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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 16 15
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 +1
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 247 186 197
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 10.07% 10.46% 9.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.72% 11.14% 10.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 117 143
10th Percentile £410 £413 £425
25th Percentile £463 £506 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £610 £615
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% -0.81% -1.60%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £744
90th Percentile £725 £800 £824
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 2,108 1,669 1,940
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.90% 93.82% 91.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,425 1,068 1,350
10th Percentile £366 £350 £363
25th Percentile £453 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £554 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.63% -3.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £560
% change year-on-year - -1.79% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 20 15
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.02 £20.04
25th Percentile £18.46 £24.43 £20.36
Median hourly rate £20.25 £29.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.93% +10.19% -22.86%
75th Percentile £42.74 £50.75 £40.92
90th Percentile £59.72 £66.25 £67.35
Central London median hourly rate £25.77 £31.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -16.87% +11.47% -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 2 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 (6.88%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (4.86%) Confluence
3 7 (2.83%) Apache
3 7 (2.83%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.21%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.21%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.81%) Camunda
5 2 (0.81%) Ethereum
5 2 (0.81%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.40%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.40%) nginx
6 1 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (0.81%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.40%) Maya
Business Applications
1 4 (1.62%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.40%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.40%) Magento
3 1 (0.40%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.40%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.40%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.40%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 107 (43.32%) AWS
2 92 (37.25%) Azure
3 55 (22.27%) GitHub
4 34 (13.77%) Azure DevOps
4 34 (13.77%) GitHub Actions
5 33 (13.36%) Serverless
6 32 (12.96%) GCP
7 31 (12.55%) Power Platform
8 25 (10.12%) Amazon S3
9 21 (8.50%) AWS Lambda
10 20 (8.10%) Snowflake
11 14 (5.67%) Azure AKS
12 13 (5.26%) Amazon Bedrock
12 13 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
12 13 (5.26%) dbt
13 10 (4.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (4.05%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (4.05%) Amazon Kinesis
13 10 (4.05%) Azure Data Factory
13 10 (4.05%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.64%) Firewall
2 6 (2.43%) Network Security
3 4 (1.62%) VPN
4 3 (1.21%) DNS
4 3 (1.21%) FTP
5 2 (0.81%) HTTP
5 2 (0.81%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.81%) Multicast
6 1 (0.40%) Internet
6 1 (0.40%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.40%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.91%) Power BI
2 19 (7.69%) NoSQL
3 16 (6.48%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (4.86%) DynamoDB
6 11 (4.45%) SQL Server
7 10 (4.05%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (4.05%) MongoDB
8 9 (3.64%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (3.24%) Metadata
9 8 (3.24%) Relational Database
10 7 (2.83%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (2.43%) Data Lake
11 6 (2.43%) Snowflake Schema
12 5 (2.02%) Data Mining
13 4 (1.62%) Apache Cassandra
13 4 (1.62%) Big Data
13 4 (1.62%) Data Mart
13 4 (1.62%) MySQL
13 4 (1.62%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 50 (20.24%) Git
2 34 (13.77%) Jenkins
3 25 (10.12%) JIRA
4 24 (9.72%) GitLab
5 16 (6.48%) JUnit
6 11 (4.45%) Postman
7 10 (4.05%) Mockito
8 9 (3.64%) Cucumber
9 6 (2.43%) Gradle
9 6 (2.43%) Selenium
10 5 (2.02%) JMeter
10 5 (2.02%) REST Assured
11 4 (1.62%) Liquibase
11 4 (1.62%) Maven
12 2 (0.81%) Appium
12 2 (0.81%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.81%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.81%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.81%) Xcode
12 2 (0.81%) Zephyr
General
1 94 (38.06%) Finance
2 65 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 42 (17.00%) Banking
4 22 (8.91%) Public Sector
5 19 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.24%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.02%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.02%) Legal
8 4 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.62%) Front Office
8 4 (1.62%) Marketing
8 4 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.21%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.21%) Law
9 3 (1.21%) Military
10 1 (0.40%) Advertising
10 1 (0.40%) Aviation
10 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.40%) Police
10 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 45 (18.22%) Senior
2 39 (15.79%) Developer
3 37 (14.98%) Architect
4 24 (9.72%) Data Engineer
5 23 (9.31%) Lead
6 21 (8.50%) DevOps Engineer
7 16 (6.48%) Senior Developer
8 13 (5.26%) Software Engineer
9 12 (4.86%) Java Developer
10 11 (4.45%) Azure Engineer
11 10 (4.05%) Automation Engineer
11 10 (4.05%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (3.64%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (3.64%) GCP Engineer
12 9 (3.64%) Security Engineer
12 9 (3.64%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 9 (3.64%) Snowflake Engineer
13 8 (3.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 8 (3.24%) Python Engineer
13 8 (3.24%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (14.17%) Kafka
2 34 (13.77%) REST
3 33 (13.36%) Spring
4 29 (11.74%) Spring Boot
5 22 (8.91%) React
6 15 (6.07%) .NET
6 15 (6.07%) RESTful
7 13 (5.26%) Playwright
8 11 (4.45%) GraphQL
9 10 (4.05%) SOAP
10 9 (3.64%) AngularJS
10 9 (3.64%) HTML
10 9 (3.64%) Node.js
10 9 (3.64%) PySpark
11 8 (3.24%) YAML
12 7 (2.83%) WireMock
13 6 (2.43%) CSS
13 6 (2.43%) Gherkin
13 6 (2.43%) JSON
13 6 (2.43%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 74 (29.96%) Cloud Native
2 29 (11.74%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.26%) AI Agents
4 10 (4.05%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.43%) Equities
5 6 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.43%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.02%) Clustering
6 5 (2.02%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.21%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.21%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.21%) Mobile Banking
8 3 (1.21%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.81%) IoT
9 2 (0.81%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.45%) Linux
2 7 (2.83%) Apple iOS
3 6 (2.43%) Unix
4 4 (1.62%) Windows
5 2 (0.81%) Android
5 2 (0.81%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.81%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.40%) AIX
6 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (50.61%) DevOps
2 80 (32.39%) Infrastructure as Code
3 70 (28.34%) Agile
4 65 (26.32%) Test Automation
5 62 (25.10%) Containerisation
6 56 (22.67%) AI
7 51 (20.65%) Analytics
7 51 (20.65%) Observability
8 44 (17.81%) Microservices
9 42 (17.00%) Data Engineering
9 42 (17.00%) Software Engineering
10 38 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
11 33 (13.36%) Event-Driven
11 33 (13.36%) Migration
12 32 (12.96%) Data Modelling
13 29 (11.74%) Stakeholder Management
14 28 (11.34%) Data Pipeline
15 27 (10.93%) Machine Learning
16 26 (10.53%) Roadmaps
17 25 (10.12%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 81 (32.79%) Python
2 55 (22.27%) SQL
3 54 (21.86%) Java
4 27 (10.93%) TypeScript
5 25 (10.12%) C#
6 18 (7.29%) JavaScript
7 15 (6.07%) PowerShell
8 14 (5.67%) Bash
9 10 (4.05%) Bicep
10 5 (2.02%) Ruby
11 4 (1.62%) Apex Code
11 4 (1.62%) Korn
11 4 (1.62%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.21%) Scala
12 3 (1.21%) Swift
13 2 (0.81%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.81%) ActionScript 2.0
13 2 (0.81%) Go
13 2 (0.81%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 64 (25.91%) Security Cleared
2 60 (24.29%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.05%) DV Cleared
4 8 (3.24%) DBS Check
4 8 (3.24%) Degree
5 5 (2.02%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.21%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.81%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.81%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.40%) CHECK Team Leader
8 1 (0.40%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.40%) PMP
8 1 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.91%) QA
2 12 (4.86%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.24%) GDPR
4 7 (2.83%) EU AI Act
4 7 (2.83%) SLA
5 6 (2.43%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.62%) NCSC
7 3 (1.21%) NIST
8 2 (0.81%) EMIR
8 2 (0.81%) MiFID
8 2 (0.81%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.81%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 60 (24.29%) Docker
2 8 (3.24%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.83%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.40%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.40%) Varnish
4 1 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.40%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 84 (34.01%) Kubernetes
2 59 (23.89%) Terraform
3 17 (6.88%) Grafana
3 17 (6.88%) Prometheus
4 12 (4.86%) Ansible
5 4 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.81%) Puppet
7 1 (0.40%) Argo
7 1 (0.40%) CA Wily
7 1 (0.40%) Consul
7 1 (0.40%) Istio
7 1 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.40%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.40%) Salt
7 1 (0.40%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.40%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 39 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.31%) Databricks
3 17 (6.88%) Google
4 12 (4.86%) Oracle
5 8 (3.24%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.02%) Dynatrace
6 5 (2.02%) IBM
6 5 (2.02%) Splunk
7 3 (1.21%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.21%) Informatica
7 3 (1.21%) MuleSoft
7 3 (1.21%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.21%) SAP
7 3 (1.21%) VMware
8 2 (0.81%) Apple
8 2 (0.81%) SimCorp
8 2 (0.81%) Software AG
8 2 (0.81%) Sybase
8 2 (0.81%) Tenable
8 2 (0.81%) webMethods