The first table below looks at the demand for Kanban skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Kanban over the 3 months to 17 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 Bedfordshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Kanban
Rank 28 - 32
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Kanban 2 0 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 1.081% - 2.721%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.361% - 3.774%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 6
Average daily rate £350 - £195
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £400
% change year-on-year
- -18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £190.00
All Processes & Methodologies
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
147 198 212
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 79.46% 70.21% 72.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 106 104
Average daily rate £350 £350 £345
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +1.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £238 £181
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 9
Average hourly rate £32.75 £41.50 £47.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.08% -12.63%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Kanban
East of England

Kanban
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire Kanban Jobs Demand Trend

Kanban
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Kanban across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Kanban Daily Rate Trend

Kanban
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Kanban 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 Kanban.

1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
1 2 (100.00%) Web Development
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (100.00%) WATIR
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 2 (100.00%) WebDriver
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Waterfall
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) SpecFlow
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Testing
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Automated Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SOA
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management

Kanban
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Kanban 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 Kanban. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) WATIR
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 2 (100.00%) WebDriver
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) SpecFlow
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Test Leader
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Web Development
1 2 (100.00%) Waterfall
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Testing
1 2 (100.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) SOA
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby