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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 21 35
Rank change year-on-year +4 +14 -1
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 155 88 67
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 6.65% 6.76% 4.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.52% 7.56% 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 38 22
10th Percentile £400 £300 £303
25th Percentile £460 £402 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £580
90th Percentile £613 £785 £625
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 27 22
10th Percentile £59.22 - £51.25
25th Percentile £62.19 - £62.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - £67.00 -
90th Percentile £75.90 - £67.35
England median hourly rate £66.66 £65.00 £67.25
% change year-on-year +2.55% -3.35% -10.33%

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 1,820 1,164 1,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.11% 89.40% 81.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 506 453
10th Percentile £190 £200 £200
25th Percentile £376 £375 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £442
Median % change year-on-year - +13.12% -11.60%
75th Percentile £593 £586 £550
90th Percentile £675 £686 £638
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 452 310 384
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.50 £14.64
25th Percentile £17.00 £16.42 £15.62
Median hourly rate £49.42 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +96.50% -37.13% +101.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £67.85
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.91%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -8 54 £549 -0.13% 78
Cambridgeshire +10 28 £513 -28.07% 142
Essex +6 25 £530 +9.56% 30
Suffolk +3 25 £495 +59.68% 24
Bedfordshire +9 13 £538 +7.50% 20
Norfolk -4 10 £475 -7.32% 18
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 6 (3.87%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (3.87%) OpenStack
2 3 (1.94%) Apache
3 1 (0.65%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.65%) Confluence
3 1 (0.65%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 3 (1.94%) Windchill
2 1 (0.65%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 52 (33.55%) Azure
2 33 (21.29%) GCP
3 28 (18.06%) AWS
4 27 (17.42%) GitHub
5 21 (13.55%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (10.97%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (5.81%) Azure AKS
8 8 (5.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (5.16%) Serverless
9 7 (4.52%) Power Platform
10 6 (3.87%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (3.23%) Amazon S3
11 5 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (3.23%) dbt
11 5 (3.23%) GitHub Copilot
11 5 (3.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 4 (2.58%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (2.58%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (2.58%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 21 (13.55%) VPN
2 19 (12.26%) Firewall
3 13 (8.39%) TCP/IP
4 8 (5.16%) Ethernet
5 6 (3.87%) DNS
6 5 (3.23%) HTTP
7 4 (2.58%) 5G
7 4 (2.58%) SNMP
7 4 (2.58%) SSH
7 4 (2.58%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (1.94%) 4G
8 3 (1.94%) SSL
9 2 (1.29%) Network Security
9 2 (1.29%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (1.29%) RTP
9 2 (1.29%) tcpdump
9 2 (1.29%) VoIP
9 2 (1.29%) WAN
9 2 (1.29%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.65%) INAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (12.26%) Relational Database
2 18 (11.61%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (7.74%) MySQL
4 9 (5.81%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (4.52%) Redis
6 6 (3.87%) Power BI
7 5 (3.23%) Metadata
7 5 (3.23%) MongoDB
7 5 (3.23%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.58%) SQL Server
9 3 (1.94%) Couchbase
9 3 (1.94%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.94%) InfluxDB
10 2 (1.29%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (1.29%) Tableau
11 1 (0.65%) GIS
11 1 (0.65%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.65%) SQLite
11 1 (0.65%) Star Schema
11 1 (0.65%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 45 (29.03%) Git
2 24 (15.48%) GitLab
3 13 (8.39%) JIRA
3 13 (8.39%) Visual Studio
4 12 (7.74%) Jenkins
5 9 (5.81%) Gradle
6 8 (5.16%) Eclipse
7 5 (3.23%) IntelliJ
7 5 (3.23%) JUnit
7 5 (3.23%) SonarQube
8 4 (2.58%) Newman
8 4 (2.58%) Postman
8 4 (2.58%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (1.94%) Selenium
10 2 (1.29%) Artifactory
10 2 (1.29%) Claude Code
10 2 (1.29%) Gerrit
11 1 (0.65%) Locust
11 1 (0.65%) Snyk
11 1 (0.65%) TestCafe
General
1 37 (23.87%) Social Skills
2 22 (14.19%) Finance
3 17 (10.97%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.03%) Banking
5 10 (6.45%) Manufacturing
6 8 (5.16%) Military
7 7 (4.52%) Telecoms
8 6 (3.87%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (3.87%) Retail
9 4 (2.58%) Aerospace
9 4 (2.58%) Law
9 4 (2.58%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.29%) Automotive
10 2 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.29%) Electronics
10 2 (1.29%) Marketing
11 1 (0.65%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.65%) Billing
11 1 (0.65%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 47 (30.32%) Developer
2 25 (16.13%) Software Engineer
3 22 (14.19%) Java Developer
4 21 (13.55%) Senior
5 16 (10.32%) DevOps Engineer
6 15 (9.68%) Software Developer
7 13 (8.39%) Java Software Developer
8 11 (7.10%) Java Engineer
9 10 (6.45%) Java Software Engineer
10 9 (5.81%) Backend Developer
10 9 (5.81%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 8 (5.16%) Architect
11 8 (5.16%) Data Engineer
11 8 (5.16%) IAM Developer
12 7 (4.52%) Python Developer
13 6 (3.87%) C# Software Engineer
13 6 (3.87%) Security Engineer
13 6 (3.87%) Senior DevOps
13 6 (3.87%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 6 (3.87%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (18.71%) Terraform
2 19 (12.26%) Spring Boot
3 16 (10.32%) REST
3 16 (10.32%) Spring
4 14 (9.03%) Kafka
4 14 (9.03%) Node.js
5 11 (7.10%) .NET
6 10 (6.45%) RESTful
7 9 (5.81%) Pandas
7 9 (5.81%) Web Services
8 8 (5.16%) CSS
8 8 (5.16%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (5.16%) HTML
8 8 (5.16%) React
8 8 (5.16%) XML
9 7 (4.52%) pytest
10 6 (3.87%) FastAPI
10 6 (3.87%) Flask
11 5 (3.23%) OpenTelemetry
11 5 (3.23%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 27 (17.42%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.87%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (3.87%) Life Science
3 5 (3.23%) Private Cloud
3 5 (3.23%) Security Posture
4 4 (2.58%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (2.58%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.58%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (1.94%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.94%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.65%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.65%) Media Streaming
7 1 (0.65%) PKI
7 1 (0.65%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.65%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 33 (21.29%) Linux
2 17 (10.97%) Windows
3 6 (3.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.58%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.29%) Rocky
5 2 (1.29%) Unix
5 2 (1.29%) VMS
5 2 (1.29%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.65%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (60.00%) DevOps
2 73 (47.10%) Agile
3 55 (35.48%) Software Engineering
4 39 (25.16%) Infrastructure as Code
5 38 (24.52%) Problem-Solving
5 38 (24.52%) Test Automation
6 35 (22.58%) Validation
7 26 (16.77%) Scrum
8 25 (16.13%) Microservices
9 24 (15.48%) TDD
10 21 (13.55%) Data Pipeline
11 20 (12.90%) AI
11 20 (12.90%) Software Delivery
12 19 (12.26%) Containerisation
13 18 (11.61%) ETL
13 18 (11.61%) Platform Engineering
14 17 (10.97%) Observability
14 17 (10.97%) Software Testing
15 16 (10.32%) Analytics
15 16 (10.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 57 (36.77%) Python
2 42 (27.10%) Java
3 32 (20.65%) SQL
4 19 (12.26%) C#
5 18 (11.61%) Bash
6 16 (10.32%) JavaScript
7 13 (8.39%) C++
8 8 (5.16%) PowerShell
9 6 (3.87%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (3.23%) Search Processing Language
11 4 (2.58%) Shell Script
11 4 (2.58%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.94%) C
12 3 (1.94%) Groovy
13 2 (1.29%) Bicep
13 2 (1.29%) Go
14 1 (0.65%) Cypher
14 1 (0.65%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.65%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.65%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (19.35%) Security Cleared
2 16 (10.32%) Degree
2 16 (10.32%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (4.52%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.94%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.29%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.29%) CCSP
6 2 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.29%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.29%) MOS
7 1 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.65%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.65%) CISM
7 1 (0.65%) CISSP
7 1 (0.65%) CRISC
7 1 (0.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (14.84%) QA
2 10 (6.45%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.58%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.58%) GDPR
3 4 (2.58%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.94%) NIST
5 2 (1.29%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 29 (18.71%) Docker
2 2 (1.29%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.65%) Squid
3 1 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (21.29%) Ansible
2 23 (14.84%) Kubernetes
3 12 (7.74%) Grafana
4 11 (7.10%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.87%) Puppet
6 5 (3.23%) Argo
7 3 (1.94%) HP ALM
8 2 (1.29%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.65%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.65%) Istio
9 1 (0.65%) linkerd
9 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.65%) Packer
9 1 (0.65%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (9.68%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.10%) Databricks
3 10 (6.45%) Splunk
4 9 (5.81%) Google
5 8 (5.16%) IBM
6 7 (4.52%) Dynatrace
7 5 (3.23%) Checkmarx
8 4 (2.58%) Cribl.io
9 3 (1.94%) HP
9 3 (1.94%) NetApp
9 3 (1.94%) PTC
9 3 (1.94%) SAP
9 3 (1.94%) VMware
10 2 (1.29%) Oracle
10 2 (1.29%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.29%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.65%) Dialogic
11 1 (0.65%) Guidewire
11 1 (0.65%) PagerDuty
11 1 (0.65%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud