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 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 20 18
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 -4
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 1,478 1,373 2,047
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 10.90% 8.50% 8.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.81% 9.56% 9.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,002 965 1,446
10th Percentile £375 £413 £450
25th Percentile £438 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -5.83% -4.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £725
90th Percentile £750 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -6.82% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 8
10th Percentile £30.63 - £56.00
25th Percentile £36.88 - £70.63
Median hourly rate £48.75 £55.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% -29.03% +6.90%
75th Percentile £53.75 - £82.63
90th Percentile £54.38 - £85.10
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year - -10.34% +10.69%

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 12,520 14,362 21,169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.32% 88.87% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,335 10,045 15,408
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 197 226
10th Percentile £16.50 £16.99 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.66 £22.00 £23.00
Median hourly rate £29.29 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.33% -12.50% +10.34%
75th Percentile £48.94 £53.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £71.50 £80.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £40.85
% change year-on-year -41.51% +5.28% +54.13%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -2 199 £621 -0.72% 118
South London +1 34 £525 -2.42% 10
West London -7 18 £493 +4.79% 19
East London +7 10 £520 +15.56% 12
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 52 (3.52%) Apache Spark
1 52 (3.52%) Confluence
2 50 (3.38%) Apache Airflow
3 37 (2.50%) Apache
4 12 (0.81%) nginx
5 7 (0.47%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.27%) CMS
6 4 (0.27%) JBoss
6 4 (0.27%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.20%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
8 2 (0.14%) Camunda
8 2 (0.14%) CICS
8 2 (0.14%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.14%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.14%) Moodle
8 2 (0.14%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 18 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (0.41%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 4 (0.27%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.20%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.068%) InVision
5 1 (0.068%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.068%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 15 (1.01%) Oracle BPM
2 14 (0.95%) FLEXCUBE
3 8 (0.54%) Aladdin
3 8 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.54%) Endur
4 4 (0.27%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.27%) Shopify
5 3 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.20%) thinkFolio
6 2 (0.14%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.14%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.068%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.068%) OpenText MBPM
7 1 (0.068%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.068%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.068%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.068%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.068%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.068%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 692 (46.82%) AWS
2 561 (37.96%) Azure
3 267 (18.06%) GitHub
4 230 (15.56%) GCP
5 215 (14.55%) Azure DevOps
6 171 (11.57%) GitHub Actions
7 169 (11.43%) Serverless
8 116 (7.85%) Amazon S3
9 110 (7.44%) AWS Lambda
10 107 (7.24%) AWS CloudFormation
11 63 (4.26%) Amazon EC2
12 60 (4.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 55 (3.72%) Power Platform
14 51 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
15 50 (3.38%) Amazon ECS
16 49 (3.32%) dbt
17 44 (2.98%) Google Kubernetes Engine
18 43 (2.91%) Azure AKS
19 42 (2.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 41 (2.77%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 55 (3.72%) DNS
2 54 (3.65%) Firewall
3 32 (2.17%) VPN
4 28 (1.89%) HTTP
5 24 (1.62%) TCP/IP
6 22 (1.49%) Network Security
7 16 (1.08%) SSL
8 13 (0.88%) SMTP
9 11 (0.74%) FTP
9 11 (0.74%) OpenLDAP
10 10 (0.68%) SSH
11 9 (0.61%) BGP
12 8 (0.54%) DHCP
12 8 (0.54%) OSPF
13 6 (0.41%) IMAP
14 5 (0.34%) Ethernet VPN
14 5 (0.34%) HTTPS
14 5 (0.34%) VXLAN
14 5 (0.34%) WAN
15 4 (0.27%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (7.37%) PostgreSQL
2 66 (4.47%) NoSQL
3 55 (3.72%) Relational Database
3 55 (3.72%) SQL Server
4 54 (3.65%) Amazon RDS
5 46 (3.11%) Power BI
6 45 (3.04%) DynamoDB
7 44 (2.98%) Data Warehouse
8 41 (2.77%) Big Data
8 41 (2.77%) Data Lake
9 39 (2.64%) BigQuery
10 37 (2.50%) MongoDB
11 26 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
12 20 (1.35%) Delta Lake
12 20 (1.35%) MySQL
13 19 (1.29%) Hadoop
14 18 (1.22%) Tableau
15 17 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
16 16 (1.08%) Redis
17 13 (0.88%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 310 (20.97%) Jenkins
2 274 (18.54%) Git
3 163 (11.03%) GitLab
4 97 (6.56%) JIRA
5 56 (3.79%) Selenium
6 50 (3.38%) Cypress.io
7 48 (3.25%) SonarQube
8 47 (3.18%) JUnit
9 36 (2.44%) Bitbucket
9 36 (2.44%) Postman
10 34 (2.30%) TeamCity
11 29 (1.96%) Cucumber
11 29 (1.96%) Maven
12 28 (1.89%) Artifactory
12 28 (1.89%) CircleCI
13 27 (1.83%) REST Assured
14 25 (1.69%) Gradle
15 24 (1.62%) Mockito
16 23 (1.56%) JMeter
16 23 (1.56%) Liquibase
General
1 377 (25.51%) Finance
2 366 (24.76%) Social Skills
3 193 (13.06%) Banking
4 169 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
5 131 (8.86%) Public Sector
6 60 (4.06%) Investment Banking
7 37 (2.50%) Marketing
7 37 (2.50%) Telecoms
8 36 (2.44%) Front Office
9 26 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
9 26 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
10 23 (1.56%) Military
11 22 (1.49%) Financial Institution
11 22 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 19 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
13 18 (1.22%) Retail
14 17 (1.15%) Electronics
14 17 (1.15%) Manufacturing
15 12 (0.81%) Publishing
16 10 (0.68%) Law
Job Titles
1 404 (27.33%) Developer
2 238 (16.10%) Senior
3 190 (12.86%) DevOps Engineer
4 123 (8.32%) Architect
5 111 (7.51%) Java Developer
6 97 (6.56%) Data Engineer
7 95 (6.43%) Lead
8 94 (6.36%) AWS Engineer
9 78 (5.28%) Azure Engineer
10 77 (5.21%) Platform Engineer
11 72 (4.87%) Senior Developer
12 71 (4.80%) Software Engineer
13 66 (4.47%) Python Developer
14 59 (3.99%) Cloud Engineer
15 54 (3.65%) Full-Stack Developer
16 51 (3.45%) AWS DevOps
16 51 (3.45%) Python Engineer
17 43 (2.91%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 39 (2.64%) Cloud Platform Engineer
19 38 (2.57%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (11.98%) React
2 138 (9.34%) Kafka
3 131 (8.86%) REST
4 130 (8.80%) RESTful
5 121 (8.19%) .NET
6 113 (7.65%) Spring
7 107 (7.24%) Node.js
8 92 (6.22%) Spring Boot
9 87 (5.89%) HTML
10 77 (5.21%) AngularJS
11 74 (5.01%) CSS
12 59 (3.99%) GraphQL
13 41 (2.77%) .NET Core
14 40 (2.71%) OAuth
15 39 (2.64%) FastAPI
15 39 (2.64%) Jest
15 39 (2.64%) JSON
15 39 (2.64%) SOAP
16 36 (2.44%) YAML
17 34 (2.30%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 175 (11.84%) Cloud Native
2 105 (7.10%) Distributed Systems
3 56 (3.79%) Product Ownership
4 49 (3.32%) Mobile App
5 48 (3.25%) Algorithms
6 44 (2.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 36 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
8 35 (2.37%) Public Cloud
9 34 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
9 34 (2.30%) Hedge funds
9 34 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
10 28 (1.89%) Data Structures
11 26 (1.76%) Derivative
12 25 (1.69%) Distributed Computing
13 24 (1.62%) Data Centre
14 23 (1.56%) Onboarding
15 19 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
15 19 (1.29%) Management Information System
16 18 (1.22%) Equities
16 18 (1.22%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 160 (10.83%) Linux
2 52 (3.52%) Windows
3 40 (2.71%) Android
4 32 (2.17%) Unix
5 25 (1.69%) Apple iOS
6 18 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 13 (0.88%) Windows Server
8 12 (0.81%) VMS
9 7 (0.47%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.41%) Amazon Linux
11 5 (0.34%) Solaris
12 4 (0.27%) CentOS
13 2 (0.14%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.14%) SUSE
13 2 (0.14%) zOS
14 1 (0.068%) AIX
14 1 (0.068%) tvOS
14 1 (0.068%) watchOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 806 (54.53%) DevOps
2 544 (36.81%) Agile
3 435 (29.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 290 (19.62%) Microservices
5 287 (19.42%) Problem-Solving
6 267 (18.06%) Test Automation
7 257 (17.39%) Containerisation
8 211 (14.28%) Software Engineering
9 150 (10.15%) Analytics
10 147 (9.95%) Data Pipeline
10 147 (9.95%) Scrum
10 147 (9.95%) TDD
11 146 (9.88%) Migration
11 146 (9.88%) Observability
12 141 (9.54%) Continuous Integration
13 137 (9.27%) Artificial Intelligence
14 127 (8.59%) Data Engineering
15 118 (7.98%) Full-Stack Development
15 118 (7.98%) Mentoring
16 115 (7.78%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 649 (43.91%) Python
2 399 (27.00%) Java
3 330 (22.33%) SQL
4 225 (15.22%) JavaScript
5 177 (11.98%) C#
6 152 (10.28%) Bash
7 148 (10.01%) TypeScript
8 112 (7.58%) PowerShell
9 95 (6.43%) Go
10 70 (4.74%) C++
11 44 (2.98%) Bicep
12 34 (2.30%) Shell Script
13 30 (2.03%) PL/SQL
14 28 (1.89%) Groovy
14 28 (1.89%) Kotlin
14 28 (1.89%) Scala
15 23 (1.56%) Rust
16 19 (1.29%) Perl
17 17 (1.15%) PromQL
18 11 (0.74%) PHP
Qualifications
1 244 (16.51%) Security Cleared
2 214 (14.48%) SC Cleared
3 112 (7.58%) Degree
4 57 (3.86%) AWS Certification
5 53 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 34 (2.30%) Azure Certification
7 21 (1.42%) Master's Degree
8 18 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 18 (1.22%) CREST Certified
9 17 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
10 15 (1.01%) DV Cleared
11 14 (0.95%) OSCP
12 13 (0.88%) Tigerscheme
13 11 (0.74%) CISSP
13 11 (0.74%) ISTQB
14 10 (0.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 10 (0.68%) CHECK Team Member
14 10 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
14 10 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (0.68%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (9.07%) QA
2 60 (4.06%) Data Quality
3 57 (3.86%) Accessibility
4 48 (3.25%) GDPR
5 36 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 28 (1.89%) NIST
7 15 (1.01%) NCSC
8 13 (0.88%) WCAG
9 12 (0.81%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
11 9 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 9 (0.61%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.34%) MiFID
12 5 (0.34%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.20%) SLA
14 2 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 2 (0.14%) DICOM
14 2 (0.14%) EMIR
14 2 (0.14%) HL7
System Software
1 410 (27.74%) Docker
2 38 (2.57%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.41%) DFS Replication
5 6 (0.41%) Dovecot
5 6 (0.41%) Postfix
5 6 (0.41%) Squid
5 6 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.27%) zsh
7 3 (0.20%) OpenAM
7 3 (0.20%) OpenDJ
7 3 (0.20%) OpenIDM
7 3 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.14%) HDFS
8 2 (0.14%) NFS
8 2 (0.14%) Veritas File System
8 2 (0.14%) Veritas Volume Manager
9 1 (0.068%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
9 1 (0.068%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 458 (30.99%) Terraform
2 456 (30.85%) Kubernetes
3 148 (10.01%) Ansible
4 104 (7.04%) Prometheus
5 102 (6.90%) Grafana
6 38 (2.57%) Puppet
7 29 (1.96%) Argo
8 28 (1.89%) Progress Chef
9 16 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
10 14 (0.95%) Nmap
11 13 (0.88%) Kibana
12 10 (0.68%) Nessus
13 9 (0.61%) Packer
14 8 (0.54%) Istio
14 8 (0.54%) ITRS Geneos
15 6 (0.41%) Proxmox
16 5 (0.34%) Kubeflow
16 5 (0.34%) Kustomize
16 5 (0.34%) logstash
16 5 (0.34%) Podman
Vendors
1 150 (10.15%) Microsoft
2 97 (6.56%) Google
3 88 (5.95%) Databricks
4 63 (4.26%) Oracle
5 53 (3.59%) Splunk
6 33 (2.23%) Salesforce
7 29 (1.96%) SAP
8 25 (1.69%) ServiceNow
9 18 (1.22%) Dynatrace
10 17 (1.15%) Red Hat
11 14 (0.95%) Veracode
12 13 (0.88%) Cisco
13 12 (0.81%) IBM
13 12 (0.81%) Solace
14 11 (0.74%) Atlassian
14 11 (0.74%) OpenAI
15 9 (0.61%) Adobe
15 9 (0.61%) MuleSoft
16 8 (0.54%) Murex
16 8 (0.54%) Palo Alto