The first table below looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hounslow 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 22 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 Hounslow 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Agile Software Development
Rank 1 3 9
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +6
Contract jobs citing Agile Software Development 25 13 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hounslow 42.37% 16.25% 6.061%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 49.02% 20.97% 10.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 5 3
Average daily rate £450 £400 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% +21.21%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £330 £326
10% offered a daily rate of more than £482 £400 £382
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £357
% change year-on-year
- -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.25 £37.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-4.72% +5.71%
All Processes & Methodologies
Hounslow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
51 62 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hounslow 86.44% 77.50% 59.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 36 23
Average daily rate £450 £375 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% +13.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £269 £201
10% offered a daily rate of more than £470 £475 £404
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Agile Software Development
London

Agile Software Development
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hounslow 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 Hounslow region.

Hounslow 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 Hounslow region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Hounslow Agile Software Development Daily Rate Histogram

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hounslow 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 29 (70.73%) TDD
2 22 (53.66%) JavaScript
3 20 (48.78%) XML
3 20 (48.78%) Pair Programming
4 17 (41.46%) HTML
4 17 (41.46%) Java
5 16 (39.02%) Scrum
6 15 (36.59%) SQL
7 14 (34.15%) OO
7 14 (34.15%) BDD
7 14 (34.15%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (31.71%) Open Source
8 13 (31.71%) Continuous Integration
9 12 (29.27%) RESTful
9 12 (29.27%) JSON
9 12 (29.27%) CSS
10 11 (26.83%) HTTP
11 10 (24.39%) jQuery
11 10 (24.39%) Mobile App
12 9 (21.95%) Release Management
12 9 (21.95%) Degree
12 9 (21.95%) Video on Demand
12 9 (21.95%) HTML5
12 9 (21.95%) MVC
13 8 (19.51%) Web Services
13 8 (19.51%) Android
13 8 (19.51%) QA
13 8 (19.51%) Unit Testing
13 8 (19.51%) Jenkins
13 8 (19.51%) Cucumber

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hounslow 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 20 (48.78%) XML
2 17 (41.46%) HTML
3 12 (29.27%) RESTful
3 12 (29.27%) JSON
3 12 (29.27%) CSS
4 10 (24.39%) jQuery
5 9 (21.95%) HTML5
6 8 (19.51%) Web Services
7 7 (17.07%) REST
8 5 (12.20%) Node.js
8 5 (12.20%) XSLT
9 4 (9.756%) XNA
9 4 (9.756%) WPF
9 4 (9.756%) Silverlight
10 3 (7.317%) Backbone.js
10 3 (7.317%) Grails
10 3 (7.317%) Ajax
10 3 (7.317%) CSS3
10 3 (7.317%) SOAP
10 3 (7.317%) DOM
Application Platforms
1 2 (4.878%) CMS
2 1 (2.439%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (2.439%) Apache
2 1 (2.439%) ActiveMQ
Applications
1 1 (2.439%) Photoshop
1 1 (2.439%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (2.439%) Adobe After Effects
Communications & Networking
1 11 (26.83%) HTTP
2 5 (12.20%) Internet
3 2 (4.878%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.63%) SQLite
2 2 (4.878%) MongoDB
2 2 (4.878%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (4.878%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.439%) MySQL
3 1 (2.439%) TOAD
3 1 (2.439%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (19.51%) Jenkins
1 8 (19.51%) Cucumber
2 7 (17.07%) Subversion
3 6 (14.63%) Selenium
4 5 (12.20%) JIRA
5 4 (9.756%) JUnit
5 4 (9.756%) Git (software)
6 3 (7.317%) WATIR
6 3 (7.317%) CruiseControl
6 3 (7.317%) WebDriver
6 3 (7.317%) TeamCity
7 2 (4.878%) Hudson
7 2 (4.878%) Maven
8 1 (2.439%) Gradle
8 1 (2.439%) QUnit
8 1 (2.439%) Jasmine
8 1 (2.439%) Mockito
8 1 (2.439%) Ant
8 1 (2.439%) IntelliJ
General
1 7 (17.07%) Games
2 3 (7.317%) Publishing
3 1 (2.439%) Multimedia
3 1 (2.439%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.439%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 29 (70.73%) Developer
2 6 (14.63%) Senior Developer
2 6 (14.63%) Android Developer
3 5 (12.20%) JavaScript Developer
3 5 (12.20%) Software Developer
3 5 (12.20%) Tester
4 4 (9.756%) Silverlight Developer
5 3 (7.317%) Agile Tester
5 3 (7.317%) Automation Tester
5 3 (7.317%) Business Analyst
5 3 (7.317%) Analyst
6 2 (4.878%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (4.878%) Java Developer
6 2 (4.878%) Senior Tester
6 2 (4.878%) Senior Software Developer
6 2 (4.878%) PHP Developer
7 1 (2.439%) UI Designer
7 1 (2.439%) Front-End Developer
7 1 (2.439%) Designer
7 1 (2.439%) Senior Agile Tester
Miscellaneous
1 13 (31.71%) Open Source
2 10 (24.39%) Mobile App
3 9 (21.95%) Video on Demand
4 4 (9.756%) STB
4 4 (9.756%) Kinect
5 3 (7.317%) IPTV
6 2 (4.878%) Computer Science
6 2 (4.878%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 8 (19.51%) Android
2 4 (9.756%) Windows
2 4 (9.756%) Windows Phone
2 4 (9.756%) Windows 8
3 2 (4.878%) UNIX
3 2 (4.878%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.439%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.439%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (70.73%) TDD
2 20 (48.78%) Pair Programming
3 16 (39.02%) Scrum
4 14 (34.15%) OO
4 14 (34.15%) BDD
4 14 (34.15%) Continuous Improvement
5 13 (31.71%) Continuous Integration
6 9 (21.95%) Release Management
6 9 (21.95%) MVC
7 8 (19.51%) Unit Testing
8 7 (17.07%) Multithreading
9 6 (14.63%) OOP
9 6 (14.63%) OOA/OOD
9 6 (14.63%) Kanban
9 6 (14.63%) Test Automation
9 6 (14.63%) Automated Testing
9 6 (14.63%) Mobile Application Development
10 5 (12.20%) Web Development
11 4 (9.756%) MVVM
11 4 (9.756%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (53.66%) JavaScript
2 17 (41.46%) Java
3 15 (36.59%) SQL
4 7 (17.07%) Ruby
5 4 (9.756%) XAML
5 4 (9.756%) Shell Script
5 4 (9.756%) C#
6 3 (7.317%) Groovy
6 3 (7.317%) Perl
6 3 (7.317%) Python
7 2 (4.878%) Objective-C
7 2 (4.878%) PHP
7 2 (4.878%) PHP5
8 1 (2.439%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (21.95%) Degree
2 4 (9.756%) ISEB
3 3 (7.317%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (19.51%) QA
Hounslow, South East
Excellent stakeholder management skills required and dealing with 3rd party suppliers. Previous consultancy experience would be a distinct advantage as would the ability to speak Spanish.
Hudson IT London
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013