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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 34 57
Rank change year-on-year +4 +23 -15
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 84 52 53
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 5.44% 4.83% 3.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.43% 5.71% 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 17 42
10th Percentile £402 £300 £400
25th Percentile £453 £315 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £363 £525
Median % change year-on-year +68.97% -30.95% -9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £525 £586
90th Percentile £815 £585 £717
England median daily rate £519 £556 £575
% change year-on-year -6.79% -3.26% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 3 5
10th Percentile - - £67.25
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 - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £73.50
% change year-on-year -3.70% -8.16% +12.03%

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 1,307 910 1,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 84.65% 84.57% 86.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 564 400 775
10th Percentile £200 £242 £230
25th Percentile £363 £340 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £478 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.58% -4.45% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £681 £696 £712
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 414 168 365
10th Percentile £14.00 - £14.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £20.27 £35.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.10% +59.09% -
75th Percentile £60.75 £68.56 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -20.00% +21.43%

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 12 January 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
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 12 January 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 +2 37 £500 -6.98% 82
Cambridgeshire +7 26 £635 +27.00% 71
Bedfordshire +5 12 £625 +16.82% 60
Suffolk -1 7 £450 +50.00% 61
Essex -5 1 £505 +58.81% 60
Norfolk -16 1 £475 - 63
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 4 (4.76%) Confluence
2 2 (2.38%) WebLogic
2 2 (2.38%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 38 (45.24%) Azure
2 26 (30.95%) AWS
3 21 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (16.67%) GCP
5 10 (11.90%) Power Platform
6 8 (9.52%) Azure AI
6 8 (9.52%) Copilot Studio
6 8 (9.52%) Microsoft Copilot
7 6 (7.14%) Serverless
8 5 (5.95%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (4.76%) Amazon S3
9 4 (4.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (4.76%) Entra ID
10 3 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (3.57%) GitHub
10 3 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (17.86%) TCP/IP
2 13 (15.48%) Ethernet
3 4 (4.76%) Firewall
4 3 (3.57%) DNS
5 2 (2.38%) DHCP
5 2 (2.38%) VPN
6 1 (1.19%) BGP
6 1 (1.19%) MPLS
6 1 (1.19%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (1.19%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (17.86%) NoSQL
2 10 (11.90%) Power BI
3 4 (4.76%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.57%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.38%) MySQL
5 2 (2.38%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.38%) Redis
5 2 (2.38%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.19%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.19%) Big Data
6 1 (1.19%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 15 (17.86%) Visual Studio
2 14 (16.67%) Git
3 13 (15.48%) Eclipse
3 13 (15.48%) GitLab
4 7 (8.33%) Jenkins
4 7 (8.33%) JIRA
5 4 (4.76%) JMeter
5 4 (4.76%) Selenium
6 2 (2.38%) Artifactory
6 2 (2.38%) Postman
6 2 (2.38%) Robot Framework
7 1 (1.19%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.19%) Gatling
7 1 (1.19%) Locust
7 1 (1.19%) Newman
7 1 (1.19%) Polyspace
7 1 (1.19%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (1.19%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.19%) TestCafe
7 1 (1.19%) TestRail
General
1 37 (44.05%) Social Skills
2 13 (15.48%) Military
2 13 (15.48%) Presentation Skills
3 10 (11.90%) Documentation Skills
3 10 (11.90%) Finance
4 5 (5.95%) Aerospace
4 5 (5.95%) Manufacturing
4 5 (5.95%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (3.57%) Law
6 2 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.38%) Retail
7 1 (1.19%) Agriculture
7 1 (1.19%) Automotive
7 1 (1.19%) Marketing
7 1 (1.19%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 13 (15.48%) C++ Software Engineer
3 12 (14.29%) Developer
4 11 (13.10%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 11 (13.10%) C# Software Engineer
5 8 (9.52%) Consultant
6 7 (8.33%) Senior
7 5 (5.95%) .NET Developer
7 5 (5.95%) Test Engineer
8 4 (4.76%) Data Engineer
8 4 (4.76%) Lead
8 4 (4.76%) Senior Developer
9 3 (3.57%) Architect
9 3 (3.57%) Azure Developer
9 3 (3.57%) C# Developer
9 3 (3.57%) DevOps Developer
9 3 (3.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (3.57%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 3 (3.57%) Senior .NET Developer
9 3 (3.57%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (23.81%) Node.js
2 17 (20.24%) .NET
3 16 (19.05%) REST
4 13 (15.48%) Web Services
5 11 (13.10%) PyTorch
5 11 (13.10%) React
5 11 (13.10%) scikit-learn
5 11 (13.10%) TensorFlow
6 6 (7.14%) AngularJS
7 5 (5.95%) .NET Core
7 5 (5.95%) HTML
8 4 (4.76%) Middleware
8 4 (4.76%) pytest
8 4 (4.76%) RESTful
8 4 (4.76%) SOAP
9 3 (3.57%) .NET Framework
9 3 (3.57%) CSS
10 2 (2.38%) Express.js
10 2 (2.38%) JSON
10 2 (2.38%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.10%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.95%) FPGA
2 5 (5.95%) PCIe
2 5 (5.95%) State Machine
3 4 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.76%) Security Posture
4 3 (3.57%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.57%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.57%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.57%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.38%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.38%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.38%) Life Science
5 2 (2.38%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.38%) PKI
5 2 (2.38%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.19%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 25 (29.76%) Linux
2 22 (26.19%) Windows
3 3 (3.57%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.38%) VMS
5 1 (1.19%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (1.19%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (55.95%) DevOps
2 32 (38.10%) Agile
3 28 (33.33%) Validation
4 24 (28.57%) AI
5 23 (27.38%) Unit Testing
6 22 (26.19%) Software Engineering
7 20 (23.81%) Test Automation
8 18 (21.43%) Microservices
9 17 (20.24%) Continuous Integration
9 17 (20.24%) Machine Learning
9 17 (20.24%) TDD
10 16 (19.05%) Data Science
10 16 (19.05%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
11 15 (17.86%) LLM
11 15 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (16.67%) Containerisation
12 14 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
13 13 (15.48%) Digital Twin
13 13 (15.48%) Prompt Engineering
13 13 (15.48%) Synthetic Environment
Programming Languages
1 24 (28.57%) Python
2 23 (27.38%) C#
3 22 (26.19%) C++
4 20 (23.81%) JavaScript
5 17 (20.24%) SQL
6 6 (7.14%) Java
7 4 (4.76%) PowerShell
7 4 (4.76%) TypeScript
8 3 (3.57%) C
9 2 (2.38%) Bicep
9 2 (2.38%) PHP
10 1 (1.19%) Bash
10 1 (1.19%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 7 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.95%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.76%) Degree
4 3 (3.57%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.38%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.38%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.19%) CCIE
6 1 (1.19%) CCNP
6 1 (1.19%) CCSP
6 1 (1.19%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.19%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (22.62%) QA
2 8 (9.52%) NIST
3 5 (5.95%) EU AI Act
4 3 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.38%) HIPAA
5 2 (2.38%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.19%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.19%) AUTOSAR
6 1 (1.19%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.19%) ISO 26262
6 1 (1.19%) MISRA
6 1 (1.19%) MISRA C
System Software
1 21 (25.00%) Docker
2 2 (2.38%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 12 (14.29%) Terraform
3 3 (3.57%) Ansible
3 3 (3.57%) Consul
3 3 (3.57%) Grafana
3 3 (3.57%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.38%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.19%) Functional Safety
5 1 (1.19%) Istio
Vendors
1 33 (39.29%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.90%) Google
3 8 (9.52%) Foundry
3 8 (9.52%) OpenAI
4 4 (4.76%) Dynatrace
4 4 (4.76%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.57%) SAP
5 3 (3.57%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.38%) Citrix
6 2 (2.38%) Databricks
6 2 (2.38%) MuleSoft
6 2 (2.38%) Pega
6 2 (2.38%) Splunk
6 2 (2.38%) VMware
6 2 (2.38%) Wyse
7 1 (1.19%) CloudEndure
7 1 (1.19%) Cribl.io
7 1 (1.19%) Jitterbit
7 1 (1.19%) QNX
7 1 (1.19%) Virgin Media