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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 16 15
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 +3
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 256 198 203
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 10.41% 10.62% 9.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.06% 11.31% 10.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 124 144
10th Percentile £409 £413 £425
25th Percentile £463 £506 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £611 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.02% +1.88% -4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £697 £738
90th Percentile £725 £800 £823
Central London median daily rate £550 £610 £600
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% -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 2,122 1,750 1,963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.30% 93.88% 91.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,436 1,128 1,350
10th Percentile £364 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £448 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 21 16
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £19.21
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £21.00 £31.00 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -32.26% +16.43% -23.93%
75th Percentile £42.13 £56.75 £40.46
90th Percentile £59.72 £63.75 £64.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.47 £32.50 £27.81
% change year-on-year -24.72% +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 11 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 (6.64%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (4.69%) Confluence
3 7 (2.73%) Apache
3 7 (2.73%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.17%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.17%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.78%) Camunda
5 2 (0.78%) Ethereum
5 2 (0.78%) 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 (0.78%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.39%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (1.95%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.78%) 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
1 110 (42.97%) AWS
2 96 (37.50%) Azure
3 58 (22.66%) GitHub
4 36 (14.06%) Azure DevOps
4 36 (14.06%) GitHub Actions
5 35 (13.67%) Serverless
6 34 (13.28%) GCP
7 32 (12.50%) Power Platform
8 27 (10.55%) Amazon S3
9 23 (8.98%) AWS Lambda
10 19 (7.42%) Snowflake
11 14 (5.47%) Azure AKS
12 13 (5.08%) Amazon Bedrock
12 13 (5.08%) dbt
13 12 (4.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (4.69%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (4.69%) Amazon Kinesis
13 12 (4.69%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (4.69%) Azure Data Factory
14 10 (3.91%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.52%) Firewall
2 6 (2.34%) Network Security
3 4 (1.56%) VPN
4 3 (1.17%) DNS
4 3 (1.17%) FTP
5 2 (0.78%) HTTP
5 2 (0.78%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.78%) Multicast
6 1 (0.39%) Internet
6 1 (0.39%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.39%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (8.98%) Power BI
2 19 (7.42%) NoSQL
3 16 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (5.47%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (4.69%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (4.69%) DynamoDB
6 11 (4.30%) Amazon Athena
6 11 (4.30%) SQL Server
7 10 (3.91%) Metadata
7 10 (3.91%) MongoDB
8 8 (3.13%) Data Lake
8 8 (3.13%) Relational Database
9 7 (2.73%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (2.34%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (1.95%) Data Mining
12 4 (1.56%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (1.56%) Data Mart
12 4 (1.56%) MySQL
12 4 (1.56%) Oracle Database
12 4 (1.56%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 52 (20.31%) Git
2 34 (13.28%) Jenkins
3 27 (10.55%) GitLab
4 25 (9.77%) JIRA
5 16 (6.25%) JUnit
6 11 (4.30%) Postman
7 10 (3.91%) Mockito
8 9 (3.52%) Cucumber
9 6 (2.34%) Gradle
9 6 (2.34%) Selenium
10 5 (1.95%) JMeter
10 5 (1.95%) REST Assured
11 4 (1.56%) Liquibase
11 4 (1.56%) Maven
12 3 (1.17%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.78%) Appium
13 2 (0.78%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.78%) Cypress.io
13 2 (0.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 2 (0.78%) Zephyr
General
1 97 (37.89%) Finance
2 66 (25.78%) Social Skills
3 44 (17.19%) Banking
4 23 (8.98%) Public Sector
5 21 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (1.95%) Investment Banking
7 5 (1.95%) Legal
8 4 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.56%) Front Office
8 4 (1.56%) Military
8 4 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.17%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.17%) Law
9 3 (1.17%) Marketing
10 2 (0.78%) Back Office
10 2 (0.78%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.39%) Advertising
11 1 (0.39%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 48 (18.75%) Senior
2 40 (15.63%) Developer
3 38 (14.84%) Architect
4 26 (10.16%) Data Engineer
5 23 (8.98%) Lead
6 21 (8.20%) DevOps Engineer
7 16 (6.25%) Senior Developer
8 13 (5.08%) Software Engineer
9 12 (4.69%) Java Developer
10 11 (4.30%) Azure Engineer
10 11 (4.30%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (3.91%) Automation Engineer
12 9 (3.52%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (3.52%) Data Architect
12 9 (3.52%) GCP Engineer
12 9 (3.52%) Security Engineer
12 9 (3.52%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 9 (3.52%) Snowflake Engineer
12 9 (3.52%) Technical Architect
13 8 (3.13%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (14.06%) Kafka
2 34 (13.28%) REST
3 33 (12.89%) Spring
4 29 (11.33%) Spring Boot
5 23 (8.98%) React
6 16 (6.25%) .NET
7 15 (5.86%) RESTful
8 13 (5.08%) Playwright
9 11 (4.30%) GraphQL
9 11 (4.30%) PySpark
10 10 (3.91%) Node.js
10 10 (3.91%) SOAP
11 9 (3.52%) AngularJS
11 9 (3.52%) HTML
12 8 (3.13%) YAML
13 7 (2.73%) WireMock
14 6 (2.34%) Gherkin
14 6 (2.34%) OpenTelemetry
14 6 (2.34%) RabbitMQ
14 6 (2.34%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 77 (30.08%) Cloud Native
2 29 (11.33%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (5.47%) AI Agents
4 11 (4.30%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.34%) Mobile App
6 5 (1.95%) Clustering
6 5 (1.95%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.95%) Equities
6 5 (1.95%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.17%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.17%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.17%) Mobile Banking
8 3 (1.17%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.78%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.78%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.30%) Linux
2 8 (3.13%) Apple iOS
3 6 (2.34%) Unix
4 4 (1.56%) Windows
5 3 (1.17%) Android
5 3 (1.17%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.78%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.39%) AIX
7 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (50.39%) DevOps
2 84 (32.81%) Infrastructure as Code
3 69 (26.95%) Agile
3 69 (26.95%) Test Automation
4 64 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 57 (22.27%) AI
6 54 (21.09%) Observability
7 50 (19.53%) Analytics
8 47 (18.36%) Microservices
9 43 (16.80%) Data Engineering
9 43 (16.80%) Software Engineering
10 42 (16.41%) Platform Engineering
11 37 (14.45%) Event-Driven
12 36 (14.06%) Data Modelling
13 34 (13.28%) Migration
14 31 (12.11%) Data Pipeline
15 29 (11.33%) Stakeholder Management
16 28 (10.94%) Machine Learning
17 26 (10.16%) Business Intelligence
17 26 (10.16%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 88 (34.38%) Python
2 60 (23.44%) SQL
3 57 (22.27%) Java
4 27 (10.55%) TypeScript
5 25 (9.77%) C#
6 20 (7.81%) JavaScript
7 15 (5.86%) PowerShell
8 14 (5.47%) Bash
9 10 (3.91%) Bicep
10 6 (2.34%) Ruby
11 4 (1.56%) Apex Code
11 4 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (1.56%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.17%) Korn
12 3 (1.17%) Scala
12 3 (1.17%) Swift
13 2 (0.78%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.78%) ActionScript 2.0
13 2 (0.78%) Go
13 2 (0.78%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 69 (26.95%) Security Cleared
2 63 (24.61%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.91%) DV Cleared
4 8 (3.13%) DBS Check
4 8 (3.13%) Degree
5 5 (1.95%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.17%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.78%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.78%) 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%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.39%) PMP
8 1 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.38%) QA
2 13 (5.08%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.13%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.73%) EU AI Act
4 7 (2.73%) GDPR
4 7 (2.73%) SLA
5 5 (1.95%) NCSC
6 4 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.17%) NIST
8 2 (0.78%) EMIR
8 2 (0.78%) MiFID
8 2 (0.78%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.78%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 61 (23.83%) Docker
2 8 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.73%) 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 (33.20%) Kubernetes
2 62 (24.22%) Terraform
3 18 (7.03%) Grafana
3 18 (7.03%) Prometheus
4 12 (4.69%) Ansible
5 4 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.78%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.78%) 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 (16.80%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.98%) Databricks
3 18 (7.03%) Google
4 13 (5.08%) Oracle
5 9 (3.52%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.34%) Splunk
7 5 (1.95%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.95%) IBM
8 4 (1.56%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.56%) SAP
9 3 (1.17%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.17%) Apple
9 3 (1.17%) Informatica
9 3 (1.17%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.17%) VMware
10 2 (0.78%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.78%) Software AG
10 2 (0.78%) Sybase
10 2 (0.78%) Tenable
10 2 (0.78%) webMethods