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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 34 72
Rank change year-on-year -20 +38 +7
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 20 34 3
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 2.85% 4.75% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.15% 5.59% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 25 3
10th Percentile £475 £425 £510
25th Percentile £492 £450 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £709 £713 £650
90th Percentile £892 £765 £710
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £688
% change year-on-year -4.76% -23.64% +27.79%

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 635 608 657
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 90.58% 84.92% 83.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 413 397 439
10th Percentile £235 £194 £270
25th Percentile £370 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £638 £600
90th Percentile £638 £743 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.67% +4.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 14 19
10th Percentile £12.62 £16.44 £13.81
25th Percentile £13.25 £22.89 £15.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.23 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.57% -45.05% +197.30%
75th Percentile £23.58 £51.88 £67.50
90th Percentile £30.00 £56.65 £67.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.00 £25.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year -8.56% +0.61% +41.08%

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 21 November 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 18 (90.00%) AWS
2 13 (65.00%) GCP
3 9 (45.00%) Serverless
4 8 (40.00%) AWS KMS
5 5 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (25.00%) Amazon S3
5 5 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (25.00%) Route 53
6 4 (20.00%) Akamai
7 3 (15.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (10.00%) Azure
8 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
8 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 9 (45.00%) NoSQL
3 5 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (25.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 14 (70.00%) Jenkins
2 9 (45.00%) GitLab
3 7 (35.00%) 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
2 9 (45.00%) Financial Institution
3 8 (40.00%) Banking
4 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) GCP Engineer
3 6 (30.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 6 (30.00%) Software Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) Developer
4 5 (25.00%) Java Developer
5 4 (20.00%) AWS Software Engineer
5 4 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (20.00%) GCP Software Engineer
5 4 (20.00%) Senior
5 4 (20.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 4 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 4 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 2 (10.00%) AWS Developer
7 2 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (10.00%) GCP DevOps
7 2 (10.00%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (70.00%) REST
1 14 (70.00%) RESTful
2 9 (45.00%) 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
Miscellaneous
1 12 (60.00%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (45.00%) Public Cloud
3 7 (35.00%) Cloud Native
4 4 (20.00%) Security Posture
5 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 12 (60.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 14 (70.00%) Agile
2 14 (70.00%) Microservices
3 12 (60.00%) Containerisation
3 12 (60.00%) DevOps
4 9 (45.00%) Computer Science
4 9 (45.00%) Cryptography
4 9 (45.00%) High Availability
4 9 (45.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (45.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 9 (45.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 8 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 8 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (40.00%) Data Encryption
6 7 (35.00%) Software Engineering
7 6 (30.00%) Change Management
7 6 (30.00%) Cost Optimisation
7 6 (30.00%) Data Security
7 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure Automation
7 6 (30.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) Go
1 9 (45.00%) Python
1 9 (45.00%) SQL
2 5 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (45.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (45.00%) Degree
1 9 (45.00%) Master's Degree
2 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (10.00%) AWS Certified Developer
3 2 (10.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
System Software
1 12 (60.00%) Docker
2 3 (15.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 12 (60.00%) Grafana
1 12 (60.00%) Prometheus
2 9 (45.00%) Ansible
2 9 (45.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (45.00%) Terraform
3 4 (20.00%) CSIRT
4 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