The first table below looks at the demand for Continuous Integration skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Continuous Integration over the 3 months to 17 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 Leeds 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Continuous Integration
Rank 49 51 36
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -15
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 27 17 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 3.624% 1.910% 3.355%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.891% 2.652% 4.941%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 12 7
Average daily rate £325 £280 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.07% +24.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £280 £202
10% offered a daily rate of more than £335 £393 £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £330 £355
% change year-on-year
+6.06% -7.04%
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
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
552 641 425
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 74.09% 72.02% 67.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 377 211
Average daily rate £315 £345 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.69% -1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £245 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 19
Average hourly rate £34.00 £20.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+65.85% +17.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.90 £12.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £62.50 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Continuous Integration
West Yorkshire

Continuous Integration
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds Continuous Integration Daily Rate Trend

Continuous Integration
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Continuous Integration across the Leeds region.

Leeds Continuous Integration Hourly Rate Trend

Continuous Integration
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 25 (64.10%) TDD
2 23 (58.97%) Scrum
2 23 (58.97%) Linux
3 22 (56.41%) Web Services
3 22 (56.41%) Configuration Management
4 21 (53.85%) Apache
5 18 (46.15%) Ruby
6 17 (43.59%) Python
6 17 (43.59%) Bash shell
7 16 (41.03%) SimpleDB
7 16 (41.03%) Amazon EC2
7 16 (41.03%) Amazon S3
7 16 (41.03%) Amazon AWS
7 16 (41.03%) nginx
7 16 (41.03%) Puppet
7 16 (41.03%) MongoDB
7 16 (41.03%) NoSQL
7 16 (41.03%) Node.js
7 16 (41.03%) Redis
7 16 (41.03%) Route 53
7 16 (41.03%) Couchbase
7 16 (41.03%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (41.03%) POSIX
7 16 (41.03%) HTTP
7 16 (41.03%) RDBMS
7 16 (41.03%) C++
7 16 (41.03%) PHP
7 16 (41.03%) MySQL
7 16 (41.03%) Kanban
8 15 (38.46%) Internet

Continuous Integration
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 22 (56.41%) Web Services
2 16 (41.03%) Node.js
2 16 (41.03%) POSIX
3 11 (28.21%) .NET
4 6 (15.38%) WebSphere
4 6 (15.38%) .NET Framework
5 5 (12.82%) HTML
5 5 (12.82%) ASP
5 5 (12.82%) ASP.NET
5 5 (12.82%) XML
5 5 (12.82%) NHibernate
6 4 (10.26%) jQuery
6 4 (10.26%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 4 (10.26%) Cocoa Touch
6 4 (10.26%) LAMP
6 4 (10.26%) Cocoa
7 3 (7.692%) CSS
7 3 (7.692%) DHTML
7 3 (7.692%) Gherkin
8 2 (5.128%) Regular Expression
Application Platforms
1 21 (53.85%) Apache
2 16 (41.03%) Amazon EC2
2 16 (41.03%) Amazon S3
2 16 (41.03%) Amazon AWS
2 16 (41.03%) nginx
2 16 (41.03%) Route 53
3 6 (15.38%) WebLogic
4 3 (7.692%) ATG Dynamo
4 3 (7.692%) Tomcat
5 2 (5.128%) SharePoint
5 2 (5.128%) SharePoint 2010
5 2 (5.128%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 3 (7.692%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 16 (41.03%) HTTP
2 15 (38.46%) DNS
2 15 (38.46%) Internet
3 2 (5.128%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (2.564%) DHCP
4 1 (2.564%) SSH
4 1 (2.564%) SSL
4 1 (2.564%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (41.03%) MySQL
1 16 (41.03%) RDBMS
1 16 (41.03%) SimpleDB
1 16 (41.03%) MongoDB
1 16 (41.03%) NoSQL
1 16 (41.03%) Redis
1 16 (41.03%) Couchbase
1 16 (41.03%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (20.51%) SQL Server
3 7 (17.95%) SQL Server 2008
4 4 (10.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (10.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (7.692%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (5.128%) SQL Server 2005
6 2 (5.128%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 11 (28.21%) Subversion
2 9 (23.08%) Visual Studio
3 7 (17.95%) Ant
4 6 (15.38%) Maven
4 6 (15.38%) CruiseControl
5 4 (10.26%) SpecFlow
5 4 (10.26%) Jenkins
5 4 (10.26%) Xcode
5 4 (10.26%) Selenium
6 3 (7.692%) TeamCity
6 3 (7.692%) WebDriver
6 3 (7.692%) Cucumber
6 3 (7.692%) Hudson
6 3 (7.692%) NUnit
6 3 (7.692%) MSI
7 2 (5.128%) Git (software)
8 1 (2.564%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (2.564%) PhoneGap
8 1 (2.564%) JUnit
8 1 (2.564%) JIRA
General
1 3 (7.692%) Telecoms
2 2 (5.128%) Marketing
3 1 (2.564%) Finance
3 1 (2.564%) Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (41.03%) Software Engineer
2 12 (30.77%) Developer
3 6 (15.38%) .NET Developer
4 5 (12.82%) Release Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) Configuration Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) iOS Developer
6 3 (7.692%) Agile .NET Developer
6 3 (7.692%) Agile Tester
6 3 (7.692%) Tester
7 2 (5.128%) Analyst
7 2 (5.128%) SharePoint Developer
8 1 (2.564%) C# .NET Developer
8 1 (2.564%) Agile Test Analyst
8 1 (2.564%) Technical Leader
8 1 (2.564%) Python Developer
8 1 (2.564%) Test Analyst
8 1 (2.564%) Support Analyst
8 1 (2.564%) Software Developer
8 1 (2.564%) C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) iPad
1 5 (12.82%) iPhone
2 4 (10.26%) Mobile App
2 4 (10.26%) NHS
3 3 (7.692%) Open Source
4 2 (5.128%) Client/Server
4 2 (5.128%) Computer Science
5 1 (2.564%) Handset
5 1 (2.564%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.564%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 23 (58.97%) Linux
2 6 (15.38%) UNIX
3 5 (12.82%) Android
3 5 (12.82%) Apple iOS
4 4 (10.26%) Windows
5 3 (7.692%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (64.10%) TDD
2 23 (58.97%) Scrum
3 22 (56.41%) Configuration Management
4 16 (41.03%) Kanban
5 10 (25.64%) Agile Software Development
6 8 (20.51%) Automated Testing
7 6 (15.38%) E-Commerce
8 5 (12.82%) OO
8 5 (12.82%) Unit Testing
9 4 (10.26%) Software Engineering
9 4 (10.26%) Multithreading
9 4 (10.26%) Memory Management
9 4 (10.26%) OOA/OOD
9 4 (10.26%) ITIL
9 4 (10.26%) MVC
9 4 (10.26%) Mobile Application Development
10 3 (7.692%) Agile Testing
10 3 (7.692%) Manual Testing
10 3 (7.692%) Test Automation
10 3 (7.692%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (46.15%) Ruby
2 17 (43.59%) Bash shell
2 17 (43.59%) Python
3 16 (41.03%) C++
3 16 (41.03%) PHP
4 10 (25.64%) C#
5 8 (20.51%) JavaScript
6 7 (17.95%) Java
7 5 (12.82%) SQL
8 4 (10.26%) Perl
8 4 (10.26%) Objective-C
8 4 (10.26%) AWK
9 3 (7.692%) Shell Script
9 3 (7.692%) T-SQL
9 3 (7.692%) VB
10 1 (2.564%) Jython
Qualifications
1 4 (10.26%) Degree
2 3 (7.692%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.564%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.564%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.692%) QA
System Software
1 3 (7.692%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (41.03%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (17.95%) Oracle
2 3 (7.692%) JBoss
2 3 (7.692%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.692%) ATG
2 3 (7.692%) VMware
3 1 (2.564%) IBM
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