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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 19 24
Rank change year-on-year +2 +5 -9
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 174 184 209
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 10.00% 8.69% 7.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.65% 9.48% 8.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 127 145
10th Percentile £357 £463 £425
25th Percentile £450 £519 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £660 £738 £700
90th Percentile £725 £826 £738
Central London median daily rate £575 £650 £603
% change year-on-year -11.54% +7.88% +0.42%
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 1,634 1,941 2,514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.91% 91.69% 89.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,137 1,189 1,764
10th Percentile £331 £375 £363
25th Percentile £420 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £583
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.37% +1.39%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £695
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 16
10th Percentile £16.96 £16.70 £15.63
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £42.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% +29.77% -35.15%
75th Percentile £41.75 £112.00 £52.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £71.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -22.76% +27.27% -41.33%

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 8 November 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
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 8 November 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
Moorgate - 1 £390 -
CI/CD
Central London

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 9 (5.17%) Confluence
2 8 (4.60%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.87%) Apache
3 5 (2.87%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.87%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.15%) CMS
5 1 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.57%) Camunda
5 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.57%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.57%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.57%) Orchestrade
1 1 (0.57%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 72 (41.38%) AWS
2 62 (35.63%) Azure
3 40 (22.99%) GitHub
4 33 (18.97%) GitHub Actions
5 30 (17.24%) GCP
6 26 (14.94%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (11.49%) Amazon S3
8 17 (9.77%) Serverless
9 14 (8.05%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (7.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 13 (7.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 13 (7.47%) Power Platform
11 9 (5.17%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (3.45%) Azure Key Vault
12 6 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (3.45%) dbt
12 6 (3.45%) SaaS
12 6 (3.45%) Snowflake
13 5 (2.87%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.45%) DNS
2 4 (2.30%) Firewall
3 3 (1.72%) Network Security
4 2 (1.15%) SSH
5 1 (0.57%) BGP
5 1 (0.57%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.57%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.57%) IGMP
5 1 (0.57%) Internet
5 1 (0.57%) Multicast
5 1 (0.57%) NAS
5 1 (0.57%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (0.57%) OSPF
5 1 (0.57%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.57%) SAN
5 1 (0.57%) SSL
5 1 (0.57%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.57%) VPN
5 1 (0.57%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.75%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (5.75%) Relational Database
2 9 (5.17%) DynamoDB
3 8 (4.60%) BigQuery
4 7 (4.02%) Big Data
4 7 (4.02%) Data Lake
4 7 (4.02%) Power BI
4 7 (4.02%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.87%) Delta Lake
6 5 (2.87%) MySQL
7 4 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (2.30%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.15%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.15%) KDB
8 2 (1.15%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.15%) Redis
8 2 (1.15%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 34 (19.54%) Git
2 26 (14.94%) Jenkins
3 18 (10.34%) GitLab
4 15 (8.62%) JIRA
5 13 (7.47%) Selenium
6 8 (4.60%) Cucumber
6 8 (4.60%) SonarQube
7 7 (4.02%) Gradle
7 7 (4.02%) Postman
8 6 (3.45%) Bitbucket
8 6 (3.45%) Cypress.io
9 4 (2.30%) Maven
9 4 (2.30%) TeamCity
10 3 (1.72%) REST Assured
10 3 (1.72%) Snyk
11 2 (1.15%) CircleCI
11 2 (1.15%) Crashlytics
11 2 (1.15%) fastlane
11 2 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (1.15%) Storybook
General
1 60 (34.48%) Finance
2 48 (27.59%) Social Skills
3 32 (18.39%) Banking
4 15 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (7.47%) Front Office
6 6 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (3.45%) Financial Institution
6 6 (3.45%) Investment Banking
6 6 (3.45%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.30%) Back Office
8 2 (1.15%) Games
8 2 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.15%) Legal
8 2 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.15%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.57%) Automotive
9 1 (0.57%) Law
9 1 (0.57%) Marketing
9 1 (0.57%) Military
9 1 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (19.54%) Senior
2 32 (18.39%) Developer
3 25 (14.37%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (8.05%) Data Engineer
5 13 (7.47%) Architect
5 13 (7.47%) GCP Engineer
6 12 (6.90%) Python Engineer
7 9 (5.17%) Lead
7 9 (5.17%) Platform Engineer
7 9 (5.17%) Software Engineer
8 8 (4.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 8 (4.60%) Azure Engineer
8 8 (4.60%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (3.45%) Python Developer
9 6 (3.45%) Senior Developer
10 5 (2.87%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (2.87%) Java Developer
10 5 (2.87%) Security Engineer
11 4 (2.30%) Cloud Engineer
11 4 (2.30%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.92%) RESTful
2 17 (9.77%) React
3 15 (8.62%) REST
4 14 (8.05%) HTML
5 13 (7.47%) .NET
5 13 (7.47%) CSS
6 11 (6.32%) Kafka
7 10 (5.75%) AngularJS
7 10 (5.75%) GraphQL
7 10 (5.75%) Node.js
7 10 (5.75%) OAuth
8 7 (4.02%) HTML5
8 7 (4.02%) JWT
8 7 (4.02%) Spring
9 6 (3.45%) Spring Boot
10 5 (2.87%) JSON
10 5 (2.87%) Redux
10 5 (2.87%) Web Services
10 5 (2.87%) WebSockets
11 4 (2.30%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 23 (13.22%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.60%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (4.60%) Onboarding
2 8 (4.60%) Virtual Team
3 7 (4.02%) Mobile App
4 6 (3.45%) Data Centre
4 6 (3.45%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.45%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.87%) AI Agents
5 5 (2.87%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.87%) Derivative
5 5 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.30%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.72%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.15%) 3D Graphics
8 2 (1.15%) Equities
8 2 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.15%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.90%) Linux
2 7 (4.02%) Apple iOS
3 4 (2.30%) Android
3 4 (2.30%) Unix
3 4 (2.30%) Windows
4 2 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (56.90%) DevOps
2 60 (34.48%) Agile
3 50 (28.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 44 (25.29%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (17.24%) Containerisation
6 29 (16.67%) Test Automation
7 28 (16.09%) Analytics
8 26 (14.94%) Software Engineering
9 22 (12.64%) AI
9 22 (12.64%) Microservices
10 21 (12.07%) Design Patterns
11 19 (10.92%) Code Quality
11 19 (10.92%) Data Pipeline
11 19 (10.92%) Observability
12 18 (10.34%) Infrastructure Automation
13 15 (8.62%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (8.62%) DevSecOps
13 15 (8.62%) ETL
13 15 (8.62%) Machine Learning
13 15 (8.62%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 76 (43.68%) Python
2 33 (18.97%) SQL
3 29 (16.67%) Java
4 23 (13.22%) JavaScript
5 17 (9.77%) C#
6 16 (9.20%) TypeScript
7 13 (7.47%) Bash
8 8 (4.60%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.87%) Go
10 4 (2.30%) Bicep
10 4 (2.30%) C++
10 4 (2.30%) PHP
10 4 (2.30%) Swift
11 3 (1.72%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.72%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.72%) Objective-C
11 3 (1.72%) PromQL
11 3 (1.72%) VB.NET
12 2 (1.15%) Rust
12 2 (1.15%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (12.07%) Security Cleared
2 20 (11.49%) SC Cleared
3 7 (4.02%) Degree
4 4 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.72%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.72%) CISSP
5 3 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.15%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.15%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.57%) CCIE
7 1 (0.57%) CCNP
7 1 (0.57%) CFA
7 1 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.57%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.57%) GIAC
7 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.57%) MCP
7 1 (0.57%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.92%) QA
2 12 (6.90%) GDPR
3 10 (5.75%) Data Quality
4 9 (5.17%) Accessibility
5 6 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (2.30%) NIST
7 3 (1.72%) EU AI Act
8 2 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 2 (1.15%) PCI DSS
8 2 (1.15%) SOC 2
8 2 (1.15%) WCAG
9 1 (0.57%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.57%) MiFID
9 1 (0.57%) NCSC
System Software
1 40 (22.99%) Docker
2 3 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.57%) HDFS
3 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 58 (33.33%) Terraform
2 44 (25.29%) Kubernetes
3 15 (8.62%) Ansible
4 11 (6.32%) Prometheus
5 9 (5.17%) Argo
5 9 (5.17%) Grafana
6 6 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.72%) Istio
7 3 (1.72%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.15%) Kibana
8 2 (1.15%) Kustomize
8 2 (1.15%) Packer
9 1 (0.57%) Cilium
9 1 (0.57%) Consul
9 1 (0.57%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.57%) logstash
9 1 (0.57%) Podman
9 1 (0.57%) Puppet
9 1 (0.57%) Rundeck
9 1 (0.57%) yum
Vendors
1 29 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 26 (14.94%) Google
3 20 (11.49%) Databricks
4 9 (5.17%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.45%) OpenAI
5 6 (3.45%) Splunk
6 3 (1.72%) Oracle
6 3 (1.72%) UiPath
7 2 (1.15%) Apple
7 2 (1.15%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.15%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.15%) IBM
7 2 (1.15%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.15%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.15%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.57%) F5
8 1 (0.57%) FNZ
8 1 (0.57%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.57%) Solace
8 1 (0.57%) SolarWinds