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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 39 72
Rank change year-on-year +18 +33 -19
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 122 47 39
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 5.50% 4.89% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.01% 5.40% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 38 23
10th Percentile £455 £315 £414
25th Percentile £500 £405 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £458 £534
Median % change year-on-year +20.22% -14.33% +1.23%
75th Percentile £600 £524 £574
90th Percentile £644 £569 £600
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 7
10th Percentile £55.50 £62.00 £58.75
25th Percentile £63.13 £63.13 £64.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £75.00 - £67.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £59.63 £67.00
% change year-on-year +9.01% -11.01% +2.13%

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 1,740 870 1,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.38% 90.53% 85.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 871 463 673
10th Percentile £200 £226 £205
25th Percentile £375 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +7.53% -2.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 433 174 607
10th Percentile £14.29 £14.89 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.12 £16.30 £15.39
Median hourly rate £24.55 £39.66 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.10% -0.85% +81.82%
75th Percentile £66.00 £73.44 £62.50
90th Percentile £73.46 £85.00 £75.10
England median hourly rate £46.11 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +58.98% -20.55% -0.73%

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 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 22 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 22 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 +4 34 £550 +22.22% 26
Bedfordshire +17 26 £600 +20.00% 6
Essex -1 18 £508 +57.91% 8
Cambridgeshire +2 17 £551 +13.21% 23
Suffolk +7 16 £495 +13.14% 13
Norfolk -13 11 £488 +8.33% 1
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 (7.38%) CMS
1 9 (7.38%) Sitecore CMS
2 4 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.64%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.82%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 47 (38.52%) Azure
2 39 (31.97%) AWS
3 32 (26.23%) GCP
4 21 (17.21%) GitHub
5 13 (10.66%) Azure AKS
5 13 (10.66%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (9.84%) Serverless
7 11 (9.02%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (7.38%) Power Platform
9 7 (5.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (5.74%) Azure Service Bus
10 6 (4.92%) Copilot Studio
10 6 (4.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 6 (4.92%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (4.10%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (3.28%) Apple Pay
12 4 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (3.28%) Azure AI
12 4 (3.28%) Azure Functions
12 4 (3.28%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 15 (12.30%) VPN
2 12 (9.84%) Firewall
3 8 (6.56%) Ethernet
3 8 (6.56%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.28%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (2.46%) DNS
5 3 (2.46%) SNMP
6 2 (1.64%) Network Security
6 2 (1.64%) WAN
7 1 (0.82%) BGP
7 1 (0.82%) DHCP
7 1 (0.82%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.30%) NoSQL
2 10 (8.20%) SQL Server
3 9 (7.38%) Power BI
4 7 (5.74%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (4.10%) Relational Database
6 4 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (3.28%) Metadata
7 2 (1.64%) MaxDB
7 2 (1.64%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.64%) SAP HANA
7 2 (1.64%) Sybase ASE
8 1 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.82%) Big Data
8 1 (0.82%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.82%) Redis
8 1 (0.82%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.82%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (24.59%) Git
2 17 (13.93%) GitLab
3 10 (8.20%) Visual Studio
4 8 (6.56%) Eclipse
4 8 (6.56%) Gradle
4 8 (6.56%) Jenkins
4 8 (6.56%) JUnit
4 8 (6.56%) SonarQube
5 6 (4.92%) IntelliJ
6 3 (2.46%) JIRA
7 2 (1.64%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.82%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.82%) MLflow
8 1 (0.82%) Newman
8 1 (0.82%) Postman
8 1 (0.82%) Snyk
General
1 38 (31.15%) Social Skills
2 21 (17.21%) Finance
3 14 (11.48%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.74%) Banking
4 7 (5.74%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (5.74%) Military
4 7 (5.74%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (3.28%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.46%) Automotive
6 3 (2.46%) Law
6 3 (2.46%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.64%) Retail
8 1 (0.82%) Agriculture
8 1 (0.82%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (24.59%) Developer
2 19 (15.57%) Java Developer
3 17 (13.93%) Senior
4 16 (13.11%) Architect
5 15 (12.30%) Software Engineer
6 8 (6.56%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (5.74%) C# Software Engineer
7 7 (5.74%) Consultant
7 7 (5.74%) Data Engineer
7 7 (5.74%) Lead
7 7 (5.74%) Software Developer
8 6 (4.92%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (4.92%) GCP Engineer
8 6 (4.92%) Java Software Developer
8 6 (4.92%) Technical Architect
9 5 (4.10%) Backend Developer
9 5 (4.10%) Cloud Architect
10 4 (3.28%) Senior DevOps
10 4 (3.28%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 4 (3.28%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (20.49%) Spring Boot
2 23 (18.85%) Node.js
2 23 (18.85%) Spring
3 17 (13.93%) .NET
4 16 (13.11%) REST
5 15 (12.30%) React
6 11 (9.02%) CSS
6 11 (9.02%) HTML
6 11 (9.02%) Kafka
7 9 (7.38%) AngularJS
8 8 (6.56%) ASP.NET
8 8 (6.56%) ASP.NET Core
8 8 (6.56%) jQuery
8 8 (6.56%) Web Services
9 6 (4.92%) RESTful
10 5 (4.10%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (3.28%) eBPF
11 4 (3.28%) OpenTelemetry
11 4 (3.28%) PyTorch
11 4 (3.28%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 30 (24.59%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.74%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (4.10%) Private Cloud
4 4 (3.28%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.28%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.28%) Security Operations Centre
4 4 (3.28%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.64%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (1.64%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.64%) N-Tier
6 1 (0.82%) Clustering
6 1 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.82%) Life Science
6 1 (0.82%) LIMS
6 1 (0.82%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.82%) PKI
6 1 (0.82%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 15 (12.30%) Linux
1 15 (12.30%) Windows
2 2 (1.64%) Unix
2 2 (1.64%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.82%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (62.30%) DevOps
2 48 (39.34%) Agile
3 33 (27.05%) Microservices
4 32 (26.23%) Software Engineering
5 31 (25.41%) Infrastructure as Code
6 27 (22.13%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (20.49%) TDD
8 18 (14.75%) Scrum
9 17 (13.93%) Analytics
10 16 (13.11%) Containerisation
10 16 (13.11%) Test Automation
11 15 (12.30%) SDLC
12 14 (11.48%) AI
12 14 (11.48%) Data Pipeline
12 14 (11.48%) Event-Driven
13 13 (10.66%) ETL
13 13 (10.66%) Validation
14 12 (9.84%) Application Security
14 12 (9.84%) Continuous Integration
14 12 (9.84%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 38 (31.15%) Python
2 32 (26.23%) Java
3 24 (19.67%) SQL
4 23 (18.85%) C#
5 16 (13.11%) JavaScript
6 10 (8.20%) C++
7 7 (5.74%) Bash
8 6 (4.92%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (4.10%) PowerShell
9 5 (4.10%) Search Processing Language
10 3 (2.46%) Go
11 2 (1.64%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.82%) C
12 1 (0.82%) Groovy
12 1 (0.82%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 29 (23.77%) Security Cleared
2 14 (11.48%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.02%) Degree
4 10 (8.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (6.56%) DV Cleared
6 6 (4.92%) AWS Certification
7 5 (4.10%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (2.46%) CCSP
9 2 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.64%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.64%) CCNP
9 2 (1.64%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.82%) CCIE
10 1 (0.82%) CISM
10 1 (0.82%) CISSP
10 1 (0.82%) CRISC
10 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.84%) QA
2 7 (5.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (4.92%) PCI DSS
4 5 (4.10%) Data Quality
4 5 (4.10%) NIST
5 4 (3.28%) GDPR
6 2 (1.64%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.64%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.82%) Accessibility
System Software
1 17 (13.93%) Docker
2 2 (1.64%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.82%) Squid
3 1 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (20.49%) Kubernetes
2 24 (19.67%) Ansible
3 23 (18.85%) Terraform
4 7 (5.74%) Grafana
5 5 (4.10%) Argo
5 5 (4.10%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.46%) Puppet
7 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.82%) Packer
7 1 (0.82%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 20 (16.39%) Microsoft
2 16 (13.11%) Google
3 11 (9.02%) Splunk
4 9 (7.38%) Sitecore
5 8 (6.56%) Checkmarx
6 7 (5.74%) Dynatrace
7 6 (4.92%) Databricks
8 4 (3.28%) Foundry
8 4 (3.28%) OpenAI
8 4 (3.28%) SAP
8 4 (3.28%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.46%) Cribl.io
9 3 (2.46%) Salesforce
9 3 (2.46%) VMware
10 2 (1.64%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.64%) Oracle
10 2 (1.64%) Sybase
11 1 (0.82%) Citrix
11 1 (0.82%) Informatica
11 1 (0.82%) Wyse