Essex Agile Software Development Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills within the Essex 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Agile Software Development
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Barnstaple Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnham Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Jersey Leeds Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside 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 Portsmouth Potters Bar Reading Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	51	32
Rank change on same period last year	-19
Matching contract IT job ads	5	28
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.028 %
As % of the category below	1.333 %	7.609 %
Daily rates quoted	1	6
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£354
Average daily rate	£425	£379
% change on same period last year	+12.08 %
Average maximum daily rate	£450	£404
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£388
% change on same period last year	-10.14 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.29	£38.15
Average hourly rate	£31.29	£40.65
% change on same period last year	-23.02 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.29	£43.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.41	£36.67
% change on same period last year	-0.69 %
Processes & Methodologies Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	375	368
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.500 %	0.372 %
Daily rates quoted	149	129
Average minimum daily rate	£387	£389
Average daily rate	£404	£412
% change on same period last year	-2.01 %
Average maximum daily rate	£421	£436
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	43	69
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.36	£33.11
Average hourly rate	£35.78	£33.52
% change on same period last year	+6.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.20	£33.92
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
Agile Software Development East of 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 Essex 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 Essex region.

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 Essex region.

Agile Software Development
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Software Development within the Essex region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Harlow	0	3	-	-
Southend-on-Sea	-	1	£425	-

Agile Software Development East of England

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 12 (92.31 %) Java 2 9 (69.23 %) WebServices 3 8 (61.54 %) Extreme Programming 4 7 (53.85 %) FitNesse 5 6 (46.15 %) OO 5 6 (46.15 %) Pharmaceutical 6 5 (38.46 %) Client/Server 6 5 (38.46 %) JBoss 6 5 (38.46 %) PL/SQL 6 5 (38.46 %) SQL 6 5 (38.46 %) JSF 7 4 (30.77 %) Log4j 7 4 (30.77 %) Automated Testing 7 4 (30.77 %) Ant 7 4 (30.77 %) JUnit

7 4 (30.77 %) Eclipse 8 3 (23.08 %) WinRunner 8 3 (23.08 %) TestDirector 8 3 (23.08 %) QuickTest Pro 8 3 (23.08 %) LoadRunner 8 3 (23.08 %) XHTML 8 3 (23.08 %) E-Commerce 8 3 (23.08 %) JMeter 8 3 (23.08 %) CSS 8 3 (23.08 %) JavaScript 8 3 (23.08 %) HTML 8 3 (23.08 %) .NET 8 3 (23.08 %) Ruby 8 3 (23.08 %) AJAX 8 3 (23.08 %) Ruby on Rails

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 9 (69.23 %) WebServices 2 5 (38.46 %) JSF 3 3 (23.08 %) AJAX 3 3 (23.08 %) Ruby on Rails 3 3 (23.08 %) XHTML 3 3 (23.08 %) HTML 3 3 (23.08 %) .NET 3 3 (23.08 %) CSS 4 2 (15.38 %) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 5 (38.46 %) JBoss
Development Applications 1 7 (53.85 %) FitNesse 2 4 (30.77 %) Log4j 2 4 (30.77 %) Ant 2 4 (30.77 %) JUnit 2 4 (30.77 %) Eclipse 3 3 (23.08 %) WinRunner 3 3 (23.08 %) TestDirector 3 3 (23.08 %) QuickTest Pro 3 3 (23.08 %) LoadRunner 3 3 (23.08 %) JMeter 3 3 (23.08 %) Selenium 4 2 (15.38 %) Subversion	General 1 6 (46.15 %) Pharmaceutical 2 1 (7.692 %) Government
Job Titles 1 5 (38.46 %) Developer 1 5 (38.46 %) Java Developer 2 3 (23.08 %) Analyst 2 3 (23.08 %) Tester 3 2 (15.38 %) Systems Tester 4 1 (7.692 %) Java Analyst Programmer 4 1 (7.692 %) Java Programmer 4 1 (7.692 %) Developer Analyst 4 1 (7.692 %) Web Tester 4 1 (7.692 %) Test Analyst 4 1 (7.692 %) Analyst Programmer 4 1 (7.692 %) Programmer 4 1 (7.692 %) Data Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 5 (38.46 %) Client/Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (61.54 %) Extreme Programming 2 6 (46.15 %) OO 3 4 (30.77 %) Automated Testing 4 3 (23.08 %) Web Testing 4 3 (23.08 %) Project Management 4 3 (23.08 %) Scrum 4 3 (23.08 %) E-Commerce 5 2 (15.38 %) Configuration Management 5 2 (15.38 %) TDD 5 2 (15.38 %) Performance Testing 6 1 (7.692 %) Data Analysis 6 1 (7.692 %) UML 6 1 (7.692 %) OOD 6 1 (7.692 %) RAD 6 1 (7.692 %) RUP 6 1 (7.692 %) DSDM	Programming Languages 1 12 (92.31 %) Java 2 5 (38.46 %) PL/SQL 2 5 (38.46 %) SQL 3 3 (23.08 %) Ruby 3 3 (23.08 %) JavaScript 4 2 (15.38 %) Delphi
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (23.08 %) QA