Continuous Integration Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Continuous Integration
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Continuous Integration skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 57 110
Rank change year-on-year -44 +53 -59
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 36 48 7
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.60% 2.89% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% 3.37% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 32 6
10th Percentile £406 £425 £513
25th Percentile £435 £444 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -12.00% +16.17%
75th Percentile £604 £675 £734
90th Percentile £892 £765 £744
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -3.36%

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 1,965 1,425 1,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 87.26% 85.69% 85.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,239 903 1,066
10th Percentile £263 £225 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
75th Percentile £584 £612 £600
90th Percentile £675 £713 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 46 49
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.70 £14.46
25th Percentile £16.12 £16.81 £17.50
Median hourly rate £20.50 £23.89 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.19% +3.87% +29.94%
75th Percentile £27.21 £34.69 £55.00
90th Percentile £40.19 £52.50 £67.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

Continuous Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Continuous Integration job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Continuous Integration
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

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 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Integration in the West Midlands

Continuous Integration
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Continuous Integration.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Continuous Integration

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 19 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
Shropshire -20 18 £440 +22.56% 9
Birmingham -26 14 £525 -4.55% 7
Coventry -16 2 £388 -22.50% 3
Worcestershire - 2 £563 - 2
Continuous Integration
England

Continuous Integration
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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (25.00%) JBoss
2 8 (22.22%) Apache
2 8 (22.22%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.78%) Anypoint
3 1 (2.78%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 24 (66.67%) AWS
2 13 (36.11%) GCP
3 9 (25.00%) Serverless
4 8 (22.22%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (11.11%) Akamai
6 3 (8.33%) AWS KMS
6 3 (8.33%) Azure
7 2 (5.56%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.78%) GitHub
8 1 (2.78%) iPaaS
8 1 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.11%) Firewall
1 4 (11.11%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 8 (22.22%) MongoDB
3 5 (13.89%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.78%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (33.33%) Git
1 12 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 11 (30.56%) GitLab
3 9 (25.00%) JUnit
4 8 (22.22%) Eclipse
4 8 (22.22%) IntelliJ
4 8 (22.22%) Selenium
5 7 (19.44%) Liquibase
6 2 (5.56%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.78%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (2.78%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (2.78%) JIRA
7 1 (2.78%) Maven
7 1 (2.78%) Mockito
7 1 (2.78%) SonarQube
7 1 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (2.78%) TeamCity
General
1 24 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 10 (27.78%) Finance
3 9 (25.00%) Banking
3 9 (25.00%) Financial Institution
4 8 (22.22%) Influencing Skills
4 8 (22.22%) Public Sector
5 4 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 8 (22.22%) Software Engineer
3 7 (19.44%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (19.44%) GCP Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) Cloud Software Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) Developer
5 5 (13.89%) Scala Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) Senior
6 4 (11.11%) AWS Software Engineer
6 4 (11.11%) GCP Software Engineer
6 4 (11.11%) Java Engineer
6 4 (11.11%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 4 (11.11%) Senior DevOps
6 4 (11.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 4 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) Java Developer
8 2 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
8 2 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) GCP DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (52.78%) REST
2 13 (36.11%) Play Framework
3 11 (30.56%) RESTful
4 10 (27.78%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (25.00%) Hibernate
5 9 (25.00%) JSON
5 9 (25.00%) Spring
6 8 (22.22%) EJB
6 8 (22.22%) HTML
6 8 (22.22%) HTML5
6 8 (22.22%) J2EE
6 8 (22.22%) J2SE
6 8 (22.22%) SOAP
6 8 (22.22%) XML
7 2 (5.56%) Spring Boot
8 1 (2.78%) GraphQL
8 1 (2.78%) OAuth2
8 1 (2.78%) RAML
8 1 (2.78%) Swagger
8 1 (2.78%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 9 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 7 (19.44%) Cloud Native
3 4 (11.11%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.78%) FPGA
4 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.78%) MicroBlaze
4 1 (2.78%) RISC-V
4 1 (2.78%) Verilog
4 1 (2.78%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 11 (30.56%) Linux
2 8 (22.22%) Unix
3 2 (5.56%) Windows
4 1 (2.78%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (91.67%) CI/CD
2 27 (75.00%) Agile
3 23 (63.89%) DevOps
3 23 (63.89%) Microservices
4 21 (58.33%) Continuous Delivery
5 18 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 15 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (41.67%) Software Engineering
7 14 (38.89%) Infrastructure Automation
8 13 (36.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (33.33%) Containerisation
10 11 (30.56%) Scrum
11 10 (27.78%) Deployment Automation
12 9 (25.00%) Application Security
12 9 (25.00%) Computer Science
12 9 (25.00%) Cryptography
12 9 (25.00%) High Availability
12 9 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
12 9 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
13 8 (22.22%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (38.89%) SQL
2 13 (36.11%) Scala
3 12 (33.33%) Python
4 9 (25.00%) Go
4 9 (25.00%) Java
5 2 (5.56%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.78%) C
6 1 (2.78%) C++
6 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.78%) MATLAB
6 1 (2.78%) Perl
6 1 (2.78%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.78%) SystemVerilog
6 1 (2.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (25.00%) Degree
1 9 (25.00%) Master's Degree
2 5 (13.89%) Security Cleared
3 3 (8.33%) AWS Certification
3 3 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.56%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (5.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.78%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (50.00%) Docker
2 2 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (36.11%) Kubernetes
2 10 (27.78%) Ansible
2 10 (27.78%) Terraform
3 9 (25.00%) Grafana
3 9 (25.00%) Prometheus
4 8 (22.22%) Puppet
5 4 (11.11%) CSIRT
6 2 (5.56%) Kibana
7 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (2.78%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 14 (38.89%) Splunk
2 8 (22.22%) webMethods
3 4 (11.11%) F5
3 4 (11.11%) Google
4 2 (5.56%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.78%) AppDynamics
5 1 (2.78%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.78%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.78%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.78%) Red Hat