The first table below looks at the demand for Extreme Programming skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Extreme Programming 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 Birmingham 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
Extreme Programming (XP)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Extreme Programming 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham - - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £381 £310
% change year-on-year
+11.47% +22.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £43.25 - -
All Processes & Methodologies
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
296 397 297
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 67.43% 63.93% 57.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 214 183
Average daily rate £358 £340 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.14% -2.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £525 £493
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 20 10
Average hourly rate £34.75 £15.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+131.66% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.28 £12.00 £10.99
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £133.60 £39.00 £127.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Extreme Programming
West Midlands

Extreme Programming
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham Extreme Programming Jobs Demand Trend

Extreme Programming
Daily Rate Trend

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

Birmingham Extreme Programming Daily Rate Trend

Extreme Programming
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Extreme Programming 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 Extreme Programming.

1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Java EE
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) J2EE
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (100.00%) Kanban
1 3 (100.00%) Open Source
1 3 (100.00%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) TeamCity
2 2 (66.67%) Internet
2 2 (66.67%) Refactoring
2 2 (66.67%) Pair Programming
2 2 (66.67%) WebSphere
3 1 (33.33%) Selenium
3 1 (33.33%) FitNesse
3 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (33.33%) JBehave

Extreme Programming
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Extreme Programming 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 Extreme Programming. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) Java EE
1 3 (100.00%) J2EE
2 2 (66.67%) WebSphere
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Internet
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) TeamCity
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) FitNesse
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) JBehave
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Open Source
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (100.00%) Kanban
1 3 (100.00%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) Refactoring
2 2 (66.67%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java