CI/CD Contract Job Trends in Suffolk

CI/CD
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Suffolk 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 8 16 19
Rank change year-on-year +8 +3 +4
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 8 10 6
As % of all contract jobs in Suffolk 15.38% 9.26% 4.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.39% 13.51% 5.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 5
10th Percentile £263 - -
25th Percentile £300 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £310 £300 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -42.86% -19.23%
75th Percentile £436 £317 £538
90th Percentile £500 £348 £553
East of England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -6.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46 74 102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 88.46% 68.52% 82.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 31 78
10th Percentile £212 £205 £243
25th Percentile £240 £300 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £700
90th Percentile £550 £638 £745
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 1
10th Percentile £13.76 - -
25th Percentile £15.50 £14.05 £13.50
Median hourly rate £18.92 £14.60 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.59% +4.29% -
75th Percentile £25.15 £51.91 £14.50
90th Percentile - £52.27 -
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £29.17 £20.00
% change year-on-year -28.01% +45.85% -4.76%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

CI/CD job vacancy trend in Suffolk

CI/CD
Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

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

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

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in Suffolk

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

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in Suffolk

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

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 Suffolk region over the 6 months to 15 October 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
Ipswich +8 8 £310 +3.33% 9
CI/CD
East of England

CI/CD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Suffolk 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%) HTML
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
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