Continuous Deployment Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Continuous Deployment
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Continuous Deployment skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 68 114
Rank change year-on-year -64 +46 -7
Contract jobs citing Continuous Deployment 6 40 1
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.27% 2.41% 0.054%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 2.81% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 27 1
10th Percentile £487 £426 -
25th Percentile £494 £475 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - +1.85%
75th Percentile £552 £694 £575
90th Percentile £566 £765 -
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Continuous Deployment 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 1,944 1,424 1,580
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 87.41% 85.63% 85.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,234 899 1,076
10th Percentile £263 £225 £266
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
75th Percentile £587 £612 £600
90th Percentile £675 £725 £688
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 47 50
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.70 £14.50
25th Percentile £16.03 £16.88 £17.56
Median hourly rate £18.87 £23.60 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.04% +2.61% +29.80%
75th Percentile £27.21 £34.38 £53.75
90th Percentile £39.61 £52.50 £67.63
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

Continuous Deployment
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Continuous Deployment relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Continuous Deployment job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Continuous Deployment
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Continuous Deployment.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Continuous Deployment

Continuous Deployment
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 Deployment within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 December 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 -35 4 £483 -12.18% 2
Shropshire - 1 - -
Worcestershire - 1 £550 - 1
Continuous Deployment
England

Continuous Deployment
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Akamai
2 4 (66.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Firewall
1 4 (66.67%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) Developer
1 1 (16.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) CSS
1 1 (16.67%) GraphQL
1 1 (16.67%) Jest
1 1 (16.67%) Material-UI
1 1 (16.67%) Next.js
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth2
1 1 (16.67%) Playwright
1 1 (16.67%) React
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
1 1 (16.67%) Sass
1 1 (16.67%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (66.67%) Application Security
2 4 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 4 (66.67%) Ethical Hacking
2 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (66.67%) Security Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) OWASP
3 2 (33.33%) Reverse Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Change Control
4 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) Responsive Web Design
4 1 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (16.67%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (16.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) CSIRT
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) F5
1 4 (66.67%) Splunk
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft