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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 18 27
Rank change year-on-year -2 +9 +10
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 148 96 79
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 6.16% 7.16% 5.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.83% 7.97% 6.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 41 26
10th Percentile £367 £300 £305
25th Percentile £425 £400 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £580 £575
90th Percentile £625 £763 £613
England median daily rate £525 £514 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -6.55% -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 £67.25 £65.00 £68.75
% change year-on-year +3.46% -5.45% -8.33%

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 1,889 1,205 1,206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.61% 89.93% 81.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 776 526 465
10th Percentile £190 £200 £213
25th Percentile £356 £379 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% +11.72% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £560
90th Percentile £697 £683 £638
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 516 330 302
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.38 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.00 £16.00 £15.62
Median hourly rate £47.25 £21.64 £32.61
Median % change year-on-year +118.35% -33.63% +63.80%
75th Percentile £70.00 £56.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £75.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -4.49%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 55 £525 -4.55% 48
Cambridgeshire +9 31 £519 -23.15% 138
Suffolk -3 26 £460 +48.39% 18
Essex -3 19 £505 +1.00% 14
Bedfordshire +2 14 £350 -30.00% 22
Norfolk -6 3 £400 -20.00% 11
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 (4.73%) OpenStack
2 5 (3.38%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.70%) Apache
4 1 (0.68%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.68%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.68%) Confluence
4 1 (0.68%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 3 (2.03%) Windchill
2 1 (0.68%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 54 (36.49%) Azure
2 26 (17.57%) GCP
3 25 (16.89%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (16.22%) GitHub
5 22 (14.86%) AWS
6 19 (12.84%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (6.76%) Azure AKS
8 6 (4.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (4.05%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (4.05%) Azure Monitor
8 6 (4.05%) Power Platform
8 6 (4.05%) Serverless
9 5 (3.38%) GitHub Copilot
10 4 (2.70%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.70%) Apple Pay
10 4 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.70%) Snowflake
11 3 (2.03%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (2.03%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (2.03%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 19 (12.84%) VPN
2 18 (12.16%) Firewall
3 13 (8.78%) TCP/IP
4 8 (5.41%) Ethernet
5 7 (4.73%) DNS
6 5 (3.38%) 5G
6 5 (3.38%) HTTP
6 5 (3.38%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (2.70%) 4G
7 4 (2.70%) SNMP
7 4 (2.70%) SSH
7 4 (2.70%) VoIP
8 3 (2.03%) RTP
8 3 (2.03%) SSL
8 3 (2.03%) tcpdump
8 3 (2.03%) WAN
8 3 (2.03%) Wireshark
9 2 (1.35%) INAP
9 2 (1.35%) Network Security
9 2 (1.35%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (12.84%) Relational Database
2 17 (11.49%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (7.43%) MySQL
4 7 (4.73%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (4.05%) Redis
6 5 (3.38%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.38%) NoSQL
6 5 (3.38%) Power BI
7 4 (2.70%) Couchbase
8 3 (2.03%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.03%) InfluxDB
8 3 (2.03%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.35%) Metadata
9 2 (1.35%) Semantic Layer
9 2 (1.35%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (1.35%) Tableau
10 1 (0.68%) Big Data
10 1 (0.68%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.68%) Neo4j
10 1 (0.68%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 34 (22.97%) Git
2 22 (14.86%) GitLab
3 16 (10.81%) Visual Studio
4 14 (9.46%) Jenkins
4 14 (9.46%) JIRA
5 8 (5.41%) Eclipse
5 8 (5.41%) Gradle
6 7 (4.73%) Rational DOORS
7 4 (2.70%) Newman
7 4 (2.70%) Postman
8 3 (2.03%) Robot Framework
8 3 (2.03%) Selenium
9 2 (1.35%) Artifactory
9 2 (1.35%) Claude Code
9 2 (1.35%) Gerrit
9 2 (1.35%) JMeter
9 2 (1.35%) Locust
9 2 (1.35%) TestCafe
10 1 (0.68%) Snyk
10 1 (0.68%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 32 (21.62%) Social Skills
2 14 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (9.46%) Finance
3 11 (7.43%) Banking
4 10 (6.76%) Manufacturing
4 10 (6.76%) Telecoms
5 8 (5.41%) Military
6 7 (4.73%) Retail
7 5 (3.38%) Aerospace
7 5 (3.38%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.70%) Law
8 4 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.35%) Automotive
9 2 (1.35%) Electronics
9 2 (1.35%) Marketing
10 1 (0.68%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.68%) Billing
10 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 43 (29.05%) Developer
2 31 (20.95%) Software Engineer
3 21 (14.19%) Java Developer
4 19 (12.84%) Senior
5 15 (10.14%) DevOps Engineer
6 14 (9.46%) Software Developer
7 13 (8.78%) Java Software Developer
8 12 (8.11%) Java Engineer
9 11 (7.43%) Java Software Engineer
10 10 (6.76%) Backend Developer
11 9 (6.08%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 9 (6.08%) IAM Developer
12 7 (4.73%) C# Software Engineer
12 7 (4.73%) Test Engineer
13 6 (4.05%) Architect
13 6 (4.05%) Lead
13 6 (4.05%) Python Developer
13 6 (4.05%) Security Engineer
14 5 (3.38%) C# Developer
14 5 (3.38%) C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (17.57%) Terraform
2 15 (10.14%) Kafka
3 13 (8.78%) REST
4 12 (8.11%) .NET
4 12 (8.11%) Spring Boot
5 11 (7.43%) Node.js
6 9 (6.08%) Spring
6 9 (6.08%) Web Services
7 8 (5.41%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (5.41%) Pandas
7 8 (5.41%) RESTful
7 8 (5.41%) XML
8 7 (4.73%) pytest
8 7 (4.73%) WinForms
8 7 (4.73%) WPF
9 5 (3.38%) CSS
9 5 (3.38%) HTML
9 5 (3.38%) React
10 4 (2.70%) Flask
10 4 (2.70%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.81%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.73%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (4.05%) Life Science
4 5 (3.38%) Private Cloud
4 5 (3.38%) Security Posture
5 4 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.70%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.70%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.35%) PKI
7 2 (1.35%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.68%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.68%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.68%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.68%) Media Streaming
8 1 (0.68%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.68%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 35 (23.65%) Linux
2 21 (14.19%) Windows
3 7 (4.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.70%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.35%) CentOS
5 2 (1.35%) Rocky
5 2 (1.35%) Unix
5 2 (1.35%) VMS
5 2 (1.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (61.49%) DevOps
2 71 (47.97%) Agile
3 56 (37.84%) Software Engineering
4 43 (29.05%) Test Automation
5 36 (24.32%) Validation
6 33 (22.30%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (21.62%) Infrastructure as Code
8 29 (19.59%) Scrum
9 25 (16.89%) Microservices
10 20 (13.51%) AI
10 20 (13.51%) Software Delivery
11 18 (12.16%) Continuous Delivery
11 18 (12.16%) Continuous Integration
11 18 (12.16%) Observability
11 18 (12.16%) TDD
12 17 (11.49%) Data Pipeline
12 17 (11.49%) Platform Engineering
13 16 (10.81%) Containerisation
13 16 (10.81%) Event-Driven
13 16 (10.81%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 58 (39.19%) Python
2 37 (25.00%) Java
3 25 (16.89%) SQL
4 22 (14.86%) C#
5 18 (12.16%) Bash
6 16 (10.81%) C++
7 12 (8.11%) JavaScript
8 8 (5.41%) PowerShell
9 6 (4.05%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (3.38%) Search Processing Language
11 4 (2.70%) Shell Script
12 3 (2.03%) Bicep
12 3 (2.03%) Groovy
12 3 (2.03%) TypeScript
13 2 (1.35%) C
14 1 (0.68%) Cypher
14 1 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.68%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.68%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.68%) VBA
Qualifications
1 29 (19.59%) Security Cleared
2 18 (12.16%) SC Cleared
3 16 (10.81%) Degree
4 10 (6.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.73%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.03%) ISTQB
6 3 (2.03%) MOS
7 2 (1.35%) CCSP
7 2 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.35%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.68%) CISM
8 1 (0.68%) CISSP
8 1 (0.68%) CRISC
8 1 (0.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (12.84%) QA
2 9 (6.08%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.70%) GDPR
3 4 (2.70%) PCI DSS
4 3 (2.03%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.03%) NIST
5 2 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.35%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 26 (17.57%) Docker
2 2 (1.35%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.68%) Squid
Systems Management
1 31 (20.95%) Ansible
2 21 (14.19%) Kubernetes
3 10 (6.76%) Grafana
4 9 (6.08%) Prometheus
5 6 (4.05%) Puppet
6 3 (2.03%) Argo
6 3 (2.03%) HP ALM
7 2 (1.35%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.68%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.68%) Istio
8 1 (0.68%) linkerd
8 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.68%) Packer
8 1 (0.68%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 18 (12.16%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.43%) Splunk
3 9 (6.08%) Databricks
4 8 (5.41%) IBM
5 6 (4.05%) Dynatrace
6 4 (2.70%) Cribl.io
6 4 (2.70%) Google
7 3 (2.03%) HP
7 3 (2.03%) NetApp
7 3 (2.03%) Oracle
7 3 (2.03%) PTC
7 3 (2.03%) SAP
7 3 (2.03%) VMware
8 2 (1.35%) Dialogic
8 2 (1.35%) Metaswitch
8 2 (1.35%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.68%) Braze
9 1 (0.68%) Foundry
9 1 (0.68%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.68%) mParticle