The first table below looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge 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 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 Cambridge 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
Agile Software Development
Rank 24 23 24
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +1
Contract jobs citing Agile Software Development 17 27 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 4.971% 6.459% 3.200%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.947% 12.00% 5.594%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 19 6
Average daily rate £375 £385 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.59% -3.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £316 £299 £295
10% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £800 £513
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 1
Average hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% +240.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.25 £37.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-5.36% +6.42%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
190 225 143
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 55.56% 53.83% 57.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 113 86
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £275 £268
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £564 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 19 20
Average hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% +34.92%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.00 £37.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £57.20 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Agile Software Development
Cambridgeshire

Agile Software Development
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge Agile Software Development Hourly Rate Trend

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 20 (45.45%) .NET
2 13 (29.55%) Migration
2 13 (29.55%) Stakeholder Management
3 12 (27.27%) SQL
3 12 (27.27%) C#
3 12 (27.27%) PRINCE2
4 11 (25.00%) Project Management
4 11 (25.00%) Resource Management
5 10 (22.73%) Degree
5 10 (22.73%) MVC
6 9 (20.45%) Web Services
6 9 (20.45%) Computer Science
7 8 (18.18%) Unit Testing
7 8 (18.18%) XML
7 8 (18.18%) Java
8 7 (15.91%) SQL Server
8 7 (15.91%) ASP.NET
8 7 (15.91%) Linux
9 6 (13.64%) Windows
9 6 (13.64%) HTML
9 6 (13.64%) Oracle
9 6 (13.64%) TDD
9 6 (13.64%) Ruby
10 5 (11.36%) Multimedia
10 5 (11.36%) RESTful
10 5 (11.36%) .NET Framework
10 5 (11.36%) jQuery
10 5 (11.36%) JavaScript
10 5 (11.36%) Tomcat
10 5 (11.36%) Oracle 8/8i

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 20 (45.45%) .NET
2 9 (20.45%) Web Services
3 8 (18.18%) XML
4 7 (15.91%) ASP.NET
5 6 (13.64%) HTML
6 5 (11.36%) jQuery
6 5 (11.36%) RESTful
6 5 (11.36%) ASP.NET MVC
6 5 (11.36%) .NET Framework
7 4 (9.091%) JSON
7 4 (9.091%) WCF
7 4 (9.091%) Swing
7 4 (9.091%) Hibernate
7 4 (9.091%) CSS
7 4 (9.091%) J2EE
7 4 (9.091%) Spring
7 4 (9.091%) Ruby on Rails
8 3 (6.818%) KnockoutJS
8 3 (6.818%) ADO.NET
8 3 (6.818%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 5 (11.36%) Apache
1 5 (11.36%) Tomcat
2 4 (9.091%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (6.818%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (9.091%) RoboHelp
1 4 (9.091%) FrameMaker
2 2 (4.545%) Adobe Captivate
2 2 (4.545%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 1 (2.273%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.273%) CTI
1 1 (2.273%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.91%) SQL Server
2 5 (11.36%) Oracle 8/8i
3 4 (9.091%) MySQL
4 1 (2.273%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (2.273%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 5 (11.36%) QuickTest Pro
2 4 (9.091%) Git (software)
2 4 (9.091%) Subversion
2 4 (9.091%) Maven
3 3 (6.818%) JIRA
3 3 (6.818%) Selenium
3 3 (6.818%) JSUnit
3 3 (6.818%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.273%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (2.273%) QUnit
4 1 (2.273%) Xcode
General
1 5 (11.36%) Multimedia
2 4 (9.091%) Finance
3 2 (4.545%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.273%) Games
Job Titles
1 17 (38.64%) Developer
2 11 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 11 (25.00%) Software Project Manager
2 11 (25.00%) Software Manager
3 8 (18.18%) .NET Developer
4 7 (15.91%) Analyst
5 5 (11.36%) Java Developer
6 4 (9.091%) Author
6 4 (9.091%) Technical Author
7 3 (6.818%) Business Analyst
8 2 (4.545%) Test Analyst
8 2 (4.545%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (4.545%) QA Analyst
8 2 (4.545%) Senior QA Analyst
8 2 (4.545%) Agile .NET Developer
9 1 (2.273%) User Experience Developer
9 1 (2.273%) C# .NET Developer
9 1 (2.273%) iOS Developer
9 1 (2.273%) UI Programmer
9 1 (2.273%) C# ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.45%) Computer Science
2 4 (9.091%) Informatics
3 2 (4.545%) Biology
3 2 (4.545%) LIMS
3 2 (4.545%) Open Source
4 1 (2.273%) W3C
4 1 (2.273%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (2.273%) 3D Graphics
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.91%) Linux
2 6 (13.64%) Windows
3 4 (9.091%) UNIX
4 3 (6.818%) Android
5 1 (2.273%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.273%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (29.55%) Migration
1 13 (29.55%) Stakeholder Management
2 12 (27.27%) PRINCE2
3 11 (25.00%) Project Management
3 11 (25.00%) Resource Management
4 10 (22.73%) MVC
5 8 (18.18%) Unit Testing
6 6 (13.64%) TDD
7 4 (9.091%) Information Management
8 3 (6.818%) OOA/OOD
8 3 (6.818%) OOD
8 3 (6.818%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (6.818%) Software Testing
9 2 (4.545%) Test Automation
9 2 (4.545%) Software Architecture
9 2 (4.545%) ITIL
9 2 (4.545%) E-Commerce
9 2 (4.545%) Workflow
9 2 (4.545%) Change Management
10 1 (2.273%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 12 (27.27%) C#
1 12 (27.27%) SQL
2 8 (18.18%) Java
3 6 (13.64%) Ruby
4 5 (11.36%) JavaScript
5 4 (9.091%) Perl
5 4 (9.091%) Python
5 4 (9.091%) Lisp
6 3 (6.818%) C++
7 2 (4.545%) Assembly Language
7 2 (4.545%) Magik
8 1 (2.273%) Objective-C
8 1 (2.273%) F#
8 1 (2.273%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.273%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 10 (22.73%) Degree
2 5 (11.36%) ISEB
3 4 (9.091%) PhD
4 1 (2.273%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (2.273%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.091%) QA
2 1 (2.273%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (9.091%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (6.818%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (13.64%) Oracle
2 4 (9.091%) VMware
3 3 (6.818%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.818%) HP
4 2 (4.545%) Adobe
5 1 (2.273%) Salesforce.com