Continuous Integration Contracts in the West Midlands

Continuous Integration
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Continuous Integration skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Continuous Integration over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 77 78
Rank change year-on-year -7 +1 +5
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 22 37 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.46% 1.79% 2.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 2.21% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 29 37
10th Percentile £418 £338 £374
25th Percentile £453 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £358 £540
Median % change year-on-year +32.68% -33.70% +2.86%
75th Percentile £500 £488 £595
90th Percentile £575 £688 £645
England median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,335 1,672 1,941
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.76% 80.93% 87.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 844 1,112 1,334
10th Percentile £203 £263 £263
25th Percentile £366 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +0.81%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £623
90th Percentile £674 £731 £706
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 114 48
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.15 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.78 £14.16 £15.38
Median hourly rate £24.28 £21.23 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.39% -15.10% +44.93%
75th Percentile £34.16 £37.50 £30.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.00 £49.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +44.23%

Continuous Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Integration in the West Midlands

Continuous Integration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Continuous Integration in the West Midlands

Continuous Integration
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Continuous Integration in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Integration in the West Midlands

Continuous Integration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Continuous Integration in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Integration in the West Midlands

Continuous Integration
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 Integration within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 July 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 +19 8 £488 - 27
Solihull - 4 £500 -
Shropshire -19 3 £460 +28.49% 8
Staffordshire +3 2 £550 - 14
Warwickshire -10 2 £450 -33.33% 7
Worcestershire - 2 £550 - 6
Herefordshire - 1 - -
Continuous Integration
England

Continuous Integration
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 2 (9.09%) Confluence
2 1 (4.55%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 17 (77.27%) AWS
2 12 (54.55%) Amazon EC2
2 12 (54.55%) Amazon S3
3 11 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
4 10 (45.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (40.91%) AWS KMS
5 9 (40.91%) Route 53
6 4 (18.18%) Azure
7 3 (13.64%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (13.64%) Serverless
8 2 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (9.09%) AWS CodeCommit
8 2 (9.09%) AWS CodeDeploy
8 2 (9.09%) Boomi
8 2 (9.09%) GitHub
8 2 (9.09%) OCI
8 2 (9.09%) PaaS
8 2 (9.09%) SaaS
9 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (54.55%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (40.91%) Amazon Aurora
2 9 (40.91%) DynamoDB
2 9 (40.91%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (9.09%) NoSQL
3 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.55%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 12 (54.55%) Git
2 11 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 9 (40.91%) JUnit
3 9 (40.91%) Maven
3 9 (40.91%) SonarQube
4 7 (31.82%) Bitbucket Server
4 7 (31.82%) DbUnit
4 7 (31.82%) jMock
4 7 (31.82%) Mockito
5 3 (13.64%) GitLab
5 3 (13.64%) JIRA
6 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
6 1 (4.55%) ClearCase
6 1 (4.55%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (36.36%) Public Sector
2 5 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Finance
4 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (68.18%) Developer
2 9 (40.91%) Java Developer
3 6 (27.27%) AWS Developer
4 4 (18.18%) Lead
4 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 3 (13.64%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 3 (13.64%) Lead Developer
5 3 (13.64%) Lead Java Developer
5 3 (13.64%) Senior
5 3 (13.64%) Senior Developer
6 2 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Python Developer
6 2 (9.09%) Senior Python Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Architect
7 1 (4.55%) Data Architect
7 1 (4.55%) Quality Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Release Manager
7 1 (4.55%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Software Tester
7 1 (4.55%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (45.45%) REST
1 10 (45.45%) Spring
1 10 (45.45%) Web Services
2 9 (40.91%) ActiveMQ
2 9 (40.91%) Hibernate
2 9 (40.91%) JPA
2 9 (40.91%) RESTful
2 9 (40.91%) SOAP
2 9 (40.91%) Spring Batch
2 9 (40.91%) Spring Boot
2 9 (40.91%) Spring Integration
3 8 (36.36%) AngularJS
4 7 (31.82%) Bootstrap
4 7 (31.82%) PowerMock
4 7 (31.82%) Spring Cloud
5 4 (18.18%) React
6 2 (9.09%) Django
6 2 (9.09%) MACH
6 2 (9.09%) Next.js
6 2 (9.09%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 8 (36.36%) Linux
2 2 (9.09%) Windows
2 2 (9.09%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (86.36%) Agile
2 15 (68.18%) Microservices
3 12 (54.55%) CI/CD
3 12 (54.55%) TDD
4 11 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 11 (50.00%) Scrum
5 10 (45.45%) BDD
5 10 (45.45%) DevOps
6 9 (40.91%) Kanban
7 7 (31.82%) Open Source
8 5 (22.73%) Continuous Delivery
8 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (18.18%) Decision-Making
9 4 (18.18%) Risk Management
9 4 (18.18%) Software Engineering
9 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
10 3 (13.64%) ETL
10 3 (13.64%) Regression Testing
10 3 (13.64%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (68.18%) Java
1 15 (68.18%) SQL
2 5 (22.73%) JavaScript
3 2 (9.09%) Python
3 2 (9.09%) R
3 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.55%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 7 (31.82%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) AWS Certification
3 2 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (9.09%) Azure Certification
3 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.55%) ISTQB
4 1 (4.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (72.73%) Docker
2 7 (31.82%) Postfix
3 2 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (36.36%) Grafana
2 7 (31.82%) Kubernetes
2 7 (31.82%) Prometheus
3 2 (9.09%) Ansible
3 2 (9.09%) Terraform
4 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Atlassian
2 7 (31.82%) Jaspersoft
3 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
4 2 (9.09%) Oracle
5 1 (4.55%) Google
5 1 (4.55%) Salesforce
5 1 (4.55%) Splunk