The first table below looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire 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 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 Gloucestershire 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
Agile Software Development
Rank 26 43 40
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -3
Contract jobs citing Agile Software Development 13 24 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 4.745% 3.458% 2.098%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.222% 4.571% 3.435%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 4
Average daily rate £375 £328 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.50% -31.05%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £285 £389
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £412 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.25 £37.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-5.36% +6.42%
All Processes & Methodologies
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
180 525 262
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 65.69% 75.65% 61.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 309 104
Average daily rate £380 £425 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.58% +17.24%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 25 36
Average hourly rate £29.00 £25.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.00% -23.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.84 £25.00 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £36.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Agile Software Development
South West

Agile Software Development
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire 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
Cheltenham +24 9 £350 -11.39%
Gloucester +15 1 £400 -11.11%
Agile Software Development
South West

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 40 (66.67%) Java
2 39 (65.00%) Security Cleared
3 36 (60.00%) DV Cleared
4 35 (58.33%) Linux
5 32 (53.33%) C
6 31 (51.67%) Oracle
7 23 (38.33%) JBoss
8 22 (36.67%) EJB
9 21 (35.00%) JavaScript
10 19 (31.67%) UML
11 16 (26.67%) jQuery
11 16 (26.67%) Scrum
12 15 (25.00%) Maven
12 15 (25.00%) RIA
12 15 (25.00%) GWT
12 15 (25.00%) JPA
12 15 (25.00%) EJB 3.0
12 15 (25.00%) Customer Engagement
12 15 (25.00%) OOA/OOD
12 15 (25.00%) OO
12 15 (25.00%) JMS
12 15 (25.00%) RDBMS
12 15 (25.00%) Internet
12 15 (25.00%) Configuration Management
13 13 (21.67%) MySQL
13 13 (21.67%) Python
14 12 (20.00%) SQL
15 9 (15.00%) .NET
16 8 (13.33%) JUnit
16 8 (13.33%) TDD

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 22 (36.67%) EJB
2 16 (26.67%) jQuery
3 15 (25.00%) JPA
3 15 (25.00%) EJB 3.0
3 15 (25.00%) GWT
3 15 (25.00%) JMS
4 9 (15.00%) .NET
5 7 (11.67%) SOAP
5 7 (11.67%) Web Services
5 7 (11.67%) JavaBeans
5 7 (11.67%) Swing
5 7 (11.67%) Regular Expression
5 7 (11.67%) REST
6 6 (10.00%) Hibernate
6 6 (10.00%) CSS
7 5 (8.333%) XML
7 5 (8.333%) XSL
7 5 (8.333%) Spring
8 4 (6.667%) WPF
8 4 (6.667%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 6 (10.00%) Apache
2 1 (1.667%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.667%) SharePoint 2010
Communications & Networking
1 15 (25.00%) Internet
2 1 (1.667%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (25.00%) RDBMS
2 13 (21.67%) MySQL
3 1 (1.667%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.667%) Informix
3 1 (1.667%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.667%) Star Schema
3 1 (1.667%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (1.667%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (1.667%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (1.667%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 15 (25.00%) Maven
2 8 (13.33%) JUnit
3 4 (6.667%) NUnit
4 2 (3.333%) ERwin
5 1 (1.667%) JIRA
5 1 (1.667%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.667%) Eclipse
5 1 (1.667%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 2 (3.333%) Finance
1 2 (3.333%) Aerospace
1 2 (3.333%) Legal
2 1 (1.667%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 34 (56.67%) Developer
2 16 (26.67%) Java Developer
3 14 (23.33%) Software Engineer
4 8 (13.33%) Senior Developer
5 7 (11.67%) C++ Developer
6 6 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
6 6 (10.00%) Implementation Engineer
7 4 (6.667%) C# Software Engineer
7 4 (6.667%) Senior Architect
7 4 (6.667%) Analyst
7 4 (6.667%) Architect
8 3 (5.000%) Software Developer
8 3 (5.000%) Systems Analyst
8 3 (5.000%) ScrumMaster
9 2 (3.333%) Senior Software Developer
9 2 (3.333%) Procurement Specialist
9 2 (3.333%) Technical Analyst
9 2 (3.333%) Database Designer
9 2 (3.333%) .NET Developer
9 2 (3.333%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (25.00%) RIA
2 1 (1.667%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (1.667%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 35 (58.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (31.67%) UML
2 16 (26.67%) Scrum
3 15 (25.00%) Customer Engagement
3 15 (25.00%) OOA/OOD
3 15 (25.00%) OO
3 15 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 8 (13.33%) TDD
5 6 (10.00%) Software Engineering
5 6 (10.00%) System Testing
5 6 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (10.00%) User Stories
6 5 (8.333%) Web Development
6 5 (8.333%) Kanban
7 3 (5.000%) ITIL
7 3 (5.000%) Analytics
8 1 (1.667%) Automation Testing
8 1 (1.667%) Project Management
8 1 (1.667%) MVC
8 1 (1.667%) Data Modelling
8 1 (1.667%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 40 (66.67%) Java
2 32 (53.33%) C
3 21 (35.00%) JavaScript
4 13 (21.67%) Python
5 12 (20.00%) SQL
6 7 (11.67%) Perl
6 7 (11.67%) PHP
6 7 (11.67%) C++
6 7 (11.67%) Bash shell
7 5 (8.333%) PL/SQL
7 5 (8.333%) C#
8 4 (6.667%) XAML
9 1 (1.667%) VB
Qualifications
1 39 (65.00%) Security Cleared
2 36 (60.00%) DV Cleared
3 4 (6.667%) Degree
4 1 (1.667%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.667%) DO-178B
2 1 (1.667%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.667%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (3.333%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.667%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 31 (51.67%) Oracle
2 23 (38.33%) JBoss
3 1 (1.667%) HP