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 citing CI/CD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 17 21
Rank change year-on-year +7 +4 +6
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 314 170 175
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 14.74% 10.08% 8.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.05% 10.66% 9.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 124 123
10th Percentile £417 £400 £463
25th Percentile £467 £464 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £750
90th Percentile £738 £796 £834
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £27.50 -
Central London median hourly rate - £27.50 -

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 citing process or methodology skills in the City of London.

6 months to
23 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing process or methodology skills 1,956 1,594 1,943
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 91.83% 94.54% 91.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,359 1,099 1,192
10th Percentile £375 £325 £363
25th Percentile £456 £419 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.36%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £773 £783
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 17
10th Percentile - £16.85 £16.70
25th Percentile £17.60 £20.18 £23.13
Median hourly rate £21.00 £26.57 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.96% -37.48% +54.55%
75th Percentile £28.57 £36.00 £112.00
90th Percentile £46.70 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.50 £26.57 £35.00
% change year-on-year -7.79% -24.09% +30.84%

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 23 October 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 table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Processes & Methodologies

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1DevOps50.6%159
2Infrastructure as Code35.0%110
3Agile30.9%97
4Test Automation28.0%88
5AI21.7%68
6Containerisation20.1%63
7Software Engineering19.7%62
8Analytics18.5%58
9Observability17.8%56
10Data Engineering17.5%55
11Problem-Solving17.2%54
12Microservices16.6%52
13Data Modelling16.2%51
14Stakeholder Management15.6%49
15Data Pipeline15.3%48
16Event-Driven15.0%47
17Migration14.3%45
18Continuous Improvement13.7%43
18Platform Engineering13.7%43
20Performance Optimisation12.4%39
231 CI/CD jobs in the City of London