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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 27 38
Rank change year-on-year +7 +11 +1
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 112 75 83
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 7.25% 5.84% 4.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.42% 7.08% 5.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 24 64
10th Percentile £351 £303 £400
25th Percentile £416 £318 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £543
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -7.83% -8.52%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £602
90th Percentile £759 £594 £700
England median daily rate £519 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -5.73% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 16 5
10th Percentile £64.68 £51.25 £62.00
25th Percentile - £62.38 £72.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -13.33% +15.38%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.25 £77.50
90th Percentile - £67.50 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -13.33% +14.32%

All Process and 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 1,330 1,059 1,588
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 86.08% 82.41% 88.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 555 429 860
10th Percentile £185 £242 £225
25th Percentile £363 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £580 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £713
England median daily rate £501 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.53% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 393 222 368
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.25 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £27.67 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.11% +31.76% -6.67%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.14% -19.10% +19.85%

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 28 November 2025.

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
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 28 November 2025. 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 +11 59 £500 -9.09% 27
Cambridgeshire +4 26 £618 +23.50% 30
Bedfordshire -5 13 £625 +15.74% 7
Suffolk +1 9 £305 +1.67% 5
Norfolk -16 3 £500 - 3
Essex -3 2 £503 +58.02% 12
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 (5.36%) WebSphere
2 4 (3.57%) Confluence
3 3 (2.68%) Apache
3 3 (2.68%) IIS
3 3 (2.68%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.89%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.89%) Mule
Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (2.68%) Maximo
2 2 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.89%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.89%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 40 (35.71%) Azure
2 23 (20.54%) AWS
2 23 (20.54%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (9.82%) GCP
4 9 (8.04%) npm
4 9 (8.04%) Power Platform
5 5 (4.46%) Azure AI
5 5 (4.46%) Azure Logic Apps
5 5 (4.46%) Copilot Studio
5 5 (4.46%) Microsoft Copilot
5 5 (4.46%) Serverless
6 4 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (3.57%) Amazon S3
6 4 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 4 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (3.57%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.68%) GitHub
7 3 (2.68%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (2.68%) Power Automate
7 3 (2.68%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (19.64%) TCP/IP
2 20 (17.86%) Ethernet
3 5 (4.46%) Firewall
4 3 (2.68%) DNS
4 3 (2.68%) VPN
5 2 (1.79%) BGP
5 2 (1.79%) DHCP
6 1 (0.89%) MPLS
6 1 (0.89%) OSPF
6 1 (0.89%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.89%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.89%) VLAN
6 1 (0.89%) VoIP
6 1 (0.89%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.82%) NoSQL
2 8 (7.14%) Power BI
3 7 (6.25%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.68%) DB2
5 3 (2.68%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.79%) MySQL
6 2 (1.79%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.79%) Redis
6 2 (1.79%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.89%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.89%) Big Data
7 1 (0.89%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 29 (25.89%) Visual Studio
2 20 (17.86%) Eclipse
2 20 (17.86%) GitLab
3 17 (15.18%) Git
4 14 (12.50%) JIRA
5 9 (8.04%) Artifactory
5 9 (8.04%) Jenkins
6 5 (4.46%) Robot Framework
7 4 (3.57%) JMeter
7 4 (3.57%) Selenium
8 2 (1.79%) Postman
9 1 (0.89%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.89%) Gatling
9 1 (0.89%) Locust
9 1 (0.89%) Newman
9 1 (0.89%) Polyspace
9 1 (0.89%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.89%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.89%) TestCafe
9 1 (0.89%) TestRail
General
1 49 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 20 (17.86%) Military
2 20 (17.86%) Presentation Skills
3 8 (7.14%) Finance
4 7 (6.25%) Aerospace
4 7 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (6.25%) Manufacturing
5 6 (5.36%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (4.46%) Law
7 3 (2.68%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.79%) Marketing
8 2 (1.79%) Retail
9 1 (0.89%) Agriculture
9 1 (0.89%) Automotive
9 1 (0.89%) Local Government
9 1 (0.89%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (28.57%) Software Engineer
2 21 (18.75%) Developer
3 19 (16.96%) C++ Software Engineer
4 18 (16.07%) C# Software Engineer
5 11 (9.82%) Consultant
6 10 (8.93%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 8 (7.14%) Senior
8 7 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (5.36%) .NET Developer
9 6 (5.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 6 (5.36%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 5 (4.46%) Architect
10 5 (4.46%) Network Engineer
10 5 (4.46%) Test Engineer
11 4 (3.57%) Azure Developer
11 4 (3.57%) Data Engineer
11 4 (3.57%) Lead
11 4 (3.57%) Senior Developer
12 3 (2.68%) DevOps Developer
12 3 (2.68%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (30.36%) Node.js
2 26 (23.21%) .NET
3 24 (21.43%) Web Services
4 18 (16.07%) React
4 18 (16.07%) REST
5 15 (13.39%) HTML
6 14 (12.50%) AngularJS
7 12 (10.71%) .NET Framework
8 11 (9.82%) CSS
8 11 (9.82%) SOAP
9 10 (8.93%) Vue
10 9 (8.04%) Svelte
11 8 (7.14%) PyTorch
11 8 (7.14%) scikit-learn
11 8 (7.14%) TensorFlow
12 7 (6.25%) .NET Core
13 5 (4.46%) Middleware
13 5 (4.46%) XML
14 4 (3.57%) JSON
14 4 (3.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.71%) Cloud Native
2 11 (9.82%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (8.93%) Algorithms
4 9 (8.04%) Data Structures
5 6 (5.36%) FPGA
5 6 (5.36%) PCIe
5 6 (5.36%) State Machine
6 4 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.68%) Life Science
7 3 (2.68%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.68%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.68%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.79%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (1.79%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.79%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.79%) PKI
8 2 (1.79%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 39 (34.82%) Linux
2 33 (29.46%) Windows
3 6 (5.36%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.79%) VMS
5 1 (0.89%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.89%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (54.46%) DevOps
2 49 (43.75%) Agile
3 38 (33.93%) Validation
4 32 (28.57%) Software Engineering
5 31 (27.68%) TDD
5 31 (27.68%) Unit Testing
6 25 (22.32%) Test Automation
7 24 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
8 22 (19.64%) AI
8 22 (19.64%) Microservices
9 21 (18.75%) Containerisation
10 20 (17.86%) Continuous Delivery
10 20 (17.86%) Digital Twin
10 20 (17.86%) Synthetic Environment
10 20 (17.86%) Verification and Validation
10 20 (17.86%) Visualisation
11 19 (16.96%) Full-Stack Development
12 18 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
13 17 (15.18%) Infrastructure as Code
14 15 (13.39%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 40 (35.71%) JavaScript
2 39 (34.82%) C#
3 37 (33.04%) C++
4 30 (26.79%) Python
5 18 (16.07%) SQL
6 12 (10.71%) TypeScript
7 6 (5.36%) Java
8 5 (4.46%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.57%) C
10 3 (2.68%) Bicep
10 3 (2.68%) PHP
11 2 (1.79%) Bash
12 1 (0.89%) DataWeave
12 1 (0.89%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 15 (13.39%) Security Cleared
2 12 (10.71%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.46%) Degree
4 4 (3.57%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.79%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.89%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.89%) CCIE
6 1 (0.89%) CCNP
6 1 (0.89%) CISA
6 1 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.89%) CISM
6 1 (0.89%) CISSP
6 1 (0.89%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.89%) SANS
6 1 (0.89%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (23.21%) QA
2 8 (7.14%) NIST
3 5 (4.46%) EU AI Act
4 3 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.89%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 1 (0.89%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.89%) AUTOSAR
5 1 (0.89%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.89%) GxP
5 1 (0.89%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.89%) HL7
5 1 (0.89%) ISO 26262
5 1 (0.89%) MISRA
5 1 (0.89%) MISRA C
5 1 (0.89%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (22.32%) Docker
2 2 (1.79%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (22.32%) Kubernetes
2 15 (13.39%) Terraform
3 5 (4.46%) Ansible
4 3 (2.68%) Consul
4 3 (2.68%) Grafana
4 3 (2.68%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.79%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.89%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.89%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.89%) Istio
6 1 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (38.39%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.25%) Google
3 5 (4.46%) Dynatrace
3 5 (4.46%) Foundry
3 5 (4.46%) OpenAI
4 4 (3.57%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.68%) IBM
5 3 (2.68%) MuleSoft
5 3 (2.68%) SAP
5 3 (2.68%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.79%) Citrix
6 2 (1.79%) Databricks
6 2 (1.79%) Pega
6 2 (1.79%) VMware
6 2 (1.79%) Wyse
7 1 (0.89%) Cisco
7 1 (0.89%) Clearswift
7 1 (0.89%) Juniper
7 1 (0.89%) Oracle
7 1 (0.89%) QNX