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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 18 19
Rank change year-on-year +8 +1 -3
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 295 162 184
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 12.98% 9.18% 8.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.71% 9.75% 9.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 106 134
10th Percentile £425 £409 £463
25th Percentile £475 £510 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £614 £633
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% -2.89% +3.35%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £738
90th Percentile £738 £794 £809
Central London median daily rate £550 £611 £625
% change year-on-year -10.02% -2.20% -
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 2,005 1,661 1,888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.25% 94.16% 91.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,383 1,098 1,226
10th Percentile £375 £324 £379
25th Percentile £458 £424 £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 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 22 16
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £19.79
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -25.86% +6.38% -3.18%
75th Percentile £32.05 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £50.59 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.07 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -13.78% +7.67% -1.82%

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 4 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 18 (6.10%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (4.41%) Confluence
3 11 (3.73%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.37%) Apache
5 4 (1.36%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.68%) CMS
6 2 (0.68%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.34%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.34%) Camunda
7 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.34%) nginx
7 1 (0.34%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.68%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.69%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.02%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.68%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.34%) Magento
5 1 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.34%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.34%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 134 (45.42%) Azure
2 117 (39.66%) AWS
3 65 (22.03%) GitHub
4 54 (18.31%) Azure DevOps
5 43 (14.58%) GCP
6 40 (13.56%) GitHub Actions
7 36 (12.20%) Serverless
8 35 (11.86%) Power Platform
9 25 (8.47%) Amazon S3
9 25 (8.47%) Azure Data Factory
10 21 (7.12%) AWS Lambda
10 21 (7.12%) Snowflake
11 17 (5.76%) Azure AKS
12 16 (5.42%) dbt
13 12 (4.07%) Azure Functions
13 12 (4.07%) Azure Monitor
13 12 (4.07%) PaaS
14 11 (3.73%) Amazon Kinesis
14 11 (3.73%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (3.73%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.73%) Firewall
2 6 (2.03%) DNS
2 6 (2.03%) Network Security
3 4 (1.36%) Internet
3 4 (1.36%) VPN
4 3 (1.02%) FTP
5 2 (0.68%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.68%) Multicast
5 2 (0.68%) SSL
6 1 (0.34%) BGP
6 1 (0.34%) DHCP
6 1 (0.34%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.34%) INAP
6 1 (0.34%) NX-OS
6 1 (0.34%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.34%) RTP
6 1 (0.34%) TACACS
6 1 (0.34%) tcpdump
6 1 (0.34%) VoIP
6 1 (0.34%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (8.47%) Power BI
2 22 (7.46%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (5.08%) SQL Server
4 14 (4.75%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (4.41%) NoSQL
6 12 (4.07%) Data Lake
6 12 (4.07%) Metadata
7 11 (3.73%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (3.39%) Amazon Athena
9 9 (3.05%) MongoDB
9 9 (3.05%) Relational Database
10 8 (2.71%) DynamoDB
10 8 (2.71%) Star Schema
11 7 (2.37%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (2.37%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (2.37%) Delta Lake
12 5 (1.69%) Data Mining
13 4 (1.36%) Data Mart
13 4 (1.36%) Oracle Database
13 4 (1.36%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 45 (15.25%) Git
2 37 (12.54%) Jenkins
3 31 (10.51%) GitLab
4 25 (8.47%) JIRA
5 13 (4.41%) JUnit
6 9 (3.05%) Cucumber
6 9 (3.05%) Mockito
6 9 (3.05%) Postman
6 9 (3.05%) Selenium
7 8 (2.71%) JMeter
8 6 (2.03%) Gradle
8 6 (2.03%) Maven
9 5 (1.69%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.69%) Visual Studio
10 4 (1.36%) Appium
10 4 (1.36%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.02%) Gatling
11 3 (1.02%) REST Assured
11 3 (1.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (1.02%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 101 (34.24%) Finance
2 84 (28.47%) Social Skills
3 51 (17.29%) Banking
4 32 (10.85%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (8.81%) Public Sector
6 11 (3.73%) Front Office
7 10 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (2.71%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.69%) Marketing
9 5 (1.69%) Retail
10 4 (1.36%) Back Office
10 4 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.36%) Legal
10 4 (1.36%) Military
11 3 (1.02%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.02%) Law
11 3 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.02%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (20.34%) Developer
2 58 (19.66%) Senior
3 45 (15.25%) Architect
4 35 (11.86%) Data Engineer
5 21 (7.12%) Lead
5 21 (7.12%) Senior Developer
6 20 (6.78%) DevOps Engineer
7 16 (5.42%) Azure Engineer
8 14 (4.75%) Java Developer
9 13 (4.41%) Cloud Engineer
9 13 (4.41%) Data Architect
10 11 (3.73%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 11 (3.73%) Senior Data Engineer
10 11 (3.73%) Software Engineer
11 10 (3.39%) Automation Engineer
11 10 (3.39%) Senior Java Developer
11 10 (3.39%) Solutions Architect
12 9 (3.05%) AWS Engineer
12 9 (3.05%) GCP Engineer
13 8 (2.71%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (26.78%) Terraform
2 40 (13.56%) REST
3 32 (10.85%) Kafka
4 29 (9.83%) Spring
5 28 (9.49%) Spring Boot
6 26 (8.81%) .NET
7 23 (7.80%) React
8 18 (6.10%) PySpark
8 18 (6.10%) RESTful
9 16 (5.42%) SOAP
10 13 (4.41%) HTML
11 12 (4.07%) AngularJS
12 11 (3.73%) JSON
12 11 (3.73%) Playwright
13 10 (3.39%) YAML
14 8 (2.71%) CSS
14 8 (2.71%) Middleware
14 8 (2.71%) Web Services
15 7 (2.37%) Node.js
15 7 (2.37%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 91 (30.85%) Cloud Native
2 32 (10.85%) Distributed Systems
3 22 (7.46%) AI Agents
4 11 (3.73%) Onboarding
4 11 (3.73%) Product Ownership
5 10 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.36%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.36%) Equities
9 4 (1.36%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.36%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.02%) Derivative
10 3 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.02%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.02%) Mobile Banking
11 2 (0.68%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.08%) Linux
2 11 (3.73%) Windows
3 8 (2.71%) Apple iOS
3 8 (2.71%) Unix
4 5 (1.69%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.36%) Android
6 2 (0.68%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.34%) CentOS
7 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (53.90%) DevOps
2 104 (35.25%) Infrastructure as Code
3 86 (29.15%) Agile
4 78 (26.44%) Test Automation
5 70 (23.73%) Containerisation
6 68 (23.05%) AI
7 60 (20.34%) Analytics
8 58 (19.66%) Microservices
9 54 (18.31%) Software Engineering
10 53 (17.97%) Observability
11 52 (17.63%) Data Engineering
12 48 (16.27%) Event-Driven
13 45 (15.25%) Data Modelling
14 44 (14.92%) Problem-Solving
15 41 (13.90%) Data Pipeline
15 41 (13.90%) Platform Engineering
15 41 (13.90%) Stakeholder Management
16 40 (13.56%) Migration
17 33 (11.19%) Machine Learning
18 31 (10.51%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 116 (39.32%) Python
2 81 (27.46%) SQL
3 62 (21.02%) Java
4 40 (13.56%) C#
5 29 (9.83%) TypeScript
6 28 (9.49%) JavaScript
6 28 (9.49%) PowerShell
7 17 (5.76%) Bicep
8 16 (5.42%) Bash
9 8 (2.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 8 (2.71%) Korn
10 5 (1.69%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.69%) Ruby
10 5 (1.69%) Scala
11 4 (1.36%) Apex Code
11 4 (1.36%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.02%) Swift
13 2 (0.68%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.68%) Perl
13 2 (0.68%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 77 (26.10%) Security Cleared
2 66 (22.37%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.41%) DV Cleared
4 8 (2.71%) DBS Check
5 7 (2.37%) Degree
6 6 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.69%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.02%) SnowPro
9 2 (0.68%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.68%) CISSP
9 2 (0.68%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.68%) PMP
10 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.34%) CEH
10 1 (0.34%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.34%) MOS
10 1 (0.34%) OSCP
10 1 (0.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (9.83%) QA
2 27 (9.15%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.05%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.37%) EU AI Act
5 6 (2.03%) GDPR
5 6 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.69%) NCSC
6 5 (1.69%) SLA
7 4 (1.36%) NIST
8 2 (0.68%) EMIR
8 2 (0.68%) MiFID
8 2 (0.68%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.68%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 58 (19.66%) Docker
2 8 (2.71%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.68%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.34%) Firmware
6 1 (0.34%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.34%) Varnish
6 1 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 87 (29.49%) Kubernetes
2 20 (6.78%) Grafana
2 20 (6.78%) Prometheus
3 12 (4.07%) Ansible
4 4 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.34%) Argo
5 1 (0.34%) Bosun
5 1 (0.34%) Consul
5 1 (0.34%) Istio
5 1 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.34%) Packer
5 1 (0.34%) PowerCLI
5 1 (0.34%) Puppet
5 1 (0.34%) Salt
5 1 (0.34%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.34%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 59 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 38 (12.88%) Databricks
3 24 (8.14%) Google
4 16 (5.42%) Oracle
5 7 (2.37%) Dynatrace
5 7 (2.37%) Salesforce
5 7 (2.37%) Splunk
5 7 (2.37%) VMware
6 5 (1.69%) IBM
6 5 (1.69%) MuleSoft
6 5 (1.69%) SAP
7 4 (1.36%) AppDynamics
7 4 (1.36%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.02%) Foundry
8 3 (1.02%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.68%) Apple
9 2 (0.68%) Informatica
9 2 (0.68%) Palantir
9 2 (0.68%) Software AG
9 2 (0.68%) webMethods