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

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 24 52
Rank change year-on-year +5 +28 -13
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 147 80 62
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 6.47% 6.68% 3.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.22% 7.60% 3.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 50 30
10th Percentile £425 £314 £419
25th Percentile £493 £400 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £466 £534
Median % change year-on-year +18.09% -12.78% -2.47%
75th Percentile £600 £547 £580
90th Percentile £675 £575 £603
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 16 20
10th Percentile £57.80 £61.50 £51.25
25th Percentile £63.13 - £62.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - £66.63 £65.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £67.50 £63.75 £67.00
% change year-on-year +5.88% -4.85% +2.13%

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 1,788 1,053 1,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.70% 87.90% 84.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 892 515 624
10th Percentile £188 £209 £202
25th Percentile £375 £369 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £595 £575 £563
90th Percentile £688 £650 £650
England median daily rate £525 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 411 224 600
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.99 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.12 £17.35 £15.62
Median hourly rate £40.00 £33.87 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.11% -15.33% +90.48%
75th Percentile £68.50 £65.81 £62.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.88 £70.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.09%

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 10 July 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 10 July 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 10 July 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 -8 46 £550 - 19
Bedfordshire +14 27 £588 +17.50% 5
Essex +4 25 £510 +58.69% 4
Cambridgeshire +5 21 £525 +12.59% 22
Suffolk +3 17 £500 +61.29% 4
Norfolk -15 11 £488 +8.33% 3
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 (6.12%) CMS
1 9 (6.12%) Sitecore CMS
2 5 (3.40%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.36%) NetWeaver
3 2 (1.36%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.68%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 53 (36.05%) Azure
2 38 (25.85%) AWS
3 34 (23.13%) GCP
4 25 (17.01%) GitHub
5 19 (12.93%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (11.56%) Azure AKS
7 14 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (7.48%) Serverless
9 8 (5.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (5.44%) Azure Service Bus
9 8 (5.44%) Power Platform
10 6 (4.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 5 (3.40%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (3.40%) Azure Functions
11 5 (3.40%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (2.72%) Apple Pay
12 4 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (2.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 4 (2.72%) dbt
12 4 (2.72%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 20 (13.61%) VPN
2 17 (11.56%) Firewall
3 8 (5.44%) Ethernet
3 8 (5.44%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.72%) SNMP
4 4 (2.72%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (2.04%) DNS
6 2 (1.36%) Network Security
6 2 (1.36%) SSL
6 2 (1.36%) WAN
7 1 (0.68%) BGP
7 1 (0.68%) DHCP
7 1 (0.68%) HTTP
7 1 (0.68%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.52%) Relational Database
2 11 (7.48%) NoSQL
2 11 (7.48%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (6.80%) SQL Server
4 7 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (4.76%) Power BI
5 5 (3.40%) MySQL
6 4 (2.72%) Metadata
7 3 (2.04%) Redis
8 2 (1.36%) MaxDB
8 2 (1.36%) SAP HANA
8 2 (1.36%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (1.36%) Sybase ASE
9 1 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.68%) Big Data
9 1 (0.68%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.68%) Neo4j
9 1 (0.68%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 37 (25.17%) Git
2 22 (14.97%) GitLab
3 11 (7.48%) Visual Studio
4 9 (6.12%) Gradle
4 9 (6.12%) Jenkins
5 8 (5.44%) Eclipse
5 8 (5.44%) JUnit
5 8 (5.44%) SonarQube
6 7 (4.76%) JIRA
7 6 (4.08%) IntelliJ
8 3 (2.04%) Newman
8 3 (2.04%) Postman
8 3 (2.04%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.68%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.68%) MLflow
9 1 (0.68%) Snyk
General
1 41 (27.89%) Social Skills
2 23 (15.65%) Finance
3 19 (12.93%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.48%) Banking
5 7 (4.76%) Manufacturing
5 7 (4.76%) Military
5 7 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (2.72%) Automotive
6 4 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.72%) Law
6 4 (2.72%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.04%) Retail
8 2 (1.36%) Electronics
8 2 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.68%) Agriculture
9 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.68%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 40 (27.21%) Developer
2 23 (15.65%) Java Developer
2 23 (15.65%) Software Engineer
3 18 (12.24%) Senior
4 16 (10.88%) Architect
5 12 (8.16%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (8.16%) Software Developer
6 11 (7.48%) Java Software Developer
7 10 (6.80%) Data Engineer
8 9 (6.12%) Backend Developer
9 8 (5.44%) Java Engineer
9 8 (5.44%) Java Software Engineer
9 8 (5.44%) Lead
10 7 (4.76%) C# Software Engineer
10 7 (4.76%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 6 (4.08%) GCP Engineer
11 6 (4.08%) IAM Developer
11 6 (4.08%) Senior DevOps
11 6 (4.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 6 (4.08%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (17.69%) Spring Boot
2 23 (15.65%) Node.js
2 23 (15.65%) Spring
3 20 (13.61%) .NET
4 17 (11.56%) React
5 16 (10.88%) REST
6 12 (8.16%) CSS
6 12 (8.16%) HTML
7 10 (6.80%) AngularJS
7 10 (6.80%) Kafka
8 9 (6.12%) ASP.NET
8 9 (6.12%) ASP.NET Core
9 8 (5.44%) jQuery
9 8 (5.44%) RESTful
9 8 (5.44%) Web Services
10 5 (3.40%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (3.40%) OAuth
10 5 (3.40%) OpenTelemetry
11 4 (2.72%) eBPF
11 4 (2.72%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 32 (21.77%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (3.40%) Private Cloud
4 4 (2.72%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.72%) Life Science
4 4 (2.72%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.72%) Security Operations Centre
4 4 (2.72%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.36%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.36%) N-Tier
6 1 (0.68%) Clustering
6 1 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.68%) LIMS
6 1 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.68%) PKI
6 1 (0.68%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (17.01%) Linux
2 16 (10.88%) Windows
3 3 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.04%) Unix
4 2 (1.36%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.36%) VMS
4 2 (1.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (61.90%) DevOps
2 65 (44.22%) Agile
3 47 (31.97%) Software Engineering
4 38 (25.85%) Problem-Solving
5 36 (24.49%) Infrastructure as Code
6 33 (22.45%) Microservices
7 30 (20.41%) Test Automation
8 25 (17.01%) TDD
9 24 (16.33%) Scrum
10 21 (14.29%) Containerisation
11 20 (13.61%) Data Pipeline
12 19 (12.93%) AI
13 18 (12.24%) ETL
13 18 (12.24%) Validation
14 16 (10.88%) Analytics
15 15 (10.20%) Event-Driven
15 15 (10.20%) SDLC
16 14 (9.52%) Application Security
16 14 (9.52%) Performance Tuning
17 13 (8.84%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 46 (31.29%) Python
2 40 (27.21%) Java
3 27 (18.37%) C#
4 26 (17.69%) SQL
5 17 (11.56%) JavaScript
6 12 (8.16%) C++
7 10 (6.80%) Bash
8 6 (4.08%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (3.40%) PowerShell
9 5 (3.40%) Search Processing Language
10 4 (2.72%) TypeScript
11 3 (2.04%) C
11 3 (2.04%) Go
12 1 (0.68%) Bicep
12 1 (0.68%) Cypher
12 1 (0.68%) Groovy
12 1 (0.68%) SystemVerilog
12 1 (0.68%) VBA
Qualifications
1 35 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 16 (10.88%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.48%) Degree
4 10 (6.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (6.80%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.40%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.72%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.36%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.36%) CCNP
7 2 (1.36%) CCSP
7 2 (1.36%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.68%) CCIE
8 1 (0.68%) CISM
8 1 (0.68%) CISSP
8 1 (0.68%) CRISC
8 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.68%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (11.56%) QA
2 8 (5.44%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.72%) GDPR
4 4 (2.72%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.04%) NIST
6 2 (1.36%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.36%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (14.29%) Docker
2 2 (1.36%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.68%) Squid
Systems Management
1 31 (21.09%) Ansible
2 30 (20.41%) Terraform
3 27 (18.37%) Kubernetes
4 8 (5.44%) Grafana
5 6 (4.08%) Prometheus
6 5 (3.40%) Argo
7 3 (2.04%) Puppet
8 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.68%) Packer
8 1 (0.68%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.68%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 17 (11.56%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.84%) Google
3 11 (7.48%) Splunk
4 9 (6.12%) Dynatrace
4 9 (6.12%) Sitecore
5 8 (5.44%) Checkmarx
5 8 (5.44%) Databricks
6 4 (2.72%) Cribl.io
6 4 (2.72%) IBM
6 4 (2.72%) SAP
7 3 (2.04%) Oracle
7 3 (2.04%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.04%) VMware
8 2 (1.36%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.36%) NetApp
8 2 (1.36%) Sybase
9 1 (0.68%) Citrix
9 1 (0.68%) Genesys
9 1 (0.68%) Informatica
9 1 (0.68%) Red Hat