South West Continuous Integration Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Continuous Integration skills within the South West region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Continuous Integration over the 3 months to 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire City of London East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Maidenhead North West North Yorkshire Nuneaton Potters Bar Reading Scotland Somerset South East South West Surrey Sussex UK Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Yorkshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	145	152
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	2	19
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.020 %
As % of the category below	0.069 %	0.574 %
Daily rates quoted	2	5
Average minimum daily rate	£288	£340
Average daily rate	£344	£360
% change on same period last year	-4.51 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£380
UK excluding London average daily rate	£402	£382
% change on same period last year	+5.25 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	9
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£45.44
Average hourly rate	-	£45.44
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£45.44
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£51.50	£47.73
% change on same period last year	+7.89 %
Processes & Methodologies South West
Matching contract IT job ads	2891	3312
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.120 %	3.425 %
Daily rates quoted	875	1017
Average minimum daily rate	£367	£351
Average daily rate	£389	£370
% change on same period last year	+4.96 %
Average maximum daily rate	£410	£390
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£370
% change on same period last year	+1.93 %
Hourly rates quoted	358	369
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.72	£29.39
Average hourly rate	£29.74	£31.32
% change on same period last year	-5.07 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.75	£33.26
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.30	£29.76
% change on same period last year	-1.54 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Continuous Integration across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Continuous Integration across the South West region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Continuous Integration across the South West region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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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 South West region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Somerset	+3	2	£344	-14.06 %

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Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 2 (100.00 %) C# 1 2 (100.00 %) .NET 1 2 (100.00 %) SQL Server 1 2 (100.00 %) ASP.NET 1 2 (100.00 %) Scrum 1 2 (100.00 %) Extreme Programming 1 2 (100.00 %) Agile Software Development 1 2 (100.00 %) TDD 1 2 (100.00 %) Pair Programming 1 2 (100.00 %) NHibernate 1 2 (100.00 %) Selenium 1 2 (100.00 %) FitNesse

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 2 (100.00 %) .NET 1 2 (100.00 %) ASP.NET 1 2 (100.00 %) NHibernate	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (100.00 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 2 (100.00 %) Selenium 1 2 (100.00 %) FitNesse	Job Titles 1 1 (50.00 %) .NET Developer
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (100.00 %) Scrum 1 2 (100.00 %) Extreme Programming 1 2 (100.00 %) Agile Software Development 1 2 (100.00 %) TDD 1 2 (100.00 %) Pair Programming	Programming Languages 1 2 (100.00 %) C#