The first table below looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London 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 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 City of London 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
Agile Software Development
Rank 17 23 28
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +5
Contract jobs citing Agile Software Development 483 432 539
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 7.005% 5.601% 5.374%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.458% 7.761% 7.549%
Number of daily rates quoted 403 337 425
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £325 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £665
UK excluding London average daily rate £355 £338 £375
% change year-on-year
+5.18% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 3
Average hourly rate £41.50 - £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £37.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+8.10% +5.71%
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
5107 5566 7140
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 74.07% 72.16% 71.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3861 4093 5266
Average daily rate £450 £475 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.26% -5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 86 120
Average hourly rate £31.25 £25.00 £26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -3.84%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £16.60 £14.73
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £125.00 £47.50 £55.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Agile Software Development
London

Agile Software Development
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Agile Software Development Daily Rate Trend

Agile Software Development
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Agile Software Development across the City of London region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

City of London Agile Software Development Daily Rate Histogram

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 City of London region.

City of London Agile Software Development Hourly Rate Trend

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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.

1 276 (30.63%) Finance
2 254 (28.19%) TDD
3 250 (27.75%) Java
4 244 (27.08%) C#
5 232 (25.75%) Scrum
6 228 (25.31%) .NET
7 187 (20.75%) SQL
8 180 (19.98%) Banking
9 166 (18.42%) JavaScript
10 165 (18.31%) BDD
11 138 (15.32%) CSS
12 135 (14.98%) OO
13 132 (14.65%) E-Commerce
14 118 (13.10%) MVC
15 116 (12.87%) Investment Banking
16 112 (12.43%) SQL Server
17 111 (12.32%) HTML
18 109 (12.10%) ASP.NET
19 100 (11.10%) WCF
20 95 (10.54%) Project Management
21 91 (10.10%) QA
22 90 (9.989%) HTML5
23 87 (9.656%) Web Services
24 84 (9.323%) Selenium
25 83 (9.212%) Degree
25 83 (9.212%) Front Office
25 83 (9.212%) Microsoft
26 81 (8.990%) Derivative
27 80 (8.879%) XML
27 80 (8.879%) jQuery

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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
1 228 (25.31%) .NET
2 138 (15.32%) CSS
3 111 (12.32%) HTML
4 109 (12.10%) ASP.NET
5 100 (11.10%) WCF
6 90 (9.989%) HTML5
7 87 (9.656%) Web Services
8 80 (8.879%) XML
8 80 (8.879%) jQuery
9 64 (7.103%) ASP.NET MVC
10 62 (6.881%) WPF
11 56 (6.215%) CSS3
12 52 (5.771%) Spring
13 45 (4.994%) JSON
13 45 (4.994%) RESTful
14 44 (4.883%) .NET Framework
15 43 (4.772%) Ajax
16 37 (4.107%) J2EE
16 37 (4.107%) REST
17 36 (3.996%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 28 (3.108%) CMS
2 17 (1.887%) Apache
3 15 (1.665%) Tomcat
4 14 (1.554%) SharePoint
4 14 (1.554%) Windows Azure
5 11 (1.221%) IIS
6 10 (1.110%) Umbraco
7 8 (0.888%) MTS
8 7 (0.777%) WebLogic
8 7 (0.777%) Sitecore CMS
9 6 (0.666%) Oracle Coherence
9 6 (0.666%) Kentico
9 6 (0.666%) Adobe CQ
10 5 (0.555%) Drupal
10 5 (0.555%) Confluence
11 4 (0.444%) SharePoint 2010
11 4 (0.444%) Amazon AWS
11 4 (0.444%) ESB
11 4 (0.444%) WordPress
11 4 (0.444%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 52 (5.771%) MS Excel
2 19 (2.109%) MS Visio
3 12 (1.332%) MS Office
4 10 (1.110%) MS Project
4 10 (1.110%) MS PowerPoint
5 5 (0.555%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.222%) PowerPivot
7 1 (0.111%) InfoPath
7 1 (0.111%) OmniGraffle
7 1 (0.111%) Fireworks
7 1 (0.111%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 7 (0.777%) RMDS
1 7 (0.777%) ION MarketView
2 4 (0.444%) Front Arena
3 3 (0.333%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 3 (0.333%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.222%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.111%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.111%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.111%) LatentZero
5 1 (0.111%) Tesseract
5 1 (0.111%) Minerva
5 1 (0.111%) Sentinel
5 1 (0.111%) Adaptiv
5 1 (0.111%) Eagle PACE
5 1 (0.111%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.111%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.111%) SAP HR
Communications & Networking
1 41 (4.550%) HTTP
2 28 (3.108%) Internet
3 8 (0.888%) Intranet
4 7 (0.777%) VoIP
5 4 (0.444%) CTI
6 3 (0.333%) DNS
6 3 (0.333%) Broadband
6 3 (0.333%) Firewall
7 2 (0.222%) BSS
7 2 (0.222%) NFC
7 2 (0.222%) SMS
7 2 (0.222%) LDAP
7 2 (0.222%) ADSL
7 2 (0.222%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.111%) VPN
8 1 (0.111%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.111%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.111%) Extranet
8 1 (0.111%) MPLS
8 1 (0.111%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (12.43%) SQL Server
2 42 (4.661%) SQL Server 2008
3 41 (4.550%) Data Warehouse
4 27 (2.997%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 25 (2.775%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 19 (2.109%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 19 (2.109%) SQL Server 2005
7 18 (1.998%) NoSQL
8 17 (1.887%) Hadoop
9 16 (1.776%) MySQL
9 16 (1.776%) MongoDB
10 15 (1.665%) Big Data
11 14 (1.554%) Apache Cassandra
12 8 (0.888%) SQL Server 2012
12 8 (0.888%) QlikView
13 6 (0.666%) DataStage
13 6 (0.666%) Oracle Reports
13 6 (0.666%) Oracle 8/8i
13 6 (0.666%) DB2
14 5 (0.555%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 84 (9.323%) Selenium
2 62 (6.881%) Cucumber
3 57 (6.326%) Subversion
4 52 (5.771%) JIRA
5 43 (4.772%) JUnit
6 37 (4.107%) Git (software)
7 36 (3.996%) WebDriver
7 36 (3.996%) Maven
8 35 (3.885%) Visual Studio
9 31 (3.441%) Team Foundation Server
9 31 (3.441%) Jenkins
10 20 (2.220%) SpecFlow
11 16 (1.776%) Hudson
11 16 (1.776%) NUnit
12 15 (1.665%) QuickTest Pro
13 14 (1.554%) Ant
13 14 (1.554%) Eclipse
14 12 (1.332%) WATIR
14 12 (1.332%) Rhino Mocks
15 9 (0.999%) TestNG
General
1 276 (30.63%) Finance
2 180 (19.98%) Banking
3 116 (12.87%) Investment Banking
4 83 (9.212%) Front Office
5 56 (6.215%) Retail
6 26 (2.886%) Telecoms
7 23 (2.553%) Publishing
8 21 (2.331%) Marketing
9 19 (2.109%) Games
10 16 (1.776%) Back Office
11 13 (1.443%) Legal
12 9 (0.999%) Law
13 7 (0.777%) Advertising
14 5 (0.555%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.555%) Billing
14 5 (0.555%) International Banking
15 3 (0.333%) Electronics
15 3 (0.333%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.222%) Retail Banking
17 1 (0.111%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 439 (48.72%) Developer
2 163 (18.09%) Analyst
3 109 (12.10%) Business Analyst
4 87 (9.656%) Project Manager
5 86 (9.545%) Java Developer
6 72 (7.991%) C# Developer
7 71 (7.880%) Senior Developer
8 61 (6.770%) .NET Developer
9 33 (3.663%) Agile Project Manager
10 28 (3.108%) Front-End Developer
10 28 (3.108%) Test Analyst
11 25 (2.775%) QA Engineer
12 24 (2.664%) Senior Analyst
12 24 (2.664%) Agile Business Analyst
12 24 (2.664%) JavaScript Developer
13 23 (2.553%) ASP.NET Developer
14 20 (2.220%) Lead Developer
14 20 (2.220%) Tester
15 19 (2.109%) Senior Java Developer
15 19 (2.109%) WPF Developer
Miscellaneous
1 81 (8.990%) Derivative
2 57 (6.326%) Fixed Income
3 55 (6.104%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 42 (4.661%) Computer Science
5 25 (2.775%) Market Risk
6 21 (2.331%) Equity Derivative
7 19 (2.109%) Open Source
8 18 (1.998%) iPhone
8 18 (1.998%) Mobile App
9 16 (1.776%) Management Information System
9 16 (1.776%) Equities
10 15 (1.665%) Reference Data
11 14 (1.554%) Credit Derivative
11 14 (1.554%) N-Tier
12 13 (1.443%) Wiki
13 12 (1.332%) Mathematics
13 12 (1.332%) Enterprise Software
14 11 (1.221%) Blackberry
15 9 (0.999%) Credit Risk
15 9 (0.999%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 50 (5.549%) Windows
2 47 (5.216%) Linux
3 34 (3.774%) UNIX
4 26 (2.886%) Apple iOS
5 25 (2.775%) Android
6 7 (0.777%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.777%) Windows 7
7 6 (0.666%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (0.666%) Windows Mobile
8 4 (0.444%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (0.444%) Windows Server 2003
8 4 (0.444%) Solaris
9 2 (0.222%) Windows 2000
9 2 (0.222%) Windows XP
9 2 (0.222%) OpenVMS
10 1 (0.111%) Windows Phone
10 1 (0.111%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.111%) Windows 8
10 1 (0.111%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 254 (28.19%) TDD
2 232 (25.75%) Scrum
3 165 (18.31%) BDD
4 135 (14.98%) OO
5 132 (14.65%) E-Commerce
6 118 (13.10%) MVC
7 95 (10.54%) Project Management
8 70 (7.769%) Multithreading
9 67 (7.436%) Business Analysis
10 65 (7.214%) Unit Testing
11 63 (6.992%) Continuous Integration
12 58 (6.437%) Stakeholder Management
13 57 (6.326%) User Stories
14 42 (4.661%) PRINCE2
15 41 (4.550%) UML
16 38 (4.218%) Use Case
17 37 (4.107%) User Acceptance Testing
17 37 (4.107%) Pair Programming
17 37 (4.107%) MVVM
18 36 (3.996%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 250 (27.75%) Java
2 244 (27.08%) C#
3 187 (20.75%) SQL
4 166 (18.42%) JavaScript
5 71 (7.880%) Ruby
6 48 (5.327%) Python
7 44 (4.883%) C++
8 34 (3.774%) T-SQL
9 29 (3.219%) PHP
10 24 (2.664%) Perl
11 19 (2.109%) VBA
12 17 (1.887%) Scala
13 16 (1.776%) VB
14 14 (1.554%) PL/SQL
14 14 (1.554%) Groovy
14 14 (1.554%) Objective-C
15 9 (0.999%) C
15 9 (0.999%) Bash shell
16 8 (0.888%) F#
17 7 (0.777%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 83 (9.212%) Degree
2 12 (1.332%) PhD
2 12 (1.332%) ISEB
3 10 (1.110%) MBA
4 8 (0.888%) Security Cleared
5 7 (0.777%) PMI Certification
6 5 (0.555%) ISTQB
7 4 (0.444%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 3 (0.333%) PMP
9 2 (0.222%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 2 (0.222%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.111%) CBAP
10 1 (0.111%) HND
10 1 (0.111%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (10.10%) QA
2 8 (0.888%) ISO 9001
3 4 (0.444%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.222%) Dublin Core
4 2 (0.222%) WAI
5 1 (0.111%) ISO 9000
5 1 (0.111%) SLA
5 1 (0.111%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (0.444%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (0.333%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.222%) Varnish
4 1 (0.111%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.111%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.111%) ClearTrust
Systems Management
1 19 (2.109%) HP Quality Center
2 11 (1.221%) Splunk
3 9 (0.999%) Puppet
4 1 (0.111%) Tivoli
4 1 (0.111%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (0.111%) BladeLogic
4 1 (0.111%) Business Desktop Deployment
Vendors
1 83 (9.212%) Microsoft
2 76 (8.435%) Oracle
3 20 (2.220%) Sybase
3 20 (2.220%) IBM
4 17 (1.887%) TIBCO
5 15 (1.665%) hybris
6 14 (1.554%) Bloomberg
7 13 (1.443%) Reuters
7 13 (1.443%) ATG
8 12 (1.332%) HP
9 11 (1.221%) SAP
9 11 (1.221%) Google
10 10 (1.110%) Sitecore
10 10 (1.110%) JBoss
10 10 (1.110%) Cognos
11 9 (0.999%) Sun
11 9 (0.999%) Salesforce.com
12 8 (0.888%) eSpeed
12 8 (0.888%) Tradeweb
13 7 (0.777%) MarketAxess
City, London
Is looking for a java/NoSQL developer... Experience with NoSQL databases is essential in particularly Cassandra... Experience with noSQL databases. (Cassandra) Exposure to working in Agile environments... Desirable;...
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £0.00 - £500.00 per day + Negotiable
Posted: 14 June 2013
City of London
The role will see you in a position responsible for full lifeycyle development using TDD and agile methodologies... Key Requirements:- C#.net, Visual Studio- Expert Server Side programming (...
Real Staffing
Rate: £400 per day
Posted: 7 June 2013
City, London
Hybris Developer with experience in Java required working on a large ecommerce implementation project based in London... Previous E-commerce and Retail markets/sector/project experience ideally with...
Salt
Rate: £400 - £550 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
City of London
The successful Senior Java Developer will have the following: Java Serverside (preferably Java5 and Java6) Strong Linux, Bash shell scripting in particular. Sound knowledge of SQL Server... Significant...
Orgtel
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 4 June 2013
City of London
Senior Java Developer - Media/Broadcasting sector - LondonI am currently looking for creative and innovative Java Developers to join my client on a contract basis.
Claremont Consulting
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
City, London
Claremont Consulting Ltd
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
City, London
Claremont Consulting Ltd
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
City, London
Parallel Consulting
Rate: £325 - £375 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
City, London
Parallel Consulting
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
City, London
Networking People
Posted: 17 June 2013
City, London
Networking People
Posted: 17 June 2013
City, London
Trent Pearce
Rate: From £250 to £300 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
City of London
JAM
Rate: Negotiable
Posted: 3 June 2013
City, London
Networking People
Posted: 17 June 2013
City, London
Coal IT Services
Rate: From £400 to £550 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
City, London
Senitor Associates
Rate: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
City of London
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Rate: £30000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013
City, London
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013
City of London
Claremont Consulting
Rate: £250 - £350 per annum
Posted: 12 June 2013
City, London
Claremont Consulting Ltd
Rate: £250 - £350 per annum
Posted: 12 June 2013
City of London
Progressive Recruitment
Rate: £500 - £550 per day
Posted: 5 June 2013
City, London
Aston Carter
Rate: £450 - £700 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
City, London
E-synergy Solutions
Rate: £550 - £650 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
City, London
Connections Recruitment Ltd.
Rate: £300 - £340 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
City of London
WorldPay
Posted: 10 June 2013