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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 49 43
Rank change year-on-year -20 -6 +29
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 6 7 17
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.65% 1.28% 2.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 1.47% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 13
10th Percentile £399 £453 £505
25th Percentile £440 £475 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -25.00% +8.33%
75th Percentile £516 £500 £763
90th Percentile £566 - £765
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -12.04%

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 765 475 553
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 83.24% 87.16% 80.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 442 313 385
10th Percentile £313 £163 £250
25th Percentile £400 £315 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £538 £638
90th Percentile £686 £639 £738
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 48 18
10th Percentile £13.45 - £13.78
25th Percentile £23.81 £12.62 £14.47
Median hourly rate £43.96 £18.44 £31.81
Median % change year-on-year +138.46% -42.05% +25.99%
75th Percentile £65.00 £22.08 £48.88
90th Percentile £75.00 £26.51 £56.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £24.34 £18.74
% change year-on-year +39.65% +29.92% -31.87%

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 7 August 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 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
1 1 (16.67%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (33.33%) AWS KMS
3 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 2 (33.33%) Route 53
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (16.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (33.33%) DynamoDB
1 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (16.67%) Data Vault
2 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) Bitbucket Server
2 2 (33.33%) DbUnit
2 2 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) jMock
2 2 (33.33%) JUnit
2 2 (33.33%) Maven
2 2 (33.33%) Mockito
2 2 (33.33%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Java Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Lead
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DataOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) REST
2 2 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 2 (33.33%) Bootstrap
2 2 (33.33%) Hibernate
2 2 (33.33%) JPA
2 2 (33.33%) Node.js
2 2 (33.33%) PowerMock
2 2 (33.33%) RESTful
2 2 (33.33%) SOAP
2 2 (33.33%) Spring
2 2 (33.33%) Spring Batch
2 2 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 2 (33.33%) Spring Cloud
2 2 (33.33%) Spring Integration
2 2 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (16.67%) JSON
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (16.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Blog
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) VMS
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
3 4 (66.67%) DevOps
4 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (33.33%) BPMN
5 2 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
5 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (33.33%) Microservices
5 2 (33.33%) Observability
5 2 (33.33%) Open Source
5 2 (33.33%) Scrum
5 2 (33.33%) TDD
6 1 (16.67%) AI
6 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
6 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
6 1 (16.67%) Kimball Methodology
6 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
6 1 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
6 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) Go
3 2 (33.33%) Java
4 1 (16.67%) Bash
4 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
2 2 (33.33%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Grafana
2 3 (50.00%) Terraform
3 2 (33.33%) Argo
3 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (33.33%) Kustomize
3 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
4 1 (16.67%) Ansible
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Atlassian
1 2 (33.33%) Jaspersoft
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) Informatica