Cambridgeshire Agile Software Development Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills within the Cambridgeshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Agile Software Development over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Agile Software Development
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Barnstaple Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnham Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Jersey Leeds Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Potters Bar Reading Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	41	57
Rank change on same period last year	+16
Matching contract IT job ads	22	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.029 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	6.011 %	1.804 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£310	-
Average daily rate	£335	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£360	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£388
% change on same period last year	-10.14 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£50.00
Average hourly rate	-	£52.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£55.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.41	£36.67
% change on same period last year	-0.69 %
Processes & Methodologies Cambridgeshire
Matching contract IT job ads	366	388
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.488 %	0.393 %
Daily rates quoted	85	128
Average minimum daily rate	£332	£337
Average daily rate	£348	£357
% change on same period last year	-2.36 %
Average maximum daily rate	£365	£377
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	41	39
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.90	£30.28
Average hourly rate	£25.79	£32.36
% change on same period last year	-20.30 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.68	£34.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
Agile Software Development East of England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily 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 Cambridgeshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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 Cambridgeshire region.

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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 Cambridgeshire region.

Agile Software Development
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Software Development within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Peterborough	-	11	£320	-
Cambridge	+9	7	-	-

Agile Software Development East of England

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 54 (73.97 %) SQL Server 2 52 (71.23 %) .NET 3 47 (64.38 %) ASP.NET 4 42 (57.53 %) XML 5 35 (47.95 %) C# 6 30 (41.10 %) JavaScript 7 29 (39.73 %) SQL 7 29 (39.73 %) CSS 8 23 (31.51 %) OO 9 22 (30.14 %) Windows 9 22 (30.14 %) Transact-SQL 10 21 (28.77 %) Finance 11 20 (27.40 %) UML 12 19 (26.03 %) VB 12 19 (26.03 %) ASP

12 19 (26.03 %) VB6 13 18 (24.66 %) VB.NET 14 17 (23.29 %) WebServices 14 17 (23.29 %) BizTalk Server 14 17 (23.29 %) WCF 15 16 (21.92 %) Active Directory 15 16 (21.92 %) Java 15 16 (21.92 %) XSLT 15 16 (21.92 %) ADO.NET 16 15 (20.55 %) WPF 17 14 (19.18 %) J2EE 18 13 (17.81 %) CRM 19 12 (16.44 %) Banking 20 11 (15.07 %) Spring 21 10 (13.70 %) Hibernate

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 52 (71.23 %) .NET 2 47 (64.38 %) ASP.NET 3 42 (57.53 %) XML 4 29 (39.73 %) CSS 5 19 (26.03 %) ASP 6 17 (23.29 %) WCF 6 17 (23.29 %) WebServices 7 16 (21.92 %) XSLT 7 16 (21.92 %) ADO.NET 8 15 (20.55 %) WPF 9 14 (19.18 %) J2EE 10 11 (15.07 %) Spring 11 10 (13.70 %) Hibernate 12 7 (9.589 %) Struts 13 5 (6.849 %) WebSphere 14 4 (5.479 %) WinForms 14 4 (5.479 %) ASP.NET 2.0 15 3 (4.110 %) JSP 15 3 (4.110 %) Servlets 15 3 (4.110 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 17 (23.29 %) BizTalk Server 2 4 (5.479 %) IIS 2 4 (5.479 %) Apache 3 3 (4.110 %) Tomcat 4 2 (2.740 %) JBoss 4 2 (2.740 %) ESB 5 1 (1.370 %) WebSphere Application Server
Applications 1 1 (1.370 %) MS Project	Communications & Networking 1 2 (2.740 %) LDAP 1 2 (2.740 %) 3GPP 1 2 (2.740 %) TELNET 2 1 (1.370 %) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence 1 54 (73.97 %) SQL Server 2 8 (10.96 %) SQL Server 2005 3 4 (5.479 %) SQL Server 2000 4 3 (4.110 %) MySQL	Development Applications 1 9 (12.33 %) JUnit 2 8 (10.96 %) Ant 3 7 (9.589 %) Visual Studio 4 5 (6.849 %) NUnit 5 3 (4.110 %) CruiseControl 6 2 (2.740 %) Atlassian Bamboo 7 1 (1.370 %) Selenium 7 1 (1.370 %) QuickTest Pro
General 1 21 (28.77 %) Finance 2 12 (16.44 %) Banking 3 7 (9.589 %) Telecoms 4 3 (4.110 %) Marketing 5 2 (2.740 %) Insurance 6 1 (1.370 %) Retail	Job Titles 1 57 (78.08 %) Developer 2 24 (32.88 %) .NET Developer 3 17 (23.29 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 15 (20.55 %) VB.NET Developer 5 14 (19.18 %) C# Developer 6 11 (15.07 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 7 10 (13.70 %) Java Developer 8 9 (12.33 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 9 7 (9.589 %) Java/J2EE Developer 10 4 (5.479 %) C# Web Developer 10 4 (5.479 %) J2EE Developer 10 4 (5.479 %) Senior Developer 10 4 (5.479 %) Software Engineer 10 4 (5.479 %) Web Developer 11 3 (4.110 %) Analyst 11 3 (4.110 %) Senior Software Engineer 11 3 (4.110 %) WinForms Developer 11 3 (4.110 %) J2EE Software Engineer 11 3 (4.110 %) Senior J2EE Software Engineer 12 2 (2.740 %) QA Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 5 (6.849 %) N-Tier 2 2 (2.740 %) Cryptography 2 2 (2.740 %) Mathematics 2 2 (2.740 %) Computer Science 2 2 (2.740 %) Java Card 3 1 (1.370 %) Replication	Operating Systems 1 22 (30.14 %) Windows 2 2 (2.740 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (1.370 %) UNIX 3 1 (1.370 %) AIX 3 1 (1.370 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 23 (31.51 %) OO 2 20 (27.40 %) UML 3 13 (17.81 %) CRM 4 7 (9.589 %) TDD 4 7 (9.589 %) Continuous Integration 5 5 (6.849 %) Project Management 6 4 (5.479 %) OOD 6 4 (5.479 %) Unit Testing 7 3 (4.110 %) Performance Testing 8 2 (2.740 %) SOA 8 2 (2.740 %) Refactoring 9 1 (1.370 %) PRINCE2 9 1 (1.370 %) BCP 9 1 (1.370 %) Software Engineering 9 1 (1.370 %) Software Testing 9 1 (1.370 %) Web Development 9 1 (1.370 %) Disaster Recovery 9 1 (1.370 %) Validation 9 1 (1.370 %) Scrum 9 1 (1.370 %) E-Commerce	Programming Languages 1 35 (47.95 %) C# 2 30 (41.10 %) JavaScript 3 29 (39.73 %) SQL 4 22 (30.14 %) Transact-SQL 5 19 (26.03 %) VB 5 19 (26.03 %) VB6 6 18 (24.66 %) VB.NET 7 16 (21.92 %) Java 8 1 (1.370 %) C 8 1 (1.370 %) C++ 8 1 (1.370 %) Python
Qualifications 1 3 (4.110 %) Sun Certification 2 2 (2.740 %) Degree 2 2 (2.740 %) MCDBA 2 2 (2.740 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (2.740 %) QA
System Software 1 16 (21.92 %) Active Directory 2 3 (4.110 %) MSMQ	Systems Management 1 2 (2.740 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 5 (6.849 %) Oracle 2 3 (4.110 %) Microsoft 2 3 (4.110 %) Sun 3 1 (1.370 %) IBM