The first table below looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Sussex 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 24 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 Sussex 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Agile Software Development
Rank 14 16 11
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -5
Contract jobs citing Agile Software Development 18 27 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in East Sussex 7.692% 8.438% 10.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.34% 12.27% 15.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 22 11
Average daily rate £313 £450 £390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-30.55% +15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £248 £306 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £525 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £363
% change year-on-year
- -3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £37.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-12.16% +5.71%
All Processes & Methodologies
East Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
174 220 132
As % of all contract IT jobs located in East Sussex 74.36% 68.75% 67.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 116 80
Average daily rate £375 £400 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £225 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £510 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 12 3
Average hourly rate £20.75 £21.75 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.59% -51.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Agile Software Development
South East

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 Sussex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

East Sussex 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 Sussex region.

East Sussex 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 Sussex region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

East Sussex 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 Sussex region.

East Sussex 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 Sussex region over the 3 months to 24 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
Brighton -1 14 £300 -33.33%
Agile Software Development
South East

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex 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 (45.00%) TDD
2 8 (40.00%) Scrum
2 8 (40.00%) SQL
2 8 (40.00%) .NET
3 7 (35.00%) SQL Server
3 7 (35.00%) QA
4 6 (30.00%) Selenium
4 6 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (30.00%) Performance Testing
4 6 (30.00%) Gherkin
5 5 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 5 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (20.00%) Automated Testing
6 4 (20.00%) ETL
6 4 (20.00%) C#
6 4 (20.00%) Test Automation
6 4 (20.00%) MSTest
7 3 (15.00%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (15.00%) SpecFlow
7 3 (15.00%) HP Quality Center
7 3 (15.00%) SQL Server 2008
7 3 (15.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
7 3 (15.00%) ASP.NET
7 3 (15.00%) CSS
7 3 (15.00%) MVC
7 3 (15.00%) Data Mart
7 3 (15.00%) JIRA
7 3 (15.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (15.00%) Oracle

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex 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 (40.00%) .NET
2 6 (30.00%) Gherkin
3 3 (15.00%) ASP.NET
3 3 (15.00%) CSS
4 2 (10.00%) WCF
4 2 (10.00%) jQuery
4 2 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 2 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (5.000%) soapUI
5 1 (5.000%) JPA
5 1 (5.000%) HTML
5 1 (5.000%) SOAP
5 1 (5.000%) Web Services
5 1 (5.000%) XML
5 1 (5.000%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.000%) Sitecore CMS
1 1 (5.000%) Windows Azure
1 1 (5.000%) SharePoint
1 1 (5.000%) CMS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Internet
2 1 (5.000%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (15.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (15.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 3 (15.00%) Data Mart
4 3 (15.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (5.000%) MySQL
5 1 (5.000%) DB2
5 1 (5.000%) GIS
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Selenium
2 4 (20.00%) MSTest
3 3 (15.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (15.00%) SpecFlow
3 3 (15.00%) JIRA
4 1 (5.000%) StyleCop
4 1 (5.000%) Fiddler
4 1 (5.000%) TeamCity
4 1 (5.000%) WebDriver
4 1 (5.000%) FitNesse
4 1 (5.000%) NUnit
4 1 (5.000%) Subversion
General
1 3 (15.00%) Games
2 1 (5.000%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.000%) Finance
2 1 (5.000%) Music
2 1 (5.000%) Billing
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Developer
2 7 (35.00%) Analyst
2 7 (35.00%) Test Analyst
3 6 (30.00%) Tester
4 5 (25.00%) Automated Tester
5 3 (15.00%) SQL Developer
6 2 (10.00%) .NET Developer
6 2 (10.00%) QA Analyst
6 2 (10.00%) QA Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) ETL Developer
7 1 (5.000%) C# .NET Developer
7 1 (5.000%) Scala Developer
7 1 (5.000%) DBA
7 1 (5.000%) Senior Developer
7 1 (5.000%) C# Developer
7 1 (5.000%) SQL Server DBA
7 1 (5.000%) Test Engineer
7 1 (5.000%) Data Warehouse Developer
7 1 (5.000%) SQL DBA
7 1 (5.000%) SQL Server Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (10.00%) Online Games
1 2 (10.00%) Mobile App
1 2 (10.00%) Social Media
1 2 (10.00%) Open Source
2 1 (5.000%) Inversion of Control
2 1 (5.000%) Mobile Games
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.000%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) TDD
2 8 (40.00%) Scrum
3 6 (30.00%) Performance Testing
4 5 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (20.00%) Automated Testing
5 4 (20.00%) ETL
5 4 (20.00%) Test Automation
6 3 (15.00%) MVC
7 2 (10.00%) Software Testing
7 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (10.00%) E-Commerce
7 2 (10.00%) BDD
8 1 (5.000%) Automation Testing
8 1 (5.000%) User Stories
8 1 (5.000%) ATDD
8 1 (5.000%) Security Testing
8 1 (5.000%) Test Management
8 1 (5.000%) OO
8 1 (5.000%) Data Modelling
8 1 (5.000%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) SQL
2 4 (20.00%) C#
3 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.00%) PL/SQL
5 1 (5.000%) Scala
5 1 (5.000%) C++
5 1 (5.000%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (35.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.000%) Sitecore
Brighton, East Sussex
Experienced SQL ETL Developer required by a leading client in East Sussex, to be part of a core Developement team working on a major Data Warehouse project. Required...
Capita Resourcing - IT Resourcing
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
Brighton, South East
Knowledge of MS SQLServer (particularly SSIS, but also SSRS and SSAS desirable) Datamart experience An understanding of SDLC and Agile methodologies such as Scrum would be desirable Oracle...
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Brighton, East Sussex
It is essential that the Data Warehouse Tester is very strong in writing complex SQL. For the DataWarehouse Tester to be successful they must be well versed in...
Square One Resources
Rate: From £350 to £375 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013