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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 53 36
Rank change year-on-year -14 -17 +36
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 3 20 33
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.34% 3.12% 4.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 3.40% 5.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 15 25
10th Percentile - £471 £425
25th Percentile - £479 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile - £525 £713
90th Percentile - £892 £765
West Midlands median daily rate £459 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -8.20% - -9.09%

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 720 588 607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 81.82% 91.59% 83.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 394 386 394
10th Percentile £300 £250 £200
25th Percentile £400 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £638
90th Percentile £688 £649 £738
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £517
% change year-on-year -5.00% -3.29% +3.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 54 10
10th Percentile £13.46 £12.62 £19.65
25th Percentile £19.51 £12.78 £22.33
Median hourly rate £43.96 £18.87 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year +132.96% -59.42% +55.00%
75th Percentile £55.00 £22.08 £54.56
90th Percentile £75.00 £26.51 £57.53
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.00 £23.05 £23.89
% change year-on-year -0.22% -3.52% -13.13%

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
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 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Blog
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) VMS
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Go
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Argo
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Kustomize
1 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft