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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 16 19
Rank change year-on-year +2 +3 -1
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 273 194 182
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.39% 10.27% 8.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.06% 10.92% 9.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 123 131
10th Percentile £419 £408 £425
25th Percentile £469 £519 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - -
75th Percentile £648 £696 £744
90th Percentile £727 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £625 £614
% change year-on-year -12.00% +1.83% -1.80%
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 2,090 1,776 1,877
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.19% 94.02% 91.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,414 1,161 1,281
10th Percentile £368 £331 £375
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 £792
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 3 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
1 111 (40.66%) Azure
2 106 (38.83%) AWS
3 63 (23.08%) GitHub
4 46 (16.85%) Azure DevOps
5 39 (14.29%) GCP
6 38 (13.92%) GitHub Actions
7 35 (12.82%) Power Platform
8 32 (11.72%) Serverless
9 25 (9.16%) Amazon S3
10 20 (7.33%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (6.59%) Azure Data Factory
12 17 (6.23%) Snowflake
13 15 (5.49%) Azure AKS
14 13 (4.76%) Amazon Kinesis
15 12 (4.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 12 (4.40%) Amazon EC2
15 12 (4.40%) dbt
15 12 (4.40%) Entra ID
16 11 (4.03%) Amazon Bedrock
16 11 (4.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
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 17 (6.23%) NoSQL
3 15 (5.49%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (5.49%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (4.76%) SQL Server
5 12 (4.40%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (4.03%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (3.66%) DynamoDB
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 29 (10.62%) 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%) Bitbucket
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%) 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%) Back Office
11 3 (1.10%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.10%) Law
11 3 (1.10%) Legal
12 2 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.73%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.37%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 51 (18.68%) Senior
2 44 (16.12%) Developer
3 40 (14.65%) Architect
4 29 (10.62%) 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 12 (4.40%) Azure Engineer
9 12 (4.40%) Java Developer
10 11 (4.03%) Cloud Engineer
10 11 (4.03%) Data Architect
11 10 (3.66%) Python Engineer
12 9 (3.30%) GCP Engineer
12 9 (3.30%) Security Engineer
12 9 (3.30%) Senior Java Developer
12 9 (3.30%) Solutions Architect
12 9 (3.30%) Technical Architect
13 8 (2.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 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 24 (8.79%) 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
10 10 (3.66%) Node.js
11 9 (3.30%) GraphQL
12 8 (2.93%) JSON
12 8 (2.93%) OpenTelemetry
12 8 (2.93%) RabbitMQ
13 7 (2.56%) CSS
13 7 (2.56%) Middleware
13 7 (2.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 80 (29.30%) 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 90 (32.97%) Infrastructure as Code
3 74 (27.11%) Agile
4 70 (25.64%) Containerisation
4 70 (25.64%) Test Automation
5 64 (23.44%) AI
6 56 (20.51%) Observability
7 55 (20.15%) Analytics
8 52 (19.05%) Microservices
9 50 (18.32%) Software Engineering
10 47 (17.22%) Data Engineering
11 45 (16.48%) Event-Driven
12 42 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
13 39 (14.29%) Data Modelling
13 39 (14.29%) Migration
14 37 (13.55%) Stakeholder Management
15 35 (12.82%) Data Pipeline
16 33 (12.09%) Problem-Solving
17 30 (10.99%) Roadmaps
18 29 (10.62%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 90 (32.97%) Python
2 68 (24.91%) SQL
3 58 (21.25%) Java
4 29 (10.62%) C#
5 27 (9.89%) 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
5 7 (2.56%) Degree
6 6 (2.20%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.10%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.73%) CISSP
9 2 (0.73%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.73%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.37%) CHECK Team Leader
10 1 (0.37%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.37%) PMP
10 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 70 (25.64%) 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