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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 20 34
Rank change year-on-year +5 +14 +5
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 166 91 70
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 6.84% 6.96% 4.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.73% 7.77% 5.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 38 21
10th Percentile £371 £300 £300
25th Percentile £441 £402 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £579 £575 £581
90th Percentile £613 £785 £625
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -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 £67.50
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% -10.00%

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 1,901 1,171 1,242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.36% 89.53% 81.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 843 504 452
10th Percentile £190 £200 £200
25th Percentile £363 £390 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £553
90th Percentile £699 £688 £638
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 482 316 359
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.38 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.12 £16.29 £15.62
Median hourly rate £50.00 £22.87 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +118.67% -46.20% +114.54%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.56 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £67.60
England median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.05%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -12 56 £509 -7.45% 51
Cambridgeshire +10 32 £513 -28.07% 121
Suffolk +1 28 £460 +48.39% 16
Essex +8 26 £550 +10.00% 22
Bedfordshire +8 15 £544 +8.75% 21
Norfolk -3 9 £488 -4.88% 16
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 (4.22%) OpenStack
2 6 (3.61%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.81%) Apache
4 1 (0.60%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.60%) Confluence
4 1 (0.60%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 3 (1.81%) Windchill
2 1 (0.60%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 56 (33.73%) Azure
2 34 (20.48%) GCP
3 30 (18.07%) GitHub
4 29 (17.47%) AWS
5 24 (14.46%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (12.05%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (5.42%) Azure AKS
8 8 (4.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (4.82%) Serverless
9 7 (4.22%) Power Platform
10 6 (3.61%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (3.01%) Amazon S3
11 5 (3.01%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (3.01%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (3.01%) dbt
11 5 (3.01%) GitHub Copilot
11 5 (3.01%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 4 (2.41%) Apple Pay
12 4 (2.41%) Snowflake
13 3 (1.81%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 23 (13.86%) VPN
2 20 (12.05%) Firewall
3 13 (7.83%) TCP/IP
4 8 (4.82%) Ethernet
5 6 (3.61%) DNS
6 5 (3.01%) 5G
6 5 (3.01%) HTTP
6 5 (3.01%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (2.41%) 4G
7 4 (2.41%) SNMP
7 4 (2.41%) SSH
7 4 (2.41%) VoIP
8 3 (1.81%) RTP
8 3 (1.81%) SSL
8 3 (1.81%) tcpdump
8 3 (1.81%) WAN
8 3 (1.81%) Wireshark
9 2 (1.20%) INAP
9 2 (1.20%) Network Security
9 2 (1.20%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (12.05%) Relational Database
2 19 (11.45%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (7.23%) MySQL
4 9 (5.42%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (4.22%) Redis
6 6 (3.61%) Power BI
7 5 (3.01%) Metadata
7 5 (3.01%) MongoDB
7 5 (3.01%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.41%) Couchbase
8 4 (2.41%) SQL Server
9 3 (1.81%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.81%) InfluxDB
10 2 (1.20%) Semantic Layer
10 2 (1.20%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (1.20%) Tableau
11 1 (0.60%) GIS
11 1 (0.60%) SQLite
11 1 (0.60%) Star Schema
11 1 (0.60%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 45 (27.11%) Git
2 24 (14.46%) GitLab
3 16 (9.64%) Visual Studio
4 15 (9.04%) JIRA
5 14 (8.43%) Jenkins
6 9 (5.42%) Gradle
7 8 (4.82%) Eclipse
8 7 (4.22%) Rational DOORS
9 5 (3.01%) SonarQube
10 4 (2.41%) IntelliJ
10 4 (2.41%) JUnit
10 4 (2.41%) Newman
10 4 (2.41%) Postman
11 3 (1.81%) Robot Framework
11 3 (1.81%) Selenium
12 2 (1.20%) Artifactory
12 2 (1.20%) Claude Code
12 2 (1.20%) Gerrit
12 2 (1.20%) JMeter
12 2 (1.20%) Locust
General
1 37 (22.29%) Social Skills
2 22 (13.25%) Finance
3 17 (10.24%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (9.04%) Banking
5 11 (6.63%) Manufacturing
6 10 (6.02%) Telecoms
7 8 (4.82%) Military
8 7 (4.22%) Retail
9 6 (3.61%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (3.01%) Aerospace
11 4 (2.41%) Law
11 4 (2.41%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.20%) Automotive
12 2 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.20%) Electronics
12 2 (1.20%) Marketing
13 1 (0.60%) Agriculture
13 1 (0.60%) Billing
13 1 (0.60%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 49 (29.52%) Developer
2 32 (19.28%) Software Engineer
3 23 (13.86%) Java Developer
3 23 (13.86%) Senior
4 16 (9.64%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (9.64%) Software Developer
5 14 (8.43%) Java Software Developer
6 12 (7.23%) Java Engineer
7 11 (6.63%) Java Software Engineer
8 10 (6.02%) Backend Developer
8 10 (6.02%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 9 (5.42%) Architect
9 9 (5.42%) IAM Developer
10 8 (4.82%) Data Engineer
10 8 (4.82%) Python Developer
10 8 (4.82%) Test Engineer
11 7 (4.22%) C# Software Engineer
12 6 (3.61%) Security Engineer
12 6 (3.61%) Senior DevOps
12 6 (3.61%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (18.07%) Terraform
2 18 (10.84%) Spring Boot
3 15 (9.04%) REST
3 15 (9.04%) Spring
4 14 (8.43%) Kafka
5 13 (7.83%) Node.js
6 12 (7.23%) .NET
7 9 (5.42%) Pandas
7 9 (5.42%) RESTful
7 9 (5.42%) Web Services
8 8 (4.82%) CSS
8 8 (4.82%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (4.82%) HTML
8 8 (4.82%) React
8 8 (4.82%) XML
9 7 (4.22%) pytest
9 7 (4.22%) WinForms
9 7 (4.22%) WPF
10 6 (3.61%) FastAPI
10 6 (3.61%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 25 (15.06%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.22%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (3.61%) Life Science
3 6 (3.61%) Private Cloud
4 5 (3.01%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.01%) Security Posture
5 4 (2.41%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.41%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.81%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.20%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.60%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.60%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.60%) LIMS
8 1 (0.60%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.60%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.60%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 35 (21.08%) Linux
2 21 (12.65%) Windows
3 7 (4.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.41%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.20%) CentOS
5 2 (1.20%) Rocky
5 2 (1.20%) Unix
5 2 (1.20%) VMS
5 2 (1.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (59.64%) DevOps
2 80 (48.19%) Agile
3 63 (37.95%) Software Engineering
4 43 (25.90%) Test Automation
5 40 (24.10%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (23.49%) Infrastructure as Code
6 39 (23.49%) Validation
7 30 (18.07%) Scrum
8 28 (16.87%) Microservices
9 24 (14.46%) TDD
10 22 (13.25%) AI
10 22 (13.25%) Data Pipeline
11 21 (12.65%) Software Delivery
12 19 (11.45%) Containerisation
12 19 (11.45%) Software Testing
13 18 (10.84%) Continuous Delivery
13 18 (10.84%) Continuous Integration
13 18 (10.84%) ETL
13 18 (10.84%) Platform Engineering
14 17 (10.24%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 63 (37.95%) Python
2 43 (25.90%) Java
3 32 (19.28%) SQL
4 21 (12.65%) C#
5 18 (10.84%) Bash
6 16 (9.64%) C++
7 15 (9.04%) JavaScript
8 8 (4.82%) PowerShell
9 6 (3.61%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (3.01%) Search Processing Language
11 4 (2.41%) Shell Script
11 4 (2.41%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.81%) Groovy
13 2 (1.20%) Bicep
13 2 (1.20%) C
14 1 (0.60%) Cypher
14 1 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.60%) Go
14 1 (0.60%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.60%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (18.67%) Security Cleared
2 18 (10.84%) SC Cleared
3 16 (9.64%) Degree
4 10 (6.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.22%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.81%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.81%) MOS
7 2 (1.20%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.20%) CCSP
7 2 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.20%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.60%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.60%) CISM
8 1 (0.60%) CISSP
8 1 (0.60%) CRISC
8 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.60%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (13.86%) QA
2 11 (6.63%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.41%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.41%) GDPR
3 4 (2.41%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.81%) NIST
5 2 (1.20%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 30 (18.07%) Docker
2 2 (1.20%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.60%) Squid
Systems Management
1 34 (20.48%) Ansible
2 24 (14.46%) Kubernetes
3 12 (7.23%) Grafana
4 11 (6.63%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.61%) Puppet
6 5 (3.01%) Argo
7 3 (1.81%) HP ALM
8 2 (1.20%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.60%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.60%) Istio
9 1 (0.60%) linkerd
9 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.60%) Packer
9 1 (0.60%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 17 (10.24%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.63%) Databricks
2 11 (6.63%) Splunk
3 9 (5.42%) Google
4 8 (4.82%) IBM
5 7 (4.22%) Dynatrace
6 4 (2.41%) Checkmarx
6 4 (2.41%) Cribl.io
7 3 (1.81%) HP
7 3 (1.81%) NetApp
7 3 (1.81%) Oracle
7 3 (1.81%) PTC
7 3 (1.81%) SAP
7 3 (1.81%) VMware
8 2 (1.20%) Dialogic
8 2 (1.20%) Metaswitch
8 2 (1.20%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.20%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.60%) Confluent
9 1 (0.60%) mParticle