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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 16 19
Rank change year-on-year +6 +3 0
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 302 162 181
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 13.55% 9.38% 8.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.24% 9.97% 9.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 109 131
10th Percentile £425 £411 £463
25th Percentile £475 £513 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £613 £638
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% -3.92% +6.25%
75th Percentile £643 £688 £738
90th Percentile £738 £800 £783
Central London median daily rate £550 £613 £633
% change year-on-year -10.20% -3.16% +5.33%
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 1,981 1,625 1,921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.91% 94.09% 91.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,365 1,080 1,214
10th Percentile £366 £321 £370
25th Percentile £456 £419 £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 £766 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 21 18
10th Percentile £16.98 £17.08 £15.40
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.75 £20.88
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.15 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% -14.05% +19.09%
75th Percentile £32.05 £56.75 £107.13
90th Percentile £50.59 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £28.33 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.74% -19.07% +30.84%

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 22 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 15 (4.97%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (4.30%) Confluence
3 11 (3.64%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.32%) 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
1 142 (47.02%) Azure
2 117 (38.74%) AWS
3 69 (22.85%) GitHub
4 52 (17.22%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (15.56%) GCP
6 46 (15.23%) GitHub Actions
7 39 (12.91%) Serverless
8 36 (11.92%) Power Platform
9 25 (8.28%) Amazon S3
9 25 (8.28%) Azure Data Factory
10 23 (7.62%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (5.96%) Snowflake
12 17 (5.63%) Azure AKS
13 15 (4.97%) Azure Monitor
14 14 (4.64%) Azure Databricks
15 13 (4.30%) Amazon EKS
15 13 (4.30%) dbt
16 12 (3.97%) Amazon Bedrock
16 12 (3.97%) SaaS
17 11 (3.64%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.97%) Firewall
2 6 (1.99%) DNS
2 6 (1.99%) Network Security
3 5 (1.66%) 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%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.33%) Intelligent Network
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%) VSAN
7 1 (0.33%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (8.61%) Power BI
2 20 (6.62%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (4.97%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (4.97%) SQL Server
4 14 (4.64%) Data Lake
5 13 (4.30%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (4.30%) Metadata
5 13 (4.30%) NoSQL
6 12 (3.97%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (3.31%) Relational Database
8 9 (2.98%) Delta Lake
8 9 (2.98%) MongoDB
9 7 (2.32%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (2.32%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (2.32%) Star Schema
10 6 (1.99%) DynamoDB
11 5 (1.66%) Amazon QuickSight
11 5 (1.66%) Data Mining
11 5 (1.66%) Semantic Layer
12 4 (1.32%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 47 (15.56%) Git
2 38 (12.58%) Jenkins
3 34 (11.26%) GitLab
4 26 (8.61%) JIRA
5 12 (3.97%) JUnit
6 10 (3.31%) Postman
6 10 (3.31%) Selenium
7 9 (2.98%) Cucumber
7 9 (2.98%) JMeter
8 8 (2.65%) Bitbucket
8 8 (2.65%) Mockito
9 7 (2.32%) Gradle
9 7 (2.32%) Maven
10 5 (1.66%) Visual Studio
11 4 (1.32%) Appium
11 4 (1.32%) Cypress.io
11 4 (1.32%) Gatling
12 3 (0.99%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.99%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.99%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 108 (35.76%) Finance
2 86 (28.48%) Social Skills
3 55 (18.21%) Banking
4 36 (11.92%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (7.95%) Public Sector
6 14 (4.64%) Front Office
7 9 (2.98%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (2.65%) Investment Banking
9 7 (2.32%) Back Office
10 5 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.66%) Marketing
10 5 (1.66%) Retail
11 4 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.32%) Military
11 4 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.99%) Law
12 3 (0.99%) Legal
12 3 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (19.87%) Senior
2 59 (19.54%) Developer
3 50 (16.56%) Architect
4 38 (12.58%) Data Engineer
5 20 (6.62%) Lead
6 19 (6.29%) Senior Developer
7 18 (5.96%) DevOps Engineer
8 14 (4.64%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 14 (4.64%) Azure Engineer
8 14 (4.64%) Cloud Engineer
8 14 (4.64%) Data Architect
9 13 (4.30%) Java Developer
9 13 (4.30%) Senior Data Engineer
9 13 (4.30%) Solutions Architect
10 11 (3.64%) Automation Engineer
10 11 (3.64%) Software Engineer
11 10 (3.31%) AWS Engineer
12 9 (2.98%) GCP Engineer
12 9 (2.98%) Senior Java Developer
13 7 (2.32%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (27.81%) Terraform
2 44 (14.57%) REST
3 31 (10.26%) Kafka
3 31 (10.26%) Spring
4 29 (9.60%) Spring Boot
5 27 (8.94%) .NET
6 22 (7.28%) React
7 19 (6.29%) PySpark
8 18 (5.96%) RESTful
9 16 (5.30%) SOAP
10 15 (4.97%) HTML
11 12 (3.97%) JSON
11 12 (3.97%) Middleware
12 11 (3.64%) AngularJS
13 9 (2.98%) CSS
13 9 (2.98%) Playwright
13 9 (2.98%) RabbitMQ
13 9 (2.98%) YAML
14 8 (2.65%) ActiveMQ
14 8 (2.65%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 91 (30.13%) Cloud Native
2 31 (10.26%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (8.28%) AI Agents
4 16 (5.30%) Onboarding
5 15 (4.97%) Product Ownership
5 15 (4.97%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.32%) CMDB
9 4 (1.32%) Derivative
9 4 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.32%) Equities
9 4 (1.32%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.32%) Private Cloud
10 3 (0.99%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (0.99%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.99%) Mobile Banking
11 2 (0.66%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 19 (6.29%) Linux
2 13 (4.30%) Windows
3 11 (3.64%) Unix
4 7 (2.32%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.99%) 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
1 154 (50.99%) DevOps
2 106 (35.10%) Infrastructure as Code
3 91 (30.13%) Agile
4 78 (25.83%) Test Automation
5 72 (23.84%) Containerisation
6 69 (22.85%) AI
7 59 (19.54%) Analytics
7 59 (19.54%) Software Engineering
8 58 (19.21%) Observability
9 56 (18.54%) Microservices
10 53 (17.55%) Data Engineering
11 48 (15.89%) Event-Driven
12 47 (15.56%) Data Modelling
12 47 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
13 44 (14.57%) Data Pipeline
14 42 (13.91%) Stakeholder Management
15 41 (13.58%) Migration
15 41 (13.58%) Platform Engineering
16 36 (11.92%) Continuous Improvement
17 33 (10.93%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 121 (40.07%) Python
2 85 (28.15%) SQL
3 63 (20.86%) Java
4 38 (12.58%) C#
5 30 (9.93%) PowerShell
6 29 (9.60%) JavaScript
7 25 (8.28%) TypeScript
8 16 (5.30%) Bicep
9 15 (4.97%) Bash
10 11 (3.64%) Korn
11 10 (3.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (1.99%) Scala
13 5 (1.66%) 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 2.0
16 2 (0.66%) R
16 2 (0.66%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 80 (26.49%) Security Cleared
2 67 (22.19%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.30%) DV Cleared
4 8 (2.65%) DBS Check
4 8 (2.65%) Degree
5 5 (1.66%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.32%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.99%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.99%) PMP
8 2 (0.66%) CISSP
8 2 (0.66%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.33%) CHECK Team Leader
9 1 (0.33%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (0.33%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (10.26%) Data Quality
2 30 (9.93%) QA
3 9 (2.98%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.32%) EU AI Act
5 6 (1.99%) GDPR
5 6 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.66%) 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 (20.20%) Docker
2 6 (1.99%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.66%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.33%) Firmware
6 1 (0.33%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.33%) Varnish
6 1 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 90 (29.80%) Kubernetes
2 23 (7.62%) Grafana
3 19 (6.29%) Prometheus
4 16 (5.30%) 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 62 (20.53%) Microsoft
2 46 (15.23%) Databricks
3 24 (7.95%) Google
4 15 (4.97%) Oracle
5 12 (3.97%) Splunk
6 11 (3.64%) Dynatrace
7 8 (2.65%) Salesforce
7 8 (2.65%) VMware
8 7 (2.32%) IBM
8 7 (2.32%) MuleSoft
8 7 (2.32%) SAP
8 7 (2.32%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.32%) AppDynamics
9 4 (1.32%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.99%) Foundry
11 2 (0.66%) Axway
11 2 (0.66%) Fortinet
11 2 (0.66%) New Relic
11 2 (0.66%) Palantir
11 2 (0.66%) webMethods