Leeds Agile Software Development Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills within the Leeds 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 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Agile Software Development
Location Abingdon Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Cleveland County Antrim Coventry Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Farnham Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent Leatherhead Leeds Livingston London Maidstone Manchester Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Teesside Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	48	34
Rank change on same period last year	-14
Matching contract IT job ads	29	47
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.041 %	0.047 %
As % of the category below	3.872 %	6.317 %
Daily rates quoted	16	20
Average minimum daily rate	£231	£304
Average daily rate	£254	£320
% change on same period last year	-20.72 %
Average maximum daily rate	£277	£336
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£351
% change on same period last year	-5.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£40.00
Average hourly rate	-	£40.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.99	£41.28
% change on same period last year	-15.22 %
Processes & Methodologies Leeds
Matching contract IT job ads	749	744
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.055 %	0.752 %
Daily rates quoted	197	156
Average minimum daily rate	£338	£351
Average daily rate	£359	£375
% change on same period last year	-4.43 %
Average maximum daily rate	£380	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£370
% change on same period last year	+1.87 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	42
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.77	£25.74
Average hourly rate	£24.83	£26.72
% change on same period last year	-7.07 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.89	£27.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.44	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-1.89 %
Agile Software Development West Yorkshire

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 Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Agile Software Development
Daily Rate Histogram

The 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 10 October 2008.

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 Leeds region.

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, 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 40 (60.61 %) Java 2 25 (37.88 %) J2EE 2 25 (37.88 %) Oracle 3 20 (30.30 %) Hibernate 3 20 (30.30 %) Spring 4 17 (25.76 %) Degree 5 16 (24.24 %) Finance 5 16 (24.24 %) XML 6 15 (22.73 %) Computer Science 7 14 (21.21 %) .NET 7 14 (21.21 %) SQL 7 14 (21.21 %) Oracle 8/8i 8 13 (19.70 %) Scrum 9 12 (18.18 %) WebSphere 10 11 (16.67 %) JSP

11 10 (15.15 %) UNIX 12 8 (12.12 %) SQL Server 12 8 (12.12 %) C# 12 8 (12.12 %) WebServices 12 8 (12.12 %) QA 13 7 (10.61 %) OO 14 6 (9.091 %) Internet 14 6 (9.091 %) ISEB 14 6 (9.091 %) WinForms 15 5 (7.576 %) NUnit 15 5 (7.576 %) WCF 15 5 (7.576 %) AJAX 15 5 (7.576 %) N-Tier 15 5 (7.576 %) Linux 15 5 (7.576 %) UML

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, 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 25 (37.88 %) J2EE 2 20 (30.30 %) Hibernate 2 20 (30.30 %) Spring 3 16 (24.24 %) XML 4 14 (21.21 %) .NET 5 12 (18.18 %) WebSphere 6 11 (16.67 %) JSP 7 8 (12.12 %) WebServices 8 6 (9.091 %) WinForms 9 5 (7.576 %) WCF 9 5 (7.576 %) AJAX 10 4 (6.061 %) .NET Framework 10 4 (6.061 %) ASP.NET 11 3 (4.545 %) JDBC 11 3 (4.545 %) MVC 11 3 (4.545 %) JMS 11 3 (4.545 %) XSLT 11 3 (4.545 %) Swing 11 3 (4.545 %) Spring MVC 11 3 (4.545 %) Adobe Flex	Application Platforms 1 3 (4.545 %) WebLogic 2 2 (3.030 %) IIS 2 2 (3.030 %) JBoss 2 2 (3.030 %) Apache 2 2 (3.030 %) Tomcat 2 2 (3.030 %) WebSphere MQ 2 2 (3.030 %) ATG Dynamo 2 2 (3.030 %) Jetty 2 2 (3.030 %) Resin 2 2 (3.030 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 1 (1.515 %) Community Server
Communications & Networking 1 6 (9.091 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 14 (21.21 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 8 (12.12 %) SQL Server 3 3 (4.545 %) RDBMS 4 1 (1.515 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (1.515 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 5 (7.576 %) NUnit 2 3 (4.545 %) JUnit 2 3 (4.545 %) Flash 3 2 (3.030 %) TestDirector 4 1 (1.515 %) Ant 4 1 (1.515 %) FitNesse 4 1 (1.515 %) Eclipse 4 1 (1.515 %) Visual Studio	General 1 16 (24.24 %) Finance 2 3 (4.545 %) Health 2 3 (4.545 %) Telecoms 2 3 (4.545 %) Banking 3 2 (3.030 %) Retail 3 2 (3.030 %) Financial Institution 4 1 (1.515 %) Legal 4 1 (1.515 %) FMCG
Job Titles 1 42 (63.64 %) Developer 2 27 (40.91 %) Java Developer 3 14 (21.21 %) Java/J2EE Developer 4 10 (15.15 %) J2EE Developer 5 9 (13.64 %) Analyst 6 7 (10.61 %) Test Analyst 7 5 (7.576 %) Project Manager 7 5 (7.576 %) Tester 8 4 (6.061 %) .NET Developer 8 4 (6.061 %) Web Developer 9 3 (4.545 %) Technical Project Manager 9 3 (4.545 %) Development Manager 9 3 (4.545 %) Technical Manager 10 2 (3.030 %) SQL Developer 10 2 (3.030 %) Graduate Developer 10 2 (3.030 %) QA Analyst 10 2 (3.030 %) Java Swing Developer 10 2 (3.030 %) Graduate 11 1 (1.515 %) Architect 11 1 (1.515 %) Business Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 15 (22.73 %) Computer Science 2 5 (7.576 %) N-Tier 3 3 (4.545 %) Management Information System 3 3 (4.545 %) RIA 3 3 (4.545 %) Multithreading 4 1 (1.515 %) Fat Client 4 1 (1.515 %) AS400 4 1 (1.515 %) IVR 4 1 (1.515 %) Thin Client
Operating Systems 1 10 (15.15 %) UNIX 2 5 (7.576 %) Windows 2 5 (7.576 %) Linux 3 1 (1.515 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (19.70 %) Scrum 2 7 (10.61 %) OO 3 5 (7.576 %) UML 4 4 (6.061 %) Regression Testing 4 4 (6.061 %) Extreme Programming 4 4 (6.061 %) TDD 4 4 (6.061 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 3 (4.545 %) Web Testing 5 3 (4.545 %) Workflow 5 3 (4.545 %) E-Commerce 5 3 (4.545 %) Project Management 5 3 (4.545 %) System Testing 6 2 (3.030 %) EAI 6 2 (3.030 %) RAD 6 2 (3.030 %) Unit Testing 7 1 (1.515 %) Integration Testing 7 1 (1.515 %) Manual Testing 7 1 (1.515 %) Logistics 7 1 (1.515 %) Enterprise Architecture 7 1 (1.515 %) Use Case
Programming Languages 1 40 (60.61 %) Java 2 14 (21.21 %) SQL 3 8 (12.12 %) C# 4 3 (4.545 %) JavaScript 4 3 (4.545 %) VB 4 3 (4.545 %) VB6 5 2 (3.030 %) C	Qualifications 1 17 (25.76 %) Degree 2 6 (9.091 %) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 8 (12.12 %) QA	Vendors 1 25 (37.88 %) Oracle 2 2 (3.030 %) Microsoft 2 2 (3.030 %) BEA 2 2 (3.030 %) webMethods 2 2 (3.030 %) ATG 3 1 (1.515 %) Perforce