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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 59 98
Rank change year-on-year -29 +39 -40
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 33 56 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.81% 2.94% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 3.59% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 40 19
10th Percentile £405 £350 £363
25th Percentile £431 £358 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.20% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £519 £675 £644
90th Percentile £607 £763 £740
England median daily rate £525 £538 £600
% change year-on-year -2.33% -10.42% -

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 1,618 1,560 1,776
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.75% 81.76% 85.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,033 995 1,188
10th Percentile £250 £252 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £674 £725 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 39 50
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.66 £14.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £15.25 £20.21
Median hourly rate £24.34 £26.13 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.83% -5.00% +52.78%
75th Percentile £35.00 £40.25 £43.38
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.65 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +53.98%

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
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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -14 14 £500 -14.89% 9
Shropshire -24 8 £430 +19.97%
Worcestershire - 3 £550 -
Warwickshire -6 2 £450 - 1
Solihull - 2 £500 - 1
Staffordshire +3 1 - - 9
Coventry -5 1 £375 - 1
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 5 (15.15%) JBoss
1 5 (15.15%) WebLogic
2 4 (12.12%) Apache
3 1 (3.03%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 26 (78.79%) AWS
2 9 (27.27%) Amazon EC2
2 9 (27.27%) Amazon S3
3 8 (24.24%) Amazon SQS
4 7 (21.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (21.21%) AWS KMS
4 7 (21.21%) Route 53
5 6 (18.18%) Azure
5 6 (18.18%) GCP
6 4 (12.12%) Akamai
6 4 (12.12%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (12.12%) Serverless
7 3 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (6.06%) GitHub
8 2 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (3.03%) OpenShift
9 1 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.12%) Firewall
1 4 (12.12%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (27.27%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (21.21%) Amazon Aurora
2 7 (21.21%) DynamoDB
2 7 (21.21%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (12.12%) MongoDB
4 3 (9.09%) NoSQL
5 2 (6.06%) Relational Database
6 1 (3.03%) Big Data
6 1 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (3.03%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 16 (48.48%) Git
2 12 (36.36%) Jenkins
3 11 (33.33%) JUnit
4 8 (24.24%) SonarQube
5 7 (21.21%) Maven
6 6 (18.18%) Bitbucket Server
6 6 (18.18%) GitLab
7 5 (15.15%) DbUnit
7 5 (15.15%) jMock
7 5 (15.15%) Mockito
8 4 (12.12%) Eclipse
8 4 (12.12%) IntelliJ
8 4 (12.12%) Selenium
9 3 (9.09%) JIRA
10 2 (6.06%) Bitbucket
10 2 (6.06%) Liquibase
11 1 (3.03%) CA Release Automation
11 1 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (3.03%) TeamCity
11 1 (3.03%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (39.39%) Social Skills
2 8 (24.24%) Public Sector
3 7 (21.21%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (12.12%) Finance
4 4 (12.12%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (6.06%) Banking
5 2 (6.06%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (42.42%) Developer
2 8 (24.24%) Java Developer
3 5 (15.15%) AWS Developer
4 4 (12.12%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 4 (12.12%) Senior
4 4 (12.12%) Software Engineer
5 3 (9.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 3 (9.09%) Lead
6 2 (6.06%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Cloud Software Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Lead Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Lead Java Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (6.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) DevOps Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (42.42%) REST
2 12 (36.36%) Spring
3 11 (33.33%) Hibernate
3 11 (33.33%) SOAP
4 10 (30.30%) RESTful
5 8 (24.24%) Spring Boot
5 8 (24.24%) Web Services
6 7 (21.21%) ActiveMQ
6 7 (21.21%) JPA
6 7 (21.21%) Spring Batch
6 7 (21.21%) Spring Integration
7 6 (18.18%) AngularJS
8 5 (15.15%) Bootstrap
8 5 (15.15%) HTML
8 5 (15.15%) PowerMock
8 5 (15.15%) Spring Cloud
8 5 (15.15%) XML
9 4 (12.12%) EJB
9 4 (12.12%) J2EE
9 4 (12.12%) J2SE
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (12.12%) Security Posture
3 2 (6.06%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.06%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (6.06%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (27.27%) Linux
2 5 (15.15%) Unix
3 4 (12.12%) Windows
4 3 (9.09%) Windows Server
5 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (72.73%) CI/CD
2 23 (69.70%) Agile
3 18 (54.55%) Microservices
4 16 (48.48%) DevOps
5 13 (39.39%) Scrum
6 12 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (33.33%) Containerisation
7 11 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (30.30%) Continuous Delivery
9 9 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (27.27%) Open Source
9 9 (27.27%) Software Engineering
9 9 (27.27%) TDD
10 8 (24.24%) Continuous Deployment
11 7 (21.21%) BDD
11 7 (21.21%) Infrastructure Automation
11 7 (21.21%) Kanban
12 6 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
12 6 (18.18%) DevSecOps
12 6 (18.18%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (51.52%) SQL
2 15 (45.45%) Java
3 4 (12.12%) JavaScript
3 4 (12.12%) Python
3 4 (12.12%) Scala
4 3 (9.09%) TypeScript
5 2 (6.06%) Go
6 1 (3.03%) C#
6 1 (3.03%) Perl
6 1 (3.03%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 8 (24.24%) SC Cleared
3 4 (12.12%) AWS Certification
4 3 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (9.09%) Azure Certification
4 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (6.06%) Degree
5 2 (6.06%) Master's Degree
6 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (3.03%) ISTQB
6 1 (3.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) Accessibility
1 2 (6.06%) QA
1 2 (6.06%) WCAG
2 1 (3.03%) Data Quality
System Software
1 20 (60.61%) Docker
2 5 (15.15%) Postfix
3 4 (12.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 8 (24.24%) Grafana
3 7 (21.21%) Prometheus
4 5 (15.15%) Ansible
4 5 (15.15%) Terraform
5 4 (12.12%) CSIRT
5 4 (12.12%) Puppet
6 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (3.03%) Kibana
7 1 (3.03%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (24.24%) Splunk
2 7 (21.21%) Atlassian
3 5 (15.15%) Jaspersoft
4 4 (12.12%) F5
4 4 (12.12%) Microsoft
4 4 (12.12%) webMethods
5 2 (6.06%) Google
5 2 (6.06%) Salesforce
6 1 (3.03%) AppDynamics
6 1 (3.03%) Oracle
6 1 (3.03%) Red Hat