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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 16 16
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 259 192 196
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 10.64% 10.31% 9.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.29% 10.97% 10.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 121 140
10th Percentile £413 £406 £425
25th Percentile £464 £506 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - -
75th Percentile £650 £700 £750
90th Percentile £738 £800 £838
Central London median daily rate £550 £625 £615
% change year-on-year -12.00% +1.63% -1.60%
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 1,750 1,949
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.61% 93.93% 91.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,426 1,133 1,334
10th Percentile £370 £338 £363
25th Percentile £455 £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 £19.63
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.36
Median hourly rate £20.25 £31.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.68% +14.81% -22.86%
75th Percentile £42.56 £56.75 £55.75
90th Percentile £60.25 £63.75 £101.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £32.50 £27.81
% change year-on-year -28.74% +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 18 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 (6.56%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (4.63%) Confluence
3 7 (2.70%) Apache
3 7 (2.70%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.16%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.16%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.77%) Camunda
5 2 (0.77%) Ethereum
5 2 (0.77%) 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 (0.77%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.39%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (1.93%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.77%) 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
1 106 (40.93%) AWS
2 98 (37.84%) Azure
3 62 (23.94%) GitHub
4 38 (14.67%) Azure DevOps
4 38 (14.67%) GitHub Actions
5 36 (13.90%) GCP
6 32 (12.36%) Power Platform
7 31 (11.97%) Serverless
8 27 (10.42%) Amazon S3
9 21 (8.11%) AWS Lambda
10 19 (7.34%) Snowflake
11 14 (5.41%) Azure AKS
12 13 (5.02%) dbt
13 12 (4.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (4.63%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (4.63%) Amazon Kinesis
13 12 (4.63%) Azure Data Factory
14 11 (4.25%) Amazon Bedrock
14 11 (4.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 10 (3.86%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.47%) Firewall
2 6 (2.32%) Network Security
3 4 (1.54%) VPN
4 3 (1.16%) DNS
4 3 (1.16%) FTP
5 2 (0.77%) HTTP
5 2 (0.77%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.77%) Multicast
6 1 (0.39%) Internet
6 1 (0.39%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.39%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (8.88%) Power BI
2 20 (7.72%) NoSQL
3 15 (5.79%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (4.63%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (4.63%) DynamoDB
6 11 (4.25%) Amazon Athena
6 11 (4.25%) MongoDB
6 11 (4.25%) SQL Server
7 9 (3.47%) Metadata
8 8 (3.09%) Data Lake
9 7 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (2.70%) Relational Database
10 6 (2.32%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (1.93%) Data Mining
12 4 (1.54%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.54%) Data Mart
12 4 (1.54%) Oracle Database
12 4 (1.54%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 52 (20.08%) Git
2 35 (13.51%) Jenkins
3 27 (10.42%) GitLab
4 25 (9.65%) JIRA
5 17 (6.56%) JUnit
6 11 (4.25%) Postman
7 10 (3.86%) Cucumber
7 10 (3.86%) Mockito
8 8 (3.09%) Selenium
9 6 (2.32%) Gradle
10 5 (1.93%) JMeter
10 5 (1.93%) REST Assured
11 4 (1.54%) Liquibase
11 4 (1.54%) Maven
12 3 (1.16%) Appium
12 3 (1.16%) Bitbucket
12 3 (1.16%) Cypress.io
13 2 (0.77%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.77%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 2 (0.77%) Zephyr
General
1 96 (37.07%) Finance
2 70 (27.03%) Social Skills
3 46 (17.76%) Banking
4 23 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (8.49%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.09%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (2.70%) Front Office
8 5 (1.93%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.93%) Legal
9 4 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.54%) Military
9 4 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.16%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.16%) Law
11 2 (0.77%) Back Office
11 2 (0.77%) Marketing
11 2 (0.77%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.39%) Advertising
12 1 (0.39%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.39%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (18.92%) Senior
2 40 (15.44%) Developer
3 36 (13.90%) Architect
4 27 (10.42%) Data Engineer
5 23 (8.88%) Lead
6 20 (7.72%) DevOps Engineer
7 17 (6.56%) Senior Developer
8 14 (5.41%) Software Engineer
9 13 (5.02%) Java Developer
10 11 (4.25%) Azure Engineer
11 10 (3.86%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (3.47%) Automation Engineer
12 9 (3.47%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (3.47%) Data Architect
12 9 (3.47%) Python Engineer
12 9 (3.47%) Security Engineer
12 9 (3.47%) Senior Java Developer
12 9 (3.47%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 9 (3.47%) Snowflake Engineer
12 9 (3.47%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (14.29%) Kafka
2 35 (13.51%) REST
3 34 (13.13%) Spring
4 30 (11.58%) Spring Boot
5 24 (9.27%) React
6 18 (6.95%) .NET
7 15 (5.79%) RESTful
8 14 (5.41%) Playwright
9 11 (4.25%) AngularJS
9 11 (4.25%) PySpark
10 10 (3.86%) GraphQL
10 10 (3.86%) HTML
10 10 (3.86%) Node.js
10 10 (3.86%) SOAP
11 8 (3.09%) YAML
12 7 (2.70%) CSS
12 7 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (2.70%) WireMock
13 6 (2.32%) OpenTelemetry
13 6 (2.32%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 75 (28.96%) Cloud Native
2 32 (12.36%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (5.41%) AI Agents
4 10 (3.86%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.32%) Mobile App
6 5 (1.93%) Clustering
6 5 (1.93%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (1.93%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.54%) Equities
7 4 (1.54%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.54%) 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 (3.86%) Linux
2 9 (3.47%) Apple iOS
3 7 (2.70%) Unix
4 4 (1.54%) Android
5 3 (1.16%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.16%) Windows
6 2 (0.77%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.39%) AIX
7 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (50.19%) DevOps
2 80 (30.89%) Infrastructure as Code
3 73 (28.19%) Test Automation
4 70 (27.03%) Agile
5 66 (25.48%) Containerisation
6 59 (22.78%) AI
7 54 (20.85%) Observability
8 51 (19.69%) Microservices
9 50 (19.31%) Analytics
10 49 (18.92%) Software Engineering
11 44 (16.99%) Data Engineering
12 41 (15.83%) Platform Engineering
13 37 (14.29%) Event-Driven
14 35 (13.51%) Data Modelling
15 33 (12.74%) Migration
16 32 (12.36%) Data Pipeline
17 31 (11.97%) Stakeholder Management
18 30 (11.58%) Problem-Solving
19 29 (11.20%) Machine Learning
20 26 (10.04%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 87 (33.59%) Python
2 62 (23.94%) SQL
3 60 (23.17%) Java
4 29 (11.20%) TypeScript
5 27 (10.42%) C#
6 21 (8.11%) JavaScript
7 15 (5.79%) PowerShell
8 14 (5.41%) Bash
9 10 (3.86%) Bicep
10 6 (2.32%) Ruby
11 5 (1.93%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.54%) Apex Code
12 4 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (1.16%) Korn
13 3 (1.16%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.16%) Scala
13 3 (1.16%) Swift
14 2 (0.77%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.77%) ActionScript 2.0
14 2 (0.77%) Go
Qualifications
1 70 (27.03%) Security Cleared
2 64 (24.71%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.02%) DV Cleared
4 8 (3.09%) DBS Check
4 8 (3.09%) Degree
5 5 (1.93%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.16%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.77%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.77%) 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 26 (10.04%) QA
2 14 (5.41%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.09%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.70%) EU AI Act
4 7 (2.70%) SLA
5 6 (2.32%) GDPR
6 5 (1.93%) NCSC
7 4 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (1.16%) NIST
9 2 (0.77%) EMIR
9 2 (0.77%) MiFID
9 2 (0.77%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.77%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 61 (23.55%) Docker
2 8 (3.09%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.70%) 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 (32.82%) Kubernetes
2 61 (23.55%) Terraform
3 18 (6.95%) Grafana
3 18 (6.95%) Prometheus
4 11 (4.25%) Ansible
5 4 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.77%) 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 (16.60%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.88%) Databricks
3 20 (7.72%) Google
4 14 (5.41%) Oracle
5 8 (3.09%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.32%) Splunk
7 5 (1.93%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.93%) IBM
8 4 (1.54%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.54%) 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 (0.77%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.77%) Software AG
10 2 (0.77%) Sybase
10 2 (0.77%) Tenable
10 2 (0.77%) webMethods