The first table below looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England 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 East of England 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 27 38 31
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -7
Contract jobs citing Agile Software Development 125 132 145
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 5.742% 4.428% 5.551%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.627% 6.854% 8.524%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 83 82
Average daily rate £400 £400 £394
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +1.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £303 £284
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £485 £598
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £357
% change year-on-year
- -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 18 5
Average hourly rate £38.00 £36.11 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.23% +20.36%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.14 £12.50 £18.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £46.80 £42.50 £31.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.25 £37.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-4.72% +5.71%
All Processes & Methodologies
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1449 1926 1701
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 66.56% 64.61% 65.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 822 932 771
Average daily rate £375 £363 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% -3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 160 183
Average hourly rate £35.14 £30.50 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.19% -4.68%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.39 £12.50 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.00 £49.00 £40.00
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 of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

East of England 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 of England region.

East of England 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 of England region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

East of England 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 of England region.

East of England Agile Software Development Hourly Rate Trend

Agile Software Development
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Agile Software Development across the East of England region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

East of England Agile Software Development Hourly Rate Histogram

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 of England 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
Hertfordshire +8 56 £450 +5.88%
Cambridgeshire +9 29 £375 -2.59%
Essex +11 21 £250 -38.83%
Bedfordshire +13 12 £350 -17.64%
Suffolk +3 3 £275 -35.29%
Norfolk -4 2 £290 -34.09%
East Anglia +11 1 - -
Agile Software Development
England

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 94 (35.61%) .NET
2 78 (29.55%) C#
3 77 (29.17%) TDD
4 71 (26.89%) Retail
5 68 (25.76%) Scrum
6 63 (23.86%) OO
7 51 (19.32%) Java
8 49 (18.56%) Windows
9 46 (17.42%) E-Commerce
10 43 (16.29%) SQL
11 41 (15.53%) Web Services
12 34 (12.88%) BDD
13 33 (12.50%) JavaScript
13 33 (12.50%) HTML
13 33 (12.50%) Project Management
14 32 (12.12%) Finance
15 31 (11.74%) CSS
16 29 (10.98%) SOA
16 29 (10.98%) Linux
16 29 (10.98%) Continuous Integration
17 28 (10.61%) XML
18 27 (10.23%) MVC
19 26 (9.848%) Oracle
20 24 (9.091%) ASP.NET
21 23 (8.712%) SQL Server
22 22 (8.333%) Spring
22 22 (8.333%) Unit Testing
23 21 (7.955%) Degree
23 21 (7.955%) Migration
24 20 (7.576%) Microsoft

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 94 (35.61%) .NET
2 41 (15.53%) Web Services
3 33 (12.50%) HTML
4 31 (11.74%) CSS
5 28 (10.61%) XML
6 24 (9.091%) ASP.NET
7 22 (8.333%) Spring
8 20 (7.576%) RESTful
9 19 (7.197%) jQuery
10 16 (6.061%) HTML5
11 15 (5.682%) J2EE
12 14 (5.303%) SOAP
12 14 (5.303%) .NET Framework
12 14 (5.303%) JSON
13 13 (4.924%) CSS3
14 11 (4.167%) Ajax
14 11 (4.167%) XHTML
15 10 (3.788%) XSLT
16 9 (3.409%) WCF
17 8 (3.030%) NHibernate
Application Platforms
1 10 (3.788%) CMS
2 9 (3.409%) Apache
3 7 (2.652%) Confluence
3 7 (2.652%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.894%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.515%) Liferay
5 4 (1.515%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (1.136%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (1.136%) nginx
6 3 (1.136%) Oracle Service Bus
7 2 (0.758%) IIS
7 2 (0.758%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.379%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 13 (4.924%) Photoshop
2 7 (2.652%) MS Project
3 6 (2.273%) Fireworks
4 5 (1.894%) MS Excel
5 4 (1.515%) FrameMaker
5 4 (1.515%) RoboHelp
6 3 (1.136%) Mingle
6 3 (1.136%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.758%) MS Office
7 2 (0.758%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.758%) MS PowerPoint
7 2 (0.758%) Adobe Captivate
Business Applications
1 3 (1.136%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (0.758%) Google Analytics
3 1 (0.379%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.379%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.136%) Internet
2 1 (0.379%) SMS
2 1 (0.379%) CTI
2 1 (0.379%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (8.712%) SQL Server
2 15 (5.682%) MySQL
3 5 (1.894%) Oracle 8/8i
4 4 (1.515%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.515%) SQL Server 2005
5 3 (1.136%) Redis
5 3 (1.136%) Data Mining
6 2 (0.758%) SQL Server 2008
7 1 (0.379%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.379%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (6.439%) Selenium
2 13 (4.924%) Team Foundation Server
2 13 (4.924%) Subversion
3 11 (4.167%) JIRA
4 10 (3.788%) Git (software)
5 6 (2.273%) QuickTest Pro
5 6 (2.273%) Visual Studio
6 5 (1.894%) WebDriver
7 4 (1.515%) Maven
7 4 (1.515%) Axure RP
7 4 (1.515%) JBehave
8 3 (1.136%) JSUnit
8 3 (1.136%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.758%) JUnit
9 2 (0.758%) MonkeyTalk
9 2 (0.758%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.758%) Jenkins
10 1 (0.379%) QUnit
10 1 (0.379%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.379%) CruiseControl
General
1 71 (26.89%) Retail
2 32 (12.12%) Finance
3 11 (4.167%) Telecoms
4 9 (3.409%) Banking
5 6 (2.273%) Marketing
6 5 (1.894%) Retail Banking
6 5 (1.894%) Multimedia
7 3 (1.136%) Automotive
8 2 (0.758%) Financial Institution
8 2 (0.758%) Billing
9 1 (0.379%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.379%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.379%) Publishing
9 1 (0.379%) Games
9 1 (0.379%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 121 (45.83%) Developer
2 51 (19.32%) .NET Developer
3 40 (15.15%) C# Developer
4 37 (14.02%) C# .NET Developer
5 32 (12.12%) Project Manager
6 30 (11.36%) Analyst
7 26 (9.848%) Architect
8 22 (8.333%) .NET Architect
9 21 (7.955%) ScrumMaster
9 21 (7.955%) C# Architect
10 19 (7.197%) Java Developer
11 18 (6.818%) Business Analyst
12 17 (6.439%) Software Engineer
13 14 (5.303%) Agile .NET Developer
14 12 (4.545%) Software Manager
14 12 (4.545%) Software Project Manager
14 12 (4.545%) Agile C# Developer
15 9 (3.409%) UI Developer
15 9 (3.409%) Release Manager
16 8 (3.030%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.439%) Computer Science
2 4 (1.515%) Open Source
2 4 (1.515%) Informatics
3 3 (1.136%) iPhone
3 3 (1.136%) iPad
3 3 (1.136%) Video on Demand
3 3 (1.136%) PMI
3 3 (1.136%) Blackberry
4 2 (0.758%) LIMS
4 2 (0.758%) NHS
4 2 (0.758%) Digital Media
4 2 (0.758%) Biology
5 1 (0.379%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.379%) Semantic Web
5 1 (0.379%) Social Network
5 1 (0.379%) Inversion of Control
5 1 (0.379%) SaaS
5 1 (0.379%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (0.379%) Web 2.0
5 1 (0.379%) 3D Graphics
Operating Systems
1 49 (18.56%) Windows
2 29 (10.98%) Linux
3 14 (5.303%) UNIX
4 10 (3.788%) Android
5 7 (2.652%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.894%) Solaris
7 4 (1.515%) Windows Phone
8 3 (1.136%) Windows Phone 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (29.17%) TDD
2 68 (25.76%) Scrum
3 63 (23.86%) OO
4 46 (17.42%) E-Commerce
5 34 (12.88%) BDD
6 33 (12.50%) Project Management
7 29 (10.98%) SOA
7 29 (10.98%) Continuous Integration
8 27 (10.23%) MVC
9 22 (8.333%) Unit Testing
10 21 (7.955%) Migration
11 18 (6.818%) Stakeholder Management
11 18 (6.818%) PRINCE2
12 17 (6.439%) Web Development
13 14 (5.303%) Domain-Driven Design
14 11 (4.167%) Resource Management
14 11 (4.167%) Test Scripting
14 11 (4.167%) User Stories
14 11 (4.167%) Software Engineering
14 11 (4.167%) AOP
Programming Languages
1 78 (29.55%) C#
2 51 (19.32%) Java
3 43 (16.29%) SQL
4 33 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 12 (4.545%) C++
6 11 (4.167%) Ruby
7 8 (3.030%) Perl
8 7 (2.652%) PHP
8 7 (2.652%) T-SQL
9 6 (2.273%) Embedded C++
9 6 (2.273%) Shell Script
9 6 (2.273%) C
9 6 (2.273%) XPath
10 4 (1.515%) Lisp
10 4 (1.515%) Python
11 3 (1.136%) Groovy
12 2 (0.758%) Magik
12 2 (0.758%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.758%) Assembly Language
12 2 (0.758%) VB
Qualifications
1 21 (7.955%) Degree
2 16 (6.061%) ISEB
3 4 (1.515%) PMI Certification
3 4 (1.515%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 4 (1.515%) ITIL Certification
3 4 (1.515%) PhD
4 2 (0.758%) PMP
4 2 (0.758%) ISEB Practitioner
5 1 (0.379%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (0.379%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.379%) APMP
5 1 (0.379%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.924%) QA
2 2 (0.758%) ISO 9001
2 2 (0.758%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.379%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.379%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (1.515%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (3.788%) Puppet
2 3 (1.136%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 26 (9.848%) Oracle
2 20 (7.576%) Microsoft
3 14 (5.303%) Adobe
4 6 (2.273%) Apple
4 6 (2.273%) Capita
5 4 (1.515%) VMware
6 3 (1.136%) Informatica
6 3 (1.136%) HP
7 2 (0.758%) Salesforce.com
7 2 (0.758%) BT
7 2 (0.758%) Teradata
7 2 (0.758%) ATG
7 2 (0.758%) FatWire
7 2 (0.758%) Omniture
7 2 (0.758%) Google
7 2 (0.758%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.379%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.379%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.379%) AccuRev
8 1 (0.379%) Telerik
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