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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 21 26
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 -7
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 192 182 176
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 10.45% 8.83% 7.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.55% 9.58% 7.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 115 130
10th Percentile £356 £413 £413
25th Percentile £417 £503 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £585
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% - -6.40%
75th Percentile £653 £716 £699
90th Percentile £725 £756 £762
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £595
% change year-on-year -8.33% +0.84% -3.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.25 - -
Median hourly rate £27.50 - -
75th Percentile £28.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 - -

All Process and 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 1,663 1,899 2,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.48% 92.18% 89.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,170 1,159 1,591
10th Percentile £340 £363 £363
25th Percentile £419 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% - -0.92%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £760 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 15 10
10th Percentile £19.98 £15.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.66 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £27.75 £42.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.71% +61.90% -38.95%
75th Percentile £41.80 £102.25 £44.56
90th Percentile £50.63 £127.30 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -25.40% +30.84% -35.93%

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 25 December 2025.

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 7 (3.65%) Confluence
2 6 (3.13%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.08%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.56%) Apache
6 2 (1.04%) CMS
7 1 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.52%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 3 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.52%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.04%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.52%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.52%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.52%) Orchestrade
2 1 (0.52%) Shopify
2 1 (0.52%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 81 (42.19%) AWS
2 78 (40.63%) Azure
3 51 (26.56%) GitHub
4 42 (21.88%) GitHub Actions
5 37 (19.27%) GCP
6 33 (17.19%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (12.50%) Serverless
8 20 (10.42%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (9.38%) Amazon S3
10 15 (7.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 14 (7.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 14 (7.29%) Power Platform
12 13 (6.77%) Amazon ECS
13 11 (5.73%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (4.69%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (4.17%) Apigee
15 8 (4.17%) Snowflake
16 7 (3.65%) Azure Key Vault
16 7 (3.65%) dbt
16 7 (3.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.65%) DNS
2 5 (2.60%) Firewall
3 4 (2.08%) Network Security
4 1 (0.52%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (0.52%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.52%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.52%) SSH
4 1 (0.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.29%) Relational Database
2 10 (5.21%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (4.69%) DynamoDB
4 8 (4.17%) MySQL
4 8 (4.17%) Power BI
5 7 (3.65%) BigQuery
5 7 (3.65%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (3.65%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.65%) SQL Server
6 5 (2.60%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.08%) Big Data
7 4 (2.08%) Delta Lake
7 4 (2.08%) Metadata
8 3 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (1.56%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.56%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.56%) Pinecone
8 3 (1.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 37 (19.27%) Git
2 33 (17.19%) Jenkins
3 22 (11.46%) GitLab
4 12 (6.25%) JIRA
4 12 (6.25%) Selenium
5 8 (4.17%) Cucumber
6 7 (3.65%) Cypress.io
6 7 (3.65%) SonarQube
7 6 (3.13%) Bitbucket
7 6 (3.13%) Postman
8 5 (2.60%) Gradle
8 5 (2.60%) JUnit
9 4 (2.08%) TeamCity
10 3 (1.56%) Maven
10 3 (1.56%) REST Assured
10 3 (1.56%) Snyk
11 2 (1.04%) Crashlytics
11 2 (1.04%) fastlane
11 2 (1.04%) Gatling
11 2 (1.04%) Storybook
General
1 66 (34.38%) Finance
2 54 (28.13%) Social Skills
3 35 (18.23%) Banking
4 13 (6.77%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.69%) Front Office
6 7 (3.65%) Financial Institution
6 7 (3.65%) Investment Banking
7 6 (3.13%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.56%) Back Office
10 3 (1.56%) Games
10 3 (1.56%) Law
10 3 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.04%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.52%) Local Government
12 1 (0.52%) Marketing
12 1 (0.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (19.27%) Developer
2 32 (16.67%) Senior
3 29 (15.10%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (8.33%) Data Engineer
5 14 (7.29%) Python Engineer
6 13 (6.77%) Architect
6 13 (6.77%) GCP Engineer
7 11 (5.73%) Lead
8 10 (5.21%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 8 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
9 8 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (4.17%) Senior Developer
10 7 (3.65%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (3.65%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (3.13%) Java Developer
11 6 (3.13%) Security Engineer
11 6 (3.13%) Software Engineer
12 5 (2.60%) Consultant
12 5 (2.60%) Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (2.60%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (10.94%) RESTful
2 20 (10.42%) React
3 15 (7.81%) Node.js
4 14 (7.29%) HTML
4 14 (7.29%) OAuth
5 13 (6.77%) CSS
5 13 (6.77%) REST
6 12 (6.25%) .NET
7 8 (4.17%) HTML5
7 8 (4.17%) JWT
7 8 (4.17%) Spring
8 7 (3.65%) AngularJS
8 7 (3.65%) JSON
8 7 (3.65%) Kafka
8 7 (3.65%) Spring Boot
9 6 (3.13%) GraphQL
9 6 (3.13%) OAuth2
9 6 (3.13%) OpenTelemetry
9 6 (3.13%) Playwright
9 6 (3.13%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 29 (15.10%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.73%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.69%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 8 (4.17%) Virtual Team
5 7 (3.65%) AI Agents
5 7 (3.65%) Mobile App
6 6 (3.13%) Data Centre
6 6 (3.13%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.08%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.08%) Derivative
8 4 (2.08%) Fixed Income
8 4 (2.08%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.56%) Replication
10 2 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (1.04%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.04%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.77%) Linux
2 8 (4.17%) Apple iOS
3 7 (3.65%) Windows
4 6 (3.13%) Android
5 2 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.04%) Unix
6 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (56.77%) DevOps
2 61 (31.77%) Agile
3 58 (30.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 39 (20.31%) Containerisation
5 37 (19.27%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (18.75%) Test Automation
7 32 (16.67%) Analytics
8 31 (16.15%) Microservices
9 28 (14.58%) AI
9 28 (14.58%) Software Engineering
10 25 (13.02%) Design Patterns
11 24 (12.50%) Observability
12 22 (11.46%) Migration
13 21 (10.94%) Data Pipeline
14 19 (9.90%) Code Quality
14 19 (9.90%) Performance Tuning
15 18 (9.38%) Data Governance
15 18 (9.38%) Machine Learning
16 17 (8.85%) Data Modelling
16 17 (8.85%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 80 (41.67%) Python
2 38 (19.79%) Java
3 36 (18.75%) SQL
4 24 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 19 (9.90%) TypeScript
6 16 (8.33%) C#
7 10 (5.21%) Bash
8 8 (4.17%) PowerShell
9 6 (3.13%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.60%) Go
10 5 (2.60%) PHP
10 5 (2.60%) Swift
11 4 (2.08%) C++
11 4 (2.08%) Objective-C
12 3 (1.56%) Apex Code
12 3 (1.56%) Bicep
12 3 (1.56%) Ruby
12 3 (1.56%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.04%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.04%) Rust
Qualifications
1 30 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 29 (15.10%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.65%) Degree
4 4 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.08%) CISSP
4 4 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.56%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.56%) MCP
6 2 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.04%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.04%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.52%) CCNA
7 1 (0.52%) CCSP
7 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.52%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.52%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.38%) GDPR
2 17 (8.85%) QA
3 12 (6.25%) Data Quality
4 10 (5.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (3.65%) Accessibility
6 6 (3.13%) PCI DSS
7 5 (2.60%) NIST
8 3 (1.56%) EU AI Act
9 2 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (1.04%) NCSC
9 2 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (1.04%) SOC 2
9 2 (1.04%) WCAG
10 1 (0.52%) GRC
10 1 (0.52%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.52%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.52%) ISO 8583
10 1 (0.52%) MiFID
10 1 (0.52%) PSD2
10 1 (0.52%) SEPA
System Software
1 51 (26.56%) Docker
2 4 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.04%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.52%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 67 (34.90%) Terraform
2 51 (26.56%) Kubernetes
3 18 (9.38%) Ansible
4 11 (5.73%) Grafana
5 10 (5.21%) Prometheus
6 8 (4.17%) Argo
7 5 (2.60%) Istio
7 5 (2.60%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.56%) Kibana
8 3 (1.56%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.04%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.52%) Icinga
10 1 (0.52%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.52%) Karpenter
10 1 (0.52%) logstash
10 1 (0.52%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.52%) Packer
10 1 (0.52%) Podman
10 1 (0.52%) Puppet
10 1 (0.52%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 32 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 29 (15.10%) Google
3 21 (10.94%) Databricks
4 10 (5.21%) Oracle
5 7 (3.65%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.65%) Splunk
6 6 (3.13%) OpenAI
7 4 (2.08%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.56%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.04%) Apple
9 2 (1.04%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.04%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.04%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.04%) UiPath
10 1 (0.52%) Amplitude
10 1 (0.52%) Confluent
10 1 (0.52%) LogicMonitor
10 1 (0.52%) Plaid
10 1 (0.52%) Sonatype
10 1 (0.52%) Workday