CI/CD Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

CI/CD
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring CI/CD skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 19 52
Rank change year-on-year -5 +33 -10
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 45 54 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 7.54% 7.49% 2.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.52% 9.08% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 42 11
10th Percentile £404 £383 £388
25th Percentile £425 £426 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.18% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £629 £675 £631
90th Percentile £788 £761 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £528 £556 £540
% change year-on-year -5.17% +3.01% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £36.00 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £36.00 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year -48.57% - -

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 528 595 728
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 88.44% 82.52% 83.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 400 474
10th Percentile £197 £200 £265
25th Percentile £363 £388 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £560 £638 £606
90th Percentile £639 £750 £729
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -3.66% +3.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 10 28
10th Percentile - £21.18 £13.34
25th Percentile £12.62 £29.30 £15.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £50.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.26% +81.82% +52.78%
75th Percentile £22.08 £55.19 £49.06
90th Percentile £26.51 £57.53 £67.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.34 £22.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +8.18% -18.18% +59.42%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

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

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in Birmingham over the 6 months to 13 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in Birmingham

CI/CD
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing CI/CD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing CI/CD

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 11 (24.44%) Confluence
2 10 (22.22%) nginx
3 5 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (11.11%) Apache Spark
4 3 (6.67%) Apache
5 1 (2.22%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (20.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 25 (55.56%) AWS
2 16 (35.56%) Amazon S3
3 14 (31.11%) Azure
4 13 (28.89%) Amazon EC2
5 12 (26.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 12 (26.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 11 (24.44%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (24.44%) Amazon ELB
7 10 (22.22%) GCP
7 10 (22.22%) GitHub
7 10 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (20.00%) AWS KMS
8 9 (20.00%) Route 53
9 7 (15.56%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (15.56%) Serverless
10 3 (6.67%) Akamai
10 3 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (4.44%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (31.11%) Firewall
2 12 (26.67%) DNS
3 11 (24.44%) SSH
4 9 (20.00%) FTP
4 9 (20.00%) HTTP
4 9 (20.00%) IMAP
4 9 (20.00%) OpenLDAP
4 9 (20.00%) SMTP
5 4 (8.89%) TCP/IP
6 3 (6.67%) Network Security
6 3 (6.67%) SSL
6 3 (6.67%) Wireshark
7 2 (4.44%) VPN
8 1 (2.22%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (28.89%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 9 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (13.33%) NoSQL
4 5 (11.11%) Hadoop
5 3 (6.67%) Apache Hive
5 3 (6.67%) Big Data
5 3 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (6.67%) HBase
6 2 (4.44%) Delta Lake
6 2 (4.44%) Parquet
6 2 (4.44%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.22%) MySQL
7 1 (2.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (53.33%) Jenkins
2 17 (37.78%) Git
3 13 (28.89%) JIRA
4 9 (20.00%) Vagrant
5 8 (17.78%) GitLab
6 4 (8.89%) Liquibase
6 4 (8.89%) SonarQube
7 3 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (4.44%) Jaeger
8 2 (4.44%) JMeter
8 2 (4.44%) MLflow
8 2 (4.44%) Poetry
8 2 (4.44%) Postman
8 2 (4.44%) PyCharm
8 2 (4.44%) REST Assured
8 2 (4.44%) Selenium
8 2 (4.44%) TestNG
8 2 (4.44%) Travis CI
8 2 (4.44%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (2.22%) Snyk
General
1 25 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 12 (26.67%) Public Sector
3 10 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
4 7 (15.56%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (11.11%) Finance
6 2 (4.44%) Banking
6 2 (4.44%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.22%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (2.22%) Military
7 1 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (35.56%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (24.44%) AWS Engineer
3 10 (22.22%) AWS DevOps
3 10 (22.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 9 (20.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 9 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 9 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
5 8 (17.78%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 7 (15.56%) Developer
6 7 (15.56%) Senior
7 4 (8.89%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (8.89%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 4 (8.89%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (8.89%) Software Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) Data Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) Hadoop Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) Tester
9 2 (4.44%) Automation Engineer
9 2 (4.44%) Project Manager
9 2 (4.44%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (20.00%) LDAP
2 8 (17.78%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (13.33%) REST
3 6 (13.33%) RESTful
4 3 (6.67%) Flask
4 3 (6.67%) NumPy
4 3 (6.67%) Pandas
4 3 (6.67%) Spark Streaming
5 2 (4.44%) Apache Avro
5 2 (4.44%) Kafka
5 2 (4.44%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (4.44%) React
6 1 (2.22%) Laravel
6 1 (2.22%) Mustache
6 1 (2.22%) Node.js
6 1 (2.22%) OAuth2
6 1 (2.22%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.22%) Tailwind CSS
6 1 (2.22%) Vue
6 1 (2.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.00%) Replication
2 5 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 4 (8.89%) Data Centre
3 4 (8.89%) Public Cloud
4 3 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (6.67%) Security Posture
5 2 (4.44%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (4.44%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.22%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.22%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 23 (51.11%) Linux
2 9 (20.00%) Amazon Linux
2 9 (20.00%) Ubuntu
2 9 (20.00%) VMS
2 9 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (64.44%) DevOps
2 14 (31.11%) Agile
3 12 (26.67%) Cloud Security
3 12 (26.67%) Configuration Management
4 11 (24.44%) Change Management
4 11 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (22.22%) Containerisation
6 9 (20.00%) Patch Management
6 9 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
6 9 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
7 7 (15.56%) Computer Science
7 7 (15.56%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (15.56%) DevSecOps
7 7 (15.56%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (13.33%) Data Engineering
8 6 (13.33%) Microservices
8 6 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
8 6 (13.33%) Security Testing
8 6 (13.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 30 (66.67%) Python
2 15 (33.33%) SQL
3 12 (26.67%) Groovy
4 10 (22.22%) Bash
5 9 (20.00%) PowerShell
6 6 (13.33%) Go
7 5 (11.11%) Shell Script
8 2 (4.44%) Java
8 2 (4.44%) JavaScript
9 1 (2.22%) C#
9 1 (2.22%) PHP
9 1 (2.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (35.56%) Degree
2 13 (28.89%) Security Cleared
3 12 (26.67%) SC Cleared
4 10 (22.22%) AWS Certification
5 9 (20.00%) Azure Certification
6 7 (15.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (6.67%) CEH
7 3 (6.67%) CISSP
8 2 (4.44%) ISTQB
8 2 (4.44%) Master's Degree
9 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (2.22%) CISM
9 1 (2.22%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.89%) QA
2 1 (2.22%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.22%) NIST
2 1 (2.22%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (57.78%) Docker
2 9 (20.00%) DFS Replication
2 9 (20.00%) Dovecot
2 9 (20.00%) Postfix
2 9 (20.00%) Squid
3 3 (6.67%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 20 (44.44%) Terraform
2 16 (35.56%) Grafana
3 15 (33.33%) Prometheus
4 13 (28.89%) Ansible
5 12 (26.67%) Kubernetes
6 9 (20.00%) Nessus
6 9 (20.00%) Proxmox
7 3 (6.67%) Argo
7 3 (6.67%) CSIRT
7 3 (6.67%) Hadoop YARN
7 3 (6.67%) Kibana
7 3 (6.67%) Puppet
8 2 (4.44%) Istio
9 1 (2.22%) logstash
9 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (2.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 9 (20.00%) Jaspersoft
1 9 (20.00%) ServiceNow
1 9 (20.00%) Splunk
2 5 (11.11%) F5
2 5 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.67%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.44%) CheckPoint
4 2 (4.44%) Cloudera
4 2 (4.44%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.22%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.22%) Google
5 1 (2.22%) IBM
5 1 (2.22%) Pega
5 1 (2.22%) VMware