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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 47 63
Rank change year-on-year -25 +16 +8
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 7 8 1
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.75% 1.40% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 1.61% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 0
10th Percentile £383 £453 -
25th Percentile £400 £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 -
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% - -
75th Percentile £488 £500 -
90th Percentile £555 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £464 £475 £358
% change year-on-year -2.32% +32.68% -33.70%

All Process & 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 781 498 604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 84.16% 87.22% 79.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 473 333 414
10th Percentile £313 £163 £231
25th Percentile £400 £363 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £474 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.49% -0.21% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £592
90th Percentile £685 £689 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £481 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 45 28
10th Percentile £18.04 - £13.23
25th Percentile £24.75 £12.62 £15.16
Median hourly rate £43.96 £18.87 £25.33
Median % change year-on-year +132.96% -25.49% +5.52%
75th Percentile £75.00 £22.08 £41.75
90th Percentile - £26.51 £56.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £22.05 £19.00
% change year-on-year +54.15% +16.05% -24.00%

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 17 July 2026.

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
1 1 (14.29%) SAS
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon S3
3 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (28.57%) AWS KMS
4 2 (28.57%) GCP
4 2 (28.57%) Route 53
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (14.29%) GitHub
5 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (28.57%) DynamoDB
1 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 1 (14.29%) Data Vault
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
2 3 (42.86%) JUnit
3 2 (28.57%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (28.57%) DbUnit
3 2 (28.57%) Git
3 2 (28.57%) jMock
3 2 (28.57%) Maven
3 2 (28.57%) Mockito
3 2 (28.57%) SonarQube
4 1 (14.29%) Artifactory
4 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
4 1 (14.29%) JIRA
4 1 (14.29%) JMeter
4 1 (14.29%) LoadRunner
4 1 (14.29%) Postman
4 1 (14.29%) REST Assured
4 1 (14.29%) Selenium
4 1 (14.29%) Serenity BDD
4 1 (14.29%) TeamCity
4 1 (14.29%) TestNG
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Java Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Lead
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared Java Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Automation Tester
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) DataOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) REST
2 2 (28.57%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (28.57%) AngularJS
2 2 (28.57%) Bootstrap
2 2 (28.57%) Hibernate
2 2 (28.57%) JPA
2 2 (28.57%) Node.js
2 2 (28.57%) PowerMock
2 2 (28.57%) RESTful
2 2 (28.57%) SOAP
2 2 (28.57%) Spring
2 2 (28.57%) Spring Batch
2 2 (28.57%) Spring Boot
2 2 (28.57%) Spring Cloud
2 2 (28.57%) Spring Integration
2 2 (28.57%) Web Services
3 1 (14.29%) JDBC
3 1 (14.29%) JSON
3 1 (14.29%) ODBC
3 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Blog
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) VMS
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (85.71%) Agile
3 5 (71.43%) DevOps
4 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
4 3 (42.86%) TDD
5 2 (28.57%) BPMN
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (28.57%) Microservices
5 2 (28.57%) Observability
5 2 (28.57%) Open Source
5 2 (28.57%) Scrum
6 1 (14.29%) ATDD
6 1 (14.29%) BDD
6 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
6 1 (14.29%) Kimball Methodology
6 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
6 1 (14.29%) Non-Functional Testing
6 1 (14.29%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) Go
4 1 (14.29%) Bash
4 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
2 2 (28.57%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Grafana
2 3 (42.86%) Terraform
3 2 (28.57%) Argo
3 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 2 (28.57%) Kustomize
3 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
4 1 (14.29%) Ansible
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Atlassian
1 2 (28.57%) Jaspersoft
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Citrix
2 1 (14.29%) Databricks
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Informatica
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow