The first table below looks at the demand for Continuous Integration skills in IT contracts advertised for the Merseyside 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 Merseyside 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 28 33 30
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -3
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 3 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 1.485% 0.766% 0.403%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.206% 1.266% 0.662%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 1
Average daily rate - £388 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +40.90%
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
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
136 158 151
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 67.33% 60.54% 60.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 83 74
Average daily rate £355 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.23% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £243 £255 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £494 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 13 15
Average hourly rate - £17.51 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -22.17%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Continuous Integration
North West

Continuous Integration
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside Continuous Integration Daily Rate Trend

Continuous Integration
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) C++
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) VBScript
1 4 (100.00%) VB
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 4 (100.00%) ASP
1 4 (100.00%) OO
1 4 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 4 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) NHS
1 4 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 4 (100.00%) Android
1 4 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (25.00%) Twitter

Continuous Integration
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) ASP
1 4 (100.00%) .NET Framework
Applications
1 4 (100.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 4 (100.00%) Eclipse
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Software Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Android
1 4 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) C++
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) VBScript
1 4 (100.00%) VB
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Twitter