CI/CD Contracts in the East of England

CI/CD
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring CI/CD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CI/CD over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 66 50
Rank change year-on-year +34 -16 -11
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 56 42 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 5.79% 2.17% 4.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.40% 2.58% 4.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 23 42
10th Percentile £316 £414 £401
25th Percentile £400 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £534 £528
Median % change year-on-year -12.92% +1.23% -12.08%
75th Percentile £528 £574 £600
90th Percentile £575 £600 £650
England median daily rate £520 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -5.45% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 5
10th Percentile £62.38 £51.25 £67.50
25th Percentile £64.06 £62.13 £71.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - -10.34% +10.25%
75th Percentile - £65.75 £76.00
90th Percentile - £67.88 £78.10
England median hourly rate £56.75 £67.50 £65.61
% change year-on-year -15.93% +2.89% +0.93%

All Process and 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 875 1,626 1,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 90.39% 84.16% 87.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 674 1,003
10th Percentile £225 £201 £208
25th Percentile £400 £318 £343
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £599 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £673 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 616 325
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.49 £15.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £36.75 £40.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.13% +81.82% +41.94%
75th Percentile £72.50 £62.81 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.85 £75.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £28.53 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.93% - +50.00%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing CI/CD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in the East of England

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in the East of England

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 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in the East of England

CI/CD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend 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 31 May 2025. 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
Cambridgeshire +30 22 £486 -11.59% 64
Hertfordshire +28 14 £450 -2.70% 41
Essex +3 6 £321 -39.82% 20
Suffolk -8 5 £401 -38.27% 5
Norfolk - 5 £450 - 3
Bedfordshire -5 4 £500 -6.10% 10
CI/CD
England

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (10.71%) Apache
2 4 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.57%) Anypoint
3 2 (3.57%) Confluence
3 2 (3.57%) IIS
3 2 (3.57%) Mule
3 2 (3.57%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.79%) CMS
4 1 (1.79%) Headless CMS
4 1 (1.79%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Maximo
2 1 (1.79%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 16 (28.57%) AWS
2 11 (19.64%) GitHub
3 7 (12.50%) Azure
3 7 (12.50%) GCP
4 6 (10.71%) SaaS
5 5 (8.93%) Power Platform
6 4 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (5.36%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (5.36%) Amazon S3
7 3 (5.36%) dbt
7 3 (5.36%) Nutanix
7 3 (5.36%) Vertex AI
8 2 (3.57%) AWS Direct Connect
8 2 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.79%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.79%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.29%) Firewall
2 6 (10.71%) Network Security
3 5 (8.93%) Ethernet
3 5 (8.93%) TCP/IP
4 4 (7.14%) Fibre Channel
4 4 (7.14%) VSAN
5 3 (5.36%) BGP
5 3 (5.36%) OSPF
5 3 (5.36%) VPN
6 2 (3.57%) DNS
6 2 (3.57%) SD-WAN
6 2 (3.57%) VLAN
6 2 (3.57%) WAN
7 1 (1.79%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (1.79%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (1.79%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (1.79%) LAN
7 1 (1.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 5 (8.93%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (8.93%) Power BI
2 5 (8.93%) SQL Server
3 4 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (7.14%) BigQuery
3 4 (7.14%) Tableau
4 3 (5.36%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (5.36%) Looker
5 2 (3.57%) DB2
6 1 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.79%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.79%) Data Mart
6 1 (1.79%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 10 (17.86%) Git
2 8 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 7 (12.50%) GitLab
4 6 (10.71%) Visual Studio
5 5 (8.93%) Eclipse
5 5 (8.93%) JIRA
6 3 (5.36%) Robot Framework
7 2 (3.57%) Selenium
7 2 (3.57%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.79%) Appium
8 1 (1.79%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.79%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.79%) Gatling
8 1 (1.79%) JMeter
8 1 (1.79%) LoadRunner
8 1 (1.79%) Postman
8 1 (1.79%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.79%) TestNG
8 1 (1.79%) WebDriver
General
1 18 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (8.93%) Military
3 5 (8.93%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (7.14%) Finance
5 2 (3.57%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.79%) Law
6 1 (1.79%) Marketing
6 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (19.64%) Developer
2 8 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (10.71%) Senior
4 5 (8.93%) C# Software Engineer
4 5 (8.93%) Data Engineer
4 5 (8.93%) Software Engineer
5 4 (7.14%) Administrator
5 4 (7.14%) Architect
5 4 (7.14%) Consultant
5 4 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (7.14%) Network Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Systems Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) VMware Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) GCP Data Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) GCP Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Maximo Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.07%) Web Services
2 7 (12.50%) CSS
2 7 (12.50%) Node.js
2 7 (12.50%) React
3 5 (8.93%) Alpine.js
3 5 (8.93%) AngularJS
3 5 (8.93%) Kafka
3 5 (8.93%) Laravel
3 5 (8.93%) SOAP
3 5 (8.93%) Tailwind CSS
4 4 (7.14%) PySpark
4 4 (7.14%) REST
5 3 (5.36%) .NET
5 3 (5.36%) NumPy
5 3 (5.36%) Pandas
6 2 (3.57%) ASP.NET
6 2 (3.57%) HTML
6 2 (3.57%) OAuth
6 2 (3.57%) RESTful
6 2 (3.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.71%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.14%) Clustering
2 4 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (7.14%) Replication
3 2 (3.57%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.57%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.79%) Culture of Ownership
4 1 (1.79%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.79%) FMCG
4 1 (1.79%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.79%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.79%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 11 (19.64%) Windows
2 7 (12.50%) Linux
3 6 (10.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (46.43%) Agile
2 22 (39.29%) DevOps
3 21 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (19.64%) Software Engineering
5 10 (17.86%) Visualisation
6 8 (14.29%) Analytics
6 8 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (14.29%) Migration
6 8 (14.29%) Test Automation
7 7 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (10.71%) Continuous Delivery
8 6 (10.71%) Data Science
8 6 (10.71%) Data Visualisation
8 6 (10.71%) ITSM
8 6 (10.71%) Microservices
8 6 (10.71%) TDD
8 6 (10.71%) Validation
9 5 (8.93%) Data Engineering
9 5 (8.93%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 20 (35.71%) Python
2 13 (23.21%) SQL
3 11 (19.64%) JavaScript
4 8 (14.29%) C#
4 8 (14.29%) Java
5 6 (10.71%) Shell Script
6 5 (8.93%) C++
6 5 (8.93%) PHP
6 5 (8.93%) PowerShell
7 3 (5.36%) Bash
8 2 (3.57%) DataWeave
9 1 (1.79%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.79%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (16.07%) Security Cleared
2 7 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.14%) DV Cleared
4 3 (5.36%) DBS Check
4 3 (5.36%) VCAP
4 3 (5.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (3.57%) Degree
6 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.79%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.50%) QA
2 4 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 4 (7.14%) GDPR
3 2 (3.57%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.79%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (16.07%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (14.29%) Docker
2 8 (14.29%) VMware NSX
3 5 (8.93%) Active Directory
3 5 (8.93%) Hyper-V
4 4 (7.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (39.29%) Terraform
2 14 (25.00%) Ansible
3 8 (14.29%) Kubernetes
4 4 (7.14%) Failover Clustering
4 4 (7.14%) Podman
4 4 (7.14%) PowerCLI
4 4 (7.14%) vCenter Server
4 4 (7.14%) VxRail
5 3 (5.36%) Consul
5 3 (5.36%) Prometheus
5 3 (5.36%) Puppet
6 2 (3.57%) CloudHub
6 2 (3.57%) Progress Chef
6 2 (3.57%) Salt
7 1 (1.79%) Grafana
7 1 (1.79%) Nagios
Vendors
1 10 (17.86%) VMware
2 9 (16.07%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.14%) Dell
3 4 (7.14%) LogicMonitor
3 4 (7.14%) ServiceNow
4 3 (5.36%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.57%) Fortinet
5 2 (3.57%) Google
5 2 (3.57%) Huawei
5 2 (3.57%) IBM
5 2 (3.57%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.79%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.79%) Databricks
6 1 (1.79%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.79%) F5
6 1 (1.79%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.79%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.79%) SnapLogic
6 1 (1.79%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.79%) Spotify