The first table below looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills in IT contracts advertised for the County Antrim 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 22 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 County Antrim 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Agile Software Development
Rank 24 26 25
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile Software Development 7 3 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in County Antrim 3.431% 1.786% 5.471%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.034% 2.885% 10.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
Average daily rate £275 £275 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £357
% change year-on-year
- -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.25 £37.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-4.72% +5.71%
All Processes & Methodologies
County Antrim
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
116 104 174
As % of all contract IT jobs located in County Antrim 56.86% 61.90% 52.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 31 53
Average daily rate £350 £400 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% +23.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £260 £193
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £10.50 - £12.42
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Agile Software Development
Northern Ireland

Agile Software Development
Jobs Demand Trend

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

County Antrim 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 County Antrim region.

County Antrim Agile Software Development Daily Rate Trend

Agile Software Development
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Software Development within the County Antrim region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Belfast +2 7 £275 -
Agile Software Development
Northern Ireland

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the County Antrim 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 9 (60.00%) JUnit
2 8 (53.33%) Java
2 8 (53.33%) J2EE
3 6 (40.00%) SQL
4 5 (33.33%) Web Services
4 5 (33.33%) UNIX
4 5 (33.33%) Linux
4 5 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 5 (33.33%) soapUI
5 4 (26.67%) Oracle
5 4 (26.67%) SOA
6 3 (20.00%) WebSphere Process Server
6 3 (20.00%) Sybase
6 3 (20.00%) Ant
6 3 (20.00%) MySQL
6 3 (20.00%) OO
6 3 (20.00%) REST
6 3 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (20.00%) WebSphere
6 3 (20.00%) ESB
6 3 (20.00%) Build Forge
7 2 (13.33%) Open Source
7 2 (13.33%) Selenium
7 2 (13.33%) Drupal
7 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
7 2 (13.33%) JIRA
7 2 (13.33%) Test Scripting
7 2 (13.33%) XML
7 2 (13.33%) PHP
7 2 (13.33%) Games

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the County Antrim 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 8 (53.33%) J2EE
2 5 (33.33%) Web Services
2 5 (33.33%) soapUI
3 3 (20.00%) REST
3 3 (20.00%) WebSphere
4 2 (13.33%) XML
4 2 (13.33%) Hibernate
5 1 (6.667%) Spring
5 1 (6.667%) XSL
5 1 (6.667%) EJB
5 1 (6.667%) JDBC
5 1 (6.667%) Spring MVC
5 1 (6.667%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) WebSphere Process Server
1 3 (20.00%) ESB
2 2 (13.33%) Drupal
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.667%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) MySQL
2 1 (6.667%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (60.00%) JUnit
2 3 (20.00%) Ant
2 3 (20.00%) Build Forge
3 2 (13.33%) Selenium
3 2 (13.33%) JIRA
4 1 (6.667%) QuickTest Pro
4 1 (6.667%) Maven
4 1 (6.667%) HttpUnit
General
1 2 (13.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Test Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Consultant
2 3 (20.00%) Process Consultant
2 3 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 3 (20.00%) WebSphere Consultant
3 2 (13.33%) Automated Test Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Test Manager
4 1 (6.667%) Contracts Manager
4 1 (6.667%) Technical Leader
4 1 (6.667%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 2 (13.33%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) UNIX
1 5 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) SOA
2 3 (20.00%) OO
2 3 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
3 2 (13.33%) Test Scripting
4 1 (6.667%) MVC
4 1 (6.667%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Java
2 6 (40.00%) SQL
3 2 (13.33%) PHP
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Oracle
2 3 (20.00%) Sybase
3 1 (6.667%) Jaspersoft