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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 21 29
Rank change year-on-year +6 +8 +10
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 162 88 68
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 6.78% 6.87% 4.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.66% 7.68% 5.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 37 21
10th Percentile £400 £300 £300
25th Percentile £456 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £576 £575 £581
90th Percentile £613 £793 £625
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 27 22
10th Percentile £60.28 - £51.25
25th Percentile £64.06 - £62.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £67.50 £67.00 -
90th Percentile £78.10 - £67.35
England median hourly rate £67.25 £65.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year +3.46% -3.70% -10.00%

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 1,870 1,146 1,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.21% 89.46% 82.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 842 493 456
10th Percentile £190 £201 £200
25th Percentile £367 £400 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +11.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £551
90th Percentile £694 £687 £638
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 476 309 373
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.38 £14.62
25th Percentile £17.00 £16.25 £15.62
Median hourly rate £48.17 £23.63 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +103.85% -40.93% +101.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -2.95%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 22 September 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 56 £509 -7.45% 45
Cambridgeshire +8 31 £513 -28.07% 105
Suffolk +1 26 £495 +59.68% 21
Essex +4 25 £530 +6.00% 17
Bedfordshire +6 15 £538 +7.50% 13
Norfolk -1 9 £488 -4.88% 9
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 (4.32%) OpenStack
2 6 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.85%) Apache
4 1 (0.62%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.62%) Confluence
4 1 (0.62%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 3 (1.85%) Windchill
2 1 (0.62%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 56 (34.57%) Azure
2 34 (20.99%) GCP
3 29 (17.90%) AWS
3 29 (17.90%) GitHub
4 24 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (11.73%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (5.56%) Azure AKS
7 8 (4.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (4.94%) Power Platform
7 8 (4.94%) Serverless
8 6 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (3.09%) Amazon S3
9 5 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.09%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (3.09%) dbt
9 5 (3.09%) GitHub Copilot
9 5 (3.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (2.47%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (2.47%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (2.47%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 22 (13.58%) VPN
2 19 (11.73%) Firewall
3 13 (8.02%) TCP/IP
4 8 (4.94%) Ethernet
5 6 (3.70%) DNS
6 5 (3.09%) HTTP
7 4 (2.47%) 5G
7 4 (2.47%) SNMP
7 4 (2.47%) SSH
7 4 (2.47%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (1.85%) 4G
8 3 (1.85%) SSL
8 3 (1.85%) VoIP
8 3 (1.85%) WAN
9 2 (1.23%) Network Security
9 2 (1.23%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (1.23%) RTP
9 2 (1.23%) tcpdump
9 2 (1.23%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.62%) INAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (11.73%) PostgreSQL
1 19 (11.73%) Relational Database
2 12 (7.41%) MySQL
3 9 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (4.32%) Power BI
4 7 (4.32%) Redis
5 5 (3.09%) Metadata
5 5 (3.09%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.09%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.47%) Couchbase
6 4 (2.47%) SQL Server
7 3 (1.85%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.85%) InfluxDB
8 2 (1.23%) Semantic Layer
8 2 (1.23%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (1.23%) Tableau
9 1 (0.62%) GIS
9 1 (0.62%) SQLite
9 1 (0.62%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.62%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 45 (27.78%) Git
2 23 (14.20%) GitLab
3 15 (9.26%) Visual Studio
4 13 (8.02%) Jenkins
4 13 (8.02%) JIRA
5 9 (5.56%) Gradle
6 8 (4.94%) Eclipse
7 6 (3.70%) Rational DOORS
8 5 (3.09%) IntelliJ
8 5 (3.09%) JUnit
8 5 (3.09%) SonarQube
9 4 (2.47%) Newman
9 4 (2.47%) Postman
10 3 (1.85%) Selenium
11 2 (1.23%) Artifactory
11 2 (1.23%) Claude Code
11 2 (1.23%) Gerrit
12 1 (0.62%) Locust
12 1 (0.62%) Tricentis qTest
12 1 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 37 (22.84%) Social Skills
2 22 (13.58%) Finance
3 17 (10.49%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (8.64%) Banking
5 10 (6.17%) Manufacturing
6 8 (4.94%) Military
6 8 (4.94%) Telecoms
7 7 (4.32%) Retail
8 6 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.47%) Aerospace
9 4 (2.47%) Law
9 4 (2.47%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.23%) Automotive
10 2 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.23%) Electronics
10 2 (1.23%) Marketing
11 1 (0.62%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.62%) Billing
11 1 (0.62%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 48 (29.63%) Developer
2 30 (18.52%) Software Engineer
3 23 (14.20%) Senior
4 22 (13.58%) Java Developer
5 16 (9.88%) DevOps Engineer
6 15 (9.26%) Software Developer
7 13 (8.02%) Java Software Developer
8 11 (6.79%) Java Engineer
9 10 (6.17%) Java Software Engineer
10 9 (5.56%) Architect
10 9 (5.56%) Backend Developer
10 9 (5.56%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 8 (4.94%) Data Engineer
11 8 (4.94%) IAM Developer
12 7 (4.32%) C# Software Engineer
12 7 (4.32%) Python Developer
13 6 (3.70%) Security Engineer
13 6 (3.70%) Senior DevOps
13 6 (3.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 6 (3.70%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (18.52%) Terraform
2 19 (11.73%) Spring Boot
3 16 (9.88%) Spring
4 15 (9.26%) REST
5 14 (8.64%) Kafka
5 14 (8.64%) Node.js
6 13 (8.02%) .NET
7 9 (5.56%) Pandas
7 9 (5.56%) RESTful
7 9 (5.56%) Web Services
8 8 (4.94%) CSS
8 8 (4.94%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (4.94%) HTML
8 8 (4.94%) React
8 8 (4.94%) XML
9 7 (4.32%) pytest
10 6 (3.70%) FastAPI
10 6 (3.70%) Flask
10 6 (3.70%) WinForms
10 6 (3.70%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 26 (16.05%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.32%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (3.70%) Life Science
3 6 (3.70%) Private Cloud
4 5 (3.09%) Security Posture
5 4 (2.47%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (2.47%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.47%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.47%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.85%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.23%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.62%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.62%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.62%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.62%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.62%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.62%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 33 (20.37%) Linux
2 19 (11.73%) Windows
3 6 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.47%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.23%) Rocky
5 2 (1.23%) Unix
5 2 (1.23%) VMS
5 2 (1.23%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.62%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (59.88%) DevOps
2 77 (47.53%) Agile
3 60 (37.04%) Software Engineering
4 40 (24.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 40 (24.69%) Test Automation
5 39 (24.07%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (22.22%) Validation
7 28 (17.28%) Scrum
8 27 (16.67%) Microservices
9 25 (15.43%) TDD
10 22 (13.58%) Data Pipeline
11 21 (12.96%) AI
12 20 (12.35%) Software Delivery
13 19 (11.73%) Software Testing
14 18 (11.11%) Containerisation
14 18 (11.11%) ETL
14 18 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
15 17 (10.49%) Continuous Delivery
15 17 (10.49%) Continuous Integration
15 17 (10.49%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 60 (37.04%) Python
2 43 (26.54%) Java
3 32 (19.75%) SQL
4 21 (12.96%) C#
5 18 (11.11%) Bash
6 16 (9.88%) JavaScript
7 15 (9.26%) C++
8 8 (4.94%) PowerShell
9 6 (3.70%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (3.09%) Search Processing Language
11 4 (2.47%) Shell Script
11 4 (2.47%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.85%) C
12 3 (1.85%) Groovy
13 2 (1.23%) Bicep
13 2 (1.23%) Go
14 1 (0.62%) Cypher
14 1 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.62%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.62%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (19.14%) Security Cleared
2 17 (10.49%) SC Cleared
3 16 (9.88%) Degree
4 10 (6.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.32%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.85%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.23%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.23%) CCSP
7 2 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.23%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.23%) MOS
8 1 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.62%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.62%) CISM
8 1 (0.62%) CISSP
8 1 (0.62%) CRISC
8 1 (0.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (14.20%) QA
2 11 (6.79%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.47%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.47%) GDPR
3 4 (2.47%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.85%) NIST
5 2 (1.23%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 29 (17.90%) Docker
2 2 (1.23%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.62%) Squid
3 1 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 34 (20.99%) Ansible
2 24 (14.81%) Kubernetes
3 12 (7.41%) Grafana
4 11 (6.79%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.70%) Puppet
6 5 (3.09%) Argo
7 3 (1.85%) HP ALM
8 2 (1.23%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.62%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.62%) Istio
9 1 (0.62%) linkerd
9 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.62%) Packer
9 1 (0.62%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 17 (10.49%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.79%) Databricks
2 11 (6.79%) Splunk
3 10 (6.17%) Google
4 8 (4.94%) IBM
5 7 (4.32%) Dynatrace
6 5 (3.09%) Checkmarx
7 4 (2.47%) Cribl.io
8 3 (1.85%) HP
8 3 (1.85%) NetApp
8 3 (1.85%) Oracle
8 3 (1.85%) PTC
8 3 (1.85%) SAP
8 3 (1.85%) VMware
9 2 (1.23%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.23%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.62%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.62%) New Relic
10 1 (0.62%) PagerDuty
10 1 (0.62%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud