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 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 20 24
Rank change year-on-year +3 +4 -8
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 167 180 228
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 9.77% 8.49% 7.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.35% 9.23% 8.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 129 149
10th Percentile £400 £461 £425
25th Percentile £488 £515 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £685 £750 £700
90th Percentile £800 £804 £740
Central London median daily rate £600 £650 £603
% change year-on-year -7.65% +7.88% +0.42%
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 1,613 1,951 2,573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.33% 92.07% 89.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,097 1,209 1,783
10th Percentile £325 £367 £373
25th Percentile £421 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £768 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £590
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.54% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 18 16
10th Percentile £16.90 £17.15 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.63 £24.09 £16.31
Median hourly rate £27.04 £40.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -33.25% +29.60% -27.53%
75th Percentile £35.88 £107.13 £48.19
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £60.88
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -22.76% +27.27% -35.67%

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 13 October 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 October 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 8 (4.79%) Confluence
2 6 (3.59%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.99%) Apache
4 4 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.40%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.60%) Camunda
5 1 (0.60%) CMS
5 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.60%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.40%) Endur
2 1 (0.60%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.60%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.60%) Orchestrade
2 1 (0.60%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 63 (37.72%) AWS
2 58 (34.73%) Azure
3 33 (19.76%) GitHub
4 26 (15.57%) GCP
4 26 (15.57%) GitHub Actions
5 24 (14.37%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (10.18%) Amazon S3
7 16 (9.58%) Serverless
8 14 (8.38%) Power Platform
9 13 (7.78%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (6.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 11 (6.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 8 (4.79%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (4.19%) Datadog
13 6 (3.59%) AWS Step Functions
13 6 (3.59%) Azure Data Factory
13 6 (3.59%) Azure Key Vault
13 6 (3.59%) Microsoft Purview
14 5 (2.99%) Amazon Cognito
14 5 (2.99%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.79%) DNS
2 6 (3.59%) Firewall
3 3 (1.80%) VPN
4 2 (1.20%) Network Security
4 2 (1.20%) SSH
5 1 (0.60%) BGP
5 1 (0.60%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.60%) IGMP
5 1 (0.60%) Internet
5 1 (0.60%) LAN
5 1 (0.60%) Multicast
5 1 (0.60%) NAS
5 1 (0.60%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (0.60%) OSPF
5 1 (0.60%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.60%) SAN
5 1 (0.60%) SSL
5 1 (0.60%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.60%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.39%) PostgreSQL
1 9 (5.39%) Power BI
2 8 (4.79%) BigQuery
2 8 (4.79%) DynamoDB
2 8 (4.79%) SQL Server
3 7 (4.19%) Data Lake
3 7 (4.19%) Relational Database
4 6 (3.59%) Big Data
5 5 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.40%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (2.40%) Delta Lake
6 4 (2.40%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.40%) MySQL
7 3 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.80%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.20%) Metadata
8 2 (1.20%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.20%) Pinecone
8 2 (1.20%) Redis
Development Applications
1 33 (19.76%) Git
2 28 (16.77%) Jenkins
3 17 (10.18%) GitLab
4 14 (8.38%) JIRA
5 11 (6.59%) Selenium
6 8 (4.79%) SonarQube
7 7 (4.19%) Gradle
8 6 (3.59%) Postman
9 5 (2.99%) Bitbucket
9 5 (2.99%) Cucumber
9 5 (2.99%) Cypress.io
9 5 (2.99%) TeamCity
10 4 (2.40%) Maven
11 3 (1.80%) Artifactory
11 3 (1.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (1.80%) Snyk
11 3 (1.80%) Storybook
12 2 (1.20%) CircleCI
12 2 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (1.20%) WebDriver
General
1 60 (35.93%) Finance
2 45 (26.95%) Social Skills
3 28 (16.77%) Banking
4 14 (8.38%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.59%) Front Office
6 5 (2.99%) Financial Institution
6 5 (2.99%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.40%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.80%) Back Office
9 2 (1.20%) Games
9 2 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.20%) Legal
9 2 (1.20%) Marketing
9 2 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.20%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.60%) International Banking
10 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.60%) Retail
10 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (21.56%) Developer
2 31 (18.56%) Senior
3 20 (11.98%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (7.78%) Architect
5 11 (6.59%) Data Engineer
5 11 (6.59%) GCP Engineer
6 10 (5.99%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (5.39%) Platform Engineer
7 9 (5.39%) Python Engineer
7 9 (5.39%) Software Engineer
8 8 (4.79%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (4.79%) Lead
9 7 (4.19%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 7 (4.19%) Java Developer
10 6 (3.59%) Python Developer
10 6 (3.59%) Senior Developer
11 5 (2.99%) AWS DevOps
11 5 (2.99%) AWS Engineer
11 5 (2.99%) Security Engineer
12 4 (2.40%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (11.38%) RESTful
2 18 (10.78%) .NET
3 15 (8.98%) HTML
3 15 (8.98%) React
4 14 (8.38%) CSS
5 13 (7.78%) AngularJS
5 13 (7.78%) REST
6 12 (7.19%) GraphQL
6 12 (7.19%) Kafka
7 8 (4.79%) Spring
8 7 (4.19%) Spring Boot
8 7 (4.19%) WebSockets
9 6 (3.59%) HTML5
9 6 (3.59%) Node.js
9 6 (3.59%) OpenTelemetry
9 6 (3.59%) Redux
10 5 (2.99%) JSON
10 5 (2.99%) OAuth
10 5 (2.99%) Zustand
11 4 (2.40%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 27 (16.17%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.39%) Onboarding
3 7 (4.19%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.19%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (4.19%) Virtual Team
4 6 (3.59%) Data Centre
4 6 (3.59%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.99%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.40%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.40%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.40%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.40%) Derivative
6 4 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.40%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.20%) 3D Graphics
7 2 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.20%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.20%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.20%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.20%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 16 (9.58%) Linux
2 6 (3.59%) Apple iOS
2 6 (3.59%) Unix
3 5 (2.99%) Windows
4 4 (2.40%) Android
5 2 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (61.08%) DevOps
2 64 (38.32%) Agile
3 47 (28.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 37 (22.16%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (17.37%) Containerisation
6 26 (15.57%) Microservices
7 24 (14.37%) Test Automation
8 23 (13.77%) Analytics
8 23 (13.77%) Software Engineering
9 22 (13.17%) Observability
10 18 (10.78%) AI
10 18 (10.78%) Infrastructure Automation
10 18 (10.78%) Performance Optimisation
11 17 (10.18%) Code Quality
11 17 (10.18%) Data Pipeline
12 16 (9.58%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (9.58%) Continuous Integration
12 16 (9.58%) Design Patterns
13 14 (8.38%) High Availability
13 14 (8.38%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 72 (43.11%) Python
2 36 (21.56%) SQL
3 34 (20.36%) Java
4 23 (13.77%) JavaScript
5 21 (12.57%) C#
6 15 (8.98%) TypeScript
7 10 (5.99%) Bash
8 6 (3.59%) Go
8 6 (3.59%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.40%) Bicep
9 4 (2.40%) PHP
9 4 (2.40%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.80%) C++
10 3 (1.80%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.80%) PromQL
10 3 (1.80%) Swift
11 2 (1.20%) Apex Code
11 2 (1.20%) Objective-C
11 2 (1.20%) Rust
11 2 (1.20%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 12 (7.19%) Security Cleared
2 11 (6.59%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.99%) Degree
4 3 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (1.80%) CISSP
5 2 (1.20%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.20%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.20%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 2 (1.20%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.20%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.60%) CCIE
6 1 (0.60%) CCNP
6 1 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.60%) CREST Certified
6 1 (0.60%) MCP
6 1 (0.60%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (11.38%) QA
2 11 (6.59%) GDPR
3 10 (5.99%) Accessibility
4 8 (4.79%) Data Quality
5 6 (3.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.80%) EU AI Act
6 3 (1.80%) NIST
6 3 (1.80%) SOC 2
7 2 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 2 (1.20%) WCAG
8 1 (0.60%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.60%) MiFID
8 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 35 (20.96%) Docker
2 3 (1.80%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.60%) HDFS
3 1 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (30.54%) Terraform
2 44 (26.35%) Kubernetes
3 14 (8.38%) Prometheus
4 10 (5.99%) Grafana
5 9 (5.39%) Ansible
5 9 (5.39%) Argo
6 5 (2.99%) Progress Chef
6 5 (2.99%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.80%) Istio
7 3 (1.80%) Puppet
8 2 (1.20%) Kibana
8 2 (1.20%) Kustomize
8 2 (1.20%) Packer
9 1 (0.60%) Cilium
9 1 (0.60%) Consul
9 1 (0.60%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.60%) logstash
9 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.60%) Podman
9 1 (0.60%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 25 (14.97%) Microsoft
2 23 (13.77%) Google
3 15 (8.98%) Databricks
4 8 (4.79%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.59%) Splunk
6 5 (2.99%) OpenAI
7 4 (2.40%) OpenLink
8 3 (1.80%) Oracle
8 3 (1.80%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.20%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.20%) Cisco
9 2 (1.20%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.20%) IBM
9 2 (1.20%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.20%) UiPath
10 1 (0.60%) Arista
10 1 (0.60%) FNZ
10 1 (0.60%) LogicMonitor
10 1 (0.60%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.60%) Sonatype