Kent Agile Software Development Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills within the Kent 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 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Agile Software Development
Location Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Braintree Brentford Bridgwater Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnham Glasgow Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newport Norfolk North East North West Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Reading Scotland Sevenoaks Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swindon Teesside Thames Valley UK Wales Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Worthing Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	41	48
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	7	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	3.043 %	1.370 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum daily rate	£290	£250
Average daily rate	£303	£290
% change on same period last year	+4.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£315	£330
UK excluding London average daily rate	£334	£344
% change on same period last year	-2.97 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.72	£36.86
% change on same period last year	-5.81 %
Processes & Methodologies Kent
Matching contract IT job ads	230	292
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.370 %	0.314 %
Daily rates quoted	71	67
Average minimum daily rate	£315	£337
Average daily rate	£327	£355
% change on same period last year	-7.80 %
Average maximum daily rate	£339	£373
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£372
% change on same period last year	+2.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	22	39
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.00	£26.99
Average hourly rate	£24.10	£28.80
% change on same period last year	-16.32 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.19	£30.61
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.24	£29.63
% change on same period last year	-4.68 %
Agile Software Development South East

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 Kent 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 Kent region.

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 Kent 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 Kent region over the 3 months to 2 December 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
Sevenoaks	-	2	£225	-
Maidstone	-	1	£380	-

Agile Software Development South East

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 5 (71.43 %) C# 1 5 (71.43 %) .NET 1 5 (71.43 %) ASP.NET 2 4 (57.14 %) SQL Server 3 3 (42.86 %) COM+ 3 3 (42.86 %) Visual Studio 3 3 (42.86 %) Microsoft 3 3 (42.86 %) TDD 3 3 (42.86 %) VB6 3 3 (42.86 %) CRM 3 3 (42.86 %) WPF 3 3 (42.86 %) VB 4 2 (28.57 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 4 2 (28.57 %) SQL Server 2005 4 2 (28.57 %) NHibernate

4 2 (28.57 %) .NET Framework 4 2 (28.57 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 2 (28.57 %) Software Engineering 4 2 (28.57 %) SQL Server 2000 4 2 (28.57 %) Project Management 4 2 (28.57 %) ADO 4 2 (28.57 %) XML 4 2 (28.57 %) PRINCE2 4 2 (28.57 %) HTML 5 1 (14.29 %) JavaScript 5 1 (14.29 %) SQL 5 1 (14.29 %) VBScript 5 1 (14.29 %) Crystal Reports 5 1 (14.29 %) IIS 5 1 (14.29 %) MS Project

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 5 (71.43 %) .NET 1 5 (71.43 %) ASP.NET 2 3 (42.86 %) COM+ 2 3 (42.86 %) WPF 3 2 (28.57 %) HTML 3 2 (28.57 %) ADO 3 2 (28.57 %) XML 3 2 (28.57 %) NHibernate 3 2 (28.57 %) .NET Framework 4 1 (14.29 %) XSD 4 1 (14.29 %) XSLT 4 1 (14.29 %) ASP 4 1 (14.29 %) CSS	Application Platforms 1 1 (14.29 %) IIS
Applications 1 1 (14.29 %) MS Project 1 1 (14.29 %) MS Visio	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (57.14 %) SQL Server 2 2 (28.57 %) SQL Server 2000 2 2 (28.57 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 2 2 (28.57 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (14.29 %) Crystal Reports 3 1 (14.29 %) ETL
Development Applications 1 3 (42.86 %) Visual Studio	General 1 1 (14.29 %) Finance 1 1 (14.29 %) Government 1 1 (14.29 %) Insurance
Job Titles 1 3 (42.86 %) .NET Developer 1 3 (42.86 %) Developer 2 2 (28.57 %) Project Manager 3 1 (14.29 %) Senior Developer 3 1 (14.29 %) C# Developer 3 1 (14.29 %) ASP.NET Developer 3 1 (14.29 %) SQL Developer 3 1 (14.29 %) SQL Server Developer 3 1 (14.29 %) Senior .NET Developer 3 1 (14.29 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (42.86 %) CRM 1 3 (42.86 %) TDD 2 2 (28.57 %) Software Engineering 2 2 (28.57 %) Project Management 2 2 (28.57 %) PRINCE2 3 1 (14.29 %) Migration 3 1 (14.29 %) Data Migration
Programming Languages 1 5 (71.43 %) C# 2 3 (42.86 %) VB 2 3 (42.86 %) VB6 3 1 (14.29 %) JavaScript 3 1 (14.29 %) SQL 3 1 (14.29 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 2 (28.57 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner
System Software 1 1 (14.29 %) MSMQ	Vendors 1 3 (42.86 %) Microsoft