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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 83 75
Rank change year-on-year -52 -8 +11
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 24 23 38
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.70% 1.42% 1.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 1.61% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 15 30
10th Percentile £400 £418 £338
25th Percentile £415 £453 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £475 £359
Median % change year-on-year -2.32% +32.31% -33.52%
75th Percentile £488 £500 £488
90th Percentile £533 £575 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%

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 2,945 1,429 1,601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.86% 88.37% 81.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,914 896 1,075
10th Percentile £313 £208 £275
25th Percentile £405 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.79% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £671 £675 £725
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 99 85
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £11.18
25th Percentile £21.02 £13.74 £14.00
Median hourly rate £33.99 £22.05 £18.97
Median % change year-on-year +54.15% +16.24% -24.87%
75th Percentile £59.50 £32.82 £37.50
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £57.75
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.43%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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
Solihull -11 9 - - 1
Birmingham -24 7 £475 -2.56% 1
Shropshire -49 3 £459 -0.22% 1
Coventry - 3 £475 - 1
Warwickshire -19 2 £400 -11.11% 1
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 (16.67%) Confluence
1 4 (16.67%) SAS
2 1 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.17%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 18 (75.00%) AWS
2 15 (62.50%) Amazon S3
3 14 (58.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 12 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (45.83%) Amazon SQS
5 11 (45.83%) AWS KMS
5 11 (45.83%) Route 53
6 8 (33.33%) Azure
7 4 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (12.50%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (12.50%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (12.50%) Power Platform
9 2 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (8.33%) GCP
9 2 (8.33%) GitHub
9 2 (8.33%) Serverless
10 1 (4.17%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (4.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (4.17%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (58.33%) Amazon RDS
1 14 (58.33%) DynamoDB
2 11 (45.83%) Amazon Aurora
2 11 (45.83%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (16.67%) Data Lake
3 4 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (12.50%) Apache Iceberg
4 3 (12.50%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (12.50%) Pentaho
4 3 (12.50%) Power BI
5 1 (4.17%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 13 (54.17%) Jenkins
2 12 (50.00%) JUnit
3 11 (45.83%) Bitbucket Server
3 11 (45.83%) DbUnit
3 11 (45.83%) Git
3 11 (45.83%) jMock
3 11 (45.83%) Maven
3 11 (45.83%) Mockito
3 11 (45.83%) SonarQube
4 5 (20.83%) JIRA
5 3 (12.50%) GitLab
6 1 (4.17%) Cucumber
6 1 (4.17%) JMeter
6 1 (4.17%) LoadRunner
6 1 (4.17%) Postman
6 1 (4.17%) REST Assured
6 1 (4.17%) Selenium
6 1 (4.17%) Serenity BDD
6 1 (4.17%) TeamCity
6 1 (4.17%) TestNG
General
1 12 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 9 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (8.33%) Finance
6 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (58.33%) Developer
2 11 (45.83%) Java Developer
3 7 (29.17%) Senior
4 4 (16.67%) Data Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Senior Developer
5 3 (12.50%) AWS Data Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Lead
6 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Scrum Master
7 1 (4.17%) Automation Tester
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) iOS Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Operations Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Senior Software Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Software Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (50.00%) REST
1 12 (50.00%) Web Services
2 11 (45.83%) ActiveMQ
2 11 (45.83%) AngularJS
2 11 (45.83%) Bootstrap
2 11 (45.83%) Hibernate
2 11 (45.83%) JPA
2 11 (45.83%) PowerMock
2 11 (45.83%) RESTful
2 11 (45.83%) SOAP
2 11 (45.83%) Spring
2 11 (45.83%) Spring Batch
2 11 (45.83%) Spring Boot
2 11 (45.83%) Spring Integration
3 10 (41.67%) Spring Cloud
4 7 (29.17%) Node.js
5 2 (8.33%) JSON
5 2 (8.33%) YAML
6 1 (4.17%) Django
6 1 (4.17%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 11 (45.83%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (20.83%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.17%) Blog
4 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 11 (45.83%) Linux
2 2 (8.33%) Android
3 1 (4.17%) Apple iOS
3 1 (4.17%) VMS
3 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (87.50%) Agile
2 18 (75.00%) DevOps
3 17 (70.83%) Scrum
4 16 (66.67%) CI/CD
5 14 (58.33%) Open Source
5 14 (58.33%) TDD
6 13 (54.17%) BDD
7 12 (50.00%) Containerisation
7 12 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (45.83%) Decision-Making
8 11 (45.83%) Kanban
8 11 (45.83%) Microservices
9 6 (25.00%) BPMN
10 5 (20.83%) Observability
11 4 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
11 4 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
11 4 (16.67%) Data Modelling
11 4 (16.67%) Risk Management
11 4 (16.67%) Software Delivery
11 4 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 16 (66.67%) SQL
2 13 (54.17%) Java
3 8 (33.33%) Python
4 2 (8.33%) Go
4 2 (8.33%) Kotlin
5 1 (4.17%) Bash
5 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.17%) Swift
Qualifications
1 13 (54.17%) Security Cleared
2 11 (45.83%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 3 (12.50%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 12 (50.00%) Docker
2 9 (37.50%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 15 (62.50%) Grafana
2 6 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 6 (25.00%) Terraform
3 2 (8.33%) Argo
3 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (8.33%) Kustomize
4 1 (4.17%) Ansible
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 11 (45.83%) Atlassian
1 11 (45.83%) Jaspersoft
2 4 (16.67%) Informatica
3 3 (12.50%) Denodo
3 3 (12.50%) Dynatrace
3 3 (12.50%) Oracle
4 2 (8.33%) Google
4 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.17%) Citrix
5 1 (4.17%) Databricks
5 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow