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 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 33 58
Rank change year-on-year -3 +25 -3
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 87 55 53
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 4.62% 5.42% 2.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.83% 6.22% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 33 41
10th Percentile £425 £316 £400
25th Percentile £500 £395 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -14.29% -4.11%
75th Percentile £638 £525 £590
90th Percentile £666 £571 £675
England median daily rate £513 £550 £558
% change year-on-year -6.82% -1.35% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 4
10th Percentile £61.25 £62.00 £66.38
25th Percentile £63.13 £63.13 £70.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -13.33% +15.38%
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £67.38
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.54% +2.71%

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 1,492 884 1,675
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 79.15% 87.18% 86.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 673 460 832
10th Percentile £198 £250 £235
25th Percentile £350 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £576
90th Percentile £675 £694 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 154 518
10th Percentile £14.02 £15.49 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.67 £20.26 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.80 £57.50 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -62.09% +50.84% +15.52%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -9.72%

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 12 March 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 12 March 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 12 March 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 0 29 £565 +2.73% 47
Bedfordshire +14 27 £600 +30.43% 20
Cambridgeshire -5 22 £570 +14.00% 37
Suffolk -5 5 £450 +2.86% 22
Norfolk -32 3 £475 +5.56% 17
Essex -10 1 - - 40
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 (10.34%) CMS
1 9 (10.34%) Sitecore CMS
2 4 (4.60%) Confluence
3 1 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.15%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 47 (54.02%) Azure
2 34 (39.08%) AWS
3 21 (24.14%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (19.54%) GCP
5 11 (12.64%) Power Platform
6 9 (10.34%) Azure AI
6 9 (10.34%) Copilot Studio
6 9 (10.34%) Microsoft Copilot
6 9 (10.34%) Serverless
7 8 (9.20%) Azure AKS
7 8 (9.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 7 (8.05%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (5.75%) GitHub
10 4 (4.60%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (4.60%) Entra ID
10 4 (4.60%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (3.45%) AWS Direct Connect
11 3 (3.45%) Azure Functions
11 3 (3.45%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.79%) TCP/IP
2 11 (12.64%) Ethernet
3 5 (5.75%) Firewall
4 4 (4.60%) DNS
5 3 (3.45%) VPN
6 2 (2.30%) DHCP
7 1 (1.15%) BGP
7 1 (1.15%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (25.29%) NoSQL
2 11 (12.64%) Power BI
3 9 (10.34%) SQL Server
4 4 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.30%) MySQL
5 2 (2.30%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.30%) Redis
5 2 (2.30%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.15%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.15%) MaxDB
6 1 (1.15%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.15%) SAP HANA
6 1 (1.15%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 12 (13.79%) Visual Studio
2 11 (12.64%) Eclipse
2 11 (12.64%) Jenkins
3 10 (11.49%) GitLab
4 8 (9.20%) Git
5 5 (5.75%) JIRA
6 4 (4.60%) JMeter
7 3 (3.45%) Selenium
8 2 (2.30%) Postman
8 2 (2.30%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (1.15%) Gatling
9 1 (1.15%) LoadRunner
9 1 (1.15%) Locust
9 1 (1.15%) MLflow
9 1 (1.15%) Newman
9 1 (1.15%) Polyspace
9 1 (1.15%) Robot Framework
9 1 (1.15%) Snyk
9 1 (1.15%) TestCafe
General
1 38 (43.68%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.79%) Documentation Skills
2 12 (13.79%) Finance
3 10 (11.49%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (11.49%) Military
3 10 (11.49%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (4.60%) Law
4 4 (4.60%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.30%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.15%) Automotive
7 1 (1.15%) Retail
7 1 (1.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (19.54%) Developer
2 11 (12.64%) Software Engineer
3 10 (11.49%) Architect
4 9 (10.34%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 9 (10.34%) Lead
5 8 (9.20%) C# Software Engineer
5 8 (9.20%) Senior
6 6 (6.90%) Technical Architect
7 5 (5.75%) Senior Developer
7 5 (5.75%) Technical Leader
7 5 (5.75%) Test Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) .NET Developer
8 4 (4.60%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Consultant
8 4 (4.60%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (4.60%) Java Developer
9 3 (3.45%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
9 3 (3.45%) Azure Developer
9 3 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (3.45%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (25.29%) .NET
1 22 (25.29%) Node.js
1 22 (25.29%) REST
2 17 (19.54%) React
3 13 (14.94%) AngularJS
4 12 (13.79%) PyTorch
4 12 (13.79%) scikit-learn
4 12 (13.79%) TensorFlow
5 10 (11.49%) Web Services
6 9 (10.34%) CSS
6 9 (10.34%) HTML
6 9 (10.34%) Spring
7 8 (9.20%) ASP.NET
7 8 (9.20%) ASP.NET Core
7 8 (9.20%) jQuery
7 8 (9.20%) Spring Boot
8 7 (8.05%) .NET Core
8 7 (8.05%) RESTful
9 4 (4.60%) Kafka
9 4 (4.60%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (18.39%) Cloud Native
2 8 (9.20%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.45%) Cloud Security Posture
3 3 (3.45%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.45%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.30%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.30%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.30%) N-Tier
4 2 (2.30%) PKI
5 1 (1.15%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.15%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.15%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.15%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.15%) PCIe
5 1 (1.15%) Robotics
5 1 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (21.84%) Linux
2 18 (20.69%) Windows
3 3 (3.45%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.30%) VMS
5 1 (1.15%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (1.15%) Robot Operating System
5 1 (1.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (68.97%) DevOps
2 37 (42.53%) Agile
3 30 (34.48%) Microservices
4 23 (26.44%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (25.29%) AI
6 21 (24.14%) Validation
7 18 (20.69%) Data Science
7 18 (20.69%) Machine Learning
8 16 (18.39%) Continuous Integration
8 16 (18.39%) Scrum
8 16 (18.39%) Test Automation
8 16 (18.39%) Unit Testing
9 15 (17.24%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 14 (16.09%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (16.09%) LLM
10 14 (16.09%) Prompt Engineering
10 14 (16.09%) Software Engineering
11 13 (14.94%) Analytics
12 12 (13.79%) MLOps
12 12 (13.79%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 30 (34.48%) Python
2 23 (26.44%) C#
3 19 (21.84%) SQL
4 16 (18.39%) JavaScript
5 13 (14.94%) C++
6 11 (12.64%) Java
7 5 (5.75%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.30%) Bicep
9 1 (1.15%) Bash
9 1 (1.15%) C
9 1 (1.15%) MATLAB
9 1 (1.15%) SystemVerilog
9 1 (1.15%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (19.54%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.34%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.20%) Degree
4 7 (8.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (6.90%) AWS Certification
6 3 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (3.45%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.30%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.30%) CCNP
8 1 (1.15%) CCIE
8 1 (1.15%) CCSP
8 1 (1.15%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (18.39%) QA
2 8 (9.20%) NIST
3 5 (5.75%) EU AI Act
3 5 (5.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.30%) HIPAA
4 2 (2.30%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.15%) AUTOSAR
5 1 (1.15%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.15%) GDPR
5 1 (1.15%) ISO 26262
5 1 (1.15%) MISRA
5 1 (1.15%) MISRA C
System Software
1 21 (24.14%) Docker
2 2 (2.30%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (26.44%) Kubernetes
2 9 (10.34%) Terraform
3 3 (3.45%) Consul
4 2 (2.30%) Grafana
4 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.30%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.15%) Ansible
5 1 (1.15%) Functional Safety
5 1 (1.15%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 33 (37.93%) Microsoft
2 13 (14.94%) Google
3 9 (10.34%) Foundry
3 9 (10.34%) OpenAI
3 9 (10.34%) Sitecore
4 4 (4.60%) Salesforce
4 4 (4.60%) SAP
4 4 (4.60%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.45%) Splunk
6 2 (2.30%) Citrix
6 2 (2.30%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.30%) MuleSoft
6 2 (2.30%) New Relic
6 2 (2.30%) Pega
6 2 (2.30%) VMware
6 2 (2.30%) Wyse
7 1 (1.15%) CloudEndure
7 1 (1.15%) Cribl.io
7 1 (1.15%) Databricks
7 1 (1.15%) Virgin Media