CI/CD Contracts in the City of London

CI/CD
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 23 16
Rank change year-on-year +7 -7 -5
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 207 168 321
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 11.79% 7.66% 8.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.64% 8.46% 9.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 120 191
10th Percentile £413 £425 £456
25th Percentile £500 £475 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £688 £715 £731
90th Percentile £766 £789 £800
Central London median daily rate £585 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £48.50 -
Central London median hourly rate - £48.50 -

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 1,638 1,985 3,341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.28% 90.56% 91.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,037 1,404 2,250
10th Percentile £363 £356 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £809 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 25
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.35
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -15.66%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -15.66%

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 3 May 2025.

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
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 14 (6.76%) Apache
2 10 (4.83%) Apache Spark
3 8 (3.86%) Confluence
4 4 (1.93%) nginx
5 2 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.97%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.48%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.48%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.97%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.93%) Endur
2 1 (0.48%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 76 (36.71%) Azure
2 75 (36.23%) AWS
3 32 (15.46%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (13.53%) GitHub
5 20 (9.66%) Serverless
6 15 (7.25%) GCP
7 13 (6.28%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (5.80%) Amazon S3
9 11 (5.31%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (4.83%) AWS CloudFormation
11 8 (3.86%) Azure Data Factory
11 8 (3.86%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (3.86%) OpenShift
11 8 (3.86%) Power Platform
12 7 (3.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 7 (3.38%) PaaS
13 6 (2.90%) Azure AKS
14 5 (2.42%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (2.42%) Amazon SQS
14 5 (2.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.35%) Firewall
2 8 (3.86%) DNS
3 7 (3.38%) VPN
4 5 (2.42%) HTTP
4 5 (2.42%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.45%) DHCP
5 3 (1.45%) Network Security
5 3 (1.45%) SMTP
6 2 (0.97%) FTP
6 2 (0.97%) SSL
7 1 (0.48%) 4G
7 1 (0.48%) 5G
7 1 (0.48%) 5G NR
7 1 (0.48%) BGP
7 1 (0.48%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.48%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.48%) LAN
7 1 (0.48%) LTE
7 1 (0.48%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.18%) SQL Server
2 15 (7.25%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (4.35%) DynamoDB
4 8 (3.86%) Big Data
5 7 (3.38%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (3.38%) Power BI
6 6 (2.90%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (2.90%) Data Lake
6 6 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (2.42%) Hadoop
7 5 (2.42%) MySQL
7 5 (2.42%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.93%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.93%) Redis
8 4 (1.93%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.45%) Apache Iceberg
9 3 (1.45%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.45%) Flink
9 3 (1.45%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (0.97%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 52 (25.12%) Jenkins
2 47 (22.71%) Git
3 26 (12.56%) GitLab
4 18 (8.70%) JIRA
5 13 (6.28%) Selenium
6 12 (5.80%) Postman
6 12 (5.80%) TeamCity
7 11 (5.31%) SonarQube
8 9 (4.35%) REST Assured
9 8 (3.86%) Bitbucket
10 7 (3.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 6 (2.90%) Bitbucket Server
11 6 (2.90%) JUnit
12 5 (2.42%) Maven
13 4 (1.93%) Gradle
13 4 (1.93%) IntelliJ
14 3 (1.45%) JMeter
14 3 (1.45%) webpack
15 2 (0.97%) Babel
15 2 (0.97%) Terragrunt
General
1 54 (26.09%) Finance
2 43 (20.77%) Social Skills
3 24 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (11.11%) Banking
5 11 (5.31%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.86%) Investment Banking
7 6 (2.90%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.42%) Front Office
9 3 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.45%) Retail
10 2 (0.97%) Advertising
10 2 (0.97%) Marketing
10 2 (0.97%) Publishing
11 1 (0.48%) Back Office
11 1 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.48%) International Banking
11 1 (0.48%) Military
11 1 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (28.99%) Developer
2 33 (15.94%) DevOps Engineer
3 29 (14.01%) Senior
4 23 (11.11%) Architect
5 16 (7.73%) Lead
6 15 (7.25%) Java Developer
7 12 (5.80%) Data Engineer
8 10 (4.83%) Python Engineer
8 10 (4.83%) Senior Developer
9 9 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
9 9 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
9 9 (4.35%) Software Engineer
10 8 (3.86%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (3.86%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (3.38%) Angular Developer
11 7 (3.38%) Test Engineer
12 6 (2.90%) Azure Architect
12 6 (2.90%) Python Developer
12 6 (2.90%) QA Engineer
12 6 (2.90%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (15.94%) .NET
2 21 (10.14%) HTML
3 20 (9.66%) REST
4 17 (8.21%) CSS
4 17 (8.21%) Kafka
5 14 (6.76%) RESTful
6 12 (5.80%) AngularJS
7 11 (5.31%) Spring
8 10 (4.83%) GraphQL
8 10 (4.83%) React
9 8 (3.86%) pytest
10 7 (3.38%) Node.js
10 7 (3.38%) Web Services
11 6 (2.90%) Elastic Stack
11 6 (2.90%) HTML5
11 6 (2.90%) PySpark
12 5 (2.42%) .NET Core
12 5 (2.42%) ASP.NET
12 5 (2.42%) Spark Streaming
12 5 (2.42%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.18%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.76%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.38%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (3.38%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.90%) Distributed Computing
4 6 (2.90%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.42%) Market Risk
6 4 (1.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.93%) Hedge funds
6 4 (1.93%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.45%) Credit Risk
7 3 (1.45%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.45%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.97%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.97%) Equities
8 2 (0.97%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.97%) Social Media
8 2 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (14.98%) Linux
2 9 (4.35%) Windows
3 7 (3.38%) Unix
4 4 (1.93%) Android
5 3 (1.45%) Rocky
6 2 (0.97%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.48%) CentOS
7 1 (0.48%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.48%) Solaris
7 1 (0.48%) SUSE
7 1 (0.48%) VMS
7 1 (0.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (58.45%) DevOps
2 58 (28.02%) Agile
3 42 (20.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 42 (20.29%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (17.39%) Containerisation
5 35 (16.91%) Microservices
6 34 (16.43%) Test Automation
7 33 (15.94%) Continuous Integration
8 31 (14.98%) Software Engineering
9 23 (11.11%) Code Quality
10 19 (9.18%) Analytics
11 18 (8.70%) Deployment Automation
11 18 (8.70%) Full-Stack Development
12 17 (8.21%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (7.73%) BDD
13 16 (7.73%) High Availability
13 16 (7.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 15 (7.25%) API Integration
14 15 (7.25%) Data Pipeline
15 14 (6.76%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 96 (46.38%) Python
2 44 (21.26%) Java
3 36 (17.39%) C#
4 35 (16.91%) SQL
5 27 (13.04%) JavaScript
6 16 (7.73%) Bash
7 15 (7.25%) C++
7 15 (7.25%) PowerShell
8 11 (5.31%) Shell Script
9 8 (3.86%) TypeScript
10 6 (2.90%) C
10 6 (2.90%) T-SQL
11 5 (2.42%) Bicep
11 5 (2.42%) Go
11 5 (2.42%) Scala
12 4 (1.93%) Groovy
12 4 (1.93%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.45%) Apex Code
13 3 (1.45%) Perl
14 2 (0.97%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 32 (15.46%) Security Cleared
2 29 (14.01%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.80%) Degree
4 6 (2.90%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (2.42%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.45%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 2 (0.97%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.97%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.48%) CCNP
9 1 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.48%) JNCIP
9 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.70%) QA
2 9 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.45%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (0.97%) GDPR
4 2 (0.97%) Government Security Classifications
4 2 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.48%) EMIR
5 1 (0.48%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.48%) MiFID
5 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.48%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.48%) WCAG
System Software
1 45 (21.74%) Docker
2 6 (2.90%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.48%) Lustre
3 1 (0.48%) NFS
3 1 (0.48%) OpenAM
3 1 (0.48%) OpenDJ
3 1 (0.48%) OpenIDM
3 1 (0.48%) Veritas File System
3 1 (0.48%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 1 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 66 (31.88%) Kubernetes
2 65 (31.40%) Terraform
3 39 (18.84%) Ansible
4 7 (3.38%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.90%) Grafana
6 4 (1.93%) Progress Chef
6 4 (1.93%) Puppet
7 3 (1.45%) Argo
7 3 (1.45%) Consul
7 3 (1.45%) Podman
8 2 (0.97%) Istio
8 2 (0.97%) Kibana
8 2 (0.97%) MOM
8 2 (0.97%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.48%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.48%) Control-M
9 1 (0.48%) logstash
9 1 (0.48%) Netcool
9 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.48%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 24 (11.59%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.80%) Databricks
3 10 (4.83%) Oracle
4 7 (3.38%) Google
4 7 (3.38%) Splunk
5 5 (2.42%) IBM
5 5 (2.42%) MuleSoft
5 5 (2.42%) Red Hat
5 5 (2.42%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.93%) Confluent
6 4 (1.93%) OpenLink
6 4 (1.93%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.97%) Apple
7 2 (0.97%) Cisco
7 2 (0.97%) Palo Alto
7 2 (0.97%) SAP
7 2 (0.97%) Sybase
8 1 (0.48%) BMC
8 1 (0.48%) Dell
8 1 (0.48%) Murex