Continuous Integration Contracts in the West Midlands

Continuous Integration
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Continuous Integration skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Continuous Integration over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 83 58
Rank change year-on-year +1 -25 +40
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 15 28 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.12% 1.44% 3.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 1.71% 4.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 22 70
10th Percentile £427 £351 £450
25th Percentile £455 £358 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £365 £540
Median % change year-on-year +36.99% -32.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £525 £488 -
90th Percentile £545 £688 £595
England median daily rate £525 £554 £590
% change year-on-year -5.29% -6.04% -1.67%

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 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Continuous Integration in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Continuous Integration in the West Midlands

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Continuous Integration in the West Midlands

Continuous Integration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Continuous Integration in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Continuous Integration in the West Midlands

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 1 May 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 +19 4 £478 -4.40% 9
Warwickshire 0 3 £500 -25.93% 2
Solihull - 3 £500 -
Shropshire -16 2 £461 +28.84% 5
Staffordshire - 2 £550 - 7
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 2 (13.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) NetSuite
2 1 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) AWS
2 6 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 6 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 5 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (20.00%) AWS KMS
4 3 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (20.00%) Azure
4 3 (20.00%) Route 53
4 3 (20.00%) Serverless
5 2 (13.33%) AWS CodeCommit
5 2 (13.33%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 2 (13.33%) Boomi
5 2 (13.33%) GCP
5 2 (13.33%) OCI
5 2 (13.33%) PaaS
5 2 (13.33%) SaaS
6 1 (6.67%) GitHub
6 1 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (26.67%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (26.67%) Relational Database
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (20.00%) DynamoDB
3 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
5 1 (6.67%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Git
2 4 (26.67%) Jenkins
3 3 (20.00%) Bitbucket Server
3 3 (20.00%) DbUnit
3 3 (20.00%) jMock
3 3 (20.00%) JUnit
3 3 (20.00%) Maven
3 3 (20.00%) Mockito
3 3 (20.00%) SonarQube
4 2 (13.33%) JIRA
5 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Finance
3 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Developer
2 4 (26.67%) AWS Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Lead
3 3 (20.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 3 (20.00%) Java Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Python Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Python Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Data Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Desktop Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Lead Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Lead Java Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Product Owner
5 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Leader
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) REST
2 4 (26.67%) AngularJS
2 4 (26.67%) RESTful
3 3 (20.00%) .NET
3 3 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
3 3 (20.00%) Bootstrap
3 3 (20.00%) Django
3 3 (20.00%) Hibernate
3 3 (20.00%) JPA
3 3 (20.00%) PowerMock
3 3 (20.00%) React
3 3 (20.00%) SOAP
3 3 (20.00%) Spring
3 3 (20.00%) Spring Batch
3 3 (20.00%) Spring Boot
3 3 (20.00%) Spring Cloud
3 3 (20.00%) Spring Integration
3 3 (20.00%) Web Services
4 2 (13.33%) MACH
4 2 (13.33%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) Agile
2 12 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 10 (66.67%) Microservices
4 7 (46.67%) DevOps
4 7 (46.67%) Scrum
5 6 (40.00%) Containerisation
6 5 (33.33%) BDD
6 5 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
6 5 (33.33%) Software Delivery
6 5 (33.33%) TDD
7 4 (26.67%) Continuous Deployment
7 4 (26.67%) Front End Development
7 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (26.67%) Kanban
7 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (26.67%) Software Engineering
7 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (26.67%) Task Automation
8 3 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
8 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) SQL
2 7 (46.67%) Java
3 5 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 5 (33.33%) Python
4 2 (13.33%) R
5 1 (6.67%) C#
5 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) AWS Certification
2 2 (13.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (66.67%) Docker
2 3 (20.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (26.67%) Grafana
3 3 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Atlassian
1 3 (20.00%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle
3 1 (6.67%) Google
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Siemens
3 1 (6.67%) Splunk