CI/CD Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

CI/CD
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring CI/CD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 36 51
Rank change year-on-year +15 +15 +13
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 60 20 12
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 6.76% 3.36% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.05% 3.86% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 18 9
10th Percentile £344 £313 £422
25th Percentile £400 £378 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £495 £473
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% +4.76% -17.83%
75th Percentile £498 £547 £500
90th Percentile £548 £708 £625
England median daily rate £515 £560 £575
% change year-on-year -8.04% -2.61% -4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 745 518 615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 83.99% 87.06% 83.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 319 436
10th Percentile £190 £250 £213
25th Percentile £358 £340 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £424 £436 £461
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -5.62% -2.85%
75th Percentile £529 £550 £575
90th Percentile £625 £640 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 22 46
10th Percentile £16.14 £15.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.35
Median hourly rate £19.19 £22.05 £21.90
Median % change year-on-year -12.97% +0.69% +30.10%
75th Percentile £25.12 £25.02 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £39.09 £60.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +23.61%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

CI/CD job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

CI/CD
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing CI/CD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing CI/CD

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in the East Midlands

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 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
Northamptonshire -8 19 £406 -20.00% 4
Leicestershire - 15 £418 - 10
Derbyshire +11 13 £475 - 1
Nottinghamshire -7 7 £520 +4.00% 4
Lincolnshire - 3 £505 - 7
CI/CD
England

CI/CD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 8 (13.33%) Apache Spark
2 4 (6.67%) Apache
2 4 (6.67%) Confluence
3 3 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.67%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (1.67%) Mule
Business Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.67%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 28 (46.67%) Azure
2 20 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (28.33%) AWS
4 13 (21.67%) GitHub
5 10 (16.67%) Azure AKS
6 9 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (10.00%) GCP
8 5 (8.33%) Amazon S3
8 5 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (6.67%) Serverless
10 3 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (5.00%) IaaS
10 3 (5.00%) PaaS
11 2 (3.33%) Amazon Bedrock
11 2 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (3.33%) Anthropic Claude
11 2 (3.33%) GitHub Copilot
11 2 (3.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.00%) Firewall
2 2 (3.33%) NAS
2 2 (3.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.67%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (10.00%) Big Data
3 5 (8.33%) Apache Hive
3 5 (8.33%) DynamoDB
3 5 (8.33%) Hadoop
3 5 (8.33%) Metadata
3 5 (8.33%) NoSQL
4 4 (6.67%) Aerospike
5 3 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (5.00%) HBase
6 2 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (3.33%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.33%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.33%) Redis
7 1 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.67%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.67%) Spark SQL
7 1 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (23.33%) Git
2 12 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 6 (10.00%) Selenium
4 5 (8.33%) GitLab
4 5 (8.33%) JIRA
5 4 (6.67%) SonarQube
6 2 (3.33%) Bitbucket
6 2 (3.33%) Cucumber
6 2 (3.33%) Postman
6 2 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.67%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.67%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.67%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.67%) JMeter
7 1 (1.67%) JUnit
7 1 (1.67%) Rational DOORS
General
1 28 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 16 (26.67%) Finance
3 6 (10.00%) Banking
4 4 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.67%) Agriculture
7 1 (1.67%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 17 (28.33%) Developer
2 9 (15.00%) Senior
3 7 (11.67%) Azure Engineer
3 7 (11.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (8.33%) Architect
4 5 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (8.33%) Tester
5 4 (6.67%) Automation Tester
6 3 (5.00%) Android Developer
6 3 (5.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) Data Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) Hadoop Developer
6 3 (5.00%) Java Developer
6 3 (5.00%) Scala Developer
7 2 (3.33%) AWS Data Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 2 (3.33%) Gen AI Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) IT Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) Lead
7 2 (3.33%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.33%) Kafka
2 7 (11.67%) Node.js
2 7 (11.67%) REST
3 6 (10.00%) Spring
4 5 (8.33%) .NET
5 4 (6.67%) ADO
5 4 (6.67%) React
5 4 (6.67%) RESTful
6 3 (5.00%) Android Jetpack
6 3 (5.00%) Jest
6 3 (5.00%) Jetpack Compose
6 3 (5.00%) LDAP
6 3 (5.00%) OAuth
6 3 (5.00%) pytest
6 3 (5.00%) SAML
7 2 (3.33%) FastAPI
7 2 (3.33%) Keycloak
7 2 (3.33%) MERN Stack
7 2 (3.33%) Playwright
7 2 (3.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (6.67%) Mobile App
4 3 (5.00%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.33%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.33%) Operational Technology
5 2 (3.33%) Replication
5 2 (3.33%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.67%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.67%) FPGA
6 1 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.67%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.67%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.67%) Verilog
6 1 (1.67%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.33%) Linux
2 3 (5.00%) Android
2 3 (5.00%) Unix
3 2 (3.33%) VMS
3 2 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (58.33%) DevOps
2 22 (36.67%) Agile
3 18 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (26.67%) Test Automation
5 15 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (25.00%) Microservices
6 12 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 11 (18.33%) Mentoring
7 11 (18.33%) Scrum
7 11 (18.33%) Unit Testing
8 10 (16.67%) Analytics
8 10 (16.67%) Migration
9 9 (15.00%) Data Engineering
10 8 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
11 7 (11.67%) Code Quality
11 7 (11.67%) Infrastructure Automation
12 6 (10.00%) ETL
12 6 (10.00%) RBAC
13 5 (8.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 17 (28.33%) Python
2 14 (23.33%) SQL
3 12 (20.00%) Java
4 9 (15.00%) PowerShell
5 5 (8.33%) C#
6 4 (6.67%) Bash
7 3 (5.00%) Kotlin
7 3 (5.00%) PHP
7 3 (5.00%) Scala
8 2 (3.33%) C++
8 2 (3.33%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.33%) PL/SQL
8 2 (3.33%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.67%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.67%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.67%) CISA
4 1 (1.67%) CISSP
4 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.67%) Degree
4 1 (1.67%) GIAC
4 1 (1.67%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.67%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.67%) QA
3 3 (5.00%) GDPR
3 3 (5.00%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (18.33%) Docker
2 3 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.00%) HDFS
3 2 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (28.33%) Kubernetes
2 15 (25.00%) Terraform
3 6 (10.00%) Ansible
4 4 (6.67%) Istio
4 4 (6.67%) Prometheus
5 3 (5.00%) Hadoop YARN
5 3 (5.00%) Oozie
6 2 (3.33%) Argo
6 2 (3.33%) Grafana
6 2 (3.33%) Puppet
6 2 (3.33%) Tivoli Identity Manager
Vendors
1 14 (23.33%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.33%) Databricks
3 7 (11.67%) Oracle
4 4 (6.67%) Google
4 4 (6.67%) ServiceNow
5 3 (5.00%) Dynatrace
6 2 (3.33%) Ab Initio
6 2 (3.33%) Cisco
6 2 (3.33%) IBM
6 2 (3.33%) Ping Identity
6 2 (3.33%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.33%) SAP
6 2 (3.33%) VMware
6 2 (3.33%) Workday
7 1 (1.67%) Adobe
7 1 (1.67%) Dell
7 1 (1.67%) F5
7 1 (1.67%) Informatica
7 1 (1.67%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.67%) Xilinx