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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 17 19
Rank change year-on-year +8 +2 0
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 303 161 186
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 13.48% 9.18% 8.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.14% 9.76% 9.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 108 136
10th Percentile £419 £404 £459
25th Percentile £473 £511 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £614 £633
Median % change year-on-year -10.46% -2.89% +5.42%
75th Percentile £641 £688 £738
90th Percentile £738 £800 £785
Central London median daily rate £550 £613 £628
% change year-on-year -10.20% -2.39% +3.72%
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 2,001 1,650 1,936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.05% 94.12% 91.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,381 1,099 1,222
10th Percentile £368 £324 £375
25th Percentile £456 £415 £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 £763 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 21 16
10th Percentile - £17.08 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £21.75 £28.15 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.74% +4.26% +8.00%
75th Percentile £32.57 £56.75 £82.19
90th Percentile £51.54 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £26.13 £28.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.32% -18.57% +34.62%

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 18 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 16 (5.28%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (4.29%) Confluence
3 11 (3.63%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.31%) Apache
5 4 (1.32%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.66%) CMS
6 2 (0.66%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.33%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.33%) Camunda
7 1 (0.33%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.33%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.33%) nginx
7 1 (0.33%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.99%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.99%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.66%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.33%) Magento
4 1 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.33%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.33%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.33%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 144 (47.52%) Azure
2 119 (39.27%) AWS
3 68 (22.44%) GitHub
4 52 (17.16%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (15.51%) GCP
6 45 (14.85%) GitHub Actions
7 39 (12.87%) Serverless
8 38 (12.54%) Power Platform
9 26 (8.58%) Amazon S3
9 26 (8.58%) Azure Data Factory
10 23 (7.59%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (5.94%) Snowflake
12 17 (5.61%) Azure AKS
13 16 (5.28%) Azure Monitor
14 14 (4.62%) Azure Databricks
14 14 (4.62%) dbt
15 13 (4.29%) Amazon EKS
15 13 (4.29%) Amazon Kinesis
16 12 (3.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 12 (3.96%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.96%) Firewall
2 6 (1.98%) DNS
2 6 (1.98%) Network Security
3 5 (1.65%) VPN
4 4 (1.32%) Internet
5 3 (0.99%) FTP
6 2 (0.66%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.66%) Multicast
6 2 (0.66%) SSL
7 1 (0.33%) BGP
7 1 (0.33%) DHCP
7 1 (0.33%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.33%) INAP
7 1 (0.33%) NX-OS
7 1 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.33%) RTP
7 1 (0.33%) TACACS
7 1 (0.33%) tcpdump
7 1 (0.33%) VoIP
7 1 (0.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (8.91%) Power BI
2 22 (7.26%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (5.28%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (5.28%) SQL Server
4 14 (4.62%) Data Lake
4 14 (4.62%) NoSQL
5 13 (4.29%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (4.29%) Metadata
6 12 (3.96%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (3.30%) Relational Database
8 9 (2.97%) Delta Lake
8 9 (2.97%) MongoDB
8 9 (2.97%) Star Schema
9 8 (2.64%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (2.31%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (2.31%) DynamoDB
11 5 (1.65%) Amazon QuickSight
11 5 (1.65%) Data Mining
11 5 (1.65%) Semantic Layer
12 4 (1.32%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 48 (15.84%) Git
2 37 (12.21%) Jenkins
3 34 (11.22%) GitLab
4 25 (8.25%) JIRA
5 12 (3.96%) JUnit
6 9 (2.97%) JMeter
6 9 (2.97%) Postman
6 9 (2.97%) Selenium
7 8 (2.64%) Bitbucket
7 8 (2.64%) Cucumber
7 8 (2.64%) Gradle
7 8 (2.64%) Maven
7 8 (2.64%) Mockito
8 5 (1.65%) Visual Studio
9 4 (1.32%) Appium
9 4 (1.32%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.32%) Gatling
10 3 (0.99%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.99%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.99%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 108 (35.64%) Finance
2 87 (28.71%) Social Skills
3 54 (17.82%) Banking
4 35 (11.55%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (7.92%) Public Sector
6 14 (4.62%) Front Office
7 9 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (2.64%) Investment Banking
9 7 (2.31%) Back Office
10 5 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.65%) Marketing
10 5 (1.65%) Retail
11 4 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.32%) Military
11 4 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.99%) Law
12 3 (0.99%) Legal
12 3 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (20.13%) Senior
2 60 (19.80%) Developer
3 50 (16.50%) Architect
4 39 (12.87%) Data Engineer
5 20 (6.60%) Lead
5 20 (6.60%) Senior Developer
6 18 (5.94%) DevOps Engineer
7 14 (4.62%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 14 (4.62%) Azure Engineer
7 14 (4.62%) Cloud Engineer
7 14 (4.62%) Data Architect
7 14 (4.62%) Java Developer
8 13 (4.29%) Senior Data Engineer
8 13 (4.29%) Solutions Architect
9 11 (3.63%) Software Engineer
10 10 (3.30%) Automation Engineer
10 10 (3.30%) AWS Engineer
10 10 (3.30%) Senior Java Developer
11 9 (2.97%) GCP Engineer
12 7 (2.31%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (27.72%) Terraform
2 46 (15.18%) REST
3 33 (10.89%) Kafka
4 32 (10.56%) Spring
5 30 (9.90%) Spring Boot
6 27 (8.91%) .NET
7 22 (7.26%) React
8 19 (6.27%) PySpark
8 19 (6.27%) RESTful
9 16 (5.28%) SOAP
10 14 (4.62%) HTML
11 12 (3.96%) JSON
12 11 (3.63%) AngularJS
12 11 (3.63%) Middleware
13 10 (3.30%) RabbitMQ
14 9 (2.97%) CSS
14 9 (2.97%) Playwright
14 9 (2.97%) YAML
15 8 (2.64%) ActiveMQ
15 8 (2.64%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 92 (30.36%) Cloud Native
2 33 (10.89%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (8.25%) AI Agents
4 16 (5.28%) Onboarding
5 15 (4.95%) Product Ownership
6 14 (4.62%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (3.63%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.32%) CMDB
10 4 (1.32%) Derivative
10 4 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
10 4 (1.32%) Equities
10 4 (1.32%) Fixed Income
11 3 (0.99%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (0.99%) Mobile App
11 3 (0.99%) Mobile Banking
11 3 (0.99%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.66%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 19 (6.27%) Linux
2 13 (4.29%) Windows
3 11 (3.63%) Unix
4 7 (2.31%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.98%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.32%) Android
7 1 (0.33%) CentOS
7 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (52.15%) DevOps
2 106 (34.98%) Infrastructure as Code
3 89 (29.37%) Agile
4 78 (25.74%) Test Automation
5 73 (24.09%) Containerisation
6 71 (23.43%) AI
7 61 (20.13%) Analytics
8 59 (19.47%) Observability
8 59 (19.47%) Software Engineering
9 58 (19.14%) Microservices
10 55 (18.15%) Data Engineering
11 50 (16.50%) Event-Driven
12 48 (15.84%) Data Modelling
13 47 (15.51%) Problem-Solving
14 45 (14.85%) Data Pipeline
15 41 (13.53%) Platform Engineering
15 41 (13.53%) Stakeholder Management
16 40 (13.20%) Migration
17 35 (11.55%) Continuous Improvement
18 33 (10.89%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 121 (39.93%) Python
2 87 (28.71%) SQL
3 63 (20.79%) Java
4 38 (12.54%) C#
5 30 (9.90%) PowerShell
6 29 (9.57%) JavaScript
7 26 (8.58%) TypeScript
8 16 (5.28%) Bicep
9 15 (4.95%) Bash
10 11 (3.63%) Korn
11 10 (3.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (1.98%) Scala
13 5 (1.65%) Kotlin
14 4 (1.32%) Apex Code
14 4 (1.32%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.99%) Ruby
15 3 (0.99%) Swift
16 2 (0.66%) ActionScript
16 2 (0.66%) Perl
16 2 (0.66%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 79 (26.07%) Security Cleared
2 66 (21.78%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.29%) DV Cleared
4 8 (2.64%) DBS Check
4 8 (2.64%) Degree
5 4 (1.32%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (0.99%) AWS Certification
6 3 (0.99%) PMI Certification
6 3 (0.99%) PMP
7 2 (0.66%) CISSP
7 2 (0.66%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.66%) SnowPro
7 2 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.33%) CEH
8 1 (0.33%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.33%) MOS
8 1 (0.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (10.56%) Data Quality
2 31 (10.23%) QA
3 9 (2.97%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.31%) EU AI Act
5 6 (1.98%) GDPR
5 6 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.65%) NCSC
7 4 (1.32%) NIST
8 3 (0.99%) SLA
9 2 (0.66%) EMIR
9 2 (0.66%) MiFID
9 2 (0.66%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.66%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.33%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.33%) PSD2
10 1 (0.33%) SEPA
10 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 61 (20.13%) Docker
2 6 (1.98%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.66%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.33%) Firmware
5 1 (0.33%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 1 (0.33%) Varnish
5 1 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 90 (29.70%) Kubernetes
2 24 (7.92%) Grafana
3 20 (6.60%) Prometheus
4 16 (5.28%) Ansible
5 4 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.33%) Argo
6 1 (0.33%) Bosun
6 1 (0.33%) Consul
6 1 (0.33%) Istio
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%) Puppet
6 1 (0.33%) Salt
6 1 (0.33%) SCCM
6 1 (0.33%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 61 (20.13%) Microsoft
2 45 (14.85%) Databricks
3 25 (8.25%) Google
4 15 (4.95%) Oracle
5 12 (3.96%) Splunk
6 11 (3.63%) Dynatrace
7 8 (2.64%) Salesforce
8 7 (2.31%) MuleSoft
8 7 (2.31%) SAP
8 7 (2.31%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.31%) VMware
9 6 (1.98%) IBM
10 4 (1.32%) AppDynamics
10 4 (1.32%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.99%) Foundry
12 2 (0.66%) Apple
12 2 (0.66%) New Relic
12 2 (0.66%) Palantir
12 2 (0.66%) Software AG
12 2 (0.66%) webMethods