CI/CD Contracts in the City of London

CI/CD
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring CI/CD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CI/CD over the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 16 13
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 +7
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 192 317 468
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 8.80% 9.25% 11.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.73% 10.12% 12.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 179 368
10th Percentile £425 £463 £463
25th Percentile £500 £534 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £628
Median % change year-on-year - -0.40% +8.24%
75th Percentile £738 £728 £738
90th Percentile £821 £821 £818
Central London median daily rate £600 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +7.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.75 - -
Median hourly rate £48.50 - -
75th Percentile £50.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £48.50 - -

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 1,974 3,133 3,832
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.47% 91.45% 92.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,375 2,108 2,870
10th Percentile £356 £363 £384
25th Percentile £458 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +5.99%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £688
90th Percentile £800 £820 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +6.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 25 46
10th Percentile £19.98 £14.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £15.50 £25.44
Median hourly rate £26.25 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -14.63% +92.94%
75th Percentile £40.00 £53.75 £54.88
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £62.50
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -15.66% +107.50%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in the City of London

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 20 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in the City of London

CI/CD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for CI/CD in the City of London

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 20 June 2024. 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
London Bridge +2 2 £500 -23.04% 1
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 9 (4.69%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.65%) Confluence
3 5 (2.60%) Apache
4 4 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.08%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.56%) BizTalk Server
5 3 (1.56%) CMS
6 1 (0.52%) IIS
6 1 (0.52%) nginx
6 1 (0.52%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.52%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.52%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.04%) Endur
2 1 (0.52%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (0.52%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.52%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.52%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 71 (36.98%) Azure
2 51 (26.56%) AWS
3 32 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (14.58%) GitHub
5 19 (9.90%) GCP
5 19 (9.90%) Serverless
6 15 (7.81%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (7.29%) Entra ID
8 11 (5.73%) Azure Key Vault
8 11 (5.73%) Power Platform
9 9 (4.69%) Amazon S3
9 9 (4.69%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (4.69%) Azure Functions
9 9 (4.69%) Azure Service Bus
10 8 (4.17%) PowerApps
11 7 (3.65%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (3.65%) Azure AKS
11 7 (3.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 7 (3.65%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.69%) Firewall
2 6 (3.13%) DNS
3 2 (1.04%) HTTP
3 2 (1.04%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.04%) VPN
4 1 (0.52%) AMQP
4 1 (0.52%) DHCP
4 1 (0.52%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.52%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.52%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.52%) VLAN
4 1 (0.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (11.46%) MongoDB
1 22 (11.46%) SQL Server
2 12 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 9 (4.69%) Power BI
4 7 (3.65%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (3.13%) MySQL
6 5 (2.60%) Data Lake
6 5 (2.60%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.08%) Redis
8 3 (1.56%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.56%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.56%) Metadata
8 3 (1.56%) Sybase ASE
9 2 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.04%) Data Mart
9 2 (1.04%) KDB
Development Applications
1 36 (18.75%) Git
2 29 (15.10%) Jenkins
3 24 (12.50%) GitLab
4 14 (7.29%) SpecFlow
5 13 (6.77%) Selenium
6 11 (5.73%) Cypress.io
6 11 (5.73%) JIRA
7 10 (5.21%) JUnit
7 10 (5.21%) Postman
8 8 (4.17%) JMeter
9 7 (3.65%) TeamCity
10 6 (3.13%) Bitbucket
10 6 (3.13%) TestNG
11 5 (2.60%) Cucumber
11 5 (2.60%) Visual Studio
12 4 (2.08%) Appium
12 4 (2.08%) Mockito
12 4 (2.08%) REST Assured
12 4 (2.08%) SonarQube
12 4 (2.08%) WebDriver
General
1 56 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 51 (26.56%) Finance
3 23 (11.98%) Banking
4 22 (11.46%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.17%) Financial Institution
6 6 (3.13%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.60%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.60%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.08%) Marketing
8 4 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.56%) Back Office
9 3 (1.56%) Retail
10 2 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.04%) Public Speaking
11 1 (0.52%) Arabic Language
11 1 (0.52%) Automotive
11 1 (0.52%) French Language
11 1 (0.52%) German Language
11 1 (0.52%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 52 (27.08%) Developer
2 33 (17.19%) Senior
3 21 (10.94%) DevOps Engineer
4 20 (10.42%) Architect
5 13 (6.77%) Lead
6 12 (6.25%) Full Stack Developer
6 12 (6.25%) Senior Developer
7 10 (5.21%) AWS Engineer
7 10 (5.21%) Data Engineer
7 10 (5.21%) Site Engineer
7 10 (5.21%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 8 (4.17%) Analyst
8 8 (4.17%) Java Developer
8 8 (4.17%) Platform Architect
8 8 (4.17%) Power Platform Architect
8 8 (4.17%) Python Engineer
9 7 (3.65%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (3.65%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (3.13%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (3.13%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (15.63%) Kafka
2 22 (11.46%) .NET
3 21 (10.94%) React
4 20 (10.42%) RESTful
5 19 (9.90%) REST
6 17 (8.85%) XML
7 15 (7.81%) HTML
8 14 (7.29%) .NET Core
9 13 (6.77%) CSS
10 12 (6.25%) JSON
10 12 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
11 8 (4.17%) AngularJS
11 8 (4.17%) Node.js
11 8 (4.17%) Pandas
12 7 (3.65%) pytest
12 7 (3.65%) YAML
13 6 (3.13%) Matplotlib
13 6 (3.13%) Microsoft Graph
13 6 (3.13%) PySpark
13 6 (3.13%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.81%) Algorithms
2 14 (7.29%) Data Structures
2 14 (7.29%) Product Ownership
3 13 (6.77%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (4.69%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (2.08%) Derivative
7 4 (2.08%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.56%) Machine to Machine
9 2 (1.04%) Contactless
9 2 (1.04%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.04%) Equities
9 2 (1.04%) Fixed Income
9 2 (1.04%) Life Science
9 2 (1.04%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.04%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.04%) Web 2.0
10 1 (0.52%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 32 (16.67%) Linux
2 15 (7.81%) Windows
3 7 (3.65%) Unix
4 6 (3.13%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.08%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.56%) Android
6 3 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.52%) CentOS
7 1 (0.52%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (53.65%) DevOps
2 68 (35.42%) Agile
3 40 (20.83%) Microservices
4 38 (19.79%) Test Automation
5 29 (15.10%) Infrastructure as Code
5 29 (15.10%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (14.58%) Scrum
7 22 (11.46%) Software Engineering
8 20 (10.42%) Continuous Integration
8 20 (10.42%) SDLC
9 19 (9.90%) Containerisation
10 17 (8.85%) Computer Science
10 17 (8.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 17 (8.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 16 (8.33%) Front End Development
12 15 (7.81%) Full Stack Development
12 15 (7.81%) Migration
12 15 (7.81%) TDD
13 13 (6.77%) Platform Engineering
13 13 (6.77%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 74 (38.54%) Python
2 48 (25.00%) Java
3 43 (22.40%) SQL
4 32 (16.67%) PowerShell
5 25 (13.02%) C#
5 25 (13.02%) JavaScript
6 17 (8.85%) Bash
7 15 (7.81%) C++
7 15 (7.81%) Shell Script
8 13 (6.77%) Go
9 12 (6.25%) TypeScript
10 7 (3.65%) Bicep
11 6 (3.13%) T-SQL
12 4 (2.08%) Perl
12 4 (2.08%) PL/SQL
12 4 (2.08%) Scala
13 3 (1.56%) Rust
13 3 (1.56%) Swift
14 2 (1.04%) Kotlin
14 2 (1.04%) PHP
Qualifications
1 16 (8.33%) Degree
2 13 (6.77%) Security Cleared
3 12 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.08%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.08%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.56%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.52%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.52%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.52%) ISEB
7 1 (0.52%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.33%) QA
2 6 (3.13%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.13%) WCAG
3 4 (2.08%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (2.08%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.04%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.04%) NIST
5 1 (0.52%) GDPR
5 1 (0.52%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 38 (19.79%) Docker
2 15 (7.81%) Active Directory
3 11 (5.73%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 11 (5.73%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.52%) Ceph
4 1 (0.52%) NFS
4 1 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 55 (28.65%) Kubernetes
2 45 (23.44%) Terraform
3 17 (8.85%) Ansible
3 17 (8.85%) Prometheus
4 16 (8.33%) Grafana
5 12 (6.25%) Consul
6 6 (3.13%) Puppet
7 5 (2.60%) Argo
8 4 (2.08%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.56%) Kibana
9 3 (1.56%) logstash
10 2 (1.04%) Packer
10 2 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.52%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.52%) Mesos
11 1 (0.52%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.52%) PingFederate
11 1 (0.52%) Rancher
Vendors
1 55 (28.65%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.73%) SaltStack
3 9 (4.69%) Databricks
3 9 (4.69%) Oracle
4 5 (2.60%) Google
5 4 (2.08%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.56%) MuleSoft
6 3 (1.56%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.56%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.56%) Splunk
6 3 (1.56%) Sybase
7 2 (1.04%) Guidewire
7 2 (1.04%) IBM
7 2 (1.04%) ION Trading
7 2 (1.04%) Murex
7 2 (1.04%) New Relic
7 2 (1.04%) SAP
7 2 (1.04%) SnapLogic
7 2 (1.04%) VMware
8 1 (0.52%) Sitecore