CI/CD Contract Job Trends in West London

CI/CD
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West London requiring CI/CD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 8 20
Rank change year-on-year +5 +12 -6
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 59 25 22
As % of all contract jobs in West London 19.34% 11.79% 5.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 21.69% 14.20% 6.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 20 12
10th Percentile £375 £341 £55
25th Percentile £571 £408 £78
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £463 £438
Median % change year-on-year +30.27% +5.71% -20.45%
75th Percentile £625 £496 £511
90th Percentile £626 £504 £577
London median daily rate £525 £585 £588
% change year-on-year -10.26% -0.43% -6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £59.40
25th Percentile - - £61.50
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £68.50
90th Percentile - - £70.60
London median hourly rate £64.75 - £61.50
% change year-on-year - - -12.14%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 272 176 344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 89.18% 83.02% 89.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 127 258
10th Percentile £204 £220 £200
25th Percentile £357 £363 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £409 £525
Median % change year-on-year +22.25% -22.10% +2.94%
75th Percentile £600 £496 £600
90th Percentile £652 £587 £648
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 11 20
10th Percentile £19.54 £20.75 £16.70
25th Percentile £21.46 £21.51 £31.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.59 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +6.61% -56.11% -14.00%
75th Percentile £30.56 £30.05 £68.25
90th Percentile £37.88 £32.50 £85.50
London median hourly rate £31.49 £35.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -11.30% +9.23% -13.33%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

CI/CD job vacancy trend in West London

CI/CD
Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

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

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in West London over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in West London

CI/CD
Hourly Rate Trend in West London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing CI/CD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing CI/CD

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in West 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 London region over the 6 months to 29 December 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
Richmond upon Thames - 11 £625 -
Hillingdon -6 8 £375 -21.05% 3
Hounslow 0 2 £513 +7.89% 1
CI/CD
London

CI/CD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West London 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 12 (20.34%) Apache Spark
2 10 (16.95%) Apache
3 2 (3.39%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 2 (3.39%) Tomcat
3 2 (3.39%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 24 (40.68%) AWS
2 20 (33.90%) SaaS
3 17 (28.81%) Azure
3 17 (28.81%) GCP
4 13 (22.03%) AWS CloudFormation
5 12 (20.34%) Datadog
6 10 (16.95%) Amazon S3
7 9 (15.25%) Power Platform
8 8 (13.56%) Amazon SQS
8 8 (13.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 8 (13.56%) Collibra
9 5 (8.47%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (8.47%) Serverless
10 3 (5.08%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (5.08%) GitHub
10 3 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (3.39%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (3.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 1 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
12 1 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.39%) DNS
1 2 (3.39%) Firewall
1 2 (3.39%) HTTP
1 2 (3.39%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (22.03%) Data Lake
2 10 (16.95%) BigQuery
3 9 (15.25%) Amazon Athena
3 9 (15.25%) Mixpanel
3 9 (15.25%) Power BI
4 8 (13.56%) OLAP
4 8 (13.56%) OLTP
5 5 (8.47%) Metadata
6 2 (3.39%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (3.39%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.69%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 35 (59.32%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.08%) Cypress.io
2 3 (5.08%) Git
3 1 (1.69%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.69%) Snyk
3 1 (1.69%) Storybook
General
1 4 (6.78%) Influencing Skills
1 4 (6.78%) Social Skills
2 1 (1.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (1.69%) Finance
2 1 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (1.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (33.90%) Senior
2 12 (20.34%) Consultant
2 12 (20.34%) Senior Consultant
2 12 (20.34%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 12 (20.34%) Senior Technical Consultant
2 12 (20.34%) Senior Technical Specialist
2 12 (20.34%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
2 12 (20.34%) Technical Consultant
2 12 (20.34%) Technical Specialist
3 11 (18.64%) Data Analytics Engineer
3 11 (18.64%) Developer
3 11 (18.64%) Principal Engineer
3 11 (18.64%) Principal Software Engineer
3 11 (18.64%) Software Engineer
4 8 (13.56%) AWS Engineer
4 8 (13.56%) Cloud Specialist
5 7 (11.86%) Data Engineer
5 7 (11.86%) Full-Stack Developer
5 7 (11.86%) Principal Data Engineer
6 5 (8.47%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (52.54%) GraphQL
1 31 (52.54%) Node.js
2 29 (49.15%) Playwright
3 28 (47.46%) Vitest
4 16 (27.12%) YAML
5 12 (20.34%) Kafka
6 8 (13.56%) Great Expectations
6 8 (13.56%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (8.47%) PySpark
8 4 (6.78%) Next.js
8 4 (6.78%) React
9 3 (5.08%) Lambda Expressions
9 3 (5.08%) Redux
10 2 (3.39%) Lightning Web Components
10 2 (3.39%) Middleware
11 1 (1.69%) FastAPI
11 1 (1.69%) Gherkin
11 1 (1.69%) RESTful
11 1 (1.69%) Spring
11 1 (1.69%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 41 (69.49%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.69%) Media Streaming
3 1 (1.69%) Over-the-Top Content
3 1 (1.69%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.69%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.08%) Linux
2 2 (3.39%) CentOS
2 2 (3.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (3.39%) Ubuntu
2 2 (3.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (74.58%) DevOps
2 37 (62.71%) Agile
3 34 (57.63%) Mentoring
4 33 (55.93%) E-Commerce
5 32 (54.24%) Software Engineering
6 30 (50.85%) Infrastructure as Code
7 28 (47.46%) Coaching
8 27 (45.76%) Observability
9 23 (38.98%) Containerisation
10 20 (33.90%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (27.12%) Analytics
11 16 (27.12%) Test Automation
12 15 (25.42%) Code Quality
12 15 (25.42%) Process Improvement
13 13 (22.03%) AI
13 13 (22.03%) Data Engineering
13 13 (22.03%) End-to-End Testing
13 13 (22.03%) Full-Stack Development
14 12 (20.34%) API Design
14 12 (20.34%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 32 (54.24%) TypeScript
2 17 (28.81%) Python
3 9 (15.25%) SQL
4 8 (13.56%) C#
5 4 (6.78%) JavaScript
6 3 (5.08%) Bash
6 3 (5.08%) Java
7 2 (3.39%) Apex Code
7 2 (3.39%) SOQL
8 1 (1.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (5.08%) AWS Certification
2 2 (3.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (3.39%) RHCE
3 1 (1.69%) CEH
3 1 (1.69%) CISSP
3 1 (1.69%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (20.34%) Data Quality
2 8 (13.56%) GDPR
3 1 (1.69%) NIST
System Software
1 36 (61.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 37 (62.71%) Kubernetes
2 19 (32.20%) Terraform
3 11 (18.64%) Prometheus
4 9 (15.25%) Grafana
5 2 (3.39%) Ansible
5 2 (3.39%) Nagios
Vendors
1 13 (22.03%) Databricks
2 10 (16.95%) Google
3 5 (8.47%) Splunk
4 2 (3.39%) Oracle
4 2 (3.39%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.69%) New Relic
5 1 (1.69%) Qualys
5 1 (1.69%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.69%) Tenable