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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 16 17
Rank change year-on-year -2 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 230 182 189
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 9.59% 10.66% 8.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.19% 11.37% 9.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 113 135
10th Percentile £401 £413 £425
25th Percentile £456 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £638 £700 £738
90th Percentile £737 £798 £822
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 2,055 1,601 1,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.70% 93.74% 90.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,384 1,015 1,375
10th Percentile £363 £355 £353
25th Percentile £450 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £552 £565
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% -2.30% -5.83%
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 27 15 13
10th Percentile £17.45 £18.70 £19.98
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.21 £20.22
Median hourly rate £25.77 £28.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% +8.57% -25.00%
75th Percentile £47.58 £46.25 £40.00
90th Percentile £61.83 £78.75 £48.57
Central London median hourly rate £27.25 £28.50 £27.81
% change year-on-year -4.39% +2.48% -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 12 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 (7.39%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (3.48%) Confluence
3 7 (3.04%) Apache
3 7 (3.04%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.30%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.30%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.87%) Camunda
5 2 (0.87%) Ethereum
5 2 (0.87%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.43%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.43%) nginx
6 1 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.43%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (1.30%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.43%) Maya
Business Applications
1 3 (1.30%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.43%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.43%) Magento
2 1 (0.43%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.43%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.43%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.43%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 104 (45.22%) AWS
2 92 (40.00%) Azure
3 54 (23.48%) GitHub
4 35 (15.22%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (15.22%) GitHub Actions
5 33 (14.35%) GCP
5 33 (14.35%) Serverless
6 30 (13.04%) Power Platform
7 24 (10.43%) Amazon S3
8 21 (9.13%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (8.26%) Snowflake
10 15 (6.52%) Azure AKS
11 14 (6.09%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (5.22%) dbt
13 10 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (4.35%) Amazon Kinesis
13 10 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
14 9 (3.91%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (3.91%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.04%) Firewall
2 4 (1.74%) Network Security
3 3 (1.30%) FTP
4 2 (0.87%) DNS
4 2 (0.87%) HTTP
4 2 (0.87%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.87%) Multicast
4 2 (0.87%) VPN
5 1 (0.43%) Internet
5 1 (0.43%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.43%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.70%) Power BI
2 19 (8.26%) NoSQL
3 17 (7.39%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (5.65%) SQL Server
5 12 (5.22%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (4.78%) DynamoDB
7 9 (3.91%) Relational Database
8 8 (3.48%) Amazon Athena
8 8 (3.48%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (3.48%) Metadata
8 8 (3.48%) MongoDB
9 6 (2.61%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (2.61%) Data Lake
9 6 (2.61%) Redis
9 6 (2.61%) Snowflake Schema
10 5 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
10 5 (2.17%) Data Mining
11 4 (1.74%) Big Data
11 4 (1.74%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.74%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 46 (20.00%) Git
2 33 (14.35%) Jenkins
3 20 (8.70%) GitLab
3 20 (8.70%) JIRA
4 10 (4.35%) JUnit
4 10 (4.35%) Postman
5 7 (3.04%) Mockito
6 6 (2.61%) Cucumber
6 6 (2.61%) Gradle
7 5 (2.17%) JMeter
8 4 (1.74%) Liquibase
8 4 (1.74%) REST Assured
8 4 (1.74%) Selenium
9 3 (1.30%) Gatling
9 3 (1.30%) Maven
10 2 (0.87%) Ant
10 2 (0.87%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.87%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.87%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.87%) XCUITest
General
1 84 (36.52%) Finance
2 60 (26.09%) Social Skills
3 36 (15.65%) Banking
4 20 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 15 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.04%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.17%) Legal
8 4 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.74%) Front Office
9 3 (1.30%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.30%) Law
9 3 (1.30%) Marketing
9 3 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.87%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.87%) Military
11 1 (0.43%) Advertising
11 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.43%) Police
11 1 (0.43%) Retail
11 1 (0.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 42 (18.26%) Senior
2 37 (16.09%) Architect
2 37 (16.09%) Developer
3 22 (9.57%) Data Engineer
4 20 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
4 20 (8.70%) Lead
5 16 (6.96%) Senior Developer
6 12 (5.22%) Java Developer
7 10 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
7 10 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
7 10 (4.35%) Software Engineer
8 9 (3.91%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (3.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 9 (3.91%) Python Engineer
8 9 (3.91%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 9 (3.91%) Snowflake Engineer
8 9 (3.91%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (3.48%) Data Architect
9 8 (3.48%) Security Engineer
9 8 (3.48%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (14.35%) Kafka
2 29 (12.61%) REST
2 29 (12.61%) Spring
3 26 (11.30%) Spring Boot
4 23 (10.00%) React
5 15 (6.52%) .NET
6 12 (5.22%) RESTful
7 10 (4.35%) OpenTelemetry
8 9 (3.91%) Node.js
8 9 (3.91%) Playwright
8 9 (3.91%) SOAP
9 8 (3.48%) AngularJS
9 8 (3.48%) GraphQL
9 8 (3.48%) JSON
9 8 (3.48%) PySpark
10 7 (3.04%) Django
10 7 (3.04%) HTML
10 7 (3.04%) YAML
11 6 (2.61%) Model Context Protocol
11 6 (2.61%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 71 (30.87%) Cloud Native
2 26 (11.30%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.22%) AI Agents
4 10 (4.35%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.17%) Clustering
5 5 (2.17%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.17%) Equities
5 5 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.17%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.30%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.30%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.30%) NHS
7 3 (1.30%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.87%) IoT
8 2 (0.87%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.35%) Linux
2 6 (2.61%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.74%) Unix
3 4 (1.74%) Windows
4 2 (0.87%) Android
4 2 (0.87%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.87%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.43%) AIX
5 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (51.30%) DevOps
2 84 (36.52%) Infrastructure as Code
3 64 (27.83%) Containerisation
4 61 (26.52%) AI
5 57 (24.78%) Agile
5 57 (24.78%) Test Automation
6 55 (23.91%) Observability
7 47 (20.43%) Analytics
8 43 (18.70%) Microservices
9 40 (17.39%) Data Engineering
9 40 (17.39%) Software Engineering
10 36 (15.65%) Platform Engineering
11 31 (13.48%) Event-Driven
11 31 (13.48%) Migration
12 30 (13.04%) Data Pipeline
13 29 (12.61%) Data Modelling
13 29 (12.61%) Machine Learning
14 28 (12.17%) Performance Tuning
15 27 (11.74%) Roadmaps
15 27 (11.74%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 81 (35.22%) Python
2 55 (23.91%) SQL
3 51 (22.17%) Java
4 24 (10.43%) TypeScript
5 22 (9.57%) C#
6 18 (7.83%) JavaScript
7 14 (6.09%) Bash
7 14 (6.09%) PowerShell
8 12 (5.22%) Bicep
9 5 (2.17%) Korn
9 5 (2.17%) Ruby
10 4 (1.74%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.30%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.87%) ActionScript
12 2 (0.87%) ActionScript 2.0
12 2 (0.87%) Go
12 2 (0.87%) PHP
12 2 (0.87%) Scala
12 2 (0.87%) Swift
Qualifications
1 58 (25.22%) Security Cleared
2 54 (23.48%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.48%) DBS Check
3 8 (3.48%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.61%) Degree
5 5 (2.17%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.30%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.87%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.87%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.43%) CHECK Team Leader
9 1 (0.43%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.43%) PMP
9 1 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.26%) QA
2 12 (5.22%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.48%) GDPR
4 7 (3.04%) SLA
5 4 (1.74%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.74%) NCSC
6 3 (1.30%) NIST
7 2 (0.87%) EMIR
7 2 (0.87%) EU AI Act
7 2 (0.87%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.87%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.87%) MiFID
7 2 (0.87%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.87%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.87%) PSD2
7 2 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.87%) SEPA
8 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 62 (26.96%) Docker
2 7 (3.04%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.04%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.43%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (0.43%) Varnish
3 1 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 81 (35.22%) Kubernetes
2 60 (26.09%) Terraform
3 19 (8.26%) Prometheus
4 18 (7.83%) Grafana
5 13 (5.65%) Ansible
6 5 (2.17%) Argo
7 4 (1.74%) Istio
7 4 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.87%) Puppet
9 1 (0.43%) CA Wily
9 1 (0.43%) Consul
9 1 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.43%) Karpenter
9 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.43%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.43%) Salt
9 1 (0.43%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.43%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 34 (14.78%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.00%) Databricks
3 18 (7.83%) Google
4 12 (5.22%) Oracle
5 8 (3.48%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.61%) Dynatrace
7 5 (2.17%) IBM
7 5 (2.17%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.74%) Splunk
9 3 (1.30%) Informatica
9 3 (1.30%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.30%) SAP
9 3 (1.30%) VMware
10 2 (0.87%) Apple
10 2 (0.87%) Axway
10 2 (0.87%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.87%) SimCorp
10 2 (0.87%) Software AG
10 2 (0.87%) Sybase
10 2 (0.87%) webMethods