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 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 46 70
Rank change year-on-year +23 +24 -23
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 120 42 40
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 5.39% 4.31% 2.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.90% 4.77% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 34 24
10th Percentile £455 £317 £415
25th Percentile £500 £421 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £458 £534
Median % change year-on-year +20.22% -14.33% +1.23%
75th Percentile £600 £524 £573
90th Percentile £644 £554 £600
England median daily rate £525 £525 £551
% change year-on-year - -4.63% -8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 7
10th Percentile £55.50 £62.00 £58.75
25th Percentile £63.13 £63.13 £64.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £75.00 - £67.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 £67.00
% change year-on-year +14.54% -15.30% +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 1,739 880 1,609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.12% 90.35% 85.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 869 466 670
10th Percentile £198 £228 £205
25th Percentile £363 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £676
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 440 178 610
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.12 £16.30 £15.39
Median hourly rate £23.83 £40.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.44% - +81.82%
75th Percentile £65.88 £72.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.46 £85.00 £75.03
England median hourly rate £45.78 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +57.86% -20.55% +0.29%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 19 May 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 33 £550 +22.22% 39
Bedfordshire +14 27 £600 +20.00% 7
Cambridgeshire +5 17 £551 +13.21% 26
Essex -1 17 £510 +58.69% 25
Suffolk +6 16 £495 +52.31% 24
Norfolk -16 10 £500 +11.11% 1
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 (7.50%) CMS
1 9 (7.50%) Sitecore CMS
2 3 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.67%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.83%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 46 (38.33%) Azure
2 39 (32.50%) AWS
3 32 (26.67%) GCP
4 20 (16.67%) GitHub
5 13 (10.83%) Azure AKS
6 12 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (9.17%) Serverless
8 10 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (7.50%) Power Platform
10 7 (5.83%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (5.00%) Copilot Studio
11 6 (5.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 6 (5.00%) Microsoft Copilot
12 5 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (4.17%) Azure AI
13 4 (3.33%) Apple Pay
13 4 (3.33%) Azure Functions
13 4 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
13 4 (3.33%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 14 (11.67%) VPN
2 10 (8.33%) Firewall
3 8 (6.67%) Ethernet
3 8 (6.67%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (2.50%) SNMP
6 2 (1.67%) DNS
6 2 (1.67%) Network Security
7 1 (0.83%) BGP
7 1 (0.83%) DHCP
7 1 (0.83%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 10 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 9 (7.50%) Power BI
4 7 (5.83%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (3.33%) Metadata
5 4 (3.33%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.67%) MaxDB
6 2 (1.67%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.67%) SAP HANA
6 2 (1.67%) Sybase ASE
7 1 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.83%) Big Data
7 1 (0.83%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.83%) MySQL
7 1 (0.83%) Redis
7 1 (0.83%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.83%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (25.00%) Git
2 17 (14.17%) GitLab
3 10 (8.33%) Visual Studio
4 8 (6.67%) Eclipse
4 8 (6.67%) Gradle
4 8 (6.67%) Jenkins
4 8 (6.67%) JUnit
4 8 (6.67%) SonarQube
5 6 (5.00%) IntelliJ
6 2 (1.67%) JIRA
6 2 (1.67%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.83%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.83%) Gatling
7 1 (0.83%) JMeter
7 1 (0.83%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.83%) MLflow
7 1 (0.83%) Snyk
General
1 40 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 21 (17.50%) Finance
3 15 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (5.83%) Military
5 7 (5.83%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (5.00%) Banking
7 4 (3.33%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.50%) Automotive
8 3 (2.50%) Law
9 2 (1.67%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.67%) Retail
10 1 (0.83%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.83%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (23.33%) Developer
2 18 (15.00%) Java Developer
3 17 (14.17%) Senior
4 16 (13.33%) Architect
5 14 (11.67%) Software Engineer
6 8 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (5.83%) C# Software Engineer
7 7 (5.83%) Consultant
8 6 (5.00%) Data Engineer
8 6 (5.00%) GCP Engineer
8 6 (5.00%) Lead
8 6 (5.00%) Software Developer
8 6 (5.00%) Technical Architect
9 5 (4.17%) Cloud Architect
9 5 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (4.17%) Java Software Developer
10 4 (3.33%) Senior DevOps
10 4 (3.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 4 (3.33%) SOC Engineer
10 4 (3.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (20.83%) Spring Boot
2 23 (19.17%) Node.js
2 23 (19.17%) Spring
3 17 (14.17%) REST
4 16 (13.33%) .NET
5 15 (12.50%) React
6 11 (9.17%) CSS
6 11 (9.17%) HTML
6 11 (9.17%) Kafka
7 9 (7.50%) AngularJS
8 8 (6.67%) ASP.NET
8 8 (6.67%) ASP.NET Core
8 8 (6.67%) jQuery
8 8 (6.67%) Web Services
9 6 (5.00%) RESTful
10 5 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (4.17%) PyTorch
10 5 (4.17%) scikit-learn
10 5 (4.17%) TensorFlow
11 4 (3.33%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 30 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.83%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (4.17%) Private Cloud
4 4 (3.33%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.33%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.33%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (2.50%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.67%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (1.67%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.67%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.83%) Clustering
7 1 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.83%) LIMS
7 1 (0.83%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.83%) PCIe
7 1 (0.83%) PKI
7 1 (0.83%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.83%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 14 (11.67%) Linux
1 14 (11.67%) Windows
2 2 (1.67%) Unix
3 1 (0.83%) VMS
3 1 (0.83%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (63.33%) DevOps
2 47 (39.17%) Agile
3 34 (28.33%) Microservices
4 31 (25.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (25.83%) Software Engineering
5 27 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (20.83%) TDD
7 18 (15.00%) Scrum
8 17 (14.17%) Analytics
9 16 (13.33%) Containerisation
9 16 (13.33%) Test Automation
10 15 (12.50%) AI
10 15 (12.50%) SDLC
11 14 (11.67%) Event-Driven
12 13 (10.83%) Continuous Integration
12 13 (10.83%) Data Pipeline
13 12 (10.00%) Application Security
13 12 (10.00%) ETL
13 12 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
13 12 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 37 (30.83%) Python
2 31 (25.83%) Java
3 24 (20.00%) SQL
4 22 (18.33%) C#
5 15 (12.50%) JavaScript
6 10 (8.33%) C++
7 6 (5.00%) Bash
7 6 (5.00%) Kusto Query Language
8 5 (4.17%) Search Processing Language
9 4 (3.33%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.50%) Go
11 2 (1.67%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.83%) C
12 1 (0.83%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 29 (24.17%) Security Cleared
2 14 (11.67%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.17%) Degree
4 10 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (6.67%) DV Cleared
6 6 (5.00%) AWS Certification
7 5 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (2.50%) CCSP
9 2 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.67%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.67%) CCNP
9 2 (1.67%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.83%) CCIE
10 1 (0.83%) CISM
10 1 (0.83%) CISSP
10 1 (0.83%) CRISC
10 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.17%) QA
2 7 (5.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (5.00%) PCI DSS
4 5 (4.17%) NIST
5 4 (3.33%) Data Quality
5 4 (3.33%) GDPR
6 2 (1.67%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.67%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 18 (15.00%) Docker
2 2 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.83%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (21.67%) Kubernetes
2 23 (19.17%) Ansible
3 22 (18.33%) Terraform
4 8 (6.67%) Grafana
5 6 (5.00%) Prometheus
6 5 (4.17%) Argo
7 2 (1.67%) Puppet
8 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.83%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 21 (17.50%) Microsoft
2 17 (14.17%) Google
3 11 (9.17%) Splunk
4 9 (7.50%) Sitecore
5 8 (6.67%) Checkmarx
6 7 (5.83%) Dynatrace
7 5 (4.17%) Databricks
7 5 (4.17%) Foundry
7 5 (4.17%) OpenAI
8 4 (3.33%) SAP
8 4 (3.33%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.50%) Cribl.io
9 3 (2.50%) Salesforce
9 3 (2.50%) VMware
10 2 (1.67%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.67%) New Relic
10 2 (1.67%) Oracle
10 2 (1.67%) Sybase
11 1 (0.83%) Jitterbit
11 1 (0.83%) Palo Alto