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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 16 21
Rank change year-on-year +5 +5 +2
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 301 165 176
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 13.65% 9.48% 8.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.15% 10.05% 9.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 114 127
10th Percentile £425 £400 £460
25th Percentile £475 £502 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £610 £650
Median % change year-on-year -9.75% -6.15% +8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £750
90th Percentile £736 £800 £807
Central London median daily rate £550 £610 £650
% change year-on-year -9.84% -6.15% +7.44%
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 1,987 1,642 1,946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.11% 94.37% 91.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,373 1,103 1,211
10th Percentile £368 £325 £363
25th Percentile £455 £420 £466
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% -3.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 20 19
10th Percentile £16.98 £17.02 £15.60
25th Percentile £17.60 £21.54 £21.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £27.83 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.53% -27.73% +40.00%
75th Percentile £36.13 £47.00 £102.25
90th Percentile £59.70 £66.25 £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 3 October 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 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (4.32%) Confluence
3 10 (3.32%) Apache Spark
4 5 (1.66%) Apache
5 4 (1.33%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.66%) CMS
6 2 (0.66%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.33%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.33%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.33%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.33%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.33%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.33%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.00%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.66%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.66%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.33%) Maximo
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
1 139 (46.18%) Azure
2 114 (37.87%) AWS
3 65 (21.59%) GitHub
4 51 (16.94%) Azure DevOps
5 45 (14.95%) GCP
6 43 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
7 38 (12.62%) Serverless
8 37 (12.29%) Power Platform
9 26 (8.64%) Azure Data Factory
10 25 (8.31%) Amazon S3
11 23 (7.64%) AWS Lambda
12 17 (5.65%) Snowflake
13 15 (4.98%) Azure AKS
14 13 (4.32%) Amazon EKS
14 13 (4.32%) Azure Databricks
14 13 (4.32%) dbt
15 12 (3.99%) Amazon Bedrock
15 12 (3.99%) Azure Monitor
15 12 (3.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 11 (3.65%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.65%) Firewall
2 6 (1.99%) DNS
2 6 (1.99%) Network Security
3 5 (1.66%) VPN
4 4 (1.33%) Internet
5 3 (1.00%) 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 (8.97%) Power BI
2 20 (6.64%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (5.65%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (5.32%) SQL Server
5 14 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
5 14 (4.65%) Data Lake
6 13 (4.32%) Metadata
7 12 (3.99%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (3.99%) NoSQL
8 11 (3.65%) Relational Database
9 9 (2.99%) MongoDB
10 8 (2.66%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (2.66%) Delta Lake
11 7 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (2.33%) Star Schema
12 5 (1.66%) Data Mining
12 5 (1.66%) DynamoDB
12 5 (1.66%) Semantic Layer
13 4 (1.33%) Amazon QuickSight
13 4 (1.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 48 (15.95%) Git
2 40 (13.29%) Jenkins
3 35 (11.63%) GitLab
4 27 (8.97%) JIRA
5 12 (3.99%) JUnit
6 11 (3.65%) Postman
7 10 (3.32%) Selenium
8 9 (2.99%) Cucumber
8 9 (2.99%) JMeter
9 8 (2.66%) Bitbucket
9 8 (2.66%) Gradle
9 8 (2.66%) Mockito
10 7 (2.33%) Maven
11 5 (1.66%) Visual Studio
12 4 (1.33%) Appium
12 4 (1.33%) Cypress.io
12 4 (1.33%) Gatling
12 4 (1.33%) SonarQube
13 3 (1.00%) REST Assured
13 3 (1.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 111 (36.88%) Finance
2 86 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 59 (19.60%) Banking
4 37 (12.29%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (6.98%) Public Sector
6 18 (5.98%) Front Office
7 10 (3.32%) Investment Banking
8 9 (2.99%) Back Office
8 9 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.66%) Marketing
10 5 (1.66%) Retail
11 4 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.33%) Military
11 4 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.00%) Law
12 3 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.66%) Legal
13 2 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 62 (20.60%) Developer
2 58 (19.27%) Senior
3 49 (16.28%) Architect
4 37 (12.29%) Data Engineer
5 20 (6.64%) Lead
6 19 (6.31%) Senior Developer
7 18 (5.98%) DevOps Engineer
8 14 (4.65%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 14 (4.65%) Cloud Engineer
8 14 (4.65%) Data Architect
8 14 (4.65%) Java Developer
8 14 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
9 13 (4.32%) Automation Engineer
9 13 (4.32%) Senior Data Engineer
10 11 (3.65%) Azure Engineer
10 11 (3.65%) Software Engineer
11 10 (3.32%) AWS Engineer
11 10 (3.32%) GCP Engineer
12 9 (2.99%) Senior Java Developer
13 7 (2.33%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (27.91%) Terraform
2 44 (14.62%) REST
3 31 (10.30%) Kafka
4 30 (9.97%) Spring
5 29 (9.63%) .NET
6 28 (9.30%) Spring Boot
7 20 (6.64%) React
8 19 (6.31%) PySpark
8 19 (6.31%) RESTful
9 16 (5.32%) SOAP
10 15 (4.98%) HTML
11 14 (4.65%) AngularJS
12 13 (4.32%) JSON
13 12 (3.99%) Middleware
14 10 (3.32%) Playwright
14 10 (3.32%) YAML
15 9 (2.99%) ActiveMQ
16 8 (2.66%) CSS
16 8 (2.66%) RabbitMQ
16 8 (2.66%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 88 (29.24%) Cloud Native
2 28 (9.30%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (8.31%) AI Agents
4 17 (5.65%) Onboarding
5 15 (4.98%) Product Ownership
5 15 (4.98%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (3.99%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.66%) Derivative
10 5 (1.66%) Enterprise Cloud
10 5 (1.66%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.66%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.33%) CMDB
11 4 (1.33%) Equities
12 3 (1.00%) Algorithms
12 3 (1.00%) Data Structures
12 3 (1.00%) Mobile App
12 3 (1.00%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 19 (6.31%) Linux
2 13 (4.32%) Windows
3 11 (3.65%) Unix
4 8 (2.66%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.99%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.66%) Android
7 1 (0.33%) CentOS
7 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (49.83%) DevOps
2 104 (34.55%) Infrastructure as Code
3 94 (31.23%) Agile
4 82 (27.24%) Test Automation
5 68 (22.59%) AI
6 66 (21.93%) Containerisation
7 59 (19.60%) Analytics
8 57 (18.94%) Software Engineering
9 55 (18.27%) Observability
10 54 (17.94%) Microservices
11 52 (17.28%) Data Engineering
12 48 (15.95%) Event-Driven
12 48 (15.95%) Problem-Solving
13 47 (15.61%) Data Modelling
14 44 (14.62%) Stakeholder Management
15 41 (13.62%) Data Pipeline
16 40 (13.29%) Migration
16 40 (13.29%) Platform Engineering
17 39 (12.96%) Continuous Improvement
18 33 (10.96%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 121 (40.20%) Python
2 88 (29.24%) SQL
3 60 (19.93%) Java
4 39 (12.96%) C#
5 31 (10.30%) JavaScript
6 29 (9.63%) PowerShell
7 28 (9.30%) TypeScript
8 15 (4.98%) Bicep
9 13 (4.32%) Bash
10 11 (3.65%) Korn
11 10 (3.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 7 (2.33%) Kotlin
13 6 (1.99%) Scala
14 4 (1.33%) Swift
15 3 (1.00%) Apex Code
15 3 (1.00%) Ruby
15 3 (1.00%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.66%) ActionScript
16 2 (0.66%) Perl
16 2 (0.66%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 80 (26.58%) Security Cleared
2 66 (21.93%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.32%) DV Cleared
4 9 (2.99%) Degree
5 8 (2.66%) DBS Check
6 5 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.33%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.00%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.00%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.00%) PMP
9 2 (0.66%) CISSP
9 2 (0.66%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.33%) CEH
10 1 (0.33%) CISA
10 1 (0.33%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.33%) MOS
10 1 (0.33%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (10.30%) Data Quality
2 28 (9.30%) QA
3 10 (3.32%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.33%) EU AI Act
4 7 (2.33%) GDPR
5 6 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.33%) NCSC
6 4 (1.33%) NIST
7 2 (0.66%) EMIR
7 2 (0.66%) MiFID
7 2 (0.66%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.66%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.66%) SLA
8 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.33%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.33%) PSD2
8 1 (0.33%) SEPA
8 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 55 (18.27%) Docker
2 5 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.33%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.66%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.33%) Firmware
5 1 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 84 (27.91%) Kubernetes
2 22 (7.31%) Grafana
3 19 (6.31%) Prometheus
4 17 (5.65%) Ansible
5 4 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.33%) Argo
6 1 (0.33%) Bosun
6 1 (0.33%) Consul
6 1 (0.33%) HP Fortify
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%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 62 (20.60%) Microsoft
2 46 (15.28%) Databricks
3 24 (7.97%) Google
4 14 (4.65%) Oracle
5 12 (3.99%) Dynatrace
5 12 (3.99%) Splunk
6 8 (2.66%) Salesforce
6 8 (2.66%) VMware
7 7 (2.33%) IBM
7 7 (2.33%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.99%) MuleSoft
8 6 (1.99%) SAP
9 4 (1.33%) AppDynamics
9 4 (1.33%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.00%) Foundry
11 2 (0.66%) Apple
11 2 (0.66%) New Relic
11 2 (0.66%) Palantir
11 2 (0.66%) Software AG
11 2 (0.66%) TIBCO