The first table below looks at the demand for Continuous Improvement skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hounslow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Continuous Improvement over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Hounslow 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Continual Improvement
Rank 13 - 12
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Continuous Improvement 6 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hounslow 10.17% - 2.564%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.32% - 4.762%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
Average daily rate £450 - £330
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £330 £394
% change year-on-year
+13.63% -16.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.66 £21.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
-39.71% -27.58%
All Processes & Methodologies
Hounslow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
53 65 42
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hounslow 89.83% 74.71% 53.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 38 19
Average daily rate £413 £400 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.12% +21.21%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £321 £294 £272
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £475 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £34.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Continuous Improvement
London

Continuous Improvement
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hounslow Continuous Improvement Jobs Demand Trend

Continuous Improvement
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hounslow Continuous Improvement Daily Rate Trend

Continuous Improvement
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hounslow region citing Continuous Improvement 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 Improvement.

1 12 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 10 (83.33%) TDD
2 10 (83.33%) Pair Programming
3 7 (58.33%) Release Management
3 7 (58.33%) Open Source
4 6 (50.00%) REST
4 6 (50.00%) QA
5 5 (41.67%) XML
5 5 (41.67%) Internet
6 4 (33.33%) Windows
6 4 (33.33%) CSS
6 4 (33.33%) C#
6 4 (33.33%) HTML
6 4 (33.33%) Java
6 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
6 4 (33.33%) Scrum
6 4 (33.33%) WPF
6 4 (33.33%) Silverlight
6 4 (33.33%) XAML
6 4 (33.33%) Kinect
6 4 (33.33%) Windows 8
6 4 (33.33%) XNA
6 4 (33.33%) MVVM
6 4 (33.33%) Windows Phone
7 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
7 3 (25.00%) Grails
7 3 (25.00%) Publishing
7 3 (25.00%) Kanban
7 3 (25.00%) Groovy
7 3 (25.00%) JUnit

Continuous Improvement
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hounslow region citing Continuous Improvement 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 Improvement. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (50.00%) REST
2 5 (41.67%) XML
3 4 (33.33%) XNA
3 4 (33.33%) WPF
3 4 (33.33%) Silverlight
3 4 (33.33%) HTML
3 4 (33.33%) CSS
4 3 (25.00%) Grails
5 2 (16.67%) jQuery
5 2 (16.67%) HTML5
6 1 (8.333%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (8.333%) XSLT
6 1 (8.333%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (8.333%) Spring
6 1 (8.333%) Java EE
6 1 (8.333%) FFmpeg
6 1 (8.333%) Spring Integration
Application Platforms
1 1 (8.333%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) Internet
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) JUnit
1 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (16.67%) Hudson
3 1 (8.333%) Gradle
3 1 (8.333%) Maven
3 1 (8.333%) Mockito
3 1 (8.333%) Ant
General
1 3 (25.00%) Publishing
2 1 (8.333%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Silverlight Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Software Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Software Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Open Source
2 4 (33.33%) Kinect
3 1 (8.333%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
1 4 (33.33%) Windows 8
1 4 (33.33%) Windows Phone
2 1 (8.333%) Linux
2 1 (8.333%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (8.333%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 10 (83.33%) TDD
2 10 (83.33%) Pair Programming
3 7 (58.33%) Release Management
4 4 (33.33%) Scrum
4 4 (33.33%) MVVM
5 3 (25.00%) Kanban
6 2 (16.67%) Performance Testing
6 2 (16.67%) BDD
6 2 (16.67%) Content Management
7 1 (8.333%) Business Analysis
7 1 (8.333%) User Acceptance Testing
7 1 (8.333%) UML
7 1 (8.333%) MVC
7 1 (8.333%) Build Automation
7 1 (8.333%) User Stories
7 1 (8.333%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (8.333%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) C#
1 4 (33.33%) Java
1 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 4 (33.33%) XAML
2 3 (25.00%) Groovy
3 2 (16.67%) Ruby
4 1 (8.333%) SQL
4 1 (8.333%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (50.00%) QA