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 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 31 56
Rank change year-on-year -1 +25 -8
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 82 58 58
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 4.78% 5.31% 3.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.84% 6.19% 3.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 22 46
10th Percentile £406 £315 £400
25th Percentile £475 £320 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £467 £525
Median % change year-on-year +28.62% -11.14% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £534 £586
90th Percentile £750 £598 £709
England median daily rate £513 £565 £565
% change year-on-year -9.29% - -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 5
10th Percentile - £62.00 £67.25
25th Percentile - £63.13 £72.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -13.33% +15.38%
75th Percentile £67.00 - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £71.00
% change year-on-year - -8.45% +8.22%

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 1,405 937 1,603
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 81.92% 85.81% 86.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 615 420 823
10th Percentile £196 £243 £250
25th Percentile £350 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £584 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £694 £708
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 444 162 435
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.00
Median hourly rate £20.16 £40.00 £31.80
Median % change year-on-year -49.60% +25.79% +44.55%
75th Percentile £60.75 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £76.30
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -1.41% +1.43%

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 2 February 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 2 February 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 2 February 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 -3 31 £533 -0.93% 29
Cambridgeshire +6 22 £635 +30.59% 18
Bedfordshire +7 21 £625 +4.17% 5
Suffolk +2 6 £375 -14.29% 12
Essex -9 1 £505 +58.81% 23
Norfolk -23 1 £475 - 3
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 7 (8.54%) CMS
1 7 (8.54%) Sitecore CMS
2 4 (4.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 41 (50.00%) Azure
2 30 (36.59%) AWS
3 21 (25.61%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (18.29%) GCP
5 11 (13.41%) Power Platform
6 9 (10.98%) Azure AI
6 9 (10.98%) Copilot Studio
6 9 (10.98%) Microsoft Copilot
7 6 (7.32%) Serverless
8 5 (6.10%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (4.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (4.88%) Entra ID
9 4 (4.88%) GitHub
9 4 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (3.66%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (3.66%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (3.66%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (3.66%) SaaS
11 2 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (2.44%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (14.63%) TCP/IP
2 11 (13.41%) Ethernet
3 4 (4.88%) Firewall
4 3 (3.66%) DNS
5 2 (2.44%) DHCP
5 2 (2.44%) VPN
6 1 (1.22%) BGP
6 1 (1.22%) MPLS
6 1 (1.22%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (1.22%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (25.61%) NoSQL
2 11 (13.41%) Power BI
3 6 (7.32%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.66%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.44%) MySQL
5 2 (2.44%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.44%) Redis
5 2 (2.44%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.22%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.22%) Big Data
6 1 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.22%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 12 (14.63%) Git
2 11 (13.41%) Visual Studio
3 10 (12.20%) Eclipse
3 10 (12.20%) GitLab
4 7 (8.54%) Jenkins
5 5 (6.10%) JIRA
6 4 (4.88%) JMeter
6 4 (4.88%) Selenium
7 2 (2.44%) Postman
7 2 (2.44%) Rational DOORS
7 2 (2.44%) Robot Framework
8 1 (1.22%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.22%) Gatling
8 1 (1.22%) LoadRunner
8 1 (1.22%) Locust
8 1 (1.22%) Newman
8 1 (1.22%) Polyspace
8 1 (1.22%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.22%) TestCafe
8 1 (1.22%) TestRail
General
1 39 (47.56%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.41%) Documentation Skills
2 11 (13.41%) Finance
3 10 (12.20%) Military
3 10 (12.20%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.88%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (3.66%) Aerospace
6 3 (3.66%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.66%) Law
6 3 (3.66%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.44%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.44%) Retail
8 1 (1.22%) Agriculture
8 1 (1.22%) Automotive
8 1 (1.22%) Marketing
8 1 (1.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (19.51%) Software Engineer
2 14 (17.07%) Developer
3 10 (12.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 9 (10.98%) C# Software Engineer
5 8 (9.76%) C++ Software Engineer
5 8 (9.76%) Senior
6 7 (8.54%) Architect
6 7 (8.54%) Consultant
7 5 (6.10%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (6.10%) Test Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) .NET Developer
8 4 (4.88%) Lead
8 4 (4.88%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.88%) Technical Architect
9 3 (3.66%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
9 3 (3.66%) Azure Developer
9 3 (3.66%) DevOps Developer
9 3 (3.66%) Senior .NET Developer
9 3 (3.66%) Senior DevOps
10 2 (2.44%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (25.61%) REST
2 20 (24.39%) .NET
2 20 (24.39%) Node.js
3 16 (19.51%) React
4 12 (14.63%) PyTorch
4 12 (14.63%) scikit-learn
4 12 (14.63%) TensorFlow
5 11 (13.41%) AngularJS
6 10 (12.20%) Web Services
7 7 (8.54%) .NET Core
7 7 (8.54%) CSS
7 7 (8.54%) HTML
8 6 (7.32%) ASP.NET
8 6 (7.32%) ASP.NET Core
8 6 (7.32%) jQuery
8 6 (7.32%) RESTful
9 4 (4.88%) Express.js
9 4 (4.88%) pytest
9 4 (4.88%) SOAP
10 2 (2.44%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.20%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.32%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (4.88%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.88%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (4.88%) PCIe
3 4 (4.88%) Security Posture
4 3 (3.66%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (3.66%) FPGA
4 3 (3.66%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.66%) State Machine
5 2 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.44%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.44%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.44%) PKI
5 2 (2.44%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.22%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 20 (24.39%) Linux
2 19 (23.17%) Windows
3 3 (3.66%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.44%) VMS
5 1 (1.22%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (1.22%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (64.63%) DevOps
2 34 (41.46%) Agile
3 24 (29.27%) AI
4 23 (28.05%) Microservices
4 23 (28.05%) Validation
5 19 (23.17%) Test Automation
6 18 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (21.95%) Unit Testing
7 17 (20.73%) Data Science
7 17 (20.73%) Software Engineering
8 16 (19.51%) Machine Learning
8 16 (19.51%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
9 15 (18.29%) LLM
10 14 (17.07%) Continuous Integration
10 14 (17.07%) Prompt Engineering
10 14 (17.07%) Scrum
11 13 (15.85%) Analytics
11 13 (15.85%) Infrastructure as Code
12 12 (14.63%) TDD
13 11 (13.41%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 26 (31.71%) Python
2 23 (28.05%) C#
3 19 (23.17%) SQL
4 16 (19.51%) JavaScript
5 15 (18.29%) C++
6 4 (4.88%) Java
6 4 (4.88%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.44%) Bicep
7 2 (2.44%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.22%) Bash
8 1 (1.22%) C
8 1 (1.22%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.22%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 9 (10.98%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.10%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.88%) Degree
4 3 (3.66%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.44%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.44%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.22%) CCIE
6 1 (1.22%) CCNP
6 1 (1.22%) CCSP
6 1 (1.22%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.22%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (21.95%) QA
2 8 (9.76%) NIST
3 5 (6.10%) EU AI Act
4 3 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.44%) HIPAA
5 2 (2.44%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.22%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.22%) AUTOSAR
6 1 (1.22%) ISO 26262
6 1 (1.22%) MISRA
6 1 (1.22%) MISRA C
System Software
1 19 (23.17%) Docker
2 2 (2.44%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (24.39%) Kubernetes
2 11 (13.41%) Terraform
3 3 (3.66%) Ansible
3 3 (3.66%) Consul
4 2 (2.44%) Grafana
4 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.44%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.44%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.22%) Functional Safety
5 1 (1.22%) Istio
Vendors
1 30 (36.59%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.41%) Google
3 9 (10.98%) Foundry
3 9 (10.98%) OpenAI
4 7 (8.54%) Sitecore
5 4 (4.88%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.66%) SAP
6 3 (3.66%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.44%) Citrix
7 2 (2.44%) MuleSoft
7 2 (2.44%) Pega
7 2 (2.44%) Splunk
7 2 (2.44%) VMware
7 2 (2.44%) Wyse
8 1 (1.22%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.22%) Cisco
8 1 (1.22%) Clearswift
8 1 (1.22%) Juniper
8 1 (1.22%) QNX
8 1 (1.22%) Talend