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 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 84 82
Rank change year-on-year -55 -2 -7
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 22 14 28
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.69% 1.01% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 1.14% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 21
10th Percentile £400 £405 £350
25th Percentile £435 £437 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £469 £360
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% +30.21% -33.33%
75th Percentile £488 £500 £488
90th Percentile £538 £575 £688
England median daily rate £525 £521 £550
% change year-on-year +0.86% -5.36% -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 2,655 1,228 1,588
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.44% 88.79% 83.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,714 797 1,063
10th Percentile £313 £195 £275
25th Percentile £404 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £673 £750
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 57 115
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £11.09
25th Percentile £22.50 £13.78 £14.06
Median hourly rate £34.38 £19.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +80.92% -15.56% +3.73%
75th Percentile £67.84 £28.18 £41.13
90th Percentile £72.54 £51.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £45.25 £28.48 £36.50
% change year-on-year +58.88% -21.97% -2.14%

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 24 May 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 24 May 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 -8 9 - -
Birmingham -25 5 £438 -7.89% 1
Shropshire -48 4 £459 -0.22%
Coventry - 3 £475 -
Worcestershire -3 1 £575 +4.55%
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 (18.18%) Confluence
1 4 (18.18%) SAS
2 1 (4.55%) Anypoint
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 17 (77.27%) AWS
2 15 (68.18%) Amazon S3
3 14 (63.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 12 (54.55%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
5 11 (50.00%) AWS KMS
5 11 (50.00%) Route 53
6 7 (31.82%) Azure
7 3 (13.64%) Amazon EMR
7 3 (13.64%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (13.64%) Power Platform
8 2 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (9.09%) GitHub
8 2 (9.09%) Serverless
9 1 (4.55%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (4.55%) GCP
9 1 (4.55%) Google Play
9 1 (4.55%) iPaaS
9 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (63.64%) Amazon RDS
1 14 (63.64%) DynamoDB
2 11 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 11 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (18.18%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (18.18%) Data Lake
3 4 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (13.64%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (13.64%) Apache Iceberg
4 3 (13.64%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (13.64%) Pentaho
4 3 (13.64%) Power BI
5 1 (4.55%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 12 (54.55%) Jenkins
1 12 (54.55%) JUnit
2 11 (50.00%) Bitbucket Server
2 11 (50.00%) DbUnit
2 11 (50.00%) Git
2 11 (50.00%) jMock
2 11 (50.00%) Maven
2 11 (50.00%) Mockito
2 11 (50.00%) SonarQube
3 5 (22.73%) JIRA
4 3 (13.64%) GitLab
5 1 (4.55%) Cucumber
5 1 (4.55%) JMeter
5 1 (4.55%) LoadRunner
5 1 (4.55%) Postman
5 1 (4.55%) REST Assured
5 1 (4.55%) Selenium
5 1 (4.55%) Serenity BDD
5 1 (4.55%) TeamCity
5 1 (4.55%) TestNG
General
1 12 (54.55%) Public Sector
2 9 (40.91%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Finance
4 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (63.64%) Developer
2 11 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 7 (31.82%) Senior
4 4 (18.18%) Data Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Senior Developer
5 3 (13.64%) AWS Data Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Architect
7 1 (4.55%) DataOps Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) FPGA Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Lead
7 1 (4.55%) MuleSoft Architect
7 1 (4.55%) Senior Software Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Software Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Technical Architect
7 1 (4.55%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (54.55%) Web Services
2 11 (50.00%) ActiveMQ
2 11 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 11 (50.00%) Bootstrap
2 11 (50.00%) Hibernate
2 11 (50.00%) JPA
2 11 (50.00%) PowerMock
2 11 (50.00%) REST
2 11 (50.00%) RESTful
2 11 (50.00%) SOAP
2 11 (50.00%) Spring
2 11 (50.00%) Spring Batch
2 11 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 11 (50.00%) Spring Integration
3 10 (45.45%) Spring Cloud
4 7 (31.82%) Node.js
5 1 (4.55%) Django
5 1 (4.55%) Gherkin
5 1 (4.55%) SciPy
5 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (18.18%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.55%) Blog
3 1 (4.55%) FPGA
3 1 (4.55%) MicroBlaze
3 1 (4.55%) RISC-V
3 1 (4.55%) Verilog
3 1 (4.55%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 12 (54.55%) Linux
2 2 (9.09%) Android
3 1 (4.55%) Apple iOS
3 1 (4.55%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (4.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (90.91%) Agile
2 17 (77.27%) Scrum
3 15 (68.18%) DevOps
4 14 (63.64%) Open Source
5 13 (59.09%) TDD
6 12 (54.55%) CI/CD
6 12 (54.55%) Containerisation
6 12 (54.55%) Microservices
7 11 (50.00%) BDD
7 11 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (45.45%) Decision-Making
9 9 (40.91%) Kanban
10 6 (27.27%) BPMN
11 4 (18.18%) Data Modelling
11 4 (18.18%) Observability
11 4 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
11 4 (18.18%) Risk Management
11 4 (18.18%) Software Engineering
12 3 (13.64%) Data Pipeline
12 3 (13.64%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 17 (77.27%) SQL
2 13 (59.09%) Java
3 7 (31.82%) Python
4 2 (9.09%) Kotlin
5 1 (4.55%) C
5 1 (4.55%) C++
5 1 (4.55%) Go
5 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.55%) MATLAB
5 1 (4.55%) PL/SQL
5 1 (4.55%) Swift
5 1 (4.55%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 14 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 12 (54.55%) SC Cleared
3 3 (13.64%) AWS Certification
3 3 (13.64%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 12 (54.55%) Docker
2 9 (40.91%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 14 (63.64%) Grafana
2 5 (22.73%) Prometheus
2 5 (22.73%) Terraform
3 1 (4.55%) Argo
3 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.55%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 11 (50.00%) Atlassian
1 11 (50.00%) Jaspersoft
2 4 (18.18%) Informatica
3 3 (13.64%) Denodo
3 3 (13.64%) Dynatrace
3 3 (13.64%) Oracle
4 2 (9.09%) Google
5 1 (4.55%) Databricks
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.55%) MuleSoft
5 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow