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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 37 68
Rank change year-on-year +6 +31 -7
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 107 45 48
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 5.13% 4.77% 2.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.57% 5.42% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 31 39
10th Percentile £426 £395 £400
25th Percentile £500 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £467 £500
Median % change year-on-year +23.26% -6.70% -3.85%
75th Percentile £631 £528 £583
90th Percentile £657 £556 £675
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 1
10th Percentile £61.25 £62.00 -
25th Percentile £63.13 £63.13 £63.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year - -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile - - £71.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £64.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +4.65% +12.17% -12.35%

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 1,628 830 1,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.01% 87.92% 85.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 781 436 761
10th Percentile £200 £237 £235
25th Percentile £363 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 425 167 554
10th Percentile £14.30 £15.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.92 £20.26 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.63 £55.00 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -58.85% +44.28% +50.91%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.13 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £34.00
% change year-on-year +23.08% -4.41% -9.33%

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 9 April 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 9 April 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 9 April 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
Bedfordshire +15 30 £600 +9.09% 4
Hertfordshire 0 28 £558 +11.50% 28
Cambridgeshire +2 20 £563 +12.55% 25
Essex -2 12 £550 +72.85% 9
Norfolk -22 10 £500 +11.11% 8
Suffolk 0 7 £450 +2.86% 11
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 9 (8.41%) CMS
1 9 (8.41%) Sitecore CMS
2 3 (2.80%) Confluence
3 2 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.93%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 47 (43.93%) Azure
2 39 (36.45%) AWS
3 28 (26.17%) GCP
4 18 (16.82%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (15.89%) GitHub
6 11 (10.28%) Power Platform
6 11 (10.28%) Serverless
7 9 (8.41%) Copilot Studio
7 9 (8.41%) Microsoft Copilot
8 8 (7.48%) Azure AI
8 8 (7.48%) Azure AKS
9 7 (6.54%) Azure Service Bus
9 7 (6.54%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (5.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 4 (3.74%) Azure Functions
11 4 (3.74%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (3.74%) SaaS
12 3 (2.80%) AWS Direct Connect
12 3 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (2.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.21%) TCP/IP
2 11 (10.28%) Ethernet
3 7 (6.54%) Firewall
3 7 (6.54%) VPN
4 3 (2.80%) DNS
5 2 (1.87%) DHCP
6 1 (0.93%) BGP
6 1 (0.93%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (20.56%) NoSQL
2 11 (10.28%) Power BI
3 10 (9.35%) SQL Server
4 7 (6.54%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.80%) Metadata
5 3 (2.80%) MySQL
5 3 (2.80%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.87%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.87%) Redis
7 1 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.93%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.93%) MaxDB
7 1 (0.93%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.93%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.93%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 23 (21.50%) Git
2 13 (12.15%) GitLab
2 13 (12.15%) Jenkins
3 12 (11.21%) Visual Studio
4 11 (10.28%) Eclipse
5 8 (7.48%) JUnit
5 8 (7.48%) SonarQube
6 6 (5.61%) IntelliJ
7 5 (4.67%) JIRA
8 2 (1.87%) JMeter
9 1 (0.93%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.93%) Gatling
9 1 (0.93%) Gradle
9 1 (0.93%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.93%) Locust
9 1 (0.93%) MLflow
9 1 (0.93%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.93%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.93%) Selenium
9 1 (0.93%) TestCafe
General
1 42 (39.25%) Social Skills
2 23 (21.50%) Finance
3 13 (12.15%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (11.21%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (10.28%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (9.35%) Military
7 5 (4.67%) Law
8 4 (3.74%) Banking
8 4 (3.74%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.87%) Automotive
10 2 (1.87%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.93%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.93%) Retail
11 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (23.36%) Developer
2 15 (14.02%) Architect
3 13 (12.15%) Software Engineer
4 12 (11.21%) Senior
5 9 (8.41%) Java Developer
5 9 (8.41%) Lead
6 8 (7.48%) C# Software Engineer
7 7 (6.54%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 6 (5.61%) Data Engineer
8 6 (5.61%) Technical Architect
9 5 (4.67%) Cloud Architect
9 5 (4.67%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (4.67%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.67%) GCP Engineer
9 5 (4.67%) Technical Leader
10 4 (3.74%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (3.74%) Consultant
10 4 (3.74%) Senior Developer
10 4 (3.74%) Senior DevOps
10 4 (3.74%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (24.30%) Node.js
2 23 (21.50%) REST
3 20 (18.69%) Spring
4 19 (17.76%) .NET
4 19 (17.76%) Spring Boot
5 17 (15.89%) React
6 11 (10.28%) AngularJS
6 11 (10.28%) CSS
6 11 (10.28%) HTML
7 10 (9.35%) PyTorch
7 10 (9.35%) scikit-learn
7 10 (9.35%) TensorFlow
7 10 (9.35%) Web Services
8 9 (8.41%) RESTful
9 8 (7.48%) ASP.NET
9 8 (7.48%) ASP.NET Core
9 8 (7.48%) jQuery
10 7 (6.54%) Kafka
11 5 (4.67%) .NET Core
12 4 (3.74%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 25 (23.36%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.41%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.74%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.87%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (1.87%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.87%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.87%) N-Tier
5 2 (1.87%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.87%) PKI
5 2 (1.87%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.87%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.93%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.93%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.93%) LIMS
6 1 (0.93%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.93%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.93%) Robotics
6 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (17.76%) Linux
2 18 (16.82%) Windows
3 3 (2.80%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.87%) VMS
5 1 (0.93%) Robot Operating System
5 1 (0.93%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (65.42%) DevOps
2 41 (38.32%) Agile
3 32 (29.91%) Microservices
4 26 (24.30%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (20.56%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (20.56%) Software Engineering
5 22 (20.56%) TDD
6 21 (19.63%) Validation
7 19 (17.76%) AI
8 16 (14.95%) Data Science
9 15 (14.02%) Analytics
9 15 (14.02%) Continuous Integration
9 15 (14.02%) Event-Driven
9 15 (14.02%) Machine Learning
9 15 (14.02%) Scrum
9 15 (14.02%) Test Automation
10 14 (13.08%) ETL
10 14 (13.08%) Unit Testing
10 14 (13.08%) Visualisation
11 13 (12.15%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 37 (34.58%) Python
2 24 (22.43%) C#
3 23 (21.50%) Java
3 23 (21.50%) SQL
4 19 (17.76%) JavaScript
5 12 (11.21%) C++
6 4 (3.74%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.80%) Go
8 2 (1.87%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.93%) C
9 1 (0.93%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 21 (19.63%) Security Cleared
2 10 (9.35%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.48%) Degree
4 7 (6.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (5.61%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.80%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.80%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.87%) CCNP
8 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.93%) CCIE
8 1 (0.93%) CCSP
8 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (17.76%) QA
2 5 (4.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (4.67%) NIST
3 4 (3.74%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.87%) EU AI Act
4 2 (1.87%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.87%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.93%) GDPR
System Software
1 22 (20.56%) Docker
2 2 (1.87%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (22.43%) Kubernetes
2 12 (11.21%) Terraform
3 4 (3.74%) Ansible
3 4 (3.74%) Grafana
4 3 (2.80%) Consul
4 3 (2.80%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.87%) Argo
5 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.87%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 28 (26.17%) Microsoft
2 21 (19.63%) Google
3 9 (8.41%) Sitecore
4 8 (7.48%) Checkmarx
4 8 (7.48%) Foundry
4 8 (7.48%) OpenAI
5 5 (4.67%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.74%) Databricks
6 4 (3.74%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.74%) SAP
7 3 (2.80%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.80%) MuleSoft
7 3 (2.80%) Splunk
8 2 (1.87%) Citrix
8 2 (1.87%) New Relic
8 2 (1.87%) Pega
8 2 (1.87%) Talend
8 2 (1.87%) VMware
8 2 (1.87%) Wyse
9 1 (0.93%) Informatica