Continuous Integration Job Trends in the West Midlands

Continuous Integration
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Continuous Integration skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 152 161
Rank change year-on-year -34 +9 -26
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Integration 24 31 64
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.28% 0.90% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 1.06% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 12 28 45
10th Percentile £46,304 £50,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,789 £57,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £61,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% -5.77% +8.33%
75th Percentile £74,985 £73,750 £74,144
90th Percentile - £75,000 £79,600
England median annual salary £68,724 £70,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year -1.82% +6.93% -5.73%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,963 2,927 4,992
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 69.17% 84.62% 78.73%
Number of salaries quoted 4,478 1,854 2,880
10th Percentile £31,738 £28,650 £28,119
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £36,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

Continuous Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Continuous Integration relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Continuous Integration job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Continuous Integration
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Continuous Integration.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Continuous Integration

Continuous Integration
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Continuous Integration in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 31 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Continuous Integration in the West Midlands

Continuous Integration
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Integration within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 August 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham -23 19 £69,015 -0.70% 11
Worcestershire - 2 £51,500 - 1
Shropshire -32 1 £47,500 -20.83%
Warwickshire - 1 £60,000 - 1
Coventry - 1 - - 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:

Cloud Services
1 18 (75.00%) AWS
2 15 (62.50%) Azure
3 4 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (12.50%) GitHub
5 2 (8.33%) IaaS
5 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (4.17%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (4.17%) GCP
6 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (8.33%) Power BI
1 2 (8.33%) Power Query
2 1 (4.17%) Metadata
2 1 (4.17%) Metadata Repository
2 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.17%) MySQL
2 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (41.67%) Git
2 8 (33.33%) GitLab
3 7 (29.17%) Cucumber
3 7 (29.17%) JUnit
3 7 (29.17%) Postman
3 7 (29.17%) Selenium
4 6 (25.00%) Gatling
4 6 (25.00%) Jenkins
5 3 (12.50%) Maven
6 2 (8.33%) Ant
6 2 (8.33%) Apache Ivy
6 2 (8.33%) IBM UrbanCode
7 1 (4.17%) Appium
7 1 (4.17%) Cypress.io
7 1 (4.17%) Gradle
7 1 (4.17%) JMeter
7 1 (4.17%) REST Assured
7 1 (4.17%) TestNG
7 1 (4.17%) TestRail
7 1 (4.17%) WebDriver
General
1 10 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 9 (37.50%) Public Sector
3 7 (29.17%) Finance
4 6 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Electronics
5 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Senior
2 6 (25.00%) Quality Engineer
3 5 (20.83%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (20.83%) Senior Quality Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Senior DevOps
4 4 (16.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Test Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Administrator
6 2 (8.33%) AWS Administrator
6 2 (8.33%) Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Software Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) C# .NET Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Data Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Lead
7 1 (4.17%) Lead Test Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (29.17%) Playwright
1 7 (29.17%) Terraform
2 3 (12.50%) RESTful
3 2 (8.33%) .NET
3 2 (8.33%) CSS
3 2 (8.33%) HTML
3 2 (8.33%) Node.js
4 1 (4.17%) .NET Framework
4 1 (4.17%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.17%) ASP.NET
4 1 (4.17%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (4.17%) CSS3
4 1 (4.17%) HTML5
4 1 (4.17%) JSON
4 1 (4.17%) React
4 1 (4.17%) REST
4 1 (4.17%) Vue
4 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 3 (12.50%) Public Cloud
2 2 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.17%) Client/Server
3 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.17%) IoT
3 1 (4.17%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 9 (37.50%) Linux
2 7 (29.17%) Unix
3 6 (25.00%) Windows
4 2 (8.33%) Solaris
4 2 (8.33%) Windows Server
5 1 (4.17%) Android
5 1 (4.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (91.67%) CI/CD
2 21 (87.50%) Agile
3 17 (70.83%) Test Automation
4 14 (58.33%) DevOps
4 14 (58.33%) Mentoring
5 13 (54.17%) Coaching
6 9 (37.50%) Continuous Delivery
6 9 (37.50%) Scrum
7 8 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
7 8 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (33.33%) TDD
8 7 (29.17%) Containerisation
8 7 (29.17%) End-to-End Testing
9 6 (25.00%) OWASP
9 6 (25.00%) Pair Programming
9 6 (25.00%) Software Testing
9 6 (25.00%) Test Strategy
9 6 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
10 5 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) Java
1 4 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 4 (16.67%) Python
2 3 (12.50%) SQL
3 2 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.17%) C#
Qualifications
1 13 (54.17%) Security Cleared
2 12 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Certification
3 2 (8.33%) Azure Certification
3 2 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.17%) Degree
4 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (37.50%) Accessibility
2 6 (25.00%) WCAG
3 2 (8.33%) SLA
4 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
4 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 14 (58.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (54.17%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.33%) Ansible
2 2 (8.33%) Argo
2 2 (8.33%) Progress Chef
2 2 (8.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) Pega
2 3 (12.50%) Workday
3 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow