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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 39 56
Rank change year-on-year +6 +17 -8
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 86 48 59
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 4.79% 4.58% 3.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.92% 5.32% 3.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 24 46
10th Percentile £409 £315 £400
25th Percentile £475 £320 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £444 £525
Median % change year-on-year +35.21% -15.48% -2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £523 £596
90th Percentile £666 £569 £709
England median daily rate £513 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -6.82% -2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 5
10th Percentile - £61.63 £67.25
25th Percentile - £62.19 £72.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.75 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% -15.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £67.00 £64.69 £77.50
90th Percentile - £64.88 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £71.00
% change year-on-year - -8.45% +8.22%

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 1,452 902 1,620
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 80.85% 86.07% 86.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 642 427 823
10th Percentile £197 £247 £250
25th Percentile £350 £374 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% -1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £589
90th Percentile £675 £694 £713
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 447 149 452
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.62 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.12 £17.13 £15.00
Median hourly rate £20.23 £40.00 £31.80
Median % change year-on-year -49.43% +25.79% +24.61%
75th Percentile £60.00 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

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 16 February 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 16 February 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 16 February 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 30 £565 +2.73% 18
Bedfordshire +13 27 £600 +30.43% 6
Cambridgeshire +4 21 £573 +21.16% 16
Suffolk -2 6 £375 -14.29% 1
Essex -9 1 £505 +58.81% 10
Norfolk -24 1 £475 +5.56% 2
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 (10.47%) CMS
1 9 (10.47%) Sitecore CMS
2 4 (4.65%) Confluence
3 1 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 48 (55.81%) Azure
2 33 (38.37%) AWS
3 23 (26.74%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (18.60%) GCP
5 11 (12.79%) Power Platform
6 9 (10.47%) Azure AI
6 9 (10.47%) Copilot Studio
6 9 (10.47%) Microsoft Copilot
7 8 (9.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 7 (8.14%) Azure AKS
8 7 (8.14%) Serverless
9 6 (6.98%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (5.81%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (4.65%) Entra ID
11 4 (4.65%) GitHub
11 4 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (3.49%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (3.49%) Azure Functions
12 3 (3.49%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (3.49%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (11.63%) TCP/IP
2 9 (10.47%) Ethernet
3 4 (4.65%) Firewall
4 3 (3.49%) DNS
5 2 (2.33%) DHCP
5 2 (2.33%) VPN
6 1 (1.16%) BGP
6 1 (1.16%) MPLS
6 1 (1.16%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (26.74%) NoSQL
2 11 (12.79%) Power BI
3 8 (9.30%) SQL Server
4 4 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.33%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.33%) MySQL
5 2 (2.33%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.33%) Redis
5 2 (2.33%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.16%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.16%) Big Data
6 1 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.16%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 11 (12.79%) Git
2 10 (11.63%) GitLab
2 10 (11.63%) Jenkins
3 9 (10.47%) Visual Studio
4 8 (9.30%) Eclipse
5 5 (5.81%) JIRA
6 4 (4.65%) JMeter
6 4 (4.65%) Selenium
7 2 (2.33%) Postman
7 2 (2.33%) Rational DOORS
7 2 (2.33%) Robot Framework
8 1 (1.16%) Gatling
8 1 (1.16%) Locust
8 1 (1.16%) MLflow
8 1 (1.16%) Newman
8 1 (1.16%) Polyspace
8 1 (1.16%) Snyk
8 1 (1.16%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.16%) TestCafe
8 1 (1.16%) TestRail
General
1 42 (48.84%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.79%) Documentation Skills
2 11 (12.79%) Finance
3 8 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (9.30%) Military
3 8 (9.30%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (3.49%) Aerospace
4 3 (3.49%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (3.49%) Law
4 3 (3.49%) Manufacturing
4 3 (3.49%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (3.49%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.33%) Retail
6 1 (1.16%) Agriculture
6 1 (1.16%) Automotive
6 1 (1.16%) Marketing
6 1 (1.16%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (19.77%) Developer
2 14 (16.28%) Software Engineer
3 9 (10.47%) Architect
3 9 (10.47%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 9 (10.47%) Senior
4 7 (8.14%) C# Software Engineer
4 7 (8.14%) Lead
5 6 (6.98%) C++ Software Engineer
5 6 (6.98%) Consultant
5 6 (6.98%) Technical Architect
6 5 (5.81%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (5.81%) Senior Developer
6 5 (5.81%) Test Engineer
7 4 (4.65%) .NET Developer
7 4 (4.65%) Java Developer
7 4 (4.65%) Technical Leader
8 3 (3.49%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
8 3 (3.49%) Azure Developer
8 3 (3.49%) Senior .NET Developer
8 3 (3.49%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (26.74%) .NET
2 22 (25.58%) REST
3 21 (24.42%) Node.js
4 19 (22.09%) React
5 13 (15.12%) AngularJS
6 12 (13.95%) PyTorch
6 12 (13.95%) scikit-learn
6 12 (13.95%) TensorFlow
7 9 (10.47%) CSS
7 9 (10.47%) HTML
8 8 (9.30%) ASP.NET
8 8 (9.30%) ASP.NET Core
8 8 (9.30%) jQuery
8 8 (9.30%) RESTful
8 8 (9.30%) Spring
8 8 (9.30%) Web Services
9 7 (8.14%) .NET Core
9 7 (8.14%) Spring Boot
10 4 (4.65%) Kafka
10 4 (4.65%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 16 (18.60%) Cloud Native
2 8 (9.30%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (4.65%) PCIe
3 4 (4.65%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.65%) Security Posture
4 3 (3.49%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (3.49%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.49%) FPGA
4 3 (3.49%) State Machine
5 2 (2.33%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.33%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.33%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.33%) PKI
5 2 (2.33%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.16%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.16%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 18 (20.93%) Linux
2 17 (19.77%) Windows
3 3 (3.49%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.33%) VMS
5 1 (1.16%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (1.16%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (67.44%) DevOps
2 36 (41.86%) Agile
3 30 (34.88%) Microservices
4 23 (26.74%) AI
4 23 (26.74%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (24.42%) Validation
6 19 (22.09%) Test Automation
7 18 (20.93%) Data Science
8 17 (19.77%) Scrum
9 16 (18.60%) Machine Learning
9 16 (18.60%) Software Engineering
9 16 (18.60%) Unit Testing
10 15 (17.44%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
11 14 (16.28%) Analytics
11 14 (16.28%) Infrastructure as Code
11 14 (16.28%) LLM
11 14 (16.28%) Prompt Engineering
12 13 (15.12%) Continuous Integration
13 12 (13.95%) Containerisation
13 12 (13.95%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (32.56%) Python
2 24 (27.91%) C#
3 20 (23.26%) SQL
4 15 (17.44%) JavaScript
5 13 (15.12%) C++
6 10 (11.63%) Java
7 4 (4.65%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.49%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.33%) Bicep
10 1 (1.16%) Bash
10 1 (1.16%) C
10 1 (1.16%) MATLAB
10 1 (1.16%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 11 (12.79%) Security Cleared
2 8 (9.30%) Degree
3 7 (8.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (5.81%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.49%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.33%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.33%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.33%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.16%) CCSP
7 1 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.16%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (20.93%) QA
2 8 (9.30%) NIST
3 5 (5.81%) EU AI Act
4 3 (3.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.33%) HIPAA
5 2 (2.33%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.16%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.16%) AUTOSAR
6 1 (1.16%) ISO 26262
6 1 (1.16%) MISRA
6 1 (1.16%) MISRA C
System Software
1 21 (24.42%) Docker
2 2 (2.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 24 (27.91%) Kubernetes
2 11 (12.79%) Terraform
3 3 (3.49%) Consul
4 2 (2.33%) Ansible
4 2 (2.33%) Grafana
4 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.33%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.33%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.16%) Functional Safety
5 1 (1.16%) Istio
Vendors
1 31 (36.05%) Microsoft
2 11 (12.79%) Google
3 9 (10.47%) Foundry
3 9 (10.47%) OpenAI
3 9 (10.47%) Sitecore
4 4 (4.65%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.49%) SAP
5 3 (3.49%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.49%) Splunk
6 2 (2.33%) Citrix
6 2 (2.33%) MuleSoft
6 2 (2.33%) New Relic
6 2 (2.33%) Pega
6 2 (2.33%) VMware
6 2 (2.33%) Wyse
7 1 (1.16%) CloudEndure
7 1 (1.16%) Databricks
7 1 (1.16%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.16%) Jitterbit
7 1 (1.16%) Virgin Media