The first table below looks at the demand for Kanban 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 Kanban over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Kanban
Rank 113 120 104
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -16
Contract jobs citing Kanban 2 9 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.093% 0.305% 1.065%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.139% 0.471% 1.632%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 26
Average daily rate £350 £325 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -27.77%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £400
% change year-on-year
- -18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £190.00
All Processes & Methodologies
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1439 1910 1716
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 66.81% 64.81% 65.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 808 936 772
Average daily rate £375 £375 £375
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 152 192
Average hourly rate £35.03 £30.50 £32.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+14.83% -5.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.12 £12.04 £14.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.00 £49.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Kanban
England

Kanban
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England Kanban Daily Rate Trend

Kanban
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kanban within the East of England region over the 3 months to 17 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
Bedfordshire - 2 £350 -
Kanban
England

Kanban
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 9 (100.00%) Scrum
2 8 (88.89%) Java
3 7 (77.78%) E-Commerce
4 6 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
4 6 (66.67%) Web Services
5 5 (55.56%) Linux
5 5 (55.56%) MySQL
5 5 (55.56%) Spring
5 5 (55.56%) MVC
5 5 (55.56%) JSON
5 5 (55.56%) RESTful
6 3 (33.33%) Cucumber
6 3 (33.33%) Spring MVC
6 3 (33.33%) Groovy
6 3 (33.33%) .NET
6 3 (33.33%) C#
7 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET
7 2 (22.22%) Python
7 2 (22.22%) SOA
7 2 (22.22%) Automated Testing
7 2 (22.22%) TDD
7 2 (22.22%) Git (software)
7 2 (22.22%) Grails
7 2 (22.22%) WebDriver
7 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (22.22%) Waterfall
7 2 (22.22%) WATIR
7 2 (22.22%) Selenium
7 2 (22.22%) Ruby
7 2 (22.22%) Web Development

Kanban
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 6 (66.67%) Web Services
2 5 (55.56%) Spring
2 5 (55.56%) JSON
2 5 (55.56%) RESTful
3 3 (33.33%) Spring MVC
3 3 (33.33%) .NET
4 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET
4 2 (22.22%) .NET Framework
4 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (22.22%) Grails
5 1 (11.11%) REST
5 1 (11.11%) WCF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 2 (22.22%) SpecFlow
2 2 (22.22%) WATIR
2 2 (22.22%) Selenium
2 2 (22.22%) Git (software)
2 2 (22.22%) WebDriver
3 1 (11.11%) FitNesse
3 1 (11.11%) JUnit
General
1 1 (11.11%) Games
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Test Leader
4 1 (11.11%) Tester
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 1 (11.11%) .NET Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Tester
4 1 (11.11%) Senior .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) N-Tier
1 1 (11.11%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Windows
3 1 (11.11%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Scrum
2 7 (77.78%) E-Commerce
3 6 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
4 5 (55.56%) MVC
5 2 (22.22%) TDD
5 2 (22.22%) SOA
5 2 (22.22%) Automated Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Web Development
5 2 (22.22%) Waterfall
5 2 (22.22%) BDD
5 2 (22.22%) Agile Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Automation Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Test Strategy
6 1 (11.11%) Security Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
6 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (11.11%) Code Coverage
6 1 (11.11%) Project Management
6 1 (11.11%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Java
2 3 (33.33%) C#
2 3 (33.33%) Groovy
3 2 (22.22%) Python
3 2 (22.22%) Ruby
4 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
4 1 (11.11%) Scala
4 1 (11.11%) C++
4 1 (11.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) ISTQB
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft