Agile Software Development Contracts in Chester
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills in IT contracts advertised for the Chester 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 Chester 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 15 20 23
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +3
Contract jobs citing Agile Software Development 10 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 7.194% 0.855% 0.613%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.009% 1.220% 0.893%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 1
Average daily rate £388 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.71% -
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%
Search 7 Agile Software Development jobs in Chester
All Processes & Methodologies
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 111 82 112
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 79.86% 70.09% 68.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 34 36
Average daily rate £381 £363 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.17% +3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £300 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 3
Average hourly rate £44.90 £14.00 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+220.71% -15.15%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.00 £14.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £48.00 £50.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Agile Software Development
Cheshire

Agile Software Development
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester Agile Software Development Daily Rate Trend

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 7 (53.85%) SQL
1 7 (53.85%) Unit Testing
2 5 (38.46%) IDMS
2 5 (38.46%) Data Integration
2 5 (38.46%) SQL Server 2008
2 5 (38.46%) T-SQL
2 5 (38.46%) SQL Server
2 5 (38.46%) Data Modelling
2 5 (38.46%) OLTP
2 5 (38.46%) VLDB
2 5 (38.46%) SQL Server 2000
2 5 (38.46%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (38.46%) SQL Server 2005
2 5 (38.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (30.77%) Spring
3 4 (30.77%) Change Management
3 4 (30.77%) Hibernate
3 4 (30.77%) JUnit
3 4 (30.77%) SOAP
3 4 (30.77%) J2EE
3 4 (30.77%) Java
3 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
3 4 (30.77%) Oracle
4 3 (23.08%) MySQL
4 3 (23.08%) Web Services
4 3 (23.08%) CSS
4 3 (23.08%) XHTML
4 3 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (23.08%) Eclipse
4 3 (23.08%) Replication

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 4 (30.77%) Spring
1 4 (30.77%) Hibernate
1 4 (30.77%) SOAP
1 4 (30.77%) J2EE
2 3 (23.08%) Web Services
2 3 (23.08%) CSS
2 3 (23.08%) XHTML
3 2 (15.38%) REST
3 2 (15.38%) jQuery
3 2 (15.38%) Apache Axis
3 2 (15.38%) Apache Flex
3 2 (15.38%) WebSphere
3 2 (15.38%) Ajax
3 2 (15.38%) WSDL
3 2 (15.38%) JAX-RPC
3 2 (15.38%) JSP
3 2 (15.38%) Servlets
3 2 (15.38%) DOM
3 2 (15.38%) XSLT
3 2 (15.38%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) Apache
2 1 (7.692%) Mule
2 1 (7.692%) ESB
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) SNMP
1 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
1 2 (15.38%) TELNET
2 1 (7.692%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) IDMS
1 5 (38.46%) SQL Server 2008
1 5 (38.46%) SQL Server
1 5 (38.46%) OLTP
1 5 (38.46%) VLDB
1 5 (38.46%) SQL Server 2000
1 5 (38.46%) SQL Server 2005
1 5 (38.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (23.08%) MySQL
2 3 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (23.08%) NoSQL
2 3 (23.08%) SQL Server 2012
3 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) JUnit
2 3 (23.08%) Eclipse
2 3 (23.08%) JIRA
3 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 2 (15.38%) Mercurial
3 2 (15.38%) TestNG
3 2 (15.38%) MyEclipse
3 2 (15.38%) Selenium
4 1 (7.692%) Subversion
General
1 2 (15.38%) Retail
1 2 (15.38%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) DBA
2 4 (30.77%) Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Java Developer
3 3 (23.08%) SQL DBA
4 2 (15.38%) Project Manager
5 1 (7.692%) Business Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) Software Engineer
5 1 (7.692%) Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) Web Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Senior Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Administrator
5 1 (7.692%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (7.692%) IT Project Manager
5 1 (7.692%) Front-End Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Front-End Web Developer
5 1 (7.692%) Teradata DBA
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Data Integration
2 3 (23.08%) Replication
3 2 (15.38%) Mobile App
3 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
3 2 (15.38%) Web 2.0
3 2 (15.38%) Client/Server
4 1 (7.692%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Apple iOS
1 2 (15.38%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Unit Testing
2 5 (38.46%) Data Modelling
2 5 (38.46%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (30.77%) Change Management
4 3 (23.08%) Requirements Management
4 3 (23.08%) Load Testing
4 3 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (15.38%) Waterfall
5 2 (15.38%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (15.38%) TDD
5 2 (15.38%) Software Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Scrum
5 2 (15.38%) Project Management
5 2 (15.38%) ITIL
6 1 (7.692%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (7.692%) Data Security
6 1 (7.692%) Software Engineering
6 1 (7.692%) Web Development
6 1 (7.692%) Time Management
6 1 (7.692%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) SQL
2 5 (38.46%) T-SQL
3 4 (30.77%) Java
3 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
4 2 (15.38%) XPath
4 2 (15.38%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) Adobe
3 1 (7.692%) IBM
3 1 (7.692%) Perforce
Java Developer With JSF - Contract - Chester
Chester, North West
Required: * Extensive (minimum 5yrs + commercial) experience of Web 2.0 technologies i.e AJAX, XHTML, JavaScript, XPATH, CSS, XSLT, DOM, JSP, Servlets * Minimum 2yrs + JSF experience * Minimum 5yrs...
Computer Futures
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
3x Java Developers - Contract - Chester
Chester, North West
To be suitable for this role you should have; * Minimum 5yrs commercial Java/J2EE experience incorporating the Spring Framework * Comprehensive experience in Web Service development using Spring-WS,...
Computer Futures
Rate: £350 - £450 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Software Engineer - Java, J2EE
Chester, North West
Required Skills:SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:Essential:-Extensive experience of Web 2.0 technologies i.e AJAX, XHTML, JavaScript, XPATH, CSS, XSLT, DOM, JSP, Servlets-Minimum 2yrs + JSF...
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 11 May 2013
SQL Database Administrator
Chester, North West
You will also be responsible for all aspects of SQL Server database development in adherence with iDMS standards, including unit testing and documentation. Key skills: - Demonstrable experience in...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £350.00 - £425.00 per day
Posted: 8 May 2013
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