CI/CD Contract Job Trends in West End of London

CI/CD
Central London > West End of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West End of London requiring CI/CD skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 7 20
Rank change year-on-year 0 +13 -14
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 4 5 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West End of London 9.76% 10.00% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.11% 11.11% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £500 £423 -
25th Percentile £556 £438 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -11.71% -0.37%
75th Percentile - £581 -
90th Percentile - £638 -
Central London median daily rate £613 £628 £605
% change year-on-year -2.39% +3.72% +0.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West End 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 West End of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36 45 80
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West End of London 87.80% 90.00% 84.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 30 51
10th Percentile £233 £156 £216
25th Percentile £438 £358 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -2.50% -7.41%
75th Percentile £675 £548 £631
90th Percentile £793 £621 £688
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £598
% change year-on-year -4.35% -3.77% +3.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 1
10th Percentile - £29.24 -
25th Percentile £48.25 - -
Median hourly rate £49.50 £35.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.43% +34.62% -37.35%
75th Percentile £51.46 £41.75 -
90th Percentile £51.88 £42.05 -
Central London median hourly rate £28.33 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -19.07% +34.62% -38.10%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in West End of London

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in West End of London

CI/CD
Daily Rate Trend in West End of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West End of London citing CI/CD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West End of London citing CI/CD

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in West End of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in West End of London over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in West End of London

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in West End 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 West End of London region over the 6 months to 21 September 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
Westminster -2 4 £650 +15.56% 1
CI/CD
Central London

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West End 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 1 (25.00%) Mattermost
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (25.00%) Loki
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
1 1 (25.00%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Legacy Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (50.00%) Data Encryption
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
1 2 (50.00%) Remediation Plan
1 2 (50.00%) Risk Register
1 2 (50.00%) SABSA
1 2 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Debt
1 2 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
1 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) GitOps
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (50.00%) CASP
1 2 (50.00%) CCSP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (50.00%) CISSP
1 2 (50.00%) CREST Certified
1 2 (50.00%) CSSLP
1 2 (50.00%) GIAC
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (50.00%) NCSC
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Grafana
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) SELinux
2 1 (25.00%) Argo
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform