CI/CD Contract Job Trends in the East of England

CI/CD
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring CI/CD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 31 73
Rank change year-on-year +11 +42 -23
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 128 55 40
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 5.72% 5.73% 2.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.28% 6.34% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 43 22
10th Percentile £425 £316 £413
25th Percentile £493 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £465 £534
Median % change year-on-year +18.28% -12.92% +2.69%
75th Percentile £600 £528 £574
90th Percentile £650 £575 £600
England median daily rate £525 £521 £553
% change year-on-year +0.77% -5.70% -7.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 9
10th Percentile £56.08 £62.38 £59.85
25th Percentile £64.06 £64.06 £62.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £67.50 - £66.00
90th Percentile £75.00 - £68.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £67.50
% change year-on-year +14.54% -15.93% +2.89%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,759 868 1,615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.67% 90.42% 84.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 889 459 668
10th Percentile £200 £230 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £681 £675 £675
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 435 173 613
10th Percentile £14.34 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.09 £16.30 £15.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.14% -10.00% +81.82%
75th Percentile £66.00 £72.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £74.25 £83.70 £75.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.18 £36.84
% change year-on-year +66.78% -23.51% -1.29%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

CI/CD job vacancy trend in the East of England

CI/CD
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in the East of England over the 6 months to 29 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in the East of England

CI/CD
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing CI/CD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing CI/CD

CI/CD
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CI/CD in the East of England over the 6 months to 29 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for CI/CD in the East of England

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 29 May 2026. 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
Hertfordshire +1 36 £550 +22.22% 23
Bedfordshire +13 28 £600 +20.00% 5
Cambridgeshire +2 18 £525 +8.02% 20
Essex +1 18 £508 +57.91% 5
Suffolk +5 17 £495 +23.36% 12
Norfolk -15 11 £488 +8.33% 7
CI/CD
England

CI/CD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 9 (7.03%) CMS
1 9 (7.03%) Sitecore CMS
2 5 (3.91%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.56%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.78%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 49 (38.28%) Azure
2 38 (29.69%) AWS
3 31 (24.22%) GCP
4 23 (17.97%) GitHub
5 17 (13.28%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (10.94%) Azure AKS
7 13 (10.16%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (8.59%) Serverless
9 10 (7.81%) Power Platform
10 7 (5.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (5.47%) Azure Service Bus
10 7 (5.47%) Copilot Studio
10 7 (5.47%) Microsoft Copilot
11 6 (4.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 5 (3.91%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (3.13%) Apple Pay
13 4 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 4 (3.13%) Azure Functions
13 4 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 15 (11.72%) VPN
2 12 (9.38%) Firewall
3 8 (6.25%) Ethernet
3 8 (6.25%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (2.34%) DNS
5 3 (2.34%) SNMP
6 2 (1.56%) Network Security
6 2 (1.56%) WAN
7 1 (0.78%) BGP
7 1 (0.78%) DHCP
7 1 (0.78%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.72%) NoSQL
2 10 (7.81%) Power BI
2 10 (7.81%) SQL Server
3 7 (5.47%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.91%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (3.13%) Metadata
6 2 (1.56%) MaxDB
6 2 (1.56%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.56%) SAP HANA
6 2 (1.56%) Sybase ASE
7 1 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.78%) Big Data
7 1 (0.78%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.78%) MySQL
7 1 (0.78%) Redis
7 1 (0.78%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (25.00%) Git
2 19 (14.84%) GitLab
3 11 (8.59%) Visual Studio
4 9 (7.03%) Gradle
5 8 (6.25%) Eclipse
5 8 (6.25%) Jenkins
5 8 (6.25%) JUnit
5 8 (6.25%) SonarQube
6 6 (4.69%) IntelliJ
7 3 (2.34%) JIRA
7 3 (2.34%) Newman
7 3 (2.34%) Postman
7 3 (2.34%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.78%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.78%) MLflow
8 1 (0.78%) Snyk
General
1 38 (29.69%) Social Skills
2 21 (16.41%) Finance
3 16 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.47%) Banking
4 7 (5.47%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (5.47%) Military
4 7 (5.47%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (3.13%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.34%) Automotive
6 3 (2.34%) Law
6 3 (2.34%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.78%) Agriculture
7 1 (0.78%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (25.78%) Developer
2 20 (15.63%) Java Developer
3 17 (13.28%) Senior
4 16 (12.50%) Architect
4 16 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 10 (7.81%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (7.03%) Data Engineer
7 8 (6.25%) Software Developer
8 7 (5.47%) C# Software Engineer
8 7 (5.47%) Java Software Developer
8 7 (5.47%) Lead
9 6 (4.69%) Consultant
9 6 (4.69%) GCP Engineer
9 6 (4.69%) Technical Architect
10 5 (3.91%) Backend Developer
10 5 (3.91%) Cloud Architect
10 5 (3.91%) Cloud Engineer
11 4 (3.13%) AWS Engineer
11 4 (3.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 4 (3.13%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (20.31%) Spring Boot
2 24 (18.75%) Spring
3 23 (17.97%) Node.js
4 19 (14.84%) .NET
5 15 (11.72%) React
5 15 (11.72%) REST
6 11 (8.59%) CSS
6 11 (8.59%) HTML
6 11 (8.59%) Kafka
7 9 (7.03%) AngularJS
7 9 (7.03%) ASP.NET
7 9 (7.03%) ASP.NET Core
8 8 (6.25%) jQuery
8 8 (6.25%) Web Services
9 6 (4.69%) RESTful
10 5 (3.91%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (3.13%) Express.js
11 4 (3.13%) Pandas
11 4 (3.13%) scikit-learn
11 4 (3.13%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 29 (22.66%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.47%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (3.91%) Private Cloud
4 4 (3.13%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.13%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.13%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (2.34%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.56%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.56%) Life Science
6 2 (1.56%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.78%) Clustering
7 1 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.78%) LIMS
7 1 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.78%) PCIe
7 1 (0.78%) PKI
7 1 (0.78%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 16 (12.50%) Windows
2 15 (11.72%) Linux
3 2 (1.56%) Unix
3 2 (1.56%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.78%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (61.72%) DevOps
2 50 (39.06%) Agile
3 35 (27.34%) Microservices
3 35 (27.34%) Software Engineering
4 31 (24.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 29 (22.66%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (20.31%) TDD
7 21 (16.41%) Test Automation
8 19 (14.84%) Containerisation
8 19 (14.84%) Scrum
9 18 (14.06%) Analytics
10 16 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
10 16 (12.50%) Validation
11 15 (11.72%) ETL
11 15 (11.72%) SDLC
12 14 (10.94%) AI
12 14 (10.94%) Event-Driven
13 13 (10.16%) Continuous Integration
14 12 (9.38%) Application Security
14 12 (9.38%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 40 (31.25%) Python
2 32 (25.00%) Java
3 27 (21.09%) SQL
4 26 (20.31%) C#
5 17 (13.28%) JavaScript
6 10 (7.81%) C++
7 8 (6.25%) Bash
8 6 (4.69%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (3.91%) PowerShell
9 5 (3.91%) Search Processing Language
10 3 (2.34%) Go
11 2 (1.56%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.78%) Bicep
12 1 (0.78%) C
12 1 (0.78%) Groovy
12 1 (0.78%) SystemVerilog
12 1 (0.78%) VBA
Qualifications
1 33 (25.78%) Security Cleared
2 15 (11.72%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.59%) Degree
4 10 (7.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (7.81%) DV Cleared
5 6 (4.69%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.91%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.34%) CCSP
8 2 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.56%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.56%) CCNP
8 2 (1.56%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.78%) CCIE
9 1 (0.78%) CISM
9 1 (0.78%) CISSP
9 1 (0.78%) CRISC
9 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.50%) QA
2 7 (5.47%) Data Quality
3 6 (4.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (3.91%) PCI DSS
5 4 (3.13%) GDPR
5 4 (3.13%) NIST
6 2 (1.56%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.78%) HIPAA
System Software
1 18 (14.06%) Docker
2 2 (1.56%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.78%) Squid
3 1 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (20.31%) Ansible
1 26 (20.31%) Kubernetes
2 23 (17.97%) Terraform
3 7 (5.47%) Grafana
4 5 (3.91%) Argo
4 5 (3.91%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.34%) Puppet
6 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.78%) Packer
6 1 (0.78%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 20 (15.63%) Microsoft
2 16 (12.50%) Google
3 10 (7.81%) Splunk
4 9 (7.03%) Sitecore
5 8 (6.25%) Checkmarx
5 8 (6.25%) Databricks
6 7 (5.47%) Dynatrace
7 4 (3.13%) Foundry
7 4 (3.13%) OpenAI
8 3 (2.34%) Cribl.io
8 3 (2.34%) Oracle
8 3 (2.34%) SAP
8 3 (2.34%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.34%) VMware
9 2 (1.56%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.56%) Sybase
10 1 (0.78%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.78%) Citrix
10 1 (0.78%) Informatica
10 1 (0.78%) Red Hat