The first table below looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucester 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 18 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 Gloucester 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Agile Software Development
Rank 17 26 17
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -9
Contract jobs citing Agile Software Development 1 7 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucester 1.333% 4.192% 6.186%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.083% 6.087% 7.595%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 5
Average daily rate £400 £450 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.11% +20.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £355 £338 £375
% change year-on-year
+5.18% -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
Gloucester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
48 115 79
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucester 64.00% 68.86% 81.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 90 40
Average daily rate £400 £380 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.26% +1.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £301 £300 £168
10% offered a daily rate of more than £440 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 10
Average hourly rate £19.95 £25.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.20% -28.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.55 £21.00 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.50 £25.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Agile Software Development
Gloucestershire

Agile Software Development
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucester 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 Gloucester region.

Gloucester Agile Software Development Daily Rate Trend

Agile Software Development
Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucester 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 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Local Government
2 1 (33.33%) Java

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucester 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.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
1 1 (33.33%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Procurement Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) ScrumMaster
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java