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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 92 52
Rank change year-on-year -58 -40 +59
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 26 35 61
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.73% 1.87% 3.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 2.08% 3.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 24 43
10th Percentile £418 £429 £352
25th Percentile £450 £463 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.20% - -18.37%
75th Percentile £490 £538 £669
90th Percentile £525 £797 £755
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -12.50%

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 3,027 1,685 1,553
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.77% 90.01% 83.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,861 1,074 978
10th Percentile £317 £259 £227
25th Percentile £413 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -2.68% +2.75%
75th Percentile £582 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £683 £725
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 115 40
10th Percentile £13.45 £12.62 £14.66
25th Percentile £17.48 £16.40 £15.44
Median hourly rate £22.75 £23.05 £23.05
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% - -16.18%
75th Percentile £43.96 £31.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £58.33 £50.00 £52.78
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -5.56%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 -45 10 £475 +10.72%
Warwickshire -10 4 £475 +5.56% 5
Solihull -13 4 - -
Coventry -20 4 £450 +20.00% 2
Birmingham -17 3 £600 +20.00% 11
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 3 (11.54%) Confluence
1 3 (11.54%) SAS
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 13 (50.00%) AWS
2 7 (26.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 7 (26.92%) Amazon S3
3 4 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (15.38%) Amazon SQS
3 4 (15.38%) AWS KMS
3 4 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (15.38%) Route 53
4 3 (11.54%) Amazon EMR
4 3 (11.54%) Amazon Kinesis
4 3 (11.54%) Azure
4 3 (11.54%) Power Platform
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (7.69%) GCP
5 2 (7.69%) Serverless
6 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) Network Security
2 1 (3.85%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (26.92%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (26.92%) DynamoDB
2 4 (15.38%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (11.54%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (11.54%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (11.54%) Apache Iceberg
3 3 (11.54%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (11.54%) Data Lake
3 3 (11.54%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (11.54%) Pentaho
3 3 (11.54%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 5 (19.23%) JUnit
2 5 (19.23%) Maven
2 5 (19.23%) Mockito
3 4 (15.38%) Bitbucket Server
3 4 (15.38%) DbUnit
3 4 (15.38%) Git
3 4 (15.38%) GitLab
3 4 (15.38%) jMock
3 4 (15.38%) SonarQube
4 3 (11.54%) JIRA
General
1 13 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (38.46%) Public Sector
3 6 (23.08%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (15.38%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (7.69%) Finance
6 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) Developer
2 7 (26.92%) Scala Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Senior
4 4 (15.38%) Design Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Information Security Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Java Developer
4 4 (15.38%) Scala Developer
4 4 (15.38%) Security Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) AWS Data Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Data Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Lead
6 2 (7.69%) Scrum Master
7 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Java Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (34.62%) Play Framework
2 8 (30.77%) REST
3 6 (23.08%) RESTful
4 5 (19.23%) JPA
4 5 (19.23%) Spring
4 5 (19.23%) Spring Boot
4 5 (19.23%) Terraform
5 4 (15.38%) ActiveMQ
5 4 (15.38%) AngularJS
5 4 (15.38%) Bootstrap
5 4 (15.38%) Hibernate
5 4 (15.38%) PowerMock
5 4 (15.38%) SOAP
5 4 (15.38%) Spring Batch
5 4 (15.38%) Spring Integration
5 4 (15.38%) Web Services
6 3 (11.54%) Spring Cloud
7 2 (7.69%) Node.js
8 1 (3.85%) JSON
8 1 (3.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (34.62%) Cloud Native
2 4 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (15.38%) Operational Technology
2 4 (15.38%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.85%) Blog
3 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) Linux
2 1 (3.85%) VMS
2 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (96.15%) Agile
2 18 (69.23%) CI/CD
3 16 (61.54%) DevOps
3 16 (61.54%) Scrum
4 12 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (42.31%) Application Security
5 11 (42.31%) TDD
6 10 (38.46%) Microservices
7 9 (34.62%) Continuous Delivery
7 9 (34.62%) Integration Testing
8 8 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (26.92%) Containerisation
9 7 (26.92%) Decision-Making
9 7 (26.92%) Open Source
10 6 (23.08%) BDD
10 6 (23.08%) Data Protection
10 6 (23.08%) Kanban
10 6 (23.08%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 6 (23.08%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (38.46%) SQL
2 9 (34.62%) Scala
3 6 (23.08%) Python
4 5 (19.23%) Java
5 2 (7.69%) Go
6 1 (3.85%) Bash
6 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (46.15%) SC Cleared
3 4 (15.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 4 (15.38%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (15.38%) CCSP
3 4 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (15.38%) CISSP
3 4 (15.38%) Degree
4 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (23.08%) QA
System Software
1 5 (19.23%) Docker
2 3 (11.54%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 9 (34.62%) Grafana
2 3 (11.54%) Prometheus
3 2 (7.69%) Argo
3 2 (7.69%) Kibana
3 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 2 (7.69%) Kustomize
4 1 (3.85%) Ansible
4 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) Atlassian
1 4 (15.38%) Jaspersoft
2 3 (11.54%) Denodo
2 3 (11.54%) Dynatrace
2 3 (11.54%) Informatica
2 3 (11.54%) Oracle
3 1 (3.85%) Citrix
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft