The first table below looks at the demand for Extreme Programming 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 Extreme Programming over the 3 months to 17 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extreme Programming (XP)
Rank 191 209 240
Rank change year-on-year
+18 +31
Contract jobs citing Extreme Programming 10 4 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.159% 0.051% 0.061%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.216% 0.072% 0.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 4
Average daily rate £450 £394 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -7.35%
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £375 £310
% change year-on-year
+13.33% +20.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.50 - -
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
4620 5558 7076
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 73.39% 71.44% 71.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3487 4000 5250
Average daily rate £450 £462 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.59% -7.60%
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 £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 99 97
Average hourly rate £42.00 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+68.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.40 £15.00 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £47.50 £50.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Extreme Programming
London

Extreme Programming
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Extreme Programming Jobs Demand Trend

Extreme Programming
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Extreme Programming across the City of London region.

City of London Extreme Programming Daily Rate Trend

Extreme Programming
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Extreme Programming across the City of London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

City of London Extreme Programming Daily Rate Histogram

Extreme Programming
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Extreme Programming 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 Extreme Programming.

1 15 (93.75%) Scrum
1 15 (93.75%) TDD
2 12 (75.00%) BDD
3 10 (62.50%) Agile Software Development
4 9 (56.25%) Java
5 8 (50.00%) Kanban
6 7 (43.75%) Pair Programming
7 6 (37.50%) MVC
7 6 (37.50%) C#
7 6 (37.50%) .NET
7 6 (37.50%) ASP.NET
7 6 (37.50%) Web Services
8 5 (31.25%) Groovy
8 5 (31.25%) Scala
8 5 (31.25%) ASP.NET MVC
9 4 (25.00%) RESTful
9 4 (25.00%) Ruby
9 4 (25.00%) WCF
9 4 (25.00%) Grails
9 4 (25.00%) Hibernate
9 4 (25.00%) Spring
10 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
10 3 (18.75%) Finance
10 3 (18.75%) Unit Testing
10 3 (18.75%) REST
10 3 (18.75%) ASP.NET MVC 4
11 2 (12.50%) Analytics
11 2 (12.50%) Apache Pig
11 2 (12.50%) Data Analytics
11 2 (12.50%) SpecFlow

Extreme Programming
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Extreme Programming 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 Extreme Programming. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (37.50%) .NET
1 6 (37.50%) ASP.NET
1 6 (37.50%) Web Services
2 5 (31.25%) ASP.NET MVC
3 4 (25.00%) WCF
3 4 (25.00%) Grails
3 4 (25.00%) RESTful
3 4 (25.00%) Hibernate
3 4 (25.00%) Spring
4 3 (18.75%) REST
4 3 (18.75%) ASP.NET MVC 4
5 2 (12.50%) Ruby on Rails
5 2 (12.50%) Lucene
5 2 (12.50%) CSS
5 2 (12.50%) J2EE
6 1 (6.250%) ASP
6 1 (6.250%) SOAP
6 1 (6.250%) XSD
6 1 (6.250%) XHTML
6 1 (6.250%) WSDL
Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) Apache Solr
1 2 (12.50%) Apache Pig
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.250%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
2 2 (12.50%) Hadoop
2 2 (12.50%) Apache Hive
2 2 (12.50%) MySQL
2 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.250%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Selenium
1 2 (12.50%) JUnit
1 2 (12.50%) SpecFlow
2 1 (6.250%) Capybara
2 1 (6.250%) NUnit
2 1 (6.250%) FitNesse
2 1 (6.250%) Git (software)
2 1 (6.250%) RSpec
2 1 (6.250%) Cucumber
General
1 3 (18.75%) Finance
2 1 (6.250%) Publishing
2 1 (6.250%) Banking
2 1 (6.250%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (81.25%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 3 (18.75%) .NET Developer
4 2 (12.50%) C# Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Team Leader
4 2 (12.50%) Ruby on Rails Developer
4 2 (12.50%) .NET Team Leader
4 2 (12.50%) Hadoop Developer
5 1 (6.250%) Architect
5 1 (6.250%) Lead C# Developer
5 1 (6.250%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (6.250%) Senior Architect
5 1 (6.250%) Agile Java Developer
5 1 (6.250%) Lead .NET Developer
5 1 (6.250%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (6.250%) Technical Architect
5 1 (6.250%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.250%) Lead Developer
5 1 (6.250%) Development Team Leader
5 1 (6.250%) Senior Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.250%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.250%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) TDD
1 15 (93.75%) Scrum
2 12 (75.00%) BDD
3 10 (62.50%) Agile Software Development
4 8 (50.00%) Kanban
5 7 (43.75%) Pair Programming
6 6 (37.50%) MVC
7 3 (18.75%) Unit Testing
8 2 (12.50%) Test Scripting
8 2 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (12.50%) OO
8 2 (12.50%) SOA
8 2 (12.50%) Data Analytics
8 2 (12.50%) Analytics
9 1 (6.250%) User Stories
9 1 (6.250%) Continuous Improvement
9 1 (6.250%) OOA/OOD
9 1 (6.250%) E-Commerce
9 1 (6.250%) Software Engineering
9 1 (6.250%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) Java
2 6 (37.50%) C#
3 5 (31.25%) Groovy
3 5 (31.25%) Scala
4 4 (25.00%) Ruby
5 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
6 1 (6.250%) PHP
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.250%) Oracle