The first table below looks at the demand for Build Forge skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Build Forge 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 Development Applications category.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IBM Rational Build Forge
Rank 854 886 860
Rank change year-on-year
+32 -26
Permanent jobs citing Build Forge 6 1 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.006% 0.001% 0.009%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.038% 0.006% 0.070%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 9
Average salary £60,000 - £67,500
UK excluding London average salary £60,000 - £67,500
All Development Applications
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
15992 17239 15612
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 14.72% 14.23% 12.79%
Number of salaries quoted 13641 15127 13714
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%

Build Forge
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Build Forge within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Build Forge Jobs Demand Trend

Build Forge
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Build Forge within the UK.

Build Forge Salary Trend

Build Forge
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Build Forge within the UK 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +10 2 £62,500 -
Worcestershire +1 1 £62,500 -
Worcester 0 1 £62,500 -
West Midlands -22 1 £62,500 -
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
South East - 1 - -
Kent - 1 - -
Belfast - 1 - -
County Antrim - 1 - -

Build Forge
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Build Forge 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Build Forge.

1 10 (100.00%) UNIX
2 9 (90.00%) Jenkins
3 8 (80.00%) Ant
4 7 (70.00%) Subversion
4 7 (70.00%) Release Management
4 7 (70.00%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (60.00%) Maven
5 6 (60.00%) WebSphere
5 6 (60.00%) IBM
5 6 (60.00%) Windows
5 6 (60.00%) Perl
5 6 (60.00%) ClearCase
6 5 (50.00%) Linux
6 5 (50.00%) TeamCity
7 4 (40.00%) Git (software)
7 4 (40.00%) Quickr
7 4 (40.00%) WebSphere Portal
7 4 (40.00%) WebSphere Application Server
7 4 (40.00%) Python
7 4 (40.00%) Java
7 4 (40.00%) Configuration Management
7 4 (40.00%) Finance
7 4 (40.00%) Jython
8 3 (30.00%) Firewall
8 3 (30.00%) Commerce Server
8 3 (30.00%) ITIL
8 3 (30.00%) Hudson
8 3 (30.00%) Load Balancing
8 3 (30.00%) Agile Software Development
9 2 (20.00%) PowerShell

Build Forge
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Build Forge also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Build Forge. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (60.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) Quickr
1 4 (40.00%) WebSphere Portal
1 4 (40.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (30.00%) Commerce Server
3 1 (10.00%) WebSphere Process Server
3 1 (10.00%) MQSeries
3 1 (10.00%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (10.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (80.00%) Ant
3 7 (70.00%) Subversion
4 6 (60.00%) Maven
4 6 (60.00%) ClearCase
5 5 (50.00%) TeamCity
6 4 (40.00%) Git (software)
7 3 (30.00%) Hudson
8 1 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Applications Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Technical Leader
2 2 (20.00%) Release Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Technical Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Configuration Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Configuration Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Release Manager
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) UNIX
2 6 (60.00%) Windows
3 5 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Release Management
1 7 (70.00%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (40.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (30.00%) ITIL
3 3 (30.00%) Load Balancing
3 3 (30.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (10.00%) High Availability
4 1 (10.00%) ETL
4 1 (10.00%) Change Management
4 1 (10.00%) ITSM
4 1 (10.00%) Migration
4 1 (10.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Perl
2 4 (40.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) Java
2 4 (40.00%) Jython
3 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (10.00%) Ruby
4 1 (10.00%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) IBM Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) YUM
1 1 (10.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) AccuRev
2 1 (10.00%) Informatica
2 1 (10.00%) Lotus
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (10.00%) JBoss
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Sybase