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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 21 17
Rank change year-on-year +2 -4 -3
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 1,376 1,418 2,311
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 10.41% 8.05% 9.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.29% 9.09% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 919 1,017 1,625
10th Percentile £381 £413 £450
25th Percentile £438 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £567 £613
Median % change year-on-year -6.53% -7.43% -2.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £808 £813 £800
England median daily rate £513 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -6.82% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 9
10th Percentile £38.00 £48.40 £65.00
25th Percentile £42.50 £50.88 £75.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £55.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -31.25% +7.39%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.00 £83.00
90th Percentile £54.50 £64.60 £90.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £67.25 £65.61
% change year-on-year -7.06% +2.51% +0.16%

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 12,188 15,591 23,116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.19% 88.48% 90.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,144 11,105 16,751
10th Percentile £331 £340 £370
25th Percentile £425 £445 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year - -5.98% +1.74%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 296 262
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.97 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.02 £22.93
Median hourly rate £32.00 £30.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £50.50 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.60 £68.75 £82.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +45.12%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 4 July 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 -2 204 £614 +2.38% 736
South London +1 31 £533 +9.23% 37
West London +6 19 £493 +3.68% 127
East London +3 4 £250 -51.81% 46
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 69 (5.01%) Apache Spark
2 50 (3.63%) Apache
3 49 (3.56%) Apache Airflow
4 34 (2.47%) Confluence
5 9 (0.65%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.36%) JBoss
6 5 (0.36%) nginx
7 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.22%) BizTalk Server
8 3 (0.22%) Camunda
8 3 (0.22%) CMS
8 3 (0.22%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.22%) SAS
8 3 (0.22%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.22%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.15%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.15%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.15%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle Coherence
9 2 (0.15%) Umbraco
Applications
1 15 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.22%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.073%) InVision
4 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.073%) Sketch
4 1 (0.073%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (1.09%) Oracle BPM
2 14 (1.02%) FLEXCUBE
3 6 (0.44%) Aladdin
3 6 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.44%) Endur
4 4 (0.29%) Shopify
5 3 (0.22%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.15%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
6 2 (0.15%) thinkFolio
7 1 (0.073%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.073%) OpenText MBPM
7 1 (0.073%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.073%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.073%) Orchestrade
7 1 (0.073%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.073%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.073%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 634 (46.08%) AWS
2 506 (36.77%) Azure
3 231 (16.79%) GitHub
4 201 (14.61%) GCP
5 195 (14.17%) Azure DevOps
6 163 (11.85%) Serverless
7 129 (9.38%) GitHub Actions
8 115 (8.36%) AWS Lambda
9 103 (7.49%) AWS CloudFormation
10 92 (6.69%) Amazon S3
11 55 (4.00%) dbt
12 52 (3.78%) Amazon EC2
12 52 (3.78%) Azure Data Factory
13 49 (3.56%) Power Platform
14 45 (3.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 44 (3.20%) OpenShift
16 42 (3.05%) Amazon EKS
16 42 (3.05%) Azure AKS
17 39 (2.83%) Amazon ECS
18 37 (2.69%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (2.83%) DNS
2 37 (2.69%) Firewall
3 29 (2.11%) VPN
4 23 (1.67%) TCP/IP
5 22 (1.60%) Network Security
6 20 (1.45%) HTTP
7 14 (1.02%) SSL
8 8 (0.58%) SMTP
9 6 (0.44%) BGP
10 5 (0.36%) FTP
10 5 (0.36%) HTTPS
10 5 (0.36%) OSPF
11 4 (0.29%) DHCP
12 3 (0.22%) Bluetooth
12 3 (0.22%) Cisco ISE
12 3 (0.22%) DSL
12 3 (0.22%) Internet
12 3 (0.22%) LAN
12 3 (0.22%) SMS
12 3 (0.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (3.92%) Relational Database
3 52 (3.78%) NoSQL
4 44 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
4 44 (3.20%) Big Data
4 44 (3.20%) SQL Server
5 42 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
6 41 (2.98%) Power BI
7 40 (2.91%) DynamoDB
8 38 (2.76%) BigQuery
9 36 (2.62%) Data Lake
10 29 (2.11%) MongoDB
11 27 (1.96%) Amazon Athena
12 23 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
13 22 (1.60%) Tableau
14 19 (1.38%) Apache Iceberg
15 18 (1.31%) Hadoop
16 17 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
16 17 (1.24%) MySQL
17 15 (1.09%) Apache Arrow
Development Applications
1 313 (22.75%) Jenkins
2 248 (18.02%) Git
3 168 (12.21%) GitLab
4 85 (6.18%) JIRA
5 55 (4.00%) Selenium
6 49 (3.56%) JUnit
7 41 (2.98%) Cypress.io
8 40 (2.91%) Artifactory
9 38 (2.76%) SonarQube
9 38 (2.76%) TeamCity
10 32 (2.33%) Bitbucket
10 32 (2.33%) Postman
11 28 (2.03%) JMeter
12 27 (1.96%) Gradle
12 27 (1.96%) REST Assured
13 26 (1.89%) CircleCI
13 26 (1.89%) Maven
14 24 (1.74%) Cucumber
15 23 (1.67%) Mockito
16 19 (1.38%) Liquibase
General
1 366 (26.60%) Finance
2 348 (25.29%) Social Skills
3 186 (13.52%) Analytical Skills
4 159 (11.56%) Banking
5 118 (8.58%) Public Sector
6 56 (4.07%) Investment Banking
7 43 (3.13%) Front Office
8 35 (2.54%) Marketing
9 31 (2.25%) Telecoms
10 27 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
11 26 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
12 25 (1.82%) Financial Institution
13 24 (1.74%) Military
14 22 (1.60%) Retail
15 17 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
16 16 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 15 (1.09%) Electronics
17 15 (1.09%) Manufacturing
18 14 (1.02%) Law
19 12 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 396 (28.78%) Developer
2 206 (14.97%) Senior
3 205 (14.90%) DevOps Engineer
4 133 (9.67%) Architect
5 108 (7.85%) AWS Engineer
6 106 (7.70%) Data Engineer
7 104 (7.56%) Java Developer
8 97 (7.05%) Lead
9 73 (5.31%) Azure Engineer
10 71 (5.16%) Python Developer
11 67 (4.87%) Senior Developer
12 65 (4.72%) AWS DevOps
13 62 (4.51%) Cloud Engineer
14 61 (4.43%) Python Engineer
14 61 (4.43%) Software Engineer
15 58 (4.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 55 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
17 43 (3.13%) Platform Engineer
18 42 (3.05%) Test Engineer
19 41 (2.98%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (12.57%) React
2 128 (9.30%) Kafka
3 123 (8.94%) REST
4 116 (8.43%) .NET
5 111 (8.07%) Spring
6 101 (7.34%) RESTful
7 87 (6.32%) Node.js
8 80 (5.81%) Spring Boot
9 75 (5.45%) HTML
10 68 (4.94%) CSS
11 62 (4.51%) AngularJS
12 54 (3.92%) GraphQL
13 44 (3.20%) PySpark
14 42 (3.05%) FastAPI
15 36 (2.62%) .NET Core
16 35 (2.54%) Redux
16 35 (2.54%) SOAP
17 32 (2.33%) Django
17 32 (2.33%) Jest
17 32 (2.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 116 (8.43%) Cloud Native
2 89 (6.47%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (3.42%) Algorithms
4 45 (3.27%) Product Ownership
5 40 (2.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 40 (2.91%) Public Cloud
6 38 (2.76%) Mobile App
7 36 (2.62%) Hedge funds
8 35 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
9 33 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
10 28 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
11 27 (1.96%) Data Structures
11 27 (1.96%) Derivative
12 24 (1.74%) Management Information System
12 24 (1.74%) Onboarding
13 21 (1.53%) Distributed Computing
14 20 (1.45%) Data Centre
15 19 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
15 19 (1.38%) Virtual Team
16 18 (1.31%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 163 (11.85%) Linux
2 40 (2.91%) Windows
3 36 (2.62%) Unix
4 32 (2.33%) Android
5 22 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (1.31%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.58%) VMS
7 8 (0.58%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.51%) Solaris
9 6 (0.44%) Rocky
10 3 (0.22%) CentOS
11 2 (0.15%) SUSE
12 1 (0.073%) AIX
12 1 (0.073%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 742 (53.92%) DevOps
2 491 (35.68%) Agile
3 366 (26.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 286 (20.78%) Problem-Solving
5 248 (18.02%) Microservices
6 247 (17.95%) Containerisation
6 247 (17.95%) Test Automation
7 202 (14.68%) Software Engineering
8 153 (11.12%) Continuous Integration
9 142 (10.32%) Analytics
10 137 (9.96%) Scrum
11 133 (9.67%) TDD
12 121 (8.79%) Data Engineering
12 121 (8.79%) Mentoring
13 120 (8.72%) Data Pipeline
14 119 (8.65%) Full-Stack Development
15 118 (8.58%) SDLC
16 114 (8.28%) Artificial Intelligence
16 114 (8.28%) Migration
17 108 (7.85%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 626 (45.49%) Python
2 406 (29.51%) Java
3 293 (21.29%) SQL
4 212 (15.41%) JavaScript
5 173 (12.57%) C#
6 161 (11.70%) TypeScript
7 142 (10.32%) Bash
8 102 (7.41%) PowerShell
9 95 (6.90%) Go
10 73 (5.31%) C++
11 37 (2.69%) Scala
12 35 (2.54%) Shell Script
13 33 (2.40%) Bicep
14 32 (2.33%) Kotlin
15 29 (2.11%) PL/SQL
16 23 (1.67%) Groovy
16 23 (1.67%) Rust
17 17 (1.24%) Perl
18 15 (1.09%) Ruby
19 11 (0.80%) C
Qualifications
1 231 (16.79%) Security Cleared
2 209 (15.19%) SC Cleared
3 100 (7.27%) Degree
4 55 (4.00%) AWS Certification
5 40 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 30 (2.18%) Azure Certification
7 19 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 18 (1.31%) CREST Certified
8 18 (1.31%) Master's Degree
9 15 (1.09%) DV Cleared
10 14 (1.02%) OSCP
11 13 (0.94%) Tigerscheme
12 12 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (0.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 11 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
13 11 (0.80%) ISTQB
13 11 (0.80%) Numerate Degree
14 10 (0.73%) CHECK Team Member
15 8 (0.58%) CISSP
16 7 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (8.28%) QA
2 52 (3.78%) Accessibility
3 48 (3.49%) Data Quality
4 32 (2.33%) GDPR
5 20 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.02%) NCSC
6 14 (1.02%) NIST
7 13 (0.94%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
8 9 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 9 (0.65%) HIPAA
8 9 (0.65%) WCAG
9 4 (0.29%) MiFID
9 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.22%) HL7
10 3 (0.22%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.15%) DICOM
11 2 (0.15%) EMIR
11 2 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 375 (27.25%) Docker
2 29 (2.11%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.22%) OpenAM
6 3 (0.22%) OpenDJ
6 3 (0.22%) OpenIDM
6 3 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.15%) Ceph
7 2 (0.15%) zsh
8 1 (0.073%) iptables
8 1 (0.073%) KVM
8 1 (0.073%) NFS
8 1 (0.073%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.073%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.073%) Veritas File System
8 1 (0.073%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 1 (0.073%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 453 (32.92%) Kubernetes
2 444 (32.27%) Terraform
3 167 (12.14%) Ansible
4 76 (5.52%) Grafana
4 76 (5.52%) Prometheus
5 37 (2.69%) Puppet
6 26 (1.89%) Argo
7 20 (1.45%) Progress Chef
8 14 (1.02%) Nmap
8 14 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
9 11 (0.80%) Podman
10 10 (0.73%) Kibana
11 9 (0.65%) Packer
12 6 (0.44%) QRadar
13 5 (0.36%) Consul
13 5 (0.36%) Istio
13 5 (0.36%) Kubeflow
13 5 (0.36%) logstash
13 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 137 (9.96%) Microsoft
2 79 (5.74%) Google
3 73 (5.31%) Databricks
4 66 (4.80%) Oracle
5 52 (3.78%) Splunk
6 27 (1.96%) Salesforce
6 27 (1.96%) SAP
7 21 (1.53%) ServiceNow
8 18 (1.31%) Red Hat
9 14 (1.02%) Dynatrace
9 14 (1.02%) IBM
9 14 (1.02%) Veracode
10 12 (0.87%) VMware
11 10 (0.73%) Cisco
12 9 (0.65%) Cloudera
12 9 (0.65%) Murex
13 8 (0.58%) Adobe
13 8 (0.58%) ForgeRock
13 8 (0.58%) Qualys
14 7 (0.51%) SolarWinds