The first table below looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills in IT contracts advertised for the Home Counties 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 19 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 Home Counties 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Agile Software Development
Rank 7 8 -
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -
Contract jobs citing Agile Software Development 3 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Home Counties 9.677% 2.941% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.75% 5.000% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
Average daily rate £220 £600 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-63.33% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £358 £338 £375
% change year-on-year
+5.92% -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
Home Counties
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
16 20 54
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Home Counties 51.61% 58.82% 83.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 7
Average daily rate £388 £520 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.48% +73.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £29.00 - £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Agile Software Development
South East

Agile Software Development
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Home Counties 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 Home Counties region.

Home Counties 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 Home Counties region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Home Counties Agile Software Development Daily Rate Histogram

Agile Software Development
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Home Counties 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 3 (100.00%) MVC
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 2 (66.67%) PHP
2 2 (66.67%) MySQL
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) E-Commerce
2 2 (66.67%) Symfony
2 2 (66.67%) Zend
2 2 (66.67%) CakePHP
2 2 (66.67%) Subversion
3 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 1 (33.33%) AutoMapper
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) .NET

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Home Counties 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 2 (66.67%) HTML
1 2 (66.67%) Symfony
1 2 (66.67%) CakePHP
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (33.33%) AutoMapper
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Subversion
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) PHP Developer
3 1 (33.33%) C# Developer
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) MVC
2 2 (66.67%) E-Commerce
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PHP
2 1 (33.33%) C#
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Zend