CI/CD Contracts in the East of England

CI/CD
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring CI/CD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CI/CD over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 52 42
Rank change year-on-year +24 -10 -5
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 70 61 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 6.17% 3.19% 4.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.95% 3.78% 5.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 30 59
10th Percentile £313 £419 £393
25th Percentile £400 £476 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £534 £545
Median % change year-on-year -12.92% -2.02% -7.63%
75th Percentile £538 £580 £600
90th Percentile £575 £603 £650
England median daily rate £513 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -6.82% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 19 6
10th Percentile £61.25 £51.25 £60.00
25th Percentile - £62.25 £66.56
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - -10.34% +10.25%
75th Percentile - £65.50 £75.44
90th Percentile £65.20 £67.50 £77.75
England median hourly rate £62.50 £67.25 £65.61
% change year-on-year -7.06% +2.51% +0.16%

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 1,007 1,614 1,741
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 88.72% 84.33% 87.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 500 645 1,018
10th Percentile £206 £200 £230
25th Percentile £363 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £438 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £573 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £701
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 605 349
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.26 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.05 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £32.07 £40.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.83% +90.48% +7.69%
75th Percentile £65.56 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.50 £70.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +45.12%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing CI/CD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in the East of England

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in the East of England

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 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in the East of England

CI/CD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend 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 4 July 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 +33 25 £525 - 214
Cambridgeshire +30 20 £467 -11.14% 176
Norfolk - 7 £450 - 53
Essex +2 6 £321 -39.82% 120
Suffolk -2 6 £310 -38.77% 41
Bedfordshire -12 6 £500 -9.91% 99
CI/CD
England

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (11.43%) Apache
2 5 (7.14%) WebSphere
3 4 (5.71%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (5.71%) IIS
4 2 (2.86%) Anypoint
4 2 (2.86%) Confluence
4 2 (2.86%) Mule
5 1 (1.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (1.43%) CMS
5 1 (1.43%) Headless CMS
5 1 (1.43%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.43%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 4 (5.71%) Maximo
2 1 (1.43%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.43%) SAP MDG
2 1 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.43%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 16 (22.86%) AWS
2 11 (15.71%) GitHub
3 10 (14.29%) Azure
4 8 (11.43%) GCP
5 6 (8.57%) SaaS
6 5 (7.14%) Power Platform
7 4 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (5.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (4.29%) dbt
8 3 (4.29%) Vertex AI
9 2 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.86%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.86%) AWS Direct Connect
9 2 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (2.86%) Nutanix
10 1 (1.43%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.43%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 1 (1.43%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 1 (1.43%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (15.71%) Ethernet
1 11 (15.71%) TCP/IP
2 8 (11.43%) Firewall
3 6 (8.57%) Network Security
4 4 (5.71%) VSAN
5 3 (4.29%) BGP
5 3 (4.29%) Fibre Channel
5 3 (4.29%) OSPF
5 3 (4.29%) VPN
6 2 (2.86%) DNS
6 2 (2.86%) SD-WAN
6 2 (2.86%) VLAN
6 2 (2.86%) WAN
7 1 (1.43%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (1.43%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (1.43%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (1.43%) LAN
7 1 (1.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (7.14%) MongoDB
2 5 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (7.14%) Power BI
3 4 (5.71%) BigQuery
3 4 (5.71%) DB2
3 4 (5.71%) Tableau
4 3 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (4.29%) Looker
5 1 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.43%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.43%) Data Mart
5 1 (1.43%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 12 (17.14%) Git
1 12 (17.14%) Visual Studio
2 11 (15.71%) Eclipse
3 8 (11.43%) Jenkins
4 6 (8.57%) GitLab
5 5 (7.14%) JIRA
5 5 (7.14%) Robot Framework
6 2 (2.86%) Selenium
6 2 (2.86%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.43%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.43%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.43%) Gatling
7 1 (1.43%) JMeter
7 1 (1.43%) JUnit
7 1 (1.43%) LoadRunner
7 1 (1.43%) Postman
7 1 (1.43%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.43%) TestNG
7 1 (1.43%) WebDriver
General
1 26 (37.14%) Social Skills
2 11 (15.71%) Military
2 11 (15.71%) Presentation Skills
3 7 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.14%) Finance
5 4 (5.71%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.29%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.86%) Law
8 1 (1.43%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.43%) Marketing
8 1 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.43%) Retail
8 1 (1.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (18.57%) Developer
2 11 (15.71%) Software Engineer
3 10 (14.29%) C# Software Engineer
4 8 (11.43%) Consultant
5 7 (10.00%) C++ Software Engineer
5 7 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (8.57%) Network Engineer
7 5 (7.14%) Architect
7 5 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
7 5 (7.14%) Data Engineer
7 5 (7.14%) Senior
8 4 (5.71%) Administrator
8 4 (5.71%) Maximo Consultant
9 3 (4.29%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) Systems Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) VMware Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (24.29%) Web Services
2 12 (17.14%) Node.js
3 9 (12.86%) SOAP
4 7 (10.00%) CSS
4 7 (10.00%) REST
5 6 (8.57%) AngularJS
5 6 (8.57%) React
5 6 (8.57%) Tailwind CSS
6 5 (7.14%) Alpine.js
6 5 (7.14%) Kafka
6 5 (7.14%) Laravel
6 5 (7.14%) XML
7 4 (5.71%) .NET
7 4 (5.71%) PySpark
8 3 (4.29%) HTML
8 3 (4.29%) NumPy
8 3 (4.29%) OAuth
8 3 (4.29%) Pandas
9 2 (2.86%) Entity Framework
9 2 (2.86%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (4.29%) Clustering
3 3 (4.29%) Replication
4 1 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.43%) Culture of Ownership
4 1 (1.43%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.43%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.43%) FPGA
4 1 (1.43%) Life Science
4 1 (1.43%) LIMS
4 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.43%) PCIe
4 1 (1.43%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.43%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.43%) State Machine
4 1 (1.43%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 19 (27.14%) Windows
2 14 (20.00%) Linux
3 7 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (44.29%) Agile
2 28 (40.00%) DevOps
3 22 (31.43%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (24.29%) Software Engineering
5 16 (22.86%) Visualisation
6 14 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
6 14 (20.00%) Validation
7 13 (18.57%) TDD
8 12 (17.14%) Continuous Delivery
8 12 (17.14%) Unit Testing
9 11 (15.71%) Digital Twin
9 11 (15.71%) Synthetic Environment
9 11 (15.71%) Test Automation
10 10 (14.29%) ITSM
10 10 (14.29%) Verification and Validation
11 9 (12.86%) Infrastructure as Code
12 8 (11.43%) Analytics
13 7 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 7 (10.00%) Microservices
13 7 (10.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 25 (35.71%) Python
2 19 (27.14%) JavaScript
3 15 (21.43%) C#
3 15 (21.43%) SQL
4 13 (18.57%) C++
5 9 (12.86%) Java
6 6 (8.57%) PHP
6 6 (8.57%) PowerShell
7 5 (7.14%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.86%) Bash
8 2 (2.86%) DataWeave
9 1 (1.43%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.43%) C
9 1 (1.43%) R
9 1 (1.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (17.14%) Security Cleared
2 10 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.71%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.29%) DBS Check
4 3 (4.29%) Degree
4 3 (4.29%) VCAP
4 3 (4.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.43%) CISA
6 1 (1.43%) CISM
6 1 (1.43%) CISSP
6 1 (1.43%) SANS
6 1 (1.43%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (17.14%) QA
2 4 (5.71%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.71%) GDPR
3 2 (2.86%) NIST
3 2 (2.86%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.43%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 1 (1.43%) GxP
4 1 (1.43%) HL7
4 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (10.00%) Docker
1 7 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 7 (10.00%) VMware NSX
2 4 (5.71%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.71%) Hyper-V
2 4 (5.71%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (32.86%) Terraform
2 13 (18.57%) Ansible
3 8 (11.43%) Kubernetes
4 4 (5.71%) PowerCLI
4 4 (5.71%) vCenter Server
4 4 (5.71%) VxRail
5 3 (4.29%) Consul
5 3 (4.29%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (4.29%) Podman
5 3 (4.29%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.29%) Puppet
6 2 (2.86%) CloudHub
6 2 (2.86%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.86%) Salt
7 1 (1.43%) Grafana
7 1 (1.43%) Nagios
7 1 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (25.71%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.43%) VMware
3 4 (5.71%) Dell
3 4 (5.71%) IBM
3 4 (5.71%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.29%) LogicMonitor
4 3 (4.29%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.86%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.86%) Fortinet
5 2 (2.86%) Google
5 2 (2.86%) Huawei
5 2 (2.86%) MuleSoft
5 2 (2.86%) SAP
6 1 (1.43%) Adobe
6 1 (1.43%) Cisco
6 1 (1.43%) F5
6 1 (1.43%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.43%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.43%) Splunk
6 1 (1.43%) Workday