East Midlands Agile Software Development Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills within the East Midlands region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Agile Software Development over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Agile Software Development
Location Abingdon Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Cleveland County Antrim Coventry Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Farnham Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent Leatherhead Leeds Livingston London Maidstone Manchester Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Teesside Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	73	87
Rank change on same period last year	+14
Matching contract IT job ads	17	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	1.858 %	0.421 %
Daily rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£350
Average daily rate	£400	£350
% change on same period last year	+14.28 %
Average maximum daily rate	£500	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£351
% change on same period last year	-5.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	-
Average hourly rate	£26.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.99	£41.28
% change on same period last year	-15.22 %
Processes & Methodologies East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	915	949
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.288 %	0.959 %
Daily rates quoted	301	194
Average minimum daily rate	£379	£351
Average daily rate	£402	£373
% change on same period last year	+7.62 %
Average maximum daily rate	£424	£396
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£370
% change on same period last year	+1.87 %
Hourly rates quoted	70	120
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.70	£24.39
Average hourly rate	£31.21	£26.52
% change on same period last year	+17.68 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.72	£28.64
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.44	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-1.89 %
Agile Software Development England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Agile Software Development
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 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.

Agile Software Development
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Agile Software Development across the East Midlands region.

Agile Software Development
Daily Rate Histogram

The 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 10 October 2008.

Agile Software Development
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Agile Software Development across the East Midlands region.

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 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Derbyshire	-	8	-	-
Nottinghamshire	-	6	£400	-

Agile Software Development England

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, 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 33 (62.26 %) .NET 2 32 (60.38 %) SQL Server 3 29 (54.72 %) Microsoft 4 28 (52.83 %) C# 5 24 (45.28 %) WebServices 5 24 (45.28 %) UML 6 22 (41.51 %) Oracle 7 16 (30.19 %) SQL 7 16 (30.19 %) ASP.NET 8 15 (28.30 %) Java 9 14 (26.42 %) OO 10 13 (24.53 %) Swing 10 13 (24.53 %) JDBC 11 12 (22.64 %) J2SE 11 12 (22.64 %) Oracle 10g

12 11 (20.75 %) Java RMI 12 11 (20.75 %) Ant 12 11 (20.75 %) Subversion 12 11 (20.75 %) Multithreading 13 10 (18.87 %) Scrum 13 10 (18.87 %) ADO.NET 14 9 (16.98 %) Windows 15 8 (15.09 %) XML 15 8 (15.09 %) Test Scripting 16 7 (13.21 %) Degree 16 7 (13.21 %) Back Office 16 7 (13.21 %) Finance 17 5 (9.434 %) GIS 17 5 (9.434 %) HTML 17 5 (9.434 %) SharePoint

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, 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 33 (62.26 %) .NET 2 24 (45.28 %) WebServices 3 16 (30.19 %) ASP.NET 4 13 (24.53 %) JDBC 4 13 (24.53 %) Swing 5 12 (22.64 %) J2SE 6 11 (20.75 %) Java RMI 7 10 (18.87 %) ADO.NET 8 8 (15.09 %) XML 9 5 (9.434 %) HTML 10 4 (7.547 %) SOAP 10 4 (7.547 %) WCF 11 3 (5.660 %) WPF 11 3 (5.660 %) XSLT 11 3 (5.660 %) WinForms 11 3 (5.660 %) AJAX 11 3 (5.660 %) .NET Framework 12 1 (1.887 %) Microsoft Enterprise Library 12 1 (1.887 %) CGI 12 1 (1.887 %) XSL	Application Platforms 1 5 (9.434 %) SharePoint 2 3 (5.660 %) BizTalk Server 3 1 (1.887 %) CICS
Applications 1 1 (1.887 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 3 (5.660 %) HTTP 2 2 (3.774 %) SSL 2 2 (3.774 %) X.509 3 1 (1.887 %) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 32 (60.38 %) SQL Server 2 12 (22.64 %) Oracle 10g 3 5 (9.434 %) GIS 4 3 (5.660 %) SQL Server 2005 5 1 (1.887 %) RDBMS	Development Applications 1 11 (20.75 %) Ant 1 11 (20.75 %) Subversion 2 4 (7.547 %) Visual Studio 3 1 (1.887 %) ClearCase 3 1 (1.887 %) Selenium 3 1 (1.887 %) FitNesse
General 1 7 (13.21 %) Back Office 1 7 (13.21 %) Finance 2 4 (7.547 %) 3D Graphics 3 2 (3.774 %) Banking 3 2 (3.774 %) Insurance 4 1 (1.887 %) Financial Institution 4 1 (1.887 %) Automotive 4 1 (1.887 %) Government	Job Titles 1 29 (54.72 %) Developer 2 12 (22.64 %) Java Developer 3 10 (18.87 %) Software Engineer 4 8 (15.09 %) Software Test Engineer 4 8 (15.09 %) .NET Developer 4 8 (15.09 %) C# Developer 4 8 (15.09 %) Test Engineer 5 6 (11.32 %) Software Developer 6 5 (9.434 %) Project Manager 6 5 (9.434 %) Analyst 7 4 (7.547 %) Technical Project Manager 7 4 (7.547 %) SQL Developer 7 4 (7.547 %) SQL Server Developer 7 4 (7.547 %) Technical Manager 8 3 (5.660 %) WinForms Developer 8 3 (5.660 %) Java Software Developer 8 3 (5.660 %) Test Analyst 8 3 (5.660 %) Architect 8 3 (5.660 %) Java Swing Developer 9 2 (3.774 %) Web Developer
Miscellaneous 1 11 (20.75 %) Multithreading 2 5 (9.434 %) Mathematics 3 4 (7.547 %) Mainframe 4 2 (3.774 %) PKI 5 1 (1.887 %) Web 2.0	Operating Systems 1 9 (16.98 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 24 (45.28 %) UML 2 14 (26.42 %) OO 3 10 (18.87 %) Scrum 4 8 (15.09 %) Test Scripting 5 4 (7.547 %) Validation 6 3 (5.660 %) SOA 6 3 (5.660 %) Manual Testing 6 3 (5.660 %) Automated Testing 7 1 (1.887 %) Software Testing 7 1 (1.887 %) Web Development 7 1 (1.887 %) Web Design 7 1 (1.887 %) Content Management 7 1 (1.887 %) CAD 7 1 (1.887 %) Change Management 7 1 (1.887 %) Stakeholder Management 7 1 (1.887 %) RUP 7 1 (1.887 %) OOP	Programming Languages 1 28 (52.83 %) C# 2 16 (30.19 %) SQL 3 15 (28.30 %) Java 4 3 (5.660 %) JavaScript 5 2 (3.774 %) VB 5 2 (3.774 %) VB.NET 6 1 (1.887 %) C++ 6 1 (1.887 %) COBOL
Qualifications 1 7 (13.21 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (3.774 %) QA
Vendors 1 29 (54.72 %) Microsoft 2 22 (41.51 %) Oracle