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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 26 47
Rank change year-on-year +3 +21 -9
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 106 66 65
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 6.69% 5.70% 3.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.90% 6.82% 4.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 22 52
10th Percentile £400 £301 £400
25th Percentile £450 £318 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £560 £622
90th Percentile £763 £581 £717
England median daily rate £515 £560 £575
% change year-on-year -8.04% -2.61% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 9 4
10th Percentile £64.03 £64.50 -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -13.33% +15.38%
75th Percentile £67.00 - £77.50
90th Percentile - £65.50 -
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 1,342 968 1,535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 84.67% 83.66% 88.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 558 410 812
10th Percentile £187 £239 £238
25th Percentile £363 £334 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.39% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £580 £580 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 430 195 360
10th Percentile £14.23 - £14.16
25th Percentile £16.42 £15.62 £14.61
Median hourly rate £21.00 £30.00 £21.39
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +40.29% -9.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +18.63%

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 14 December 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 14 December 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 55 £550 +2.33% 138
Cambridgeshire +5 27 £618 +23.50% 84
Bedfordshire 0 12 £625 +12.61% 70
Suffolk 0 7 £450 +50.00% 36
Norfolk -17 3 £500 - 36
Essex -5 2 £503 +58.02% 111
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 (5.66%) WebSphere
2 4 (3.77%) Confluence
3 3 (2.83%) Apache
3 3 (2.83%) IIS
3 3 (2.83%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (2.83%) Maximo
2 2 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.94%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.94%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 41 (38.68%) Azure
2 25 (23.58%) AWS
3 23 (21.70%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (12.26%) GCP
5 10 (9.43%) Power Platform
6 9 (8.49%) npm
7 6 (5.66%) Azure AI
7 6 (5.66%) Copilot Studio
7 6 (5.66%) Microsoft Copilot
7 6 (5.66%) Serverless
8 5 (4.72%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (3.77%) Amazon S3
9 4 (3.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (3.77%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (3.77%) Entra ID
10 3 (2.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (2.83%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (2.83%) GitHub
10 3 (2.83%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (17.92%) TCP/IP
2 17 (16.04%) Ethernet
3 4 (3.77%) Firewall
4 3 (2.83%) DNS
5 2 (1.89%) DHCP
5 2 (1.89%) VPN
6 1 (0.94%) BGP
6 1 (0.94%) MPLS
6 1 (0.94%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.94%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (12.26%) NoSQL
2 9 (8.49%) Power BI
3 7 (6.60%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.77%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (3.77%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.83%) DB2
6 2 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.89%) MySQL
6 2 (1.89%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.89%) Redis
6 2 (1.89%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.94%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.94%) Big Data
7 1 (0.94%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 26 (24.53%) Visual Studio
2 20 (18.87%) GitLab
3 17 (16.04%) Eclipse
3 17 (16.04%) Git
4 14 (13.21%) JIRA
5 9 (8.49%) Artifactory
6 8 (7.55%) Jenkins
7 4 (3.77%) JMeter
7 4 (3.77%) Selenium
8 2 (1.89%) Postman
8 2 (1.89%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.94%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.94%) Gatling
9 1 (0.94%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.94%) Locust
9 1 (0.94%) Newman
9 1 (0.94%) Polyspace
9 1 (0.94%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.94%) TestCafe
9 1 (0.94%) TestRail
General
1 47 (44.34%) Social Skills
2 17 (16.04%) Military
2 17 (16.04%) Presentation Skills
3 9 (8.49%) Finance
4 8 (7.55%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (6.60%) Aerospace
5 7 (6.60%) Manufacturing
6 6 (5.66%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (3.77%) Law
8 3 (2.83%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.83%) Retail
9 2 (1.89%) Marketing
10 1 (0.94%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.94%) Automotive
10 1 (0.94%) Local Government
10 1 (0.94%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (27.36%) Software Engineer
2 21 (19.81%) Developer
3 17 (16.04%) C++ Software Engineer
4 15 (14.15%) C# Software Engineer
5 11 (10.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 11 (10.38%) Consultant
6 8 (7.55%) Senior
7 7 (6.60%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (5.66%) .NET Developer
8 6 (5.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 6 (5.66%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) Architect
9 5 (4.72%) Senior Developer
9 5 (4.72%) Test Engineer
10 4 (3.77%) Azure Developer
10 4 (3.77%) Data Engineer
10 4 (3.77%) Lead
11 3 (2.83%) C# Developer
11 3 (2.83%) DevOps Developer
11 3 (2.83%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (30.19%) Node.js
2 27 (25.47%) .NET
3 20 (18.87%) Web Services
4 19 (17.92%) React
5 17 (16.04%) REST
6 15 (14.15%) HTML
7 14 (13.21%) AngularJS
8 12 (11.32%) .NET Framework
9 11 (10.38%) CSS
10 10 (9.43%) Vue
11 9 (8.49%) PyTorch
11 9 (8.49%) scikit-learn
11 9 (8.49%) SOAP
11 9 (8.49%) Svelte
11 9 (8.49%) TensorFlow
12 7 (6.60%) .NET Core
13 5 (4.72%) Middleware
13 5 (4.72%) XML
14 4 (3.77%) JSON
14 4 (3.77%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.26%) Cloud Native
2 11 (10.38%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (9.43%) Algorithms
4 9 (8.49%) Data Structures
5 6 (5.66%) FPGA
5 6 (5.66%) PCIe
5 6 (5.66%) State Machine
6 4 (3.77%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (3.77%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.83%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (2.83%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.83%) Life Science
7 3 (2.83%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.83%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.89%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.89%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.89%) PKI
8 2 (1.89%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.94%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 36 (33.96%) Linux
2 30 (28.30%) Windows
3 6 (5.66%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.89%) VMS
5 1 (0.94%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.94%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (58.49%) DevOps
2 45 (42.45%) Agile
3 35 (33.02%) Validation
4 29 (27.36%) Software Engineering
4 29 (27.36%) TDD
4 29 (27.36%) Unit Testing
5 24 (22.64%) Microservices
6 23 (21.70%) AI
7 22 (20.75%) Containerisation
8 21 (19.81%) Continuous Integration
8 21 (19.81%) Test Automation
9 20 (18.87%) Full-Stack Development
10 17 (16.04%) Continuous Delivery
10 17 (16.04%) Digital Twin
10 17 (16.04%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (16.04%) Synthetic Environment
10 17 (16.04%) Verification and Validation
10 17 (16.04%) Visualisation
11 16 (15.09%) Infrastructure as Code
12 15 (14.15%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 37 (34.91%) JavaScript
2 36 (33.96%) C#
3 34 (32.08%) C++
4 27 (25.47%) Python
5 19 (17.92%) SQL
6 12 (11.32%) TypeScript
7 7 (6.60%) Java
8 5 (4.72%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.77%) C
10 3 (2.83%) Bicep
10 3 (2.83%) PHP
11 1 (0.94%) Bash
11 1 (0.94%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 16 (15.09%) Security Cleared
2 13 (12.26%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.72%) Degree
4 4 (3.77%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.89%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.89%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.89%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.94%) CCIE
6 1 (0.94%) CCNP
6 1 (0.94%) CCSP
6 1 (0.94%) CISA
6 1 (0.94%) CISM
6 1 (0.94%) CISSP
6 1 (0.94%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.94%) SANS
6 1 (0.94%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (21.70%) QA
2 9 (8.49%) NIST
3 5 (4.72%) EU AI Act
4 4 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.89%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.89%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.94%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 1 (0.94%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.94%) AUTOSAR
6 1 (0.94%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.94%) GxP
6 1 (0.94%) HL7
6 1 (0.94%) ISO 26262
6 1 (0.94%) MISRA
6 1 (0.94%) MISRA C
System Software
1 27 (25.47%) Docker
2 2 (1.89%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (25.47%) Kubernetes
2 13 (12.26%) Terraform
3 4 (3.77%) Ansible
4 3 (2.83%) Consul
4 3 (2.83%) Grafana
4 3 (2.83%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.89%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.94%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.94%) Istio
6 1 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 41 (38.68%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.55%) Google
3 6 (5.66%) Foundry
3 6 (5.66%) OpenAI
4 5 (4.72%) Dynatrace
5 4 (3.77%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.77%) SAP
6 3 (2.83%) IBM
6 3 (2.83%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.89%) Citrix
7 2 (1.89%) Databricks
7 2 (1.89%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.89%) Pega
7 2 (1.89%) Splunk
7 2 (1.89%) VMware
7 2 (1.89%) Wyse
8 1 (0.94%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.94%) Juniper
8 1 (0.94%) QNX
8 1 (0.94%) Talend