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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 17 19
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -3
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 273 190 183
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.36% 10.12% 8.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.02% 10.76% 9.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 121 130
10th Percentile £419 £406 £425
25th Percentile £469 £519 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £620
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +0.81% -0.80%
75th Percentile £643 £696 £747
90th Percentile £725 £800 £826
Central London median daily rate £550 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% -4.00%
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 2,096 1,765 1,877
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.22% 94.03% 91.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,416 1,153 1,278
10th Percentile £368 £331 £373
25th Percentile £455 £425 £463
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 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 22 16
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.57 £17.25
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.43
Median hourly rate £19.50 £29.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.45% +10.19% -13.60%
75th Percentile £41.25 £54.75 £82.19
90th Percentile £60.78 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £31.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -25.29% +14.81% -22.86%

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 1 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 14 (5.13%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (4.76%) Confluence
3 8 (2.93%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.56%) Apache
5 5 (1.83%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.10%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.37%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.37%) Camunda
7 1 (0.37%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.37%) nginx
7 1 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.37%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (0.73%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.37%) Maya
Business Applications
1 5 (1.83%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.73%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.37%) Magento
4 1 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.37%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.37%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.37%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 112 (41.03%) Azure
2 106 (38.83%) AWS
3 62 (22.71%) GitHub
4 46 (16.85%) Azure DevOps
5 40 (14.65%) GCP
6 37 (13.55%) GitHub Actions
7 35 (12.82%) Power Platform
8 31 (11.36%) Serverless
9 24 (8.79%) Amazon S3
10 19 (6.96%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (6.59%) Azure Data Factory
12 17 (6.23%) Snowflake
13 15 (5.49%) Azure AKS
14 12 (4.40%) Amazon Kinesis
14 12 (4.40%) dbt
14 12 (4.40%) Entra ID
15 11 (4.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 11 (4.03%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (4.03%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (4.03%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.03%) Firewall
2 7 (2.56%) Network Security
3 5 (1.83%) DNS
4 4 (1.47%) VPN
5 3 (1.10%) FTP
5 3 (1.10%) Internet
6 2 (0.73%) HTTPS
6 2 (0.73%) Multicast
7 1 (0.37%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.37%) SSL
7 1 (0.37%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (9.16%) Power BI
2 18 (6.59%) NoSQL
3 16 (5.86%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (5.49%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (4.76%) SQL Server
6 11 (4.03%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (4.03%) DynamoDB
7 10 (3.66%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (3.66%) MongoDB
8 9 (3.30%) Data Lake
9 7 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (2.56%) Metadata
9 7 (2.56%) Relational Database
10 6 (2.20%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (2.20%) Star Schema
11 5 (1.83%) Big Data
11 5 (1.83%) Data Mining
11 5 (1.83%) Delta Lake
11 5 (1.83%) Snowflake Schema
12 4 (1.47%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 46 (16.85%) Git
2 38 (13.92%) Jenkins
3 28 (10.26%) GitLab
4 23 (8.42%) JIRA
5 14 (5.13%) JUnit
6 9 (3.30%) Cucumber
6 9 (3.30%) Mockito
6 9 (3.30%) Postman
7 7 (2.56%) Selenium
8 6 (2.20%) Gradle
8 6 (2.20%) JMeter
9 4 (1.47%) Liquibase
9 4 (1.47%) Maven
9 4 (1.47%) REST Assured
10 3 (1.10%) Appium
10 3 (1.10%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.10%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.10%) Gatling
10 3 (1.10%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.73%) TeamCity
General
1 95 (34.80%) Finance
2 75 (27.47%) Social Skills
3 42 (15.38%) Banking
4 24 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (8.42%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.66%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (2.56%) Front Office
8 6 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.83%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.47%) Marketing
10 4 (1.47%) Military
10 4 (1.47%) Retail
11 3 (1.10%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.10%) Law
11 3 (1.10%) Legal
12 2 (0.73%) Back Office
12 2 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.73%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.37%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 50 (18.32%) Senior
2 45 (16.48%) Developer
3 40 (14.65%) Architect
4 28 (10.26%) Data Engineer
5 22 (8.06%) Lead
6 21 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
7 18 (6.59%) Senior Developer
8 14 (5.13%) Software Engineer
9 13 (4.76%) Java Developer
10 12 (4.40%) Azure Engineer
11 11 (4.03%) Cloud Engineer
11 11 (4.03%) Data Architect
12 10 (3.66%) Python Engineer
13 9 (3.30%) GCP Engineer
13 9 (3.30%) Security Engineer
13 9 (3.30%) Senior Java Developer
13 9 (3.30%) Solutions Architect
13 9 (3.30%) Technical Architect
14 8 (2.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 8 (2.93%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (13.55%) REST
2 35 (12.82%) Kafka
3 31 (11.36%) Spring
4 27 (9.89%) Spring Boot
5 25 (9.16%) React
6 19 (6.96%) .NET
7 14 (5.13%) Playwright
7 14 (5.13%) RESTful
8 13 (4.76%) PySpark
8 13 (4.76%) SOAP
9 11 (4.03%) AngularJS
9 11 (4.03%) HTML
9 11 (4.03%) Node.js
10 9 (3.30%) GraphQL
11 8 (2.93%) JSON
11 8 (2.93%) OpenTelemetry
12 7 (2.56%) CSS
12 7 (2.56%) Middleware
12 7 (2.56%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (2.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 79 (28.94%) Cloud Native
2 34 (12.45%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (6.59%) AI Agents
4 9 (3.30%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.30%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.47%) Clustering
8 4 (1.47%) Equities
8 4 (1.47%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.47%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.47%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.10%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.10%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.10%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.76%) Linux
2 9 (3.30%) Apple iOS
3 8 (2.93%) Unix
4 6 (2.20%) Windows
5 4 (1.47%) Android
5 4 (1.47%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.10%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.37%) AIX
7 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (53.11%) DevOps
2 89 (32.60%) Infrastructure as Code
3 75 (27.47%) Agile
4 71 (26.01%) Test Automation
5 70 (25.64%) Containerisation
6 64 (23.44%) AI
7 56 (20.51%) Observability
8 55 (20.15%) Analytics
9 53 (19.41%) Microservices
10 50 (18.32%) Software Engineering
11 46 (16.85%) Data Engineering
12 44 (16.12%) Event-Driven
13 41 (15.02%) Platform Engineering
14 39 (14.29%) Migration
15 38 (13.92%) Data Modelling
16 37 (13.55%) Stakeholder Management
17 34 (12.45%) Data Pipeline
18 33 (12.09%) Problem-Solving
19 30 (10.99%) Roadmaps
20 29 (10.62%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 90 (32.97%) Python
2 67 (24.54%) SQL
3 59 (21.61%) Java
4 29 (10.62%) C#
5 28 (10.26%) TypeScript
6 24 (8.79%) JavaScript
7 20 (7.33%) PowerShell
8 16 (5.86%) Bash
9 15 (5.49%) Bicep
10 7 (2.56%) Korn
11 6 (2.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (1.83%) Apex Code
12 5 (1.83%) Ruby
12 5 (1.83%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.10%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.10%) Scala
13 3 (1.10%) Swift
14 2 (0.73%) ActionScript 2.0
14 2 (0.73%) Go
14 2 (0.73%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 75 (27.47%) Security Cleared
2 67 (24.54%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.76%) DV Cleared
4 8 (2.93%) DBS Check
4 8 (2.93%) Degree
5 6 (2.20%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.10%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.73%) CISSP
8 2 (0.73%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.73%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.37%) CHECK Team Leader
9 1 (0.37%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.37%) PMP
9 1 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (9.89%) QA
2 15 (5.49%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.93%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.56%) EU AI Act
4 7 (2.56%) GDPR
4 7 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.56%) SLA
5 5 (1.83%) NCSC
5 5 (1.83%) NIST
6 2 (0.73%) EMIR
6 2 (0.73%) MiFID
6 2 (0.73%) NIST 800
6 2 (0.73%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 63 (23.08%) Docker
2 9 (3.30%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.20%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.37%) Firmware
5 1 (0.37%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 1 (0.37%) Varnish
5 1 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 88 (32.23%) Kubernetes
2 69 (25.27%) Terraform
3 19 (6.96%) Grafana
3 19 (6.96%) Prometheus
4 13 (4.76%) Ansible
5 4 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.73%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.73%) Puppet
7 1 (0.37%) Argo
7 1 (0.37%) Bosun
7 1 (0.37%) CA Wily
7 1 (0.37%) Consul
7 1 (0.37%) Istio
7 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.37%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.37%) Salt
7 1 (0.37%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.37%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 54 (19.78%) Microsoft
2 29 (10.62%) Databricks
3 24 (8.79%) Google
4 15 (5.49%) Oracle
5 9 (3.30%) Salesforce
6 8 (2.93%) Dynatrace
7 7 (2.56%) Splunk
8 6 (2.20%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.83%) IBM
9 5 (1.83%) SAP
10 4 (1.47%) AppDynamics
10 4 (1.47%) VMware
11 3 (1.10%) Apple
11 3 (1.10%) Informatica
11 3 (1.10%) OpenAI
11 3 (1.10%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.73%) Software AG
12 2 (0.73%) Sybase
12 2 (0.73%) webMethods
12 2 (0.73%) Workday