Hertfordshire Agile Software Development Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills within the Hertfordshire 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 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Agile Software Development
Location Abingdon Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Cleveland County Antrim Coventry Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Farnham Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent Leatherhead Leeds Livingston London Maidstone Manchester 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 Poole Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Teesside Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	54	85
Rank change on same period last year	+31
Matching contract IT job ads	19	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.027 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	2.665 %	0.554 %
Daily rates quoted	6	2
Average minimum daily rate	£425	£425
Average daily rate	£463	£438
% change on same period last year	+5.80 %
Average maximum daily rate	£501	£450
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£351
% change on same period last year	-5.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.52	-
Average hourly rate	£26.52	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.52	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.99	£41.28
% change on same period last year	-15.22 %
Processes & Methodologies Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	713	903
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.004 %	0.913 %
Daily rates quoted	251	393
Average minimum daily rate	£347	£352
Average daily rate	£375	£373
% change on same period last year	+0.47 %
Average maximum daily rate	£402	£395
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£370
% change on same period last year	+1.87 %
Hourly rates quoted	86	100
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.81	£30.35
Average hourly rate	£33.66	£31.80
% change on same period last year	+5.82 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.51	£33.26
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.44	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-1.89 %
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 Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Agile Software Development
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Agile Software Development across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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 Hertfordshire region.

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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 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
Stevenage	-	3	-	-
Watford	+19	3	£494	+51.92 %

Agile Software Development East of England

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 31 (64.58 %) Java 2 25 (52.08 %) WebServices 3 24 (50.00 %) Oracle 3 24 (50.00 %) Spring 4 23 (47.92 %) Hibernate 5 22 (45.83 %) JUnit 6 20 (41.67 %) OO 6 20 (41.67 %) SOA 7 19 (39.58 %) UML 8 17 (35.42 %) J2EE 9 15 (31.25 %) SQL 9 15 (31.25 %) Finance 10 14 (29.17 %) WebLogic 11 13 (27.08 %) PL/SQL 12 12 (25.00 %) Eclipse

12 12 (25.00 %) Back Office 12 12 (25.00 %) Java EE 13 11 (22.92 %) AJAX 13 11 (22.92 %) XML 14 9 (18.75 %) .NET 14 9 (18.75 %) JavaScript 14 9 (18.75 %) Web Development 14 9 (18.75 %) Scrum 15 8 (16.67 %) Banking 16 7 (14.58 %) JSF 16 7 (14.58 %) C# 16 7 (14.58 %) SQL Server 17 6 (12.50 %) Struts 17 6 (12.50 %) WebLogic Portal 17 6 (12.50 %) Apache Beehive

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 25 (52.08 %) WebServices 2 24 (50.00 %) Spring 3 23 (47.92 %) Hibernate 4 17 (35.42 %) J2EE 5 12 (25.00 %) Java EE 6 11 (22.92 %) AJAX 6 11 (22.92 %) XML 7 9 (18.75 %) .NET 8 7 (14.58 %) JSF 9 6 (12.50 %) Apache Beehive 9 6 (12.50 %) Struts 10 4 (8.333 %) MVC 10 4 (8.333 %) XSD 10 4 (8.333 %) ASP.NET 10 4 (8.333 %) EJB 10 4 (8.333 %) Spring MVC 11 3 (6.250 %) CSS 11 3 (6.250 %) HTML 11 3 (6.250 %) XSL 12 2 (4.167 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 14 (29.17 %) WebLogic 2 6 (12.50 %) WebLogic Portal 3 5 (10.42 %) JBoss 4 4 (8.333 %) Apache 4 4 (8.333 %) BizTalk Server 5 3 (6.250 %) Tomcat 6 1 (2.083 %) IIS 6 1 (2.083 %) Zope
Communications & Networking 1 3 (6.250 %) HTTP 1 3 (6.250 %) DSL 2 2 (4.167 %) Internet 2 2 (4.167 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (4.167 %) SMTP 2 2 (4.167 %) FTP 3 1 (2.083 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (14.58 %) SQL Server 2 4 (8.333 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (4.167 %) Oracle 10g 4 1 (2.083 %) SQL Server Integration Services 4 1 (2.083 %) DB2 UDB 4 1 (2.083 %) DB2
Development Applications 1 22 (45.83 %) JUnit 2 12 (25.00 %) Eclipse 3 3 (6.250 %) NUnit 4 2 (4.167 %) FitNesse 5 1 (2.083 %) Visual Studio Team System 5 1 (2.083 %) Ant 5 1 (2.083 %) Subversion 5 1 (2.083 %) CheckStyle 5 1 (2.083 %) Selenium 5 1 (2.083 %) Visual Studio 5 1 (2.083 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 1 (2.083 %) Oracle Forms 5 1 (2.083 %) JDeveloper 5 1 (2.083 %) WinRunner 5 1 (2.083 %) TestDirector 5 1 (2.083 %) QuickTest Pro 5 1 (2.083 %) LoadRunner 5 1 (2.083 %) PowerBuilder 5 1 (2.083 %) WebLogic Workshop 5 1 (2.083 %) JMeter	General 1 15 (31.25 %) Finance 2 12 (25.00 %) Back Office 3 8 (16.67 %) Banking 4 6 (12.50 %) Telecoms 4 6 (12.50 %) Financial Institution 5 4 (8.333 %) Retail 6 3 (6.250 %) Pharmaceutical 7 1 (2.083 %) Insurance 7 1 (2.083 %) Publishing
Job Titles 1 32 (66.67 %) Developer 2 19 (39.58 %) Java Developer 3 14 (29.17 %) Senior Developer 4 12 (25.00 %) Senior Java Developer 5 6 (12.50 %) J2EE Developer 5 6 (12.50 %) C# Developer 6 5 (10.42 %) Java/J2EE Developer 7 3 (6.250 %) Java Consultant 7 3 (6.250 %) Senior J2EE Developer 7 3 (6.250 %) Senior Java/J2EE Developer 7 3 (6.250 %) Consultant 7 3 (6.250 %) Architect 7 3 (6.250 %) Author 7 3 (6.250 %) Technical Author 8 2 (4.167 %) Solutions Architect 8 2 (4.167 %) .NET Developer 9 1 (2.083 %) Systems Tester 9 1 (2.083 %) Lead Developer 9 1 (2.083 %) Oracle Developer 9 1 (2.083 %) Project Manager	Miscellaneous 1 3 (6.250 %) LIMS 2 2 (4.167 %) Management Information System 3 1 (2.083 %) PDA 3 1 (2.083 %) Blog 3 1 (2.083 %) Multithreading
Operating Systems 1 1 (2.083 %) UNIX 1 1 (2.083 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 20 (41.67 %) OO 1 20 (41.67 %) SOA 2 19 (39.58 %) UML 3 9 (18.75 %) Scrum 3 9 (18.75 %) Web Development 4 5 (10.42 %) Unit Testing 4 5 (10.42 %) TDD 5 4 (8.333 %) RAD 6 3 (6.250 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 2 (4.167 %) CRM 8 1 (2.083 %) PRINCE2 8 1 (2.083 %) B2B 8 1 (2.083 %) Project Management 8 1 (2.083 %) RUP 8 1 (2.083 %) OOA/OOD 8 1 (2.083 %) Performance Testing 8 1 (2.083 %) Web Testing 8 1 (2.083 %) Pair Programming 8 1 (2.083 %) Automated Testing 8 1 (2.083 %) Extreme Programming
Programming Languages 1 31 (64.58 %) Java 2 15 (31.25 %) SQL 3 13 (27.08 %) PL/SQL 4 9 (18.75 %) JavaScript 5 7 (14.58 %) C# 6 4 (8.333 %) VB 6 4 (8.333 %) VB6 7 1 (2.083 %) Shell Script 7 1 (2.083 %) Perl	Qualifications 1 1 (2.083 %) PMP 1 1 (2.083 %) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.083 %) QA	Vendors 1 24 (50.00 %) Oracle 2 3 (6.250 %) Microsoft 3 2 (4.167 %) BEA 4 1 (2.083 %) Mercator 4 1 (2.083 %) SAP 4 1 (2.083 %) Chordiant 4 1 (2.083 %) IBM