The first table below looks at the demand for Continuous Integration skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh 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 49 52 66
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +14
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 8 11 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.960% 1.012% 0.154%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.401% 1.513% 0.233%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 2
Average daily rate £375 £343 £296
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.48% +15.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £315 £333 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £453 £369 £327
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
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
571 727 857
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 68.55% 66.88% 66.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 362 465
Average daily rate £413 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £246 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £475 £535
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 16 8
Average hourly rate £20.00 £27.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-27.27% +57.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.88 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.45 £39.00 £43.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Continuous Integration
Scotland

Continuous Integration
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh 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 7 (87.50%) CSS
1 7 (87.50%) HTML
1 7 (87.50%) HTML5
2 6 (75.00%) TDD
3 5 (62.50%) Java
3 5 (62.50%) JavaScript
3 5 (62.50%) XHTML
4 3 (37.50%) Adobe
4 3 (37.50%) Flash
4 3 (37.50%) Ruby
4 3 (37.50%) Ajax
5 2 (25.00%) CSS3
5 2 (25.00%) Smartphone
5 2 (25.00%) Multimedia
5 2 (25.00%) Subversion
5 2 (25.00%) Web Development
5 2 (25.00%) jQuery
5 2 (25.00%) Web Services
5 2 (25.00%) Finance
5 2 (25.00%) Scrum
6 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (12.50%) CMS
6 1 (12.50%) Financial Institution
6 1 (12.50%) MVC
6 1 (12.50%) SAX
6 1 (12.50%) HP
6 1 (12.50%) TeamSite
6 1 (12.50%) CICS
6 1 (12.50%) W3C
6 1 (12.50%) Mainframe

Continuous Integration
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 7 (87.50%) CSS
1 7 (87.50%) HTML
1 7 (87.50%) HTML5
2 5 (62.50%) XHTML
3 3 (37.50%) Flash
3 3 (37.50%) Ajax
4 2 (25.00%) CSS3
4 2 (25.00%) jQuery
4 2 (25.00%) Web Services
5 1 (12.50%) SAX
5 1 (12.50%) XML
5 1 (12.50%) DOM
5 1 (12.50%) XSLT
5 1 (12.50%) Ext JS
5 1 (12.50%) CodeIgniter
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) CMS
1 1 (12.50%) TeamSite
1 1 (12.50%) CICS
1 1 (12.50%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Subversion
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) FogBugz
General
1 2 (25.00%) Multimedia
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Lead Designer
2 3 (37.50%) Lead Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Front-End Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Designer
3 1 (12.50%) PHP Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Smartphone
2 1 (12.50%) W3C
2 1 (12.50%) Mainframe
2 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Android
1 1 (12.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) TDD
2 2 (25.00%) Web Development
2 2 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (12.50%) MVC
3 1 (12.50%) UML
3 1 (12.50%) OO
3 1 (12.50%) Kanban
3 1 (12.50%) Content Management
3 1 (12.50%) Document Management
3 1 (12.50%) Requirements Management
3 1 (12.50%) Mobile Application Development
3 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Content Management
3 1 (12.50%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Java
1 5 (62.50%) JavaScript
2 3 (37.50%) Ruby
3 1 (12.50%) COBOL
3 1 (12.50%) PHP
3 1 (12.50%) XPath
3 1 (12.50%) PHP5
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) WAI
1 1 (12.50%) Section 508
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Adobe
2 1 (12.50%) HP
2 1 (12.50%) IBM