Continuous Delivery Contracts in the West Midlands

Continuous Delivery
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Continuous Delivery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Continuous Delivery over the 6 months leading up to 8 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 96 111
Rank change year-on-year -16 +15 +1
Contract jobs citing Continuous Delivery 8 8 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.47% 0.43% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.53% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 13
10th Percentile £412 £468 £476
25th Percentile £431 £548 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £656 £540
Median % change year-on-year -29.90% +21.53% +3.85%
75th Percentile £503 £688 £554
90th Percentile £558 - £590
England median daily rate £521 £525 £610
% change year-on-year -0.86% -13.93% +1.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Continuous Delivery 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 1,492 1,514 1,855
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.39% 81.62% 85.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 939 1,027 1,268
10th Percentile £231 £283 £263
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £626 £600
90th Percentile £669 £738 £725
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 62 38
10th Percentile £12.62 £13.02 £14.16
25th Percentile £14.01 £14.31 £20.12
Median hourly rate £23.42 £18.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.59% -32.73% +57.14%
75th Percentile £33.16 £36.88 £30.78
90th Percentile £50.00 £56.13 £46.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%

Continuous Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Continuous Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Delivery in the West Midlands

Continuous Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Continuous Delivery in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Continuous Delivery in the West Midlands

Continuous Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Delivery in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 8 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Delivery in the West Midlands

Continuous Delivery
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 Continuous Delivery within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 8 August 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
Shropshire - 3 £463 -
Warwickshire -10 2 £438 -35.19%
Worcestershire - 1 £575 - 1
Herefordshire - 1 - -
Continuous Delivery
England

Continuous Delivery
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 1 (12.50%) Confluence
1 1 (12.50%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) GitHub
3 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (25.00%) Azure
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 1 (12.50%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (12.50%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Datadog
4 1 (12.50%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) Google Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) npm
4 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
4 1 (12.50%) Pulumi
4 1 (12.50%) Serverless
4 1 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (25.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Artifactory
2 1 (12.50%) CircleCI
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) Gradle
2 1 (12.50%) JUnit
2 1 (12.50%) Maven
2 1 (12.50%) Postman
2 1 (12.50%) Selenium
2 1 (12.50%) Snyk
2 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
2 1 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
2 1 (12.50%) webpack
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (25.00%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Data Manager
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Engagement Manager
4 1 (12.50%) QA Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Release Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Engagement Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) React
2 2 (25.00%) CSS
2 2 (25.00%) HTML
2 2 (25.00%) Next.js
2 2 (25.00%) REST
3 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (12.50%) Express.js
3 1 (12.50%) GraphQL
3 1 (12.50%) Jest
3 1 (12.50%) JSON
3 1 (12.50%) Node.js
3 1 (12.50%) Redux
3 1 (12.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Educational Technology
1 1 (12.50%) Private Cloud
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Agile
1 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (62.50%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (50.00%) DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) DevSecOps
3 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (37.50%) Front End Development
4 3 (37.50%) Microservices
4 3 (37.50%) Scrum
4 3 (37.50%) TDD
5 2 (25.00%) BDD
5 2 (25.00%) Business Analysis
5 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
5 2 (25.00%) Integration Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Pair Programming
5 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery
5 2 (25.00%) Unit Testing
5 2 (25.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) QA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Grafana
2 1 (12.50%) Podman
2 1 (12.50%) Progress Chef
2 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
2 1 (12.50%) Puppet
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Atlassian
1 1 (12.50%) Google
1 1 (12.50%) Salesforce
1 1 (12.50%) Splunk