CI/CD Contracts in Birmingham

CI/CD
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 52 51
Rank change year-on-year +31 -1 +3
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 30 15 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 5.75% 1.94% 2.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.64% 2.33% 3.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 10 16
10th Percentile £400 £335 £444
25th Percentile £413 £384 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £613
Median % change year-on-year - -26.53% +16.67%
75th Percentile £488 £556 £653
90th Percentile £541 £582 £680
West Midlands median daily rate £493 £475 £540
% change year-on-year +3.79% -12.04% +11.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £56.25 -
West Midlands median hourly rate - £56.25 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 452 644 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.59% 83.31% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 423 537
10th Percentile £163 £240 £263
25th Percentile £375 £368 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -9.76% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 44 27
10th Percentile - £13.20 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.38 £27.25 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.57% +81.67% -14.19%
75th Percentile £27.69 £48.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.68 £56.25 £71.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in Birmingham

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in Birmingham

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in Birmingham

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 2 (6.67%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) Apache
2 1 (3.33%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (53.33%) Azure
2 10 (33.33%) AWS
3 7 (23.33%) GCP
4 6 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (20.00%) Power Platform
5 4 (13.33%) Amazon S3
5 4 (13.33%) GitHub
5 4 (13.33%) Power Automate
5 4 (13.33%) PowerApps
6 3 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (10.00%) Serverless
7 2 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (6.67%) Azure AKS
7 2 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (6.67%) Snowflake
8 1 (3.33%) Cloud Composer
8 1 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) Network Security
2 1 (3.33%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (3.33%) DSL
2 1 (3.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 4 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (13.33%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (6.67%) Big Data
3 2 (6.67%) DynamoDB
3 2 (6.67%) Power BI
3 2 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.33%) BigQuery
4 1 (3.33%) Data Mining
4 1 (3.33%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.33%) MySQL
4 1 (3.33%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) JIRA
2 3 (10.00%) Git
2 3 (10.00%) GitLab
3 2 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.67%) JMeter
3 2 (6.67%) Postman
3 2 (6.67%) REST Assured
3 2 (6.67%) Selenium
3 2 (6.67%) TestNG
3 2 (6.67%) Travis CI
4 1 (3.33%) Snyk
4 1 (3.33%) SonarQube
General
1 14 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 9 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.00%) Finance
4 2 (6.67%) Back Office
4 2 (6.67%) Banking
4 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (23.33%) Architect
2 5 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Junior
3 4 (13.33%) Junior Architect
3 4 (13.33%) Junior Solutions Architect
3 4 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Developer
4 2 (6.67%) Senior
4 2 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Snowflake Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Software Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Tester
5 1 (3.33%) Elasticsearch Consultant
5 1 (3.33%) GCP Data Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) Kafka
1 4 (13.33%) Middleware
2 3 (10.00%) REST
3 2 (6.67%) .NET
3 2 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (6.67%) Node.js
3 2 (6.67%) YAML
4 1 (3.33%) ADO
4 1 (3.33%) GraphQL
4 1 (3.33%) NumPy
4 1 (3.33%) Pandas
4 1 (3.33%) RESTful
4 1 (3.33%) SOAP
4 1 (3.33%) Spring
4 1 (3.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.67%) Data Structures
1 2 (6.67%) Replication
2 1 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.33%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (63.33%) DevOps
2 12 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (36.67%) Agile
4 6 (20.00%) Analytics
4 6 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 6 (20.00%) Migration
5 5 (16.67%) Data Integration
5 5 (16.67%) ETL
6 4 (13.33%) B2B
6 4 (13.33%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (13.33%) Data Engineering
6 4 (13.33%) Data Extraction
6 4 (13.33%) Data Governance
6 4 (13.33%) ERP
6 4 (13.33%) Integration Patterns
6 4 (13.33%) Interface Catalogue
6 4 (13.33%) Procure-to-Pay
6 4 (13.33%) Scrum
6 4 (13.33%) TOGAF
7 3 (10.00%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 9 (30.00%) Python
2 7 (23.33%) SQL
3 3 (10.00%) Bash
4 2 (6.67%) C#
4 2 (6.67%) Java
4 2 (6.67%) Scala
4 2 (6.67%) T-SQL
5 1 (3.33%) ANSI SQL
5 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.33%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) TOGAF Certification
2 3 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (10.00%) CEH
2 3 (10.00%) CISSP
2 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.67%) Degree
3 2 (6.67%) ISTQB
4 1 (3.33%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.33%) GDPR
2 1 (3.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Docker
2 2 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (30.00%) Terraform
2 7 (23.33%) Kubernetes
3 4 (13.33%) Kibana
4 3 (10.00%) logstash
5 2 (6.67%) Ansible
5 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (6.67%) QRadar
6 1 (3.33%) Argo
6 1 (3.33%) FortiGate
6 1 (3.33%) Grafana
6 1 (3.33%) Prometheus
6 1 (3.33%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 9 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.67%) Splunk
2 2 (6.67%) Talend
3 1 (3.33%) Cisco
3 1 (3.33%) Databricks
3 1 (3.33%) F5
3 1 (3.33%) Google
3 1 (3.33%) IBM
3 1 (3.33%) Imperva
3 1 (3.33%) Red Hat