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

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 22 27
Rank change year-on-year +5 +5 -7
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 193 181 178
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 10.59% 8.76% 7.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.69% 9.52% 7.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 115 132
10th Percentile £356 £415 £413
25th Percentile £431 £509 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% +3.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile £654 £725 £696
90th Percentile £725 £762 £760
Central London median daily rate £550 £606 £575
% change year-on-year -9.28% +5.43% -6.31%
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 1,651 1,902 2,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.57% 92.06% 89.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,165 1,162 1,616
10th Percentile £340 £363 £363
25th Percentile £421 £465 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% - -1.71%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £756 £790 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 15 11
10th Percentile £20.02 £15.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £28.00 £42.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.12% +70.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £41.94 £102.25 £42.38
90th Percentile £54.95 £127.30 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £26.31 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -24.84% +37.25% -37.04%

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 21 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 (3.63%) Confluence
2 6 (3.11%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.59%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.07%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.55%) Apache
6 2 (1.04%) CMS
7 1 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.52%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
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 (41.97%) AWS
2 77 (39.90%) Azure
3 51 (26.42%) GitHub
4 41 (21.24%) GitHub Actions
5 36 (18.65%) GCP
6 33 (17.10%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (11.40%) Serverless
8 19 (9.84%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (8.81%) Amazon S3
10 15 (7.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 14 (7.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 14 (7.25%) Power Platform
12 13 (6.74%) Amazon ECS
12 13 (6.74%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (4.66%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (4.15%) Apigee
14 8 (4.15%) Snowflake
15 7 (3.63%) AWS Fargate
15 7 (3.63%) dbt
15 7 (3.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.63%) DNS
2 5 (2.59%) Firewall
2 5 (2.59%) Network Security
3 1 (0.52%) BGP
3 1 (0.52%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (0.52%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (0.52%) IGMP
3 1 (0.52%) Multicast
3 1 (0.52%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (0.52%) OSPF
3 1 (0.52%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.52%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.52%) SSH
3 1 (0.52%) VPN
3 1 (0.52%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.25%) Relational Database
2 10 (5.18%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (4.66%) DynamoDB
4 8 (4.15%) MySQL
4 8 (4.15%) Power BI
5 7 (3.63%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (3.63%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.63%) SQL Server
6 6 (3.11%) BigQuery
7 4 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.07%) Big Data
7 4 (2.07%) Delta Lake
7 4 (2.07%) Metadata
8 3 (1.55%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (1.55%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.55%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.55%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.04%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 39 (20.21%) Git
2 32 (16.58%) Jenkins
3 22 (11.40%) GitLab
4 13 (6.74%) Selenium
5 12 (6.22%) JIRA
6 9 (4.66%) Cucumber
7 7 (3.63%) Bitbucket
7 7 (3.63%) Cypress.io
7 7 (3.63%) Postman
7 7 (3.63%) SonarQube
8 6 (3.11%) Gradle
9 5 (2.59%) JUnit
10 4 (2.07%) TeamCity
11 3 (1.55%) Maven
11 3 (1.55%) REST Assured
11 3 (1.55%) Snyk
12 2 (1.04%) Crashlytics
12 2 (1.04%) fastlane
12 2 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (1.04%) Storybook
General
1 68 (35.23%) Finance
2 55 (28.50%) Social Skills
3 35 (18.13%) Banking
4 16 (8.29%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.18%) Front Office
6 8 (4.15%) Investment Banking
7 7 (3.63%) Financial Institution
8 6 (3.11%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.07%) Back Office
11 3 (1.55%) Games
11 3 (1.55%) Law
11 3 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.04%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.52%) Legal
13 1 (0.52%) Local Government
13 1 (0.52%) Marketing
13 1 (0.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (19.17%) Developer
2 34 (17.62%) Senior
3 29 (15.03%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (8.29%) Data Engineer
5 14 (7.25%) Architect
6 13 (6.74%) GCP Engineer
6 13 (6.74%) Python Engineer
7 11 (5.70%) Lead
8 8 (4.15%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 8 (4.15%) Azure Engineer
8 8 (4.15%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (4.15%) Senior Developer
9 7 (3.63%) AWS Engineer
9 7 (3.63%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (3.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 6 (3.11%) Java Developer
10 6 (3.11%) Security Engineer
10 6 (3.11%) Software Engineer
11 5 (2.59%) Consultant
11 5 (2.59%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (10.88%) RESTful
2 18 (9.33%) React
3 15 (7.77%) Node.js
4 13 (6.74%) .NET
4 13 (6.74%) HTML
4 13 (6.74%) REST
5 12 (6.22%) CSS
5 12 (6.22%) OAuth
6 8 (4.15%) HTML5
6 8 (4.15%) JWT
6 8 (4.15%) Spring
7 6 (3.11%) AngularJS
7 6 (3.11%) GraphQL
7 6 (3.11%) JSON
7 6 (3.11%) Kafka
7 6 (3.11%) LangChain
7 6 (3.11%) Playwright
7 6 (3.11%) Spring Boot
8 5 (2.59%) CSS3
8 5 (2.59%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 29 (15.03%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.22%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.66%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.15%) Onboarding
4 8 (4.15%) Virtual Team
5 7 (3.63%) Data Centre
5 7 (3.63%) Mobile App
6 6 (3.11%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.59%) AI Agents
7 5 (2.59%) Derivative
7 5 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.07%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.07%) Fixed Income
8 4 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (2.07%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.55%) Replication
10 2 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (1.04%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.04%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.25%) Linux
2 8 (4.15%) Apple iOS
3 7 (3.63%) Windows
4 6 (3.11%) Android
5 3 (1.55%) Unix
6 2 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (58.55%) DevOps
2 63 (32.64%) Agile
3 57 (29.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (21.24%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (20.21%) Containerisation
6 38 (19.69%) Test Automation
7 31 (16.06%) Analytics
8 29 (15.03%) Microservices
8 29 (15.03%) Software Engineering
9 25 (12.95%) AI
9 25 (12.95%) Design Patterns
10 24 (12.44%) Observability
11 22 (11.40%) Migration
12 20 (10.36%) Code Quality
12 20 (10.36%) Data Pipeline
13 17 (8.81%) Data Modelling
13 17 (8.81%) DevSecOps
13 17 (8.81%) Machine Learning
13 17 (8.81%) Performance Tuning
13 17 (8.81%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 80 (41.45%) Python
2 39 (20.21%) Java
3 36 (18.65%) SQL
4 22 (11.40%) JavaScript
5 17 (8.81%) C#
5 17 (8.81%) TypeScript
6 12 (6.22%) Bash
7 8 (4.15%) PowerShell
8 7 (3.63%) Go
9 6 (3.11%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.59%) PHP
10 5 (2.59%) Swift
11 4 (2.07%) C++
11 4 (2.07%) Objective-C
12 3 (1.55%) Apex Code
12 3 (1.55%) PromQL
12 3 (1.55%) Ruby
12 3 (1.55%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.55%) VB.NET
13 2 (1.04%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 30 (15.54%) Security Cleared
2 29 (15.03%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.15%) Degree
4 5 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.07%) CISSP
6 3 (1.55%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.04%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.04%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.52%) CCIE
8 1 (0.52%) CCNA
8 1 (0.52%) CCNP
8 1 (0.52%) CCSP
8 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.52%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.52%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.52%) MCP
8 1 (0.52%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.33%) GDPR
2 17 (8.81%) QA
3 12 (6.22%) Data Quality
4 10 (5.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (3.63%) Accessibility
6 6 (3.11%) PCI DSS
7 5 (2.59%) NIST
8 3 (1.55%) 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%) MiFID
System Software
1 49 (25.39%) Docker
2 4 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.04%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.52%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 67 (34.72%) Terraform
2 51 (26.42%) Kubernetes
3 18 (9.33%) Ansible
4 12 (6.22%) Grafana
5 10 (5.18%) Prometheus
6 7 (3.63%) Argo
7 4 (2.07%) Istio
7 4 (2.07%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.55%) Kibana
8 3 (1.55%) 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 33 (17.10%) Microsoft
2 29 (15.03%) Google
3 21 (10.88%) Databricks
4 10 (5.18%) Oracle
5 9 (4.66%) Splunk
6 7 (3.63%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.59%) OpenAI
8 4 (2.07%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.55%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.55%) UiPath
10 2 (1.04%) Apple
10 2 (1.04%) Atlassian
10 2 (1.04%) LogicMonitor
10 2 (1.04%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.04%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.52%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.52%) Cisco
11 1 (0.52%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.52%) IBM
11 1 (0.52%) Portware