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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 16 18
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 258 193 193
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 10.72% 10.33% 9.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.37% 10.99% 9.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 121 137
10th Percentile £413 £406 £425
25th Percentile £465 £506 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - -
75th Percentile £650 £700 £750
90th Percentile £734 £800 £830
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 2,086 1,756 1,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.66% 94.00% 91.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,411 1,133 1,324
10th Percentile £368 £338 £363
25th Percentile £456 £434 £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 £565
% change year-on-year - -2.65% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 21 19
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £19.88
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £20.25 £31.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.68% -22.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £42.56 £56.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £60.25 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £32.50 £30.41
% change year-on-year -28.74% +6.89% -13.13%

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 21 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 16 (6.20%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (4.65%) Confluence
3 7 (2.71%) Apache
3 7 (2.71%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.16%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.16%) 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 (1.94%) 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
1 104 (40.31%) AWS
2 98 (37.98%) Azure
3 61 (23.64%) GitHub
4 38 (14.73%) GitHub Actions
5 37 (14.34%) Azure DevOps
5 37 (14.34%) GCP
6 32 (12.40%) Power Platform
7 30 (11.63%) Serverless
8 25 (9.69%) Amazon S3
9 20 (7.75%) AWS Lambda
10 19 (7.36%) Snowflake
11 14 (5.43%) Azure AKS
12 13 (5.04%) dbt
13 12 (4.65%) Amazon Kinesis
14 11 (4.26%) Amazon Bedrock
14 11 (4.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 11 (4.26%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (4.26%) Azure Data Factory
14 11 (4.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.49%) Firewall
2 6 (2.33%) Network Security
3 4 (1.55%) VPN
4 3 (1.16%) DNS
4 3 (1.16%) FTP
5 2 (0.78%) HTTP
5 2 (0.78%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.78%) Internet
5 2 (0.78%) Multicast
6 1 (0.39%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.39%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (8.91%) Power BI
2 20 (7.75%) NoSQL
3 15 (5.81%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (5.43%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (4.26%) DynamoDB
5 11 (4.26%) MongoDB
5 11 (4.26%) SQL Server
6 10 (3.88%) Amazon Athena
7 9 (3.49%) Metadata
8 7 (2.71%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (2.71%) Data Lake
8 7 (2.71%) Relational Database
9 6 (2.33%) Snowflake Schema
10 5 (1.94%) Data Mining
11 4 (1.55%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.55%) Data Mart
11 4 (1.55%) Oracle Database
11 4 (1.55%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 50 (19.38%) Git
2 34 (13.18%) Jenkins
3 25 (9.69%) GitLab
4 23 (8.91%) JIRA
5 16 (6.20%) JUnit
6 9 (3.49%) Cucumber
6 9 (3.49%) Mockito
6 9 (3.49%) Postman
7 7 (2.71%) Selenium
8 6 (2.33%) Gradle
9 5 (1.94%) JMeter
10 4 (1.55%) Liquibase
10 4 (1.55%) Maven
10 4 (1.55%) REST Assured
11 3 (1.16%) Appium
11 3 (1.16%) Bitbucket
11 3 (1.16%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.78%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.78%) Zephyr
General
1 94 (36.43%) Finance
2 69 (26.74%) Social Skills
3 45 (17.44%) Banking
4 23 (8.91%) Public Sector
5 22 (8.53%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.10%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (2.71%) Front Office
8 5 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.94%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.94%) Legal
9 4 (1.55%) Military
9 4 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.16%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.16%) Law
11 2 (0.78%) Back Office
11 2 (0.78%) Marketing
11 2 (0.78%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.39%) Advertising
12 1 (0.39%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.39%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (18.99%) Senior
2 40 (15.50%) Developer
3 37 (14.34%) Architect
4 27 (10.47%) Data Engineer
5 23 (8.91%) Lead
6 21 (8.14%) DevOps Engineer
7 17 (6.59%) Senior Developer
8 14 (5.43%) Software Engineer
9 13 (5.04%) Java Developer
10 11 (4.26%) Azure Engineer
11 10 (3.88%) Cloud Engineer
11 10 (3.88%) Python Engineer
11 10 (3.88%) Technical Architect
12 9 (3.49%) Data Architect
12 9 (3.49%) GCP Engineer
12 9 (3.49%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (3.49%) Security Engineer
12 9 (3.49%) Senior Java Developer
12 9 (3.49%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 9 (3.49%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (13.95%) Kafka
2 34 (13.18%) REST
3 33 (12.79%) Spring
4 29 (11.24%) Spring Boot
5 24 (9.30%) React
6 18 (6.98%) .NET
7 15 (5.81%) RESTful
8 14 (5.43%) Playwright
9 11 (4.26%) AngularJS
9 11 (4.26%) PySpark
10 10 (3.88%) HTML
10 10 (3.88%) Node.js
10 10 (3.88%) SOAP
11 9 (3.49%) GraphQL
12 7 (2.71%) CSS
12 7 (2.71%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (2.71%) YAML
13 6 (2.33%) JSON
13 6 (2.33%) Swagger
13 6 (2.33%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 76 (29.46%) Cloud Native
2 32 (12.40%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.81%) AI Agents
4 10 (3.88%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.33%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.94%) Clustering
6 5 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (1.94%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.55%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.55%) Equities
7 4 (1.55%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.16%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.16%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.16%) Mobile Banking
8 3 (1.16%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.88%) Linux
2 9 (3.49%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.71%) Unix
4 4 (1.55%) Android
5 3 (1.16%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.16%) Windows
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
1 130 (50.39%) DevOps
2 82 (31.78%) Infrastructure as Code
3 71 (27.52%) Test Automation
4 69 (26.74%) Agile
5 67 (25.97%) Containerisation
6 59 (22.87%) AI
7 54 (20.93%) Observability
8 52 (20.16%) Microservices
9 50 (19.38%) Analytics
10 48 (18.60%) Software Engineering
11 43 (16.67%) Data Engineering
12 41 (15.89%) Platform Engineering
13 38 (14.73%) Event-Driven
14 36 (13.95%) Data Modelling
15 34 (13.18%) Migration
16 32 (12.40%) Data Pipeline
17 31 (12.02%) Stakeholder Management
18 29 (11.24%) Problem-Solving
19 28 (10.85%) Machine Learning
20 27 (10.47%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 87 (33.72%) Python
2 63 (24.42%) SQL
3 59 (22.87%) Java
4 29 (11.24%) TypeScript
5 26 (10.08%) C#
6 21 (8.14%) JavaScript
7 15 (5.81%) PowerShell
8 14 (5.43%) Bash
9 12 (4.65%) Bicep
10 6 (2.33%) Ruby
11 5 (1.94%) Apex Code
11 5 (1.94%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (1.16%) Korn
13 3 (1.16%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.16%) Swift
14 2 (0.78%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.78%) Go
14 2 (0.78%) Scala
14 2 (0.78%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 70 (27.13%) Security Cleared
2 63 (24.42%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.04%) DV Cleared
4 8 (3.10%) DBS Check
4 8 (3.10%) Degree
5 6 (2.33%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.16%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.78%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.78%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.39%) CHECK Team Leader
10 1 (0.39%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.39%) PMP
10 1 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.69%) QA
2 14 (5.43%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.10%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.71%) EU AI Act
4 7 (2.71%) SLA
5 6 (2.33%) GDPR
6 5 (1.94%) NCSC
7 4 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (1.16%) NIST
9 2 (0.78%) EMIR
9 2 (0.78%) MiFID
9 2 (0.78%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.78%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 61 (23.64%) Docker
2 8 (3.10%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.71%) 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 (32.95%) Kubernetes
2 63 (24.42%) Terraform
3 18 (6.98%) Grafana
3 18 (6.98%) Prometheus
4 11 (4.26%) Ansible
5 4 (1.55%) 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 44 (17.05%) Microsoft
2 22 (8.53%) Databricks
3 20 (7.75%) Google
4 14 (5.43%) Oracle
5 8 (3.10%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.33%) Splunk
7 5 (1.94%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.94%) IBM
7 5 (1.94%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.55%) SAP
9 3 (1.16%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.16%) Apple
9 3 (1.16%) Informatica
9 3 (1.16%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.16%) VMware
10 2 (0.78%) Foundry
10 2 (0.78%) Palantir
10 2 (0.78%) Software AG
10 2 (0.78%) Tenable
10 2 (0.78%) webMethods