The first table below looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills in IT contracts advertised for the Livingston 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 19 June 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 Livingston 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Agile Software Development
Rank 6 1 7
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +6
Contract jobs citing Agile Software Development 5 10 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Livingston 10.20% 22.73% 9.091%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.11% 52.63% 17.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 3
Average daily rate £328 £350 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.42% -17.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £275 £405
10% offered a daily rate of more than £379 £355 £437
UK excluding London average daily rate £358 £338 £375
% change year-on-year
+5.92% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £37.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+8.10% +5.71%
All Processes & Methodologies
Livingston
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
45 19 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Livingston 91.84% 43.18% 50.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 13 17
Average daily rate £390 £350 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.42% -16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £375 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £7.50 £15.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-50.00% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Agile Software Development
West Lothian

Agile Software Development
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Livingston 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 Livingston region.

Livingston Agile Software Development Daily Rate Trend

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Livingston 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 (54.55%) XML
1 6 (54.55%) XML Schema
1 6 (54.55%) FitNesse
2 4 (36.36%) Scrum
2 4 (36.36%) TDD
2 4 (36.36%) Waterfall
3 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (27.27%) User Stories
3 3 (27.27%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (27.27%) XPath
3 3 (27.27%) iBATIS
3 3 (27.27%) QA
3 3 (27.27%) Pair Programming
3 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (27.27%) Hibernate
3 3 (27.27%) Spring
3 3 (27.27%) Java
3 3 (27.27%) SQL
3 3 (27.27%) JUnit
3 3 (27.27%) JDBC
3 3 (27.27%) Tomcat
3 3 (27.27%) CRM
3 3 (27.27%) JMS
4 2 (18.18%) HTML
4 2 (18.18%) Supply Chain Management
4 2 (18.18%) Business Analysis
4 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
4 2 (18.18%) Requirements Management
4 2 (18.18%) Billing

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Livingston 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 6 (54.55%) XML
1 6 (54.55%) XML Schema
2 3 (27.27%) iBATIS
2 3 (27.27%) Hibernate
2 3 (27.27%) Spring
2 3 (27.27%) JDBC
2 3 (27.27%) JMS
3 2 (18.18%) HTML
4 1 (9.091%) JSON
4 1 (9.091%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 3 (27.27%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.091%) Broadband
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) FitNesse
2 3 (27.27%) JUnit
3 1 (9.091%) Jenkins
3 1 (9.091%) Cucumber
3 1 (9.091%) Selenium
3 1 (9.091%) Maven
3 1 (9.091%) Ant
General
1 2 (18.18%) Billing
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Analyst
2 4 (36.36%) Business Analyst
3 3 (27.27%) Java Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Tester
4 2 (18.18%) QA Tester
5 1 (9.091%) ScrumMaster
5 1 (9.091%) QA Analyst
5 1 (9.091%) QA Test Analyst
5 1 (9.091%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (9.091%) Open Source
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Scrum
1 4 (36.36%) TDD
1 4 (36.36%) Waterfall
2 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (27.27%) User Stories
2 3 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (27.27%) Pair Programming
2 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (27.27%) CRM
3 2 (18.18%) Supply Chain Management
3 2 (18.18%) Business Analysis
3 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
3 2 (18.18%) Requirements Management
3 2 (18.18%) Change Management
4 1 (9.091%) BDD
4 1 (9.091%) Use Case
4 1 (9.091%) UML
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) XPath
1 3 (27.27%) Java
1 3 (27.27%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) QA