The first table below looks at the demand for Continuous Integration skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Continuous Integration over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Birmingham region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Continuous Integration
Rank 42 55 -
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.228% 0.161% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.338% 0.252% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £330 £360
% change year-on-year
+6.06% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £37.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+8.10% +1.36%
All Processes & Methodologies
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
296 397 297
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 67.43% 63.93% 57.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 214 183
Average daily rate £358 £340 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.14% -2.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £525 £493
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 20 10
Average hourly rate £34.75 £15.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+131.66% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.28 £12.00 £10.99
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £133.60 £39.00 £127.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Continuous Integration
West Midlands

Continuous Integration
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Continuous Integration across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Birmingham Continuous Integration Jobs Demand Trend

Continuous Integration
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Continuous Integration across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham Continuous Integration Daily Rate Trend

Continuous Integration
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Continuous Integration also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Continuous Integration.

1 4 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (66.67%) Open Source
2 3 (50.00%) Kanban
2 3 (50.00%) TDD
2 3 (50.00%) Java EE
2 3 (50.00%) Internet
2 3 (50.00%) Scrum
2 3 (50.00%) Extreme Programming
2 3 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) J2EE
2 3 (50.00%) BDD
2 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (33.33%) CSS
3 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (33.33%) C#
3 2 (33.33%) HTML
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (33.33%) .NET
3 2 (33.33%) Refactoring
3 2 (33.33%) WCF
3 2 (33.33%) Pair Programming
3 2 (33.33%) TeamCity
3 2 (33.33%) WebSphere
4 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
4 1 (16.67%) JBehave
4 1 (16.67%) MSF
4 1 (16.67%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (16.67%) Cucumber

Continuous Integration
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Continuous Integration also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Continuous Integration. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (50.00%) Java EE
1 3 (50.00%) J2EE
2 2 (33.33%) CSS
2 2 (33.33%) HTML
2 2 (33.33%) .NET
2 2 (33.33%) WCF
2 2 (33.33%) WebSphere
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
3 1 (16.67%) Ajax
3 1 (16.67%) Windows SharePoint Services
3 1 (16.67%) WPF
3 1 (16.67%) WF
3 1 (16.67%) Silverlight
3 1 (16.67%) LAMP
3 1 (16.67%) Web Services
3 1 (16.67%) XML
3 1 (16.67%) ADO.NET
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (16.67%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (16.67%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (16.67%) Drupal
2 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (16.67%) IIS
2 1 (16.67%) SharePoint Foundation
2 1 (16.67%) Pressflow
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) InfoPath
1 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
1 1 (16.67%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) TeamCity
3 1 (16.67%) JBehave
3 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
3 1 (16.67%) Git (software)
3 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio Team System
3 1 (16.67%) NUnit
3 1 (16.67%) CruiseControl
3 1 (16.67%) Selenium
3 1 (16.67%) FitNesse
3 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
3 1 (16.67%) MSBuild
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Agile Java Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Drupal Developer
3 1 (16.67%) PHP Drupal Developer
3 1 (16.67%) SharePoint Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Open Source
2 1 (16.67%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (50.00%) Kanban
2 3 (50.00%) TDD
2 3 (50.00%) Scrum
2 3 (50.00%) Extreme Programming
2 3 (50.00%) BDD
3 2 (33.33%) Refactoring
3 2 (33.33%) Pair Programming
4 1 (16.67%) MSF
4 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Unified Process
4 1 (16.67%) UML
4 1 (16.67%) OOA/OOD
4 1 (16.67%) OO
4 1 (16.67%) RUP
4 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
4 1 (16.67%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
3 1 (16.67%) VB.NET
3 1 (16.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle