The first table below looks at the demand for Continuous Integration skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Continuous Integration over the 3 months to 19 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 Scotland 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Continuous Integration
Rank 95 93 98
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +5
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 24 16 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.958% 0.595% 0.492%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.386% 0.933% 0.747%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 11
Average daily rate £373 £359 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.83% +24.78%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £31.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.50 £37.25 -
% change year-on-year
-4.69% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1731 1715 1874
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 69.13% 63.78% 65.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 875 826 1002
Average daily rate £375 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 62 44
Average hourly rate £19.00 £24.00 £28.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.83% -15.04%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £40.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Continuous Integration
UK

Continuous Integration
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland Continuous Integration Hourly 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 19 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
Glasgow -9 9 £369 - 2
West Lothian - 6 £390 - 2
Edinburgh -5 5 £300 -12.40% 11
Dundee - 2 - - 2
Aberdeen - - - - 1
Angus - - - -
Continuous Integration
UK

Continuous Integration
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 44 (65.67%) Java
2 37 (55.22%) Agile Software Development
3 29 (43.28%) TDD
4 28 (41.79%) Spring
5 25 (37.31%) SQL
6 24 (35.82%) Tomcat
7 23 (34.33%) Scrum
8 22 (32.84%) HTML
9 21 (31.34%) UNIX
9 21 (31.34%) Subversion
10 20 (29.85%) XML
11 19 (28.36%) CSS
11 19 (28.36%) Hibernate
11 19 (28.36%) Jenkins
12 18 (26.87%) Oracle
12 18 (26.87%) SQL Server
13 17 (25.37%) JMS
13 17 (25.37%) Maven
14 16 (23.88%) Web Services
15 15 (22.39%) JIRA
16 14 (20.90%) Sybase
16 14 (20.90%) JavaScript
16 14 (20.90%) Finance
17 13 (19.40%) Unit Testing
18 12 (17.91%) CruiseControl
18 12 (17.91%) Enterprise Software
18 12 (17.91%) J2EE
18 12 (17.91%) Linux
18 12 (17.91%) OO
19 11 (16.42%) Eclipse

Continuous Integration
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 28 (41.79%) Spring
2 22 (32.84%) HTML
3 20 (29.85%) XML
4 19 (28.36%) CSS
4 19 (28.36%) Hibernate
5 17 (25.37%) JMS
6 16 (23.88%) Web Services
7 12 (17.91%) J2EE
8 11 (16.42%) JDBC
9 8 (11.94%) HTML5
10 7 (10.45%) JPA
10 7 (10.45%) Ext JS
10 7 (10.45%) SOAP
11 6 (8.955%) XML Schema
11 6 (8.955%) .NET
11 6 (8.955%) iBATIS
12 5 (7.463%) RESTful
12 5 (7.463%) WebSphere
12 5 (7.463%) GWT
12 5 (7.463%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 24 (35.82%) Tomcat
2 7 (10.45%) Mule
3 6 (8.955%) GlassFish
4 5 (7.463%) Apache
5 4 (5.970%) WebLogic
6 2 (2.985%) nginx
7 1 (1.493%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (1.493%) GemFire
7 1 (1.493%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (1.493%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (1.493%) ESB
7 1 (1.493%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (1.493%) SharePoint
7 1 (1.493%) TeamSite
7 1 (1.493%) CICS
7 1 (1.493%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (4.478%) InfoPath
2 2 (2.985%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.463%) LDAP
1 5 (7.463%) SAN
2 2 (2.985%) TACACS
2 2 (2.985%) SMTP
2 2 (2.985%) FTP
3 1 (1.493%) SMS
3 1 (1.493%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (26.87%) SQL Server
2 11 (16.42%) MySQL
3 4 (5.970%) NoSQL
4 3 (4.478%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (4.478%) RDBMS
4 3 (4.478%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.985%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (1.493%) Oracle 11g
6 1 (1.493%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 21 (31.34%) Subversion
2 19 (28.36%) Jenkins
3 17 (25.37%) Maven
4 15 (22.39%) JIRA
5 12 (17.91%) CruiseControl
6 11 (16.42%) Eclipse
7 10 (14.93%) Cucumber
7 10 (14.93%) Selenium
8 8 (11.94%) JUnit
8 8 (11.94%) FitNesse
9 7 (10.45%) Hudson
9 7 (10.45%) Ant
10 6 (8.955%) Git (software)
10 6 (8.955%) TeamCity
11 3 (4.478%) RSpec
11 3 (4.478%) MSBuild
11 3 (4.478%) Trac
11 3 (4.478%) WATIR
11 3 (4.478%) QuickTest Pro
11 3 (4.478%) Bugzilla
General
1 14 (20.90%) Finance
2 3 (4.478%) Banking
3 2 (2.985%) Telecoms
3 2 (2.985%) Retail
3 2 (2.985%) Multimedia
3 2 (2.985%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.493%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 36 (53.73%) Developer
2 19 (28.36%) Java Developer
3 6 (8.955%) Configuration Manager
4 4 (5.970%) Administrator
4 4 (5.970%) UNIX Administrator
4 4 (5.970%) Designer
4 4 (5.970%) Front-End Developer
5 3 (4.478%) Build Engineer
5 3 (4.478%) Build Manager
5 3 (4.478%) ScrumMaster
5 3 (4.478%) Lead Designer
5 3 (4.478%) Senior Developer
5 3 (4.478%) Lead Developer
6 2 (2.985%) PHP Developer
6 2 (2.985%) QA Test Analyst
6 2 (2.985%) Analyst
6 2 (2.985%) Test Analyst
6 2 (2.985%) Software Engineer
6 2 (2.985%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (2.985%) QA Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 12 (17.91%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (13.43%) N-Tier
3 3 (4.478%) Computer Science
3 3 (4.478%) W3C
3 3 (4.478%) Clustering
4 2 (2.985%) Smartphone
4 2 (2.985%) Derivative
4 2 (2.985%) Equity Derivative
4 2 (2.985%) Inversion of Control
4 2 (2.985%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.493%) Open Source
5 1 (1.493%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.493%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 21 (31.34%) UNIX
2 12 (17.91%) Linux
3 10 (14.93%) Windows
4 5 (7.463%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (7.463%) Solaris
5 3 (4.478%) Windows Vista
5 3 (4.478%) Windows XP
6 1 (1.493%) Android
6 1 (1.493%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (55.22%) Agile Software Development
2 29 (43.28%) TDD
3 23 (34.33%) Scrum
4 13 (19.40%) Unit Testing
5 12 (17.91%) OO
6 9 (13.43%) Pair Programming
7 8 (11.94%) Extreme Programming
7 8 (11.94%) BDD
8 7 (10.45%) Test Automation
8 7 (10.45%) UML
8 7 (10.45%) MVC
9 6 (8.955%) Refactoring
10 5 (7.463%) Dependency Injection
10 5 (7.463%) Problem Management
10 5 (7.463%) Release Management
10 5 (7.463%) OOP
10 5 (7.463%) Workflow
11 4 (5.970%) Configuration Management
11 4 (5.970%) Data Modelling
11 4 (5.970%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 44 (65.67%) Java
2 25 (37.31%) SQL
3 14 (20.90%) JavaScript
4 11 (16.42%) C#
5 8 (11.94%) C++
5 8 (11.94%) PHP
6 6 (8.955%) Perl
6 6 (8.955%) Ruby
7 5 (7.463%) PL/SQL
8 4 (5.970%) Python
8 4 (5.970%) T-SQL
9 3 (4.478%) VB.NET
9 3 (4.478%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.985%) Jython
10 2 (2.985%) XPath
10 2 (2.985%) Korn
10 2 (2.985%) Bash shell
11 1 (1.493%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.493%) PHP5
11 1 (1.493%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 7 (10.45%) Degree
2 2 (2.985%) ISEB
2 2 (2.985%) SC Cleared
2 2 (2.985%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.955%) QA
2 2 (2.985%) WCAG
3 1 (1.493%) Section 508
3 1 (1.493%) WAI
System Software
1 2 (2.985%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (14.93%) Puppet
2 5 (7.463%) Red Hat Spacewalk
2 5 (7.463%) Veritas Storage Foundation
3 2 (2.985%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (2.985%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 18 (26.87%) Oracle
2 14 (20.90%) Sybase
3 8 (11.94%) IBM
4 5 (7.463%) Microsoft
4 5 (7.463%) EMC
4 5 (7.463%) NetApp
4 5 (7.463%) Veritas
5 4 (5.970%) JBoss
6 3 (4.478%) Adobe
6 3 (4.478%) Red Hat
6 3 (4.478%) HP
7 2 (2.985%) VMware
8 1 (1.493%) TIBCO
8 1 (1.493%) Genesys
8 1 (1.493%) BEA
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