Build Automation Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Build Automation skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Build Automation 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.

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
Build Automation
Rank 476 554 554
Rank change year-on-year
+78 0
Contract jobs citing Build Automation 53 30 30
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.114% 0.051% 0.049%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.161% 0.076% 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 22 20
Average daily rate £450 £475 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.26% +5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £390 £279
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £575 £510
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £390 £353
% change year-on-year
-10.25% +10.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Average hourly rate £32.50 - £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 - -
Search 19 Build Automation jobs
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 32941 39581 41270
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 71.01% 67.87% 67.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 19678 22705 23413
Average daily rate £413 £403 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.48% -8.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £580 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 976 1282 1475
Average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £12.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%

Build Automation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

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 within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

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 within the UK.

Build Automation Hourly Rate Trend

Build Automation
Top 22 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 UK over the 3 months to 24 May 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
England +66 49 £450 -5.26%
London +50 29 £450 -14.28%
East of England +20 7 £375 -21.05%
South East +20 7 £300 -25.69%
Surrey +20 6 - -
Hertfordshire +9 4 - -
City of London +16 3 £500 -13.04%
Scotland - 3 £425 -
West Midlands - 3 £325 -
Peterborough - 3 £375 -
Bromley - 3 £425 -
Cambridgeshire - 3 £375 -
Wembley - 2 - -
Telford - 2 - -
Shropshire - 2 - -
North West - 1 - -
Merseyside - 1 - -
Birmingham - 1 £325 -
Harrow - 1 - -
Guildford - 1 - -
Glasgow - 1 - -
Edinburgh - 1 - -

Build Automation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 41 (39.81%) Java
2 32 (31.07%) SQL
3 31 (30.10%) Agile Software Development
4 29 (28.16%) Continuous Integration
4 29 (28.16%) Linux
5 23 (22.33%) Finance
5 23 (22.33%) Microsoft
5 23 (22.33%) Oracle
6 21 (20.39%) Scrum
6 21 (20.39%) PowerShell
7 19 (18.45%) JIRA
7 19 (18.45%) Subversion
8 18 (17.48%) Shell Script
8 18 (17.48%) UNIX
9 17 (16.50%) Ant
9 17 (16.50%) Python
9 17 (16.50%) Hudson
10 16 (15.53%) .NET
10 16 (15.53%) VMware
10 16 (15.53%) TDD
10 16 (15.53%) Automated Testing
10 16 (15.53%) Selenium
11 15 (14.56%) Release Management
11 15 (14.56%) QA
11 15 (14.56%) C#
11 15 (14.56%) Windows
12 14 (13.59%) SQL Server
13 13 (12.62%) Web Services
13 13 (12.62%) Change Control
13 13 (12.62%) Jenkins

Build Automation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 16 (15.53%) .NET
2 13 (12.62%) Web Services
3 10 (9.709%) XML
4 9 (8.738%) SOAP
5 6 (5.825%) Spring
6 5 (4.854%) Middleware
6 5 (4.854%) J2EE
6 5 (4.854%) Java EE
6 5 (4.854%) REST
7 4 (3.883%) soapUI
7 4 (3.883%) Spring MVC
7 4 (3.883%) WCF
7 4 (3.883%) HTML
7 4 (3.883%) CSS
8 3 (2.913%) JDBC
8 3 (2.913%) JSP
8 3 (2.913%) Grails
8 3 (2.913%) jQuery
8 3 (2.913%) Taglibs
8 3 (2.913%) JPA
Application Platforms
1 10 (9.709%) Tomcat
2 9 (8.738%) Confluence
3 3 (2.913%) Oracle Application Server
4 2 (1.942%) Amazon AWS
4 2 (1.942%) Apache
5 1 (0.971%) WebSphere MQ
5 1 (0.971%) IIS
5 1 (0.971%) Oracle 10gAS
5 1 (0.971%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (0.971%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.971%) Apache Pig
5 1 (0.971%) Amazon EC2
Applications
1 6 (5.825%) Mingle
2 4 (3.883%) MS Excel
3 3 (2.913%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.971%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.796%) TCP/IP
2 4 (3.883%) Network Security
2 4 (3.883%) SAN
3 2 (1.942%) BIG-IP
3 2 (1.942%) SSH
4 1 (0.971%) MPLS
4 1 (0.971%) Firewall
4 1 (0.971%) IPsec
4 1 (0.971%) VPN
4 1 (0.971%) DNS
4 1 (0.971%) LAN
4 1 (0.971%) WAN
4 1 (0.971%) DHCP
4 1 (0.971%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (0.971%) NAS
4 1 (0.971%) FWSM
4 1 (0.971%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (13.59%) SQL Server
2 6 (5.825%) Oracle 11g
3 5 (4.854%) Oracle 8/8i
4 4 (3.883%) Oracle 10g
5 3 (2.913%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.913%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.942%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.971%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.971%) MySQL
7 1 (0.971%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (0.971%) SQL Server 2008
7 1 (0.971%) SQL Server 2005
7 1 (0.971%) JasperReports
7 1 (0.971%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.971%) HBase
Development Applications
1 19 (18.45%) JIRA
1 19 (18.45%) Subversion
2 17 (16.50%) Ant
2 17 (16.50%) Hudson
3 16 (15.53%) Selenium
4 13 (12.62%) Jenkins
5 12 (11.65%) Maven
6 10 (9.709%) Team Foundation Server
6 10 (9.709%) JUnit
7 9 (8.738%) Visual Studio
7 9 (8.738%) WebDriver
8 8 (7.767%) MSBuild
9 6 (5.825%) dbdeploy
9 6 (5.825%) TeamCity
10 5 (4.854%) JBehave
11 4 (3.883%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (2.913%) QuickTest Pro
12 3 (2.913%) Eclipse
12 3 (2.913%) Git (software)
12 3 (2.913%) NUnit
General
1 23 (22.33%) Finance
2 7 (6.796%) Banking
3 5 (4.854%) Games
3 5 (4.854%) Investment Banking
4 4 (3.883%) Publishing
5 3 (2.913%) Back Office
6 2 (1.942%) Front Office
7 1 (0.971%) Norwegian Language
7 1 (0.971%) Marketing
7 1 (0.971%) General Ledger
7 1 (0.971%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (23.30%) Developer
2 13 (12.62%) Build Manager
3 10 (9.709%) DBA
4 9 (8.738%) Java Developer
4 9 (8.738%) Oracle DBA
5 8 (7.767%) Deployment Manager
6 7 (6.796%) Analyst
6 7 (6.796%) Build Engineer
7 5 (4.854%) Configuration Manager
7 5 (4.854%) Excel Developer
7 5 (4.854%) Automation Engineer
8 4 (3.883%) Test Leader
8 4 (3.883%) C++/Java Developer
8 4 (3.883%) Test Analyst
9 3 (2.913%) Business Analyst
9 3 (2.913%) Tester
9 3 (2.913%) Software Developer
9 3 (2.913%) Release Manager
9 3 (2.913%) Consultant
9 3 (2.913%) Automation Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.767%) Fat Client
1 8 (7.767%) Thin Client
2 4 (3.883%) iPad
2 4 (3.883%) Replication
3 3 (2.913%) Computer Science
3 3 (2.913%) Open Source
4 2 (1.942%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.942%) Derivative
4 2 (1.942%) Equity Derivative
4 2 (1.942%) iPhone
4 2 (1.942%) Contract for Difference
4 2 (1.942%) Fixed Income
4 2 (1.942%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.971%) Symmetrix DMX
5 1 (0.971%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.971%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 29 (28.16%) Linux
2 18 (17.48%) UNIX
3 15 (14.56%) Windows
4 6 (5.825%) AIX
5 5 (4.854%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (3.883%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (1.942%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.942%) Solaris
8 1 (0.971%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (30.10%) Agile Software Development
2 29 (28.16%) Continuous Integration
3 21 (20.39%) Scrum
4 16 (15.53%) TDD
4 16 (15.53%) Automated Testing
5 15 (14.56%) Release Management
6 13 (12.62%) Change Control
7 12 (11.65%) Configuration Management
8 11 (10.68%) MVC
8 11 (10.68%) Test Automation
8 11 (10.68%) BDD
9 9 (8.738%) Integration Testing
9 9 (8.738%) Investment Management
10 8 (7.767%) Capacity Planning
10 8 (7.767%) Test Scripting
10 8 (7.767%) Load Balancing
10 8 (7.767%) OO
11 7 (6.796%) Kanban
11 7 (6.796%) Asset Management
12 6 (5.825%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (39.81%) Java
2 32 (31.07%) SQL
3 21 (20.39%) PowerShell
4 18 (17.48%) Shell Script
5 17 (16.50%) Python
6 15 (14.56%) C#
7 7 (6.796%) PL/SQL
7 7 (6.796%) C++
7 7 (6.796%) Korn
8 6 (5.825%) Bash shell
8 6 (5.825%) VB.NET
8 6 (5.825%) VBA
9 5 (4.854%) T-SQL
9 5 (4.854%) Groovy
10 4 (3.883%) Ruby
10 4 (3.883%) JavaScript
10 4 (3.883%) Perl
11 3 (2.913%) VBScript
11 3 (2.913%) VB
12 2 (1.942%) Jython
Qualifications
1 7 (6.796%) ISEB
2 6 (5.825%) MCSE
2 6 (5.825%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (3.883%) CCEE
3 4 (3.883%) Citrix Certification
4 3 (2.913%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (2.913%) Degree
4 3 (2.913%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.971%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.971%) Sun Certification
5 1 (0.971%) CCSP
5 1 (0.971%) CCNP
5 1 (0.971%) CCNA
5 1 (0.971%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.971%) JNCIA
5 1 (0.971%) CCSA
5 1 (0.971%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (14.56%) QA
2 10 (9.709%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (8.738%) Active Directory
1 9 (8.738%) Hyper-V
2 8 (7.767%) vSphere
2 8 (7.767%) XenApp
2 8 (7.767%) XenServer
3 7 (6.796%) XenDesktop
4 6 (5.825%) IAG
4 6 (5.825%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (3.883%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.971%) NFS
6 1 (0.971%) Snort
6 1 (0.971%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.971%) ProxySG
6 1 (0.971%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 10 (9.709%) BladeLogic
2 9 (8.738%) SCOM
3 4 (3.883%) Puppet
3 4 (3.883%) Data Guard
4 3 (2.913%) NetBackup
5 2 (1.942%) Nagios
6 1 (0.971%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.971%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 23 (22.33%) Microsoft
1 23 (22.33%) Oracle
2 16 (15.53%) VMware
3 11 (10.68%) Citrix
4 9 (8.738%) AppSense
5 8 (7.767%) HP
6 7 (6.796%) BMC
6 7 (6.796%) Perforce
6 7 (6.796%) Wyse
6 7 (6.796%) Capita
7 6 (5.825%) Informatica
8 3 (2.913%) EMC
8 3 (2.913%) CheckPoint
8 3 (2.913%) Cisco
8 3 (2.913%) Crossbeam
8 3 (2.913%) F5
8 3 (2.913%) hybris
9 2 (1.942%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.942%) Nokia
9 2 (1.942%) Veritas
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iOS, iPad, iPhone, X-Code, Objective-C, CoreData, Wireframes, Build Automation. My client requires an iOS Developer with iPad/iPhone experience and strong X-Code, Objective-C and...
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