
5 5 (1.74%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.35%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.35%) Camunda
6 1 (0.35%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.35%) nginx
6 1 (0.35%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.35%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.74%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.70%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.35%) Magento
4 1 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.35%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.35%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 128 (44.60%) Azure
2 112 (39.02%) AWS
3 66 (23.00%) GitHub
4 52 (18.12%) Azure DevOps
5 42 (14.63%) GCP
6 40 (13.94%) GitHub Actions
7 37 (12.89%) Power Platform
8 32 (11.15%) Serverless
9 24 (8.36%) Amazon S3
10 22 (7.67%) Azure Data Factory
11 20 (6.97%) AWS Lambda
12 19 (6.62%) Snowflake
13 18 (6.27%) Azure AKS
14 16 (5.57%) dbt
15 12 (4.18%) Amazon Kinesis
15 12 (4.18%) Azure Monitor
15 12 (4.18%) PaaS
16 11 (3.83%) AWS CloudFormation
16 11 (3.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 11 (3.83%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.83%) Firewall
2 6 (2.09%) Network Security
3 5 (1.74%) DNS
4 4 (1.39%) Internet
4 4 (1.39%) VPN
5 3 (1.05%) FTP
6 2 (0.70%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.70%) Multicast
6 2 (0.70%) SSL
7 1 (0.35%) BGP
7 1 (0.35%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.35%) NX-OS
7 1 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.35%) TACACS
7 1 (0.35%) VSAN
7 1 (0.35%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (9.41%) Power BI
2 19 (6.62%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (5.57%) NoSQL
3 16 (5.57%) SQL Server
4 14 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (4.18%) Data Lake
6 11 (3.83%) MongoDB
7 10 (3.48%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (3.48%) Metadata
8 9 (3.14%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (2.79%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (2.79%) DynamoDB
9 8 (2.79%) Relational Database
9 8 (2.79%) Star Schema
10 7 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (1.74%) Data Mining
11 5 (1.74%) Delta Lake
12 4 (1.39%) Data Mart
12 4 (1.39%) Pinecone
12 4 (1.39%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 45 (15.68%) Git
2 36 (12.54%) Jenkins
3 31 (10.80%) GitLab
4 21 (7.32%) JIRA
5 12 (4.18%) JUnit
6 9 (3.14%) Cucumber
6 9 (3.14%) Postman
6 9 (3.14%) Selenium
7 8 (2.79%) Mockito
8 7 (2.44%) JMeter
9 6 (2.09%) Gradle
10 5 (1.74%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.74%) Visual Studio
11 4 (1.39%) Appium
11 4 (1.39%) Cypress.io
11 4 (1.39%) Maven
12 3 (1.05%) Gatling
12 3 (1.05%) REST Assured
12 3 (1.05%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 3 (1.05%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 101 (35.19%) Finance
2 78 (27.18%) Social Skills
3 47 (16.38%) Banking
4 27 (9.41%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (8.36%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.48%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (2.79%) Front Office
7 8 (2.79%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.74%) Marketing
8 5 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.74%) Retail
9 4 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.39%) Military
10 3 (1.05%) Back Office
10 3 (1.05%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.05%) Law
10 3 (1.05%) Legal
11 2 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (18.82%) Senior
2 53 (18.47%) Developer
3 45 (15.68%) Architect
4 33 (11.50%) Data Engineer
5 21 (7.32%) Lead
6 18 (6.27%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (6.27%) Senior Developer
7 14 (4.88%) Azure Engineer
8 13 (4.53%) Data Architect
8 13 (4.53%) Software Engineer
9 12 (4.18%) Cloud Engineer
9 12 (4.18%) Java Developer
10 10 (3.48%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 10 (3.48%) Solutions Architect
11 9 (3.14%) Automation Engineer
11 9 (3.14%) Python Engineer
11 9 (3.14%) Senior Data Engineer
11 9 (3.14%) Technical Architect
12 8 (2.79%) Azure Architect
12 8 (2.79%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (26.48%) Terraform
2 39 (13.59%) REST
3 34 (11.85%) Kafka
4 28 (9.76%) Spring
5 26 (9.06%) Spring Boot
6 23 (8.01%) React
7 22 (7.67%) .NET
8 17 (5.92%) PySpark
9 15 (5.23%) RESTful
10 14 (4.88%) SOAP
11 13 (4.53%) HTML
12 12 (4.18%) AngularJS
13 11 (3.83%) JSON
13 11 (3.83%) Playwright
14 10 (3.48%) YAML
15 9 (3.14%) Middleware
16 8 (2.79%) GraphQL
16 8 (2.79%) RabbitMQ
17 7 (2.44%) CSS
17 7 (2.44%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 80 (27.87%) Cloud Native
2 31 (10.80%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (7.67%) AI Agents
4 11 (3.83%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.14%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.79%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.09%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.39%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.39%) Equities
9 4 (1.39%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.39%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.39%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.05%) Clustering
10 3 (1.05%) Derivative
10 3 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.05%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.88%) Linux
2 9 (3.14%) Unix
2 9 (3.14%) Windows
3 8 (2.79%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.39%) Android
4 4 (1.39%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.70%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.35%) AIX
6 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (54.70%) DevOps
2 95 (33.10%) Infrastructure as Code
3 83 (28.92%) Agile
4 76 (26.48%) Test Automation
5 70 (24.39%) Containerisation
6 67 (23.34%) AI
7 56 (19.51%) Analytics
8 55 (19.16%) Microservices
8 55 (19.16%) Software Engineering
9 54 (18.82%) Observability
10 49 (17.07%) Data Engineering
11 43 (14.98%) Data Modelling
11 43 (14.98%) Event-Driven
12 42 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
13 41 (14.29%) Migration
14 40 (13.94%) Platform Engineering
15 38 (13.24%) Stakeholder Management
16 37 (12.89%) Data Pipeline
17 32 (11.15%) Machine Learning
18 30 (10.45%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 111 (38.68%) Python
2 79 (27.53%) SQL
3 61 (21.25%) Java
4 35 (12.20%) C#
5 29 (10.10%) TypeScript
6 28 (9.76%) JavaScript
6 28 (9.76%) PowerShell
7 16 (5.57%) Bicep
8 15 (5.23%) Bash
9 8 (2.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 8 (2.79%) Korn
10 5 (1.74%) Apex Code
10 5 (1.74%) Ruby
10 5 (1.74%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.39%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.39%) Scala
12 3 (1.05%) Swift
13 2 (0.70%) ActionScript 2.0
13 2 (0.70%) R
13 2 (0.70%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 79 (27.53%) Security Cleared
2 68 (23.69%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.53%) DV Cleared
4 8 (2.79%) DBS Check
4 8 (2.79%) Degree
5 6 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.09%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.74%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.05%) SnowPro
8 2 (0.70%) CISSP
8 2 (0.70%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.35%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.35%) CEH
9 1 (0.35%) CHECK Team Leader
9 1 (0.35%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.35%) OSCP
9 1 (0.35%) PMP
9 1 (0.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (9.76%) QA
2 22 (7.67%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.14%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.44%) EU AI Act
5 6 (2.09%) GDPR
5 6 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.09%) SLA
6 5 (1.74%) NCSC
7 4 (1.39%) NIST
8 2 (0.70%) EMIR
8 2 (0.70%) MiFID
8 2 (0.70%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.70%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 61 (21.25%) Docker
2 9 (3.14%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.70%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.35%) Firmware
6 1 (0.35%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.35%) Varnish
6 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 90 (31.36%) Kubernetes
2 19 (6.62%) Grafana
2 19 (6.62%) Prometheus
3 12 (4.18%) Ansible
4 4 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.70%) Puppet
6 1 (0.35%) Argo
6 1 (0.35%) Bosun
6 1 (0.35%) CA Wily
6 1 (0.35%) Consul
6 1 (0.35%) Istio
6 1 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.35%) Packer
6 1 (0.35%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.35%) Salt
6 1 (0.35%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 59 (20.56%) Microsoft
2 35 (12.20%) Databricks
3 24 (8.36%) Google
4 16 (5.57%) Oracle
5 8 (2.79%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.79%) Splunk
6 7 (2.44%) Dynatrace
6 7 (2.44%) VMware
7 6 (2.09%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.74%) IBM
8 5 (1.74%) SAP
9 4 (1.39%) AppDynamics
9 4 (1.39%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.05%) Informatica
10 3 (1.05%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.70%) Apple
11 2 (0.70%) Axway
11 2 (0.70%) Fortinet
11 2 (0.70%) Software AG
11 2 (0.70%) webMethods