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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 17 19
Rank change year-on-year +7 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 305 162 179
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 13.64% 9.33% 8.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.30% 9.91% 9.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 109 130
10th Percentile £425 £411 £462
25th Percentile £475 £513 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £613 £644
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% -4.85% +7.25%
75th Percentile £645 £688 £738
90th Percentile £738 £800 £786
Central London median daily rate £550 £613 £638
% change year-on-year -10.20% -3.92% +4.51%
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 1,994 1,635 1,908
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.18% 94.13% 91.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,372 1,085 1,206
10th Percentile £368 £323 £371
25th Percentile £456 £420 £475
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 £764 £789
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -2.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 21 18
10th Percentile £16.98 £17.08 £15.40
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.75 £20.88
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.15 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% -14.05% +19.09%
75th Percentile £32.05 £56.75 £107.13
90th Percentile £50.59 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £28.33 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.74% -19.07% +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 September 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 15 (4.92%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (4.26%) Confluence
3 11 (3.61%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.30%) Apache
5 4 (1.31%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.66%) CMS
6 2 (0.66%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.33%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.33%) Camunda
7 1 (0.33%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.33%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.33%) nginx
7 1 (0.33%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.98%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.98%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.66%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.33%) Magento
4 1 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.33%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.33%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.33%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 142 (46.56%) Azure
2 117 (38.36%) AWS
3 69 (22.62%) GitHub
4 52 (17.05%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (15.41%) GCP
6 46 (15.08%) GitHub Actions
7 39 (12.79%) Serverless
8 36 (11.80%) Power Platform
9 25 (8.20%) Amazon S3
9 25 (8.20%) Azure Data Factory
10 23 (7.54%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (5.90%) Snowflake
12 17 (5.57%) Azure AKS
13 15 (4.92%) Azure Monitor
14 14 (4.59%) Azure Databricks
15 13 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
15 13 (4.26%) dbt
16 12 (3.93%) Amazon Bedrock
16 12 (3.93%) SaaS
17 11 (3.61%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.93%) Firewall
2 6 (1.97%) DNS
2 6 (1.97%) Network Security
3 5 (1.64%) VPN
4 4 (1.31%) Internet
5 3 (0.98%) FTP
6 2 (0.66%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.66%) Multicast
6 2 (0.66%) SSL
7 1 (0.33%) BGP
7 1 (0.33%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.33%) Intelligent Network
7 1 (0.33%) NX-OS
7 1 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.33%) RTP
7 1 (0.33%) TACACS
7 1 (0.33%) tcpdump
7 1 (0.33%) VSAN
7 1 (0.33%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (8.52%) Power BI
2 20 (6.56%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (4.92%) SQL Server
4 14 (4.59%) Data Lake
5 13 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (4.26%) Metadata
5 13 (4.26%) NoSQL
6 12 (3.93%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (3.28%) Relational Database
8 9 (2.95%) Delta Lake
8 9 (2.95%) MongoDB
9 7 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (2.30%) Star Schema
10 6 (1.97%) DynamoDB
11 5 (1.64%) Amazon QuickSight
11 5 (1.64%) Data Mining
11 5 (1.64%) Semantic Layer
12 4 (1.31%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 47 (15.41%) Git
2 38 (12.46%) Jenkins
3 34 (11.15%) GitLab
4 26 (8.52%) JIRA
5 12 (3.93%) JUnit
6 11 (3.61%) Postman
7 10 (3.28%) Selenium
8 9 (2.95%) Cucumber
8 9 (2.95%) JMeter
9 8 (2.62%) Bitbucket
9 8 (2.62%) Mockito
10 7 (2.30%) Gradle
10 7 (2.30%) Maven
11 5 (1.64%) Visual Studio
12 4 (1.31%) Appium
12 4 (1.31%) Cypress.io
12 4 (1.31%) Gatling
12 4 (1.31%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.98%) REST Assured
13 3 (0.98%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 110 (36.07%) Finance
2 87 (28.52%) Social Skills
3 56 (18.36%) Banking
4 36 (11.80%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (7.87%) Public Sector
6 14 (4.59%) Front Office
7 9 (2.95%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (2.62%) Investment Banking
9 7 (2.30%) Back Office
10 5 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.64%) Marketing
10 5 (1.64%) Retail
11 4 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.31%) Military
11 4 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.98%) Law
12 3 (0.98%) Legal
12 3 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.98%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (19.67%) Senior
2 59 (19.34%) Developer
3 51 (16.72%) Architect
4 38 (12.46%) Data Engineer
5 21 (6.89%) Lead
6 19 (6.23%) Senior Developer
7 18 (5.90%) DevOps Engineer
8 14 (4.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 14 (4.59%) Azure Engineer
8 14 (4.59%) Cloud Engineer
8 14 (4.59%) Data Architect
9 13 (4.26%) Automation Engineer
9 13 (4.26%) Java Developer
9 13 (4.26%) Senior Data Engineer
9 13 (4.26%) Solutions Architect
10 12 (3.93%) Software Engineer
11 10 (3.28%) AWS Engineer
12 9 (2.95%) GCP Engineer
12 9 (2.95%) Senior Java Developer
13 7 (2.30%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (27.54%) Terraform
2 44 (14.43%) REST
3 32 (10.49%) Kafka
4 31 (10.16%) Spring
5 29 (9.51%) Spring Boot
6 27 (8.85%) .NET
7 22 (7.21%) React
8 19 (6.23%) PySpark
9 18 (5.90%) RESTful
10 17 (5.57%) SOAP
11 16 (5.25%) HTML
12 13 (4.26%) Middleware
13 12 (3.93%) JSON
14 11 (3.61%) AngularJS
15 9 (2.95%) CSS
15 9 (2.95%) Playwright
15 9 (2.95%) RabbitMQ
15 9 (2.95%) YAML
16 8 (2.62%) ActiveMQ
16 8 (2.62%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 91 (29.84%) Cloud Native
2 31 (10.16%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (8.20%) AI Agents
4 17 (5.57%) Onboarding
5 15 (4.92%) Product Ownership
5 15 (4.92%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.31%) CMDB
9 4 (1.31%) Derivative
9 4 (1.31%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.31%) Equities
9 4 (1.31%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.31%) Private Cloud
10 3 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (0.98%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.98%) Mobile Banking
11 2 (0.66%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 19 (6.23%) Linux
2 13 (4.26%) Windows
3 11 (3.61%) Unix
4 7 (2.30%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.97%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.31%) Android
7 1 (0.33%) CentOS
7 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (50.82%) DevOps
2 106 (34.75%) Infrastructure as Code
3 92 (30.16%) Agile
4 80 (26.23%) Test Automation
5 72 (23.61%) Containerisation
6 70 (22.95%) AI
7 60 (19.67%) Software Engineering
8 59 (19.34%) Analytics
9 58 (19.02%) Observability
10 56 (18.36%) Microservices
11 54 (17.70%) Data Engineering
12 48 (15.74%) Event-Driven
13 47 (15.41%) Data Modelling
13 47 (15.41%) Problem-Solving
14 44 (14.43%) Data Pipeline
15 43 (14.10%) Stakeholder Management
16 41 (13.44%) Migration
16 41 (13.44%) Platform Engineering
17 38 (12.46%) Continuous Improvement
18 33 (10.82%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 123 (40.33%) Python
2 85 (27.87%) SQL
3 63 (20.66%) Java
4 38 (12.46%) C#
5 30 (9.84%) JavaScript
5 30 (9.84%) PowerShell
6 25 (8.20%) TypeScript
7 16 (5.25%) Bicep
8 15 (4.92%) Bash
9 11 (3.61%) Korn
10 10 (3.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (1.97%) Scala
12 5 (1.64%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.31%) Apex Code
13 4 (1.31%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.98%) Ruby
14 3 (0.98%) Swift
15 2 (0.66%) ActionScript 2.0
15 2 (0.66%) R
15 2 (0.66%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 81 (26.56%) Security Cleared
2 68 (22.30%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.26%) DV Cleared
4 8 (2.62%) DBS Check
4 8 (2.62%) Degree
5 5 (1.64%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.31%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.98%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.98%) PMP
8 2 (0.66%) CISSP
8 2 (0.66%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.33%) CHECK Team Leader
9 1 (0.33%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (0.33%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (10.16%) Data Quality
2 30 (9.84%) QA
3 9 (2.95%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.30%) EU AI Act
5 6 (1.97%) GDPR
5 6 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.64%) NCSC
7 4 (1.31%) NIST
8 3 (0.98%) SLA
9 2 (0.66%) EMIR
9 2 (0.66%) MiFID
9 2 (0.66%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.66%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.33%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.33%) PSD2
10 1 (0.33%) SEPA
10 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 61 (20.00%) Docker
2 6 (1.97%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.66%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.33%) Firmware
6 1 (0.33%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.33%) Varnish
6 1 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 90 (29.51%) Kubernetes
2 23 (7.54%) Grafana
3 19 (6.23%) Prometheus
4 16 (5.25%) Ansible
5 4 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.33%) Argo
6 1 (0.33%) Bosun
6 1 (0.33%) Consul
6 1 (0.33%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.33%) Istio
6 1 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.33%) Packer
6 1 (0.33%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.33%) Puppet
6 1 (0.33%) Salt
6 1 (0.33%) SCCM
6 1 (0.33%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 62 (20.33%) Microsoft
2 46 (15.08%) Databricks
3 24 (7.87%) Google
4 15 (4.92%) Oracle
5 12 (3.93%) Splunk
6 11 (3.61%) Dynatrace
7 9 (2.95%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.62%) IBM
8 8 (2.62%) VMware
9 7 (2.30%) MuleSoft
9 7 (2.30%) SAP
9 7 (2.30%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.31%) AppDynamics
10 4 (1.31%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.98%) Foundry
12 2 (0.66%) Axway
12 2 (0.66%) Fortinet
12 2 (0.66%) New Relic
12 2 (0.66%) Palantir
12 2 (0.66%) webMethods