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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 17 17
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 -1
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 220 185 183
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 9.24% 10.84% 8.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.80% 11.57% 9.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 114 130
10th Percentile £393 £413 £425
25th Percentile £457 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £613
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% -3.27% -2.00%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £734
90th Percentile £741 £796 £818
Central London median daily rate £575 £593 £600
% change year-on-year -2.95% -1.25% -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 2,037 1,599 1,960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.59% 93.73% 90.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,380 1,009 1,368
10th Percentile £359 £356 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -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 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 £26.56 £28.50 £27.81
% change year-on-year -6.82% +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 9 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 (7.73%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (3.64%) Confluence
3 7 (3.18%) Apache
3 7 (3.18%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.36%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.36%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.91%) Camunda
5 2 (0.91%) Ethereum
5 2 (0.91%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.45%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.45%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.45%) nginx
6 1 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.45%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (1.36%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.45%) Maya
Business Applications
1 4 (1.82%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.45%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.45%) Magento
2 1 (0.45%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.45%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.45%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.45%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.45%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 103 (46.82%) AWS
2 89 (40.45%) Azure
3 54 (24.55%) GitHub
4 35 (15.91%) GitHub Actions
5 34 (15.45%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (15.45%) GCP
6 32 (14.55%) Serverless
7 27 (12.27%) Power Platform
8 23 (10.45%) Amazon S3
9 20 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
10 19 (8.64%) Snowflake
11 14 (6.36%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (6.36%) Azure AKS
12 12 (5.45%) dbt
13 11 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
14 10 (4.55%) Amazon Kinesis
14 10 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (4.09%) Azure Monitor
15 9 (4.09%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.18%) Firewall
2 4 (1.82%) Network Security
3 3 (1.36%) DNS
4 2 (0.91%) FTP
4 2 (0.91%) HTTP
4 2 (0.91%) Multicast
4 2 (0.91%) VPN
5 1 (0.45%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.45%) Internet
5 1 (0.45%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.45%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.64%) NoSQL
1 19 (8.64%) Power BI
2 16 (7.27%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (5.00%) SQL Server
4 10 (4.55%) DynamoDB
5 8 (3.64%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (3.64%) Metadata
5 8 (3.64%) MongoDB
6 7 (3.18%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.73%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (2.73%) Data Lake
7 6 (2.73%) Redis
7 6 (2.73%) Snowflake Schema
8 5 (2.27%) Apache Cassandra
8 5 (2.27%) Data Mining
9 4 (1.82%) Big Data
9 4 (1.82%) BigQuery
9 4 (1.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 42 (19.09%) Git
2 34 (15.45%) Jenkins
3 20 (9.09%) GitLab
3 20 (9.09%) JIRA
4 10 (4.55%) JUnit
4 10 (4.55%) Postman
5 7 (3.18%) Mockito
6 6 (2.73%) Gradle
7 5 (2.27%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.27%) JMeter
8 4 (1.82%) Liquibase
8 4 (1.82%) Selenium
9 3 (1.36%) Gatling
9 3 (1.36%) Maven
9 3 (1.36%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.91%) Ant
10 2 (0.91%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.45%) Appium
11 1 (0.45%) MonkeyTalk
11 1 (0.45%) Zephyr
General
1 80 (36.36%) Finance
2 55 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 32 (14.55%) Banking
4 19 (8.64%) Public Sector
5 16 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.18%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.27%) Legal
8 4 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.82%) Front Office
9 3 (1.36%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.36%) Law
9 3 (1.36%) Marketing
9 3 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.91%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.45%) Advertising
11 1 (0.45%) Local Government
11 1 (0.45%) Military
11 1 (0.45%) Police
11 1 (0.45%) Retail
11 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (17.73%) Senior
2 38 (17.27%) Architect
3 35 (15.91%) Developer
4 19 (8.64%) Data Engineer
5 18 (8.18%) DevOps Engineer
5 18 (8.18%) Lead
6 16 (7.27%) Senior Developer
7 12 (5.45%) Java Developer
8 10 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
8 10 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
9 9 (4.09%) Cloud Architect
9 9 (4.09%) Cloud Engineer
9 9 (4.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 9 (4.09%) Python Engineer
9 9 (4.09%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 9 (4.09%) Snowflake Engineer
9 9 (4.09%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (3.64%) Data Architect
10 8 (3.64%) Security Engineer
10 8 (3.64%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (15.00%) Kafka
2 29 (13.18%) Spring
3 27 (12.27%) REST
4 26 (11.82%) Spring Boot
5 22 (10.00%) React
6 13 (5.91%) .NET
7 11 (5.00%) RESTful
8 9 (4.09%) OpenTelemetry
9 8 (3.64%) AngularJS
9 8 (3.64%) GraphQL
9 8 (3.64%) Node.js
9 8 (3.64%) Playwright
9 8 (3.64%) SOAP
10 7 (3.18%) Django
10 7 (3.18%) HTML
10 7 (3.18%) YAML
11 6 (2.73%) JSON
11 6 (2.73%) Model Context Protocol
11 6 (2.73%) PySpark
11 6 (2.73%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 69 (31.36%) Cloud Native
2 27 (12.27%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.45%) AI Agents
4 9 (4.09%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.27%) Clustering
5 5 (2.27%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.27%) Equities
5 5 (2.27%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.36%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.36%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.36%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.91%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.91%) IoT
8 2 (0.91%) NHS
8 2 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.55%) Linux
2 5 (2.27%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.82%) Unix
3 4 (1.82%) Windows
4 2 (0.91%) Android
4 2 (0.91%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.91%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.45%) AIX
5 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (50.91%) DevOps
2 84 (38.18%) Infrastructure as Code
3 62 (28.18%) Containerisation
4 59 (26.82%) AI
5 56 (25.45%) Observability
6 54 (24.55%) Test Automation
7 53 (24.09%) Agile
8 45 (20.45%) Analytics
9 40 (18.18%) Microservices
10 38 (17.27%) Data Engineering
11 35 (15.91%) Software Engineering
12 34 (15.45%) Platform Engineering
13 31 (14.09%) Event-Driven
14 30 (13.64%) Migration
15 29 (13.18%) Machine Learning
16 28 (12.73%) Data Pipeline
17 27 (12.27%) Data Modelling
17 27 (12.27%) Performance Tuning
17 27 (12.27%) Roadmaps
18 25 (11.36%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 76 (34.55%) Python
2 52 (23.64%) SQL
3 51 (23.18%) Java
4 22 (10.00%) TypeScript
5 20 (9.09%) C#
6 18 (8.18%) JavaScript
7 14 (6.36%) Bash
7 14 (6.36%) PowerShell
8 12 (5.45%) Bicep
9 6 (2.73%) Korn
10 5 (2.27%) Ruby
11 4 (1.82%) Apex Code
11 4 (1.82%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.91%) Go
12 2 (0.91%) PHP
12 2 (0.91%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.91%) Scala
13 1 (0.45%) ActionScript 2.0
13 1 (0.45%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 53 (24.09%) Security Cleared
2 50 (22.73%) SC Cleared
3 8 (3.64%) DBS Check
3 8 (3.64%) DV Cleared
4 6 (2.73%) Degree
5 5 (2.27%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.36%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.91%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.91%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.45%) CEH
9 1 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.45%) OSCP
9 1 (0.45%) PMP
9 1 (0.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.18%) QA
2 11 (5.00%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.64%) GDPR
4 7 (3.18%) SLA
5 4 (1.82%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.82%) NCSC
6 3 (1.36%) NIST
7 2 (0.91%) EMIR
7 2 (0.91%) EU AI Act
7 2 (0.91%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.91%) ISO 8583
7 2 (0.91%) MiFID
7 2 (0.91%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.91%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.91%) PSD2
7 2 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.91%) SEPA
8 1 (0.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 60 (27.27%) Docker
2 7 (3.18%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.18%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.45%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (0.45%) Varnish
3 1 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.45%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 79 (35.91%) Kubernetes
2 59 (26.82%) Terraform
3 20 (9.09%) Prometheus
4 17 (7.73%) Grafana
5 13 (5.91%) Ansible
6 4 (1.82%) Argo
6 4 (1.82%) Istio
6 4 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.91%) Puppet
8 1 (0.45%) CA Wily
8 1 (0.45%) Consul
8 1 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.45%) Karpenter
8 1 (0.45%) Kibana
8 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.45%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.45%) Salt
8 1 (0.45%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.45%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 34 (15.45%) Microsoft
2 22 (10.00%) Databricks
3 18 (8.18%) Google
4 12 (5.45%) Oracle
5 8 (3.64%) Salesforce
6 7 (3.18%) Dynatrace
7 5 (2.27%) IBM
7 5 (2.27%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.82%) Splunk
9 3 (1.36%) Informatica
9 3 (1.36%) MuleSoft
9 3 (1.36%) SAP
9 3 (1.36%) VMware
10 2 (0.91%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.91%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.91%) Foundry
10 2 (0.91%) SimCorp
10 2 (0.91%) Sybase
10 2 (0.91%) Tenable
10 2 (0.91%) Vermilion