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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 93 50
Rank change year-on-year -45 -43 +35
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 27 26 61
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.78% 1.52% 3.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 1.72% 3.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 16 49
10th Percentile £409 £421 £350
25th Percentile £419 £454 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £479 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% +0.84% -12.04%
75th Percentile £490 £500 £675
90th Percentile £515 £575 £733
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%

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 2,940 1,511 1,534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.85% 88.26% 81.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,850 958 1,039
10th Percentile £313 £232 £269
25th Percentile £405 £380 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £670 £650 £725
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 106 58
10th Percentile £13.40 £12.62 £13.13
25th Percentile £17.94 £14.81 £14.78
Median hourly rate £30.73 £24.34 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year +26.25% +11.91% -19.44%
75th Percentile £53.75 £35.45 £37.50
90th Percentile £70.48 £50.00 £55.38
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +5.94%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 -37 10 £475 +3.26% 2
Solihull -10 8 - - 1
Birmingham -24 5 £475 -1.66% 8
Warwickshire -13 2 £400 -11.11% 1
Coventry - 2 £488 - 1
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 4 (14.81%) SAS
2 3 (11.11%) Confluence
3 1 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.70%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 16 (59.26%) AWS
2 13 (48.15%) Amazon S3
3 12 (44.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 10 (37.04%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
5 9 (33.33%) AWS KMS
5 9 (33.33%) Route 53
6 6 (22.22%) Azure
7 3 (11.11%) Amazon EMR
7 3 (11.11%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (11.11%) Power Platform
8 2 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (7.41%) GCP
8 2 (7.41%) Serverless
9 1 (3.70%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (3.70%) GitHub
9 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (3.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (3.70%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (44.44%) Amazon RDS
1 12 (44.44%) DynamoDB
2 9 (33.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 9 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (14.81%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (14.81%) Data Lake
3 4 (14.81%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (11.11%) Apache Iceberg
4 3 (11.11%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (11.11%) Pentaho
4 3 (11.11%) Power BI
5 1 (3.70%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 10 (37.04%) Jenkins
2 9 (33.33%) Bitbucket Server
2 9 (33.33%) DbUnit
2 9 (33.33%) Git
2 9 (33.33%) jMock
2 9 (33.33%) JUnit
2 9 (33.33%) Maven
2 9 (33.33%) Mockito
2 9 (33.33%) SonarQube
3 3 (11.11%) GitLab
3 3 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 15 (55.56%) Public Sector
2 10 (37.04%) Social Skills
3 8 (29.63%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (7.41%) Finance
6 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (55.56%) Developer
2 9 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 7 (25.93%) Senior
4 5 (18.52%) Scala Engineer
5 4 (14.81%) Data Engineer
5 4 (14.81%) Scala Developer
5 4 (14.81%) Senior Developer
6 3 (11.11%) AWS Data Engineer
6 3 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
6 3 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Lead
7 2 (7.41%) Scrum Master
8 1 (3.70%) DataOps Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Full-Stack Developer
8 1 (3.70%) Operations Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 1 (3.70%) Senior Software Developer
8 1 (3.70%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (40.74%) RESTful
2 10 (37.04%) REST
3 9 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
3 9 (33.33%) AngularJS
3 9 (33.33%) Bootstrap
3 9 (33.33%) Hibernate
3 9 (33.33%) JPA
3 9 (33.33%) PowerMock
3 9 (33.33%) SOAP
3 9 (33.33%) Spring
3 9 (33.33%) Spring Batch
3 9 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 9 (33.33%) Spring Integration
3 9 (33.33%) Web Services
4 8 (29.63%) Spring Cloud
5 7 (25.93%) Play Framework
6 5 (18.52%) Node.js
7 2 (7.41%) YAML
8 1 (3.70%) Django
8 1 (3.70%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 9 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 9 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.70%) Blog
3 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 9 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (3.70%) Android
2 1 (3.70%) VMS
2 1 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (88.89%) Agile
2 22 (81.48%) DevOps
3 21 (77.78%) CI/CD
4 16 (59.26%) Scrum
4 16 (59.26%) TDD
5 15 (55.56%) Microservices
6 12 (44.44%) Containerisation
6 12 (44.44%) Open Source
6 12 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (37.04%) BDD
7 10 (37.04%) Decision-Making
7 10 (37.04%) Kanban
8 9 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
9 8 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (25.93%) Application Security
10 7 (25.93%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (25.93%) Integration Testing
11 6 (22.22%) Pair Programming
12 5 (18.52%) Software Engineering
12 5 (18.52%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (51.85%) SQL
2 9 (33.33%) Java
3 7 (25.93%) Python
3 7 (25.93%) Scala
4 2 (7.41%) Go
5 1 (3.70%) Bash
5 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.70%) Kotlin
5 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 10 (37.04%) SC Cleared
3 4 (14.81%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (11.11%) AWS Certification
4 3 (11.11%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (22.22%) QA
System Software
1 10 (37.04%) Docker
2 8 (29.63%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 13 (48.15%) Grafana
2 6 (22.22%) Prometheus
2 6 (22.22%) Terraform
3 2 (7.41%) Argo
3 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
3 2 (7.41%) Kustomize
4 1 (3.70%) Ansible
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (33.33%) Atlassian
1 9 (33.33%) Jaspersoft
2 4 (14.81%) Informatica
3 3 (11.11%) Denodo
3 3 (11.11%) Dynatrace
3 3 (11.11%) Oracle
4 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.70%) Citrix
5 1 (3.70%) Databricks
5 1 (3.70%) Google