The first table below looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills in IT contracts advertised for the Basingstoke region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Agile Software Development 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 for the Basingstoke 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Agile Software Development
Rank 21 16 17
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +1
Contract jobs citing Agile Software Development 19 13 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 9.596% 7.143% 5.691%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.57% 11.40% 8.750%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 7 4
Average daily rate £330 £350 £341
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.71% +2.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £275 £333
10% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £485 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £363
% change year-on-year
- -3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £26.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £37.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-12.16% +5.71%
All Processes & Methodologies
Basingstoke
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
140 114 160
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 70.71% 62.64% 65.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 37 57
Average daily rate £350 £380 £395
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.89% -3.79%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £290 £275 £226
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £518
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 17
Average hourly rate £39.00 £16.75 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+132.83% +4.68%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Agile Software Development
Hampshire

Agile Software Development
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Agile Software Development across the Basingstoke region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Basingstoke Agile Software Development Jobs Demand Trend

Agile Software Development
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Agile Software Development across the Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke Agile Software Development Daily Rate Trend

Agile Software Development
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Agile Software Development across the Basingstoke region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Basingstoke Agile Software Development Daily Rate Histogram

Agile Software Development
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Agile Software Development across the Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke Agile Software Development Hourly Rate Trend

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing Agile Software Development 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 Agile Software Development.

1 30 (75.00%) SQL
1 30 (75.00%) Selenium
2 29 (72.50%) Git (software)
2 29 (72.50%) BDD
3 28 (70.00%) jQuery
4 27 (67.50%) MVC
5 25 (62.50%) SQL Server
6 24 (60.00%) Web Services
7 22 (55.00%) Continuous Integration
8 19 (47.50%) UML
8 19 (47.50%) JavaScript
8 19 (47.50%) BizTalk Server
9 18 (45.00%) Spring
10 17 (42.50%) TDD
10 17 (42.50%) Java EE
10 17 (42.50%) Java
10 17 (42.50%) soapUI
11 16 (40.00%) .NET
11 16 (40.00%) C#
11 16 (40.00%) SOAP
11 16 (40.00%) OOD
11 16 (40.00%) Scrum
11 16 (40.00%) Dependency Injection
11 16 (40.00%) Software Architecture
12 15 (37.50%) Pair Programming
12 15 (37.50%) Hibernate
12 15 (37.50%) Maven
12 15 (37.50%) CSS
12 15 (37.50%) HTML
12 15 (37.50%) JUnit

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing Agile Software Development 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 Agile Software Development. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 28 (70.00%) jQuery
2 24 (60.00%) Web Services
3 18 (45.00%) Spring
4 17 (42.50%) Java EE
4 17 (42.50%) soapUI
5 16 (40.00%) .NET
5 16 (40.00%) SOAP
6 15 (37.50%) Hibernate
6 15 (37.50%) CSS
6 15 (37.50%) HTML
7 14 (35.00%) REST
7 14 (35.00%) EJB
7 14 (35.00%) JMS
7 14 (35.00%) JAXB
7 14 (35.00%) JTA
7 14 (35.00%) Spring MVC
7 14 (35.00%) JSON
7 14 (35.00%) JPA
7 14 (35.00%) Spring Security
7 14 (35.00%) Spring Web Flow
Application Platforms
1 19 (47.50%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (2.500%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (15.00%) MS Excel
2 3 (7.500%) MS PowerPoint
2 3 (7.500%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (7.500%) SAP Oil and Gas
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (62.50%) SQL Server
2 14 (35.00%) NoSQL
2 14 (35.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 14 (35.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 13 (32.50%) MySQL
4 10 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
5 8 (20.00%) SQL Server 2000
5 8 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 30 (75.00%) Selenium
2 29 (72.50%) Git (software)
3 15 (37.50%) Maven
3 15 (37.50%) JUnit
3 15 (37.50%) SpecFlow
4 14 (35.00%) Mockito
5 13 (32.50%) Subversion
6 12 (30.00%) ReSharper
7 8 (20.00%) JBehave
8 3 (7.500%) NUnit
9 2 (5.000%) WebDriver
10 1 (2.500%) Hudson
10 1 (2.500%) Jenkins
10 1 (2.500%) GitHub
10 1 (2.500%) WATIR
10 1 (2.500%) FitNesse
10 1 (2.500%) Firebug
10 1 (2.500%) Fiddler
10 1 (2.500%) JMeter
General
1 6 (15.00%) Finance
1 6 (15.00%) Marketing
2 3 (7.500%) Manufacturing
2 3 (7.500%) Electronics
2 3 (7.500%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (77.50%) Developer
2 16 (40.00%) Java Developer
3 12 (30.00%) C# Developer
3 12 (30.00%) Agile C# Developer
4 8 (20.00%) ASP.NET Developer
4 8 (20.00%) .NET Developer
4 8 (20.00%) Agile .NET Developer
4 8 (20.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 8 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
5 6 (15.00%) Technical Leader
6 3 (7.500%) Java/J2EE Developer
6 3 (7.500%) Designer
6 3 (7.500%) Author
6 3 (7.500%) Technical Author
7 2 (5.000%) Lead Developer
7 2 (5.000%) Analyst
7 2 (5.000%) Software Developer
7 2 (5.000%) Architect
7 2 (5.000%) Technical Developer
7 2 (5.000%) User Experience Architect
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
2 6 (15.00%) SaaS
3 3 (7.500%) Wiki
3 3 (7.500%) DTV
4 2 (5.000%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.500%) Linux
1 1 (2.500%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (72.50%) BDD
2 27 (67.50%) MVC
3 22 (55.00%) Continuous Integration
4 19 (47.50%) UML
5 17 (42.50%) TDD
6 16 (40.00%) OOD
6 16 (40.00%) Scrum
6 16 (40.00%) Dependency Injection
6 16 (40.00%) Software Architecture
7 15 (37.50%) Pair Programming
8 14 (35.00%) OO
8 14 (35.00%) Web Development
9 13 (32.50%) Kanban
10 4 (10.00%) OOP
10 4 (10.00%) Technical Architecture
11 3 (7.500%) Digital Marketing
11 3 (7.500%) Unit Testing
11 3 (7.500%) SOA
11 3 (7.500%) Programme Management
11 3 (7.500%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 30 (75.00%) SQL
2 19 (47.50%) JavaScript
3 17 (42.50%) Java
4 16 (40.00%) C#
5 10 (25.00%) T-SQL
6 5 (12.50%) C++
6 5 (12.50%) Python
7 1 (2.500%) Ruby
7 1 (2.500%) C
7 1 (2.500%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (2.500%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.500%) QA
Vendors
1 14 (35.00%) JBoss
2 8 (20.00%) Twitter
3 6 (15.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (7.500%) SAP
5 1 (2.500%) hybris
5 1 (2.500%) Adobe
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