Continuous Integration Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Continuous Integration
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Continuous Integration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 35 67
Rank change year-on-year -17 +32 +12
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 20 33 3
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 3.07% 4.63% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.36% 5.55% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 25 3
10th Percentile £471 £425 £530
25th Percentile £479 £450 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £525 £713 £663
90th Percentile £892 £765 £715
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £675
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +28.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Continuous Integration 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 596 595 663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 91.55% 83.45% 82.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 387 388 435
10th Percentile £250 £200 £275
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +3.20% -0.62%
75th Percentile £571 £638 £608
90th Percentile £643 £750 £725
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 10 22
10th Percentile £12.62 £19.65 £14.64
25th Percentile £13.25 £21.44 £25.31
Median hourly rate £18.87 £38.06 £30.52
Median % change year-on-year -50.42% +24.71% +60.63%
75th Percentile £24.64 £54.56 £67.50
90th Percentile £28.95 £57.53 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.34 £23.89 £27.50
% change year-on-year +1.88% -13.13% +55.19%

Continuous Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Continuous Integration job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Continuous Integration
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

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

Continuous Integration
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Integration in Birmingham over the 6 months to 22 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Integration in Birmingham

Continuous Integration
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 17 (85.00%) AWS
2 12 (60.00%) GCP
3 8 (40.00%) AWS KMS
3 8 (40.00%) Serverless
4 5 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 5 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (25.00%) Route 53
5 4 (20.00%) Akamai
6 3 (15.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (10.00%) Azure
7 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) Firewall
1 4 (20.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (40.00%) NoSQL
3 5 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (25.00%) DynamoDB
4 1 (5.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 13 (65.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (40.00%) GitLab
3 6 (30.00%) Liquibase
4 5 (25.00%) Git
4 5 (25.00%) JUnit
4 5 (25.00%) Maven
4 5 (25.00%) SonarQube
5 3 (15.00%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (15.00%) DbUnit
5 3 (15.00%) jMock
5 3 (15.00%) Mockito
General
1 12 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (45.00%) Finance
3 8 (40.00%) Financial Institution
4 7 (35.00%) Banking
5 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) GCP Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Developer
3 5 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 5 (25.00%) Software Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) GCP Software Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) AWS Software Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Senior
5 3 (15.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Senior DevOps
5 3 (15.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) AWS Developer
6 2 (10.00%) Lead
6 2 (10.00%) Lead Developer
6 2 (10.00%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (65.00%) REST
1 13 (65.00%) RESTful
2 8 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
3 5 (25.00%) Hibernate
3 5 (25.00%) JPA
3 5 (25.00%) SOAP
3 5 (25.00%) Spring
3 5 (25.00%) Spring Batch
3 5 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 5 (25.00%) Spring Integration
3 5 (25.00%) Web Services
4 3 (15.00%) AngularJS
4 3 (15.00%) Bootstrap
4 3 (15.00%) PowerMock
4 3 (15.00%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (5.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 11 (55.00%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (40.00%) Public Cloud
3 6 (30.00%) Cloud Native
4 4 (20.00%) Security Posture
5 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 11 (55.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 14 (70.00%) Agile
3 13 (65.00%) Microservices
4 11 (55.00%) Containerisation
4 11 (55.00%) DevOps
5 8 (40.00%) Computer Science
5 8 (40.00%) Cryptography
5 8 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (40.00%) High Availability
5 8 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (40.00%) Non-Functional Testing
5 8 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 7 (35.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 7 (35.00%) Data Encryption
7 6 (30.00%) Scrum
7 6 (30.00%) Software Engineering
7 6 (30.00%) Test Automation
8 5 (25.00%) Change Management
8 5 (25.00%) Data Security
8 5 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) SQL
2 8 (40.00%) Go
2 8 (40.00%) Python
3 5 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (40.00%) Degree
1 8 (40.00%) Master's Degree
2 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (55.00%) Docker
2 3 (15.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 12 (60.00%) Grafana
2 11 (55.00%) Prometheus
3 8 (40.00%) Ansible
3 8 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 8 (40.00%) Terraform
4 4 (20.00%) CSIRT
5 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (65.00%) Splunk
2 5 (25.00%) Atlassian
3 4 (20.00%) F5
3 4 (20.00%) Google
4 3 (15.00%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft