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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 22 35
Rank change year-on-year +7 +13 +2
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 147 85 66
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 6.65% 6.69% 4.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.50% 7.51% 5.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 42 21
10th Percentile £413 £301 £300
25th Percentile £463 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £581
90th Percentile £625 £808 £625
England median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 23 22
10th Percentile £55.50 - £51.25
25th Percentile £60.81 - £62.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - £67.00 -
90th Percentile £75.00 - £67.35
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -12.75%

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 1,730 1,132 1,278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.21% 89.13% 82.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 831 498 481
10th Percentile £190 £200 £193
25th Percentile £381 £375 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £589 £579 £550
90th Percentile £675 £675 £638
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 402 290 429
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.84 £14.54
25th Percentile £16.01 £16.95 £15.62
Median hourly rate £44.75 £31.57 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.77% -21.09% +101.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.90 £80.10 £70.00
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 48 £550 -0.06% 52
Cambridgeshire +8 27 £510 -24.44% 81
Essex +5 27 £510 +5.43% 14
Suffolk +1 22 £495 +59.68% 13
Norfolk -3 12 £488 -2.50% 11
Bedfordshire +7 11 £544 +8.75% 8
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 (4.08%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (4.08%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.36%) Apache
3 1 (0.68%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 2 (1.36%) Windchill
2 1 (0.68%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 49 (33.33%) Azure
2 37 (25.17%) GCP
3 31 (21.09%) AWS
4 28 (19.05%) GitHub
5 18 (12.24%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (10.20%) GitHub Actions
7 11 (7.48%) Serverless
8 9 (6.12%) Azure AKS
9 8 (5.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (4.76%) Power Platform
11 6 (4.08%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (3.40%) Amazon S3
12 5 (3.40%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (3.40%) dbt
12 5 (3.40%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 4 (2.72%) Apple Pay
13 4 (2.72%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Copilot
13 4 (2.72%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 22 (14.97%) VPN
2 19 (12.93%) Firewall
3 7 (4.76%) DNS
3 7 (4.76%) TCP/IP
4 5 (3.40%) HTTP
5 4 (2.72%) 5G
5 4 (2.72%) SNMP
5 4 (2.72%) SSH
5 4 (2.72%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (2.04%) 4G
7 2 (1.36%) Ethernet
7 2 (1.36%) Network Security
7 2 (1.36%) SSL
7 2 (1.36%) WAN
8 1 (0.68%) DHCP
8 1 (0.68%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (12.93%) Relational Database
2 16 (10.88%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (7.48%) MySQL
4 9 (6.12%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (4.76%) Redis
6 6 (4.08%) Power BI
7 5 (3.40%) Metadata
7 5 (3.40%) MongoDB
7 5 (3.40%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.72%) SQL Server
9 3 (2.04%) Couchbase
9 3 (2.04%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.36%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (1.36%) Tableau
11 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.68%) Big Data
11 1 (0.68%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.68%) SAP HANA
11 1 (0.68%) Star Schema
11 1 (0.68%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 46 (31.29%) Git
2 23 (15.65%) GitLab
3 9 (6.12%) Gradle
3 9 (6.12%) Jenkins
3 9 (6.12%) JIRA
4 8 (5.44%) JUnit
4 8 (5.44%) SonarQube
5 6 (4.08%) IntelliJ
6 5 (3.40%) Visual Studio
7 4 (2.72%) Newman
7 4 (2.72%) Postman
8 3 (2.04%) Selenium
9 2 (1.36%) Claude Code
9 2 (1.36%) Eclipse
9 2 (1.36%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.68%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.68%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.68%) eggPlant
10 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 31 (21.09%) Social Skills
2 25 (17.01%) Finance
3 18 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (9.52%) Banking
5 10 (6.80%) Manufacturing
6 6 (4.08%) Retail
6 6 (4.08%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.72%) Automotive
7 4 (2.72%) Law
7 4 (2.72%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.36%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.36%) Electronics
9 2 (1.36%) Marketing
9 2 (1.36%) Military
9 2 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Agriculture
10 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.68%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 46 (31.29%) Developer
2 24 (16.33%) Java Developer
3 21 (14.29%) Senior
4 20 (13.61%) Software Engineer
5 15 (10.20%) Software Developer
6 14 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
7 13 (8.84%) Java Software Developer
8 12 (8.16%) Java Engineer
9 11 (7.48%) Architect
9 11 (7.48%) Backend Developer
9 11 (7.48%) Java Software Engineer
10 9 (6.12%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 8 (5.44%) Data Engineer
11 8 (5.44%) IAM Developer
12 7 (4.76%) Python Developer
13 6 (4.08%) GCP Engineer
13 6 (4.08%) Senior DevOps
13 6 (4.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 5 (3.40%) Cloud Architect
14 5 (3.40%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (20.41%) Terraform
2 22 (14.97%) Spring Boot
3 19 (12.93%) Spring
4 15 (10.20%) REST
5 14 (9.52%) Kafka
6 10 (6.80%) RESTful
7 9 (6.12%) .NET
7 9 (6.12%) Node.js
7 9 (6.12%) Pandas
8 8 (5.44%) CSS
8 8 (5.44%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (5.44%) HTML
8 8 (5.44%) React
9 7 (4.76%) pytest
9 7 (4.76%) XML
10 6 (4.08%) FastAPI
10 6 (4.08%) Flask
11 5 (3.40%) Hibernate
11 5 (3.40%) OpenTelemetry
11 5 (3.40%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 30 (20.41%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.08%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (4.08%) Life Science
3 5 (3.40%) Private Cloud
4 4 (2.72%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.72%) Security Operations Centre
4 4 (2.72%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.04%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.36%) N-Tier
6 2 (1.36%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.68%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.68%) Clustering
7 1 (0.68%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.68%) LIMS
7 1 (0.68%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.68%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 23 (15.65%) Linux
2 7 (4.76%) Windows
3 3 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.36%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.36%) Unix
4 2 (1.36%) VMS
4 2 (1.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (63.27%) DevOps
2 61 (41.50%) Agile
3 49 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 40 (27.21%) Infrastructure as Code
5 37 (25.17%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (23.13%) Test Automation
7 25 (17.01%) Validation
8 22 (14.97%) Microservices
9 21 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
9 21 (14.29%) Scrum
9 21 (14.29%) TDD
10 20 (13.61%) AI
10 20 (13.61%) ETL
11 19 (12.93%) Containerisation
12 18 (12.24%) Software Delivery
13 17 (11.56%) Event-Driven
13 17 (11.56%) Observability
14 16 (10.88%) Analytics
14 16 (10.88%) Platform Engineering
15 15 (10.20%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 57 (38.78%) Python
2 44 (29.93%) Java
3 29 (19.73%) SQL
4 16 (10.88%) Bash
5 11 (7.48%) C#
6 10 (6.80%) JavaScript
7 7 (4.76%) PowerShell
8 6 (4.08%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (3.40%) C++
9 5 (3.40%) Search Processing Language
10 4 (2.72%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.72%) TypeScript
11 3 (2.04%) C
11 3 (2.04%) Go
12 1 (0.68%) Bicep
12 1 (0.68%) Cypher
12 1 (0.68%) Groovy
12 1 (0.68%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.68%) VBA
Qualifications
1 29 (19.73%) Security Cleared
2 15 (10.20%) Degree
3 13 (8.84%) SC Cleared
4 10 (6.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (6.12%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.40%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.04%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.36%) CCSP
8 2 (1.36%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.68%) CCNP
9 1 (0.68%) CISSP
9 1 (0.68%) CRISC
9 1 (0.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.68%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (14.97%) QA
2 10 (6.80%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.72%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.72%) GDPR
4 4 (2.72%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.04%) NIST
6 2 (1.36%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 27 (18.37%) Docker
2 2 (1.36%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.68%) Squid
Systems Management
1 33 (22.45%) Ansible
2 24 (16.33%) Kubernetes
3 10 (6.80%) Grafana
4 9 (6.12%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.40%) Argo
6 4 (2.72%) Puppet
7 3 (2.04%) HP ALM
8 2 (1.36%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.68%) Istio
9 1 (0.68%) linkerd
9 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.68%) Packer
9 1 (0.68%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (8.84%) Google
2 11 (7.48%) Databricks
3 10 (6.80%) Splunk
4 8 (5.44%) Checkmarx
4 8 (5.44%) Microsoft
5 7 (4.76%) Dynatrace
5 7 (4.76%) IBM
6 4 (2.72%) Cribl.io
7 3 (2.04%) HP
7 3 (2.04%) NetApp
7 3 (2.04%) SAP
7 3 (2.04%) VMware
8 2 (1.36%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.36%) Oracle
8 2 (1.36%) PTC
8 2 (1.36%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.36%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.68%) PagerDuty
9 1 (0.68%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.68%) Talend