Continuous Delivery Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Continuous Delivery
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Continuous Delivery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 60 60
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 -4
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 9 8 9
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.24% 1.16% 1.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 1.33% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 4
10th Percentile - £372 £504
25th Percentile £525 £385 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £709 £416 £600
Median % change year-on-year +70.31% -30.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £892 £456 £688
90th Percentile - £475 -
West Midlands median daily rate £563 £550 £675
% change year-on-year +2.27% -18.52% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Continuous Delivery 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 648 602 611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 89.26% 87.25% 83.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 418 407 401
10th Percentile £224 £198 £275
25th Percentile £370 £381 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.34% +7.89% -
75th Percentile £575 £638 £600
90th Percentile £638 £738 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 16 18
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.70 £13.03
25th Percentile £13.50 £21.63 £14.78
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.23 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.57% -49.63% +254.30%
75th Percentile £20.56 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £25.00 £56.25 £67.88
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.50 £23.89 £23.00
% change year-on-year -14.19% +3.87% +29.94%

Continuous Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Continuous Delivery relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Continuous Delivery job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Continuous Delivery
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Continuous Delivery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Continuous Delivery

Continuous Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Delivery in Birmingham over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Delivery in Birmingham

Continuous Delivery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (88.89%) GCP
2 8 (88.89%) Serverless
3 2 (22.22%) AWS KMS
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (11.11%) Azure
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (88.89%) NoSQL
2 4 (44.44%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (88.89%) GitLab
3 6 (66.67%) Liquibase
4 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 8 (88.89%) Banking
1 8 (88.89%) Finance
1 8 (88.89%) Financial Institution
1 8 (88.89%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (11.11%) Military
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Cloud Engineer
2 6 (66.67%) Cloud Software Engineer
2 6 (66.67%) GCP Engineer
2 6 (66.67%) Software Engineer
3 5 (55.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (44.44%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (44.44%) AWS Software Engineer
4 4 (44.44%) GCP Software Engineer
4 4 (44.44%) Senior
4 4 (44.44%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 4 (44.44%) Senior DevOps
4 4 (44.44%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 4 (44.44%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (22.22%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (22.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (22.22%) GCP DevOps
5 2 (22.22%) GCP DevOps Engineer
5 2 (22.22%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (11.11%) Lead DevOps
6 1 (11.11%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (88.89%) Elastic Stack
1 8 (88.89%) REST
1 8 (88.89%) RESTful
2 1 (11.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (88.89%) Distributed Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Public Cloud
2 6 (66.67%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
1 9 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (88.89%) Agile
2 8 (88.89%) Computer Science
2 8 (88.89%) Continuous Integration
2 8 (88.89%) Cryptography
2 8 (88.89%) Data Encryption
2 8 (88.89%) High Availability
2 8 (88.89%) Microservices
2 8 (88.89%) Non-Functional Testing
2 8 (88.89%) Root Cause Analysis
3 7 (77.78%) Infrastructure Automation
4 6 (66.67%) Change Management
4 6 (66.67%) Cost Optimisation
4 6 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (66.67%) Data Security
4 6 (66.67%) Software Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Go
1 9 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (44.44%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (88.89%) Degree
1 8 (88.89%) Master's Degree
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Certification
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Certified Developer
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 9 (100.00%) Terraform
2 8 (88.89%) Ansible
2 8 (88.89%) Grafana
2 8 (88.89%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Splunk
2 4 (44.44%) Google