The first table below looks at the demand for Agile Project Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Agile Project Management over the 3 months to 24 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 Hertfordshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Agile Project Management
Rank 62 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Agile Project Management 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.157% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.219% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £450 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £335 £525
% change year-on-year
+0.74% -36.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £62.00
All Processes & Methodologies
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
457 647 547
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 71.74% 66.22% 62.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 289 238
Average daily rate £400 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £262 £250 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 55 78
Average hourly rate £21.50 £33.75 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-36.29% -3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.05 £11.75 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.60 £49.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Agile Project Management
East of England

Agile Project Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire Agile Project Management Jobs Demand Trend

Agile Project Management
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Agile Project Management across the Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Agile Project Management Daily Rate Trend

Agile Project Management
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Agile Project Management 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 Project Management.

1 4 (100.00%) Project Management
1 4 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Retail
3 1 (25.00%) Systems Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) System Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (25.00%) Puppet
3 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Agile Testing
3 1 (25.00%) TDD

Agile Project Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Agile Project Management 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 Project Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) ScrumMaster
1 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Build Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Project Management
1 4 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Systems Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) System Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Agile Testing
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Puppet