The first table below looks at the demand for Continuous Integration skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West 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 South West 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 88 112 116
Rank change year-on-year
+24 +4
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 13 20 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.647% 0.640% 0.396%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.962% 0.939% 0.620%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 6
Average daily rate £265 £359 £383
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-26.13% -6.20%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.50 £37.25 -
% change year-on-year
-4.69% -
All Processes & Methodologies
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1352 2130 1935
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 67.30% 68.12% 63.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 845 1316 985
Average daily rate £375 £378 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.66% +0.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £265 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 111 148
Average hourly rate £29.00 £25.00 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.00% -20.63%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.64 £11.46 £14.95
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £40.90 £39.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Continuous Integration
England

Continuous Integration
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 South West region.

South West 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 South West region.

South West 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 South West 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
Bristol +17 9 £265 -24.28% 14
Somerset -2 2 - - 5
Wiltshire +4 1 - - 2
Cornwall - - - -
Devon - - - - 1
Dorset - - - -
Gloucestershire - - - - 1
Continuous Integration
England

Continuous Integration
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, 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 31 (81.58%) .NET
2 29 (76.32%) C#
3 27 (71.05%) ASP.NET
4 26 (68.42%) Oracle
5 24 (63.16%) SQL
5 24 (63.16%) VB.NET
6 23 (60.53%) XML
6 23 (60.53%) HTML
6 23 (60.53%) Java
6 23 (60.53%) JavaScript
7 22 (57.89%) UNIX
8 21 (55.26%) ITIL
8 21 (55.26%) SharePoint
8 21 (55.26%) Unit Testing
9 20 (52.63%) Microsoft
9 20 (52.63%) UML
9 20 (52.63%) ASP
9 20 (52.63%) C++
9 20 (52.63%) IIS
9 20 (52.63%) VB
10 19 (50.00%) SQL Server
10 19 (50.00%) Ingres
11 18 (47.37%) Subversion
12 17 (44.74%) .NET Framework
13 16 (42.11%) ISEB
13 16 (42.11%) Team Foundation Server
13 16 (42.11%) Jenkins
14 15 (39.47%) OpenROAD
14 15 (39.47%) CruiseControl
15 14 (36.84%) NUnit

Continuous Integration
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, 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 31 (81.58%) .NET
2 27 (71.05%) ASP.NET
3 23 (60.53%) XML
3 23 (60.53%) HTML
4 20 (52.63%) ASP
5 17 (44.74%) .NET Framework
6 7 (18.42%) jQuery
7 5 (13.16%) NHibernate
7 5 (13.16%) WinForms
8 4 (10.53%) WCF
8 4 (10.53%) CSS
9 3 (7.895%) XSLT
9 3 (7.895%) WPF
9 3 (7.895%) Spring
9 3 (7.895%) ASP.NET MVC
10 2 (5.263%) Spring MVC
10 2 (5.263%) Grails
10 2 (5.263%) Web Services
10 2 (5.263%) XSL
11 1 (2.632%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 21 (55.26%) SharePoint
2 20 (52.63%) IIS
3 15 (39.47%) OpenROAD
4 3 (7.895%) Apache
5 2 (5.263%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (2.632%) Tomcat
6 1 (2.632%) GlassFish
6 1 (2.632%) Mule
6 1 (2.632%) Apache Solr
6 1 (2.632%) Windows Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.632%) Wireless
1 1 (2.632%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 19 (50.00%) Ingres
2 7 (18.42%) SQLPlus
3 1 (2.632%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (2.632%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.632%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (2.632%) MarkLogic
Development Applications
1 18 (47.37%) Subversion
2 16 (42.11%) Team Foundation Server
2 16 (42.11%) Jenkins
3 15 (39.47%) CruiseControl
4 14 (36.84%) NUnit
5 13 (34.21%) TeamCity
5 13 (34.21%) MSTest
6 12 (31.58%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 3 (7.895%) MSBuild
8 2 (5.263%) Hudson
8 2 (5.263%) Maven
8 2 (5.263%) Selenium
8 2 (5.263%) JUnit
8 2 (5.263%) Visual Studio
9 1 (2.632%) FitNesse
9 1 (2.632%) jMock
9 1 (2.632%) WATIR
9 1 (2.632%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (2.632%) Git (software)
9 1 (2.632%) Cucumber
General
1 5 (13.16%) Finance
1 5 (13.16%) Law
2 1 (2.632%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (78.95%) Developer
2 18 (47.37%) .NET Developer
3 13 (34.21%) C# Developer
3 13 (34.21%) C# .NET Developer
4 11 (28.95%) Analyst
5 10 (26.32%) Analyst Developer
6 6 (15.79%) Senior Analyst Developer
6 6 (15.79%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 6 (15.79%) Senior Analyst
6 6 (15.79%) Senior Developer
7 5 (13.16%) Support Analyst
7 5 (13.16%) ASP.NET Developer
8 3 (7.895%) Configuration Manager
8 3 (7.895%) Software Manager
8 3 (7.895%) Java Developer
8 3 (7.895%) Senior Support Analyst
8 3 (7.895%) Senior .NET Developer
8 3 (7.895%) Senior C# Developer
8 3 (7.895%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
8 3 (7.895%) Software Configuration Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.263%) Open Source
2 1 (2.632%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.632%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 22 (57.89%) UNIX
2 4 (10.53%) Linux
3 3 (7.895%) CentOS
4 1 (2.632%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (55.26%) ITIL
1 21 (55.26%) Unit Testing
2 20 (52.63%) UML
3 11 (28.95%) TDD
4 10 (26.32%) Service Delivery
5 9 (23.68%) ITSM
5 9 (23.68%) Service Management
6 8 (21.05%) Scrum
7 7 (18.42%) MVC
8 6 (15.79%) BDD
9 3 (7.895%) OO
9 3 (7.895%) Agile Software Development
9 3 (7.895%) ITIL V3
10 2 (5.263%) Performance Management
10 2 (5.263%) OOD
10 2 (5.263%) PRINCE2
11 1 (2.632%) RAD
11 1 (2.632%) SOA
11 1 (2.632%) E-Commerce
11 1 (2.632%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (76.32%) C#
2 24 (63.16%) SQL
2 24 (63.16%) VB.NET
3 23 (60.53%) Java
3 23 (60.53%) JavaScript
4 20 (52.63%) C++
4 20 (52.63%) VB
5 3 (7.895%) PowerShell
5 3 (7.895%) Ruby
6 2 (5.263%) C
7 1 (2.632%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.632%) VBScript
7 1 (2.632%) PHP
7 1 (2.632%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.632%) VB6
Qualifications
1 16 (42.11%) ISEB
2 10 (26.32%) Security Cleared
3 8 (21.05%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (18.42%) MCP
4 7 (18.42%) MCPD
4 7 (18.42%) MCTS
5 3 (7.895%) SC Cleared
6 2 (5.263%) BC Cleared
7 1 (2.632%) MCSD
7 1 (2.632%) CIPD
7 1 (2.632%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (2.632%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.632%) ISO 9000
1 1 (2.632%) SLA
1 1 (2.632%) TickIT
1 1 (2.632%) QA
1 1 (2.632%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 26 (68.42%) Oracle
2 20 (52.63%) Microsoft
Bristol, South West
Net Developer - Winforms, C# or VB.Net, Oracle - GAIN FINANCE - Greenfield Projects - Bristol.Net Developers (Winforms, C# or VB.Net) required by leading finance organisation based in the...
NFP Group Ltd
Rate: £250 - £280 per day + extension
Posted: 24 May 2013
Bristol, South West
Net Developer - Winforms, C# or VB.Net, Oracle - GAIN FINANCE - Greenfield Projects - Bristol.Net Developers (Winforms, C# or VB.Net) required by leading finance organisation based in the...
NFP Group Ltd
Rate: £250 - £300 per day + extension
Posted: 31 May 2013
South West
Software Test engineer required - Candidates must have experience testing Java applications and working closely with Java development teams. Experience of working within an agile development environment is ideal...
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Rate: Market Rate
Posted: 13 June 2013
Devon, South West
Our exclusive client in Devon has a requirement for a scripting software engineer to create and run continuous test scripts in Python, Bash or Perl... The ideal candidate...
Computer Futures
Posted: 24 May 2013
Taunton, South West
Main Duties/ Responsibilities * Identifying and delivery against strategic direction for the group in-line with wider strategy and agreeing with Service and Support Group Manager* Working with technical...
Capita Resourcing
Posted: 3 June 2013