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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 20 24
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 -5
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 199 190 198
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.17% 8.77% 7.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.03% 9.59% 8.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 127 144
10th Percentile £363 £452 £425
25th Percentile £463 £515 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £660 £734 £701
90th Percentile £761 £775 £759
Central London median daily rate £575 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% -2.24%
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 1,654 1,982 2,419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 92.87% 91.51% 89.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,159 1,217 1,711
10th Percentile £339 £375 £363
25th Percentile £421 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £694
90th Percentile £756 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 17 13
10th Percentile £20.02 £16.70 -
25th Percentile £25.75 £22.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +54.55% -47.12%
75th Percentile £47.50 £112.00 £53.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £72.75
Central London median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -20.00% +30.84% -47.55%

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 29 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
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 (4.52%) Confluence
2 7 (3.52%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.51%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.51%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.01%) Apache
5 2 (1.01%) CMS
6 1 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.50%) Camunda
6 1 (0.50%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.50%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.01%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.50%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.50%) Orchestrade
2 1 (0.50%) Shopify
2 1 (0.50%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 79 (39.70%) AWS
1 79 (39.70%) Azure
2 44 (22.11%) GitHub
3 36 (18.09%) GCP
3 36 (18.09%) GitHub Actions
4 35 (17.59%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (10.55%) Amazon S3
6 19 (9.55%) Serverless
7 16 (8.04%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (7.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 13 (6.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 13 (6.53%) Power Platform
10 11 (5.53%) Amazon ECS
11 9 (4.52%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (4.02%) Snowflake
13 7 (3.52%) Apigee
13 7 (3.52%) Azure AKS
13 7 (3.52%) Azure Key Vault
13 7 (3.52%) dbt
14 6 (3.02%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.52%) Firewall
2 6 (3.02%) Network Security
3 5 (2.51%) DNS
4 1 (0.50%) BGP
4 1 (0.50%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.50%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.50%) IGMP
4 1 (0.50%) Multicast
4 1 (0.50%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (0.50%) OSPF
4 1 (0.50%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.50%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.50%) SSH
4 1 (0.50%) VPN
4 1 (0.50%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.53%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (6.03%) Relational Database
3 9 (4.52%) DynamoDB
3 9 (4.52%) MongoDB
4 8 (4.02%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (4.02%) SQL Server
5 7 (3.52%) MySQL
5 7 (3.52%) Power BI
6 6 (3.02%) BigQuery
7 5 (2.51%) Big Data
8 4 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.01%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (2.01%) Data Lake
8 4 (2.01%) Delta Lake
9 3 (1.51%) Metadata
9 3 (1.51%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.01%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.01%) Redis
10 2 (1.01%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 41 (20.60%) Git
2 31 (15.58%) Jenkins
3 21 (10.55%) GitLab
4 15 (7.54%) JIRA
5 14 (7.04%) Selenium
6 9 (4.52%) Cucumber
7 8 (4.02%) SonarQube
8 7 (3.52%) Bitbucket
8 7 (3.52%) Cypress.io
8 7 (3.52%) Gradle
8 7 (3.52%) Postman
9 5 (2.51%) JUnit
10 4 (2.01%) Maven
10 4 (2.01%) REST Assured
10 4 (2.01%) TeamCity
11 3 (1.51%) JMeter
11 3 (1.51%) Snyk
11 3 (1.51%) WebDriver
12 2 (1.01%) Mockito
12 2 (1.01%) Xcode
General
1 71 (35.68%) Finance
2 58 (29.15%) Social Skills
3 36 (18.09%) Banking
4 16 (8.04%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (7.54%) Front Office
6 8 (4.02%) Financial Institution
7 7 (3.52%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.51%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.01%) Back Office
9 4 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.51%) Games
10 3 (1.51%) Law
10 3 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.01%) Legal
11 2 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.01%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.50%) Automotive
12 1 (0.50%) Marketing
12 1 (0.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (20.60%) Developer
2 34 (17.09%) Senior
3 26 (13.07%) DevOps Engineer
4 15 (7.54%) Architect
4 15 (7.54%) Data Engineer
5 13 (6.53%) GCP Engineer
6 12 (6.03%) Python Engineer
7 11 (5.53%) Lead
8 9 (4.52%) Azure Engineer
8 9 (4.52%) Full-Stack Developer
8 9 (4.52%) Platform Engineer
8 9 (4.52%) Software Engineer
9 8 (4.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 7 (3.52%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (3.52%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (3.02%) Consultant
11 6 (3.02%) Java Developer
11 6 (3.02%) Security Engineer
11 6 (3.02%) Senior Developer
11 6 (3.02%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (11.06%) RESTful
2 21 (10.55%) React
3 18 (9.05%) HTML
4 17 (8.54%) CSS
4 17 (8.54%) REST
5 15 (7.54%) Node.js
6 12 (6.03%) .NET
6 12 (6.03%) Kafka
6 12 (6.03%) OAuth
7 10 (5.03%) AngularJS
8 9 (4.52%) GraphQL
8 9 (4.52%) Spring
9 8 (4.02%) HTML5
9 8 (4.02%) JWT
10 7 (3.52%) Spring Boot
11 6 (3.02%) JSON
11 6 (3.02%) Web Services
12 5 (2.51%) CSS3
12 5 (2.51%) OAuth2
12 5 (2.51%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 30 (15.08%) Cloud Native
2 11 (5.53%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.03%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.02%) Data Centre
4 8 (4.02%) Mobile App
4 8 (4.02%) Onboarding
4 8 (4.02%) Virtual Team
5 7 (3.52%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.51%) AI Agents
7 5 (2.51%) Derivative
7 5 (2.51%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.01%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.01%) Fixed Income
8 4 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.51%) Replication
10 2 (1.01%) 3D Graphics
10 2 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.01%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.53%) Linux
2 9 (4.52%) Apple iOS
3 7 (3.52%) Android
3 7 (3.52%) Windows
4 3 (1.51%) Unix
5 2 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (56.28%) DevOps
2 75 (37.69%) Agile
3 56 (28.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 45 (22.61%) Problem-Solving
5 36 (18.09%) Test Automation
6 35 (17.59%) Containerisation
7 31 (15.58%) Analytics
8 29 (14.57%) Microservices
8 29 (14.57%) Software Engineering
9 25 (12.56%) Design Patterns
10 23 (11.56%) AI
10 23 (11.56%) Migration
11 21 (10.55%) Code Quality
12 19 (9.55%) Data Pipeline
12 19 (9.55%) Observability
13 18 (9.05%) Continuous Improvement
14 17 (8.54%) ETL
14 17 (8.54%) Machine Learning
14 17 (8.54%) SDLC
15 16 (8.04%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 82 (41.21%) Python
2 37 (18.59%) Java
3 35 (17.59%) SQL
4 27 (13.57%) JavaScript
5 19 (9.55%) TypeScript
6 17 (8.54%) C#
7 12 (6.03%) Bash
8 9 (4.52%) PowerShell
9 6 (3.02%) Go
9 6 (3.02%) Kotlin
10 5 (2.51%) Swift
11 4 (2.01%) C++
11 4 (2.01%) Objective-C
11 4 (2.01%) PHP
12 3 (1.51%) Apex Code
12 3 (1.51%) Bicep
12 3 (1.51%) PromQL
12 3 (1.51%) VB.NET
13 2 (1.01%) Rust
13 2 (1.01%) Scala
Qualifications
1 28 (14.07%) Security Cleared
2 27 (13.57%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.52%) Degree
4 5 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.01%) CISSP
6 3 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.01%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.01%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.01%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.01%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.50%) CCIE
8 1 (0.50%) CCNA
8 1 (0.50%) CCNP
8 1 (0.50%) CCSP
8 1 (0.50%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.50%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.50%) MCP
8 1 (0.50%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (10.05%) QA
2 18 (9.05%) GDPR
3 10 (5.03%) Data Quality
3 10 (5.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (4.52%) Accessibility
5 6 (3.02%) PCI DSS
6 5 (2.51%) NIST
7 3 (1.51%) EU AI Act
8 2 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 2 (1.01%) NCSC
8 2 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (1.01%) SOC 2
8 2 (1.01%) WCAG
9 1 (0.50%) GRC
9 1 (0.50%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.50%) MiFID
System Software
1 46 (23.12%) Docker
2 4 (2.01%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.51%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.50%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 66 (33.17%) Terraform
2 50 (25.13%) Kubernetes
3 17 (8.54%) Ansible
4 10 (5.03%) Grafana
4 10 (5.03%) Prometheus
5 8 (4.02%) Argo
6 6 (3.02%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (2.01%) Istio
8 3 (1.51%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.01%) Kibana
9 2 (1.01%) Kustomize
9 2 (1.01%) Packer
10 1 (0.50%) Consul
10 1 (0.50%) Icinga
10 1 (0.50%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.50%) logstash
10 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.50%) Podman
10 1 (0.50%) Puppet
10 1 (0.50%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 31 (15.58%) Microsoft
2 30 (15.08%) Google
3 21 (10.55%) Databricks
4 8 (4.02%) Splunk
5 7 (3.52%) Oracle
5 7 (3.52%) Salesforce
6 6 (3.02%) OpenAI
7 4 (2.01%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.51%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.51%) UiPath
9 2 (1.01%) Apple
9 2 (1.01%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.01%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (1.01%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.01%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.50%) Adobe
10 1 (0.50%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.50%) Cisco
10 1 (0.50%) IBM
10 1 (0.50%) Rapid7