CI/CD Contract Job Trends in Croydon

CI/CD
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring CI/CD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 14 10
Rank change year-on-year +10 -4 +2
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 39 15 33
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 42.86% 13.27% 19.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 46.99% 14.29% 23.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 10 29
10th Percentile £473 £380 £425
25th Percentile £500 £404 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £532 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.22% -3.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £549 £538 £638
90th Percentile £579 £562 £675
South London median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 83 105 142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 91.21% 92.92% 85.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 65 97
10th Percentile £412 £380 £231
25th Percentile £492 £475 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% -8.70%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £595
90th Percentile £638 £623 £673
South London median daily rate £511 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -4.97% +7.60% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £17.25 £21.75
Median hourly rate - £19.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year - -17.02% -
75th Percentile - £21.75 £25.25
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £58.94 £19.50 £46.86
% change year-on-year +202.23% -58.39% +6.23%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CI/CD relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

CI/CD job vacancy trend in Croydon

CI/CD
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing CI/CD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing CI/CD

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in Croydon over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in Croydon

CI/CD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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 11 (28.21%) Confluence
2 10 (25.64%) nginx
3 6 (15.38%) SharePoint
4 5 (12.82%) SAS
5 1 (2.56%) Apache
5 1 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (2.56%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (25.64%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 32 (82.05%) AWS
2 27 (69.23%) Azure
3 13 (33.33%) Amazon S3
4 12 (30.77%) Amazon EC2
4 12 (30.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 11 (28.21%) AWS KMS
6 10 (25.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (25.64%) Amazon ECS
6 10 (25.64%) Amazon ELB
6 10 (25.64%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (25.64%) Route 53
7 8 (20.51%) GCP
8 6 (15.38%) Serverless
9 4 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (10.26%) GitHub
9 4 (10.26%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (7.69%) Azure AKS
10 3 (7.69%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 3 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 10 (25.64%) DNS
1 10 (25.64%) Firewall
1 10 (25.64%) FTP
1 10 (25.64%) HTTP
1 10 (25.64%) IMAP
1 10 (25.64%) OpenLDAP
1 10 (25.64%) SMTP
1 10 (25.64%) SSH
2 3 (7.69%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (38.46%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (25.64%) Amazon Aurora
2 10 (25.64%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.56%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (41.03%) JIRA
2 14 (35.90%) Git
2 14 (35.90%) Jenkins
3 10 (25.64%) Vagrant
4 4 (10.26%) GitLab
5 1 (2.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (2.56%) Zephyr
General
1 20 (51.28%) Public Sector
2 15 (38.46%) Social Skills
3 10 (25.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (30.77%) AWS Engineer
3 10 (25.64%) AWS DevOps
3 10 (25.64%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 10 (25.64%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 10 (25.64%) Platform Engineer
4 9 (23.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 9 (23.08%) Developer
5 8 (20.51%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 4 (10.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 4 (10.26%) Java Developer
6 4 (10.26%) Tester
7 3 (7.69%) Security Engineer
7 3 (7.69%) Test Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
8 2 (5.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (5.13%) Java Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Penetration Tester
8 2 (5.13%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (25.64%) LDAP
2 9 (23.08%) Node.js
2 9 (23.08%) Spring
3 8 (20.51%) React
4 3 (7.69%) .NET
4 3 (7.69%) .NET Core
4 3 (7.69%) AngularJS
4 3 (7.69%) Kafka
4 3 (7.69%) PyTorch
4 3 (7.69%) TensorFlow
5 2 (5.13%) Playwright
6 1 (2.56%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.56%) pytest
6 1 (2.56%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.64%) Replication
2 3 (7.69%) AI Agents
2 3 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.13%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.13%) CSOC
4 1 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 10 (25.64%) Amazon Linux
1 10 (25.64%) Linux
1 10 (25.64%) Ubuntu
1 10 (25.64%) VMS
1 10 (25.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (56.41%) DevOps
2 15 (38.46%) Cloud Security
2 15 (38.46%) Containerisation
3 11 (28.21%) Microservices
4 10 (25.64%) Change Management
4 10 (25.64%) Configuration Management
4 10 (25.64%) Patch Management
4 10 (25.64%) Performance Tuning
4 10 (25.64%) Platform Engineering
5 9 (23.08%) Continuous Delivery
5 9 (23.08%) Design Patterns
5 9 (23.08%) TDD
6 8 (20.51%) Code Quality
6 8 (20.51%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (20.51%) CQRS
6 8 (20.51%) Domain-Driven Design
7 7 (17.95%) Agile
7 7 (17.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 6 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (15.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 23 (58.97%) Python
2 14 (35.90%) SQL
3 11 (28.21%) Java
4 10 (25.64%) Groovy
4 10 (25.64%) JavaScript
4 10 (25.64%) PowerShell
5 7 (17.95%) TypeScript
6 3 (7.69%) Bicep
6 3 (7.69%) C#
7 2 (5.13%) Bash
8 1 (2.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 33 (84.62%) SC Cleared
1 33 (84.62%) Security Cleared
2 10 (25.64%) AWS Certification
2 10 (25.64%) Azure Certification
2 10 (25.64%) Degree
3 5 (12.82%) CREST Certified
4 4 (10.26%) CEH
4 4 (10.26%) OSCP
5 3 (7.69%) SANS
6 2 (5.13%) CHECK Team Leader
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (12.82%) NIST
1 5 (12.82%) NIST 800
2 2 (5.13%) NCSC
3 1 (2.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.56%) QA
3 1 (2.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (79.49%) Docker
2 10 (25.64%) DFS Replication
2 10 (25.64%) Dovecot
2 10 (25.64%) Postfix
2 10 (25.64%) Squid
3 3 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (51.28%) Kubernetes
2 17 (43.59%) Terraform
3 11 (28.21%) Grafana
3 11 (28.21%) Prometheus
4 10 (25.64%) Nessus
4 10 (25.64%) Proxmox
5 5 (12.82%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (5.13%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (28.21%) ServiceNow
2 10 (25.64%) Jaspersoft
3 4 (10.26%) Microsoft
4 3 (7.69%) Databricks
4 3 (7.69%) OpenAI