CI/CD Contracts in Central London

CI/CD
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring CI/CD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CI/CD over the 6 months leading up to 4 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 17 18
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -7
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 192 200 327
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 10.19% 8.38% 8.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.90% 9.23% 9.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 142 188
10th Percentile £413 £425 £463
25th Percentile £500 £500 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +4.08%
75th Percentile £700 £723 £730
90th Percentile £788 £800 £820
London median daily rate £547 £565 £615
% change year-on-year -3.14% -8.13% -1.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £48.50 -
London median hourly rate £52.50 £55.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -4.55% -31.25% +1.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,761 2,167 3,404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.47% 90.75% 91.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,136 1,534 2,302
10th Percentile £356 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +6.19%
75th Percentile £679 £675 £725
90th Percentile £775 £799 £813
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 22 28
10th Percentile £19.04 £20.22 £14.25
25th Percentile £22.75 £23.03 £16.33
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -20.54% -15.66%
75th Percentile £43.97 £32.09 £53.19
90th Percentile £50.75 £41.65 £88.30
London median hourly rate £32.00 £28.00 £39.00
% change year-on-year +14.29% -28.21% +9.86%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in Central London

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in Central London

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in Central London over the 6 months to 4 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in Central London

CI/CD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for CI/CD in Central London

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 4 June 2025. 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
City of London 0 182 £600 - 102
City of Westminster +4 6 £638 -1.92% 3
West End of London +2 4 £615 +14.42% 32
Camden - 1 £580 - 2
CI/CD
London

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 10 (5.21%) Apache
1 10 (5.21%) Apache Spark
2 8 (4.17%) Confluence
3 2 (1.04%) nginx
4 1 (0.52%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.04%) Chatbot
1 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.08%) Endur
2 1 (0.52%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 77 (40.10%) AWS
2 73 (38.02%) Azure
3 30 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
3 30 (15.63%) GitHub
4 20 (10.42%) GCP
5 18 (9.38%) Serverless
6 14 (7.29%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (6.77%) Amazon S3
8 11 (5.73%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (5.21%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (5.21%) PaaS
10 9 (4.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
11 8 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (3.65%) Power Platform
13 6 (3.13%) Amazon Cognito
13 6 (3.13%) Amazon SQS
13 6 (3.13%) Azure AKS
13 6 (3.13%) Datadog
14 5 (2.60%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.73%) DNS
1 11 (5.73%) Firewall
2 10 (5.21%) VPN
3 6 (3.13%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.60%) HTTP
5 3 (1.56%) DHCP
5 3 (1.56%) Network Security
5 3 (1.56%) SMTP
5 3 (1.56%) SSL
6 2 (1.04%) FTP
7 1 (0.52%) BGP
7 1 (0.52%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.52%) Internet
7 1 (0.52%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.52%) LAN
7 1 (0.52%) NAS
7 1 (0.52%) SAN
7 1 (0.52%) SSH
7 1 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.77%) SQL Server
2 10 (5.21%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (4.69%) Big Data
4 8 (4.17%) Data Lake
4 8 (4.17%) DynamoDB
5 7 (3.65%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (3.65%) Power BI
6 6 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (3.13%) BigQuery
7 5 (2.60%) Hadoop
7 5 (2.60%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.08%) Redis
9 3 (1.56%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (1.56%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.56%) MySQL
9 3 (1.56%) Parquet
9 3 (1.56%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.04%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.04%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 41 (21.35%) Jenkins
2 40 (20.83%) Git
3 26 (13.54%) GitLab
4 17 (8.85%) JIRA
5 12 (6.25%) Selenium
6 10 (5.21%) Postman
7 9 (4.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 8 (4.17%) REST Assured
8 8 (4.17%) TeamCity
9 7 (3.65%) JUnit
9 7 (3.65%) SonarQube
10 5 (2.60%) Bitbucket Server
10 5 (2.60%) Maven
11 4 (2.08%) Bitbucket
11 4 (2.08%) Gradle
11 4 (2.08%) IntelliJ
12 3 (1.56%) JMeter
12 3 (1.56%) Terragrunt
12 3 (1.56%) webpack
13 2 (1.04%) CircleCI
General
1 48 (25.00%) Finance
2 41 (21.35%) Social Skills
3 25 (13.02%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (9.38%) Banking
5 11 (5.73%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.08%) Front Office
6 4 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.56%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.56%) Marketing
7 3 (1.56%) Retail
8 2 (1.04%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.04%) Military
8 2 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.04%) Publishing
9 1 (0.52%) Advertising
9 1 (0.52%) Back Office
9 1 (0.52%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 53 (27.60%) Developer
2 33 (17.19%) DevOps Engineer
3 26 (13.54%) Senior
4 25 (13.02%) Architect
5 16 (8.33%) Lead
6 15 (7.81%) Java Developer
7 13 (6.77%) Data Engineer
8 10 (5.21%) Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (4.69%) AWS Engineer
9 9 (4.69%) Senior Developer
10 8 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (4.17%) Python Developer
10 8 (4.17%) Python Engineer
11 7 (3.65%) QA Engineer
11 7 (3.65%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (3.13%) AWS DevOps
12 6 (3.13%) Azure Architect
12 6 (3.13%) Security Architect
12 6 (3.13%) Software Engineer
12 6 (3.13%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (12.50%) .NET
2 18 (9.38%) REST
3 14 (7.29%) HTML
4 13 (6.77%) CSS
5 11 (5.73%) Kafka
5 11 (5.73%) RESTful
6 10 (5.21%) AngularJS
7 9 (4.69%) GraphQL
7 9 (4.69%) Spring
8 8 (4.17%) React
9 7 (3.65%) Node.js
10 6 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (3.13%) PySpark
10 6 (3.13%) pytest
11 5 (2.60%) Spark Streaming
11 5 (2.60%) Web Services
11 5 (2.60%) WebSockets
12 4 (2.08%) JMS
12 4 (2.08%) JPA
12 4 (2.08%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.38%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.21%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (3.65%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (3.13%) Distributed Computing
5 6 (3.13%) Hedge funds
5 6 (3.13%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (2.60%) Market Risk
6 5 (2.60%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.08%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.56%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.56%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.56%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.56%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.04%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.04%) DataPower
9 2 (1.04%) Equities
9 2 (1.04%) PKI
9 2 (1.04%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 35 (18.23%) Linux
2 8 (4.17%) Windows
3 7 (3.65%) Unix
4 3 (1.56%) Android
4 3 (1.56%) Rocky
5 2 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.52%) CentOS
6 1 (0.52%) Solaris
6 1 (0.52%) SUSE
6 1 (0.52%) VMS
6 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (63.54%) DevOps
2 54 (28.13%) Agile
3 51 (26.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (18.23%) Containerisation
6 32 (16.67%) Microservices
7 31 (16.15%) Test Automation
8 30 (15.63%) Continuous Integration
9 28 (14.58%) Software Engineering
10 21 (10.94%) Analytics
11 20 (10.42%) Code Quality
11 20 (10.42%) Full-Stack Development
12 19 (9.90%) Data Pipeline
12 19 (9.90%) Deployment Automation
13 17 (8.85%) Cloud Security
14 16 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
14 16 (8.33%) Performance Optimisation
14 16 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 15 (7.81%) Migration
16 14 (7.29%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 91 (47.40%) Python
2 42 (21.88%) Java
3 33 (17.19%) C#
4 32 (16.67%) SQL
5 22 (11.46%) JavaScript
6 18 (9.38%) Bash
7 13 (6.77%) PowerShell
8 10 (5.21%) C++
8 10 (5.21%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.08%) Bicep
9 4 (2.08%) C
9 4 (2.08%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.08%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.56%) Go
10 3 (1.56%) Perl
10 3 (1.56%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.04%) Groovy
11 2 (1.04%) Ruby
11 2 (1.04%) Scala
Qualifications
1 27 (14.06%) Security Cleared
2 26 (13.54%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.17%) AWS Certification
3 8 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 7 (3.65%) Degree
5 6 (3.13%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (2.08%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 4 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.56%) CREST Certified
8 3 (1.56%) GIAC
9 2 (1.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.04%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (1.04%) CASP
9 2 (1.04%) CCSP
9 2 (1.04%) CISSP
9 2 (1.04%) CSSLP
9 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (10.94%) QA
2 11 (5.73%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.60%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.04%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.04%) GDPR
5 2 (1.04%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 2 (1.04%) NCSC
5 2 (1.04%) NIST
5 2 (1.04%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.52%) EMIR
6 1 (0.52%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.52%) MiFID
6 1 (0.52%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 42 (21.88%) Docker
2 4 (2.08%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.52%) NFS
3 1 (0.52%) OpenAM
3 1 (0.52%) OpenDJ
3 1 (0.52%) OpenIDM
3 1 (0.52%) Veritas File System
3 1 (0.52%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 71 (36.98%) Terraform
2 65 (33.85%) Kubernetes
3 29 (15.10%) Ansible
4 12 (6.25%) Prometheus
5 8 (4.17%) Grafana
6 5 (2.60%) Argo
6 5 (2.60%) Progress Chef
6 5 (2.60%) Puppet
7 4 (2.08%) Istio
8 3 (1.56%) Consul
9 2 (1.04%) Cilium
9 2 (1.04%) Kibana
9 2 (1.04%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (1.04%) Podman
9 2 (1.04%) SELinux
10 1 (0.52%) Control-M
10 1 (0.52%) logstash
10 1 (0.52%) Netcool
10 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.52%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 26 (13.54%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.77%) Databricks
3 10 (5.21%) Google
4 6 (3.13%) Oracle
4 6 (3.13%) Salesforce
4 6 (3.13%) Splunk
5 4 (2.08%) OpenLink
6 3 (1.56%) IBM
6 3 (1.56%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.04%) Cisco
7 2 (1.04%) Confluent
7 2 (1.04%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.04%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.04%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.52%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.52%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.52%) FNZ
8 1 (0.52%) New Relic
8 1 (0.52%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.52%) Talend