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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 33 62
Rank change year-on-year -2 +29 -7
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 94 53 52
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 4.80% 5.44% 2.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.12% 6.18% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 35 42
10th Percentile £413 £316 £400
25th Percentile £475 £395 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -12.20% -8.89%
75th Percentile £638 £528 £586
90th Percentile £672 £568 £673
England median daily rate £515 £550 £553
% change year-on-year -6.36% -0.45% -7.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 2
10th Percentile £61.25 £62.00 £64.63
25th Percentile £63.13 £63.13 £65.94
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £71.25
Median % change year-on-year - -8.77% +9.62%
75th Percentile - - £75.94
90th Percentile - - £76.88
England median hourly rate £67.50 £63.25 £62.00
% change year-on-year +6.72% +2.02% -5.50%

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 1,537 858 1,647
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.42% 88.00% 86.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 713 466 794
10th Percentile £200 £250 £238
25th Percentile £356 £399 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +3.16% -2.81%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 424 166 526
10th Percentile £14.18 £15.17 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.54 £20.36 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.90 £54.00 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -59.44% +41.66% +34.94%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £35.55 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +9.38% -1.52% -12.00%

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 26 March 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 26 March 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 26 March 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 -5 29 £558 +1.36% 28
Bedfordshire +15 28 £600 +30.43% 4
Cambridgeshire -1 19 £570 +14.00% 25
Norfolk -23 8 £475 +5.56% 8
Suffolk -4 5 £450 +2.86% 11
Essex -8 5 £505 +58.81% 9
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 (9.57%) CMS
1 9 (9.57%) Sitecore CMS
2 3 (3.19%) Confluence
3 2 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.06%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 48 (51.06%) Azure
2 38 (40.43%) AWS
3 23 (24.47%) GCP
4 21 (22.34%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (11.70%) Power Platform
6 10 (10.64%) Copilot Studio
6 10 (10.64%) GitHub
6 10 (10.64%) Microsoft Copilot
6 10 (10.64%) Serverless
7 9 (9.57%) Azure AI
8 8 (8.51%) Azure AKS
8 8 (8.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 7 (7.45%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (4.26%) Azure Functions
10 4 (4.26%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (4.26%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (4.26%) SaaS
11 3 (3.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (3.19%) AWS Direct Connect
11 3 (3.19%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.77%) TCP/IP
2 11 (11.70%) Ethernet
3 5 (5.32%) Firewall
4 4 (4.26%) DNS
5 3 (3.19%) VPN
6 2 (2.13%) DHCP
7 1 (1.06%) BGP
7 1 (1.06%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (24.47%) NoSQL
2 11 (11.70%) Power BI
3 10 (10.64%) SQL Server
4 4 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.13%) Metadata
5 2 (2.13%) MySQL
5 2 (2.13%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.13%) Redis
5 2 (2.13%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.06%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.06%) MaxDB
6 1 (1.06%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.06%) SAP HANA
6 1 (1.06%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 14 (14.89%) Git
2 13 (13.83%) Jenkins
3 12 (12.77%) Visual Studio
4 11 (11.70%) Eclipse
4 11 (11.70%) GitLab
5 4 (4.26%) JIRA
5 4 (4.26%) JUnit
5 4 (4.26%) SonarQube
6 2 (2.13%) IntelliJ
6 2 (2.13%) JMeter
6 2 (2.13%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (1.06%) Gatling
7 1 (1.06%) LoadRunner
7 1 (1.06%) Locust
7 1 (1.06%) MLflow
7 1 (1.06%) Polyspace
7 1 (1.06%) Robot Framework
7 1 (1.06%) Selenium
7 1 (1.06%) Snyk
7 1 (1.06%) TestCafe
General
1 39 (41.49%) Social Skills
2 16 (17.02%) Finance
3 12 (12.77%) Documentation Skills
4 11 (11.70%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (10.64%) Military
5 10 (10.64%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (5.32%) Law
7 4 (4.26%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.19%) Automotive
8 3 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.06%) Retail
10 1 (1.06%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (22.34%) Developer
2 12 (12.77%) Architect
2 12 (12.77%) Software Engineer
3 9 (9.57%) Lead
3 9 (9.57%) Senior
4 8 (8.51%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 8 (8.51%) C# Software Engineer
5 7 (7.45%) Java Developer
6 6 (6.38%) Technical Architect
7 5 (5.32%) Data Engineer
7 5 (5.32%) Senior Developer
7 5 (5.32%) Technical Leader
8 4 (4.26%) .NET Developer
8 4 (4.26%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (4.26%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (4.26%) Consultant
8 4 (4.26%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (4.26%) Test Engineer
9 3 (3.19%) C# Developer
9 3 (3.19%) C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (26.60%) Node.js
2 24 (25.53%) REST
3 22 (23.40%) .NET
4 16 (17.02%) React
5 14 (14.89%) Spring
6 13 (13.83%) AngularJS
6 13 (13.83%) Spring Boot
7 12 (12.77%) PyTorch
7 12 (12.77%) scikit-learn
7 12 (12.77%) TensorFlow
8 10 (10.64%) Web Services
9 8 (8.51%) ASP.NET
9 8 (8.51%) ASP.NET Core
9 8 (8.51%) CSS
9 8 (8.51%) HTML
9 8 (8.51%) jQuery
9 8 (8.51%) RESTful
10 7 (7.45%) .NET Core
10 7 (7.45%) Kafka
11 4 (4.26%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (19.15%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.51%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (4.26%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.13%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (2.13%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.13%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.13%) N-Tier
5 2 (2.13%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.13%) PKI
5 2 (2.13%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.06%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.06%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.06%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.06%) PCIe
6 1 (1.06%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.06%) Robotics
6 1 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (20.21%) Linux
2 18 (19.15%) Windows
3 3 (3.19%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.13%) VMS
5 1 (1.06%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (1.06%) Robot Operating System
5 1 (1.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (71.28%) DevOps
2 37 (39.36%) Agile
3 31 (32.98%) Microservices
4 23 (24.47%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (22.34%) Validation
6 20 (21.28%) AI
7 16 (17.02%) Continuous Integration
7 16 (17.02%) Data Science
7 16 (17.02%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (17.02%) Machine Learning
7 16 (17.02%) TDD
7 16 (17.02%) Unit Testing
8 15 (15.96%) Event-Driven
8 15 (15.96%) Software Engineering
8 15 (15.96%) Test Automation
9 14 (14.89%) Analytics
9 14 (14.89%) Scrum
10 12 (12.77%) Business Intelligence
10 12 (12.77%) Containerisation
10 12 (12.77%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 34 (36.17%) Python
2 24 (25.53%) C#
3 21 (22.34%) SQL
4 17 (18.09%) Java
5 16 (17.02%) JavaScript
6 13 (13.83%) C++
7 4 (4.26%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.13%) C
8 2 (2.13%) Go
9 1 (1.06%) Bicep
9 1 (1.06%) MATLAB
9 1 (1.06%) SystemVerilog
9 1 (1.06%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (22.34%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.64%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.51%) Degree
4 7 (7.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (6.38%) AWS Certification
6 3 (3.19%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (3.19%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.13%) CCNP
8 1 (1.06%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.06%) CCIE
8 1 (1.06%) CCSP
8 1 (1.06%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (18.09%) QA
2 5 (5.32%) NIST
3 4 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.19%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.19%) EU AI Act
5 2 (2.13%) HIPAA
5 2 (2.13%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.06%) AUTOSAR
6 1 (1.06%) GDPR
6 1 (1.06%) ISO 26262
6 1 (1.06%) MISRA
6 1 (1.06%) MISRA C
System Software
1 21 (22.34%) Docker
2 2 (2.13%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (24.47%) Kubernetes
2 9 (9.57%) Terraform
3 4 (4.26%) Grafana
4 3 (3.19%) Consul
4 3 (3.19%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.13%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.06%) Ansible
6 1 (1.06%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 30 (31.91%) Microsoft
2 17 (18.09%) Google
3 9 (9.57%) Foundry
3 9 (9.57%) OpenAI
3 9 (9.57%) Sitecore
4 4 (4.26%) Checkmarx
4 4 (4.26%) Salesforce
4 4 (4.26%) SAP
4 4 (4.26%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.19%) MuleSoft
5 3 (3.19%) Splunk
6 2 (2.13%) Citrix
6 2 (2.13%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.13%) New Relic
6 2 (2.13%) Pega
6 2 (2.13%) Talend
6 2 (2.13%) VMware
6 2 (2.13%) Wyse
7 1 (1.06%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.06%) QNX