The first table below looks at the demand for Continuous Integration skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London 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 City of London 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 101 124 107
Rank change year-on-year
+23 -17
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 110 94 157
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 1.724% 1.195% 1.603%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.345% 1.666% 2.232%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 66 114
Average daily rate £425 £481 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.68% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £331 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £558 £650 £668
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
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
4690 5642 7035
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 73.52% 71.74% 71.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3529 4083 5194
Average daily rate £450 £463 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.70% -7.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 98 100
Average hourly rate £41.50 £24.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+72.91% -4.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.20 £15.00 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £47.50 £50.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Continuous Integration
London

Continuous Integration
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Continuous Integration Daily Rate Trend

Continuous Integration
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Continuous Integration across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London Continuous Integration Daily Rate Histogram

Continuous Integration
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 93 (43.26%) TDD
2 87 (40.47%) Java
3 67 (31.16%) .NET
4 65 (30.23%) Agile Software Development
5 61 (28.37%) CSS
6 60 (27.91%) Scrum
7 57 (26.51%) HTML
7 57 (26.51%) JavaScript
8 55 (25.58%) C#
8 55 (25.58%) Banking
9 49 (22.79%) BDD
10 47 (21.86%) Finance
11 44 (20.47%) Subversion
11 44 (20.47%) OO
12 37 (17.21%) Linux
12 37 (17.21%) Ruby
13 36 (16.74%) Selenium
13 36 (16.74%) TeamCity
14 35 (16.28%) Web Services
14 35 (16.28%) SQL
15 33 (15.35%) XML
16 32 (14.88%) MVC
16 32 (14.88%) Jenkins
17 31 (14.42%) Spring
18 30 (13.95%) CruiseControl
19 29 (13.49%) J2EE
20 28 (13.02%) Maven
20 28 (13.02%) Unit Testing
21 27 (12.56%) Cucumber
21 27 (12.56%) ASP.NET

Continuous Integration
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 67 (31.16%) .NET
2 61 (28.37%) CSS
3 57 (26.51%) HTML
4 35 (16.28%) Web Services
5 33 (15.35%) XML
6 31 (14.42%) Spring
7 29 (13.49%) J2EE
8 27 (12.56%) ASP.NET
9 26 (12.09%) HTML5
9 26 (12.09%) jQuery
10 25 (11.63%) JSON
11 23 (10.70%) Hibernate
12 17 (7.907%) ASP.NET MVC
12 17 (7.907%) Grails
13 16 (7.442%) .NET Framework
13 16 (7.442%) RESTful
14 14 (6.512%) Ajax
15 11 (5.116%) CSS3
16 9 (4.186%) REST
17 8 (3.721%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 20 (9.302%) Apache
2 10 (4.651%) WebLogic
3 8 (3.721%) CMS
4 7 (3.256%) Amazon AWS
5 6 (2.791%) Tomcat
6 5 (2.326%) IIS
6 5 (2.326%) Sitecore CMS
6 5 (2.326%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (1.860%) Confluence
7 4 (1.860%) Umbraco
7 4 (1.860%) MQSeries
8 3 (1.395%) Rendezvous
8 3 (1.395%) BizTalk Server
8 3 (1.395%) Kentico
8 3 (1.395%) EPiServer CMS
8 3 (1.395%) Adobe CQ
8 3 (1.395%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.930%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.930%) nginx
10 1 (0.465%) ActiveMQ
Applications
1 10 (4.651%) MS Excel
2 7 (3.256%) Photoshop
3 3 (1.395%) Fireworks
4 1 (0.465%) PowerPivot
Communications & Networking
1 23 (10.70%) HTTP
2 10 (4.651%) Kerberos
3 9 (4.186%) Internet
4 3 (1.395%) LDAP
5 2 (0.930%) Intranet
5 2 (0.930%) Extranet
5 2 (0.930%) SMS
6 1 (0.465%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.465%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.465%) Cisco IPT
6 1 (0.465%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (12.09%) SQL Server
2 11 (5.116%) SQL Server 2008
3 8 (3.721%) NoSQL
3 8 (3.721%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (3.256%) SQL Server 2005
4 7 (3.256%) MySQL
5 6 (2.791%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.860%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.395%) Redis
7 3 (1.395%) MarkLogic
8 2 (0.930%) Neo4j
8 2 (0.930%) VLDB
8 2 (0.930%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.465%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 1 (0.465%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.465%) Oracle 10g
9 1 (0.465%) Oracle 8/8i
9 1 (0.465%) DB2
9 1 (0.465%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.465%) KDB
Development Applications
1 44 (20.47%) Subversion
2 36 (16.74%) Selenium
2 36 (16.74%) TeamCity
3 32 (14.88%) Jenkins
4 30 (13.95%) CruiseControl
5 28 (13.02%) Maven
6 27 (12.56%) Cucumber
7 23 (10.70%) JUnit
7 23 (10.70%) Hudson
8 17 (7.907%) JIRA
8 17 (7.907%) Ant
8 17 (7.907%) NUnit
9 14 (6.512%) Git (software)
10 12 (5.581%) Team Foundation Server
10 12 (5.581%) Visual Studio
11 9 (4.186%) VSS/SourceSafe
11 9 (4.186%) Eclipse
12 8 (3.721%) WebDriver
13 7 (3.256%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 7 (3.256%) MSBuild
General
1 55 (25.58%) Banking
2 47 (21.86%) Finance
3 24 (11.16%) Investment Banking
4 11 (5.116%) Front Office
5 7 (3.256%) Retail
6 3 (1.395%) Publishing
7 2 (0.930%) Financial Institution
7 2 (0.930%) Advertising
8 1 (0.465%) Music
8 1 (0.465%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.465%) Billing
8 1 (0.465%) Games
8 1 (0.465%) Back Office
8 1 (0.465%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.465%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 121 (56.28%) Developer
2 33 (15.35%) Java Developer
3 25 (11.63%) .NET Developer
4 16 (7.442%) C# Developer
4 16 (7.442%) Analyst
4 16 (7.442%) Senior Developer
5 14 (6.512%) Agile Java Developer
6 12 (5.581%) ASP.NET Developer
7 11 (5.116%) Build Manager
8 10 (4.651%) Application Security Analyst
8 10 (4.651%) Security Analyst
9 9 (4.186%) UI Developer
9 9 (4.186%) Build Engineer
9 9 (4.186%) iOS Developer
9 9 (4.186%) UI Programmer
10 8 (3.721%) C# .NET Developer
10 8 (3.721%) Front-End Developer
10 8 (3.721%) Architect
10 8 (3.721%) JavaScript Developer
11 6 (2.791%) Ruby Developer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.512%) Fixed Income
2 13 (6.047%) Open Source
3 10 (4.651%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (4.186%) Computer Science
5 6 (2.791%) iPhone
6 5 (2.326%) W3C
6 5 (2.326%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.860%) Equities
7 4 (1.860%) Derivative
8 3 (1.395%) PKI
8 3 (1.395%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.395%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.930%) Mathematics
9 2 (0.930%) Physics
9 2 (0.930%) Market Risk
9 2 (0.930%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.930%) N-Tier
9 2 (0.930%) Grid Computing
10 1 (0.465%) Equity Derivative
10 1 (0.465%) Interactive TV
Operating Systems
1 37 (17.21%) Linux
2 22 (10.23%) Windows
3 19 (8.837%) UNIX
4 13 (6.047%) Apple iOS
5 8 (3.721%) Android
6 3 (1.395%) Windows Mobile
6 3 (1.395%) Debian
7 2 (0.930%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.930%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.465%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.465%) VMS
8 1 (0.465%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.465%) AIX
8 1 (0.465%) Solaris
8 1 (0.465%) CentOS
8 1 (0.465%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (43.26%) TDD
2 65 (30.23%) Agile Software Development
3 60 (27.91%) Scrum
4 49 (22.79%) BDD
5 44 (20.47%) OO
6 32 (14.88%) MVC
7 28 (13.02%) Unit Testing
8 25 (11.63%) Multithreading
9 17 (7.907%) Refactoring
10 16 (7.442%) Asset Management
11 15 (6.977%) E-Commerce
12 12 (5.581%) Release Management
13 11 (5.116%) SOA
13 11 (5.116%) Web Development
14 10 (4.651%) Data Protection
14 10 (4.651%) User Acceptance Testing
15 9 (4.186%) MVVM
16 8 (3.721%) Test Automation
16 8 (3.721%) Configuration Management
16 8 (3.721%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 87 (40.47%) Java
2 57 (26.51%) JavaScript
3 55 (25.58%) C#
4 37 (17.21%) Ruby
5 35 (16.28%) SQL
6 18 (8.372%) Groovy
7 17 (7.907%) C++
8 15 (6.977%) Perl
9 12 (5.581%) Python
10 11 (5.116%) Bash shell
11 9 (4.186%) T-SQL
12 8 (3.721%) Scala
12 8 (3.721%) Objective-C
13 7 (3.256%) PHP
14 5 (2.326%) PL/SQL
14 5 (2.326%) C
15 4 (1.860%) VBA
16 3 (1.395%) ActionScript
17 2 (0.930%) F#
17 2 (0.930%) XPath
Qualifications
1 9 (4.186%) Degree
2 2 (0.930%) Postgraduate
2 2 (0.930%) PhD
2 2 (0.930%) Sun Certification
3 1 (0.465%) LPIC
3 1 (0.465%) PMP
3 1 (0.465%) PMI Certification
3 1 (0.465%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (0.465%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.372%) QA
2 5 (2.326%) ISO 9001
2 5 (2.326%) WAI
3 1 (0.465%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (1.395%) vCloud
2 1 (0.465%) ClearTrust
2 1 (0.465%) Xen
Systems Management
1 10 (4.651%) CA SiteMinder
2 8 (3.721%) Puppet
3 1 (0.465%) Business Desktop Deployment
Vendors
1 24 (11.16%) Oracle
2 21 (9.767%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.651%) CA
4 7 (3.256%) Sybase
5 6 (2.791%) Sitecore
5 6 (2.791%) JBoss
5 6 (2.791%) HP
6 5 (2.326%) Perforce
6 5 (2.326%) IBM
7 4 (1.860%) Atlassian
8 3 (1.395%) VMware
8 3 (1.395%) Infragistics
8 3 (1.395%) Charles River
8 3 (1.395%) TIBCO
8 3 (1.395%) Syncfusion
8 3 (1.395%) DevExpress
8 3 (1.395%) EPiServer
9 2 (0.930%) 29West
9 2 (0.930%) hybris
9 2 (0.930%) Zend
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perform root-cause analysis of issues found in software) * Continually enhance testing and development processes to improve defect prevention, development efficiency and quality Required skills: *Strong software testing...
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