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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 19 20
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 -6
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 161 188 281
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 8.99% 9.00% 9.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.55% 9.78% 10.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 138 176
10th Percentile £409 £461 £450
25th Percentile £510 £519 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £616 £644 £620
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% +3.83% -0.80%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £713
90th Percentile £800 £797 £800
Central London median daily rate £614 £626 £625
% change year-on-year -1.92% +0.20% +2.67%
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 1,686 1,923 2,807
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.14% 92.10% 90.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,117 1,231 1,943
10th Percentile £325 £388 £363
25th Percentile £424 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £713
90th Percentile £774 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 14
10th Percentile £17.35 £15.20 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.22 £14.84
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% -13.60% -27.33%
75th Percentile £53.50 £78.75 £49.96
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £64.03
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -16.94% +27.27% -35.29%

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
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 13 September 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 13 September 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 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 8 (4.97%) Apache
1 8 (4.97%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.11%) Confluence
3 4 (2.48%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.62%) Camunda
5 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.62%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.48%) Endur
2 1 (0.62%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.62%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.62%) Orchestrade
2 1 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.62%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 58 (36.02%) AWS
1 58 (36.02%) Azure
2 32 (19.88%) GitHub
3 28 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (15.53%) GCP
5 24 (14.91%) GitHub Actions
6 18 (11.18%) Amazon S3
7 17 (10.56%) Serverless
8 15 (9.32%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (8.70%) Power Platform
10 12 (7.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 11 (6.83%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (6.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (5.59%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (4.35%) AWS Step Functions
15 6 (3.73%) Azure Data Factory
15 6 (3.73%) Azure Key Vault
15 6 (3.73%) Datadog
15 6 (3.73%) SaaS
16 5 (3.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.59%) DNS
2 8 (4.97%) Firewall
3 3 (1.86%) HTTP
3 3 (1.86%) Network Security
3 3 (1.86%) SSL
3 3 (1.86%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.86%) VPN
4 2 (1.24%) FTP
4 2 (1.24%) SMTP
4 2 (1.24%) SSH
5 1 (0.62%) BGP
5 1 (0.62%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.62%) IGMP
5 1 (0.62%) Internet
5 1 (0.62%) LAN
5 1 (0.62%) NAS
5 1 (0.62%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (0.62%) OSPF
5 1 (0.62%) SAN
5 1 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.21%) Big Data
2 9 (5.59%) DynamoDB
2 9 (5.59%) Power BI
3 8 (4.97%) BigQuery
3 8 (4.97%) Data Lake
3 8 (4.97%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (4.35%) Hadoop
4 7 (4.35%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.11%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.86%) Delta Lake
6 3 (1.86%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.86%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.86%) Parquet
6 3 (1.86%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.24%) Apache Hive
7 2 (1.24%) Pinecone
7 2 (1.24%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.62%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 30 (18.63%) Git
2 28 (17.39%) Jenkins
3 15 (9.32%) GitLab
4 11 (6.83%) JIRA
5 9 (5.59%) Selenium
6 7 (4.35%) SonarQube
7 5 (3.11%) Gradle
7 5 (3.11%) Postman
8 4 (2.48%) Cypress.io
8 4 (2.48%) Maven
9 3 (1.86%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (1.86%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.86%) CircleCI
9 3 (1.86%) Snyk
9 3 (1.86%) Storybook
9 3 (1.86%) TeamCity
10 2 (1.24%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.24%) JUnit
10 2 (1.24%) REST Assured
General
1 57 (35.40%) Finance
2 39 (24.22%) Social Skills
3 26 (16.15%) Banking
4 22 (13.66%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.35%) Front Office
6 4 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.48%) Financial Institution
6 4 (2.48%) Investment Banking
6 4 (2.48%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.24%) Back Office
8 2 (1.24%) Games
8 2 (1.24%) Legal
8 2 (1.24%) Marketing
9 1 (0.62%) Automotive
9 1 (0.62%) International Banking
9 1 (0.62%) Military
9 1 (0.62%) Publishing
9 1 (0.62%) Retail
9 1 (0.62%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (21.12%) Developer
2 23 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 23 (14.29%) Senior
3 12 (7.45%) Architect
3 12 (7.45%) GCP Engineer
3 12 (7.45%) Java Developer
4 11 (6.83%) Azure Engineer
4 11 (6.83%) Data Engineer
5 9 (5.59%) Software Engineer
6 8 (4.97%) Lead
6 8 (4.97%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (3.73%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 6 (3.73%) AWS DevOps
8 6 (3.73%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (3.73%) Python Developer
8 6 (3.73%) Python Engineer
9 5 (3.11%) Apache Spark Developer
9 5 (3.11%) Security Engineer
10 4 (2.48%) OpenLink Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.56%) RESTful
2 15 (9.32%) .NET
3 14 (8.70%) React
3 14 (8.70%) REST
4 13 (8.07%) AngularJS
5 12 (7.45%) GraphQL
5 12 (7.45%) HTML
6 11 (6.83%) CSS
7 10 (6.21%) Kafka
8 9 (5.59%) Spring
9 8 (4.97%) Spring Boot
10 7 (4.35%) Node.js
10 7 (4.35%) WebSockets
11 6 (3.73%) OpenTelemetry
11 6 (3.73%) Redux
12 5 (3.11%) HTML5
12 5 (3.11%) JWT
12 5 (3.11%) OAuth
12 5 (3.11%) Spark Streaming
13 4 (2.48%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.91%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.21%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (4.35%) Data Centre
4 6 (3.73%) Distributed Computing
4 6 (3.73%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (3.73%) Market Risk
4 6 (3.73%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.11%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.48%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.48%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.48%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.48%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.86%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.86%) Derivative
7 3 (1.86%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.24%) 3D Graphics
8 2 (1.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.24%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 17 (10.56%) Linux
2 7 (4.35%) Unix
3 5 (3.11%) Windows
4 3 (1.86%) Android
4 3 (1.86%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.62%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (64.60%) DevOps
2 58 (36.02%) Agile
3 51 (31.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 36 (22.36%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (16.15%) Analytics
6 25 (15.53%) Containerisation
6 25 (15.53%) Microservices
7 23 (14.29%) Observability
8 20 (12.42%) Data Pipeline
8 20 (12.42%) Software Engineering
9 19 (11.80%) Infrastructure Automation
9 19 (11.80%) Performance Optimisation
10 18 (11.18%) Code Quality
10 18 (11.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 17 (10.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (10.56%) Test Automation
12 15 (9.32%) Continuous Integration
12 15 (9.32%) DevSecOps
13 14 (8.70%) Event-Driven
13 14 (8.70%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 75 (46.58%) Python
2 36 (22.36%) Java
3 34 (21.12%) SQL
4 22 (13.66%) JavaScript
5 21 (13.04%) C#
6 13 (8.07%) Bash
7 12 (7.45%) TypeScript
8 8 (4.97%) PowerShell
9 6 (3.73%) Go
9 6 (3.73%) Shell Script
10 5 (3.11%) Bicep
11 3 (1.86%) C++
11 3 (1.86%) PromQL
12 2 (1.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (1.24%) Groovy
12 2 (1.24%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.24%) PHP
12 2 (1.24%) Scala
13 1 (0.62%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.62%) Swift
Qualifications
1 11 (6.83%) Security Cleared
2 10 (6.21%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.11%) Degree
4 3 (1.86%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 3 (1.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (1.86%) CISSP
5 2 (1.24%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (1.24%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 2 (1.24%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.24%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.62%) CCIE
6 1 (0.62%) CCNP
6 1 (0.62%) CFA
6 1 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.62%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.62%) GIAC
6 1 (0.62%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.56%) QA
2 11 (6.83%) GDPR
3 7 (4.35%) Accessibility
3 7 (4.35%) Data Quality
4 6 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.86%) EU AI Act
5 3 (1.86%) NIST
5 3 (1.86%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 2 (1.24%) WCAG
7 1 (0.62%) MiFID
7 1 (0.62%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 30 (18.63%) Docker
2 3 (1.86%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.62%) HDFS
3 1 (0.62%) OpenAM
3 1 (0.62%) OpenDJ
3 1 (0.62%) OpenIDM
3 1 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 56 (34.78%) Terraform
2 44 (27.33%) Kubernetes
3 16 (9.94%) Prometheus
4 13 (8.07%) Grafana
5 10 (6.21%) Argo
6 9 (5.59%) Ansible
7 5 (3.11%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.48%) Istio
8 4 (2.48%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.86%) Puppet
10 2 (1.24%) Kustomize
10 2 (1.24%) Packer
10 2 (1.24%) Podman
11 1 (0.62%) Cilium
11 1 (0.62%) Consul
11 1 (0.62%) Kibana
11 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.62%) Rundeck
11 1 (0.62%) yum
Vendors
1 26 (16.15%) Microsoft
2 22 (13.66%) Google
3 11 (6.83%) Databricks
4 8 (4.97%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.11%) OpenAI
5 5 (3.11%) Splunk
6 4 (2.48%) OpenLink
7 3 (1.86%) Oracle
7 3 (1.86%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.24%) Cisco
8 2 (1.24%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.24%) IBM
8 2 (1.24%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.62%) Adobe
9 1 (0.62%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.62%) Avaloq
9 1 (0.62%) FNZ
9 1 (0.62%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.62%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.62%) Portware