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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 17 19
Rank change year-on-year +5 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 288 179 187
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 12.33% 9.77% 9.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.06% 10.36% 9.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 114 134
10th Percentile £425 £402 £441
25th Percentile £475 £520 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £633
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -1.19% +5.42%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £738
90th Percentile £738 £784 £823
Central London median daily rate £550 £616 £625
% change year-on-year -10.71% -1.44% +4.08%
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 2,048 1,728 1,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.67% 94.27% 91.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,405 1,130 1,264
10th Percentile £379 £325 £375
25th Percentile £456 £425 £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 £775 £789
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 23 16
10th Percentile - £17.62 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £24.21 £19.79
Median hourly rate £19.50 £28.15 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -30.73% +5.73% +6.50%
75th Percentile £33.10 £50.25 £82.19
90th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £29.07 £26.78
% change year-on-year -20.33% +8.55% -14.30%

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 21 August 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 (5.90%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (4.17%) Confluence
3 10 (3.47%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.08%) Apache
5 5 (1.74%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.35%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.35%) Camunda
6 1 (0.35%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.35%) nginx
6 1 (0.35%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.35%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (0.69%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.74%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.69%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.35%) Magento
4 1 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.35%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.35%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 129 (44.79%) Azure
2 112 (38.89%) AWS
3 68 (23.61%) GitHub
4 52 (18.06%) Azure DevOps
5 42 (14.58%) GCP
6 41 (14.24%) GitHub Actions
7 36 (12.50%) Power Platform
8 32 (11.11%) Serverless
9 25 (8.68%) Amazon S3
10 21 (7.29%) Azure Data Factory
11 20 (6.94%) AWS Lambda
12 19 (6.60%) Snowflake
13 18 (6.25%) Azure AKS
14 16 (5.56%) dbt
15 12 (4.17%) Amazon Kinesis
15 12 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
15 12 (4.17%) Entra ID
15 12 (4.17%) PaaS
16 11 (3.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (3.82%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.82%) Firewall
2 6 (2.08%) Network Security
3 5 (1.74%) DNS
4 4 (1.39%) Internet
4 4 (1.39%) VPN
5 3 (1.04%) FTP
6 2 (0.69%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.69%) Multicast
6 2 (0.69%) SSL
7 1 (0.35%) BGP
7 1 (0.35%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.35%) NX-OS
7 1 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.35%) TACACS
7 1 (0.35%) VSAN
7 1 (0.35%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.03%) Power BI
2 18 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (5.56%) SQL Server
4 15 (5.21%) NoSQL
5 14 (4.86%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (3.82%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (3.82%) Data Lake
6 11 (3.82%) MongoDB
7 10 (3.47%) Amazon Athena
8 9 (3.13%) DynamoDB
8 9 (3.13%) Metadata
9 8 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (2.43%) Relational Database
10 7 (2.43%) Star Schema
11 6 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (1.74%) Data Mining
12 5 (1.74%) Delta Lake
13 4 (1.39%) Data Mart
13 4 (1.39%) Pinecone
13 4 (1.39%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 46 (15.97%) Git
2 37 (12.85%) Jenkins
3 31 (10.76%) GitLab
4 22 (7.64%) JIRA
5 13 (4.51%) JUnit
6 11 (3.82%) Cucumber
7 10 (3.47%) Postman
8 9 (3.13%) Mockito
8 9 (3.13%) Selenium
9 7 (2.43%) JMeter
10 6 (2.08%) Gradle
11 5 (1.74%) Bitbucket
11 5 (1.74%) Visual Studio
12 4 (1.39%) Appium
12 4 (1.39%) Cypress.io
12 4 (1.39%) Maven
13 3 (1.04%) Gatling
13 3 (1.04%) REST Assured
13 3 (1.04%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 3 (1.04%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 101 (35.07%) Finance
2 78 (27.08%) Social Skills
3 47 (16.32%) Banking
4 28 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.47%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (2.78%) Front Office
8 7 (2.43%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.74%) Marketing
9 5 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.74%) Retail
10 4 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.39%) Military
11 3 (1.04%) Back Office
11 3 (1.04%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.04%) Law
11 3 (1.04%) Legal
12 2 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (18.75%) Senior
2 52 (18.06%) Developer
3 43 (14.93%) Architect
4 33 (11.46%) Data Engineer
5 21 (7.29%) Lead
6 18 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (6.25%) Senior Developer
7 14 (4.86%) Azure Engineer
8 13 (4.51%) Data Architect
8 13 (4.51%) Software Engineer
9 12 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
10 11 (3.82%) Java Developer
11 10 (3.47%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 10 (3.47%) Automation Engineer
11 10 (3.47%) Solutions Architect
12 9 (3.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 9 (3.13%) Python Engineer
12 9 (3.13%) Senior Data Engineer
13 8 (2.78%) Azure Architect
13 8 (2.78%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (26.04%) Terraform
2 40 (13.89%) REST
3 35 (12.15%) Kafka
4 28 (9.72%) Spring
5 26 (9.03%) Spring Boot
6 24 (8.33%) React
7 23 (7.99%) .NET
8 16 (5.56%) PySpark
8 16 (5.56%) RESTful
9 15 (5.21%) SOAP
10 13 (4.51%) HTML
10 13 (4.51%) Playwright
11 12 (4.17%) AngularJS
12 11 (3.82%) JSON
12 11 (3.82%) YAML
13 9 (3.13%) GraphQL
13 9 (3.13%) Middleware
14 8 (2.78%) Node.js
14 8 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
15 7 (2.43%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 80 (27.78%) Cloud Native
2 31 (10.76%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (7.29%) AI Agents
4 11 (3.82%) Onboarding
5 9 (3.13%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.39%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.39%) Equities
9 4 (1.39%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.39%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.39%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.04%) Clustering
10 3 (1.04%) Derivative
10 3 (1.04%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.04%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.86%) Linux
2 9 (3.13%) Apple iOS
2 9 (3.13%) Unix
2 9 (3.13%) Windows
3 4 (1.39%) Android
3 4 (1.39%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.04%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.35%) AIX
5 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (54.86%) DevOps
2 95 (32.99%) Infrastructure as Code
3 85 (29.51%) Agile
4 78 (27.08%) Test Automation
5 71 (24.65%) Containerisation
6 66 (22.92%) AI
7 56 (19.44%) Analytics
8 55 (19.10%) Microservices
8 55 (19.10%) Observability
8 55 (19.10%) Software Engineering
9 49 (17.01%) Data Engineering
10 43 (14.93%) Event-Driven
11 42 (14.58%) Data Modelling
11 42 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
12 41 (14.24%) Migration
12 41 (14.24%) Platform Engineering
13 39 (13.54%) Stakeholder Management
14 36 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
15 32 (11.11%) Machine Learning
16 30 (10.42%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 108 (37.50%) Python
2 78 (27.08%) SQL
3 61 (21.18%) Java
4 37 (12.85%) C#
5 30 (10.42%) TypeScript
6 28 (9.72%) JavaScript
7 27 (9.38%) PowerShell
8 16 (5.56%) Bicep
9 14 (4.86%) Bash
10 7 (2.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (2.43%) Korn
11 5 (1.74%) Apex Code
11 5 (1.74%) Ruby
11 5 (1.74%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.39%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.39%) Scala
13 3 (1.04%) Swift
14 2 (0.69%) ActionScript 2.0
14 2 (0.69%) R
14 2 (0.69%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 79 (27.43%) Security Cleared
2 68 (23.61%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.51%) DV Cleared
4 8 (2.78%) DBS Check
4 8 (2.78%) Degree
5 6 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.74%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.04%) SnowPro
8 2 (0.69%) CISSP
8 2 (0.69%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.35%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.35%) CEH
9 1 (0.35%) CHECK Team Leader
9 1 (0.35%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.35%) OSCP
9 1 (0.35%) PMP
9 1 (0.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.07%) QA
2 21 (7.29%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.13%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.43%) EU AI Act
4 7 (2.43%) GDPR
4 7 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.08%) SLA
6 5 (1.74%) NCSC
7 4 (1.39%) NIST
8 2 (0.69%) EMIR
8 2 (0.69%) MiFID
8 2 (0.69%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.69%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 63 (21.88%) Docker
2 9 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.69%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.35%) Firmware
6 1 (0.35%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.35%) Varnish
6 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 90 (31.25%) Kubernetes
2 19 (6.60%) Grafana
2 19 (6.60%) Prometheus
3 12 (4.17%) Ansible
4 4 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.69%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (0.69%) Puppet
6 1 (0.35%) Argo
6 1 (0.35%) Bosun
6 1 (0.35%) CA Wily
6 1 (0.35%) Consul
6 1 (0.35%) Istio
6 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.35%) Packer
6 1 (0.35%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.35%) Salt
6 1 (0.35%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 59 (20.49%) Microsoft
2 35 (12.15%) Databricks
3 24 (8.33%) Google
4 16 (5.56%) Oracle
5 8 (2.78%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.78%) Splunk
6 7 (2.43%) Dynatrace
6 7 (2.43%) VMware
7 6 (2.08%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.74%) IBM
8 5 (1.74%) SAP
9 4 (1.39%) AppDynamics
9 4 (1.39%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.04%) Apple
10 3 (1.04%) Informatica
10 3 (1.04%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.69%) Axway
11 2 (0.69%) Fortinet
11 2 (0.69%) Software AG
11 2 (0.69%) webMethods