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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 21 36
Rank change year-on-year +3 +15 +4
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 143 85 66
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 6.47% 6.70% 4.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.27% 7.52% 5.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 43 22
10th Percentile £416 £301 £306
25th Percentile £463 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -4.76% -4.11%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £580
90th Percentile £625 £803 £625
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.34% -6.73% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 23 22
10th Percentile £52.25 - £51.25
25th Percentile £62.19 - £62.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - £67.00 -
90th Percentile £75.40 - £67.35
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -11.56%

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 1,729 1,130 1,290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.20% 89.12% 82.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 832 500 495
10th Percentile £190 £200 £195
25th Percentile £384 £364 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £591 £575 £550
90th Percentile £675 £658 £638
England median daily rate £525 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.74% -2.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 403 290 438
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.84 £14.76
25th Percentile £16.01 £16.95 £15.62
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.20 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.21% -27.44% +117.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £80.10 £70.00
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 -9 46 £550 -0.06% 35
Cambridgeshire +8 27 £510 -16.73% 57
Essex +3 26 £510 +9.09% 8
Suffolk +1 21 £495 +59.68% 9
Norfolk -4 12 £488 +2.63% 7
Bedfordshire +7 11 £544 +8.75% 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 6 (4.20%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.50%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.40%) Apache
4 1 (0.70%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 2 (1.40%) Windchill
2 1 (0.70%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 48 (33.57%) Azure
2 37 (25.87%) GCP
3 32 (22.38%) AWS
4 29 (20.28%) GitHub
5 18 (12.59%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (11.19%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (7.69%) Serverless
8 10 (6.99%) Azure AKS
9 8 (5.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (5.59%) Power Platform
10 6 (4.20%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (4.20%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (4.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 5 (3.50%) Amazon S3
11 5 (3.50%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (3.50%) dbt
12 4 (2.80%) Apple Pay
12 4 (2.80%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (2.80%) Snowflake
12 4 (2.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (15.38%) VPN
2 19 (13.29%) Firewall
3 7 (4.90%) TCP/IP
4 6 (4.20%) DNS
5 4 (2.80%) HTTP
5 4 (2.80%) SNMP
5 4 (2.80%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (2.10%) 5G
6 3 (2.10%) Ethernet
6 3 (2.10%) SSH
7 2 (1.40%) 4G
7 2 (1.40%) Network Security
7 2 (1.40%) SSL
7 2 (1.40%) WAN
8 1 (0.70%) BGP
8 1 (0.70%) DHCP
8 1 (0.70%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.59%) Relational Database
2 15 (10.49%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (6.99%) MySQL
4 9 (6.29%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (4.90%) Power BI
6 6 (4.20%) Redis
7 5 (3.50%) Metadata
8 4 (2.80%) MongoDB
8 4 (2.80%) NoSQL
9 3 (2.10%) Couchbase
9 3 (2.10%) Data Lake
9 3 (2.10%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.40%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (1.40%) Tableau
11 1 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.70%) Big Data
11 1 (0.70%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.70%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.70%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 46 (32.17%) Git
2 24 (16.78%) GitLab
3 10 (6.99%) Jenkins
4 9 (6.29%) Gradle
5 8 (5.59%) JUnit
5 8 (5.59%) SonarQube
6 7 (4.90%) JIRA
7 6 (4.20%) IntelliJ
7 6 (4.20%) Visual Studio
8 4 (2.80%) Newman
8 4 (2.80%) Postman
9 3 (2.10%) Eclipse
10 2 (1.40%) Claude Code
10 2 (1.40%) Rational DOORS
10 2 (1.40%) Selenium
11 1 (0.70%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.70%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.70%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.70%) eggPlant
11 1 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 32 (22.38%) Social Skills
2 24 (16.78%) Finance
3 18 (12.59%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (9.09%) Banking
5 9 (6.29%) Manufacturing
6 6 (4.20%) Retail
7 5 (3.50%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.80%) Automotive
8 4 (2.80%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.10%) Law
9 3 (2.10%) Military
9 3 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.40%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.40%) Electronics
10 2 (1.40%) Marketing
11 1 (0.70%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 44 (30.77%) Developer
2 23 (16.08%) Java Developer
3 21 (14.69%) Senior
4 20 (13.99%) Software Engineer
5 14 (9.79%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (9.79%) Software Developer
6 12 (8.39%) Java Software Developer
7 11 (7.69%) Architect
7 11 (7.69%) Java Engineer
8 10 (6.99%) Backend Developer
8 10 (6.99%) Java Software Engineer
9 9 (6.29%) Data Engineer
10 8 (5.59%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 7 (4.90%) IAM Developer
12 6 (4.20%) GCP Engineer
12 6 (4.20%) Python Developer
12 6 (4.20%) Senior DevOps
12 6 (4.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 5 (3.50%) Cloud Engineer
13 5 (3.50%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (21.68%) Terraform
2 22 (15.38%) Spring Boot
3 19 (13.29%) Spring
4 14 (9.79%) REST
5 13 (9.09%) Kafka
6 10 (6.99%) Node.js
6 10 (6.99%) RESTful
7 9 (6.29%) .NET
8 8 (5.59%) Pandas
8 8 (5.59%) React
9 7 (4.90%) CSS
9 7 (4.90%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (4.90%) HTML
9 7 (4.90%) XML
10 6 (4.20%) pytest
11 5 (3.50%) FastAPI
11 5 (3.50%) Flask
11 5 (3.50%) Hibernate
11 5 (3.50%) OAuth
11 5 (3.50%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 30 (20.98%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.20%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (4.20%) Life Science
3 5 (3.50%) Private Cloud
4 4 (2.80%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.80%) Security Operations Centre
4 4 (2.80%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.10%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.40%) N-Tier
6 2 (1.40%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.70%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.70%) Clustering
7 1 (0.70%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.70%) LIMS
7 1 (0.70%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 23 (16.08%) Linux
2 8 (5.59%) Windows
3 3 (2.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.40%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.40%) Unix
4 2 (1.40%) VMS
4 2 (1.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (62.94%) DevOps
2 59 (41.26%) Agile
3 49 (34.27%) Software Engineering
4 38 (26.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 37 (25.87%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (23.78%) Test Automation
7 22 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
7 22 (15.38%) Microservices
7 22 (15.38%) TDD
7 22 (15.38%) Validation
8 21 (14.69%) ETL
9 20 (13.99%) AI
9 20 (13.99%) Containerisation
10 18 (12.59%) Scrum
11 17 (11.89%) Analytics
11 17 (11.89%) Event-Driven
11 17 (11.89%) Observability
12 15 (10.49%) Platform Engineering
12 15 (10.49%) SDLC
13 14 (9.79%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 53 (37.06%) Python
2 43 (30.07%) Java
3 28 (19.58%) SQL
4 14 (9.79%) Bash
5 12 (8.39%) C#
6 11 (7.69%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.20%) C++
7 6 (4.20%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (4.20%) PowerShell
8 5 (3.50%) Search Processing Language
9 4 (2.80%) Shell Script
9 4 (2.80%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.10%) C
10 3 (2.10%) Go
11 1 (0.70%) Bicep
11 1 (0.70%) Cypher
11 1 (0.70%) Groovy
11 1 (0.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (20.98%) Security Cleared
2 14 (9.79%) Degree
2 14 (9.79%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.99%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (6.29%) DV Cleared
5 6 (4.20%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.80%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.40%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.40%) CCNP
8 2 (1.40%) CCSP
8 2 (1.40%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.70%) CCIE
9 1 (0.70%) CISM
9 1 (0.70%) CISSP
9 1 (0.70%) CRISC
9 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.70%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (14.69%) QA
2 11 (7.69%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.80%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.80%) GDPR
4 4 (2.80%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.10%) NIST
6 2 (1.40%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 27 (18.88%) Docker
2 2 (1.40%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.70%) Squid
Systems Management
1 33 (23.08%) Ansible
2 25 (17.48%) Kubernetes
3 9 (6.29%) Grafana
4 8 (5.59%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.50%) Argo
6 4 (2.80%) Puppet
7 2 (1.40%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.70%) Istio
8 1 (0.70%) linkerd
8 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.70%) Packer
8 1 (0.70%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 14 (9.79%) Google
2 12 (8.39%) Databricks
3 10 (6.99%) Splunk
4 9 (6.29%) Microsoft
5 8 (5.59%) Checkmarx
5 8 (5.59%) Dynatrace
6 4 (2.80%) Cribl.io
6 4 (2.80%) IBM
7 3 (2.10%) NetApp
7 3 (2.10%) SAP
7 3 (2.10%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.10%) VMware
8 2 (1.40%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.40%) Oracle
8 2 (1.40%) PTC
8 2 (1.40%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.70%) Pega
9 1 (0.70%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.70%) Sybase
9 1 (0.70%) Trend Micro