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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 17 19
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 268 187 184
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.20% 9.98% 8.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.85% 10.63% 9.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 118 131
10th Percentile £419 £406 £425
25th Percentile £470 £519 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - -
75th Percentile £649 £699 £750
90th Percentile £725 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £625 £608
% change year-on-year -12.00% +2.88% -2.80%
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 2,085 1,760 1,888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.17% 93.97% 91.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,408 1,150 1,285
10th Percentile £364 £331 £365
25th Percentile £456 £425 £463
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 £797
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 22 15
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.57 £19.19
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £19.50 £29.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.45% +10.19% -22.86%
75th Percentile £41.25 £54.75 £85.63
90th Percentile £60.78 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £31.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -25.29% +3.33% -14.29%

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 31 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 14 (5.22%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (4.48%) Confluence
3 8 (2.99%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.61%) Apache
5 5 (1.87%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.12%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.37%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.37%) Camunda
7 1 (0.37%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.37%) nginx
7 1 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.37%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.37%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (1.87%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.75%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.37%) Magento
4 1 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.37%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.37%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.37%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 108 (40.30%) Azure
2 106 (39.55%) AWS
3 62 (23.13%) GitHub
4 44 (16.42%) Azure DevOps
5 40 (14.93%) GCP
6 37 (13.81%) GitHub Actions
7 34 (12.69%) Power Platform
8 30 (11.19%) Serverless
9 24 (8.96%) Amazon S3
10 19 (7.09%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (6.34%) Azure Data Factory
11 17 (6.34%) Snowflake
12 15 (5.60%) Azure AKS
13 12 (4.48%) Amazon Kinesis
13 12 (4.48%) dbt
14 11 (4.10%) Amazon Bedrock
14 11 (4.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 11 (4.10%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (4.10%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (4.10%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.10%) Firewall
2 7 (2.61%) Network Security
3 5 (1.87%) DNS
4 4 (1.49%) VPN
5 3 (1.12%) FTP
5 3 (1.12%) Internet
6 2 (0.75%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.75%) Multicast
7 1 (0.37%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.37%) SSL
7 1 (0.37%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.96%) Power BI
2 18 (6.72%) NoSQL
3 16 (5.97%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (5.60%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (4.85%) SQL Server
6 11 (4.10%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (4.10%) DynamoDB
7 10 (3.73%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (3.73%) MongoDB
8 8 (2.99%) Data Lake
9 7 (2.61%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (2.61%) Metadata
9 7 (2.61%) Relational Database
10 6 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (2.24%) Star Schema
11 5 (1.87%) Big Data
11 5 (1.87%) Data Mining
11 5 (1.87%) Snowflake Schema
12 4 (1.49%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (1.49%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 46 (17.16%) Git
2 38 (14.18%) Jenkins
3 28 (10.45%) GitLab
4 22 (8.21%) JIRA
5 14 (5.22%) JUnit
6 9 (3.36%) Cucumber
6 9 (3.36%) Mockito
6 9 (3.36%) Postman
7 7 (2.61%) Selenium
8 6 (2.24%) Gradle
8 6 (2.24%) JMeter
9 4 (1.49%) Liquibase
9 4 (1.49%) Maven
9 4 (1.49%) REST Assured
10 3 (1.12%) Appium
10 3 (1.12%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.12%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.12%) Gatling
10 3 (1.12%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.75%) Xcode
General
1 95 (35.45%) Finance
2 74 (27.61%) Social Skills
3 42 (15.67%) Banking
4 24 (8.96%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (8.58%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.36%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (2.61%) Front Office
8 6 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.87%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.49%) Marketing
10 4 (1.49%) Military
10 4 (1.49%) Retail
11 3 (1.12%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.12%) Law
11 3 (1.12%) Legal
12 2 (0.75%) Back Office
12 2 (0.75%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.37%) Advertising
13 1 (0.37%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 50 (18.66%) Senior
2 45 (16.79%) Developer
3 38 (14.18%) Architect
4 27 (10.07%) Data Engineer
5 22 (8.21%) Lead
6 21 (7.84%) DevOps Engineer
7 18 (6.72%) Senior Developer
8 14 (5.22%) Software Engineer
9 13 (4.85%) Java Developer
10 12 (4.48%) Azure Engineer
11 11 (4.10%) Cloud Engineer
12 10 (3.73%) Data Architect
12 10 (3.73%) Python Engineer
13 9 (3.36%) GCP Engineer
13 9 (3.36%) Security Engineer
13 9 (3.36%) Senior Java Developer
13 9 (3.36%) Technical Architect
14 8 (2.99%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 8 (2.99%) Platform Engineer
14 8 (2.99%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (13.43%) REST
2 34 (12.69%) Kafka
3 31 (11.57%) Spring
4 27 (10.07%) Spring Boot
5 25 (9.33%) React
6 19 (7.09%) .NET
7 14 (5.22%) Playwright
7 14 (5.22%) RESTful
8 13 (4.85%) SOAP
9 12 (4.48%) PySpark
10 11 (4.10%) AngularJS
10 11 (4.10%) HTML
10 11 (4.10%) Node.js
11 9 (3.36%) GraphQL
12 8 (2.99%) OpenTelemetry
13 7 (2.61%) CSS
13 7 (2.61%) JSON
13 7 (2.61%) Middleware
13 7 (2.61%) RabbitMQ
13 7 (2.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 79 (29.48%) Cloud Native
2 34 (12.69%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (6.72%) AI Agents
4 9 (3.36%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.36%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.49%) Clustering
8 4 (1.49%) Equities
8 4 (1.49%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.49%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.49%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.12%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.12%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.85%) Linux
2 9 (3.36%) Apple iOS
3 8 (2.99%) Unix
4 6 (2.24%) Windows
5 4 (1.49%) Android
5 4 (1.49%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.12%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.37%) AIX
7 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (52.99%) DevOps
2 87 (32.46%) Infrastructure as Code
3 74 (27.61%) Agile
4 70 (26.12%) Containerisation
4 70 (26.12%) Test Automation
5 62 (23.13%) AI
6 56 (20.90%) Observability
7 53 (19.78%) Analytics
8 52 (19.40%) Microservices
9 49 (18.28%) Software Engineering
10 45 (16.79%) Data Engineering
11 43 (16.04%) Event-Driven
12 41 (15.30%) Platform Engineering
13 38 (14.18%) Data Modelling
13 38 (14.18%) Migration
14 36 (13.43%) Stakeholder Management
15 33 (12.31%) Data Pipeline
16 32 (11.94%) Problem-Solving
17 29 (10.82%) Roadmaps
18 28 (10.45%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 89 (33.21%) Python
2 66 (24.63%) SQL
3 59 (22.01%) Java
4 28 (10.45%) C#
4 28 (10.45%) TypeScript
5 24 (8.96%) JavaScript
6 19 (7.09%) PowerShell
7 16 (5.97%) Bash
8 12 (4.48%) Bicep
9 7 (2.61%) Korn
10 6 (2.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (1.87%) Apex Code
11 5 (1.87%) Ruby
11 5 (1.87%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.12%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.12%) Scala
12 3 (1.12%) Swift
13 2 (0.75%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.75%) Go
13 2 (0.75%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 73 (27.24%) Security Cleared
2 65 (24.25%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.85%) DV Cleared
4 8 (2.99%) DBS Check
4 8 (2.99%) Degree
5 6 (2.24%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.12%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.75%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.75%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.37%) CEH
9 1 (0.37%) CHECK Team Leader
9 1 (0.37%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.37%) OSCP
9 1 (0.37%) PMP
9 1 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.07%) QA
2 14 (5.22%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.99%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.61%) EU AI Act
4 7 (2.61%) SLA
5 6 (2.24%) GDPR
6 5 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.87%) NCSC
7 4 (1.49%) NIST
8 2 (0.75%) EMIR
8 2 (0.75%) MiFID
8 2 (0.75%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.75%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 63 (23.51%) Docker
2 8 (2.99%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.24%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.37%) Firmware
5 1 (0.37%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 1 (0.37%) Varnish
5 1 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 88 (32.84%) Kubernetes
2 67 (25.00%) Terraform
3 19 (7.09%) Grafana
3 19 (7.09%) Prometheus
4 13 (4.85%) Ansible
5 4 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.75%) Puppet
7 1 (0.37%) Argo
7 1 (0.37%) Bosun
7 1 (0.37%) CA Wily
7 1 (0.37%) Consul
7 1 (0.37%) Istio
7 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.37%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.37%) Salt
7 1 (0.37%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.37%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 52 (19.40%) Microsoft
2 28 (10.45%) Databricks
3 24 (8.96%) Google
4 15 (5.60%) Oracle
5 9 (3.36%) Salesforce
6 8 (2.99%) Dynatrace
7 7 (2.61%) Splunk
8 6 (2.24%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.87%) IBM
9 5 (1.87%) SAP
10 4 (1.49%) AppDynamics
10 4 (1.49%) VMware
11 3 (1.12%) Apple
11 3 (1.12%) Informatica
11 3 (1.12%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.12%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.75%) Axway
12 2 (0.75%) Fortinet
12 2 (0.75%) webMethods
12 2 (0.75%) Workday