The first table below looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills in IT contracts advertised for the Lancashire 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 17 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 Lancashire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Agile Software Development
Rank 27 22 28
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +6
Contract jobs citing Agile Software Development 3 23 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 1.531% 5.324% 1.339%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.479% 9.388% 2.586%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 13 0
Average daily rate £288 £400 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-28.12% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.25 £37.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-5.36% +6.42%
All Processes & Methodologies
Lancashire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
121 245 116
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 61.73% 56.71% 51.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 141 53
Average daily rate £315 £375 £328
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.00% +14.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £190 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £422 £489 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 16
Average hourly rate £21.00 £20.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% -42.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.90 £16.00 £21.94
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £65.07 £21.50 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Agile Software Development
North West

Agile Software Development
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Lancashire Agile Software Development Daily Rate Histogram

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 Lancashire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Chorley - 1 £350 -
Agile Software Development
North West

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 6 (60.00%) MVC
1 6 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (50.00%) C#
2 5 (50.00%) .NET
2 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (50.00%) TDD
3 4 (40.00%) OO
3 4 (40.00%) SOAP
3 4 (40.00%) Windows
3 4 (40.00%) VB
3 4 (40.00%) Java
3 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (40.00%) Mobile App
4 3 (30.00%) Mobile Application Development
4 3 (30.00%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (30.00%) WSDL
4 3 (30.00%) WCF
4 3 (30.00%) jQuery
4 3 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (30.00%) SQL
4 3 (30.00%) UML
4 3 (30.00%) Web Services
4 3 (30.00%) XML
4 3 (30.00%) XSD
4 3 (30.00%) Workflow
4 3 (30.00%) Requirements Analysis
5 2 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (20.00%) Business Analysis
5 2 (20.00%) Pair Programming

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 (50.00%) .NET
2 4 (40.00%) SOAP
3 3 (30.00%) Web Services
3 3 (30.00%) XML
3 3 (30.00%) XSD
3 3 (30.00%) WSDL
3 3 (30.00%) WCF
3 3 (30.00%) jQuery
4 2 (20.00%) RESTful
4 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (20.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 2 (20.00%) HTML
4 2 (20.00%) WPF
4 2 (20.00%) .NET Framework
4 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET
5 1 (10.00%) CSS
5 1 (10.00%) Servlets
5 1 (10.00%) J2EE
5 1 (10.00%) ADO.NET
5 1 (10.00%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) IIS
2 1 (10.00%) Apache
2 1 (10.00%) ESB
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server 7
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (10.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JUnit
1 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (10.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (10.00%) Subversion
1 1 (10.00%) Selenium
1 1 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (10.00%) WebDriver
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (10.00%) Automotive
1 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Developer
2 4 (40.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (10.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Contracts Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Agile Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Automation Tester
3 1 (10.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (10.00%) WPF Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (30.00%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (20.00%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) MVC
2 5 (50.00%) TDD
3 4 (40.00%) OO
4 3 (30.00%) Workflow
4 3 (30.00%) Requirements Analysis
4 3 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (30.00%) UML
4 3 (30.00%) Mobile Application Development
5 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (20.00%) Dependency Injection
5 2 (20.00%) Pair Programming
5 2 (20.00%) Document Management
5 2 (20.00%) Business Analysis
6 1 (10.00%) Web Analytics
6 1 (10.00%) Content Management
6 1 (10.00%) Kanban
6 1 (10.00%) Web Development
6 1 (10.00%) Refactoring
6 1 (10.00%) Scrum
6 1 (10.00%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) C#
2 4 (40.00%) Java
2 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (40.00%) VB
3 3 (30.00%) SQL
4 2 (20.00%) VB.NET
4 2 (20.00%) VB6
5 1 (10.00%) Ruby
5 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (10.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) ISEB
1 1 (10.00%) ISTQB
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Sybase
2 1 (10.00%) JBoss
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