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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol 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 18 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Bristol region.

 Agile Software Development
Location
3 months to
18 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank304029
Rank change year-on-year
Up+10Down-11
Matching contract IT job ads23628
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol3.433 %1.105 %2.935 %
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category5.336 %2.372 %5.469 %
Daily rates quoted17114
Average daily rate£325£225£323
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+44.44 %-30.23 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£231£225£248
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£381£225£485
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£300£350
% change year-on-year
+16.66 %-14.28 %
Hourly rates quoted038
Average hourly rate-£32.50£32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£32.50£35.00
% change year-on-year
-12.30 %-7.140 %
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryAll Processes & Methodologies
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
431253512
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol64.33 %46.59 %53.67 %
Daily rates quoted22167212
Average daily rate£325£300£350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.330 %-14.28 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£210£161£241
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£425£450£500
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£363£375
% change year-on-year
-3.440 %-3.330 %
Hourly rates quoted275182
Average hourly rate£25.25£32.50£22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-22.30 %+44.44 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£14.00£15.95£10.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£35.00£36.87£33.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£24.00£27.50£30.00
% change year-on-year
-12.72 %-8.330 %
Agile Software Development South WestAgile Software Development
South West

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.

Agile Software Development
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Agile Software Development across the Bristol region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Bristol Agile Software Development Demand Trend

Agile Software Development
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bristol Agile Software Development Daily Rate Trend

Agile Software Development
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Agile Software Development across the Bristol region over the 3 months to 18 March 2010.

Bristol Agile Software Development Daily Rate Histogram

Agile Software Development
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bristol Agile Software Development Hourly Rate Trend

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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.

114 (38.89 %).NET
213 (36.11 %)C#
312 (33.33 %)Scrum
411 (30.56 %)SQL Server
510 (27.78 %)JavaScript
69 (25.00 %)Linux
69 (25.00 %)Workflow
78 (22.22 %)Telecoms
78 (22.22 %)Document Management
78 (22.22 %)RUP
78 (22.22 %)Web Services
78 (22.22 %)ASP
78 (22.22 %)QuickTest Pro
78 (22.22 %)CRM
78 (22.22 %)ISEB
87 (19.44 %)CSS
87 (19.44 %)Test Scripting
87 (19.44 %)SC Cleared
87 (19.44 %)Security Cleared
96 (16.67 %)Software Testing
96 (16.67 %)XML
96 (16.67 %)ASP.NET
96 (16.67 %)Java
105 (13.89 %)E-Commerce
105 (13.89 %)Maven
105 (13.89 %)Multimedia
114 (11.11 %)Finance
114 (11.11 %)AJAX
114 (11.11 %)Singularity
114 (11.11 %)Music

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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.

Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
114 (38.89 %).NET
28 (22.22 %)Web Services
28 (22.22 %)ASP
37 (19.44 %)CSS
46 (16.67 %)XML
46 (16.67 %)ASP.NET
54 (11.11 %)AJAX
54 (11.11 %)XHTML
54 (11.11 %)XSLT
63 (8.333 %)HTML
63 (8.333 %)Qt
63 (8.333 %)Spring
72 (5.556 %)Hibernate
81 (2.778 %)XSL
81 (2.778 %)Flash
81 (2.778 %)Swing
81 (2.778 %)GWT
81 (2.778 %)SWT
81 (2.778 %)Java EE 5
81 (2.778 %)RESTful
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
14 (11.11 %)IIS
14 (11.11 %)Tomcat
22 (5.556 %)Apache
31 (2.778 %)SharePoint
31 (2.778 %)BizTalk Server
31 (2.778 %)SharePoint Server 2007
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11 (2.778 %)MS Excel
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
12 (5.556 %)Internet
21 (2.778 %)iSCSI
21 (2.778 %)SAN
21 (2.778 %)LAN
21 (2.778 %)DHCP
21 (2.778 %)DNS
21 (2.778 %)LDAP
21 (2.778 %)Firewall
21 (2.778 %)NAS
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
111 (30.56 %)SQL Server
23 (8.333 %)MySQL
31 (2.778 %)ETL
31 (2.778 %)Datawarehouse
31 (2.778 %)Oracle OWB
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
18 (22.22 %)QuickTest Pro
25 (13.89 %)Maven
33 (8.333 %)Subversion
42 (5.556 %)FitNesse
42 (5.556 %)Ant
42 (5.556 %)Eclipse
42 (5.556 %)TestDirector
51 (2.778 %)Atlassian Bamboo
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
18 (22.22 %)Telecoms
25 (13.89 %)Multimedia
34 (11.11 %)Finance
34 (11.11 %)Music
42 (5.556 %)Education
51 (2.778 %)Retail
51 (2.778 %)Insurance
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
112 (33.33 %)Developer
210 (27.78 %)Analyst
39 (25.00 %)Test Analyst
46 (16.67 %)Build Engineer
54 (11.11 %)Project Manager
54 (11.11 %)Web Developer
63 (8.333 %).NET Developer
72 (5.556 %)ASP.NET Developer
72 (5.556 %)C# Developer
72 (5.556 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
81 (2.778 %)Consultant
81 (2.778 %)Technical Project Manager
81 (2.778 %)Support Engineer
81 (2.778 %)Lead Developer
81 (2.778 %)Administrator
81 (2.778 %)Business Analyst
81 (2.778 %)Tester
81 (2.778 %)Test Manager
81 (2.778 %)SCM Engineer
81 (2.778 %)Agile Test Analyst
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11 (2.778 %)PMI
11 (2.778 %)FMCG
11 (2.778 %)Open Source
11 (2.778 %)Clustering
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
19 (25.00 %)Linux
24 (11.11 %)UNIX
33 (8.333 %)Red Hat Linux
42 (5.556 %)Fedora
42 (5.556 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
51 (2.778 %)Windows Server 2003
51 (2.778 %)Windows
51 (2.778 %)Windows Server 2008
51 (2.778 %)CentOS
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
112 (33.33 %)Scrum
29 (25.00 %)Workflow
38 (22.22 %)Document Management
38 (22.22 %)RUP
38 (22.22 %)CRM
47 (19.44 %)Test Scripting
56 (16.67 %)Software Testing
65 (13.89 %)E-Commerce
74 (11.11 %)Web Development
74 (11.11 %)UML
83 (8.333 %)Test Automation
92 (5.556 %)TDD
92 (5.556 %)Pair Programming
92 (5.556 %)Unit Testing
92 (5.556 %)OO
92 (5.556 %)PRINCE2
92 (5.556 %)Continuous Integration
101 (2.778 %)Configuration Management
101 (2.778 %)Project Management
101 (2.778 %)Test Management
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
113 (36.11 %)C#
210 (27.78 %)JavaScript
36 (16.67 %)Java
44 (11.11 %)Perl
53 (8.333 %)C++
62 (5.556 %)VB.NET
62 (5.556 %)C
71 (2.778 %)Shell Script
71 (2.778 %)Python
71 (2.778 %)PHP
71 (2.778 %)SQL
71 (2.778 %)VB
71 (2.778 %)ActionScript
71 (2.778 %)VB6
71 (2.778 %)Ruby
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
18 (22.22 %)ISEB
27 (19.44 %)SC Cleared
27 (19.44 %)Security Cleared
34 (11.11 %)Degree
41 (2.778 %)PMI Certification
41 (2.778 %)ISEB Practitioner
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11 (2.778 %)QA
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11 (2.778 %)NFS
11 (2.778 %)Xen
11 (2.778 %)OpenLDAP
11 (2.778 %)VMware Infrastructure
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
12 (5.556 %)HP Quality Center
21 (2.778 %)Nagios
Bristol IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
14 (11.11 %)Singularity
14 (11.11 %)JBoss
22 (5.556 %)Oracle
22 (5.556 %)HP
31 (2.778 %)Cisco
31 (2.778 %)Red Hat
31 (2.778 %)VMware