The first table below looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills in IT contracts advertised for the London 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 London 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 17 24 22
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -2
Contract jobs citing Agile Software Development 1833 1577 1936
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 8.038% 5.931% 6.153%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.74% 8.266% 8.703%
Number of daily rates quoted 1375 1069 1395
Average daily rate £450 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.88% -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £300 £320
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £358 £338 £375
% change year-on-year
+5.92% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 9
Average hourly rate £41.50 £40.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.75% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.20 £40.00 £24.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £66.00 £76.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £37.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+8.10% +5.71%
All Processes & Methodologies
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
17065 19078 22245
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 74.84% 71.75% 70.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 11706 12560 14646
Average daily rate £450 £450 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.26%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £301
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 324 348
Average hourly rate £26.66 £26.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.53% +4.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.97 £15.00 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £55.00 £45.00 £53.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Agile Software Development
England

Agile Software Development
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

London 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 London region.

London Agile Software Development Hourly Rate Trend

Agile Software Development
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Agile Software Development across the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

London Agile Software Development Hourly 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 London region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
City of London +6 480 £450 - 185
Canary Wharf +11 42 £600 -
Hounslow +2 21 £450 +12.50%
Brentford - 11 £475 -
Docklands, London +4 7 £475 +22.58%
Westminster - 7 £500 -
Bromley +7 6 £450 +227.27% 2
Paddington - 4 - -
Uxbridge -3 2 £281 -53.12%
Wembley - 2 - -
Barnet - 2 £350 -
Chiswick - 2 - - 4
Feltham +4 1 £600 +36.36%
Hammersmith -3 1 - -
Osterley - 1 £520 -
Teddington - 1 £275 -
Croydon - 1 £390 - 3
Chessington - - - -
Isleworth - - - - 3
Kingston Upon Thames - - - - 1
New Malden - - - -
Orpington - - - -
Sidcup - - - -
Surbiton - - - -
Twickenham - - - - 6
Harrow - - - -
Ealing - - - -
Hackney - - - -
Wimbledon - - - - 2
Agile Software Development
England

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 1056 (31.79%) Java
2 898 (27.03%) TDD
3 779 (23.45%) Scrum
4 775 (23.33%) .NET
5 771 (23.21%) Finance
6 756 (22.76%) C#
7 735 (22.13%) JavaScript
8 636 (19.15%) SQL
9 601 (18.09%) CSS
10 571 (17.19%) Banking
11 526 (15.83%) BDD
12 517 (15.56%) HTML
13 495 (14.90%) E-Commerce
14 492 (14.81%) OO
15 463 (13.94%) SQL Server
16 417 (12.55%) XML
17 403 (12.13%) Web Services
18 401 (12.07%) MVC
19 395 (11.89%) HTML5
20 383 (11.53%) jQuery
21 339 (10.20%) ASP.NET
22 328 (9.874%) Spring
23 322 (9.693%) Project Management
24 318 (9.573%) Continuous Integration
25 312 (9.392%) Oracle
26 300 (9.031%) Investment Banking
27 299 (9.001%) QA
28 289 (8.700%) Microsoft
29 286 (8.609%) Degree
30 275 (8.278%) CSS3

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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
1 775 (23.33%) .NET
2 601 (18.09%) CSS
3 517 (15.56%) HTML
4 417 (12.55%) XML
5 403 (12.13%) Web Services
6 395 (11.89%) HTML5
7 383 (11.53%) jQuery
8 339 (10.20%) ASP.NET
9 328 (9.874%) Spring
10 275 (8.278%) CSS3
11 263 (7.917%) WCF
12 240 (7.225%) Ajax
13 204 (6.141%) ASP.NET MVC
14 192 (5.780%) JSON
15 185 (5.569%) J2EE
16 178 (5.358%) RESTful
17 168 (5.057%) SOAP
18 166 (4.997%) Hibernate
19 163 (4.907%) WPF
20 161 (4.846%) REST
Application Platforms
1 148 (4.455%) CMS
2 123 (3.703%) Tomcat
3 102 (3.070%) Apache
4 54 (1.626%) SharePoint
5 38 (1.144%) IIS
6 33 (0.993%) WebLogic
6 33 (0.993%) Umbraco
7 32 (0.963%) Windows Azure
7 32 (0.963%) Amazon AWS
8 25 (0.753%) Oracle Coherence
8 25 (0.753%) Drupal
8 25 (0.753%) Documentum
9 24 (0.722%) Confluence
10 23 (0.692%) Sitecore CMS
10 23 (0.692%) Oracle Workflow
11 21 (0.632%) Kentico
12 19 (0.572%) SharePoint 2010
12 19 (0.572%) ESB
13 18 (0.542%) Sitefinity
14 17 (0.512%) WordPress
Applications
1 168 (5.057%) MS Excel
2 68 (2.047%) MS Visio
3 44 (1.325%) MS Office
4 39 (1.174%) Photoshop
5 32 (0.963%) MS Project
6 30 (0.903%) MS PowerPoint
7 18 (0.542%) Mingle
8 15 (0.452%) Adobe Illustrator
9 10 (0.301%) OmniGraffle
10 9 (0.271%) InfoPath
11 7 (0.211%) Adobe After Effects
12 4 (0.120%) Fireworks
12 4 (0.120%) Spreadsheet
13 3 (0.090%) PowerPivot
14 1 (0.030%) Office 365
14 1 (0.030%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 16 (0.482%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.391%) ION MarketView
3 12 (0.361%) RMDS
4 7 (0.211%) Adaptiv
4 7 (0.211%) SAP SD
5 6 (0.181%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 5 (0.151%) Oracle BPM
6 5 (0.151%) LongView
7 4 (0.120%) WebTrends
7 4 (0.120%) Google Analytics
7 4 (0.120%) Front Arena
8 3 (0.090%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.090%) Eagle PACE
8 3 (0.090%) Temenos T24
8 3 (0.090%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.060%) Tridion
9 2 (0.060%) PeopleSoft HRMS
9 2 (0.060%) Bond Adapt
9 2 (0.060%) SAP PM
9 2 (0.060%) LatentZero
Communications & Networking
1 132 (3.974%) HTTP
2 110 (3.311%) Internet
3 40 (1.204%) Intranet
4 18 (0.542%) TCP/IP
5 17 (0.512%) DNS
6 14 (0.421%) Firewall
7 11 (0.331%) VoIP
8 7 (0.211%) BSS
8 7 (0.211%) MPLS
8 7 (0.211%) VPN
9 6 (0.181%) HTTPS
9 6 (0.181%) Broadband
10 4 (0.120%) CTI
10 4 (0.120%) SSL
10 4 (0.120%) ATM
10 4 (0.120%) LDAP
10 4 (0.120%) Wireless
10 4 (0.120%) Wireshark
11 3 (0.090%) Cisco ASA
11 3 (0.090%) FWSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 463 (13.94%) SQL Server
2 148 (4.455%) MySQL
3 127 (3.823%) SQL Server 2008
4 88 (2.649%) NoSQL
4 88 (2.649%) Data Warehouse
5 72 (2.167%) MongoDB
6 70 (2.107%) RDBMS
7 62 (1.866%) Big Data
8 60 (1.806%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 58 (1.746%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 52 (1.565%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 45 (1.355%) Apache Cassandra
11 45 (1.355%) SQL Server 2005
12 41 (1.234%) Hadoop
13 39 (1.174%) PostgreSQL
14 38 (1.144%) SQL Server 2012
15 28 (0.843%) DB2
16 24 (0.722%) SQLite
17 23 (0.692%) Microsoft Analysis Services
18 16 (0.482%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 253 (7.616%) Selenium
2 226 (6.803%) Subversion
3 199 (5.990%) Cucumber
4 192 (5.780%) JUnit
5 180 (5.418%) Maven
6 167 (5.027%) JIRA
7 143 (4.305%) Git (software)
8 139 (4.184%) WebDriver
9 138 (4.154%) Team Foundation Server
10 127 (3.823%) Jenkins
11 104 (3.131%) Visual Studio
12 86 (2.589%) Hudson
13 76 (2.288%) Ant
14 58 (1.746%) NUnit
15 56 (1.686%) SpecFlow
15 56 (1.686%) Eclipse
16 48 (1.445%) TeamCity
17 41 (1.234%) Jasmine
18 40 (1.204%) FitNesse
19 38 (1.144%) TestNG
General
1 771 (23.21%) Finance
2 571 (17.19%) Banking
3 300 (9.031%) Investment Banking
4 258 (7.766%) Front Office
5 149 (4.485%) Retail
6 131 (3.943%) Publishing
7 98 (2.950%) Games
8 78 (2.348%) Telecoms
9 75 (2.258%) Back Office
10 72 (2.167%) Marketing
11 37 (1.114%) Legal
12 21 (0.632%) Law
13 18 (0.542%) Billing
14 16 (0.482%) Financial Institution
15 15 (0.452%) Advertising
16 12 (0.361%) Retail Banking
17 9 (0.271%) Manufacturing
18 8 (0.241%) Pharmaceutical
18 8 (0.241%) International Banking
18 8 (0.241%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1687 (50.78%) Developer
2 527 (15.86%) Analyst
3 369 (11.11%) Java Developer
4 351 (10.57%) Business Analyst
5 299 (9.001%) Project Manager
6 272 (8.188%) C# Developer
7 247 (7.435%) .NET Developer
8 220 (6.623%) Senior Developer
9 114 (3.432%) Front-End Developer
10 102 (3.070%) Architect
11 101 (3.040%) C# .NET Developer
12 93 (2.800%) Agile Project Manager
13 90 (2.709%) Test Analyst
14 89 (2.679%) Agile Business Analyst
15 86 (2.589%) Tester
16 85 (2.559%) Web Developer
17 80 (2.408%) ASP.NET Developer
18 75 (2.258%) JavaScript Developer
19 71 (2.137%) Senior Java Developer
19 71 (2.137%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 219 (6.592%) Derivative
2 192 (5.780%) Open Source
3 168 (5.057%) Fixed Income
4 162 (4.877%) Computer Science
5 154 (4.636%) Mobile App
6 141 (4.244%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 106 (3.191%) Digital Media
8 82 (2.468%) Equities
8 82 (2.468%) Credit Risk
9 60 (1.806%) iPhone
10 53 (1.595%) Market Risk
11 50 (1.505%) iPad
12 45 (1.355%) Equity Derivative
13 43 (1.294%) Management Information System
14 40 (1.204%) New Media
15 39 (1.174%) Mathematics
15 39 (1.174%) N-Tier
16 37 (1.114%) RIA
17 36 (1.084%) Enterprise Software
18 35 (1.054%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 244 (7.345%) Linux
2 178 (5.358%) Windows
3 158 (4.756%) Android
4 151 (4.545%) Apple iOS
5 134 (4.034%) UNIX
6 21 (0.632%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 18 (0.542%) Windows Phone
8 17 (0.512%) Windows Server 2008
8 17 (0.512%) Solaris
9 16 (0.482%) Windows Server 2012
10 13 (0.391%) Windows Server 2003
11 12 (0.361%) CentOS
12 10 (0.301%) Windows 7
13 8 (0.241%) Ubuntu
14 7 (0.211%) Windows 8
14 7 (0.211%) Oracle Linux
14 7 (0.211%) Windows Mobile
15 6 (0.181%) Windows XP
16 5 (0.151%) OpenVMS
17 4 (0.120%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 898 (27.03%) TDD
2 779 (23.45%) Scrum
3 526 (15.83%) BDD
4 495 (14.90%) E-Commerce
5 492 (14.81%) OO
6 401 (12.07%) MVC
7 322 (9.693%) Project Management
8 318 (9.573%) Continuous Integration
9 213 (6.412%) Multithreading
10 204 (6.141%) Unit Testing
11 177 (5.328%) UML
12 174 (5.238%) Business Analysis
13 173 (5.208%) User Stories
14 163 (4.907%) Stakeholder Management
15 148 (4.455%) Pair Programming
16 141 (4.244%) Web Development
17 140 (4.214%) PRINCE2
18 130 (3.913%) User Acceptance Testing
19 121 (3.642%) Automated Testing
20 116 (3.492%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 1056 (31.79%) Java
2 756 (22.76%) C#
3 735 (22.13%) JavaScript
4 636 (19.15%) SQL
5 263 (7.917%) Ruby
6 172 (5.178%) Python
7 168 (5.057%) C++
8 150 (4.515%) PHP
9 111 (3.341%) T-SQL
10 72 (2.167%) Perl
10 72 (2.167%) Groovy
11 65 (1.957%) Objective-C
12 52 (1.565%) C
13 51 (1.535%) Scala
14 45 (1.355%) Bash shell
15 38 (1.144%) PL/SQL
15 38 (1.144%) Shell Script
16 32 (0.963%) VBA
17 31 (0.933%) VB
18 25 (0.753%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 286 (8.609%) Degree
2 71 (2.137%) ISEB
3 30 (0.903%) Security Cleared
4 27 (0.813%) PMI Certification
5 25 (0.753%) ISTQB
6 15 (0.452%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 14 (0.421%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 12 (0.361%) PhD
8 12 (0.361%) PMP
9 10 (0.301%) MBA
10 8 (0.241%) Postgraduate
10 8 (0.241%) SC Cleared
11 6 (0.181%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.151%) Six Sigma Green Belt
12 5 (0.151%) CTC Cleared
12 5 (0.151%) Sun Certification
12 5 (0.151%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.120%) ISEB Practitioner
14 3 (0.090%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.090%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 299 (9.001%) QA
2 8 (0.241%) ISO 9001
3 7 (0.211%) WCAG
4 6 (0.181%) PCI DSS
4 6 (0.181%) Basel III
5 5 (0.151%) COBIT
5 5 (0.151%) SLA
6 4 (0.120%) WAI
7 3 (0.090%) COSO
7 3 (0.090%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.090%) MiFID
7 3 (0.090%) Basel II
8 2 (0.060%) Dublin Core
9 1 (0.030%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.030%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 17 (0.512%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (0.361%) Hyper-V
3 11 (0.331%) Varnish
4 8 (0.241%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.060%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.030%) vSphere
6 1 (0.030%) Shibboleth
6 1 (0.030%) Tivoli Directory Server
6 1 (0.030%) UAG
6 1 (0.030%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.030%) ClearTrust
6 1 (0.030%) VMware ESX
6 1 (0.030%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 61 (1.836%) Puppet
2 45 (1.355%) HP Quality Center
3 19 (0.572%) BladeLogic
4 16 (0.482%) Splunk
5 7 (0.211%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 7 (0.211%) Nagios
6 6 (0.181%) HP Operations Orchestration
7 4 (0.120%) SCCM
8 3 (0.090%) SCVMM
9 2 (0.060%) Tivoli
9 2 (0.060%) MOM
9 2 (0.060%) Business Desktop Deployment
9 2 (0.060%) HP SiteScope
10 1 (0.030%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.030%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.030%) Tivoli Endpoint Manager
10 1 (0.030%) Cobbler
10 1 (0.030%) Nessus
10 1 (0.030%) WSUS
10 1 (0.030%) SCOM
Vendors
1 312 (9.392%) Oracle
2 289 (8.700%) Microsoft
3 64 (1.927%) IBM
4 62 (1.866%) Sybase
5 55 (1.656%) HP
6 52 (1.565%) Google
7 50 (1.505%) JBoss
8 48 (1.445%) TIBCO
8 48 (1.445%) hybris
9 41 (1.234%) Adobe
10 37 (1.114%) Bloomberg
10 37 (1.114%) Salesforce.com
11 36 (1.084%) Reuters
12 34 (1.023%) Zend
13 32 (0.963%) VMware
13 32 (0.963%) Sitecore
14 31 (0.933%) SAP
15 30 (0.903%) ATG
16 27 (0.813%) Perforce
17 21 (0.632%) Twitter
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