The first table below looks at the demand for Kanban 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 Kanban over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Kanban
Rank 182 212 235
Rank change year-on-year
+30 +23
Contract jobs citing Kanban 17 7 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.268% 0.089% 0.100%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.365% 0.124% 0.140%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 6 9
Average daily rate £413 £370 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.48% -22.10%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £343 £325 £370
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £825
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £413
% change year-on-year
- -21.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £190.00
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
4658 5642 7164
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 73.33% 71.67% 71.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3513 4087 5301
Average daily rate £450 £460 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 94 100
Average hourly rate £41.50 £22.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+84.44% -10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.90 £15.00 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £47.50 £50.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Kanban
London

Kanban
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Kanban Jobs Demand Trend

Kanban
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Kanban Daily Rate Trend

Kanban
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Kanban across the City of London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

City of London Kanban Daily Rate Histogram

Kanban
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Kanban 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 Kanban.

1 40 (95.24%) Scrum
2 33 (78.57%) TDD
3 30 (71.43%) Agile Software Development
4 27 (64.29%) BDD
5 21 (50.00%) Finance
6 20 (47.62%) C#
7 19 (45.24%) .NET
8 18 (42.86%) JavaScript
9 17 (40.48%) Java
10 16 (38.10%) MVC
11 15 (35.71%) ASP.NET
12 14 (33.33%) Web Services
13 13 (30.95%) SQL Server
14 12 (28.57%) JUnit
14 12 (28.57%) HTTP
15 11 (26.19%) jQuery
15 11 (26.19%) RESTful
16 10 (23.81%) NoSQL
16 10 (23.81%) REST
16 10 (23.81%) Ruby
16 10 (23.81%) Linux
16 10 (23.81%) CSS
17 9 (21.43%) HTML
17 9 (21.43%) ASP.NET MVC
18 8 (19.05%) HTML5
18 8 (19.05%) Extreme Programming
18 8 (19.05%) Microsoft
18 8 (19.05%) OO
18 8 (19.05%) SOA
19 7 (16.67%) Windows

Kanban
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Kanban 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 Kanban. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 19 (45.24%) .NET
2 15 (35.71%) ASP.NET
3 14 (33.33%) Web Services
4 11 (26.19%) jQuery
4 11 (26.19%) RESTful
5 10 (23.81%) REST
5 10 (23.81%) CSS
6 9 (21.43%) HTML
6 9 (21.43%) ASP.NET MVC
7 8 (19.05%) HTML5
8 7 (16.67%) XML
8 7 (16.67%) JSON
8 7 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC 4
9 6 (14.29%) Grails
9 6 (14.29%) WCF
9 6 (14.29%) J2EE
10 5 (11.90%) Spring
10 5 (11.90%) Ajax
11 4 (9.524%) MapReduce
11 4 (9.524%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 4 (9.524%) CMS
2 3 (7.143%) IIS
2 3 (7.143%) Windows Azure
3 1 (2.381%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.381%) Umbraco
3 1 (2.381%) Amazon AWS
3 1 (2.381%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.381%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.762%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 12 (28.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (30.95%) SQL Server
2 10 (23.81%) NoSQL
3 7 (16.67%) MongoDB
4 5 (11.90%) Redis
5 4 (9.524%) Big Data
5 4 (9.524%) Apache Cassandra
5 4 (9.524%) Hadoop
6 3 (7.143%) SQL Server 2008
6 3 (7.143%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (7.143%) MarkLogic
7 1 (2.381%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (2.381%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (2.381%) SimpleDB
7 1 (2.381%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 12 (28.57%) JUnit
2 7 (16.67%) SpecFlow
3 6 (14.29%) JIRA
4 4 (9.524%) Selenium
5 3 (7.143%) Git (software)
5 3 (7.143%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (7.143%) WebDriver
5 3 (7.143%) Hudson
5 3 (7.143%) QUnit
5 3 (7.143%) Jasmine
6 2 (4.762%) Jenkins
6 2 (4.762%) Cucumber
6 2 (4.762%) TestNG
6 2 (4.762%) Subversion
7 1 (2.381%) Eclipse
7 1 (2.381%) Maven
7 1 (2.381%) NUnit
7 1 (2.381%) FitNesse
7 1 (2.381%) jMock
7 1 (2.381%) TeamCity
General
1 21 (50.00%) Finance
2 6 (14.29%) Publishing
3 4 (9.524%) Marketing
4 2 (4.762%) Banking
4 2 (4.762%) Games
4 2 (4.762%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.762%) Electronics
4 2 (4.762%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (71.43%) Developer
2 9 (21.43%) Java Developer
2 9 (21.43%) .NET Developer
3 6 (14.29%) C# Developer
4 3 (7.143%) Senior Developer
4 3 (7.143%) Analyst
4 3 (7.143%) QA Engineer
4 3 (7.143%) Senior C# Developer
4 3 (7.143%) Agile Java Developer
5 2 (4.762%) Agile C# Developer
5 2 (4.762%) Architect
5 2 (4.762%) Business Analyst
5 2 (4.762%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.381%) Development Manager
6 1 (2.381%) Technical Consultant
6 1 (2.381%) Software Engineer
6 1 (2.381%) Consultant
6 1 (2.381%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (2.381%) ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (2.381%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.524%) Heroku
1 4 (9.524%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (7.143%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (7.143%) Open Source
3 2 (4.762%) Digital Media
3 2 (4.762%) DTV
4 1 (2.381%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.381%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.381%) Economics
4 1 (2.381%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 10 (23.81%) Linux
2 7 (16.67%) Windows
3 5 (11.90%) UNIX
4 3 (7.143%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (4.762%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (95.24%) Scrum
2 33 (78.57%) TDD
3 30 (71.43%) Agile Software Development
4 27 (64.29%) BDD
5 16 (38.10%) MVC
6 8 (19.05%) Extreme Programming
6 8 (19.05%) OO
6 8 (19.05%) SOA
7 7 (16.67%) Pair Programming
8 6 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (14.29%) Test Automation
8 6 (14.29%) E-Commerce
9 5 (11.90%) User Stories
10 4 (9.524%) Continuous Improvement
11 3 (7.143%) UML
11 3 (7.143%) Workflow
11 3 (7.143%) Test Scripting
11 3 (7.143%) Unit Testing
11 3 (7.143%) MVVM
12 2 (4.762%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (47.62%) C#
2 18 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 17 (40.48%) Java
4 10 (23.81%) Ruby
5 7 (16.67%) Groovy
6 5 (11.90%) SQL
6 5 (11.90%) Perl
7 4 (9.524%) Scala
8 2 (4.762%) Bash shell
8 2 (4.762%) XQuery
8 2 (4.762%) Python
8 2 (4.762%) VB
9 1 (2.381%) PHP
9 1 (2.381%) PL/SQL
9 1 (2.381%) Shell Script
9 1 (2.381%) PowerHouse
Qualifications
1 2 (4.762%) ISTQB
1 2 (4.762%) Degree
1 2 (4.762%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.90%) QA
2 3 (7.143%) Dublin Core
Systems Management
1 2 (4.762%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 8 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.762%) HP
2 2 (4.762%) SAP
3 1 (2.381%) Oracle
3 1 (2.381%) Sitecore
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