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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 80 77
Rank change year-on-year -59 -3 +1
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 20 22 36
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.60% 1.49% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 1.68% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 15 29
10th Percentile £397 £418 £338
25th Percentile £428 £453 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £475 £358
Median % change year-on-year -2.32% +32.68% -33.70%
75th Percentile £488 £500 £488
90th Percentile £493 £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 2,817 1,309 1,661
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.90% 88.81% 80.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,857 825 1,094
10th Percentile £313 £200 £265
25th Percentile £405 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £481 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -3.80% -1.48%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £658 £738
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 82 121
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £11.13
25th Percentile £22.42 £14.81 £14.25
Median hourly rate £33.99 £24.34 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.65% +8.18% -8.16%
75th Percentile £61.00 £34.71 £40.00
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.06 £37.63
% change year-on-year +73.67% -28.07% +7.07%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 - -
Birmingham -34 5 £438 -10.26%
Shropshire -51 3 £459 -0.22%
Coventry - 3 £475 -
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 (20.00%) Confluence
1 4 (20.00%) SAS
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 17 (85.00%) AWS
2 15 (75.00%) Amazon S3
3 14 (70.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 12 (60.00%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (55.00%) Amazon SQS
5 11 (55.00%) AWS KMS
5 11 (55.00%) Route 53
6 7 (35.00%) Azure
7 3 (15.00%) Amazon EMR
7 3 (15.00%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (15.00%) Power Platform
8 2 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (10.00%) GitHub
8 2 (10.00%) Serverless
9 1 (5.00%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (5.00%) GCP
9 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (5.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (5.00%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (70.00%) Amazon RDS
1 14 (70.00%) DynamoDB
2 11 (55.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 11 (55.00%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (20.00%) Data Lake
3 4 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (15.00%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (15.00%) Apache Iceberg
4 3 (15.00%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (15.00%) Pentaho
4 3 (15.00%) Power BI
5 1 (5.00%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 12 (60.00%) Jenkins
1 12 (60.00%) JUnit
2 11 (55.00%) Bitbucket Server
2 11 (55.00%) DbUnit
2 11 (55.00%) Git
2 11 (55.00%) jMock
2 11 (55.00%) Maven
2 11 (55.00%) Mockito
2 11 (55.00%) SonarQube
3 5 (25.00%) JIRA
4 3 (15.00%) GitLab
5 1 (5.00%) Artifactory
5 1 (5.00%) Cucumber
5 1 (5.00%) LoadRunner
5 1 (5.00%) Postman
5 1 (5.00%) REST Assured
5 1 (5.00%) Selenium
5 1 (5.00%) Serenity BDD
5 1 (5.00%) TeamCity
5 1 (5.00%) TestNG
General
1 12 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 9 (45.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (70.00%) Developer
2 11 (55.00%) Java Developer
3 7 (35.00%) Senior
4 4 (20.00%) Data Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) Senior Developer
5 3 (15.00%) AWS Data Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Automation Tester
7 1 (5.00%) DataOps Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (5.00%) iOS Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Lead
7 1 (5.00%) Operations Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Senior Software Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Software Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (60.00%) Web Services
2 11 (55.00%) ActiveMQ
2 11 (55.00%) AngularJS
2 11 (55.00%) Bootstrap
2 11 (55.00%) Hibernate
2 11 (55.00%) JPA
2 11 (55.00%) PowerMock
2 11 (55.00%) REST
2 11 (55.00%) RESTful
2 11 (55.00%) SOAP
2 11 (55.00%) Spring
2 11 (55.00%) Spring Batch
2 11 (55.00%) Spring Boot
2 11 (55.00%) Spring Integration
3 10 (50.00%) Spring Cloud
4 7 (35.00%) Node.js
5 1 (5.00%) Django
5 1 (5.00%) JSON
5 1 (5.00%) ODBC
5 1 (5.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (55.00%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 11 (55.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Android
3 1 (5.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (5.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (90.00%) Agile
2 15 (75.00%) DevOps
2 15 (75.00%) Scrum
3 14 (70.00%) Open Source
4 13 (65.00%) TDD
5 12 (60.00%) CI/CD
5 12 (60.00%) Containerisation
6 11 (55.00%) BDD
6 11 (55.00%) Microservices
6 11 (55.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (50.00%) Decision-Making
8 9 (45.00%) Kanban
9 6 (30.00%) BPMN
10 4 (20.00%) Data Modelling
10 4 (20.00%) Observability
10 4 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
10 4 (20.00%) Risk Management
10 4 (20.00%) Software Engineering
11 3 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
11 3 (15.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 16 (80.00%) SQL
2 13 (65.00%) Java
3 6 (30.00%) Python
4 2 (10.00%) Kotlin
5 1 (5.00%) Go
5 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 13 (65.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (55.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (15.00%) AWS Certification
3 3 (15.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 12 (60.00%) Docker
2 9 (45.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 14 (70.00%) Grafana
2 5 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 5 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (5.00%) Argo
3 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.00%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 11 (55.00%) Atlassian
1 11 (55.00%) Jaspersoft
2 4 (20.00%) Informatica
3 3 (15.00%) Denodo
3 3 (15.00%) Dynatrace
3 3 (15.00%) Oracle
4 2 (10.00%) Google
5 1 (5.00%) Databricks
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow