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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 20 25
Rank change year-on-year +5 +5 -6
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 187 176 201
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 10.62% 8.43% 7.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.37% 9.20% 8.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 121 145
10th Percentile £358 £428 £425
25th Percentile £456 £515 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £638 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.80% +6.25% -4.00%
75th Percentile £660 £738 £700
90th Percentile £725 £775 £758
Central London median daily rate £575 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% -
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 1,644 1,914 2,471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.36% 91.67% 89.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,152 1,173 1,733
10th Percentile £329 £375 £363
25th Percentile £417 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £690
90th Percentile £760 £782 £812
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 14
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £25.38 £17.48
Median hourly rate £27.75 £50.00 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -44.50% +52.67% -30.13%
75th Percentile £44.63 £112.00 £52.88
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £72.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -22.76% +27.27% -36.22%

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 18 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 18 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 (4.81%) Confluence
2 8 (4.28%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.67%) Apache
3 5 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.67%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.07%) CMS
5 1 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.53%) Camunda
5 1 (0.53%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.53%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.53%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.53%) Orchestrade
1 1 (0.53%) Shopify
1 1 (0.53%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 80 (42.78%) AWS
2 72 (38.50%) Azure
3 41 (21.93%) GitHub
4 34 (18.18%) GCP
5 33 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
6 29 (15.51%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (11.76%) Amazon S3
8 18 (9.63%) Serverless
9 15 (8.02%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (7.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 13 (6.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 13 (6.95%) Power Platform
12 11 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (4.28%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (4.28%) Snowflake
14 7 (3.74%) Apigee
14 7 (3.74%) Azure Key Vault
14 7 (3.74%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (3.74%) dbt
14 7 (3.74%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.21%) DNS
2 4 (2.14%) Firewall
2 4 (2.14%) Network Security
3 2 (1.07%) SSH
4 1 (0.53%) BGP
4 1 (0.53%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.53%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.53%) IGMP
4 1 (0.53%) Internet
4 1 (0.53%) Multicast
4 1 (0.53%) NAS
4 1 (0.53%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (0.53%) OSPF
4 1 (0.53%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.53%) SAN
4 1 (0.53%) SSL
4 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.53%) VPN
4 1 (0.53%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.95%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (6.42%) Relational Database
3 10 (5.35%) DynamoDB
4 9 (4.81%) MongoDB
5 8 (4.28%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (4.28%) SQL Server
6 7 (3.74%) MySQL
6 7 (3.74%) Power BI
7 6 (3.21%) BigQuery
8 5 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (2.67%) Big Data
8 5 (2.67%) Data Lake
8 5 (2.67%) Delta Lake
9 4 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.60%) Metadata
10 3 (1.60%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.07%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (1.07%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (1.07%) Kdb+
11 2 (1.07%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 41 (21.93%) Git
2 29 (15.51%) Jenkins
3 20 (10.70%) GitLab
4 15 (8.02%) JIRA
5 14 (7.49%) Selenium
6 9 (4.81%) Cucumber
7 8 (4.28%) SonarQube
8 7 (3.74%) Bitbucket
8 7 (3.74%) Cypress.io
8 7 (3.74%) Gradle
8 7 (3.74%) Postman
9 4 (2.14%) Maven
9 4 (2.14%) TeamCity
10 3 (1.60%) JMeter
10 3 (1.60%) JUnit
10 3 (1.60%) REST Assured
10 3 (1.60%) Snyk
10 3 (1.60%) WebDriver
11 2 (1.07%) fastlane
11 2 (1.07%) Storybook
General
1 69 (36.90%) Finance
2 54 (28.88%) Social Skills
3 34 (18.18%) Banking
4 16 (8.56%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (7.49%) Front Office
6 7 (3.74%) Financial Institution
7 6 (3.21%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.67%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.14%) Back Office
9 4 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.60%) Law
11 2 (1.07%) Games
11 2 (1.07%) Legal
11 2 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.07%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.53%) Automotive
12 1 (0.53%) Marketing
12 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (21.39%) Developer
2 33 (17.65%) Senior
3 25 (13.37%) DevOps Engineer
4 15 (8.02%) Data Engineer
5 13 (6.95%) Architect
6 12 (6.42%) Python Engineer
7 11 (5.88%) GCP Engineer
8 10 (5.35%) Full-Stack Developer
8 10 (5.35%) Lead
9 9 (4.81%) Platform Engineer
9 9 (4.81%) Software Engineer
10 8 (4.28%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 8 (4.28%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (3.21%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (3.21%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (3.21%) Java Developer
11 6 (3.21%) Python Developer
11 6 (3.21%) Security Engineer
11 6 (3.21%) Senior Developer
12 4 (2.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (11.23%) React
1 21 (11.23%) RESTful
2 18 (9.63%) HTML
3 17 (9.09%) CSS
3 17 (9.09%) REST
4 15 (8.02%) .NET
5 12 (6.42%) Kafka
5 12 (6.42%) Node.js
5 12 (6.42%) OAuth
6 11 (5.88%) AngularJS
7 10 (5.35%) GraphQL
8 9 (4.81%) Spring
9 8 (4.28%) HTML5
9 8 (4.28%) JWT
10 7 (3.74%) Spring Boot
11 6 (3.21%) JSON
11 6 (3.21%) Web Services
12 5 (2.67%) CSS3
12 5 (2.67%) OAuth2
12 5 (2.67%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 25 (13.37%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.28%) Onboarding
3 8 (4.28%) Virtual Team
4 7 (3.74%) Data Centre
4 7 (3.74%) Data Structures
4 7 (3.74%) Mobile App
5 6 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (3.21%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.67%) AI Agents
6 5 (2.67%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.67%) Derivative
7 4 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.60%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.60%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.60%) Replication
9 2 (1.07%) 3D Graphics
9 2 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.07%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.42%) Linux
2 8 (4.28%) Apple iOS
3 5 (2.67%) Android
3 5 (2.67%) Windows
4 4 (2.14%) Unix
5 2 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (54.55%) DevOps
2 64 (34.22%) Agile
3 51 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 44 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (18.18%) Test Automation
6 33 (17.65%) Containerisation
7 30 (16.04%) Analytics
8 28 (14.97%) Microservices
8 28 (14.97%) Software Engineering
9 25 (13.37%) Design Patterns
10 22 (11.76%) AI
11 20 (10.70%) Code Quality
11 20 (10.70%) Data Pipeline
11 20 (10.70%) Observability
12 18 (9.63%) Migration
13 17 (9.09%) ETL
13 17 (9.09%) Machine Learning
14 16 (8.56%) Continuous Improvement
14 16 (8.56%) Data Governance
14 16 (8.56%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 81 (43.32%) Python
2 36 (19.25%) SQL
3 35 (18.72%) Java
4 27 (14.44%) JavaScript
5 19 (10.16%) C#
5 19 (10.16%) TypeScript
6 13 (6.95%) Bash
7 8 (4.28%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.67%) Go
8 5 (2.67%) Swift
9 4 (2.14%) Bicep
9 4 (2.14%) C++
9 4 (2.14%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.14%) Objective-C
9 4 (2.14%) PHP
10 3 (1.60%) Apex Code
10 3 (1.60%) PromQL
10 3 (1.60%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.07%) Rust
11 2 (1.07%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (11.23%) Security Cleared
2 20 (10.70%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.74%) Degree
4 4 (2.14%) CISSP
4 4 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.60%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.07%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.07%) Postgraduate
6 2 (1.07%) SANS
7 1 (0.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.53%) CCIE
7 1 (0.53%) CCSP
7 1 (0.53%) CFA
7 1 (0.53%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.53%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.53%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.53%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (10.70%) QA
2 14 (7.49%) GDPR
3 10 (5.35%) Data Quality
4 9 (4.81%) Accessibility
5 8 (4.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (2.67%) NIST
7 4 (2.14%) PCI DSS
8 3 (1.60%) EU AI Act
9 2 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 2 (1.07%) NCSC
9 2 (1.07%) SOC 2
9 2 (1.07%) WCAG
10 1 (0.53%) GRC
10 1 (0.53%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.53%) MiFID
System Software
1 45 (24.06%) Docker
2 3 (1.60%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.53%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 58 (31.02%) Terraform
2 47 (25.13%) Kubernetes
3 15 (8.02%) Ansible
4 11 (5.88%) Prometheus
5 10 (5.35%) Grafana
6 8 (4.28%) Argo
7 6 (3.21%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (2.14%) Istio
9 3 (1.60%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.07%) Kibana
10 2 (1.07%) Kustomize
10 2 (1.07%) Packer
11 1 (0.53%) Consul
11 1 (0.53%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.53%) logstash
11 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.53%) Podman
11 1 (0.53%) Puppet
11 1 (0.53%) Rundeck
11 1 (0.53%) yum
Vendors
1 31 (16.58%) Microsoft
2 26 (13.90%) Google
3 22 (11.76%) Databricks
4 7 (3.74%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.21%) OpenAI
5 6 (3.21%) Oracle
5 6 (3.21%) Splunk
6 3 (1.60%) UiPath
7 2 (1.07%) Apple
7 2 (1.07%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.07%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.07%) IBM
7 2 (1.07%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.07%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.07%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.53%) Avaloq
8 1 (0.53%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.53%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.53%) Portware
8 1 (0.53%) TIBCO