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 6 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 20 19
Rank change year-on-year +10 -1 -3
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 297 162 184
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 13.03% 9.05% 8.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.75% 9.63% 9.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 106 135
10th Percentile £425 £409 £459
25th Percentile £475 £510 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £614 £628
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% -2.11% +3.04%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £738
90th Percentile £738 £794 £806
Central London median daily rate £550 £611 £625
% change year-on-year -10.02% -2.20% +0.81%
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 2,013 1,683 1,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.29% 94.02% 91.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,389 1,107 1,235
10th Percentile £375 £325 £384
25th Percentile £456 £424 £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 23 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 £32.05 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £50.59 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.07 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -13.78% +7.67% -1.82%

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 6 September 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 (6.06%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (4.38%) Confluence
3 11 (3.70%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.36%) Apache
5 4 (1.35%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.67%) CMS
6 2 (0.67%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.34%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.34%) Camunda
7 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.34%) nginx
7 1 (0.34%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.68%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.01%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.67%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.34%) Magento
5 1 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.34%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.34%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 136 (45.79%) Azure
2 118 (39.73%) AWS
3 66 (22.22%) GitHub
4 55 (18.52%) Azure DevOps
5 43 (14.48%) GCP
6 40 (13.47%) GitHub Actions
7 36 (12.12%) Power Platform
7 36 (12.12%) Serverless
8 26 (8.75%) Azure Data Factory
9 25 (8.42%) Amazon S3
10 21 (7.07%) AWS Lambda
10 21 (7.07%) Snowflake
11 17 (5.72%) Azure AKS
12 16 (5.39%) dbt
13 12 (4.04%) Azure Functions
13 12 (4.04%) Azure Monitor
13 12 (4.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 12 (4.04%) GitHub Copilot
13 12 (4.04%) PaaS
13 12 (4.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.70%) Firewall
2 6 (2.02%) DNS
2 6 (2.02%) Network Security
3 4 (1.35%) Internet
3 4 (1.35%) VPN
4 3 (1.01%) FTP
5 2 (0.67%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.67%) Multicast
5 2 (0.67%) SSL
6 1 (0.34%) BGP
6 1 (0.34%) DHCP
6 1 (0.34%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.34%) INAP
6 1 (0.34%) NX-OS
6 1 (0.34%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.34%) RTP
6 1 (0.34%) TACACS
6 1 (0.34%) tcpdump
6 1 (0.34%) VoIP
6 1 (0.34%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (8.75%) Power BI
2 23 (7.74%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (5.05%) SQL Server
4 14 (4.71%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (4.38%) Data Lake
5 13 (4.38%) Metadata
5 13 (4.38%) NoSQL
6 11 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (3.37%) Amazon Athena
8 9 (3.03%) MongoDB
8 9 (3.03%) Relational Database
8 9 (3.03%) Star Schema
9 8 (2.69%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (2.69%) DynamoDB
10 7 (2.36%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (2.36%) Delta Lake
11 5 (1.68%) Data Mining
12 4 (1.35%) Data Hub
12 4 (1.35%) Data Mart
12 4 (1.35%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 45 (15.15%) Git
2 37 (12.46%) Jenkins
3 31 (10.44%) GitLab
4 25 (8.42%) JIRA
5 13 (4.38%) JUnit
6 9 (3.03%) Cucumber
6 9 (3.03%) Mockito
6 9 (3.03%) Postman
6 9 (3.03%) Selenium
7 8 (2.69%) JMeter
8 6 (2.02%) Gradle
8 6 (2.02%) Maven
9 5 (1.68%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.68%) Visual Studio
10 4 (1.35%) Appium
10 4 (1.35%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.01%) Gatling
11 3 (1.01%) REST Assured
11 3 (1.01%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (1.01%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 102 (34.34%) Finance
2 85 (28.62%) Social Skills
3 52 (17.51%) Banking
4 32 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (8.75%) Public Sector
6 11 (3.70%) Front Office
7 10 (3.37%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (2.69%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.68%) Marketing
9 5 (1.68%) Retail
10 4 (1.35%) Back Office
10 4 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.35%) Legal
10 4 (1.35%) Military
11 3 (1.01%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.01%) Law
11 3 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.01%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (20.20%) Developer
2 59 (19.87%) Senior
3 47 (15.82%) Architect
4 35 (11.78%) Data Engineer
5 21 (7.07%) Lead
5 21 (7.07%) Senior Developer
6 20 (6.73%) DevOps Engineer
7 16 (5.39%) Azure Engineer
8 14 (4.71%) Data Architect
8 14 (4.71%) Java Developer
9 13 (4.38%) Cloud Engineer
10 11 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 11 (3.70%) Senior Data Engineer
10 11 (3.70%) Software Engineer
11 10 (3.37%) Automation Engineer
11 10 (3.37%) Senior Java Developer
11 10 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
12 9 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
12 9 (3.03%) GCP Engineer
13 8 (2.69%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (26.60%) Terraform
2 41 (13.80%) REST
3 33 (11.11%) Kafka
4 30 (10.10%) Spring
5 29 (9.76%) Spring Boot
6 26 (8.75%) .NET
7 23 (7.74%) React
8 19 (6.40%) PySpark
9 18 (6.06%) RESTful
10 16 (5.39%) SOAP
11 13 (4.38%) HTML
12 12 (4.04%) AngularJS
13 11 (3.70%) JSON
13 11 (3.70%) Playwright
14 10 (3.37%) YAML
15 8 (2.69%) CSS
15 8 (2.69%) Middleware
15 8 (2.69%) Web Services
16 7 (2.36%) Node.js
16 7 (2.36%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 92 (30.98%) Cloud Native
2 33 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (7.41%) AI Agents
4 11 (3.70%) Onboarding
4 11 (3.70%) Product Ownership
5 10 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.35%) Equities
9 4 (1.35%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.35%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.01%) Derivative
10 3 (1.01%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.01%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.01%) Mobile Banking
11 2 (0.67%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.05%) Linux
2 11 (3.70%) Windows
3 8 (2.69%) Apple iOS
3 8 (2.69%) Unix
4 5 (1.68%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.35%) Android
6 2 (0.67%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.34%) CentOS
7 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (54.21%) DevOps
2 104 (35.02%) Infrastructure as Code
3 86 (28.96%) Agile
4 78 (26.26%) Test Automation
5 71 (23.91%) Containerisation
6 68 (22.90%) AI
7 61 (20.54%) Analytics
8 59 (19.87%) Microservices
9 54 (18.18%) Software Engineering
10 53 (17.85%) Observability
11 52 (17.51%) Data Engineering
12 49 (16.50%) Event-Driven
13 46 (15.49%) Data Modelling
14 44 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
15 42 (14.14%) Data Pipeline
15 42 (14.14%) Stakeholder Management
16 41 (13.80%) Platform Engineering
17 40 (13.47%) Migration
18 33 (11.11%) Machine Learning
19 31 (10.44%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 117 (39.39%) Python
2 82 (27.61%) SQL
3 63 (21.21%) Java
4 40 (13.47%) C#
5 29 (9.76%) TypeScript
6 28 (9.43%) JavaScript
6 28 (9.43%) PowerShell
7 17 (5.72%) Bicep
8 16 (5.39%) Bash
9 9 (3.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 8 (2.69%) Korn
11 5 (1.68%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.68%) Ruby
11 5 (1.68%) Scala
12 4 (1.35%) Apex Code
12 4 (1.35%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.01%) Swift
14 2 (0.67%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.67%) Perl
14 2 (0.67%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 77 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 66 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.38%) DV Cleared
4 8 (2.69%) DBS Check
5 7 (2.36%) Degree
6 6 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.68%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.01%) SnowPro
9 2 (0.67%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.67%) CISSP
9 2 (0.67%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.67%) PMP
10 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.34%) CEH
10 1 (0.34%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.34%) MOS
10 1 (0.34%) OSCP
10 1 (0.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (9.76%) QA
2 28 (9.43%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.03%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.36%) EU AI Act
5 6 (2.02%) GDPR
5 6 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.68%) NCSC
6 5 (1.68%) SLA
7 4 (1.35%) NIST
8 2 (0.67%) EMIR
8 2 (0.67%) MiFID
8 2 (0.67%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.67%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 59 (19.87%) Docker
2 8 (2.69%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.67%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.34%) Firmware
6 1 (0.34%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.34%) Varnish
6 1 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 88 (29.63%) Kubernetes
2 20 (6.73%) Grafana
2 20 (6.73%) Prometheus
3 12 (4.04%) Ansible
4 4 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.34%) Argo
5 1 (0.34%) Bosun
5 1 (0.34%) Consul
5 1 (0.34%) Istio
5 1 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.34%) Packer
5 1 (0.34%) PowerCLI
5 1 (0.34%) Puppet
5 1 (0.34%) Salt
5 1 (0.34%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.34%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 60 (20.20%) Microsoft
2 38 (12.79%) Databricks
3 24 (8.08%) Google
4 16 (5.39%) Oracle
5 7 (2.36%) Dynatrace
5 7 (2.36%) Salesforce
5 7 (2.36%) Splunk
5 7 (2.36%) VMware
6 5 (1.68%) IBM
6 5 (1.68%) MuleSoft
6 5 (1.68%) SAP
7 4 (1.35%) AppDynamics
7 4 (1.35%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.01%) Foundry
8 3 (1.01%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.67%) Apple
9 2 (0.67%) Informatica
9 2 (0.67%) Palantir
9 2 (0.67%) Software AG
9 2 (0.67%) webMethods