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 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 75 102
Rank change year-on-year -39 +27 -45
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 36 20 8
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.35% 1.41% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 1.57% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 10 4
10th Percentile £400 £420 £362
25th Percentile £430 £438 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £435
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +14.94% -19.44%
75th Percentile £604 £566 £563
90th Percentile £892 £582 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -0.95%

All Process & 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 2,267 1,273 1,603
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.23% 89.71% 84.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,480 803 1,051
10th Percentile £300 £210 £275
25th Percentile £402 £400 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 52 110
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.52 £11.94
25th Percentile £16.10 £15.22 £16.05
Median hourly rate £21.46 £20.12 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.66% -12.52% +29.94%
75th Percentile £27.21 £30.95 £48.75
90th Percentile £37.45 £41.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £27.21 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.26% - -

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 23 February 2026.

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 23 February 2026. 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 - 16 £440 - 1
Birmingham -6 14 £525 +23.24% 3
Coventry -19 3 £400 -20.00% 3
Solihull -5 2 - - 3
Worcestershire - 1 £575 -
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 8 (22.22%) Apache
1 8 (22.22%) JBoss
1 8 (22.22%) WebLogic
2 1 (2.78%) Anypoint
2 1 (2.78%) Confluence
2 1 (2.78%) SAS
2 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 25 (69.44%) AWS
2 10 (27.78%) GCP
3 9 (25.00%) Serverless
4 8 (22.22%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (19.44%) AWS KMS
6 6 (16.67%) Azure
7 4 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (11.11%) Amazon S3
7 4 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (11.11%) Route 53
8 3 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (5.56%) GitHub
9 2 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (2.78%) Akamai
10 1 (2.78%) iPaaS
10 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (2.78%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) Firewall
1 1 (2.78%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 9 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (22.22%) MongoDB
3 4 (11.11%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (11.11%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 16 (44.44%) Jenkins
2 14 (38.89%) Git
2 14 (38.89%) JUnit
3 10 (27.78%) GitLab
4 9 (25.00%) Selenium
5 8 (22.22%) Eclipse
5 8 (22.22%) IntelliJ
6 7 (19.44%) Liquibase
7 5 (13.89%) Maven
7 5 (13.89%) Mockito
8 4 (11.11%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (11.11%) DbUnit
8 4 (11.11%) jMock
8 4 (11.11%) SonarQube
9 2 (5.56%) JIRA
10 1 (2.78%) JMeter
10 1 (2.78%) LoadRunner
10 1 (2.78%) REST Assured
10 1 (2.78%) TeamCity
10 1 (2.78%) TestNG
General
1 22 (61.11%) Social Skills
2 12 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 10 (27.78%) Finance
4 9 (25.00%) Banking
4 9 (25.00%) Financial Institution
5 8 (22.22%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 9 (25.00%) Developer
2 8 (22.22%) Software Engineer
3 7 (19.44%) GCP Engineer
3 7 (19.44%) Java Developer
4 6 (16.67%) Cloud Software Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) AWS Engineer
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 2 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (63.89%) REST
2 14 (38.89%) RESTful
3 13 (36.11%) Hibernate
3 13 (36.11%) Play Framework
3 13 (36.11%) Spring
4 12 (33.33%) SOAP
5 10 (27.78%) JSON
6 9 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (22.22%) EJB
7 8 (22.22%) HTML
7 8 (22.22%) HTML5
7 8 (22.22%) J2EE
7 8 (22.22%) J2SE
7 8 (22.22%) XML
8 5 (13.89%) JPA
8 5 (13.89%) Spring Boot
8 5 (13.89%) Web Services
9 4 (11.11%) AngularJS
9 4 (11.11%) Bootstrap
9 4 (11.11%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 13 (36.11%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (25.00%) Public Cloud
3 7 (19.44%) Cloud Native
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%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.78%) Verilog
4 1 (2.78%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 14 (38.89%) Linux
2 8 (22.22%) Unix
3 1 (2.78%) Android
3 1 (2.78%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.78%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (86.11%) Agile
1 31 (86.11%) CI/CD
2 26 (72.22%) DevOps
2 26 (72.22%) Microservices
3 21 (58.33%) Continuous Delivery
4 17 (47.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (44.44%) Scrum
5 16 (44.44%) Software Engineering
6 15 (41.67%) Containerisation
7 14 (38.89%) Infrastructure Automation
8 12 (33.33%) Open Source
8 12 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (30.56%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (25.00%) Computer Science
10 9 (25.00%) Cryptography
10 9 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
10 9 (25.00%) High Availability
10 9 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
10 9 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
10 9 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 18 (50.00%) SQL
2 15 (41.67%) Java
3 13 (36.11%) Scala
4 12 (33.33%) Python
5 9 (25.00%) Go
6 2 (5.56%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.78%) C
7 1 (2.78%) C++
7 1 (2.78%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.78%) MATLAB
7 1 (2.78%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.78%) Swift
7 1 (2.78%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 9 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (25.00%) Degree
1 9 (25.00%) Master's Degree
2 8 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 5 (13.89%) SC Cleared
4 3 (8.33%) AWS Certification
4 3 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (5.56%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (5.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) QA
System Software
1 20 (55.56%) Docker
2 3 (8.33%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 13 (36.11%) Grafana
2 11 (30.56%) Kubernetes
3 9 (25.00%) Ansible
3 9 (25.00%) Prometheus
3 9 (25.00%) Terraform
4 8 (22.22%) Puppet
5 1 (2.78%) CSIRT
5 1 (2.78%) Kibana
5 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (27.78%) Splunk
2 8 (22.22%) webMethods
3 5 (13.89%) Atlassian
3 5 (13.89%) Google
4 4 (11.11%) Jaspersoft
5 2 (5.56%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.78%) F5
6 1 (2.78%) MuleSoft
6 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow