The first table below looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cardiff 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 19 June 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 Cardiff 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Agile Software Development
Rank 26 25 22
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -3
Contract jobs citing Agile Software Development 5 9 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 2.404% 4.390% 4.641%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.497% 6.767% 7.097%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 7
Average daily rate £269 £295 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.89% -19.17%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £264 £258 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £274 £333 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £358 £338 £375
% change year-on-year
+5.92% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £37.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+8.10% +5.71%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cardiff
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
143 133 155
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 68.75% 64.88% 65.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 86 87
Average daily rate £330 £365 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.58% +4.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £275 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £401 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
Average hourly rate £10.69 £14.50 £100.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-26.27% -85.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Agile Software Development
South Wales

Agile Software Development
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff Agile Software Development Daily Rate Trend

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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff Agile Software Development Hourly Rate Trend

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 4 (40.00%) Java
1 4 (40.00%) SQL
1 4 (40.00%) SAP
1 4 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Business Objects
1 4 (40.00%) BusinessObjects
1 4 (40.00%) SAP BW
1 4 (40.00%) Xcelsius
1 4 (40.00%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
2 3 (30.00%) Data Management
2 3 (30.00%) Oracle
3 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (20.00%) C++
3 2 (20.00%) QA
4 1 (10.00%) Spring
4 1 (10.00%) JSF
4 1 (10.00%) Business Analysis
4 1 (10.00%) Ajax
4 1 (10.00%) WebSphere
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (10.00%) TDD
4 1 (10.00%) jQuery
4 1 (10.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (10.00%) Subversion
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (10.00%) C#

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 1 (10.00%) Spring
1 1 (10.00%) JSF
1 1 (10.00%) Ajax
1 1 (10.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (10.00%) jQuery
1 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
1 1 (10.00%) J2EE
1 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (10.00%) XML
1 1 (10.00%) J2SE
1 1 (10.00%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) WebSphere Application Server
1 1 (10.00%) FileNet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) BusinessObjects
1 4 (40.00%) SAP BW
1 4 (40.00%) Xcelsius
1 4 (40.00%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (10.00%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Subversion
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) C++ Software Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Software Developer
3 2 (20.00%) C++ Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (10.00%) UML Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) C# Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Business Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Business Objects Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) QA Tester
4 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Tester
4 1 (10.00%) Senior C# Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Agile Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Business Systems Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Systems Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (30.00%) Data Management
3 1 (10.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (10.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (10.00%) TDD
3 1 (10.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (10.00%) UML
3 1 (10.00%) OO
3 1 (10.00%) OOD
3 1 (10.00%) SOA
3 1 (10.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Java
1 4 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) C++
3 1 (10.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) SAP
1 4 (40.00%) Business Objects
2 3 (30.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) ILOG
3 1 (10.00%) IBM
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Adobe
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