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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 86 88
Rank change year-on-year -46 +2 -29
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 24 13 22
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.79% 0.94% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 1.07% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 7 18
10th Percentile £381 £437 -
25th Percentile £407 £456 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £373
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +34.23% -31.02%
75th Percentile £525 £531 £497
90th Percentile £599 £553 £688
England median daily rate £525 £534 £575
% change year-on-year -1.59% -7.22% -2.13%

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 2,523 1,220 1,615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.13% 88.41% 83.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,646 810 1,066
10th Percentile £305 £200 £275
25th Percentile £402 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £613
90th Percentile £653 £675 £734
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 56 115
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.62 £11.09
25th Percentile £17.09 £14.32 £14.00
Median hourly rate £27.24 £18.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.33% -20.00% +26.98%
75th Percentile £60.37 £23.87 £41.13
90th Percentile £70.98 £34.51 £57.75
England median hourly rate £42.50 £30.62 £35.00
% change year-on-year +38.82% -12.53% -6.67%

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 April 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 April 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 7 - -
Shropshire -35 7 £435 -5.80% 1
Birmingham -25 5 £475 -9.52% 2
Coventry - 4 £463 - 1
Worcestershire - 1 £575 -
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%) Apache
1 4 (16.67%) JBoss
1 4 (16.67%) WebLogic
2 1 (4.17%) Anypoint
2 1 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.17%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.17%) Confluence
2 1 (4.17%) SAS
2 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 18 (75.00%) AWS
2 10 (41.67%) Amazon EC2
2 10 (41.67%) Amazon S3
3 9 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 9 (37.50%) Amazon SQS
3 9 (37.50%) AWS KMS
3 9 (37.50%) Route 53
4 7 (29.17%) Azure
5 4 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (12.50%) GitHub
7 1 (4.17%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (4.17%) GCP
7 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (4.17%) Google Play
7 1 (4.17%) iPaaS
7 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (37.50%) Amazon Aurora
1 9 (37.50%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (37.50%) DynamoDB
1 9 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (16.67%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
3 1 (4.17%) Data Vault
3 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (62.50%) JUnit
2 14 (58.33%) Git
3 12 (50.00%) Jenkins
4 10 (41.67%) Maven
4 10 (41.67%) Mockito
5 9 (37.50%) Bitbucket Server
5 9 (37.50%) DbUnit
5 9 (37.50%) jMock
5 9 (37.50%) SonarQube
6 5 (20.83%) Selenium
7 4 (16.67%) Eclipse
7 4 (16.67%) IntelliJ
8 2 (8.33%) GitLab
8 2 (8.33%) JIRA
9 1 (4.17%) Artifactory
9 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
9 1 (4.17%) Cucumber
9 1 (4.17%) REST Assured
9 1 (4.17%) TeamCity
9 1 (4.17%) TestNG
General
1 13 (54.17%) Public Sector
2 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 7 (29.17%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (8.33%) Banking
6 2 (8.33%) Finance
7 1 (4.17%) Financial Institution
7 1 (4.17%) Retail
7 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (58.33%) Developer
2 11 (45.83%) Java Developer
3 5 (20.83%) Senior
4 4 (16.67%) Senior Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Java Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 1 (4.17%) AWS DevOps
7 1 (4.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) AWS Software Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Cloud Software Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Data Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (4.17%) MuleSoft Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Senior DevOps
7 1 (4.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (62.50%) REST
2 14 (58.33%) Hibernate
2 14 (58.33%) Spring
3 13 (54.17%) SOAP
4 11 (45.83%) RESTful
5 10 (41.67%) JPA
5 10 (41.67%) Spring Boot
5 10 (41.67%) Web Services
6 9 (37.50%) ActiveMQ
6 9 (37.50%) AngularJS
6 9 (37.50%) Bootstrap
6 9 (37.50%) PowerMock
6 9 (37.50%) Spring Batch
6 9 (37.50%) Spring Cloud
6 9 (37.50%) Spring Integration
7 6 (25.00%) JSON
7 6 (25.00%) Node.js
8 5 (20.83%) Play Framework
9 4 (16.67%) HTML5
9 4 (16.67%) J2SE
Miscellaneous
1 10 (41.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.17%) FPGA
2 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.17%) MicroBlaze
2 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.17%) RISC-V
2 1 (4.17%) Verilog
2 1 (4.17%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 11 (45.83%) Linux
2 4 (16.67%) Unix
3 2 (8.33%) Android
4 1 (4.17%) Apple iOS
4 1 (4.17%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (87.50%) Agile
2 17 (70.83%) DevOps
2 17 (70.83%) Microservices
2 17 (70.83%) Scrum
3 15 (62.50%) CI/CD
4 13 (54.17%) Open Source
5 12 (50.00%) Containerisation
5 12 (50.00%) TDD
6 9 (37.50%) BDD
7 7 (29.17%) Decision-Making
7 7 (29.17%) Kanban
8 6 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
8 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
8 6 (25.00%) Software Engineering
8 6 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (20.83%) BPMN
9 5 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (20.83%) Deployment Automation
9 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 18 (75.00%) SQL
2 16 (66.67%) Java
3 5 (20.83%) Scala
4 4 (16.67%) Python
5 2 (8.33%) Kotlin
6 1 (4.17%) C
6 1 (4.17%) C++
6 1 (4.17%) Go
6 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.17%) MATLAB
6 1 (4.17%) PL/SQL
6 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.17%) Swift
6 1 (4.17%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 11 (45.83%) Security Cleared
2 8 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) AWS Certification
4 2 (8.33%) Azure Certification
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.17%) Degree
5 1 (4.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 15 (62.50%) Docker
2 8 (33.33%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 10 (41.67%) Grafana
2 5 (20.83%) Prometheus
3 4 (16.67%) Puppet
4 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
4 2 (8.33%) Terraform
5 1 (4.17%) Ansible
5 1 (4.17%) Kibana
Vendors
1 9 (37.50%) Atlassian
1 9 (37.50%) Jaspersoft
2 4 (16.67%) webMethods
3 2 (8.33%) Google
4 1 (4.17%) Databricks
4 1 (4.17%) Informatica
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.17%) MuleSoft
4 1 (4.17%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.17%) Splunk