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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 34 63
Rank change year-on-year +6 +29 +6
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 111 43 47
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 5.15% 4.51% 2.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.67% 5.09% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 31 32
10th Percentile £425 £395 £401
25th Percentile £500 £425 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £467 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.90% -6.70% -3.85%
75th Percentile £600 £528 £573
90th Percentile £640 £556 £600
England median daily rate £525 £538 £563
% change year-on-year -2.33% -4.44% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 4
10th Percentile £61.25 £62.00 £64.13
25th Percentile £63.13 £63.13 £64.69
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - £66.56
90th Percentile - - £69.38
England median hourly rate £65.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.80% -3.85% -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 1,663 845 1,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 77.17% 88.67% 86.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 820 436 732
10th Percentile £200 £237 £225
25th Percentile £363 £405 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £565
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 426 180 599
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.17 £17.08 £15.34
Median hourly rate £22.63 £48.72 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.55% +21.80% +60.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £42.69 £30.45 £35.00
% change year-on-year +40.18% -13.00% -8.74%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 25 April 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 +7 36 £550 +22.22% 33
Bedfordshire +16 29 £600 +9.09% 4
Cambridgeshire +6 17 £525 +5.05% 23
Essex -3 13 £530 +66.57% 8
Norfolk -20 10 £500 +11.11% 7
Suffolk +2 6 £500 +14.29% 13
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 (8.11%) CMS
1 9 (8.11%) Sitecore CMS
2 3 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.90%) Apache
3 1 (0.90%) Confluence
3 1 (0.90%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 49 (44.14%) Azure
2 41 (36.94%) AWS
3 30 (27.03%) GCP
4 20 (18.02%) GitHub
5 15 (13.51%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (11.71%) Azure AKS
7 11 (9.91%) Power Platform
7 11 (9.91%) Serverless
8 10 (9.01%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (7.21%) Copilot Studio
9 8 (7.21%) Microsoft Copilot
10 7 (6.31%) Azure AI
10 7 (6.31%) Azure Service Bus
11 6 (5.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (5.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 5 (4.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 4 (3.60%) Azure Functions
13 4 (3.60%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (3.60%) Azure Monitor
13 4 (3.60%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.81%) TCP/IP
2 11 (9.91%) Ethernet
2 11 (9.91%) VPN
3 8 (7.21%) Firewall
4 3 (2.70%) DNS
4 3 (2.70%) SNMP
5 2 (1.80%) DHCP
5 2 (1.80%) Network Security
6 1 (0.90%) BGP
6 1 (0.90%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (16.22%) NoSQL
2 11 (9.91%) Power BI
3 10 (9.01%) SQL Server
4 7 (6.31%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (3.60%) Metadata
6 2 (1.80%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.90%) Big Data
7 1 (0.90%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.90%) MaxDB
7 1 (0.90%) Redis
7 1 (0.90%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.90%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.90%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.90%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.90%) Sybase ASE
7 1 (0.90%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (22.52%) Git
2 12 (10.81%) Visual Studio
3 11 (9.91%) Eclipse
3 11 (9.91%) GitLab
4 9 (8.11%) Jenkins
5 8 (7.21%) JUnit
5 8 (7.21%) SonarQube
6 6 (5.41%) IntelliJ
7 3 (2.70%) JIRA
8 1 (0.90%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.90%) Gatling
8 1 (0.90%) Gradle
8 1 (0.90%) JMeter
8 1 (0.90%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.90%) MLflow
8 1 (0.90%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.90%) Snyk
General
1 45 (40.54%) Social Skills
2 22 (19.82%) Finance
3 12 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (9.91%) Documentation Skills
4 11 (9.91%) Presentation Skills
5 10 (9.01%) Military
6 5 (4.50%) Banking
6 5 (4.50%) Law
7 4 (3.60%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.80%) Automotive
8 2 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.80%) Retail
9 1 (0.90%) Agriculture
9 1 (0.90%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.90%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 21 (18.92%) Developer
2 16 (14.41%) Architect
2 16 (14.41%) Senior
3 13 (11.71%) Software Engineer
4 9 (8.11%) Java Developer
5 8 (7.21%) C# Software Engineer
5 8 (7.21%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (6.31%) Consultant
6 7 (6.31%) Lead
7 6 (5.41%) Data Engineer
7 6 (5.41%) GCP Engineer
7 6 (5.41%) Technical Architect
8 5 (4.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 5 (4.50%) Cloud Architect
8 5 (4.50%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (4.50%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (3.60%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 4 (3.60%) Technical Leader
10 3 (2.70%) C# Developer
10 3 (2.70%) C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (23.42%) Node.js
2 21 (18.92%) REST
3 19 (17.12%) Spring
4 18 (16.22%) Spring Boot
5 16 (14.41%) .NET
5 16 (14.41%) React
6 11 (9.91%) CSS
6 11 (9.91%) HTML
7 10 (9.01%) AngularJS
7 10 (9.01%) Web Services
8 8 (7.21%) ASP.NET
8 8 (7.21%) ASP.NET Core
8 8 (7.21%) jQuery
8 8 (7.21%) Kafka
9 7 (6.31%) PyTorch
9 7 (6.31%) scikit-learn
9 7 (6.31%) TensorFlow
10 6 (5.41%) RESTful
11 4 (3.60%) .NET Core
11 4 (3.60%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 30 (27.03%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.21%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (4.50%) Private Cloud
3 5 (4.50%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.60%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.80%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (1.80%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.80%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.80%) N-Tier
5 2 (1.80%) PKI
5 2 (1.80%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.90%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.90%) LIMS
6 1 (0.90%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.90%) Robotics
6 1 (0.90%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (14.41%) Linux
1 16 (14.41%) Windows
2 2 (1.80%) VMS
2 2 (1.80%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.90%) Robot Operating System
3 1 (0.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (64.86%) DevOps
2 40 (36.04%) Agile
3 28 (25.23%) Microservices
4 27 (24.32%) Infrastructure as Code
5 23 (20.72%) Software Engineering
6 22 (19.82%) TDD
7 20 (18.02%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (17.12%) Analytics
9 17 (15.32%) Validation
10 16 (14.41%) AI
10 16 (14.41%) Scrum
11 15 (13.51%) Event-Driven
12 14 (12.61%) ETL
12 14 (12.61%) Visualisation
13 13 (11.71%) Continuous Integration
13 13 (11.71%) Data Pipeline
13 13 (11.71%) Data Science
13 13 (11.71%) Machine Learning
13 13 (11.71%) Unit Testing
14 12 (10.81%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 40 (36.04%) Python
2 24 (21.62%) C#
3 23 (20.72%) SQL
4 21 (18.92%) Java
5 19 (17.12%) JavaScript
6 12 (10.81%) C++
7 5 (4.50%) Bash
8 4 (3.60%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.70%) Go
10 2 (1.80%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.80%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.90%) C
11 1 (0.90%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (0.90%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 24 (21.62%) Security Cleared
2 13 (11.71%) SC Cleared
3 12 (10.81%) Degree
4 10 (9.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (5.41%) AWS Certification
6 5 (4.50%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (3.60%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.70%) CCSP
8 3 (2.70%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.80%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.80%) CCNP
10 1 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.90%) CCIE
10 1 (0.90%) CISM
10 1 (0.90%) CISSP
10 1 (0.90%) CRISC
10 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.61%) QA
2 7 (6.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (4.50%) NIST
4 4 (3.60%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.70%) GDPR
6 2 (1.80%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.80%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.80%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.90%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 20 (18.02%) Docker
2 3 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.80%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (25.23%) Kubernetes
2 18 (16.22%) Terraform
3 11 (9.91%) Ansible
4 7 (6.31%) Grafana
5 6 (5.41%) Prometheus
6 5 (4.50%) Argo
7 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.80%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.90%) Puppet
Vendors
1 27 (24.32%) Microsoft
2 20 (18.02%) Google
3 9 (8.11%) Sitecore
4 8 (7.21%) Checkmarx
5 7 (6.31%) Foundry
5 7 (6.31%) OpenAI
5 7 (6.31%) Splunk
6 6 (5.41%) Dynatrace
7 5 (4.50%) Databricks
7 5 (4.50%) ServiceNow
8 4 (3.60%) Salesforce
8 4 (3.60%) SAP
8 4 (3.60%) VMware
9 3 (2.70%) Cribl.io
9 3 (2.70%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.80%) Citrix
10 2 (1.80%) New Relic
10 2 (1.80%) Pega
10 2 (1.80%) Talend
10 2 (1.80%) Wyse