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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 39 60
Rank change year-on-year +11 +21 +6
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 104 43 48
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 4.88% 4.55% 2.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.30% 5.13% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 31 35
10th Percentile £430 £395 £405
25th Percentile £500 £425 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £467 £500
Median % change year-on-year +18.01% -6.70% -3.85%
75th Percentile £600 £528 £573
90th Percentile £645 £556 £600
England median daily rate £525 £538 £560
% change year-on-year -2.33% -4.02% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 3
10th Percentile £61.25 £62.00 £64.00
25th Percentile £63.13 £63.13 £64.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - £68.13
90th Percentile - - £70.00
England median hourly rate £66.50 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.91% -1.54% -0.92%

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 1,651 838 1,637
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 77.40% 88.58% 86.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 811 436 731
10th Percentile £200 £237 £225
25th Percentile £363 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 423 178 589
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.12 £17.66 £15.13
Median hourly rate £22.63 £50.00 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -54.74% +26.58% +54.78%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £42.00 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.74% -9.60% -9.09%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 22 April 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 32 £550 +22.22% 40
Bedfordshire +14 29 £600 +9.09% 9
Cambridgeshire +1 15 £525 +5.05% 31
Essex -1 13 £530 +66.57% 10
Norfolk -23 10 £500 +11.11% 9
Suffolk +1 5 £500 +14.29% 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 (8.65%) CMS
1 9 (8.65%) Sitecore CMS
2 3 (2.88%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.92%) Confluence
4 1 (0.96%) Apache
4 1 (0.96%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 43 (41.35%) Azure
2 37 (35.58%) AWS
3 30 (28.85%) GCP
4 20 (19.23%) GitHub
5 12 (11.54%) Azure AKS
5 12 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (10.58%) Power Platform
6 11 (10.58%) Serverless
7 10 (9.62%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (7.69%) Copilot Studio
8 8 (7.69%) Microsoft Copilot
9 7 (6.73%) Azure AI
9 7 (6.73%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (5.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 5 (4.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 4 (3.85%) Azure Functions
12 4 (3.85%) Azure Sentinel
13 3 (2.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 3 (2.88%) Azure Logic Apps
13 3 (2.88%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.54%) TCP/IP
2 11 (10.58%) Ethernet
2 11 (10.58%) VPN
3 8 (7.69%) Firewall
4 3 (2.88%) DNS
5 2 (1.92%) DHCP
5 2 (1.92%) Network Security
6 1 (0.96%) BGP
6 1 (0.96%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (17.31%) NoSQL
2 11 (10.58%) Power BI
3 10 (9.62%) SQL Server
4 7 (6.73%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (3.85%) Metadata
6 2 (1.92%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.96%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.96%) Big Data
7 1 (0.96%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.96%) MySQL
7 1 (0.96%) Redis
7 1 (0.96%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.96%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.96%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.96%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.96%) Sybase ASE
7 1 (0.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (20.19%) Git
2 12 (11.54%) GitLab
2 12 (11.54%) Visual Studio
3 11 (10.58%) Eclipse
4 10 (9.62%) Jenkins
5 8 (7.69%) JUnit
5 8 (7.69%) SonarQube
6 6 (5.77%) IntelliJ
7 4 (3.85%) JIRA
8 1 (0.96%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.96%) Gatling
8 1 (0.96%) Gradle
8 1 (0.96%) JMeter
8 1 (0.96%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.96%) MLflow
8 1 (0.96%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.96%) Snyk
General
1 42 (40.38%) Social Skills
2 23 (22.12%) Finance
3 12 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (10.58%) Presentation Skills
5 10 (9.62%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (9.62%) Military
6 5 (4.81%) Banking
7 4 (3.85%) Law
7 4 (3.85%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.92%) Automotive
9 2 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.92%) Retail
10 1 (0.96%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.96%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.96%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 21 (20.19%) Developer
2 16 (15.38%) Architect
3 15 (14.42%) Senior
4 13 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 9 (8.65%) Java Developer
6 8 (7.69%) C# Software Engineer
7 7 (6.73%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (6.73%) Lead
8 6 (5.77%) Data Engineer
8 6 (5.77%) GCP Engineer
8 6 (5.77%) Technical Architect
9 5 (4.81%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 5 (4.81%) Cloud Architect
9 5 (4.81%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (4.81%) Consultant
9 5 (4.81%) Senior DevOps
10 4 (3.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 4 (3.85%) Technical Leader
11 3 (2.88%) C# Developer
11 3 (2.88%) C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (25.00%) Node.js
2 20 (19.23%) REST
3 19 (18.27%) Spring
4 18 (17.31%) Spring Boot
5 16 (15.38%) .NET
5 16 (15.38%) React
6 11 (10.58%) CSS
6 11 (10.58%) HTML
7 10 (9.62%) AngularJS
7 10 (9.62%) Web Services
8 8 (7.69%) ASP.NET
8 8 (7.69%) ASP.NET Core
8 8 (7.69%) jQuery
8 8 (7.69%) Kafka
9 7 (6.73%) PyTorch
9 7 (6.73%) scikit-learn
9 7 (6.73%) TensorFlow
10 6 (5.77%) RESTful
11 4 (3.85%) .NET Core
11 4 (3.85%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 27 (25.96%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.65%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (4.81%) Private Cloud
4 4 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.85%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.92%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (1.92%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.92%) N-Tier
5 2 (1.92%) PKI
5 2 (1.92%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.96%) LIMS
6 1 (0.96%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.96%) PCIe
6 1 (0.96%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.96%) Robotics
6 1 (0.96%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (15.38%) Linux
1 16 (15.38%) Windows
2 2 (1.92%) VMS
2 2 (1.92%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.96%) Robot Operating System
3 1 (0.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (63.46%) DevOps
2 39 (37.50%) Agile
3 28 (26.92%) Microservices
4 26 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (21.15%) TDD
6 21 (20.19%) Software Engineering
7 20 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (16.35%) Analytics
8 17 (16.35%) Validation
9 16 (15.38%) AI
10 14 (13.46%) Event-Driven
10 14 (13.46%) Scrum
10 14 (13.46%) Visualisation
11 13 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
11 13 (12.50%) Data Science
11 13 (12.50%) ETL
11 13 (12.50%) Machine Learning
11 13 (12.50%) Unit Testing
12 12 (11.54%) Business Intelligence
12 12 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (34.62%) Python
2 24 (23.08%) C#
3 23 (22.12%) SQL
4 21 (20.19%) Java
5 18 (17.31%) JavaScript
6 12 (11.54%) C++
7 4 (3.85%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.88%) Go
9 2 (1.92%) Bash
9 2 (1.92%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.92%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.96%) C
10 1 (0.96%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (0.96%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 21 (20.19%) Security Cleared
2 11 (10.58%) Degree
3 10 (9.62%) SC Cleared
4 9 (8.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (5.77%) AWS Certification
6 5 (4.81%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (3.85%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.88%) CCSP
8 3 (2.88%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.92%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.92%) CCNP
10 1 (0.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.96%) CCIE
10 1 (0.96%) CISM
10 1 (0.96%) CISSP
10 1 (0.96%) CRISC
10 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.58%) QA
2 7 (6.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (4.81%) NIST
4 4 (3.85%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.88%) GDPR
6 2 (1.92%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.92%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.92%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.96%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.96%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 19 (18.27%) Docker
2 3 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.92%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (25.96%) Kubernetes
2 15 (14.42%) Terraform
3 8 (7.69%) Ansible
4 5 (4.81%) Argo
5 4 (3.85%) Grafana
6 3 (2.88%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.92%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.96%) Puppet
Vendors
1 27 (25.96%) Microsoft
2 20 (19.23%) Google
3 9 (8.65%) Sitecore
4 8 (7.69%) Checkmarx
5 7 (6.73%) Foundry
5 7 (6.73%) OpenAI
6 5 (4.81%) Databricks
7 4 (3.85%) ServiceNow
7 4 (3.85%) Splunk
7 4 (3.85%) VMware
8 3 (2.88%) Dynatrace
8 3 (2.88%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.88%) SAP
9 2 (1.92%) Citrix
9 2 (1.92%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.92%) New Relic
9 2 (1.92%) Talend
9 2 (1.92%) Wyse
10 1 (0.96%) Informatica
10 1 (0.96%) Pega