The first table below looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheltenham 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 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 Cheltenham 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
Agile Software Development
Rank 9 35 -
Rank change year-on-year
+26 -
Contract jobs citing Agile Software Development 9 12 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheltenham 11.25% 5.000% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.07% 6.452% -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 0
Average daily rate £350 £395 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.39% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £363
% change year-on-year
- -3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £37.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-12.16% +5.71%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cheltenham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
56 186 52
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheltenham 70.00% 77.50% 52.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 103 21
Average daily rate £350 £425 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.64% +37.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £400 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £500 £445
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 9
Average hourly rate £40.00 £25.00 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+60.00% -33.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.00 £25.00 £34.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £37.00 £39.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Agile Software Development
Gloucestershire

Agile Software Development
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheltenham 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 Cheltenham region.

Cheltenham 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 Cheltenham region.

Cheltenham Agile Software Development Hourly Rate Trend

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheltenham 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 10 (58.82%) SQL
2 8 (47.06%) .NET
2 8 (47.06%) Java
3 7 (41.18%) Oracle
3 7 (41.18%) Scrum
4 6 (35.29%) JavaScript
4 6 (35.29%) CSS
4 6 (35.29%) System Testing
5 5 (29.41%) Kanban
5 5 (29.41%) Spring
5 5 (29.41%) Web Development
5 5 (29.41%) XML
5 5 (29.41%) XSL
5 5 (29.41%) PL/SQL
5 5 (29.41%) C#
5 5 (29.41%) Hibernate
6 4 (23.53%) XAML
6 4 (23.53%) UML
6 4 (23.53%) Degree
6 4 (23.53%) WPF
6 4 (23.53%) LINQ
6 4 (23.53%) NUnit
6 4 (23.53%) DO-178B
7 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
8 2 (11.76%) Aerospace
8 2 (11.76%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (5.882%) ASP.NET MVC
9 1 (5.882%) Waterfall
9 1 (5.882%) ASP.NET MVC 3
9 1 (5.882%) Enterprise Software

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheltenham 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 8 (47.06%) .NET
2 6 (35.29%) CSS
3 5 (29.41%) Spring
3 5 (29.41%) XML
3 5 (29.41%) XSL
3 5 (29.41%) Hibernate
4 4 (23.53%) WPF
4 4 (23.53%) LINQ
5 1 (5.882%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (5.882%) ASP.NET MVC 3
5 1 (5.882%) jQuery
5 1 (5.882%) ASP.NET
5 1 (5.882%) HTML
5 1 (5.882%) J2EE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (5.882%) Oracle 11g
1 1 (5.882%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.882%) Informix
1 1 (5.882%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) NUnit
2 1 (5.882%) JIRA
2 1 (5.882%) Visual Studio
2 1 (5.882%) Eclipse
2 1 (5.882%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 2 (11.76%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Developer
2 5 (29.41%) Java Developer
3 4 (23.53%) Software Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Analyst
3 4 (23.53%) C# Software Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Systems Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) ScrumMaster
5 2 (11.76%) .NET Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (5.882%) Agile Test Analyst
6 1 (5.882%) Database Developer
6 1 (5.882%) Team Leader
6 1 (5.882%) Java Team Leader
6 1 (5.882%) Senior Java Developer
6 1 (5.882%) Oracle Database Developer
6 1 (5.882%) J2EE Team Leader
6 1 (5.882%) .NET Programmer
6 1 (5.882%) Software Test Analyst
6 1 (5.882%) Test Analyst
6 1 (5.882%) Oracle Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.882%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Scrum
2 6 (35.29%) System Testing
3 5 (29.41%) Kanban
3 5 (29.41%) Web Development
4 4 (23.53%) UML
5 1 (5.882%) Waterfall
5 1 (5.882%) Automation Testing
5 1 (5.882%) Systems Analysis
5 1 (5.882%) Business Analysis
5 1 (5.882%) MVC
5 1 (5.882%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) SQL
2 8 (47.06%) Java
3 6 (35.29%) JavaScript
4 5 (29.41%) PL/SQL
4 5 (29.41%) C#
5 4 (23.53%) XAML
6 1 (5.882%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
2 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.882%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) DO-178B
2 1 (5.882%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Oracle
2 1 (5.882%) HP