The first table below looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh 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 20 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 Edinburgh 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Agile Software Development
Rank 46 39 40
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +1
Contract jobs citing Agile Software Development 17 22 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 1.846% 2.111% 2.441%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.623% 3.112% 3.819%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 12
Average daily rate £295 £325 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.23% -10.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £267 £252 £239
10% offered a daily rate of more than £370 £585 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £353 £338 £375
% change year-on-year
+4.44% -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
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
648 707 838
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 70.36% 67.85% 63.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 337 438
Average daily rate £400 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £252 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
+2.06% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 12 8
Average hourly rate £19.50 £23.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-17.02% +34.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £13.76 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.25 £39.40 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.50 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+22.00% -13.79%
Agile Software Development
Scotland

Agile Software Development
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Agile Software Development Hourly Rate Trend

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 13 (30.23%) C#
2 12 (27.91%) Java
2 12 (27.91%) .NET
2 12 (27.91%) SQL Server
3 10 (23.26%) Microsoft
4 9 (20.93%) ASP.NET
4 9 (20.93%) JavaScript
4 9 (20.93%) HTML
5 8 (18.60%) SQL
5 8 (18.60%) MVC
6 6 (13.95%) CSS
6 6 (13.95%) Web Services
6 6 (13.95%) XML
6 6 (13.95%) UML
6 6 (13.95%) Ajax
6 6 (13.95%) jQuery
7 5 (11.63%) SQL Server 2008
7 5 (11.63%) SQL Server 2005
7 5 (11.63%) Scrum
7 5 (11.63%) Visual Studio
7 5 (11.63%) PHP
7 5 (11.63%) HTML5
7 5 (11.63%) Mobile App
8 4 (9.302%) Mercurial
8 4 (9.302%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (9.302%) PRINCE2
8 4 (9.302%) OO
8 4 (9.302%) Project Management
8 4 (9.302%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (9.302%) NHS

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 12 (27.91%) .NET
2 9 (20.93%) ASP.NET
2 9 (20.93%) HTML
3 6 (13.95%) CSS
3 6 (13.95%) Web Services
3 6 (13.95%) XML
3 6 (13.95%) Ajax
3 6 (13.95%) jQuery
4 5 (11.63%) HTML5
5 4 (9.302%) Hibernate
6 3 (6.977%) WPF
6 3 (6.977%) JSF
6 3 (6.977%) JavaBeans
6 3 (6.977%) Middleware
7 2 (4.651%) CSS3
7 2 (4.651%) J2EE
7 2 (4.651%) NHibernate
7 2 (4.651%) JSON
7 2 (4.651%) Spring
7 2 (4.651%) JPA
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.326%) Drupal
1 1 (2.326%) CMS
1 1 (2.326%) TeamSite
1 1 (2.326%) SAS
1 1 (2.326%) Apache
1 1 (2.326%) SharePoint
1 1 (2.326%) WebSphere Portal
1 1 (2.326%) Adobe CQ
Applications
1 1 (2.326%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (27.91%) SQL Server
2 5 (11.63%) SQL Server 2008
2 5 (11.63%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (2.326%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.326%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (2.326%) MySQL
3 1 (2.326%) OLAP
3 1 (2.326%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 5 (11.63%) Visual Studio
2 4 (9.302%) Mercurial
2 4 (9.302%) Selenium
3 3 (6.977%) Subversion
3 3 (6.977%) Rational Application Developer
4 2 (4.651%) WebDriver
4 2 (4.651%) Jenkins
4 2 (4.651%) Maven
5 1 (2.326%) Git (software)
5 1 (2.326%) JIRA
5 1 (2.326%) Eclipse
5 1 (2.326%) JUnit
5 1 (2.326%) Eclipse RCP
5 1 (2.326%) Robotium
5 1 (2.326%) FogBugz
General
1 4 (9.302%) Finance
2 3 (6.977%) Banking
2 3 (6.977%) Games
Job Titles
1 22 (51.16%) Developer
2 7 (16.28%) Software Developer
3 6 (13.95%) Architect
4 4 (9.302%) Project Manager
4 4 (9.302%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (9.302%) Analyst
4 4 (9.302%) Java Developer
5 3 (6.977%) .NET Developer
5 3 (6.977%) C# Developer
5 3 (6.977%) Business Analyst
5 3 (6.977%) Agile C# Developer
5 3 (6.977%) WPF Developer
6 2 (4.651%) Salesforce.com Architect
6 2 (4.651%) Software Engineer
6 2 (4.651%) Consultant
7 1 (2.326%) Drupal Developer
7 1 (2.326%) Front-End Developer
7 1 (2.326%) ScrumMaster
7 1 (2.326%) Lead Business Analyst
7 1 (2.326%) C++ Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Mobile App
2 4 (9.302%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (9.302%) NHS
3 1 (2.326%) iPhone
3 1 (2.326%) Computer Science
3 1 (2.326%) W3C
3 1 (2.326%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.302%) Android
2 2 (4.651%) Apple iOS
2 2 (4.651%) Windows
2 2 (4.651%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (18.60%) MVC
2 6 (13.95%) UML
3 5 (11.63%) Scrum
4 4 (9.302%) PRINCE2
4 4 (9.302%) OO
4 4 (9.302%) Project Management
4 4 (9.302%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (9.302%) TDD
5 3 (6.977%) Web Development
5 3 (6.977%) SOA
6 2 (4.651%) Dependency Injection
6 2 (4.651%) Test Automation
6 2 (4.651%) Extreme Programming
6 2 (4.651%) Content Management
6 2 (4.651%) Business Analysis
7 1 (2.326%) V-Model
7 1 (2.326%) Test Scripting
7 1 (2.326%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (2.326%) Manual Testing
7 1 (2.326%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 13 (30.23%) C#
2 12 (27.91%) Java
3 9 (20.93%) JavaScript
4 8 (18.60%) SQL
5 5 (11.63%) PHP
6 3 (6.977%) PL/SQL
7 2 (4.651%) Ruby
8 1 (2.326%) XPath
8 1 (2.326%) Objective-C
8 1 (2.326%) Python
8 1 (2.326%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (9.302%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (6.977%) Degree
3 2 (4.651%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (2.326%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.326%) WAI
1 1 (2.326%) Section 508
Vendors
1 10 (23.26%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.302%) Telerik
3 3 (6.977%) Oracle
4 2 (4.651%) Salesforce.com
5 1 (2.326%) Teradata
5 1 (2.326%) Genesys
5 1 (2.326%) Informatica
5 1 (2.326%) IBM
5 1 (2.326%) Chordiant
5 1 (2.326%) Adobe
5 1 (2.326%) HP
5 1 (2.326%) JBoss
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