The first table below looks at the demand for Continuous Integration skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Continuous Integration over the 3 months to 21 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 West Midlands 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Continuous Integration
Rank 93 77 92
Rank change year-on-year
-16 +15
Contract jobs citing Continuous Integration 3 33 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.178% 1.469% 0.107%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.265% 2.339% 0.170%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 12 2
Average daily rate £325 £306 £276
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.12% +10.85%
UK excluding London average daily rate £353 £330 £360
% change year-on-year
+6.81% -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
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1130 1411 1175
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 67.22% 62.79% 63.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 540 665 544
Average daily rate £330 £330 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £240 £201
10% offered a daily rate of more than £523 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 72 67
Average hourly rate £37.80 £20.26 £24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+86.62% -15.60%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
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 West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands Continuous Integration Daily 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 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
Staffordshire -9 2 £325 +10.16%
Birmingham +5 1 - -
Continuous Integration
England

Continuous Integration
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 7 (63.64%) TDD
1 7 (63.64%) .NET
2 6 (54.55%) C#
2 6 (54.55%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (45.45%) SQL Server
4 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
4 4 (36.36%) XML
4 4 (36.36%) CSS
4 4 (36.36%) Open Source
4 4 (36.36%) Jenkins
5 3 (27.27%) HTML5
5 3 (27.27%) BDD
5 3 (27.27%) ASP.NET
5 3 (27.27%) WCF
5 3 (27.27%) Kanban
5 3 (27.27%) E-Commerce
5 3 (27.27%) N-Tier
5 3 (27.27%) SOA
5 3 (27.27%) XSLT
5 3 (27.27%) Windows
5 3 (27.27%) SQL
5 3 (27.27%) Java
5 3 (27.27%) J2EE
5 3 (27.27%) VB.NET
5 3 (27.27%) Ajax
5 3 (27.27%) .NET Framework
5 3 (27.27%) Java EE
5 3 (27.27%) Scrum
5 3 (27.27%) Extreme Programming
5 3 (27.27%) BizTalk Server

Continuous Integration
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 7 (63.64%) .NET
2 4 (36.36%) XML
2 4 (36.36%) CSS
3 3 (27.27%) HTML5
3 3 (27.27%) ASP.NET
3 3 (27.27%) WCF
3 3 (27.27%) XSLT
3 3 (27.27%) J2EE
3 3 (27.27%) Ajax
3 3 (27.27%) .NET Framework
3 3 (27.27%) Java EE
4 2 (18.18%) HTML
4 2 (18.18%) Web Services
4 2 (18.18%) XHTML
4 2 (18.18%) WebSphere
4 2 (18.18%) CSS3
5 1 (9.091%) GWT
5 1 (9.091%) WPF
5 1 (9.091%) WF
5 1 (9.091%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 3 (27.27%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (9.091%) Pressflow
2 1 (9.091%) SharePoint Foundation
2 1 (9.091%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (9.091%) Drupal
2 1 (9.091%) SharePoint
2 1 (9.091%) IIS
2 1 (9.091%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (9.091%) MS Excel
1 1 (9.091%) MS Office
1 1 (9.091%) InfoPath
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (9.091%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (9.091%) MySQL
2 1 (9.091%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Jenkins
2 2 (18.18%) NUnit
2 2 (18.18%) CruiseControl
2 2 (18.18%) TeamCity
2 2 (18.18%) JIRA
2 2 (18.18%) MSBuild
3 1 (9.091%) PhoneGap
3 1 (9.091%) MSTest
3 1 (9.091%) SpecFlow
3 1 (9.091%) Hudson
3 1 (9.091%) WiX
3 1 (9.091%) Cucumber
3 1 (9.091%) Selenium
3 1 (9.091%) FitNesse
3 1 (9.091%) Git (software)
3 1 (9.091%) JBehave
3 1 (9.091%) Visual Studio Team System
3 1 (9.091%) Visual Studio
3 1 (9.091%) MSI
General
1 1 (9.091%) Banking
1 1 (9.091%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Agile Java Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Java Developer
3 2 (18.18%) .NET Developer
3 2 (18.18%) C# Developer
3 2 (18.18%) VB.NET Developer
3 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET Developer
3 2 (18.18%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
3 2 (18.18%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 2 (18.18%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Drupal Developer
4 1 (9.091%) PHP Drupal Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Technical Leader
4 1 (9.091%) SharePoint Developer
4 1 (9.091%) BizTalk Developer
4 1 (9.091%) BizTalk Consultant
4 1 (9.091%) Build Manager
4 1 (9.091%) Consultant
4 1 (9.091%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Open Source
2 3 (27.27%) N-Tier
3 1 (9.091%) Mobile Banking
3 1 (9.091%) iPad
3 1 (9.091%) iPhone
3 1 (9.091%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
2 1 (9.091%) Apple iOS
2 1 (9.091%) Android
2 1 (9.091%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) TDD
2 6 (54.55%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (27.27%) BDD
3 3 (27.27%) Kanban
3 3 (27.27%) E-Commerce
3 3 (27.27%) SOA
3 3 (27.27%) Scrum
3 3 (27.27%) Extreme Programming
4 2 (18.18%) SEO
4 2 (18.18%) Pair Programming
4 2 (18.18%) Document Management
4 2 (18.18%) Refactoring
4 2 (18.18%) Unit Testing
5 1 (9.091%) MSF
5 1 (9.091%) Waterfall
5 1 (9.091%) Test Automation
5 1 (9.091%) UML
5 1 (9.091%) OOA/OOD
5 1 (9.091%) OO
5 1 (9.091%) RUP
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) C#
2 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
3 3 (27.27%) SQL
3 3 (27.27%) Java
3 3 (27.27%) VB.NET
4 1 (9.091%) COBOL
4 1 (9.091%) T-SQL
4 1 (9.091%) PHP
4 1 (9.091%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.091%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.091%) DV Cleared
1 1 (9.091%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.091%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
1 2 (18.18%) AccuRev
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