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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 56 110
Rank change year-on-year -43 +54 -59
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 37 56 7
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.67% 3.10% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.90% 3.68% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 39 7
10th Percentile £409 £358 £515
25th Percentile £438 £425 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £700
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -28.57% +30.11%
75th Percentile £604 £669 £744
90th Percentile £892 £763 £750
England median daily rate £528 £549 £584
% change year-on-year -3.84% -6.03% -2.71%

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 1,944 1,523 1,626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 87.96% 84.24% 85.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,236 956 1,104
10th Percentile £263 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £612 £600
90th Percentile £675 £713 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 52 53
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.70 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.13 £16.07 £17.72
Median hourly rate £20.00 £21.80 £24.60
Median % change year-on-year -8.24% -11.40% +38.98%
75th Percentile £30.00 £34.06 £50.00
90th Percentile £40.46 £52.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

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 8 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 8 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 -29 17 £440 +22.91% 14
Birmingham -27 15 £525 -4.55% 7
Coventry -16 2 £388 -22.50% 4
Worcestershire - 2 £550 - 10
Warwickshire -14 1 £450 -10.00%
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 (24.32%) JBoss
2 8 (21.62%) Apache
2 8 (21.62%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.70%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 26 (70.27%) AWS
2 13 (35.14%) GCP
3 9 (24.32%) Serverless
4 8 (21.62%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (13.51%) Azure
6 4 (10.81%) Akamai
7 3 (8.11%) AWS KMS
8 2 (5.41%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (5.41%) GitHub
8 2 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (5.41%) OpenShift
9 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (2.70%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.81%) Firewall
1 4 (10.81%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (24.32%) NoSQL
2 8 (21.62%) MongoDB
3 5 (13.51%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.70%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (35.14%) Git
2 12 (32.43%) GitLab
2 12 (32.43%) Jenkins
3 9 (24.32%) JUnit
4 8 (21.62%) Eclipse
4 8 (21.62%) IntelliJ
4 8 (21.62%) Selenium
5 7 (18.92%) Liquibase
6 2 (5.41%) Bitbucket
6 2 (5.41%) JIRA
7 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (2.70%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (2.70%) Maven
7 1 (2.70%) Mockito
7 1 (2.70%) SonarQube
7 1 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (2.70%) TeamCity
7 1 (2.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 23 (62.16%) Social Skills
2 10 (27.03%) Finance
3 9 (24.32%) Banking
3 9 (24.32%) Financial Institution
4 8 (21.62%) Influencing Skills
4 8 (21.62%) Public Sector
5 4 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (24.32%) Cloud Engineer
2 8 (21.62%) Software Engineer
3 7 (18.92%) AWS Engineer
3 7 (18.92%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (18.92%) GCP Engineer
4 6 (16.22%) Cloud Software Engineer
5 5 (13.51%) Developer
5 5 (13.51%) Scala Engineer
5 5 (13.51%) Senior
6 4 (10.81%) AWS Software Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) GCP Software Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Java Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Senior DevOps
6 4 (10.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 4 (10.81%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (8.11%) Java Developer
8 2 (5.41%) AWS DevOps
8 2 (5.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 2 (5.41%) GCP DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (51.35%) REST
2 13 (35.14%) Play Framework
3 11 (29.73%) RESTful
4 10 (27.03%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (24.32%) Hibernate
5 9 (24.32%) JSON
5 9 (24.32%) Spring
6 8 (21.62%) EJB
6 8 (21.62%) HTML
6 8 (21.62%) HTML5
6 8 (21.62%) J2EE
6 8 (21.62%) J2SE
6 8 (21.62%) SOAP
6 8 (21.62%) XML
7 2 (5.41%) Spring Boot
8 1 (2.70%) GraphQL
8 1 (2.70%) OAuth2
8 1 (2.70%) React
8 1 (2.70%) Sass
8 1 (2.70%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (24.32%) Distributed Systems
1 9 (24.32%) Public Cloud
2 7 (18.92%) Cloud Native
3 4 (10.81%) Security Posture
4 2 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (27.03%) Linux
2 8 (21.62%) Unix
3 3 (8.11%) Windows
4 2 (5.41%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (97.30%) CI/CD
2 27 (72.97%) Agile
3 24 (64.86%) DevOps
4 22 (59.46%) Continuous Delivery
4 22 (59.46%) Microservices
5 19 (51.35%) Infrastructure as Code
6 15 (40.54%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (40.54%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (40.54%) Software Engineering
7 14 (37.84%) Infrastructure Automation
8 13 (35.14%) Containerisation
9 10 (27.03%) Deployment Automation
9 10 (27.03%) Scrum
10 9 (24.32%) Application Security
10 9 (24.32%) Computer Science
10 9 (24.32%) Cryptography
10 9 (24.32%) High Availability
10 9 (24.32%) Non-Functional Testing
10 9 (24.32%) Root Cause Analysis
11 8 (21.62%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 13 (35.14%) Scala
1 13 (35.14%) SQL
2 11 (29.73%) Python
3 9 (24.32%) Go
3 9 (24.32%) Java
4 2 (5.41%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.70%) Perl
5 1 (2.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (24.32%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (24.32%) Degree
1 9 (24.32%) Master's Degree
2 5 (13.51%) Security Cleared
3 4 (10.81%) AWS Certification
4 3 (8.11%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared
5 2 (5.41%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (5.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.41%) Azure Certification
5 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (51.35%) Docker
2 3 (8.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (37.84%) Kubernetes
2 11 (29.73%) Ansible
2 11 (29.73%) Terraform
3 9 (24.32%) Grafana
3 9 (24.32%) Prometheus
4 8 (21.62%) Puppet
5 4 (10.81%) CSIRT
6 2 (5.41%) Kibana
6 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (2.70%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 14 (37.84%) Splunk
2 8 (21.62%) webMethods
3 4 (10.81%) F5
3 4 (10.81%) Google
4 3 (8.11%) Salesforce
5 2 (5.41%) Atlassian
5 2 (5.41%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.70%) AppDynamics
6 1 (2.70%) Red Hat