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 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 20 24
Rank change year-on-year 0 +4 -2
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 185 176 168
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 10.06% 9.01% 6.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.20% 9.79% 7.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 113 129
10th Percentile £355 £413 £418
25th Percentile £413 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -2.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £708 £700
90th Percentile £768 £757 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £593 £603
% change year-on-year -7.17% -1.66% -3.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.25 - -
Median hourly rate £27.50 - -
75th Percentile £28.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,652 1,797 2,170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.83% 91.97% 89.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,162 1,093 1,548
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.74% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £765 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £573
% change year-on-year -6.09% +0.44% -0.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 10
10th Percentile £19.94 £15.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £28.00 £42.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.12% +61.90% -30.46%
75th Percentile £42.30 £112.00 £44.56
90th Percentile £45.56 £132.40 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.66
% change year-on-year -25.40% +26.56% -20.99%

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 8 January 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 7 (3.78%) Apache Spark
1 7 (3.78%) Confluence
2 6 (3.24%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.62%) Apache
3 3 (1.62%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.08%) CMS
5 1 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.54%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 3 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.54%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.54%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.54%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.54%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 80 (43.24%) AWS
2 75 (40.54%) Azure
3 51 (27.57%) GitHub
4 42 (22.70%) GitHub Actions
5 35 (18.92%) GCP
6 33 (17.84%) Azure DevOps
7 23 (12.43%) Serverless
8 19 (10.27%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (9.19%) Amazon S3
10 14 (7.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 13 (7.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 13 (7.03%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (6.49%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (6.49%) Power Platform
13 10 (5.41%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (4.32%) Apigee
14 8 (4.32%) Azure AKS
14 8 (4.32%) Azure Key Vault
14 8 (4.32%) Snowflake
15 7 (3.78%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.24%) DNS
2 5 (2.70%) Firewall
3 4 (2.16%) Network Security
4 1 (0.54%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (0.54%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.54%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.03%) Relational Database
2 10 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (4.86%) DynamoDB
4 8 (4.32%) MySQL
5 7 (3.78%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (3.78%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.78%) NoSQL
5 7 (3.78%) Power BI
6 6 (3.24%) BigQuery
6 6 (3.24%) SQL Server
7 5 (2.70%) Redis
8 4 (2.16%) Delta Lake
9 3 (1.62%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.62%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (1.62%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.62%) Big Data
9 3 (1.62%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.62%) Metadata
9 3 (1.62%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 37 (20.00%) Git
2 34 (18.38%) Jenkins
3 21 (11.35%) GitLab
4 12 (6.49%) JIRA
4 12 (6.49%) Selenium
5 8 (4.32%) Cucumber
6 7 (3.78%) Cypress.io
6 7 (3.78%) SonarQube
7 6 (3.24%) Bitbucket
8 5 (2.70%) Gradle
8 5 (2.70%) JUnit
8 5 (2.70%) Postman
9 3 (1.62%) Gatling
9 3 (1.62%) Maven
9 3 (1.62%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.62%) Snyk
9 3 (1.62%) TeamCity
10 2 (1.08%) JMeter
10 2 (1.08%) SoapUI
10 2 (1.08%) Xcode
General
1 67 (36.22%) Finance
2 48 (25.95%) Social Skills
3 35 (18.92%) Banking
4 9 (4.86%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (4.86%) Front Office
5 6 (3.24%) Financial Institution
5 6 (3.24%) Investment Banking
5 6 (3.24%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.62%) Games
8 3 (1.62%) Law
8 3 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.08%) Back Office
9 2 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.08%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.54%) Local Government
10 1 (0.54%) Marketing
10 1 (0.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (19.46%) Developer
2 32 (17.30%) Senior
3 28 (15.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (8.65%) Data Engineer
5 15 (8.11%) Python Engineer
6 13 (7.03%) Architect
7 12 (6.49%) Lead
8 11 (5.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 11 (5.95%) GCP Engineer
9 8 (4.32%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (4.32%) Senior Developer
10 7 (3.78%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (3.24%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (3.24%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (3.24%) Java Developer
11 6 (3.24%) Software Engineer
12 5 (2.70%) Cloud Architect
12 5 (2.70%) Consultant
12 5 (2.70%) Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (2.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (10.81%) React
2 17 (9.19%) RESTful
3 15 (8.11%) Node.js
3 15 (8.11%) OAuth
4 14 (7.57%) HTML
5 13 (7.03%) CSS
6 11 (5.95%) REST
7 10 (5.41%) .NET
8 8 (4.32%) HTML5
8 8 (4.32%) JWT
8 8 (4.32%) Spring
9 7 (3.78%) AngularJS
9 7 (3.78%) JSON
9 7 (3.78%) Kafka
9 7 (3.78%) OAuth2
9 7 (3.78%) Spring Boot
10 6 (3.24%) GraphQL
10 6 (3.24%) LangChain
10 6 (3.24%) OpenTelemetry
10 6 (3.24%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 30 (16.22%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.03%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.86%) AI Agents
4 8 (4.32%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.32%) Virtual Team
5 7 (3.78%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.70%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.70%) Data Structures
6 5 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.70%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.16%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.16%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.16%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.62%) Equities
8 3 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.62%) Replication
9 2 (1.08%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.08%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.08%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.49%) Linux
2 8 (4.32%) Apple iOS
3 7 (3.78%) Windows
4 6 (3.24%) Android
5 2 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.08%) Unix
6 1 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (56.22%) DevOps
2 59 (31.89%) Infrastructure as Code
3 56 (30.27%) Agile
4 42 (22.70%) Containerisation
5 39 (21.08%) Test Automation
6 36 (19.46%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (17.84%) AI
8 31 (16.76%) Microservices
9 30 (16.22%) Analytics
10 27 (14.59%) Observability
11 26 (14.05%) Software Engineering
12 24 (12.97%) Data Pipeline
12 24 (12.97%) Design Patterns
13 21 (11.35%) Machine Learning
13 21 (11.35%) Performance Tuning
14 19 (10.27%) Code Quality
14 19 (10.27%) Data Governance
14 19 (10.27%) Migration
15 16 (8.65%) Data Modelling
15 16 (8.65%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 80 (43.24%) Python
2 38 (20.54%) Java
3 36 (19.46%) SQL
4 22 (11.89%) JavaScript
5 18 (9.73%) TypeScript
6 13 (7.03%) C#
7 10 (5.41%) Bash
8 8 (4.32%) PowerShell
9 6 (3.24%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.70%) PHP
10 5 (2.70%) Swift
11 4 (2.16%) Bicep
11 4 (2.16%) C++
11 4 (2.16%) Go
11 4 (2.16%) Objective-C
12 3 (1.62%) Korn
12 3 (1.62%) Ruby
12 3 (1.62%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.08%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.08%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 29 (15.68%) Security Cleared
2 28 (15.14%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.24%) Degree
4 4 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.16%) MCP
5 3 (1.62%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.08%) CISSP
6 2 (1.08%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.08%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.54%) CCNA
7 1 (0.54%) CCSP
7 1 (0.54%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.54%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.54%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.54%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.27%) GDPR
2 18 (9.73%) QA
3 13 (7.03%) Data Quality
4 10 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (3.78%) Accessibility
6 6 (3.24%) PCI DSS
7 5 (2.70%) NIST
8 3 (1.62%) EU AI Act
9 2 (1.08%) ISO 20022
9 2 (1.08%) ISO 8583
9 2 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (1.08%) NCSC
9 2 (1.08%) PSD2
9 2 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (1.08%) SEPA
9 2 (1.08%) SOC 2
9 2 (1.08%) WCAG
10 1 (0.54%) GRC
10 1 (0.54%) HIPAA
System Software
1 52 (28.11%) Docker
2 4 (2.16%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.08%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.54%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 66 (35.68%) Terraform
2 53 (28.65%) Kubernetes
3 18 (9.73%) Ansible
4 12 (6.49%) Prometheus
5 11 (5.95%) Grafana
6 9 (4.86%) Argo
7 6 (3.24%) Istio
8 5 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.62%) Kibana
10 2 (1.08%) Kustomize
10 2 (1.08%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.54%) Icinga
11 1 (0.54%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.54%) Karpenter
11 1 (0.54%) logstash
11 1 (0.54%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.54%) Packer
11 1 (0.54%) Puppet
11 1 (0.54%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 28 (15.14%) Microsoft
2 25 (13.51%) Google
3 22 (11.89%) Databricks
4 10 (5.41%) Oracle
5 7 (3.78%) OpenAI
5 7 (3.78%) Splunk
6 6 (3.24%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.70%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.62%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.08%) Apple
9 2 (1.08%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.08%) Confluent
9 2 (1.08%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.08%) UiPath
10 1 (0.54%) Amplitude
10 1 (0.54%) LogicMonitor
10 1 (0.54%) Plaid
10 1 (0.54%) Sonatype
10 1 (0.54%) Tenable
10 1 (0.54%) Workday