CI/CD Contract Job Trends in Ipswich

CI/CD
Suffolk > Ipswich

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Ipswich requiring CI/CD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 1 9 19
Rank change year-on-year +8 +10 +1
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 8 8 4
As % of all contract jobs in Ipswich 25.00% 17.02% 4.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 29.63% 20.00% 4.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 3
10th Percentile £263 - -
25th Percentile £300 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £310 £300 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -33.33% -30.77%
75th Percentile £436 £317 £519
90th Percentile £500 £348 £545
Suffolk median daily rate £310 £300 £525
% change year-on-year +3.33% -42.86% -19.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Ipswich

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 Ipswich.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27 40 89
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Ipswich 84.38% 85.11% 90.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 20 66
10th Percentile £196 £300 £256
25th Percentile £303 £361 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £413 £488
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% -18.75%
75th Percentile £515 £538 £700
90th Percentile £550 £565 £745
Suffolk median daily rate £370 £400 £500
% change year-on-year -7.50% -20.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 1
10th Percentile £15.84 - -
25th Percentile £16.36 £14.05 £13.50
Median hourly rate £17.46 £14.60 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.59% +4.29% -
75th Percentile £18.32 £15.15 £14.50
90th Percentile £18.68 - -
Suffolk median hourly rate £18.92 £14.60 £14.00
% change year-on-year +29.59% +4.29% -

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CI/CD relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Ipswich.

CI/CD job vacancy trend in Ipswich

CI/CD
Daily Rate Trend in Ipswich

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Ipswich citing CI/CD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Ipswich citing CI/CD

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in Ipswich

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in Ipswich over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in Ipswich

CI/CD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ipswich 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) BGP
1 1 (12.50%) MPLS
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Robot Framework
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Network Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Python Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Backend Developer
4 1 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) C# Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (12.50%) IP Network Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) SQL Developer
4 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Test Automation Consultant
4 1 (12.50%) Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) .NET Core
2 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
2 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
2 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
2 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (12.50%) CSS
2 1 (12.50%) CSS3
2 1 (12.50%) Entity Framework
2 1 (12.50%) Express.js
2 1 (12.50%) gRPC
2 1 (12.50%) HTML5
2 1 (12.50%) Jinja
2 1 (12.50%) jQuery
2 1 (12.50%) JSON
2 1 (12.50%) MediatR
2 1 (12.50%) NgRx
2 1 (12.50%) RxJS
2 1 (12.50%) WCF
2 1 (12.50%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Test Automation
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Change Control
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (12.50%) CQRS
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (12.50%) Microservices
3 1 (12.50%) Network Design
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (12.50%) Scrum
3 1 (12.50%) SDLC
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) C#
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco
1 1 (12.50%) Juniper
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft