The first table below looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills in IT contracts advertised for the Halifax 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 Halifax 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 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Agile Software Development 4 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Halifax 3.448% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.494% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
Average daily rate £313 - -
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
Halifax
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
89 204 81
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Halifax 76.72% 83.95% 68.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 173 51
Average daily rate £365 £380 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.94% +1.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £265 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £495 £493
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
Average hourly rate - £15.00 £7.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +114.28%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Agile Software Development
West Yorkshire

Agile Software Development
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Halifax 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 Halifax region.

Halifax Agile Software Development Daily Rate Trend

Agile Software Development
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax 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%) C#
1 12 (92.31%) SQL
1 12 (92.31%) T-SQL
1 12 (92.31%) .NET
1 12 (92.31%) SQL Server
1 12 (92.31%) SOAP
1 12 (92.31%) XML
1 12 (92.31%) .NET Framework
1 12 (92.31%) WCF
1 12 (92.31%) SQL Server 2008
2 9 (69.23%) ASP.NET MVC
2 9 (69.23%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 9 (69.23%) Razor View Engine
3 3 (23.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (7.692%) Data Analysis
4 1 (7.692%) Requirements Management
4 1 (7.692%) Waterfall
4 1 (7.692%) Banking
4 1 (7.692%) Finance
4 1 (7.692%) ISEB

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax 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 (92.31%) .NET
1 12 (92.31%) SOAP
1 12 (92.31%) XML
1 12 (92.31%) .NET Framework
1 12 (92.31%) WCF
2 9 (69.23%) ASP.NET MVC
2 9 (69.23%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 9 (69.23%) Razor View Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (92.31%) SQL Server
1 12 (92.31%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (23.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (7.692%) Finance
1 1 (7.692%) Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (92.31%) Developer
1 12 (92.31%) C# Developer
1 12 (92.31%) XML Developer
2 1 (7.692%) Analyst
2 1 (7.692%) Business Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (7.692%) Data Analysis
1 1 (7.692%) Requirements Management
1 1 (7.692%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 12 (92.31%) C#
1 12 (92.31%) SQL
1 12 (92.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.692%) ISEB