The first table below looks at the demand for Build Automation skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Build Automation over the 3 months to 23 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 England 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Build Automation
Rank 470 531 546
Rank change year-on-year
+61 +15
Contract jobs citing Build Automation 48 31 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.116% 0.058% 0.047%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.162% 0.085% 0.070%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 23 16
Average daily rate £450 £475 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.26% +5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £390 £328
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £575 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £390 £425
% change year-on-year
-3.84% -8.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Average hourly rate £32.50 - £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 - -
All Processes & Methodologies
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
29662 36514 38847
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 71.44% 68.38% 68.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 18132 21436 22477
Average daily rate £420 £413 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.81% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £588 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 906 1198 1411
Average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £28.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.00% -12.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £13.27 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Build Automation
UK

Build Automation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Build Automation Jobs Demand Trend

Build Automation
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Build Automation across the England region.

England Build Automation Daily Rate Trend

Build Automation
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Build Automation across the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

England Build Automation Daily Rate Histogram

Build Automation
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Build Automation across the England region.

England Build Automation Hourly Rate Trend

Build Automation
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Build Automation within the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +43 29 £450 -10.00%
South East +24 7 £300 -25.69%
East of England +20 7 £375 -21.05%
West Midlands - 3 £325 -
North West - 1 - -
Build Automation
UK

Build Automation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Build Automation 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 Build Automation.

1 39 (39.80%) Java
2 31 (31.63%) Agile Software Development
3 29 (29.59%) Continuous Integration
3 29 (29.59%) SQL
4 28 (28.57%) Linux
5 23 (23.47%) Finance
6 22 (22.45%) Microsoft
6 22 (22.45%) Oracle
7 20 (20.41%) Scrum
7 20 (20.41%) PowerShell
8 19 (19.39%) JIRA
9 18 (18.37%) Subversion
9 18 (18.37%) Shell Script
9 18 (18.37%) UNIX
10 17 (17.35%) Ant
10 17 (17.35%) Hudson
11 16 (16.33%) Python
11 16 (16.33%) TDD
11 16 (16.33%) Automated Testing
12 15 (15.31%) Selenium
12 15 (15.31%) Release Management
12 15 (15.31%) VMware
13 14 (14.29%) .NET
13 14 (14.29%) SQL Server
14 13 (13.27%) Windows
14 13 (13.27%) Web Services
14 13 (13.27%) C#
14 13 (13.27%) QA
14 13 (13.27%) Change Control
15 11 (11.22%) Citrix

Build Automation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Build Automation 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 Build Automation. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 14 (14.29%) .NET
2 13 (13.27%) Web Services
3 10 (10.20%) XML
4 9 (9.184%) SOAP
5 5 (5.102%) REST
5 5 (5.102%) Spring
6 4 (4.082%) Middleware
6 4 (4.082%) J2EE
6 4 (4.082%) HTML
6 4 (4.082%) CSS
6 4 (4.082%) Java EE
6 4 (4.082%) WCF
6 4 (4.082%) soapUI
7 3 (3.061%) Underscore.js
7 3 (3.061%) JPA
7 3 (3.061%) Spring MVC
7 3 (3.061%) Grails
7 3 (3.061%) jQuery
7 3 (3.061%) Taglibs
7 3 (3.061%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 9 (9.184%) Tomcat
1 9 (9.184%) Confluence
2 3 (3.061%) Oracle Application Server
3 2 (2.041%) Apache
3 2 (2.041%) Amazon AWS
4 1 (1.020%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.020%) Apache Pig
4 1 (1.020%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.020%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (1.020%) Oracle 10gAS
4 1 (1.020%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 6 (6.122%) Mingle
2 4 (4.082%) MS Excel
3 3 (3.061%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.020%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.143%) TCP/IP
2 4 (4.082%) SAN
2 4 (4.082%) Network Security
3 2 (2.041%) BIG-IP
3 2 (2.041%) SSH
4 1 (1.020%) WAAS
4 1 (1.020%) FWSM
4 1 (1.020%) NAS
4 1 (1.020%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (1.020%) LAN
4 1 (1.020%) WAN
4 1 (1.020%) DHCP
4 1 (1.020%) VPN
4 1 (1.020%) DNS
4 1 (1.020%) MPLS
4 1 (1.020%) IPsec
4 1 (1.020%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.122%) Oracle 11g
3 4 (4.082%) Oracle 8/8i
3 4 (4.082%) Oracle 10g
4 3 (3.061%) RDBMS
4 3 (3.061%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.041%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.020%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.020%) HBase
6 1 (1.020%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (1.020%) JasperReports
6 1 (1.020%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (1.020%) MySQL
6 1 (1.020%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (1.020%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 19 (19.39%) JIRA
2 18 (18.37%) Subversion
3 17 (17.35%) Ant
3 17 (17.35%) Hudson
4 15 (15.31%) Selenium
5 11 (11.22%) Jenkins
6 10 (10.20%) JUnit
6 10 (10.20%) Maven
7 9 (9.184%) Team Foundation Server
7 9 (9.184%) WebDriver
8 8 (8.163%) MSBuild
8 8 (8.163%) Visual Studio
9 6 (6.122%) TeamCity
9 6 (6.122%) dbdeploy
10 5 (5.102%) JBehave
11 4 (4.082%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (3.061%) SpecFlow
12 3 (3.061%) Cucumber
12 3 (3.061%) Git (software)
12 3 (3.061%) Mercurial
General
1 23 (23.47%) Finance
2 6 (6.122%) Banking
3 5 (5.102%) Games
4 4 (4.082%) Publishing
4 4 (4.082%) Investment Banking
5 2 (2.041%) Front Office
5 2 (2.041%) Back Office
6 1 (1.020%) General Ledger
6 1 (1.020%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (23.47%) Developer
2 12 (12.24%) Build Manager
3 10 (10.20%) DBA
4 9 (9.184%) Java Developer
4 9 (9.184%) Oracle DBA
5 8 (8.163%) Deployment Manager
6 7 (7.143%) Build Engineer
7 6 (6.122%) Analyst
8 5 (5.102%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (5.102%) Excel Developer
9 4 (4.082%) Configuration Manager
9 4 (4.082%) C++/Java Developer
9 4 (4.082%) Test Leader
10 3 (3.061%) Automation Specialist
10 3 (3.061%) Automation Tester
10 3 (3.061%) Automation Analyst
10 3 (3.061%) Senior Automation Tester
10 3 (3.061%) Front-End Developer
10 3 (3.061%) Technical Business Analyst
10 3 (3.061%) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.163%) Thin Client
1 8 (8.163%) Fat Client
2 4 (4.082%) Replication
3 3 (3.061%) iPad
3 3 (3.061%) Open Source
3 3 (3.061%) Computer Science
4 2 (2.041%) Fixed Income
4 2 (2.041%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.041%) Derivative
4 2 (2.041%) Equity Derivative
4 2 (2.041%) Contract for Difference
5 1 (1.020%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.020%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.020%) Symmetrix DMX
5 1 (1.020%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 28 (28.57%) Linux
2 18 (18.37%) UNIX
3 13 (13.27%) Windows
4 6 (6.122%) AIX
5 5 (5.102%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (3.061%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (2.041%) Solaris
8 1 (1.020%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (31.63%) Agile Software Development
2 29 (29.59%) Continuous Integration
3 20 (20.41%) Scrum
4 16 (16.33%) TDD
4 16 (16.33%) Automated Testing
5 15 (15.31%) Release Management
6 13 (13.27%) Change Control
7 11 (11.22%) BDD
8 10 (10.20%) Configuration Management
8 10 (10.20%) MVC
8 10 (10.20%) Test Automation
9 9 (9.184%) Investment Management
9 9 (9.184%) Integration Testing
10 8 (8.163%) Capacity Planning
10 8 (8.163%) OO
10 8 (8.163%) Load Balancing
11 7 (7.143%) Test Scripting
11 7 (7.143%) Asset Management
12 6 (6.122%) E-Commerce
12 6 (6.122%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (39.80%) Java
2 29 (29.59%) SQL
3 20 (20.41%) PowerShell
4 18 (18.37%) Shell Script
5 16 (16.33%) Python
6 13 (13.27%) C#
7 7 (7.143%) Korn
7 7 (7.143%) PL/SQL
7 7 (7.143%) C++
8 6 (6.122%) VBA
8 6 (6.122%) Bash shell
9 5 (5.102%) Groovy
9 5 (5.102%) T-SQL
9 5 (5.102%) VB.NET
10 4 (4.082%) JavaScript
10 4 (4.082%) Perl
10 4 (4.082%) Ruby
11 2 (2.041%) Jython
11 2 (2.041%) VBScript
11 2 (2.041%) VB
Qualifications
1 7 (7.143%) ISEB
2 6 (6.122%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (6.122%) MCSE
3 4 (4.082%) Citrix Certification
3 4 (4.082%) CCEE
4 3 (3.061%) Degree
4 3 (3.061%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (2.041%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.020%) CCSE
6 1 (1.020%) JNCIA
6 1 (1.020%) CCSP
6 1 (1.020%) CCNP
6 1 (1.020%) CCNA
6 1 (1.020%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.020%) Sun Certification
6 1 (1.020%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.27%) QA
2 9 (9.184%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (9.184%) Hyper-V
1 9 (9.184%) Active Directory
2 8 (8.163%) vSphere
2 8 (8.163%) XenApp
2 8 (8.163%) XenServer
3 7 (7.143%) XenDesktop
4 6 (6.122%) IAG
5 5 (5.102%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (4.082%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (1.020%) DFS Replication
7 1 (1.020%) Snort
7 1 (1.020%) ProxySG
7 1 (1.020%) NFS
7 1 (1.020%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 10 (10.20%) BladeLogic
2 9 (9.184%) SCOM
3 4 (4.082%) Data Guard
3 4 (4.082%) Puppet
4 3 (3.061%) NetBackup
5 2 (2.041%) Nagios
6 1 (1.020%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (1.020%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 22 (22.45%) Microsoft
1 22 (22.45%) Oracle
2 15 (15.31%) VMware
3 11 (11.22%) Citrix
4 9 (9.184%) AppSense
5 7 (7.143%) Capita
5 7 (7.143%) HP
5 7 (7.143%) BMC
5 7 (7.143%) Perforce
5 7 (7.143%) Wyse
6 6 (6.122%) Informatica
7 3 (3.061%) hybris
7 3 (3.061%) F5
7 3 (3.061%) Crossbeam
7 3 (3.061%) EMC
7 3 (3.061%) Cisco
7 3 (3.061%) CheckPoint
8 2 (2.041%) Nokia
8 2 (2.041%) Veritas
8 2 (2.041%) Red Hat
Guildford, South East
The role will be a part of a larger development team working on the next generation of our client's market leading advanced targeted attack monitoring solution. This...
JAM
Rate: negotiable
Posted: 8 May 2013
England
iOS, iPad, iPhone, X-Code, Objective-C, CoreData, Wireframes, Build Automation. My client requires an iOS Developer with iPad/iPhone experience and strong X-Code, Objective-C and...
iKonnect
Rate: £280 - £360 per day + work from home
Posted: 18 May 2013