CI/CD Contracts in the West Midlands

CI/CD
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring CI/CD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CI/CD over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 61 34
Rank change year-on-year +29 -27 +16
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 72 50 140
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.35% 2.57% 5.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.06% 3.06% 6.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 40 98
10th Percentile £404 £275 £450
25th Percentile £423 £327 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £475 £540
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% -12.04% +11.92%
75th Percentile £595 £675 £625
90th Percentile £650 £688 £675
England median daily rate £536 £561 £600
% change year-on-year -4.50% -6.46% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £56.25 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £65.61
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.92% +0.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

CI/CD 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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing CI/CD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in the West Midlands

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in the West Midlands

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in the West Midlands

CI/CD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for CI/CD in the West Midlands

CI/CD
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CI/CD within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham +31 30 £450 - 56
Shropshire - 13 £500 - 11
Warwickshire -2 7 £500 -25.93% 19
Coventry 0 5 £525 -4.55% 18
Herefordshire - 5 £700 - 4
Worcestershire +3 4 £700 +47.37% 10
Solihull +19 3 £599 +117.82% 4
Staffordshire -1 2 £550 +57.14% 44
CI/CD
England

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (8.33%) Confluence
2 2 (2.78%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.39%) Apache
3 1 (1.39%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (2.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (2.78%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 32 (44.44%) Azure
2 27 (37.50%) AWS
3 12 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (16.67%) GCP
4 10 (13.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 10 (13.89%) Amazon S3
5 8 (11.11%) GitHub
6 7 (9.72%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (9.72%) Power Platform
7 6 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (8.33%) Serverless
8 5 (6.94%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (6.94%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (6.94%) PowerApps
9 4 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (5.56%) Power Automate
10 3 (4.17%) AWS KMS
10 3 (4.17%) PaaS
10 3 (4.17%) Route 53
10 3 (4.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.78%) Network Security
2 1 (1.39%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (1.39%) DSL
2 1 (1.39%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.28%) Relational Database
2 8 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 7 (9.72%) NoSQL
4 6 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (8.33%) Data Lake
4 6 (8.33%) RDBMS
5 5 (6.94%) DynamoDB
5 5 (6.94%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (4.17%) Oracle Database
7 3 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (2.78%) Big Data
8 2 (2.78%) MySQL
8 2 (2.78%) Power BI
9 1 (1.39%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.39%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.39%) Data Mining
9 1 (1.39%) Hadoop
9 1 (1.39%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (16.67%) Git
1 12 (16.67%) GitLab
1 12 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 11 (15.28%) JIRA
3 3 (4.17%) JMeter
3 3 (4.17%) JUnit
3 3 (4.17%) Mockito
3 3 (4.17%) Plastic SCM
3 3 (4.17%) Postman
3 3 (4.17%) REST Assured
3 3 (4.17%) Selenium
3 3 (4.17%) TestNG
3 3 (4.17%) Travis CI
4 2 (2.78%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.78%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.78%) Maven
5 1 (1.39%) Appium
5 1 (1.39%) CA Gen
5 1 (1.39%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 27 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 11 (15.28%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (11.11%) Finance
4 7 (9.72%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.94%) Retail
6 3 (4.17%) Games
7 2 (2.78%) Back Office
7 2 (2.78%) Banking
8 1 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (26.39%) Developer
2 11 (15.28%) Architect
3 9 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (11.11%) Senior
4 8 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (8.33%) Java Developer
6 5 (6.94%) Data Engineer
6 5 (6.94%) Lead
7 4 (5.56%) Analyst
7 4 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) Enterprise Architect
7 4 (5.56%) Junior
7 4 (5.56%) Junior Architect
7 4 (5.56%) Junior Solutions Architect
7 4 (5.56%) Senior Developer
8 3 (4.17%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 3 (4.17%) Games Developer
8 3 (4.17%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.89%) .NET
2 8 (11.11%) REST
3 6 (8.33%) React
3 6 (8.33%) RESTful
4 5 (6.94%) HTML
4 5 (6.94%) Node.js
4 5 (6.94%) Spring
4 5 (6.94%) Spring Boot
5 4 (5.56%) .NET Framework
5 4 (5.56%) Kafka
5 4 (5.56%) Middleware
6 3 (4.17%) CSS
6 3 (4.17%) Django
6 3 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (4.17%) Hibernate
6 3 (4.17%) jQuery
6 3 (4.17%) Unity (Game Engine)
6 3 (4.17%) Web Services
6 3 (4.17%) WireMock
7 2 (2.78%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.94%) PKI
2 4 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.17%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.78%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.78%) Replication
5 1 (1.39%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.39%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.39%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.39%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.17%) Windows
2 2 (2.78%) Linux
3 1 (1.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (58.33%) Agile
2 39 (54.17%) DevOps
3 21 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (27.78%) Test Automation
5 18 (25.00%) Microservices
6 12 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
6 12 (16.67%) Software Delivery
7 11 (15.28%) Scrum
7 11 (15.28%) Software Engineering
8 9 (12.50%) BDD
8 9 (12.50%) Containerisation
8 9 (12.50%) ETL
9 8 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
9 8 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (11.11%) Data Modelling
9 8 (11.11%) DevSecOps
9 8 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (11.11%) TDD
9 8 (11.11%) Test Strategy
10 7 (9.72%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 18 (25.00%) Python
2 14 (19.44%) SQL
3 13 (18.06%) JavaScript
4 11 (15.28%) Java
5 9 (12.50%) C#
6 6 (8.33%) TypeScript
7 5 (6.94%) Bash
8 3 (4.17%) R
9 2 (2.78%) Go
9 2 (2.78%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.78%) Scala
9 2 (2.78%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.39%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (1.39%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 17 (23.61%) SC Cleared
1 17 (23.61%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.11%) Degree
3 4 (5.56%) CEH
3 4 (5.56%) CISSP
3 4 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.56%) DV Cleared
3 4 (5.56%) ISTQB
3 4 (5.56%) TOGAF Certification
4 3 (4.17%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.78%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.78%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.39%) GIAC
6 1 (1.39%) ISEB
6 1 (1.39%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (18.06%) QA
2 3 (4.17%) NCSC
3 1 (1.39%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.39%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.39%) GDPR
3 1 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.39%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (29.17%) Docker
2 2 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (40.28%) Kubernetes
2 21 (29.17%) Terraform
3 10 (13.89%) Ansible
4 5 (6.94%) Kibana
5 3 (4.17%) logstash
6 2 (2.78%) Grafana
6 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.78%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.78%) QRadar
7 1 (1.39%) Argo
7 1 (1.39%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.39%) Rancher
7 1 (1.39%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 13 (18.06%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.33%) Oracle
3 5 (6.94%) Talend
4 2 (2.78%) Google
4 2 (2.78%) Splunk
5 1 (1.39%) Cisco
5 1 (1.39%) Databricks
5 1 (1.39%) F5
5 1 (1.39%) IBM
5 1 (1.39%) Imperva
5 1 (1.39%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.39%) Siemens