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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 20 25
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 -8
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 182 186 208
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 10.38% 8.76% 7.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.09% 9.58% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 127 147
10th Percentile £361 £442 £425
25th Percentile £456 £515 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% -3.81%
75th Percentile £661 £738 £701
90th Percentile £732 £807 £754
Central London median daily rate £575 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% -
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 1,641 1,942 2,497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.56% 91.47% 89.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,194 1,754
10th Percentile £327 £375 £363
25th Percentile £417 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £690
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 16
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.25 £15.63
25th Percentile £20.18 £25.38 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.75 £50.00 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -44.50% +52.67% -35.15%
75th Percentile £44.63 £112.00 £52.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £71.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £32.75
% change year-on-year -22.76% +6.87% -24.26%

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 15 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
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 15 November 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 9 (4.95%) Confluence
2 8 (4.40%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.75%) Apache
3 5 (2.75%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.75%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.10%) CMS
5 1 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.55%) Camunda
5 1 (0.55%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.55%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.55%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.55%) Orchestrade
1 1 (0.55%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 78 (42.86%) AWS
2 69 (37.91%) Azure
3 39 (21.43%) GitHub
4 33 (18.13%) GCP
4 33 (18.13%) GitHub Actions
5 27 (14.84%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (11.54%) Amazon S3
7 17 (9.34%) Serverless
8 14 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 13 (7.14%) Power Platform
10 12 (6.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 9 (4.95%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
12 7 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (3.85%) Snowflake
13 6 (3.30%) Apigee
13 6 (3.30%) dbt
13 6 (3.30%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.30%) DNS
2 4 (2.20%) Firewall
2 4 (2.20%) Network Security
3 2 (1.10%) SSH
4 1 (0.55%) BGP
4 1 (0.55%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.55%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.55%) IGMP
4 1 (0.55%) Internet
4 1 (0.55%) Multicast
4 1 (0.55%) NAS
4 1 (0.55%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (0.55%) OSPF
4 1 (0.55%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.55%) SAN
4 1 (0.55%) SSL
4 1 (0.55%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.55%) VPN
4 1 (0.55%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (6.59%) Relational Database
3 9 (4.95%) DynamoDB
3 9 (4.95%) MongoDB
4 8 (4.40%) SQL Server
5 7 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (3.85%) MySQL
5 7 (3.85%) Power BI
6 6 (3.30%) BigQuery
7 5 (2.75%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (2.75%) Big Data
7 5 (2.75%) Data Lake
7 5 (2.75%) Delta Lake
8 4 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.65%) Metadata
9 3 (1.65%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.10%) Kdb+
10 2 (1.10%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 40 (21.98%) Git
2 28 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 20 (10.99%) GitLab
4 15 (8.24%) JIRA
5 14 (7.69%) Selenium
6 9 (4.95%) Cucumber
7 8 (4.40%) SonarQube
8 7 (3.85%) Bitbucket
8 7 (3.85%) Cypress.io
8 7 (3.85%) Gradle
8 7 (3.85%) Postman
9 4 (2.20%) Maven
9 4 (2.20%) TeamCity
10 3 (1.65%) JMeter
10 3 (1.65%) JUnit
10 3 (1.65%) REST Assured
10 3 (1.65%) Snyk
10 3 (1.65%) WebDriver
11 2 (1.10%) Crashlytics
11 2 (1.10%) fastlane
General
1 68 (37.36%) Finance
2 54 (29.67%) Social Skills
3 34 (18.68%) Banking
4 15 (8.24%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (7.69%) Front Office
6 7 (3.85%) Financial Institution
7 6 (3.30%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.75%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.20%) Back Office
10 3 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.65%) Law
11 2 (1.10%) Games
11 2 (1.10%) Legal
11 2 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.10%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.55%) Automotive
12 1 (0.55%) Marketing
12 1 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (21.43%) Developer
2 33 (18.13%) Senior
3 23 (12.64%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (7.69%) Data Engineer
5 13 (7.14%) Architect
6 12 (6.59%) Python Engineer
7 11 (6.04%) GCP Engineer
8 10 (5.49%) Full-Stack Developer
8 10 (5.49%) Lead
9 9 (4.95%) Platform Engineer
9 9 (4.95%) Software Engineer
10 8 (4.40%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 8 (4.40%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (3.30%) Java Developer
11 6 (3.30%) Python Developer
11 6 (3.30%) Senior Developer
12 5 (2.75%) AWS Engineer
12 5 (2.75%) Cloud Engineer
12 5 (2.75%) Security Engineer
13 4 (2.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (11.54%) RESTful
2 20 (10.99%) React
3 17 (9.34%) HTML
4 16 (8.79%) CSS
4 16 (8.79%) REST
5 14 (7.69%) .NET
6 12 (6.59%) Kafka
7 11 (6.04%) AngularJS
7 11 (6.04%) OAuth
8 10 (5.49%) GraphQL
8 10 (5.49%) Node.js
9 8 (4.40%) Spring
10 7 (3.85%) HTML5
10 7 (3.85%) JWT
10 7 (3.85%) Spring Boot
11 6 (3.30%) JSON
11 6 (3.30%) Web Services
12 5 (2.75%) LangChain
12 5 (2.75%) Playwright
12 5 (2.75%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.19%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.49%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.40%) Onboarding
3 8 (4.40%) Virtual Team
4 7 (3.85%) Data Centre
4 7 (3.85%) Data Structures
4 7 (3.85%) Mobile App
5 6 (3.30%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.75%) AI Agents
6 5 (2.75%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.75%) Derivative
6 5 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.65%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.65%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.10%) 3D Graphics
9 2 (1.10%) Equities
9 2 (1.10%) PKI
9 2 (1.10%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.59%) Linux
2 8 (4.40%) Apple iOS
3 5 (2.75%) Android
3 5 (2.75%) Windows
4 4 (2.20%) Unix
5 2 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (54.40%) DevOps
2 62 (34.07%) Agile
3 49 (26.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 44 (24.18%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (17.58%) Containerisation
6 31 (17.03%) Test Automation
7 28 (15.38%) Analytics
7 28 (15.38%) Software Engineering
8 26 (14.29%) Microservices
9 23 (12.64%) Design Patterns
10 21 (11.54%) AI
11 20 (10.99%) Code Quality
11 20 (10.99%) Observability
12 19 (10.44%) Data Pipeline
13 18 (9.89%) Migration
14 17 (9.34%) ETL
14 17 (9.34%) Machine Learning
15 16 (8.79%) Continuous Improvement
15 16 (8.79%) Infrastructure Automation
15 16 (8.79%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 77 (42.31%) Python
2 35 (19.23%) SQL
3 34 (18.68%) Java
4 26 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 19 (10.44%) C#
6 18 (9.89%) TypeScript
7 13 (7.14%) Bash
8 8 (4.40%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.75%) Go
9 5 (2.75%) Swift
10 4 (2.20%) Bicep
10 4 (2.20%) C++
10 4 (2.20%) Kotlin
10 4 (2.20%) Objective-C
10 4 (2.20%) PHP
11 3 (1.65%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.65%) PromQL
11 3 (1.65%) VB.NET
12 2 (1.10%) Rust
12 2 (1.10%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (10.99%) Security Cleared
2 19 (10.44%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.85%) Degree
4 4 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.65%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.65%) CISSP
5 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.10%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.10%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.55%) CCIE
7 1 (0.55%) CCNP
7 1 (0.55%) CFA
7 1 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.55%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.55%) GIAC
7 1 (0.55%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.55%) MCP
7 1 (0.55%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (10.99%) QA
2 13 (7.14%) GDPR
3 9 (4.95%) Accessibility
3 9 (4.95%) Data Quality
4 7 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.20%) NIST
6 3 (1.65%) EU AI Act
6 3 (1.65%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 2 (1.10%) SOC 2
7 2 (1.10%) WCAG
8 1 (0.55%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.55%) MiFID
8 1 (0.55%) NCSC
System Software
1 43 (23.63%) Docker
2 3 (1.65%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.55%) HDFS
3 1 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 56 (30.77%) Terraform
2 45 (24.73%) Kubernetes
3 15 (8.24%) Ansible
4 11 (6.04%) Prometheus
5 10 (5.49%) Grafana
6 8 (4.40%) Argo
7 6 (3.30%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (2.20%) Istio
9 3 (1.65%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.10%) Kibana
10 2 (1.10%) Kustomize
10 2 (1.10%) Packer
11 1 (0.55%) Consul
11 1 (0.55%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.55%) logstash
11 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.55%) Podman
11 1 (0.55%) Puppet
11 1 (0.55%) Rundeck
11 1 (0.55%) yum
Vendors
1 31 (17.03%) Microsoft
2 25 (13.74%) Google
3 21 (11.54%) Databricks
4 7 (3.85%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.30%) OpenAI
5 6 (3.30%) Oracle
5 6 (3.30%) Splunk
6 3 (1.65%) UiPath
7 2 (1.10%) Apple
7 2 (1.10%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.10%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.10%) IBM
7 2 (1.10%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.10%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.10%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.55%) Adobe
8 1 (0.55%) Avaloq
8 1 (0.55%) F5
8 1 (0.55%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.55%) TIBCO