The first table below looks at the demand for DSDM skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DSDM over the 3 months to 18 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 Cheshire 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM)
Rank 68 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing DSDM 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.136% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.177% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £388 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £415 £413
% change year-on-year
-6.62% +0.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.58 - £42.50
All Processes & Methodologies
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
566 496 645
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 77.22% 61.01% 68.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 258 354
Average daily rate £360 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £275 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £465 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 12 26
Average hourly rate £40.00 £22.41 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+78.49% -18.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.95 £12.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £31.10 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
DSDM
North West

DSDM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire DSDM Jobs Demand Trend

DSDM
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing DSDM across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire DSDM Daily Rate Trend

DSDM
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing DSDM 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 DSDM.

1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) IIS
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Extreme Programming

DSDM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing DSDM 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 DSDM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Team Leader
1 1 (50.00%) Development Team Leader
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Team Leader
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Project Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Extreme Programming
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript