The first table below looks at the demand for Build Automation skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Build Automation over the 3 months to 17 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 London 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 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Build Automation
Rank 358 396 416
Rank change year-on-year
+38 +20
Contract jobs citing Build Automation 32 20 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.139% 0.075% 0.081%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.186% 0.104% 0.114%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 14 17
Average daily rate £450 £525 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% +16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £364 £450 £440
10% offered a daily rate of more than £523 £596 £540
UK excluding London average daily rate £323 £411 £280
% change year-on-year
-21.58% +46.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 - -
All Processes & Methodologies
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
17237 19145 21937
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 74.84% 71.81% 70.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 11842 12578 14478
Average daily rate £450 £450 £480
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £310
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 327 337
Average hourly rate £27.00 £26.36 £26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.41% +1.39%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.97 £15.00 £14.76
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £55.00 £47.50 £55.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Build Automation
England

Build Automation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 17 June 2013.

London 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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 17 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
City of London +14 3 £500 -13.04% 7
Ealing - - - -
Hammersmith - - - -
Build Automation
England

Build Automation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 35 (61.40%) Java
2 26 (45.61%) Agile Software Development
3 21 (36.84%) Subversion
3 21 (36.84%) Linux
4 20 (35.09%) Continuous Integration
5 17 (29.82%) Hudson
5 17 (29.82%) Ant
5 17 (29.82%) Scrum
6 15 (26.32%) TDD
6 15 (26.32%) SQL
7 14 (24.56%) C#
7 14 (24.56%) JUnit
7 14 (24.56%) Shell Script
7 14 (24.56%) JIRA
8 13 (22.81%) Jenkins
8 13 (22.81%) MVC
8 13 (22.81%) XML
9 12 (21.05%) Python
10 11 (19.30%) Maven
10 11 (19.30%) Finance
10 11 (19.30%) OO
10 11 (19.30%) Tomcat
10 11 (19.30%) UNIX
10 11 (19.30%) Oracle
10 11 (19.30%) .NET
11 10 (17.54%) Web Services
11 10 (17.54%) Microsoft
11 10 (17.54%) Test Automation
12 9 (15.79%) Kanban
12 9 (15.79%) Team Foundation Server

Build Automation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 13 (22.81%) XML
2 11 (19.30%) .NET
3 10 (17.54%) Web Services
4 8 (14.04%) HTML
4 8 (14.04%) REST
5 7 (12.28%) J2EE
5 7 (12.28%) Spring
5 7 (12.28%) Ajax
5 7 (12.28%) Java EE
6 6 (10.53%) JDBC
6 6 (10.53%) JSP
6 6 (10.53%) Spring MVC
6 6 (10.53%) Taglibs
6 6 (10.53%) JPA
7 5 (8.772%) WCF
8 3 (5.263%) ASP.NET
9 2 (3.509%) SOAP
9 2 (3.509%) JSON
9 2 (3.509%) Middleware
9 2 (3.509%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 11 (19.30%) Tomcat
2 3 (5.263%) IIS
2 3 (5.263%) Apache
3 2 (3.509%) Amazon AWS
3 2 (3.509%) Confluence
4 1 (1.754%) Apache Pig
4 1 (1.754%) SAS
4 1 (1.754%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (1.754%) Amazon EC2
Applications
1 6 (10.53%) Mingle
2 4 (7.018%) MS Excel
3 1 (1.754%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.509%) SSH
2 1 (1.754%) LDAP
2 1 (1.754%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.04%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.263%) Oracle 8/8i
3 2 (3.509%) Oracle 10g
3 2 (3.509%) Oracle 11g
3 2 (3.509%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (3.509%) Hadoop
3 2 (3.509%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.754%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (1.754%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.754%) HBase
4 1 (1.754%) JasperReports
4 1 (1.754%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 21 (36.84%) Subversion
2 17 (29.82%) Ant
2 17 (29.82%) Hudson
3 14 (24.56%) JUnit
3 14 (24.56%) JIRA
4 13 (22.81%) Jenkins
5 11 (19.30%) Maven
6 9 (15.79%) Team Foundation Server
7 8 (14.04%) Selenium
8 6 (10.53%) Mercurial
8 6 (10.53%) dbdeploy
9 5 (8.772%) TeamCity
10 4 (7.018%) Git (software)
10 4 (7.018%) WebDriver
11 3 (5.263%) MSBuild
11 3 (5.263%) Cucumber
11 3 (5.263%) Visual Studio
11 3 (5.263%) QuickTest Pro
11 3 (5.263%) NUnit
12 2 (3.509%) JMeter
General
1 11 (19.30%) Finance
2 5 (8.772%) Banking
3 3 (5.263%) Investment Banking
3 3 (5.263%) Publishing
3 3 (5.263%) Front Office
3 3 (5.263%) Back Office
4 2 (3.509%) Games
Job Titles
1 20 (35.09%) Developer
2 12 (21.05%) Build Manager
3 8 (14.04%) Deployment Manager
4 6 (10.53%) Java Developer
4 6 (10.53%) Build Engineer
5 5 (8.772%) Analyst
6 4 (7.018%) Test Analyst
6 4 (7.018%) Configuration Manager
6 4 (7.018%) Excel Developer
6 4 (7.018%) Linux Engineer
6 4 (7.018%) Automation Test Analyst
6 4 (7.018%) C++/Java Developer
6 4 (7.018%) Automation Analyst
7 3 (5.263%) Test Automation Analyst
7 3 (5.263%) Developer Analyst
7 3 (5.263%) .NET Developer
7 3 (5.263%) DBA
7 3 (5.263%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.509%) Programmer
8 2 (3.509%) Oracle DBA
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.53%) Computer Science
2 5 (8.772%) iPad
3 3 (5.263%) Open Source
3 3 (5.263%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (5.263%) Replication
3 3 (5.263%) Fixed Income
3 3 (5.263%) Derivative
3 3 (5.263%) Equity Derivative
3 3 (5.263%) Contract for Difference
4 2 (3.509%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 21 (36.84%) Linux
2 11 (19.30%) UNIX
3 6 (10.53%) Windows
4 5 (8.772%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (5.263%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (45.61%) Agile Software Development
2 20 (35.09%) Continuous Integration
3 17 (29.82%) Scrum
4 15 (26.32%) TDD
5 13 (22.81%) MVC
6 11 (19.30%) OO
7 10 (17.54%) Test Automation
8 9 (15.79%) Kanban
8 9 (15.79%) Unit Testing
8 9 (15.79%) E-Commerce
9 7 (12.28%) Automated Testing
10 6 (10.53%) Requirements Management
10 6 (10.53%) Data Management
10 6 (10.53%) Information Management
10 6 (10.53%) B2C
10 6 (10.53%) UML
10 6 (10.53%) BDD
11 5 (8.772%) Asset Management
11 5 (8.772%) User Acceptance Testing
11 5 (8.772%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 35 (61.40%) Java
2 15 (26.32%) SQL
3 14 (24.56%) C#
3 14 (24.56%) Shell Script
4 12 (21.05%) Python
5 8 (14.04%) Perl
5 8 (14.04%) PowerShell
6 7 (12.28%) C++
6 7 (12.28%) Korn
6 7 (12.28%) VBA
7 6 (10.53%) T-SQL
7 6 (10.53%) Bash shell
8 3 (5.263%) VB
8 3 (5.263%) Groovy
8 3 (5.263%) Ruby
9 2 (3.509%) AWK
9 2 (3.509%) Jython
9 2 (3.509%) VBScript
9 2 (3.509%) JavaScript
10 1 (1.754%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (12.28%) Degree
2 1 (1.754%) MCSE
2 1 (1.754%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (1.754%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.04%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.509%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (1.754%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.754%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.754%) XenServer
2 1 (1.754%) vSphere
2 1 (1.754%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (15.79%) BladeLogic
2 6 (10.53%) Puppet
3 2 (3.509%) SCOM
3 2 (3.509%) Data Guard
3 2 (3.509%) Nagios
4 1 (1.754%) Foglight
Vendors
1 11 (19.30%) Oracle
2 10 (17.54%) Microsoft
3 6 (10.53%) HP
3 6 (10.53%) BMC
3 6 (10.53%) Perforce
3 6 (10.53%) VMware
3 6 (10.53%) hybris
4 5 (8.772%) Informatica
5 2 (3.509%) Capita
6 1 (1.754%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.754%) AppSense
6 1 (1.754%) Veritas
6 1 (1.754%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.754%) CA
6 1 (1.754%) Citrix
City of London
Unix Programmer / Linux Programmer / DeveloperArgyll Scott are urgently recruiting for a strong programmer with in-depth knowledge in Unix/Linux systems and tools, Who can lead and participate...
Argyll Scott International
Posted: 12 June 2013
West London
Key Word: Software Release Manager, Build Manager, Configuration Manager, Release Engineer, Deployment, Consultant, MS Build, Nant, .NET, Java, Analyst, Developer, Programmer, TFSThis is an exciting opportunity to work...
Rate: £400 - £500 per annum + Benefits & Excellent Bonus
Posted: 10 June 2013
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