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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 40 71
Rank change year-on-year +14 +31 -4
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 116 43 43
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 5.18% 4.53% 2.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.70% 5.05% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 33 25
10th Percentile £425 £336 £415
25th Percentile £500 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £465 £534
Median % change year-on-year +18.28% -12.92% +2.69%
75th Percentile £600 £525 £573
90th Percentile £638 £555 £600
England median daily rate £525 £528 £555
% change year-on-year -0.47% -4.95% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 7
10th Percentile £61.25 £62.00 £58.75
25th Percentile £64.06 £63.13 £64.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £74.00 - £67.50
England median hourly rate £67.00 £61.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +9.39% -5.77% -0.92%

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 1,731 852 1,642
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 77.35% 89.68% 85.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 852 443 695
10th Percentile £200 £225 £204
25th Percentile £363 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £458
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% +9.29% -3.68%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 449 174 610
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.46 £15.39
Median hourly rate £22.68 £41.25 £40.14
Median % change year-on-year -45.02% +2.77% +63.03%
75th Percentile £65.88 £71.88 £63.44
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £36.34
% change year-on-year +50.00% -17.43% -2.19%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +3 36 £550 +22.22% 28
Bedfordshire +16 27 £600 +9.09% 6
Cambridgeshire +5 18 £525 +5.05% 33
Essex -5 13 £530 +64.91% 15
Suffolk +7 12 £500 +14.29% 19
Norfolk -21 10 £500 +11.11% 4
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 (7.76%) CMS
1 9 (7.76%) Sitecore CMS
2 3 (2.59%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.86%) Apache
3 1 (0.86%) Confluence
3 1 (0.86%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 47 (40.52%) Azure
2 40 (34.48%) AWS
3 29 (25.00%) GCP
4 20 (17.24%) GitHub
5 14 (12.07%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (11.21%) Azure AKS
7 11 (9.48%) Serverless
8 10 (8.62%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (7.76%) Power Platform
10 7 (6.03%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (5.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (5.17%) Copilot Studio
11 6 (5.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 6 (5.17%) Microsoft Copilot
12 5 (4.31%) Azure AI
13 4 (3.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 4 (3.45%) Azure Functions
13 4 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
13 4 (3.45%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.48%) Ethernet
1 11 (9.48%) TCP/IP
1 11 (9.48%) VPN
2 7 (6.03%) Firewall
3 3 (2.59%) SNMP
4 2 (1.72%) DNS
4 2 (1.72%) Network Security
4 2 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.86%) BGP
5 1 (0.86%) DHCP
5 1 (0.86%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.79%) NoSQL
2 9 (7.76%) Power BI
2 9 (7.76%) SQL Server
3 7 (6.03%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.45%) Metadata
5 2 (1.72%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.86%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.86%) Big Data
6 1 (0.86%) MaxDB
6 1 (0.86%) MySQL
6 1 (0.86%) Redis
6 1 (0.86%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.86%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.86%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.86%) Star Schema
6 1 (0.86%) Sybase ASE
6 1 (0.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (24.14%) Git
2 15 (12.93%) GitLab
3 13 (11.21%) Visual Studio
4 11 (9.48%) Eclipse
5 9 (7.76%) Jenkins
6 8 (6.90%) JUnit
6 8 (6.90%) SonarQube
7 6 (5.17%) IntelliJ
8 5 (4.31%) Gradle
9 3 (2.59%) JIRA
10 2 (1.72%) Rational DOORS
11 1 (0.86%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.86%) Gatling
11 1 (0.86%) JMeter
11 1 (0.86%) LoadRunner
11 1 (0.86%) MLflow
11 1 (0.86%) Snyk
General
1 44 (37.93%) Social Skills
2 20 (17.24%) Finance
3 14 (12.07%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (9.48%) Presentation Skills
5 10 (8.62%) Military
6 9 (7.76%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (4.31%) Banking
7 5 (4.31%) Law
8 4 (3.45%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.72%) Automotive
9 2 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.72%) Retail
10 1 (0.86%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.86%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.86%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 24 (20.69%) Developer
2 16 (13.79%) Architect
2 16 (13.79%) Senior
3 14 (12.07%) Software Engineer
4 13 (11.21%) Java Developer
5 9 (7.76%) C# Software Engineer
6 8 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (6.03%) Consultant
8 6 (5.17%) Data Engineer
8 6 (5.17%) GCP Engineer
8 6 (5.17%) Lead
8 6 (5.17%) Technical Architect
9 5 (4.31%) Cloud Architect
9 5 (4.31%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (3.45%) Senior DevOps
10 4 (3.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 4 (3.45%) Software Developer
10 4 (3.45%) Technical Leader
11 3 (2.59%) C++ Software Engineer
11 3 (2.59%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (22.41%) Node.js
2 22 (18.97%) Spring
2 22 (18.97%) Spring Boot
3 18 (15.52%) REST
4 16 (13.79%) .NET
5 15 (12.93%) React
6 11 (9.48%) CSS
6 11 (9.48%) HTML
7 10 (8.62%) Kafka
7 10 (8.62%) Web Services
8 9 (7.76%) AngularJS
9 8 (6.90%) ASP.NET
9 8 (6.90%) ASP.NET Core
9 8 (6.90%) jQuery
10 6 (5.17%) RESTful
11 5 (4.31%) PyTorch
11 5 (4.31%) scikit-learn
11 5 (4.31%) TensorFlow
12 4 (3.45%) Express.js
12 4 (3.45%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 30 (25.86%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (4.31%) Private Cloud
3 5 (4.31%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.59%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (2.59%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (1.72%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (1.72%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.72%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.72%) N-Tier
6 2 (1.72%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.86%) LIMS
7 1 (0.86%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.86%) PCIe
7 1 (0.86%) PKI
7 1 (0.86%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.86%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 16 (13.79%) Linux
1 16 (13.79%) Windows
2 1 (0.86%) Robot Operating System
2 1 (0.86%) Unix
2 1 (0.86%) VMS
2 1 (0.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (62.07%) DevOps
2 45 (38.79%) Agile
3 31 (26.72%) Microservices
4 29 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 28 (24.14%) Software Engineering
6 25 (21.55%) TDD
7 22 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (15.52%) Scrum
9 17 (14.66%) Analytics
9 17 (14.66%) Validation
10 15 (12.93%) AI
10 15 (12.93%) Event-Driven
10 15 (12.93%) SDLC
11 14 (12.07%) Continuous Integration
11 14 (12.07%) Test Automation
11 14 (12.07%) Visualisation
12 13 (11.21%) Containerisation
12 13 (11.21%) Data Pipeline
12 13 (11.21%) ETL
13 12 (10.34%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 38 (32.76%) Python
2 25 (21.55%) C#
2 25 (21.55%) Java
3 22 (18.97%) SQL
4 19 (16.38%) JavaScript
5 13 (11.21%) C++
6 6 (5.17%) Bash
7 4 (3.45%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (2.59%) Go
8 3 (2.59%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.59%) Search Processing Language
9 2 (1.72%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.86%) C
10 1 (0.86%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 27 (23.28%) Security Cleared
2 14 (12.07%) SC Cleared
3 13 (11.21%) Degree
4 11 (9.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (5.17%) AWS Certification
5 6 (5.17%) DV Cleared
6 5 (4.31%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.59%) CCSP
7 3 (2.59%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.72%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.72%) CCNP
9 1 (0.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.86%) CCIE
9 1 (0.86%) CISM
9 1 (0.86%) CISSP
9 1 (0.86%) CRISC
9 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.07%) QA
2 7 (6.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (4.31%) NIST
4 4 (3.45%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.45%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.59%) GDPR
6 2 (1.72%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.72%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.86%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 18 (15.52%) Docker
2 2 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.86%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (22.41%) Kubernetes
2 20 (17.24%) Terraform
3 18 (15.52%) Ansible
4 7 (6.03%) Grafana
5 6 (5.17%) Prometheus
6 5 (4.31%) Argo
7 2 (1.72%) Puppet
8 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.86%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (20.69%) Microsoft
2 17 (14.66%) Google
3 9 (7.76%) Sitecore
3 9 (7.76%) Splunk
4 8 (6.90%) Checkmarx
5 6 (5.17%) Dynatrace
6 5 (4.31%) Databricks
6 5 (4.31%) Foundry
6 5 (4.31%) OpenAI
6 5 (4.31%) ServiceNow
7 4 (3.45%) Salesforce
7 4 (3.45%) SAP
8 3 (2.59%) Cribl.io
8 3 (2.59%) MuleSoft
8 3 (2.59%) VMware
9 2 (1.72%) New Relic
9 2 (1.72%) Pega
10 1 (0.86%) Oracle
10 1 (0.86%) Talend
10 1 (0.86%) Wyse