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 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 16 18
Rank change year-on-year +6 +2 +5
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 306 171 180
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 14.22% 9.94% 8.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.60% 10.52% 9.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 123 129
10th Percentile £419 £400 £461
25th Percentile £475 £492 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £601 £638
Median % change year-on-year -8.41% -5.80% +6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £676 £750
90th Percentile £738 £800 £822
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £644
% change year-on-year -8.33% -6.80% +6.85%
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 requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,961 1,625 1,948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 91.12% 94.42% 91.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,353 1,114 1,208
10th Percentile £368 £328 £363
25th Percentile £455 £424 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £770 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 18 17
10th Percentile £17.39 £16.90 £16.70
25th Percentile £17.60 £20.63 £23.13
Median hourly rate £20.25 £27.04 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.10% -36.39% +36.00%
75th Percentile £27.35 £35.88 £112.00
90th Percentile £44.85 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.50 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.91% -21.43% +27.27%

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 16 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 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 16 (5.23%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (3.92%) Confluence
3 10 (3.27%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.63%) Apache
5 2 (0.65%) CMS
5 2 (0.65%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.65%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.33%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.33%) IIS
6 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.33%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.33%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.33%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 3 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.98%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.65%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.65%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.33%) Maximo
3 1 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.33%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.33%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 143 (46.73%) Azure
2 110 (35.95%) AWS
3 69 (22.55%) GitHub
4 57 (18.63%) Azure DevOps
5 46 (15.03%) GCP
6 45 (14.71%) GitHub Actions
7 41 (13.40%) Serverless
8 36 (11.76%) Power Platform
9 27 (8.82%) Azure Data Factory
10 25 (8.17%) AWS Lambda
11 24 (7.84%) Amazon S3
12 17 (5.56%) Azure AKS
12 17 (5.56%) Snowflake
13 16 (5.23%) Amazon EKS
14 15 (4.90%) AWS CloudFormation
14 15 (4.90%) dbt
15 13 (4.25%) Azure Databricks
16 12 (3.92%) Azure Monitor
16 12 (3.92%) PaaS
17 11 (3.59%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.59%) Firewall
2 8 (2.61%) DNS
3 7 (2.29%) VPN
4 6 (1.96%) Network Security
5 4 (1.31%) Internet
6 2 (0.65%) FTP
6 2 (0.65%) Multicast
6 2 (0.65%) SSL
7 1 (0.33%) BGP
7 1 (0.33%) DHCP
7 1 (0.33%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.33%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.33%) INAP
7 1 (0.33%) NX-OS
7 1 (0.33%) RTP
7 1 (0.33%) TACACS
7 1 (0.33%) tcpdump
7 1 (0.33%) VoIP
7 1 (0.33%) VSAN
7 1 (0.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (8.82%) Power BI
2 21 (6.86%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (6.21%) SQL Server
4 18 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (4.90%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (3.92%) Data Lake
7 11 (3.59%) Amazon Athena
7 11 (3.59%) Metadata
7 11 (3.59%) Relational Database
8 9 (2.94%) MongoDB
8 9 (2.94%) NoSQL
9 8 (2.61%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (2.61%) Star Schema
10 7 (2.29%) Delta Lake
11 6 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (1.63%) Big Data
12 5 (1.63%) DynamoDB
12 5 (1.63%) Semantic Layer
13 4 (1.31%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 4 (1.31%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 48 (15.69%) Git
2 41 (13.40%) Jenkins
3 38 (12.42%) GitLab
4 25 (8.17%) JIRA
5 13 (4.25%) Postman
5 13 (4.25%) Selenium
6 11 (3.59%) JUnit
7 9 (2.94%) Cucumber
7 9 (2.94%) JMeter
8 8 (2.61%) Bitbucket
9 7 (2.29%) Maven
9 7 (2.29%) Mockito
10 6 (1.96%) Gradle
10 6 (1.96%) Visual Studio
11 5 (1.63%) Cypress.io
12 4 (1.31%) Appium
12 4 (1.31%) Gatling
12 4 (1.31%) REST Assured
12 4 (1.31%) SonarQube
12 4 (1.31%) TeamCity
General
1 115 (37.58%) Finance
2 83 (27.12%) Social Skills
3 62 (20.26%) Banking
4 38 (12.42%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (6.21%) Front Office
5 19 (6.21%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.27%) Influencing Skills
6 10 (3.27%) Investment Banking
7 9 (2.94%) Back Office
8 7 (2.29%) Marketing
9 6 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.96%) Retail
10 4 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.31%) Military
10 4 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.65%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.65%) Law
11 2 (0.65%) Legal
11 2 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (19.93%) Developer
2 57 (18.63%) Senior
3 45 (14.71%) Architect
4 39 (12.75%) Data Engineer
5 22 (7.19%) DevOps Engineer
6 21 (6.86%) Lead
7 19 (6.21%) Senior Developer
8 15 (4.90%) Cloud Engineer
9 14 (4.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 14 (4.58%) Automation Engineer
9 14 (4.58%) Solutions Architect
10 13 (4.25%) AWS Engineer
10 13 (4.25%) Azure Engineer
10 13 (4.25%) GCP Engineer
10 13 (4.25%) Senior Data Engineer
11 12 (3.92%) Java Developer
12 11 (3.59%) Software Engineer
13 10 (3.27%) Data Architect
14 8 (2.61%) AWS Data Engineer
14 8 (2.61%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (31.70%) Terraform
2 44 (14.38%) REST
3 33 (10.78%) .NET
4 30 (9.80%) Kafka
5 28 (9.15%) Spring
6 26 (8.50%) Spring Boot
7 20 (6.54%) PySpark
7 20 (6.54%) RESTful
8 18 (5.88%) React
9 16 (5.23%) SOAP
10 15 (4.90%) AngularJS
10 15 (4.90%) HTML
11 13 (4.25%) Middleware
12 12 (3.92%) JSON
12 12 (3.92%) Playwright
13 10 (3.27%) YAML
14 9 (2.94%) ActiveMQ
15 8 (2.61%) CSS
15 8 (2.61%) OAuth
15 8 (2.61%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 89 (29.08%) Cloud Native
2 29 (9.48%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (8.82%) AI Agents
4 19 (6.21%) Onboarding
5 16 (5.23%) Product Ownership
6 14 (4.58%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (4.25%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (2.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 7 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.63%) CMDB
10 5 (1.63%) Derivative
10 5 (1.63%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.63%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.63%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.31%) Equities
11 4 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (0.98%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.98%) Mobile App
12 3 (0.98%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 20 (6.54%) Linux
2 14 (4.58%) Windows
3 11 (3.59%) Unix
4 8 (2.61%) Apple iOS
5 7 (2.29%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.63%) Android
7 1 (0.33%) CentOS
7 1 (0.33%) macOS
7 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (51.31%) DevOps
2 109 (35.62%) Infrastructure as Code
3 95 (31.05%) Agile
4 85 (27.78%) Test Automation
5 67 (21.90%) AI
6 63 (20.59%) Containerisation
7 59 (19.28%) Software Engineering
8 56 (18.30%) Analytics
9 55 (17.97%) Observability
10 52 (16.99%) Data Engineering
11 51 (16.67%) Microservices
12 49 (16.01%) Data Modelling
13 48 (15.69%) Event-Driven
13 48 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
14 47 (15.36%) Stakeholder Management
15 43 (14.05%) Data Pipeline
15 43 (14.05%) Migration
16 42 (13.73%) Continuous Improvement
16 42 (13.73%) Platform Engineering
17 35 (11.44%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 124 (40.52%) Python
2 90 (29.41%) SQL
3 58 (18.95%) Java
4 42 (13.73%) C#
5 34 (11.11%) PowerShell
6 33 (10.78%) JavaScript
7 28 (9.15%) TypeScript
8 14 (4.58%) Bicep
9 13 (4.25%) Bash
10 11 (3.59%) Korn
11 10 (3.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 8 (2.61%) Kotlin
13 6 (1.96%) Scala
14 4 (1.31%) Apex Code
14 4 (1.31%) Shell Script
14 4 (1.31%) Swift
15 3 (0.98%) Ruby
16 2 (0.65%) Perl
16 2 (0.65%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.65%) R
Qualifications
1 81 (26.47%) Security Cleared
2 69 (22.55%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.25%) DV Cleared
4 9 (2.94%) Degree
5 8 (2.61%) DBS Check
6 7 (2.29%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.98%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.98%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.98%) PMP
10 2 (0.65%) CISSP
10 2 (0.65%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.65%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.33%) GSEC
11 1 (0.33%) MOS
11 1 (0.33%) SSCP
11 1 (0.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (10.46%) Data Quality
2 29 (9.48%) QA
3 10 (3.27%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.61%) GDPR
5 7 (2.29%) EU AI Act
6 5 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.65%) EMIR
7 2 (0.65%) MiFID
7 2 (0.65%) NCSC
7 2 (0.65%) NIST
7 2 (0.65%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.65%) SLA
8 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.33%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.33%) PSD2
8 1 (0.33%) SEPA
8 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 55 (17.97%) Docker
2 5 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.65%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.65%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.33%) Firmware
5 1 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 83 (27.12%) Kubernetes
2 23 (7.52%) Grafana
3 17 (5.56%) Prometheus
4 15 (4.90%) Ansible
5 4 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.33%) Argo
6 1 (0.33%) Bosun
6 1 (0.33%) Control-M
6 1 (0.33%) HP Fortify
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%) SCCM
6 1 (0.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 63 (20.59%) Microsoft
2 46 (15.03%) Databricks
3 27 (8.82%) Google
4 14 (4.58%) Oracle
4 14 (4.58%) Splunk
5 12 (3.92%) Dynatrace
6 10 (3.27%) Salesforce
6 10 (3.27%) ServiceNow
7 8 (2.61%) VMware
8 7 (2.29%) IBM
8 7 (2.29%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.63%) Foundry
9 5 (1.63%) SAP
10 4 (1.31%) AppDynamics
11 3 (0.98%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.65%) Adyen
12 2 (0.65%) Apple
12 2 (0.65%) New Relic
12 2 (0.65%) Palantir
12 2 (0.65%) Workday