The first table below looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds 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 24 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 Leeds 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Agile Software Development
Rank 31 20 21
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +1
Contract jobs citing Agile Software Development 46 55 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 6.225% 6.329% 5.503%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.519% 8.914% 8.159%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 37 17
Average daily rate £300 £315 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.76% -1.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £271 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £374 £385
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £363
% change year-on-year
- -3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £33.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £37.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-12.16% +5.71%
All Processes & Methodologies
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
540 617 429
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 73.07% 71.00% 67.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 367 208
Average daily rate £310 £345 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.14% -1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £243 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £453 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 23
Average hourly rate £34.00 £13.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+151.85% -22.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.20 £11.40 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £62.50 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Agile Software Development
West Yorkshire

Agile Software Development
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds 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 Leeds region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Leeds Agile Software Development Daily Rate Histogram

Agile Software Development
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Agile Software Development across the Leeds region.

Leeds Agile Software Development Hourly Rate Trend

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 35 (30.70%) .NET
2 33 (28.95%) C#
3 31 (27.19%) Scrum
4 27 (23.68%) SQL Server
5 26 (22.81%) SQL
6 25 (21.93%) ASP.NET
6 25 (21.93%) Web Development
7 23 (20.18%) OO
8 22 (19.30%) JavaScript
9 19 (16.67%) Web Services
10 17 (14.91%) XML
10 17 (14.91%) PHP
11 16 (14.04%) CSS
11 16 (14.04%) TDD
12 15 (13.16%) Automated Testing
12 15 (13.16%) HTML
12 15 (13.16%) MVC
13 14 (12.28%) Java
13 14 (12.28%) .NET Framework
14 13 (11.40%) Microsoft
14 13 (11.40%) Project Management
15 12 (10.53%) Visual Studio
15 12 (10.53%) ASP
15 12 (10.53%) JIRA
15 12 (10.53%) Subversion
15 12 (10.53%) ASP.NET MVC
16 11 (9.649%) VSS/SourceSafe
16 11 (9.649%) VB
16 11 (9.649%) E-Commerce
17 10 (8.772%) PRINCE2

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 35 (30.70%) .NET
2 25 (21.93%) ASP.NET
3 19 (16.67%) Web Services
4 17 (14.91%) XML
5 16 (14.04%) CSS
6 15 (13.16%) HTML
7 14 (12.28%) .NET Framework
8 12 (10.53%) ASP
8 12 (10.53%) ASP.NET MVC
9 9 (7.895%) Ajax
9 9 (7.895%) jQuery
9 9 (7.895%) ASP.NET MVC 3
10 7 (6.140%) Spring
10 7 (6.140%) Struts
10 7 (6.140%) XSLT
10 7 (6.140%) COM+
10 7 (6.140%) J2EE
10 7 (6.140%) Hibernate
11 6 (5.263%) XHTML
11 6 (5.263%) NHibernate
Application Platforms
1 9 (7.895%) SharePoint
2 8 (7.018%) Apache
3 7 (6.140%) MTS
3 7 (6.140%) MSMQ
4 6 (5.263%) CMS
5 4 (3.509%) SharePoint 2010
6 3 (2.632%) Adobe CQ
7 2 (1.754%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.877%) Drupal
8 1 (0.877%) WordPress
8 1 (0.877%) Amazon AWS
8 1 (0.877%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.877%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (5.263%) MS Office
2 5 (4.386%) MS Excel
3 2 (1.754%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.877%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.877%) SiteCatalyst
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.018%) Internet
2 2 (1.754%) Intranet
3 1 (0.877%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (23.68%) SQL Server
2 10 (8.772%) MySQL
2 10 (8.772%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 10 (8.772%) SQL Server 2008
3 9 (7.895%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (7.895%) SQL Server 2000
4 6 (5.263%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 5 (4.386%) SQL Server 2005
6 4 (3.509%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (3.509%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.754%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.877%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.877%) CouchDB
8 1 (0.877%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.877%) Big Data
8 1 (0.877%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (10.53%) Visual Studio
1 12 (10.53%) JIRA
1 12 (10.53%) Subversion
2 11 (9.649%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 8 (7.018%) Selenium
4 5 (4.386%) WebDriver
5 3 (2.632%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.632%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.632%) MSI
5 3 (2.632%) SpecFlow
6 2 (1.754%) Xcode
6 2 (1.754%) Visual Studio Team System
6 2 (1.754%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (1.754%) NUnit
7 1 (0.877%) CruiseControl
7 1 (0.877%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.877%) Hudson
7 1 (0.877%) Ant
7 1 (0.877%) JUnit
7 1 (0.877%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (6.140%) Finance
2 4 (3.509%) Telecoms
2 4 (3.509%) Games
2 4 (3.509%) Retail
3 3 (2.632%) Online Betting
4 1 (0.877%) Local Government
4 1 (0.877%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 54 (47.37%) Developer
2 21 (18.42%) Analyst
3 15 (13.16%) .NET Developer
4 13 (11.40%) PHP Developer
5 12 (10.53%) Business Analyst
5 12 (10.53%) ScrumMaster
6 11 (9.649%) Project Manager
7 10 (8.772%) C# Developer
8 9 (7.895%) C# .NET Developer
9 8 (7.018%) Java Developer
10 7 (6.140%) ASP.NET Developer
10 7 (6.140%) C# ASP.NET Developer
10 7 (6.140%) Agile Business Analyst
11 6 (5.263%) Tester
11 6 (5.263%) Agile Project Manager
12 5 (4.386%) SharePoint Developer
12 5 (4.386%) Test Analyst
13 4 (3.509%) Architect
13 4 (3.509%) Solutions Architect
13 4 (3.509%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.140%) Open Source
2 6 (5.263%) Mobile App
3 5 (4.386%) RIA
4 3 (2.632%) NHS
4 3 (2.632%) Clustering
5 2 (1.754%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.754%) N-Tier
5 2 (1.754%) iPad
5 2 (1.754%) iPhone
6 1 (0.877%) Web 2.0
6 1 (0.877%) Computer Science
6 1 (0.877%) Online Games
6 1 (0.877%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.877%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.877%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.018%) Linux
2 7 (6.140%) Windows
3 2 (1.754%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.754%) Android
4 1 (0.877%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.877%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (0.877%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (27.19%) Scrum
2 25 (21.93%) Web Development
3 23 (20.18%) OO
4 16 (14.04%) TDD
5 15 (13.16%) Automated Testing
5 15 (13.16%) MVC
6 13 (11.40%) Project Management
7 11 (9.649%) E-Commerce
8 10 (8.772%) PRINCE2
8 10 (8.772%) Kanban
8 10 (8.772%) Business Analysis
9 9 (7.895%) Dependency Injection
9 9 (7.895%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (7.018%) Software Engineering
11 7 (6.140%) Stakeholder Management
12 6 (5.263%) SOA
12 6 (5.263%) Content Management
12 6 (5.263%) Software Testing
13 5 (4.386%) Systems Analysis
13 5 (4.386%) B2C
Programming Languages
1 33 (28.95%) C#
2 26 (22.81%) SQL
3 22 (19.30%) JavaScript
4 17 (14.91%) PHP
5 14 (12.28%) Java
6 11 (9.649%) VB
7 7 (6.140%) VB6
8 5 (4.386%) VB.NET
9 3 (2.632%) PHP5
9 3 (2.632%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.754%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.754%) C
10 2 (1.754%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.877%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 9 (7.895%) Degree
1 9 (7.895%) Security Cleared
2 6 (5.263%) SC Cleared
2 6 (5.263%) BC Cleared
3 2 (1.754%) ISEB
3 2 (1.754%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (0.877%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.895%) QA
2 2 (1.754%) WAI
System Software
1 3 (2.632%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.877%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 13 (11.40%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.895%) Oracle
3 6 (5.263%) Zend
4 4 (3.509%) VMware
5 3 (2.632%) Adobe
6 1 (0.877%) Omniture
6 1 (0.877%) hybris
6 1 (0.877%) Perforce
6 1 (0.877%) IBM
6 1 (0.877%) NetApp
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