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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 24 55
Rank change year-on-year +6 +31 -12
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 144 83 54
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 6.57% 6.61% 3.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.38% 7.50% 3.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 45 23
10th Percentile £425 £309 £311
25th Percentile £472 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £468 £525
Median % change year-on-year +14.97% -10.95% -3.67%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £578
90th Percentile £650 £575 £620
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 20 21
10th Percentile £57.23 £64.68 £51.25
25th Percentile £62.19 - £62.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - £67.00 -
90th Percentile £72.00 - £67.50
England median hourly rate £65.83 £65.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year +1.28% -1.52% -6.38%

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 1,719 1,106 1,371
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.46% 88.13% 83.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 843 518 530
10th Percentile £192 £200 £200
25th Percentile £386 £367 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £594 £575 £550
90th Percentile £685 £650 £638
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 390 262 515
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.99 £14.48
25th Percentile £16.60 £17.97 £15.62
Median hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +90.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.31 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £82.03 £70.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.03
% change year-on-year +78.93% -40.16% -1.11%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 1 August 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 -7 49 £550 - 25
Essex +3 25 £510 +9.38% 2
Cambridgeshire +9 22 £500 -5.66% 37
Bedfordshire +14 19 £575 +15.00% 2
Suffolk +4 18 £500 +48.15% 5
Norfolk -7 11 £488 +8.33% 9
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 (4.86%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.39%) Apache
2 2 (1.39%) CMS
2 2 (1.39%) NetWeaver
2 2 (1.39%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.39%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 52 (36.11%) Azure
2 34 (23.61%) GCP
3 33 (22.92%) AWS
4 26 (18.06%) GitHub
5 18 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (11.81%) Azure AKS
7 15 (10.42%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (8.33%) Serverless
9 8 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
10 7 (4.86%) Power Platform
11 6 (4.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 5 (3.47%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (3.47%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (3.47%) Azure Functions
12 5 (3.47%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (3.47%) dbt
13 4 (2.78%) Amazon S3
13 4 (2.78%) Apple Pay
13 4 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 20 (13.89%) VPN
2 17 (11.81%) Firewall
3 8 (5.56%) TCP/IP
4 7 (4.86%) Ethernet
5 4 (2.78%) SNMP
5 4 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (2.08%) DNS
7 2 (1.39%) Network Security
7 2 (1.39%) SSL
7 2 (1.39%) WAN
8 1 (0.69%) BGP
8 1 (0.69%) DHCP
8 1 (0.69%) HTTP
8 1 (0.69%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.11%) Relational Database
2 14 (9.72%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (4.86%) MySQL
5 6 (4.17%) Power BI
5 6 (4.17%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.78%) Metadata
6 4 (2.78%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.08%) Redis
8 2 (1.39%) MaxDB
8 2 (1.39%) SAP HANA
8 2 (1.39%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (1.39%) Sybase ASE
9 1 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.69%) Big Data
9 1 (0.69%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.69%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.69%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.69%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 38 (26.39%) Git
2 22 (15.28%) GitLab
3 10 (6.94%) Visual Studio
4 9 (6.25%) Gradle
4 9 (6.25%) Jenkins
5 8 (5.56%) Eclipse
5 8 (5.56%) JUnit
5 8 (5.56%) SonarQube
6 7 (4.86%) JIRA
7 6 (4.17%) IntelliJ
8 4 (2.78%) Newman
8 4 (2.78%) Postman
9 2 (1.39%) Claude Code
9 2 (1.39%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.69%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.69%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.69%) MLflow
10 1 (0.69%) Snyk
General
1 37 (25.69%) Social Skills
2 22 (15.28%) Finance
3 17 (11.81%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.64%) Banking
5 7 (4.86%) Manufacturing
5 7 (4.86%) Military
5 7 (4.86%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (3.47%) Retail
7 4 (2.78%) Automotive
7 4 (2.78%) Law
7 4 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.39%) Electronics
9 2 (1.39%) Marketing
9 2 (1.39%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.69%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.69%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 41 (28.47%) Developer
2 24 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 22 (15.28%) Software Engineer
4 18 (12.50%) Senior
5 12 (8.33%) Architect
5 12 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (8.33%) Software Developer
6 11 (7.64%) Java Software Developer
7 10 (6.94%) Data Engineer
8 9 (6.25%) Backend Developer
8 9 (6.25%) Lead
9 8 (5.56%) Java Engineer
9 8 (5.56%) Java Software Engineer
10 7 (4.86%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 6 (4.17%) C# Software Engineer
11 6 (4.17%) GCP Engineer
11 6 (4.17%) IAM Developer
11 6 (4.17%) Senior DevOps
11 6 (4.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 5 (3.47%) C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (18.75%) Spring Boot
2 24 (16.67%) Spring
3 17 (11.81%) Node.js
4 12 (8.33%) .NET
4 12 (8.33%) REST
5 11 (7.64%) Kafka
5 11 (7.64%) React
6 8 (5.56%) RESTful
6 8 (5.56%) Web Services
7 6 (4.17%) CSS
7 6 (4.17%) HTML
8 5 (3.47%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (3.47%) Hibernate
8 5 (3.47%) OAuth
8 5 (3.47%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (3.47%) Pandas
8 5 (3.47%) SQLAlchemy
8 5 (3.47%) XML
9 4 (2.78%) eBPF
9 4 (2.78%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 34 (23.61%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.17%) Life Science
3 5 (3.47%) Private Cloud
4 4 (2.78%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (2.78%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.78%) Security Operations Centre
4 4 (2.78%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.39%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.69%) Clustering
7 1 (0.69%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.69%) LIMS
7 1 (0.69%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.69%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.69%) PKI
7 1 (0.69%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 26 (18.06%) Linux
2 15 (10.42%) Windows
3 3 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.08%) Unix
4 2 (1.39%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.39%) VMS
4 2 (1.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (59.72%) DevOps
2 59 (40.97%) Agile
3 49 (34.03%) Software Engineering
4 37 (25.69%) Infrastructure as Code
5 36 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (20.83%) Test Automation
7 27 (18.75%) Microservices
8 26 (18.06%) TDD
9 23 (15.97%) Data Pipeline
10 22 (15.28%) ETL
11 21 (14.58%) Containerisation
12 20 (13.89%) AI
13 18 (12.50%) Event-Driven
13 18 (12.50%) Validation
14 16 (11.11%) Analytics
14 16 (11.11%) Scrum
15 14 (9.72%) Application Security
15 14 (9.72%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 14 (9.72%) Performance Tuning
15 14 (9.72%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 49 (34.03%) Python
2 43 (29.86%) Java
3 25 (17.36%) SQL
4 19 (13.19%) C#
5 16 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 11 (7.64%) C++
7 10 (6.94%) Bash
8 6 (4.17%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (3.47%) PowerShell
9 5 (3.47%) Search Processing Language
9 5 (3.47%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.08%) C
10 3 (2.08%) Go
11 1 (0.69%) Bicep
11 1 (0.69%) Cypher
11 1 (0.69%) Groovy
11 1 (0.69%) VBA
Qualifications
1 32 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 15 (10.42%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.64%) Degree
4 10 (6.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (6.94%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.47%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.39%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.39%) CCNP
7 2 (1.39%) CCSP
7 2 (1.39%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.69%) CCIE
8 1 (0.69%) CISM
8 1 (0.69%) CISSP
8 1 (0.69%) CRISC
8 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.69%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (11.81%) QA
2 10 (6.94%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.47%) GDPR
3 5 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.78%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.08%) NIST
6 2 (1.39%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.39%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 24 (16.67%) Docker
2 2 (1.39%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.69%) Squid
Systems Management
1 31 (21.53%) Ansible
1 31 (21.53%) Terraform
2 28 (19.44%) Kubernetes
3 8 (5.56%) Grafana
4 6 (4.17%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.47%) Argo
6 3 (2.08%) Puppet
7 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.69%) Packer
7 1 (0.69%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.69%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 16 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.33%) Google
3 11 (7.64%) Splunk
4 10 (6.94%) Databricks
5 9 (6.25%) Dynatrace
6 8 (5.56%) Checkmarx
7 4 (2.78%) Cribl.io
7 4 (2.78%) IBM
7 4 (2.78%) SAP
8 3 (2.08%) Oracle
8 3 (2.08%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.08%) VMware
9 2 (1.39%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.39%) NetApp
9 2 (1.39%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.39%) Sitecore
9 2 (1.39%) Sybase
10 1 (0.69%) Pega
10 1 (0.69%) Trend Micro
10 1 (0.69%) Wyse