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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 93 52
Rank change year-on-year -53 -41 +44
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 25 27 58
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.71% 1.50% 3.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 1.70% 3.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 18 43
10th Percentile £409 £396 £352
25th Percentile £419 £451 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.60% -1.70% -7.41%
75th Percentile £490 £556 £669
90th Percentile £515 £670 £755
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -10.42%

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 2,989 1,592 1,545
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.91% 88.49% 81.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,838 1,024 998
10th Percentile £313 £240 £250
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £625
90th Percentile £671 £663 £725
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 103 41
10th Percentile £13.45 £12.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.57 £16.07 £15.13
Median hourly rate £29.60 £24.34 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.61% +8.18% -18.18%
75th Percentile £53.75 £35.30 £35.00
90th Percentile £68.05 £50.00 £55.25
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.81%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -44 10 £475 +15.50%
Solihull -14 6 - -
Birmingham -17 4 £486 -2.75% 34
Coventry -22 3 £450 +20.00% 3
Warwickshire -11 2 £400 -11.11% 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 4 (16.00%) SAS
2 3 (12.00%) Confluence
3 1 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 13 (52.00%) AWS
2 10 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 9 (36.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (28.00%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (24.00%) Amazon SQS
5 6 (24.00%) AWS KMS
5 6 (24.00%) Route 53
6 3 (12.00%) Amazon EMR
6 3 (12.00%) Amazon Kinesis
6 3 (12.00%) Azure
6 3 (12.00%) Power Platform
7 2 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (8.00%) GCP
7 2 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (8.00%) Serverless
8 1 (4.00%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (4.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (4.00%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) Network Security
2 1 (4.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (36.00%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (36.00%) DynamoDB
2 6 (24.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 6 (24.00%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (16.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (16.00%) Data Lake
3 4 (16.00%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (12.00%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (12.00%) Apache Iceberg
4 3 (12.00%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (12.00%) Pentaho
4 3 (12.00%) Power BI
5 1 (4.00%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 7 (28.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (24.00%) Bitbucket Server
2 6 (24.00%) DbUnit
2 6 (24.00%) Git
2 6 (24.00%) jMock
2 6 (24.00%) JUnit
2 6 (24.00%) Maven
2 6 (24.00%) Mockito
2 6 (24.00%) SonarQube
3 3 (12.00%) GitLab
3 3 (12.00%) JIRA
General
1 12 (48.00%) Public Sector
2 11 (44.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (16.00%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (8.00%) Finance
5 2 (8.00%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (44.00%) Developer
2 7 (28.00%) Senior
3 6 (24.00%) Java Developer
4 5 (20.00%) Scala Engineer
5 4 (16.00%) Data Engineer
5 4 (16.00%) Scala Developer
5 4 (16.00%) Senior Developer
6 3 (12.00%) AWS Data Engineer
6 3 (12.00%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (12.00%) Senior Data Engineer
6 3 (12.00%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (8.00%) Design Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) Information Security Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) Lead
7 2 (8.00%) Scrum Master
7 2 (8.00%) Security Engineer
8 1 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 1 (4.00%) Operations Engineer
8 1 (4.00%) Senior Software Developer
8 1 (4.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (32.00%) RESTful
2 7 (28.00%) Play Framework
2 7 (28.00%) REST
3 6 (24.00%) ActiveMQ
3 6 (24.00%) AngularJS
3 6 (24.00%) Bootstrap
3 6 (24.00%) Hibernate
3 6 (24.00%) JPA
3 6 (24.00%) PowerMock
3 6 (24.00%) SOAP
3 6 (24.00%) Spring
3 6 (24.00%) Spring Batch
3 6 (24.00%) Spring Boot
3 6 (24.00%) Spring Integration
3 6 (24.00%) Terraform
3 6 (24.00%) Web Services
4 5 (20.00%) Spring Cloud
5 2 (8.00%) Node.js
6 1 (4.00%) JSON
6 1 (4.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (36.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (24.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (8.00%) Operational Technology
3 2 (8.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.00%) Blog
4 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 6 (24.00%) Linux
2 1 (4.00%) Android
2 1 (4.00%) VMS
2 1 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (92.00%) Agile
2 18 (72.00%) CI/CD
2 18 (72.00%) DevOps
3 15 (60.00%) Scrum
4 13 (52.00%) TDD
5 12 (48.00%) Microservices
6 10 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (36.00%) Application Security
7 9 (36.00%) Containerisation
7 9 (36.00%) Continuous Delivery
7 9 (36.00%) Open Source
8 8 (32.00%) BDD
8 8 (32.00%) Decision-Making
8 8 (32.00%) Kanban
9 7 (28.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (28.00%) Integration Testing
10 6 (24.00%) Pair Programming
11 5 (20.00%) Software Engineering
11 5 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (40.00%) SQL
2 7 (28.00%) Python
2 7 (28.00%) Scala
3 6 (24.00%) Java
4 2 (8.00%) Go
5 1 (4.00%) Bash
5 1 (4.00%) Kotlin
5 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (44.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (16.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (8.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (8.00%) CCSP
4 2 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (8.00%) CISSP
4 2 (8.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (24.00%) QA
System Software
1 7 (28.00%) Docker
2 5 (20.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 10 (40.00%) Grafana
2 5 (20.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (8.00%) Argo
3 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (8.00%) Kustomize
4 1 (4.00%) Ansible
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Atlassian
1 6 (24.00%) Jaspersoft
2 4 (16.00%) Informatica
3 3 (12.00%) Denodo
3 3 (12.00%) Dynatrace
3 3 (12.00%) Oracle
4 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.00%) Citrix
5 1 (4.00%) Databricks
5 1 (4.00%) Google