The first table below looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Midlands 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 19 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 East Midlands 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Agile Software Development
Rank 38 33 57
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +24
Contract jobs citing Agile Software Development 51 49 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 3.984% 3.668% 1.889%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.876% 5.639% 2.831%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 32 10
Average daily rate £425 £375 £334
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.33% +12.35%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £306 £275 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £455
UK excluding London average daily rate £358 £338 £375
% change year-on-year
+5.92% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £37.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+8.10% +5.71%
All Processes & Methodologies
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
868 869 989
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 67.81% 65.04% 66.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 444 495
Average daily rate £375 £375 £384
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -2.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £225 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £510 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 30 45
Average hourly rate £29.50 £35.00 £26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-15.71% +34.61%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £9.67 £16.55
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £49.10 £57.50 £49.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Agile Software Development
England

Agile Software Development
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands Agile Software Development Hourly 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 East Midlands region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Leicestershire -1 24 £425 +21.42% 2
Northamptonshire +14 17 £425 - 3
Nottinghamshire -13 11 £313 +4.16% 8
Derbyshire - 1 £325 - 1
Lincolnshire - - - - 3
Agile Software Development
England

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 41 (48.81%) Java
2 31 (36.90%) E-Commerce
2 31 (36.90%) Scrum
3 30 (35.71%) TDD
3 30 (35.71%) Retail
4 15 (17.86%) JavaScript
5 13 (15.48%) .NET
5 13 (15.48%) Extreme Programming
5 13 (15.48%) hybris
5 13 (15.48%) BDD
6 11 (13.10%) jQuery
6 11 (13.10%) Kanban
6 11 (13.10%) C#
6 11 (13.10%) HTML
6 11 (13.10%) SQL
6 11 (13.10%) CSS
6 11 (13.10%) Web Services
7 10 (11.90%) WebSphere
7 10 (11.90%) Unit Testing
8 9 (10.71%) Spring
9 8 (9.524%) Marketing
9 8 (9.524%) XML
9 8 (9.524%) OO
9 8 (9.524%) SQL Server
9 8 (9.524%) SOA
10 7 (8.333%) UML
10 7 (8.333%) ASP.NET
10 7 (8.333%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (7.143%) Subversion
11 6 (7.143%) ESB

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 13 (15.48%) .NET
2 11 (13.10%) jQuery
2 11 (13.10%) HTML
2 11 (13.10%) CSS
2 11 (13.10%) Web Services
3 10 (11.90%) WebSphere
4 9 (10.71%) Spring
5 8 (9.524%) XML
6 7 (8.333%) ASP.NET
7 5 (5.952%) Middleware
7 5 (5.952%) J2EE
7 5 (5.952%) .NET Framework
8 4 (4.762%) CodeIgniter
8 4 (4.762%) ASP.NET MVC
8 4 (4.762%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 4 (4.762%) ASP.NET MVC 3
9 3 (3.571%) HTML5
9 3 (3.571%) Hibernate
10 2 (2.381%) NHibernate
10 2 (2.381%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 6 (7.143%) ESB
2 5 (5.952%) Apache
3 2 (2.381%) CMS
3 2 (2.381%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (1.190%) WordPress
4 1 (1.190%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.190%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (2.381%) Photoshop
2 1 (1.190%) Google Apps
2 1 (1.190%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.190%) LAN
1 1 (1.190%) WAN
1 1 (1.190%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.524%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.952%) MySQL
3 4 (4.762%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (1.190%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 6 (7.143%) Subversion
2 5 (5.952%) Visual Studio
3 4 (4.762%) QuickTest Pro
3 4 (4.762%) PHPUnit
3 4 (4.762%) Selenium
4 3 (3.571%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.381%) JUnit
5 2 (2.381%) Eclipse
5 2 (2.381%) WebDriver
5 2 (2.381%) TestNG
6 1 (1.190%) MbUnit
6 1 (1.190%) StyleCop
6 1 (1.190%) CruiseControl
General
1 30 (35.71%) Retail
2 8 (9.524%) Marketing
3 5 (5.952%) Finance
4 1 (1.190%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 55 (65.48%) Developer
2 22 (26.19%) Java Developer
3 7 (8.333%) Project Manager
3 7 (8.333%) Senior Developer
4 6 (7.143%) C# Developer
4 6 (7.143%) C# .NET Developer
5 5 (5.952%) Agile Tester
5 5 (5.952%) Architect
5 5 (5.952%) Tester
5 5 (5.952%) WebSphere Developer
5 5 (5.952%) .NET Developer
6 4 (4.762%) Senior Java Developer
6 4 (4.762%) Graduate Developer
6 4 (4.762%) Graduate
6 4 (4.762%) Analyst
6 4 (4.762%) SOA Developer
7 3 (3.571%) User Experience Developer
7 3 (3.571%) Web Developer
7 3 (3.571%) Business Analyst
7 3 (3.571%) Java/J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.952%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (2.381%) Open Source
2 2 (2.381%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.190%) IaaS
3 1 (1.190%) Smart Meter
3 1 (1.190%) SaaS
3 1 (1.190%) W3C
3 1 (1.190%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.143%) Linux
2 2 (2.381%) UNIX
2 2 (2.381%) Android
2 2 (2.381%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.190%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (36.90%) E-Commerce
1 31 (36.90%) Scrum
2 30 (35.71%) TDD
3 13 (15.48%) Extreme Programming
3 13 (15.48%) BDD
4 11 (13.10%) Kanban
5 10 (11.90%) Unit Testing
6 8 (9.524%) OO
6 8 (9.524%) SOA
7 7 (8.333%) UML
7 7 (8.333%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (5.952%) Automation Testing
8 5 (5.952%) Pair Programming
9 4 (4.762%) OOP
9 4 (4.762%) OOD
9 4 (4.762%) MVC
9 4 (4.762%) Continuous Integration
10 3 (3.571%) Integration Testing
10 3 (3.571%) Project Management
10 3 (3.571%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 41 (48.81%) Java
2 15 (17.86%) JavaScript
3 11 (13.10%) C#
3 11 (13.10%) SQL
4 5 (5.952%) PHP
5 2 (2.381%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.381%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.190%) Perl
6 1 (1.190%) C
Qualifications
1 4 (4.762%) Degree
2 1 (1.190%) ISEB
2 1 (1.190%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.762%) QA
Vendors
1 13 (15.48%) hybris
2 6 (7.143%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.143%) TIBCO
2 6 (7.143%) Twitter
3 5 (5.952%) InterSystems
4 4 (4.762%) Zend
5 3 (3.571%) Oracle
5 3 (3.571%) Google
6 2 (2.381%) Facebook
7 1 (1.190%) Cisco
Leicestershire
A successful brand within the retail industry would like to add a talented Java Developer with WebSphere Commerce experience to their agile development team... You will have strong...
Connections Recruitment Ltd.
Rate: £400 - £540 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
ISEB or ISTQB qualified to foundation level. -Definition and creation of test scripts for internal QA and system testing purposes... -Good knowledge of Agile development techniques such as “...
IT Retail People Ltd
Rate: Unspecified
Posted: 17 June 2013