CI/CD Contracts in the City of London

CI/CD
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for CI/CD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CI/CD over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 17 12
Rank change year-on-year -4 -5 +12
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 173 324 495
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 7.86% 8.91% 11.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.68% 9.70% 12.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 193 402
10th Percentile £425 £456 £473
25th Percentile £475 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +13.64%
75th Percentile £711 £738 £738
90th Percentile £784 £800 £813
Central London median daily rate £600 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.75 - -
Median hourly rate £48.50 - -
75th Percentile £50.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £48.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

CI/CD is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,993 3,339 3,884
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.51% 91.81% 91.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,406 2,252 2,942
10th Percentile £359 £356 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 23 41
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.50 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -13.58% +113.30%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £62.50
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing CI/CD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in the City of London

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in the City of London

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 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in the City of London

CI/CD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for CI/CD in the City of London

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CI/CD within the City of London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge +3 2 £500 -23.04%
CI/CD
Central London

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (4.05%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.47%) BizTalk Server
2 6 (3.47%) Confluence
3 3 (1.73%) Apache
3 3 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.16%) CMS
4 2 (1.16%) nginx
4 2 (1.16%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.16%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.58%) IIS
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.58%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.58%) Tornado
Applications
1 4 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) BusinessWorks
1 1 (0.58%) Endur
1 1 (0.58%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.58%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 65 (37.57%) Azure
2 44 (25.43%) AWS
3 26 (15.03%) Azure DevOps
3 26 (15.03%) GitHub
4 23 (13.29%) Serverless
5 13 (7.51%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (7.51%) Azure Functions
5 13 (7.51%) Entra ID
5 13 (7.51%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (5.78%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (5.78%) Amazon S3
6 10 (5.78%) Azure Key Vault
6 10 (5.78%) Azure Service Bus
6 10 (5.78%) GCP
6 10 (5.78%) Power Platform
7 8 (4.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 8 (4.62%) PowerApps
8 7 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (3.47%) Power Automate
9 6 (3.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.05%) Firewall
2 4 (2.31%) DNS
3 2 (1.16%) VPN
4 1 (0.58%) DHCP
4 1 (0.58%) HTTP
4 1 (0.58%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.58%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.58%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.58%) VLAN
4 1 (0.58%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (12.14%) MongoDB
2 20 (11.56%) SQL Server
3 10 (5.78%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (5.20%) NoSQL
5 8 (4.62%) Power BI
6 7 (4.05%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (4.05%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.89%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (2.89%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (2.31%) Data Lake
8 4 (2.31%) Metadata
8 4 (2.31%) MySQL
8 4 (2.31%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.73%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (1.73%) Redis
9 3 (1.73%) Sybase ASE
10 2 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.16%) Big Data
10 2 (1.16%) Data Mart
10 2 (1.16%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 32 (18.50%) Jenkins
2 31 (17.92%) Git
3 17 (9.83%) GitLab
4 16 (9.25%) Selenium
5 13 (7.51%) JIRA
5 13 (7.51%) SpecFlow
6 12 (6.94%) Cypress.io
6 12 (6.94%) JUnit
7 11 (6.36%) Postman
8 9 (5.20%) Bitbucket
8 9 (5.20%) TestNG
9 7 (4.05%) Cucumber
9 7 (4.05%) JMeter
10 6 (3.47%) Maven
10 6 (3.47%) REST Assured
10 6 (3.47%) TeamCity
11 5 (2.89%) Appium
11 5 (2.89%) SonarQube
11 5 (2.89%) WebDriver
12 4 (2.31%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 46 (26.59%) Finance
2 45 (26.01%) Social Skills
3 19 (10.98%) Banking
4 16 (9.25%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.20%) Financial Institution
6 5 (2.89%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.31%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.73%) Retail
9 2 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.16%) Public Speaking
10 1 (0.58%) Arabic Language
10 1 (0.58%) Automotive
10 1 (0.58%) French Language
10 1 (0.58%) Front Office
10 1 (0.58%) German Language
10 1 (0.58%) Japanese Language
10 1 (0.58%) Korean Language
10 1 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.58%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 48 (27.75%) Developer
2 25 (14.45%) Senior
3 17 (9.83%) Architect
4 15 (8.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (6.94%) Full Stack Developer
6 11 (6.36%) AWS Engineer
6 11 (6.36%) Lead
7 10 (5.78%) Site Engineer
7 10 (5.78%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 9 (5.20%) Python Engineer
8 9 (5.20%) Senior Developer
9 8 (4.62%) Data Engineer
9 8 (4.62%) Platform Architect
9 8 (4.62%) Power Platform Architect
10 6 (3.47%) Analyst
10 6 (3.47%) Backend Developer
10 6 (3.47%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (3.47%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (3.47%) QA Engineer
11 5 (2.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (14.45%) Kafka
2 20 (11.56%) .NET
3 19 (10.98%) REST
4 18 (10.40%) React
4 18 (10.40%) XML
5 13 (7.51%) .NET Core
5 13 (7.51%) JSON
5 13 (7.51%) RESTful
6 11 (6.36%) HTML
6 11 (6.36%) RabbitMQ
7 10 (5.78%) Node.js
8 9 (5.20%) CSS
9 7 (4.05%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (3.47%) AngularJS
10 6 (3.47%) ARM Templates
10 6 (3.47%) Blazor
10 6 (3.47%) Microsoft Graph
10 6 (3.47%) Spring
11 5 (2.89%) Pandas
11 5 (2.89%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.94%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (6.36%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (5.78%) Algorithms
3 10 (5.78%) Cloud Native
4 9 (5.20%) Data Structures
5 7 (4.05%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.89%) Derivative
7 4 (2.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.73%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.73%) Machine to Machine
8 3 (1.73%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.16%) BYOD
9 2 (1.16%) Contactless
9 2 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.16%) Equities
9 2 (1.16%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.16%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.16%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.16%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.16%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 28 (16.18%) Linux
2 16 (9.25%) Windows
3 6 (3.47%) Unix
4 5 (2.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.89%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.31%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.73%) Android
7 2 (1.16%) CentOS
8 1 (0.58%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (50.29%) DevOps
2 65 (37.57%) Agile
3 40 (23.12%) Test Automation
4 38 (21.97%) Microservices
5 26 (15.03%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (14.45%) Software Engineering
7 22 (12.72%) Infrastructure as Code
7 22 (12.72%) Scrum
8 21 (12.14%) SDLC
9 19 (10.98%) Continuous Integration
10 15 (8.67%) Front End Development
10 15 (8.67%) Migration
11 14 (8.09%) Full Stack Development
11 14 (8.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 12 (6.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 11 (6.36%) Containerisation
13 11 (6.36%) Platform Engineering
13 11 (6.36%) Test Strategy
14 10 (5.78%) API Testing
14 10 (5.78%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 68 (39.31%) Python
2 41 (23.70%) Java
3 39 (22.54%) SQL
4 27 (15.61%) PowerShell
5 25 (14.45%) C#
5 25 (14.45%) JavaScript
6 16 (9.25%) C++
7 14 (8.09%) Shell Script
8 13 (7.51%) Go
9 9 (5.20%) Bash
9 9 (5.20%) T-SQL
10 8 (4.62%) TypeScript
11 6 (3.47%) Bicep
11 6 (3.47%) PL/SQL
12 5 (2.89%) Scala
13 4 (2.31%) Perl
14 3 (1.73%) PHP
14 3 (1.73%) Rust
14 3 (1.73%) Swift
15 1 (0.58%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 14 (8.09%) SC Cleared
1 14 (8.09%) Security Cleared
2 11 (6.36%) Degree
3 6 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (2.89%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.31%) ISTQB
5 4 (2.31%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (1.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.58%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.58%) ISEB
7 1 (0.58%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.40%) QA
2 4 (2.31%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.73%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.73%) WCAG
4 2 (1.16%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.16%) NIST
5 1 (0.58%) GDPR
5 1 (0.58%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.58%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 29 (16.76%) Docker
2 14 (8.09%) Active Directory
3 12 (6.94%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (5.78%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.58%) Ceph
5 1 (0.58%) NFS
Systems Management
1 49 (28.32%) Kubernetes
2 40 (23.12%) Terraform
3 16 (9.25%) Ansible
4 15 (8.67%) Prometheus
5 14 (8.09%) Consul
6 13 (7.51%) Grafana
7 5 (2.89%) Argo
7 5 (2.89%) Puppet
8 4 (2.31%) Kibana
8 4 (2.31%) logstash
8 4 (2.31%) Packer
9 3 (1.73%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.16%) Kustomize
10 2 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.58%) Hadoop YARN
11 1 (0.58%) Mesos
11 1 (0.58%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.58%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 48 (27.75%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.36%) Oracle
3 10 (5.78%) SaltStack
4 7 (4.05%) Red Hat
5 6 (3.47%) MuleSoft
6 5 (2.89%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.73%) IBM
7 3 (1.73%) Splunk
7 3 (1.73%) Sybase
8 2 (1.16%) Amdocs
8 2 (1.16%) BeyondTrust
8 2 (1.16%) CyberArk
8 2 (1.16%) Databricks
8 2 (1.16%) Google
8 2 (1.16%) MKS
8 2 (1.16%) Murex
8 2 (1.16%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.58%) Confluent
9 1 (0.58%) Perfecto Mobile
9 1 (0.58%) Qualtrics