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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 22 31
Rank change year-on-year +6 +9 +4
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 162 90 71
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 6.75% 6.87% 4.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.62% 7.66% 5.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 37 22
10th Percentile £370 £300 £301
25th Percentile £438 £400 £321
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £574
90th Percentile £613 £793 £621
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.39% -6.77% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 27 22
10th Percentile £60.81 - £51.25
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £75.00 £67.00 -
90th Percentile £79.00 - £67.35
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £68.75
% change year-on-year +3.85% -5.45% -8.33%

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 1,880 1,175 1,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.37% 89.69% 81.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 817 507 449
10th Percentile £190 £200 £204
25th Percentile £363 £388 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £442
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +14.25% -11.60%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £550
90th Percentile £700 £688 £638
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 488 320 347
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.38 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.12 £16.05 £15.62
Median hourly rate £48.84 £22.63 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +115.82% -43.43% +101.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%

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 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 28 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 28 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 -14 56 £509 -7.45% 41
Cambridgeshire +9 31 £513 -28.07% 107
Suffolk -1 28 £460 +48.39% 13
Essex +7 26 £550 +10.00% 18
Bedfordshire +6 15 £544 +8.75% 18
Norfolk -5 6 £500 -2.44% 15
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 (4.32%) OpenStack
2 5 (3.09%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.85%) Apache
4 1 (0.62%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.62%) Confluence
4 1 (0.62%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 3 (1.85%) Windchill
2 1 (0.62%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 55 (33.95%) Azure
2 33 (20.37%) GCP
3 29 (17.90%) GitHub
4 26 (16.05%) AWS
5 24 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (12.35%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (5.56%) Azure AKS
8 7 (4.32%) Serverless
9 6 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (3.70%) Power Platform
10 5 (3.09%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (3.09%) GitHub Copilot
10 5 (3.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 4 (2.47%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.47%) Apple Pay
11 4 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.47%) Snowflake
12 3 (1.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 3 (1.85%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 23 (14.20%) VPN
2 20 (12.35%) Firewall
3 13 (8.02%) TCP/IP
4 8 (4.94%) Ethernet
5 6 (3.70%) DNS
6 5 (3.09%) 5G
6 5 (3.09%) HTTP
6 5 (3.09%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (2.47%) 4G
7 4 (2.47%) SNMP
7 4 (2.47%) SSH
7 4 (2.47%) VoIP
8 3 (1.85%) RTP
8 3 (1.85%) SSL
8 3 (1.85%) tcpdump
8 3 (1.85%) WAN
8 3 (1.85%) Wireshark
9 2 (1.23%) INAP
9 2 (1.23%) Network Security
9 2 (1.23%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (12.35%) Relational Database
2 19 (11.73%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (7.41%) MySQL
4 8 (4.94%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (4.32%) Redis
6 5 (3.09%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.09%) NoSQL
6 5 (3.09%) Power BI
7 4 (2.47%) Couchbase
8 3 (1.85%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.85%) InfluxDB
8 3 (1.85%) Metadata
8 3 (1.85%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.23%) Semantic Layer
9 2 (1.23%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (1.23%) Tableau
10 1 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.62%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.62%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 42 (25.93%) Git
2 24 (14.81%) GitLab
3 16 (9.88%) Visual Studio
4 14 (8.64%) JIRA
5 13 (8.02%) Jenkins
6 9 (5.56%) Gradle
7 8 (4.94%) Eclipse
8 7 (4.32%) Rational DOORS
9 5 (3.09%) SonarQube
10 4 (2.47%) IntelliJ
10 4 (2.47%) JUnit
10 4 (2.47%) Newman
10 4 (2.47%) Postman
11 3 (1.85%) Robot Framework
11 3 (1.85%) Selenium
12 2 (1.23%) Artifactory
12 2 (1.23%) Claude Code
12 2 (1.23%) Gerrit
12 2 (1.23%) JMeter
12 2 (1.23%) Locust
General
1 35 (21.60%) Social Skills
2 22 (13.58%) Finance
3 15 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (9.26%) Banking
4 11 (6.79%) Manufacturing
5 10 (6.17%) Telecoms
6 8 (4.94%) Military
7 7 (4.32%) Retail
8 6 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (3.09%) Aerospace
10 4 (2.47%) Law
10 4 (2.47%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.23%) Automotive
11 2 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.23%) Electronics
11 2 (1.23%) Marketing
12 1 (0.62%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.62%) Billing
12 1 (0.62%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 49 (30.25%) Developer
2 32 (19.75%) Software Engineer
3 23 (14.20%) Java Developer
3 23 (14.20%) Senior
4 16 (9.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (9.88%) Software Developer
5 14 (8.64%) Java Software Developer
6 12 (7.41%) Java Engineer
7 11 (6.79%) Java Software Engineer
8 10 (6.17%) Backend Developer
8 10 (6.17%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 9 (5.56%) IAM Developer
10 8 (4.94%) Architect
10 8 (4.94%) Python Developer
10 8 (4.94%) Test Engineer
11 7 (4.32%) C# Software Engineer
12 6 (3.70%) Lead
12 6 (3.70%) Security Engineer
12 6 (3.70%) Senior DevOps
12 6 (3.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (17.90%) Terraform
2 18 (11.11%) Spring Boot
3 15 (9.26%) Spring
4 13 (8.02%) REST
5 12 (7.41%) .NET
5 12 (7.41%) Kafka
5 12 (7.41%) Node.js
6 9 (5.56%) Pandas
6 9 (5.56%) RESTful
6 9 (5.56%) Web Services
7 8 (4.94%) CSS
7 8 (4.94%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (4.94%) HTML
7 8 (4.94%) React
7 8 (4.94%) XML
8 7 (4.32%) pytest
8 7 (4.32%) WinForms
8 7 (4.32%) WPF
9 6 (3.70%) FastAPI
9 6 (3.70%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.81%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.32%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (3.70%) Life Science
3 6 (3.70%) Private Cloud
4 5 (3.09%) Security Posture
5 4 (2.47%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.47%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.47%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.23%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.23%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.62%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.62%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.62%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.62%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.62%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.62%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 35 (21.60%) Linux
2 21 (12.96%) Windows
3 7 (4.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.47%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.23%) CentOS
5 2 (1.23%) Rocky
5 2 (1.23%) Unix
5 2 (1.23%) VMS
5 2 (1.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (59.88%) DevOps
2 77 (47.53%) Agile
3 63 (38.89%) Software Engineering
4 42 (25.93%) Test Automation
5 38 (23.46%) Infrastructure as Code
6 37 (22.84%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (22.22%) Validation
8 30 (18.52%) Scrum
9 27 (16.67%) Microservices
10 24 (14.81%) TDD
11 22 (13.58%) AI
12 21 (12.96%) Software Delivery
13 19 (11.73%) Software Testing
14 18 (11.11%) Containerisation
14 18 (11.11%) Continuous Delivery
14 18 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
14 18 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
14 18 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
15 16 (9.88%) Observability
15 16 (9.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 60 (37.04%) Python
2 42 (25.93%) Java
3 29 (17.90%) SQL
4 21 (12.96%) C#
5 18 (11.11%) Bash
6 16 (9.88%) C++
7 15 (9.26%) JavaScript
8 8 (4.94%) PowerShell
9 6 (3.70%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (3.09%) Search Processing Language
11 4 (2.47%) Shell Script
11 4 (2.47%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.85%) Groovy
13 2 (1.23%) Bicep
13 2 (1.23%) C
14 1 (0.62%) Cypher
14 1 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.62%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.62%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.62%) VBA
Qualifications
1 29 (17.90%) Security Cleared
2 18 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 16 (9.88%) Degree
4 10 (6.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.32%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.85%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.85%) MOS
7 2 (1.23%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.23%) CCSP
7 2 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.23%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.62%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.62%) CISSP
8 1 (0.62%) CRISC
8 1 (0.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.62%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (14.20%) QA
2 8 (4.94%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.47%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.47%) GDPR
3 4 (2.47%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.85%) NIST
5 2 (1.23%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 28 (17.28%) Docker
2 2 (1.23%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.62%) Squid
Systems Management
1 34 (20.99%) Ansible
2 22 (13.58%) Kubernetes
3 10 (6.17%) Grafana
4 9 (5.56%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.70%) Puppet
6 5 (3.09%) Argo
7 3 (1.85%) HP ALM
8 2 (1.23%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.62%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.62%) Istio
9 1 (0.62%) linkerd
9 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.62%) Packer
9 1 (0.62%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 17 (10.49%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.79%) Splunk
3 10 (6.17%) Databricks
4 9 (5.56%) Google
5 8 (4.94%) IBM
6 6 (3.70%) Dynatrace
7 4 (2.47%) Checkmarx
7 4 (2.47%) Cribl.io
8 3 (1.85%) HP
8 3 (1.85%) NetApp
8 3 (1.85%) Oracle
8 3 (1.85%) PTC
8 3 (1.85%) SAP
8 3 (1.85%) VMware
9 2 (1.23%) Dialogic
9 2 (1.23%) Metaswitch
9 2 (1.23%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.62%) Braze
10 1 (0.62%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.62%) mParticle