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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 17 17
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 216 182 181
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 9.22% 10.83% 8.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.79% 11.56% 9.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 113 127
10th Percentile £372 £413 £425
25th Percentile £453 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £641 £700 £725
90th Percentile £744 £798 £807
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - £46.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £48.50
75th Percentile £75.00 - £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £70.00 - £48.50

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 2,001 1,574 1,946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.37% 93.63% 90.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,359 992 1,364
10th Percentile £363 £356 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £551 £563
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% -2.04% -6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 14 12
10th Percentile £17.38 £18.15 £19.95
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.98 £20.22
Median hourly rate £25.77 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -9.02% +6.38% -23.93%
75th Percentile £52.16 £41.48 £40.46
90th Percentile £62.89 £59.25 £49.41
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £28.33 £27.81
% change year-on-year -7.82% +1.85% -20.54%

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 June 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 17 (7.87%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.24%) Apache
2 7 (3.24%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.24%) Confluence
3 3 (1.39%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.39%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.93%) Camunda
4 2 (0.93%) Ethereum
4 2 (0.93%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.46%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.46%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.46%) nginx
5 1 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.46%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (1.39%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.46%) Maya
Business Applications
1 4 (1.85%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.46%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.46%) Magento
2 1 (0.46%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.46%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.46%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.46%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 101 (46.76%) AWS
2 88 (40.74%) Azure
3 53 (24.54%) GitHub
4 34 (15.74%) Azure DevOps
4 34 (15.74%) GCP
4 34 (15.74%) GitHub Actions
5 31 (14.35%) Serverless
6 27 (12.50%) Power Platform
7 22 (10.19%) Amazon S3
8 19 (8.80%) AWS Lambda
8 19 (8.80%) Snowflake
9 14 (6.48%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (6.02%) Azure AKS
11 12 (5.56%) dbt
12 11 (5.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (4.63%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (4.63%) Amazon Kinesis
13 10 (4.63%) Azure Data Factory
14 9 (4.17%) Entra ID
14 9 (4.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.24%) Firewall
2 4 (1.85%) Network Security
3 3 (1.39%) DNS
4 2 (0.93%) FTP
4 2 (0.93%) HTTP
4 2 (0.93%) Multicast
4 2 (0.93%) VPN
5 1 (0.46%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.46%) Internet
5 1 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.46%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.80%) NoSQL
1 19 (8.80%) Power BI
2 17 (7.87%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (5.09%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (4.63%) DynamoDB
4 10 (4.63%) SQL Server
5 8 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (3.70%) Metadata
5 8 (3.70%) Relational Database
6 7 (3.24%) Amazon Athena
6 7 (3.24%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.78%) Data Lake
7 6 (2.78%) Redis
7 6 (2.78%) Snowflake Schema
8 5 (2.31%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (2.31%) Apache Cassandra
8 5 (2.31%) Data Mining
9 4 (1.85%) Big Data
9 4 (1.85%) BigQuery
9 4 (1.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 41 (18.98%) Git
2 34 (15.74%) Jenkins
3 21 (9.72%) GitLab
4 19 (8.80%) JIRA
5 10 (4.63%) JUnit
5 10 (4.63%) Postman
6 7 (3.24%) Mockito
7 5 (2.31%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.31%) Gradle
7 5 (2.31%) JMeter
8 4 (1.85%) Liquibase
8 4 (1.85%) Selenium
9 3 (1.39%) Gatling
9 3 (1.39%) Maven
9 3 (1.39%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.93%) Ant
10 2 (0.93%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.46%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.46%) MonkeyTalk
11 1 (0.46%) PHPUnit
General
1 80 (37.04%) Finance
2 52 (24.07%) Social Skills
3 33 (15.28%) Banking
4 19 (8.80%) Public Sector
5 14 (6.48%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.24%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.31%) Legal
8 4 (1.85%) Front Office
8 4 (1.85%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.39%) Law
9 3 (1.39%) Marketing
9 3 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.93%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.46%) Advertising
11 1 (0.46%) Local Government
11 1 (0.46%) Military
11 1 (0.46%) Retail
11 1 (0.46%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (18.06%) Senior
2 37 (17.13%) Architect
3 35 (16.20%) Developer
4 20 (9.26%) Lead
5 19 (8.80%) Data Engineer
6 18 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
7 16 (7.41%) Senior Developer
8 11 (5.09%) Java Developer
9 10 (4.63%) Azure Engineer
9 10 (4.63%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (4.17%) Cloud Architect
10 9 (4.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 9 (4.17%) Python Engineer
10 9 (4.17%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 9 (4.17%) Snowflake Engineer
10 9 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (3.70%) Data Architect
11 8 (3.70%) GCP Engineer
11 8 (3.70%) Software Engineer
11 8 (3.70%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (14.81%) Kafka
2 28 (12.96%) Spring
3 26 (12.04%) REST
4 25 (11.57%) Spring Boot
5 23 (10.65%) React
6 13 (6.02%) .NET
7 12 (5.56%) RESTful
8 9 (4.17%) OpenTelemetry
9 8 (3.70%) AngularJS
9 8 (3.70%) Django
9 8 (3.70%) GraphQL
9 8 (3.70%) Node.js
9 8 (3.70%) Playwright
10 7 (3.24%) HTML
10 7 (3.24%) SOAP
10 7 (3.24%) YAML
11 6 (2.78%) Model Context Protocol
11 6 (2.78%) PySpark
11 6 (2.78%) Swagger
12 5 (2.31%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 69 (31.94%) Cloud Native
2 27 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.63%) AI Agents
4 9 (4.17%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.31%) Clustering
5 5 (2.31%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.31%) Equities
6 4 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.85%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.39%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.39%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.39%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.93%) IoT
8 2 (0.93%) NHS
8 2 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.63%) Linux
2 4 (1.85%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.39%) Unix
4 2 (0.93%) Android
4 2 (0.93%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.93%) Windows
5 1 (0.46%) AIX
5 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.46%) VMS
5 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (51.85%) DevOps
2 83 (38.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 63 (29.17%) Containerisation
4 57 (26.39%) AI
5 55 (25.46%) Observability
5 55 (25.46%) Test Automation
6 52 (24.07%) Agile
7 44 (20.37%) Analytics
8 39 (18.06%) Microservices
9 38 (17.59%) Data Engineering
10 35 (16.20%) Software Engineering
11 34 (15.74%) Platform Engineering
12 30 (13.89%) Event-Driven
12 30 (13.89%) Migration
13 29 (13.43%) Machine Learning
14 28 (12.96%) Data Pipeline
15 27 (12.50%) Data Modelling
15 27 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
15 27 (12.50%) Roadmaps
16 24 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 76 (35.19%) Python
2 51 (23.61%) SQL
3 50 (23.15%) Java
4 22 (10.19%) TypeScript
5 19 (8.80%) C#
6 18 (8.33%) JavaScript
7 14 (6.48%) Bash
8 13 (6.02%) PowerShell
9 12 (5.56%) Bicep
10 6 (2.78%) Korn
11 5 (2.31%) Ruby
12 4 (1.85%) Apex Code
13 3 (1.39%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.93%) Go
14 2 (0.93%) PHP
14 2 (0.93%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.93%) Scala
15 1 (0.46%) ActionScript 2.0
15 1 (0.46%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 52 (24.07%) Security Cleared
2 49 (22.69%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.17%) DBS Check
4 8 (3.70%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.78%) Degree
6 5 (2.31%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.39%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.93%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.93%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.46%) CHECK Team Leader
10 1 (0.46%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.46%) PMP
10 1 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.33%) QA
2 11 (5.09%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.70%) GDPR
4 7 (3.24%) SLA
5 4 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.85%) NCSC
6 3 (1.39%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.39%) NIST
7 2 (0.93%) EMIR
7 2 (0.93%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.93%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.93%) MiFID
7 2 (0.93%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.93%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.93%) PSD2
7 2 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.93%) SEPA
8 1 (0.46%) WCAG
System Software
1 63 (29.17%) Docker
2 7 (3.24%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.46%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.46%) Varnish
4 1 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.46%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.46%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 78 (36.11%) Kubernetes
2 57 (26.39%) Terraform
3 20 (9.26%) Prometheus
4 17 (7.87%) Grafana
5 13 (6.02%) Ansible
6 4 (1.85%) Argo
6 4 (1.85%) Istio
6 4 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.93%) Puppet
8 1 (0.46%) CA Wily
8 1 (0.46%) Consul
8 1 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.46%) Karpenter
8 1 (0.46%) Kibana
8 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.46%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.46%) Salt
8 1 (0.46%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.46%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 34 (15.74%) Microsoft
2 22 (10.19%) Databricks
3 17 (7.87%) Google
4 11 (5.09%) Oracle
5 7 (3.24%) Dynatrace
5 7 (3.24%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.31%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.85%) IBM
7 4 (1.85%) Splunk
8 3 (1.39%) Informatica
8 3 (1.39%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.93%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.93%) Confluent
9 2 (0.93%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.93%) Foundry
9 2 (0.93%) SAP
9 2 (0.93%) SimCorp
9 2 (0.93%) Tenable
9 2 (0.93%) Vermilion
9 2 (0.93%) VMware