The first table below looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leicestershire 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 23 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 Leicestershire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Agile Software Development
Rank 12 16 33
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +17
Contract jobs citing Agile Software Development 18 10 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 8.531% 4.651% 0.426%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.95% 7.692% 0.641%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 4 1
Average daily rate £438 £350 £188
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% +86.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £363
% change year-on-year
- -3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.75 £37.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-11.48% +5.71%
All Processes & Methodologies
Leicestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
139 130 156
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 65.88% 60.47% 66.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 43 50
Average daily rate £425 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.42% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £206 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £579 £413 £505
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 20
Average hourly rate £18.25 £11.00 £32.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+65.90% -65.89%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.55 £8.50 £26.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £26.20 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Agile Software Development
East Midlands

Agile Software Development
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire Agile Software Development Hourly Rate Trend

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 19 (79.17%) E-Commerce
2 18 (75.00%) Retail
3 17 (70.83%) TDD
4 15 (62.50%) Java
5 11 (45.83%) Scrum
6 8 (33.33%) Extreme Programming
6 8 (33.33%) Kanban
6 8 (33.33%) BDD
7 7 (29.17%) WebSphere
8 6 (25.00%) JavaScript
8 6 (25.00%) HTML
8 6 (25.00%) CSS
9 5 (20.83%) OO
10 4 (16.67%) Apache
10 4 (16.67%) Linux
10 4 (16.67%) OOP
10 4 (16.67%) PHP
10 4 (16.67%) MySQL
10 4 (16.67%) Pair Programming
10 4 (16.67%) Zend
10 4 (16.67%) CodeIgniter
10 4 (16.67%) hybris
10 4 (16.67%) PHPUnit
10 4 (16.67%) Twitter
10 4 (16.67%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 4 (16.67%) Automation Testing
10 4 (16.67%) Unit Testing
11 3 (12.50%) QA
11 3 (12.50%) Selenium
11 3 (12.50%) QuickTest Pro

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 7 (29.17%) WebSphere
2 6 (25.00%) HTML
2 6 (25.00%) CSS
3 4 (16.67%) CodeIgniter
3 4 (16.67%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 2 (8.333%) J2EE
4 2 (8.333%) Spring
4 2 (8.333%) jQuery
5 1 (4.167%) Velocity
5 1 (4.167%) XML
Application Platforms
1 4 (16.67%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) PHPUnit
2 3 (12.50%) Selenium
2 3 (12.50%) QuickTest Pro
3 2 (8.333%) Cucumber
4 1 (4.167%) WebDriver
General
1 18 (75.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (54.17%) Developer
2 4 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 4 (16.67%) Tester
2 4 (16.67%) Agile Tester
3 3 (12.50%) WebSphere Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Project Manager
4 2 (8.333%) Lead Developer
4 2 (8.333%) User Experience Developer
5 1 (4.167%) UI Developer
5 1 (4.167%) Head of Development
5 1 (4.167%) Agile Project Manager
5 1 (4.167%) ScrumMaster
5 1 (4.167%) Head of Software Development
5 1 (4.167%) UI Programmer
5 1 (4.167%) Project Office Manager
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (4.167%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (79.17%) E-Commerce
2 17 (70.83%) TDD
3 11 (45.83%) Scrum
4 8 (33.33%) Extreme Programming
4 8 (33.33%) Kanban
4 8 (33.33%) BDD
5 5 (20.83%) OO
6 4 (16.67%) OOP
6 4 (16.67%) Pair Programming
6 4 (16.67%) Automation Testing
6 4 (16.67%) Unit Testing
7 2 (8.333%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (8.333%) Software Engineering
8 1 (4.167%) Logistics
8 1 (4.167%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (62.50%) Java
2 6 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (16.67%) PHP
4 1 (4.167%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.167%) ISTQB
1 1 (4.167%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Zend
1 4 (16.67%) hybris
1 4 (16.67%) Twitter