The first table below looks at the demand for Continuous Integration skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire 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 50 67 -
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 13 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 2.041% 0.307% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.845% 0.464% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
Average daily rate £413 £375 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
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
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
457 647 547
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 71.74% 66.22% 62.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 289 238
Average daily rate £400 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £262 £250 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 55 78
Average hourly rate £21.50 £33.75 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-36.29% -3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.05 £11.75 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.60 £49.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Continuous Integration
East of England

Continuous Integration
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Continuous Integration Daily Rate Trend

Continuous Integration
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Integration within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Hemel Hempstead - 1 £425 -
Continuous Integration
East of England

Continuous Integration
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 21 (70.00%) Agile Software Development
2 15 (50.00%) Java
2 15 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 13 (43.33%) Retail
3 13 (43.33%) Web Services
3 13 (43.33%) Microsoft
4 10 (33.33%) Scrum
4 10 (33.33%) Finance
4 10 (33.33%) Integration Testing
4 10 (33.33%) Puppet
5 9 (30.00%) SOAP
5 9 (30.00%) SQL
6 8 (26.67%) Linux
6 8 (26.67%) ISEB
6 8 (26.67%) Test Scripting
6 8 (26.67%) Automated Testing
7 7 (23.33%) Selenium
7 7 (23.33%) JIRA
7 7 (23.33%) Build Automation
7 7 (23.33%) Confluence
7 7 (23.33%) .NET
8 6 (20.00%) Oracle
8 6 (20.00%) XML
8 6 (20.00%) BDD
9 5 (16.67%) WebDriver
9 5 (16.67%) Capita
9 5 (16.67%) Internet
9 5 (16.67%) TDD
9 5 (16.67%) Unit Testing
10 4 (13.33%) SOA

Continuous Integration
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 13 (43.33%) Web Services
2 9 (30.00%) SOAP
3 7 (23.33%) .NET
4 6 (20.00%) XML
5 3 (10.00%) HTML
6 2 (6.667%) CSS
6 2 (6.667%) Ajax
6 2 (6.667%) Spring
6 2 (6.667%) soapUI
6 2 (6.667%) REST
7 1 (3.333%) Apache CXF
7 1 (3.333%) JSON
7 1 (3.333%) Ruby on Rails
7 1 (3.333%) EJB 3.0
7 1 (3.333%) Grails
7 1 (3.333%) jQuery
7 1 (3.333%) XSD
7 1 (3.333%) JSP
7 1 (3.333%) Servlets
7 1 (3.333%) EJB
Application Platforms
1 7 (23.33%) Confluence
2 3 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (10.00%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (6.667%) IIS
4 1 (3.333%) Oracle Service Bus
4 1 (3.333%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (3.333%) Adobe CQ
4 1 (3.333%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (10.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.333%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.67%) Internet
2 2 (6.667%) Firewall
2 2 (6.667%) Cisco PIX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.333%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 15 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 7 (23.33%) Selenium
2 7 (23.33%) JIRA
3 5 (16.67%) WebDriver
4 4 (13.33%) JBehave
5 3 (10.00%) Jenkins
6 2 (6.667%) JUnit
6 2 (6.667%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 2 (6.667%) Subversion
6 2 (6.667%) MonkeyTalk
6 2 (6.667%) WiX
6 2 (6.667%) MSBuild
6 2 (6.667%) TeamCity
7 1 (3.333%) Git (software)
7 1 (3.333%) JProfiler
7 1 (3.333%) Cucumber
7 1 (3.333%) Hudson
7 1 (3.333%) Maven
7 1 (3.333%) Checkstyle
7 1 (3.333%) FitNesse
General
1 13 (43.33%) Retail
2 10 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (3.333%) Retail Banking
3 1 (3.333%) Banking
3 1 (3.333%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) Build Manager
2 5 (16.67%) Release Manager
3 4 (13.33%) Test Leader
4 3 (10.00%) Deployment Manager
4 3 (10.00%) Architect
4 3 (10.00%) Developer
4 3 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.667%) Test Manager
5 2 (6.667%) Tester
5 2 (6.667%) Java Developer
5 2 (6.667%) Implementation Manager
5 2 (6.667%) Senior Tester
5 2 (6.667%) Automation Tester
5 2 (6.667%) Senior Automation Tester
6 1 (3.333%) Oracle SOA Developer
6 1 (3.333%) SOA Developer
6 1 (3.333%) Environment Manager
6 1 (3.333%) ScrumMaster
6 1 (3.333%) Java/J2EE Developer
6 1 (3.333%) PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) N-Tier
1 3 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 8 (26.67%) Linux
2 2 (6.667%) Windows
2 2 (6.667%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (70.00%) Agile Software Development
2 10 (33.33%) Scrum
2 10 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 8 (26.67%) Test Scripting
3 8 (26.67%) Automated Testing
4 7 (23.33%) Build Automation
5 6 (20.00%) BDD
6 5 (16.67%) TDD
6 5 (16.67%) Unit Testing
7 4 (13.33%) SOA
8 3 (10.00%) AOP
8 3 (10.00%) Refactoring
8 3 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (10.00%) Change Management
9 2 (6.667%) User Stories
9 2 (6.667%) Agile Project Management
9 2 (6.667%) Configuration Management
9 2 (6.667%) Project Management
9 2 (6.667%) E-Commerce
9 2 (6.667%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 15 (50.00%) Java
2 9 (30.00%) SQL
3 3 (10.00%) C#
4 2 (6.667%) Shell Script
4 2 (6.667%) Perl
4 2 (6.667%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.333%) Groovy
5 1 (3.333%) PHP
5 1 (3.333%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (26.67%) ISEB
System Software
1 2 (6.667%) Active Directory
1 2 (6.667%) Xen
1 2 (6.667%) Hyper-V
1 2 (6.667%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.333%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 10 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (43.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (20.00%) Oracle
3 5 (16.67%) Capita
4 2 (6.667%) CheckPoint
4 2 (6.667%) Citrix
4 2 (6.667%) VMware
4 2 (6.667%) Cisco
4 2 (6.667%) Atlassian
5 1 (3.333%) Elastic Path
5 1 (3.333%) Adobe
Hertfordshire, South East
My client, a blue chip based in Hertfordshire, require 2 x Agile QA's for a new team to work on a fast paced agile project.
Mint
Rate: £400 - £600 per day
Posted: 25 May 2013