The first table below looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire 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 Berkshire 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 37 54 57
Rank change year-on-year
+17 +3
Contract jobs citing Agile Software Development 104 92 79
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 4.342% 2.925% 2.655%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.607% 4.614% 4.227%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 38 52
Average daily rate £375 £368 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.04% -2.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £268 £293
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £433 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £363
% change year-on-year
- -3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 4
Average hourly rate £30.00 £37.75 £45.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.52% -17.48%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £37.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-12.16% +5.71%
All Processes & Methodologies
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1574 1994 1869
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 65.72% 63.40% 62.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 642 769 746
Average daily rate £388 £370 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.72% +5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 62 77
Average hourly rate £17.33 £19.50 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.15% -38.09%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.50 £11.45 £13.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £50.00 £47.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Agile Software Development
South East

Agile Software Development
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire 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 Berkshire region.

Berkshire 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 Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Berkshire 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 Berkshire region.

Berkshire Agile Software Development Hourly Rate Trend

Agile Software Development
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Software Development within the Berkshire region 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
Reading +39 40 £381 +1.66%
Slough +5 17 £350 -15.15%
Windsor -5 2 £480 -
Bracknell -20 2 £450 +100.00%
Hungerford - 2 - -
Wokingham +2 1 £250 -30.55%
Agile Software Development
South East

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 72 (34.95%) .NET
2 69 (33.50%) C#
3 53 (25.73%) MVC
4 48 (23.30%) Scrum
4 48 (23.30%) SQL Server
5 46 (22.33%) TDD
6 41 (19.90%) ASP.NET
6 41 (19.90%) Microsoft
7 38 (18.45%) Finance
8 35 (16.99%) SQL
9 34 (16.50%) CSS
9 34 (16.50%) BDD
10 33 (16.02%) jQuery
11 31 (15.05%) Web Services
11 31 (15.05%) JavaScript
12 29 (14.08%) Visual Studio
12 29 (14.08%) WCF
13 25 (12.14%) Telecoms
14 24 (11.65%) XML
14 24 (11.65%) QA
14 24 (11.65%) ASP.NET MVC
15 22 (10.68%) .NET Framework
16 21 (10.19%) HTML5
17 20 (9.709%) Project Management
17 20 (9.709%) HTML
18 19 (9.223%) PRINCE2
18 19 (9.223%) Windows
18 19 (9.223%) Stakeholder Management
18 19 (9.223%) Team Foundation Server
19 18 (8.738%) OO

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 72 (34.95%) .NET
2 41 (19.90%) ASP.NET
3 34 (16.50%) CSS
4 33 (16.02%) jQuery
5 31 (15.05%) Web Services
6 29 (14.08%) WCF
7 24 (11.65%) XML
7 24 (11.65%) ASP.NET MVC
8 22 (10.68%) .NET Framework
9 21 (10.19%) HTML5
10 20 (9.709%) HTML
11 16 (7.767%) Ajax
12 15 (7.282%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
13 12 (5.825%) CSS3
14 11 (5.340%) LINQ
15 10 (4.854%) XSLT
16 9 (4.369%) KnockoutJS
16 9 (4.369%) Hibernate
17 8 (3.883%) Spring
18 7 (3.398%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 10 (4.854%) ESB
2 9 (4.369%) Windows Azure
3 5 (2.427%) Drupal
4 4 (1.942%) CMS
4 4 (1.942%) Apache
4 4 (1.942%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.456%) Amazon AWS
5 3 (1.456%) MSMQ
6 2 (0.971%) SharePoint Server
6 2 (0.971%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.971%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.971%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (0.971%) CM System
6 2 (0.971%) MS Project Server
7 1 (0.485%) Jetty
7 1 (0.485%) Orchard CMS
7 1 (0.485%) CICS
Applications
1 14 (6.796%) MS Excel
2 13 (6.311%) MS Project
3 5 (2.427%) Photoshop
3 5 (2.427%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.942%) MS Office
5 3 (1.456%) RoboHelp
6 2 (0.971%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.971%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.485%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 2 (0.971%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (0.971%) Endur
2 1 (0.485%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.883%) TCP/IP
2 4 (1.942%) FTP
2 4 (1.942%) HTTP
3 3 (1.456%) NAS
3 3 (1.456%) LDAP
4 2 (0.971%) Internet
4 2 (0.971%) SAN
5 1 (0.485%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.485%) IPv6
5 1 (0.485%) GSM
5 1 (0.485%) UMTS
5 1 (0.485%) SMTP
5 1 (0.485%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (23.30%) SQL Server
2 12 (5.825%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (4.369%) SQL Server 2008
4 6 (2.913%) OLAP
5 5 (2.427%) MySQL
5 5 (2.427%) DB2
6 4 (1.942%) RDBMS
6 4 (1.942%) Star Schema
7 3 (1.456%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.456%) Oracle 10g
7 3 (1.456%) SQL Server 2005
8 2 (0.971%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.971%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.971%) IDOL
8 2 (0.971%) DTS
8 2 (0.971%) Oracle BI EE
9 1 (0.485%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.485%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.485%) Oracle OWB
Development Applications
1 29 (14.08%) Visual Studio
2 19 (9.223%) Team Foundation Server
3 17 (8.252%) SpecFlow
4 16 (7.767%) Selenium
5 9 (4.369%) Jenkins
6 7 (3.398%) Cucumber
6 7 (3.398%) JIRA
7 6 (2.913%) Ant
7 6 (2.913%) Jasmine
8 5 (2.427%) Maven
9 4 (1.942%) ERwin
9 4 (1.942%) FitNesse
10 3 (1.456%) MSTest
10 3 (1.456%) WATIR
10 3 (1.456%) JUnit
10 3 (1.456%) QuickTest Pro
11 2 (0.971%) StarTeam
11 2 (0.971%) WinRunner
11 2 (0.971%) Fiddler
11 2 (0.971%) TestComplete
General
1 38 (18.45%) Finance
2 25 (12.14%) Telecoms
3 17 (8.252%) Banking
4 11 (5.340%) Marketing
5 4 (1.942%) Automotive
6 3 (1.456%) Publishing
6 3 (1.456%) Retail
7 2 (0.971%) Billing
8 1 (0.485%) Spanish Language
8 1 (0.485%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 78 (37.86%) Developer
2 42 (20.39%) .NET Developer
3 32 (15.53%) Analyst
4 24 (11.65%) Project Manager
4 24 (11.65%) Business Analyst
5 21 (10.19%) C# Developer
6 19 (9.223%) C# .NET Developer
7 14 (6.796%) Senior Developer
8 10 (4.854%) Tester
8 10 (4.854%) Designer
9 9 (4.369%) Senior .NET Developer
9 9 (4.369%) Programmer
10 8 (3.883%) Technical Analyst
10 8 (3.883%) Technical Business Analyst
10 8 (3.883%) Java Developer
10 8 (3.883%) Coordinator
10 8 (3.883%) Test Manager
10 8 (3.883%) Web Developer
10 8 (3.883%) Agile .NET Developer
11 7 (3.398%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 7 (3.398%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 6 (2.913%) N-Tier
3 5 (2.427%) Visualisation
3 5 (2.427%) Computer Science
3 5 (2.427%) Embedded Systems
4 4 (1.942%) Client/Server
4 4 (1.942%) Smart Meter
5 3 (1.456%) Graphic Design
6 2 (0.971%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (0.971%) Ergonomics
7 1 (0.485%) Open Source
7 1 (0.485%) Inversion of Control
7 1 (0.485%) Data Integration
7 1 (0.485%) Semantic Web
7 1 (0.485%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.485%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.485%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.485%) PMI
7 1 (0.485%) W3C
7 1 (0.485%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.223%) Windows
2 7 (3.398%) Linux
3 5 (2.427%) UNIX
4 2 (0.971%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (0.485%) Windows 8
5 1 (0.485%) SUSE
5 1 (0.485%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (25.73%) MVC
2 48 (23.30%) Scrum
3 46 (22.33%) TDD
4 34 (16.50%) BDD
5 20 (9.709%) Project Management
6 19 (9.223%) PRINCE2
6 19 (9.223%) Stakeholder Management
7 18 (8.738%) OO
8 16 (7.767%) Web Development
8 16 (7.767%) UML
9 15 (7.282%) SOA
9 15 (7.282%) Continuous Integration
10 13 (6.311%) Business Intelligence
11 11 (5.340%) Kanban
11 11 (5.340%) ITIL
12 10 (4.854%) E-Commerce
12 10 (4.854%) Automated Testing
13 9 (4.369%) Test Scripting
14 8 (3.883%) Service Delivery
14 8 (3.883%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 69 (33.50%) C#
2 35 (16.99%) SQL
3 31 (15.05%) JavaScript
4 18 (8.738%) Java
5 7 (3.398%) Ruby
6 6 (2.913%) C++
7 5 (2.427%) VB.NET
7 5 (2.427%) Python
8 4 (1.942%) T-SQL
8 4 (1.942%) C
9 3 (1.456%) Bash shell
9 3 (1.456%) Scala
9 3 (1.456%) PHP5
9 3 (1.456%) PHP
10 2 (0.971%) Jython
10 2 (0.971%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.971%) VBA
11 1 (0.485%) Groovy
11 1 (0.485%) VB
11 1 (0.485%) Perl
Qualifications
1 10 (4.854%) ISEB
1 10 (4.854%) Degree
2 3 (1.456%) Security Cleared
3 2 (0.971%) PMI Certification
3 2 (0.971%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (0.971%) MCSD
4 1 (0.485%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.485%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (0.485%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (11.65%) QA
2 4 (1.942%) SLA
3 1 (0.485%) WCAG
3 1 (0.485%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (3.398%) NFS
2 2 (0.971%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (2.427%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (1.456%) Legato
Vendors
1 41 (19.90%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.340%) Oracle
3 5 (2.427%) Cognos
4 4 (1.942%) Ab Initio
4 4 (1.942%) HP
5 3 (1.456%) Zend
5 3 (1.456%) Veritas
6 2 (0.971%) Meridio
6 2 (0.971%) VMware
6 2 (0.971%) Salesforce.com
6 2 (0.971%) IBM
6 2 (0.971%) MicroStrategy
6 2 (0.971%) Informatica
7 1 (0.485%) Jaspersoft
7 1 (0.485%) Twitter
7 1 (0.485%) SAP
7 1 (0.485%) Siebel
7 1 (0.485%) JBoss
7 1 (0.485%) Intel
7 1 (0.485%) Adobe
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