CI/CD Contracts in London

CI/CD
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 25 16
Rank change year-on-year +7 -9 -2
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 1,269 1,289 2,588
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 10.11% 7.23% 9.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.97% 8.16% 10.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 895 942 1,825
10th Percentile £397 £413 £463
25th Percentile £459 £475 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £623
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% -9.52% -0.40%
75th Percentile £714 £688 £725
90th Percentile £838 £787 £804
England median daily rate £536 £561 £600
% change year-on-year -4.50% -6.46% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 9
10th Percentile £38.25 £49.23 £63.00
25th Percentile £43.13 £52.94 £75.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £56.25 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -29.69% +3.11%
75th Percentile £53.75 £60.81 £90.00
90th Percentile - £64.53 £92.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £65.61
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.92% +0.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing CI/CD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in London

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in London

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in London

CI/CD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for CI/CD in London

CI/CD
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CI/CD in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for CI/CD in London

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London +7 213 £583 -2.92% 129
South London +5 29 £485 +2.11% 8
West London +7 18 £409 -16.10% 46
East London +9 7 £500 -7.19% 17
CI/CD
England

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 82 (6.46%) Apache Spark
2 65 (5.12%) Apache
3 47 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
4 36 (2.84%) Confluence
5 25 (1.97%) nginx
6 12 (0.95%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.55%) BizTalk Server
7 7 (0.55%) OpenStack
8 6 (0.47%) CMS
8 6 (0.47%) Jupyter
8 6 (0.47%) SAS
9 5 (0.39%) Traefik
10 4 (0.32%) Cloud Foundry
10 4 (0.32%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.24%) IIS
12 2 (0.16%) JBoss
12 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.16%) Oracle Coherence
12 2 (0.16%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.079%) InVision
3 1 (0.079%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.079%) Sketch
3 1 (0.079%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (0.47%) FLEXCUBE
1 6 (0.47%) Oracle BPM
2 4 (0.32%) Endur
3 3 (0.24%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.24%) Shopify
4 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.16%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.079%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.079%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.079%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.079%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.079%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.079%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.079%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.079%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.079%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 568 (44.76%) AWS
2 429 (33.81%) Azure
3 192 (15.13%) GitHub
4 181 (14.26%) Azure DevOps
5 178 (14.03%) Serverless
6 139 (10.95%) GCP
7 129 (10.17%) AWS Lambda
8 104 (8.20%) GitHub Actions
9 97 (7.64%) Amazon S3
10 93 (7.33%) AWS CloudFormation
11 67 (5.28%) Amazon ECS
12 64 (5.04%) dbt
13 62 (4.89%) OpenShift
14 58 (4.57%) Amazon EC2
15 54 (4.26%) Azure Data Factory
15 54 (4.26%) Power Platform
16 52 (4.10%) Azure AKS
17 48 (3.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 47 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
19 44 (3.47%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (3.39%) DNS
2 42 (3.31%) Firewall
3 34 (2.68%) TCP/IP
4 30 (2.36%) HTTP
5 29 (2.29%) VPN
6 19 (1.50%) Network Security
7 12 (0.95%) 4G
7 12 (0.95%) 5G
7 12 (0.95%) Radio Access Network
8 10 (0.79%) 5G NR
8 10 (0.79%) LTE
8 10 (0.79%) SSL
9 8 (0.63%) BGP
9 8 (0.63%) DHCP
9 8 (0.63%) SMTP
10 6 (0.47%) WAN
11 5 (0.39%) FTP
11 5 (0.39%) Reverse Proxy
12 4 (0.32%) HTTPS
12 4 (0.32%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (6.93%) PostgreSQL
2 51 (4.02%) Amazon RDS
3 50 (3.94%) SQL Server
4 49 (3.86%) NoSQL
4 49 (3.86%) Relational Database
5 48 (3.78%) Amazon Athena
6 43 (3.39%) Power BI
7 42 (3.31%) MongoDB
8 39 (3.07%) Apache Iceberg
8 39 (3.07%) Big Data
9 38 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
10 35 (2.76%) DynamoDB
11 33 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
12 32 (2.52%) Data Lake
13 29 (2.29%) MySQL
14 28 (2.21%) Apache Arrow
14 28 (2.21%) Apache Ignite
14 28 (2.21%) Dremio
15 27 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
16 25 (1.97%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 322 (25.37%) Jenkins
2 224 (17.65%) Git
3 179 (14.11%) GitLab
4 91 (7.17%) JIRA
5 57 (4.49%) Selenium
6 44 (3.47%) JUnit
6 44 (3.47%) Postman
7 43 (3.39%) Artifactory
8 39 (3.07%) TeamCity
9 38 (2.99%) Cypress.io
10 34 (2.68%) Bitbucket
11 33 (2.60%) JMeter
12 31 (2.44%) REST Assured
13 26 (2.05%) Cucumber
14 24 (1.89%) Gradle
15 23 (1.81%) SonarQube
16 22 (1.73%) CircleCI
17 20 (1.58%) Maven
18 19 (1.50%) Appium
19 14 (1.10%) Liquibase
General
1 351 (27.66%) Finance
2 281 (22.14%) Social Skills
3 157 (12.37%) Analytical Skills
4 156 (12.29%) Banking
5 115 (9.06%) Public Sector
6 75 (5.91%) Front Office
7 63 (4.96%) Investment Banking
8 35 (2.76%) Telecoms
9 34 (2.68%) Financial Institution
10 30 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
11 29 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
12 27 (2.13%) Marketing
13 15 (1.18%) Retail
14 14 (1.10%) Electronics
14 14 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 14 (1.10%) Manufacturing
14 14 (1.10%) Military
15 10 (0.79%) Law
16 9 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
16 9 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 346 (27.27%) Developer
2 244 (19.23%) DevOps Engineer
3 200 (15.76%) Senior
4 125 (9.85%) AWS Engineer
5 119 (9.38%) Data Engineer
6 107 (8.43%) Architect
7 103 (8.12%) Lead
8 91 (7.17%) AWS DevOps
9 88 (6.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 83 (6.54%) Python Engineer
11 70 (5.52%) Java Developer
12 69 (5.44%) Python Developer
13 66 (5.20%) Azure Engineer
13 66 (5.20%) Software Engineer
14 65 (5.12%) Senior Developer
15 46 (3.62%) Full-Stack Developer
16 44 (3.47%) Cloud Engineer
16 44 (3.47%) Test Engineer
17 39 (3.07%) Platform Engineer
18 37 (2.92%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (13.40%) React
2 129 (10.17%) Kafka
3 123 (9.69%) .NET
4 104 (8.20%) REST
5 89 (7.01%) RESTful
6 83 (6.54%) Spring
7 75 (5.91%) Node.js
8 65 (5.12%) HTML
9 64 (5.04%) Spring Boot
10 58 (4.57%) CSS
11 56 (4.41%) PySpark
12 53 (4.18%) FastAPI
13 52 (4.10%) GraphQL
14 51 (4.02%) AngularJS
15 42 (3.31%) Django
16 35 (2.76%) J2EE
17 34 (2.68%) .NET Core
18 30 (2.36%) Elastic Stack
19 29 (2.29%) pytest
19 29 (2.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 98 (7.72%) Cloud Native
2 71 (5.59%) Distributed Systems
3 33 (2.60%) Algorithms
4 32 (2.52%) Product Ownership
4 32 (2.52%) Public Cloud
5 31 (2.44%) Hedge funds
6 27 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 26 (2.05%) Derivative
7 26 (2.05%) Mobile App
8 24 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
9 23 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
10 20 (1.58%) Distributed Computing
11 19 (1.50%) Data Structures
11 19 (1.50%) Management Information System
11 19 (1.50%) Onboarding
12 18 (1.42%) Data Centre
12 18 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
13 17 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
14 16 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
14 16 (1.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 185 (14.58%) Linux
2 48 (3.78%) Windows
3 46 (3.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 35 (2.76%) Unix
5 23 (1.81%) Android
6 14 (1.10%) Apple iOS
6 14 (1.10%) CentOS
7 10 (0.79%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.63%) Solaris
9 7 (0.55%) Rocky
10 6 (0.47%) VMS
11 3 (0.24%) SUSE
11 3 (0.24%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.079%) Debian
13 1 (0.079%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 722 (56.90%) DevOps
2 443 (34.91%) Agile
3 266 (20.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 252 (19.86%) Problem-Solving
5 245 (19.31%) Test Automation
6 227 (17.89%) Containerisation
7 221 (17.42%) Software Engineering
8 209 (16.47%) Microservices
9 162 (12.77%) Continuous Integration
10 132 (10.40%) Analytics
11 114 (8.98%) Data Engineering
11 114 (8.98%) Full-Stack Development
12 112 (8.83%) TDD
13 110 (8.67%) Artificial Intelligence
14 107 (8.43%) SDLC
15 104 (8.20%) Mentoring
16 100 (7.88%) Continuous Improvement
16 100 (7.88%) Scrum
17 96 (7.57%) Data Pipeline
18 95 (7.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 603 (47.52%) Python
2 351 (27.66%) Java
3 277 (21.83%) SQL
4 193 (15.21%) JavaScript
5 160 (12.61%) TypeScript
6 149 (11.74%) C#
7 109 (8.59%) Bash
8 99 (7.80%) Go
9 90 (7.09%) PowerShell
10 64 (5.04%) C++
11 46 (3.62%) Scala
12 37 (2.92%) Shell Script
13 24 (1.89%) Kotlin
14 22 (1.73%) PL/SQL
15 21 (1.65%) Bicep
15 21 (1.65%) Groovy
16 20 (1.58%) Rust
17 16 (1.26%) C
18 15 (1.18%) Ruby
18 15 (1.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 225 (17.73%) Security Cleared
2 212 (16.71%) SC Cleared
3 104 (8.20%) Degree
4 63 (4.96%) AWS Certification
5 48 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (1.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 22 (1.73%) Azure Certification
7 20 (1.58%) Master's Degree
8 15 (1.18%) DV Cleared
9 11 (0.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 11 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (0.87%) Numerate Degree
10 9 (0.71%) AWS Certified Developer
11 7 (0.55%) ISTQB
11 7 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
12 6 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.32%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 3 (0.24%) OCP
14 3 (0.24%) Oracle Certification
15 2 (0.16%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (7.72%) QA
2 41 (3.23%) Data Quality
3 38 (2.99%) Accessibility
4 25 (1.97%) GDPR
5 15 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (0.63%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.55%) HIPAA
7 7 (0.55%) NIST
7 7 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.47%) NCSC
8 6 (0.47%) WCAG
9 3 (0.24%) HL7
9 3 (0.24%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.16%) DICOM
10 2 (0.16%) EMIR
10 2 (0.16%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.16%) MiFID
10 2 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 380 (29.94%) Docker
2 22 (1.73%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.24%) NFS
5 3 (0.24%) Veritas File System
5 3 (0.24%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 2 (0.16%) Ceph
6 2 (0.16%) OpenAM
6 2 (0.16%) OpenDJ
6 2 (0.16%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.079%) Lustre
7 1 (0.079%) RACF
7 1 (0.079%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (0.079%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 476 (37.51%) Kubernetes
2 426 (33.57%) Terraform
3 206 (16.23%) Ansible
4 60 (4.73%) Grafana
5 53 (4.18%) Prometheus
6 27 (2.13%) Puppet
7 20 (1.58%) Argo
8 15 (1.18%) Progress Chef
9 14 (1.10%) Packer
10 11 (0.87%) Istio
11 10 (0.79%) ZABBIX
12 9 (0.71%) Kibana
12 9 (0.71%) Podman
12 9 (0.71%) QRadar
12 9 (0.71%) Red Hat Satellite
13 8 (0.63%) Consul
13 8 (0.63%) Rancher
14 7 (0.55%) NSN NetAct
15 6 (0.47%) HAProxy
15 6 (0.47%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 110 (8.67%) Microsoft
2 71 (5.59%) Databricks
3 60 (4.73%) Splunk
4 57 (4.49%) Oracle
5 47 (3.70%) Google
6 30 (2.36%) Red Hat
7 26 (2.05%) SAP
8 19 (1.50%) Salesforce
9 16 (1.26%) ServiceNow
10 15 (1.18%) VMware
11 14 (1.10%) Cloudera
11 14 (1.10%) IBM
12 13 (1.02%) Dynatrace
13 12 (0.95%) Cisco
14 10 (0.79%) MuleSoft
15 9 (0.71%) CyberArk
15 9 (0.71%) Qualys
16 8 (0.63%) Ericsson
16 8 (0.63%) SolarWinds
17 7 (0.55%) SaltStack