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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 15 17
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 254 192 199
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 10.48% 10.32% 9.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.12% 10.99% 10.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 120 143
10th Percentile £413 £413 £425
25th Percentile £463 £507 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £615
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +1.63% -1.60%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £744
90th Percentile £727 £800 £835
Central London median daily rate £550 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% -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 2,095 1,747 1,961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.46% 93.87% 91.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,423 1,125 1,344
10th Percentile £368 £338 £363
25th Percentile £453 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £681 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £564
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -6.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 21 19
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £19.63
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.36
Median hourly rate £20.25 £31.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.68% +14.81% -22.86%
75th Percentile £42.56 £56.75 £55.75
90th Percentile £60.25 £63.75 £101.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £32.50 £27.81
% change year-on-year -28.74% +16.86% -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 16 July 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 (6.69%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (4.72%) Confluence
3 7 (2.76%) Apache
3 7 (2.76%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.18%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.18%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.79%) Camunda
5 2 (0.79%) Ethereum
5 2 (0.79%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.39%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.39%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.39%) nginx
6 1 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.39%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.39%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (1.97%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.39%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.39%) Magento
3 1 (0.39%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.39%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.39%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.39%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.39%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 104 (40.94%) AWS
2 97 (38.19%) Azure
3 60 (23.62%) GitHub
4 38 (14.96%) Azure DevOps
4 38 (14.96%) GitHub Actions
5 35 (13.78%) GCP
6 32 (12.60%) Power Platform
7 31 (12.20%) Serverless
8 27 (10.63%) Amazon S3
9 21 (8.27%) AWS Lambda
10 18 (7.09%) Snowflake
11 14 (5.51%) Azure AKS
12 13 (5.12%) dbt
13 12 (4.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (4.72%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (4.72%) Amazon Kinesis
13 12 (4.72%) Azure Data Factory
14 11 (4.33%) Amazon Bedrock
14 11 (4.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 10 (3.94%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.54%) Firewall
2 6 (2.36%) Network Security
3 4 (1.57%) VPN
4 3 (1.18%) DNS
4 3 (1.18%) FTP
5 2 (0.79%) HTTP
5 2 (0.79%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.79%) Multicast
6 1 (0.39%) Internet
6 1 (0.39%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.39%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.06%) Power BI
2 19 (7.48%) NoSQL
3 15 (5.91%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (5.51%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (4.72%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (4.72%) DynamoDB
6 11 (4.33%) Amazon Athena
6 11 (4.33%) SQL Server
7 10 (3.94%) MongoDB
8 9 (3.54%) Metadata
9 8 (3.15%) Data Lake
10 7 (2.76%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (2.76%) Relational Database
11 6 (2.36%) Snowflake Schema
12 5 (1.97%) Data Mining
13 4 (1.57%) Apache Cassandra
13 4 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (1.57%) Data Mart
13 4 (1.57%) Star Schema
13 4 (1.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 50 (19.69%) Git
2 35 (13.78%) Jenkins
3 27 (10.63%) GitLab
4 25 (9.84%) JIRA
5 16 (6.30%) JUnit
6 11 (4.33%) Postman
7 10 (3.94%) Cucumber
7 10 (3.94%) Mockito
8 8 (3.15%) Selenium
9 6 (2.36%) Gradle
10 5 (1.97%) JMeter
10 5 (1.97%) REST Assured
11 4 (1.57%) Liquibase
11 4 (1.57%) Maven
12 3 (1.18%) Appium
12 3 (1.18%) Bitbucket
12 3 (1.18%) Cypress.io
13 2 (0.79%) Gatling
13 2 (0.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 2 (0.79%) Zephyr
General
1 95 (37.40%) Finance
2 67 (26.38%) Social Skills
3 45 (17.72%) Banking
4 23 (9.06%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (8.66%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.15%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (1.97%) Front Office
7 5 (1.97%) Investment Banking
7 5 (1.97%) Legal
8 4 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.57%) Military
8 4 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.18%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.18%) Law
10 2 (0.79%) Back Office
10 2 (0.79%) Marketing
10 2 (0.79%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.39%) Aviation
11 1 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.39%) Police
Job Titles
1 48 (18.90%) Senior
2 39 (15.35%) Developer
3 36 (14.17%) Architect
4 26 (10.24%) Data Engineer
5 23 (9.06%) Lead
6 20 (7.87%) DevOps Engineer
7 16 (6.30%) Senior Developer
8 14 (5.51%) Software Engineer
9 12 (4.72%) Java Developer
10 11 (4.33%) Azure Engineer
11 10 (3.94%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (3.54%) Automation Engineer
12 9 (3.54%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (3.54%) Data Architect
12 9 (3.54%) GCP Engineer
12 9 (3.54%) Security Engineer
12 9 (3.54%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 9 (3.54%) Snowflake Engineer
12 9 (3.54%) Technical Architect
13 8 (3.15%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (14.17%) Kafka
2 34 (13.39%) REST
3 33 (12.99%) Spring
4 29 (11.42%) Spring Boot
5 23 (9.06%) React
6 16 (6.30%) .NET
7 14 (5.51%) Playwright
7 14 (5.51%) RESTful
8 11 (4.33%) PySpark
9 10 (3.94%) GraphQL
9 10 (3.94%) Node.js
9 10 (3.94%) SOAP
10 9 (3.54%) AngularJS
10 9 (3.54%) HTML
11 8 (3.15%) YAML
12 7 (2.76%) WireMock
13 6 (2.36%) Gherkin
13 6 (2.36%) OpenTelemetry
13 6 (2.36%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (2.36%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 72 (28.35%) Cloud Native
2 29 (11.42%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (5.51%) AI Agents
4 10 (3.94%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.36%) Mobile App
6 5 (1.97%) Clustering
6 5 (1.97%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.97%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.57%) Equities
7 4 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.18%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.18%) Mobile Banking
8 3 (1.18%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.79%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.54%) Apple iOS
1 9 (3.54%) Linux
2 6 (2.36%) Unix
3 4 (1.57%) Android
4 3 (1.18%) Mac OS
4 3 (1.18%) Windows
5 2 (0.79%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.39%) AIX
6 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (50.39%) DevOps
2 80 (31.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 70 (27.56%) Test Automation
4 69 (27.17%) Agile
5 65 (25.59%) Containerisation
6 57 (22.44%) AI
7 53 (20.87%) Observability
8 49 (19.29%) Analytics
9 48 (18.90%) Microservices
10 45 (17.72%) Software Engineering
11 43 (16.93%) Data Engineering
12 41 (16.14%) Platform Engineering
13 37 (14.57%) Event-Driven
14 35 (13.78%) Data Modelling
15 33 (12.99%) Migration
16 31 (12.20%) Data Pipeline
16 31 (12.20%) Stakeholder Management
17 29 (11.42%) Machine Learning
18 27 (10.63%) Problem-Solving
19 26 (10.24%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 86 (33.86%) Python
2 59 (23.23%) Java
2 59 (23.23%) SQL
3 28 (11.02%) TypeScript
4 25 (9.84%) C#
5 20 (7.87%) JavaScript
6 15 (5.91%) PowerShell
7 14 (5.51%) Bash
8 10 (3.94%) Bicep
9 6 (2.36%) Ruby
10 4 (1.57%) Apex Code
10 4 (1.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (1.57%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.18%) Korn
11 3 (1.18%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.18%) Scala
11 3 (1.18%) Swift
12 2 (0.79%) ActionScript
12 2 (0.79%) ActionScript 2.0
12 2 (0.79%) Go
Qualifications
1 70 (27.56%) Security Cleared
2 64 (25.20%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.12%) DV Cleared
4 8 (3.15%) DBS Check
4 8 (3.15%) Degree
5 5 (1.97%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.18%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.79%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.79%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.39%) CEH
8 1 (0.39%) CHECK Team Leader
8 1 (0.39%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.39%) OSCP
8 1 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (10.24%) QA
2 13 (5.12%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.15%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.76%) EU AI Act
4 7 (2.76%) SLA
5 6 (2.36%) GDPR
6 5 (1.97%) NCSC
7 4 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (1.18%) NIST
9 2 (0.79%) EMIR
9 2 (0.79%) MiFID
9 2 (0.79%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.79%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 60 (23.62%) Docker
2 8 (3.15%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.76%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.39%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.39%) Varnish
4 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.39%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 85 (33.46%) Kubernetes
2 61 (24.02%) Terraform
3 18 (7.09%) Grafana
3 18 (7.09%) Prometheus
4 11 (4.33%) Ansible
5 4 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.79%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.79%) Puppet
7 1 (0.39%) Argo
7 1 (0.39%) CA Wily
7 1 (0.39%) Consul
7 1 (0.39%) Istio
7 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.39%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.39%) Salt
7 1 (0.39%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.39%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 43 (16.93%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.06%) Databricks
3 20 (7.87%) Google
4 13 (5.12%) Oracle
5 8 (3.15%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.36%) Splunk
7 5 (1.97%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.97%) IBM
8 4 (1.57%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.57%) SAP
9 3 (1.18%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.18%) Apple
9 3 (1.18%) Informatica
9 3 (1.18%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.18%) VMware
10 2 (0.79%) Axway
10 2 (0.79%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.79%) Software AG
10 2 (0.79%) Sybase
10 2 (0.79%) webMethods