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

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 38 53
Rank change year-on-year +2 +15 +2
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 91 50 58
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 4.96% 4.78% 3.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.21% 5.51% 3.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 30 45
10th Percentile £413 £315 £400
25th Percentile £475 £324 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £511 £575
90th Percentile £655 £558 £675
England median daily rate £513 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -6.82% -2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 2 5
10th Percentile £61.25 £61.63 £67.25
25th Percentile - £62.19 £72.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% -15.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile - £64.69 £77.50
90th Percentile £67.00 £64.88 -
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 1,465 907 1,659
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 79.88% 86.79% 86.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 645 459 826
10th Percentile £197 £243 £250
25th Percentile £350 £395 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.90% +2.46% -2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £689 £707
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 444 149 503
10th Percentile £14.01 £15.62 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.43 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -58.00% +31.16% +15.52%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.91 £35.00 £34.21
% change year-on-year -17.40% +2.31% -3.42%

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 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 2 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 2 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 +2 35 £565 +13.00% 51
Bedfordshire +16 28 £600 +30.43% 25
Cambridgeshire +6 21 £570 +21.41% 45
Suffolk 0 5 £450 +2.86% 14
Essex -9 1 - - 36
Norfolk -32 1 £475 +5.56% 16
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 (9.89%) CMS
1 9 (9.89%) Sitecore CMS
2 4 (4.40%) Confluence
3 1 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.10%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 49 (53.85%) Azure
2 33 (36.26%) AWS
3 22 (24.18%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (18.68%) GCP
5 12 (13.19%) Power Platform
6 9 (9.89%) Azure AI
6 9 (9.89%) Copilot Studio
6 9 (9.89%) Microsoft Copilot
7 8 (8.79%) Azure AKS
7 8 (8.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 7 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
8 7 (7.69%) Serverless
9 5 (5.49%) GitHub
9 5 (5.49%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (4.40%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (4.40%) Entra ID
11 3 (3.30%) Azure Functions
11 3 (3.30%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (3.30%) SaaS
12 2 (2.20%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 15 (16.48%) TCP/IP
2 14 (15.38%) Ethernet
3 4 (4.40%) Firewall
4 3 (3.30%) DNS
5 2 (2.20%) DHCP
5 2 (2.20%) VPN
6 1 (1.10%) BGP
6 1 (1.10%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (25.27%) NoSQL
2 12 (13.19%) Power BI
3 9 (9.89%) SQL Server
4 4 (4.40%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.20%) MySQL
5 2 (2.20%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.20%) Redis
5 2 (2.20%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.10%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.10%) MaxDB
6 1 (1.10%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.10%) SAP HANA
6 1 (1.10%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 15 (16.48%) Visual Studio
2 14 (15.38%) Eclipse
3 11 (12.09%) Git
3 11 (12.09%) Jenkins
4 9 (9.89%) GitLab
5 6 (6.59%) JIRA
6 4 (4.40%) JMeter
6 4 (4.40%) Selenium
7 2 (2.20%) Postman
7 2 (2.20%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (1.10%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.10%) Gatling
8 1 (1.10%) Locust
8 1 (1.10%) MLflow
8 1 (1.10%) Newman
8 1 (1.10%) Polyspace
8 1 (1.10%) Robot Framework
8 1 (1.10%) Snyk
8 1 (1.10%) TestCafe
8 1 (1.10%) TestRail
General
1 44 (48.35%) Social Skills
2 13 (14.29%) Military
2 13 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
3 12 (13.19%) Finance
4 11 (12.09%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.40%) Law
7 3 (3.30%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.30%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (3.30%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.20%) Aerospace
8 2 (2.20%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.20%) Retail
9 1 (1.10%) Automotive
9 1 (1.10%) Marketing
9 1 (1.10%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (19.78%) Developer
2 17 (18.68%) Software Engineer
3 11 (12.09%) C# Software Engineer
4 9 (9.89%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 9 (9.89%) Lead
4 9 (9.89%) Senior
5 8 (8.79%) Architect
6 7 (7.69%) C++ Software Engineer
7 6 (6.59%) Technical Architect
8 5 (5.49%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (5.49%) Senior Developer
8 5 (5.49%) Technical Leader
8 5 (5.49%) Test Engineer
9 4 (4.40%) .NET Developer
9 4 (4.40%) Consultant
9 4 (4.40%) Java Developer
10 3 (3.30%) Azure Engineer
10 3 (3.30%) C# Developer
10 3 (3.30%) Cloud Engineer
10 3 (3.30%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (27.47%) Node.js
2 22 (24.18%) .NET
2 22 (24.18%) REST
3 18 (19.78%) React
4 13 (14.29%) AngularJS
4 13 (14.29%) Web Services
5 12 (13.19%) PyTorch
5 12 (13.19%) scikit-learn
5 12 (13.19%) TensorFlow
6 9 (9.89%) CSS
6 9 (9.89%) HTML
6 9 (9.89%) Spring
7 8 (8.79%) ASP.NET
7 8 (8.79%) ASP.NET Core
7 8 (8.79%) jQuery
7 8 (8.79%) RESTful
7 8 (8.79%) Spring Boot
8 7 (7.69%) .NET Core
9 4 (4.40%) Kafka
9 4 (4.40%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.48%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.79%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.30%) Cloud Security Posture
3 3 (3.30%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.30%) PCIe
3 3 (3.30%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.30%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.20%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.20%) FPGA
4 2 (2.20%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.20%) PKI
4 2 (2.20%) State Machine
5 1 (1.10%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.10%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.10%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.10%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.10%) Robotics
5 1 (1.10%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (26.37%) Linux
2 23 (25.27%) Windows
3 3 (3.30%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.20%) VMS
5 1 (1.10%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (1.10%) Robot Operating System
5 1 (1.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (65.93%) DevOps
2 42 (46.15%) Agile
3 30 (32.97%) Microservices
4 26 (28.57%) Validation
5 23 (25.27%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (24.18%) AI
7 21 (23.08%) Unit Testing
8 20 (21.98%) Software Engineering
9 19 (20.88%) Continuous Integration
10 18 (19.78%) Test Automation
11 17 (18.68%) Data Science
12 16 (17.58%) Machine Learning
12 16 (17.58%) Scrum
12 16 (17.58%) TDD
13 15 (16.48%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
14 14 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
14 14 (15.38%) LLM
14 14 (15.38%) Prompt Engineering
14 14 (15.38%) Synthetic Environment
14 14 (15.38%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 30 (32.97%) Python
2 28 (30.77%) C#
3 20 (21.98%) JavaScript
3 20 (21.98%) SQL
4 18 (19.78%) C++
5 11 (12.09%) Java
6 5 (5.49%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.30%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.20%) Bicep
9 1 (1.10%) Bash
9 1 (1.10%) C
9 1 (1.10%) MATLAB
9 1 (1.10%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 15 (16.48%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.99%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.79%) Degree
4 7 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.30%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.30%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.20%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.10%) CCNP
7 1 (1.10%) CCSP
7 1 (1.10%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.10%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (18.68%) QA
2 8 (8.79%) NIST
3 5 (5.49%) EU AI Act
4 3 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.20%) HIPAA
5 2 (2.20%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.10%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.10%) AUTOSAR
6 1 (1.10%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.10%) GDPR
6 1 (1.10%) ISO 26262
6 1 (1.10%) MISRA
6 1 (1.10%) MISRA C
System Software
1 22 (24.18%) Docker
2 2 (2.20%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (26.37%) Kubernetes
2 10 (10.99%) Terraform
3 3 (3.30%) Consul
4 2 (2.20%) Grafana
4 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.20%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.10%) Ansible
5 1 (1.10%) Functional Safety
5 1 (1.10%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 37 (40.66%) Microsoft
2 12 (13.19%) Google
3 9 (9.89%) Foundry
3 9 (9.89%) OpenAI
3 9 (9.89%) Sitecore
4 4 (4.40%) Salesforce
4 4 (4.40%) SAP
4 4 (4.40%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.30%) Splunk
6 2 (2.20%) Citrix
6 2 (2.20%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.20%) MuleSoft
6 2 (2.20%) New Relic
6 2 (2.20%) Pega
6 2 (2.20%) VMware
6 2 (2.20%) Wyse
7 1 (1.10%) CloudEndure
7 1 (1.10%) Databricks
7 1 (1.10%) Jitterbit
7 1 (1.10%) Virgin Media