Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the 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 17 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the London region.

 Agile Software Development
Location
3 months to
17 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank314980
Rank change year-on-year
Up+18Up+31
Matching contract IT job ads1211507729
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London4.680 %3.062 %2.009 %
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category7.611 %5.417 %3.834 %
Daily rates quoted750255373
Average daily rate£500£400£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00 %-
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£325£275£300
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£550£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£300£350
% change year-on-year
+16.66 %-14.28 %
Hourly rates quoted1116
Average hourly rate£34.19£30.00£33.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.96 %-11.11 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£27.50£30.00£27.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£43.50£30.00£42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£32.50£35.00
% change year-on-year
-12.30 %-7.140 %
London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryAll Processes & Methodologies
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
15911936019014
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London61.49 %56.52 %52.39 %
Daily rates quoted876938657886
Average daily rate£450£410£438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.750 %-6.280 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£288£250£275
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£575£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£363£375
% change year-on-year
-3.440 %-3.330 %
Hourly rates quoted293297721
Average hourly rate£30.00£25.75£27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.50 %-6.360 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£15.00£13.00£15.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£43.50£50.00£42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£24.50£28.22£30.00
% change year-on-year
-13.18 %-5.930 %
Agile Software Development EnglandAgile Software Development
England

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.

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 London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

London Agile Software Development Demand Trend

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 London region.

London Agile Software Development Daily Rate Trend

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 London region over the 3 months to 17 March 2010.

London Agile Software Development Daily Rate Histogram

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 London region.

London Agile Software Development Hourly Rate Trend

Agile Software Development
Hourly Rate Histogram

The 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 17 March 2010.

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 17 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
City of LondonUp+37385£500+25.00 %
Canary WharfDown-2517£625+0.80 %
Docklands, LondonDown-710£525+16.66 %
BrentfordUp+32£325-
FelthamNew entry-2£400-
LutonNew entry-1£300-
TwickenhamNew entry-1--
OsterleyNew entry-1--
Agile Software Development EnglandAgile Software Development
England

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 March 2010, 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.

1849 (37.95 %)Java
2756 (33.80 %)C#
3628 (28.07 %)Banking
4550 (24.59 %).NET
5443 (19.80 %)Scrum
6434 (19.40 %)TDD
7428 (19.13 %)SQL
8387 (17.30 %)Finance
9371 (16.58 %)Investment Banking
10357 (15.96 %)Spring
11347 (15.51 %)Derivative
12342 (15.29 %)SQL Server
13341 (15.24 %)OO
14333 (14.89 %)XML
15309 (13.81 %)Oracle
16306 (13.68 %)Hibernate
17288 (12.87 %)Front Office
18267 (11.94 %)JavaScript
19255 (11.40 %)ASP.NET
20209 (9.343 %)HTML
21204 (9.119 %)Web Services
22201 (8.985 %)CSS
23193 (8.628 %)Windows
24174 (7.778 %)OOD
24174 (7.778 %)Continuous Integration
25164 (7.331 %)AJAX
26156 (6.974 %)WinForms
27152 (6.795 %)Subversion
28151 (6.750 %)Linux
29147 (6.571 %)SQL Server 2005

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 March 2010, 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.

London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1550 (24.59 %).NET
2357 (15.96 %)Spring
3333 (14.89 %)XML
4306 (13.68 %)Hibernate
5255 (11.40 %)ASP.NET
6209 (9.343 %)HTML
7204 (9.119 %)Web Services
8201 (8.985 %)CSS
9164 (7.331 %)AJAX
10156 (6.974 %)WinForms
11133 (5.945 %)WPF
12111 (4.962 %)XHTML
13105 (4.694 %)J2EE
13105 (4.694 %)WCF
14103 (4.604 %).NET Framework
1579 (3.532 %)XSLT
1666 (2.950 %)Flash
1666 (2.950 %)jQuery
1764 (2.861 %)J2SE
1859 (2.637 %)NHibernate
London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
182 (3.666 %)SharePoint
262 (2.772 %)Apache
262 (2.772 %)Tomcat
335 (1.565 %)CMS
429 (1.296 %)MQSeries
527 (1.207 %)Confluence
623 (1.028 %)ESB
722 (0.983 %)SharePoint Server 2007
819 (0.849 %)BizTalk Server
918 (0.805 %)TIBCO EMS
1016 (0.715 %)ActiveMQ
1113 (0.581 %)IIS
1113 (0.581 %)Oracle Workflow
1113 (0.581 %)Drupal
1212 (0.536 %)Alfresco
138 (0.358 %)Sitecore CMS
138 (0.358 %)Jetty
147 (0.313 %)Rendezvous
156 (0.268 %)TeamSite
156 (0.268 %)WebLogic
London IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
185 (3.800 %)MS Excel
263 (2.816 %)MS Visio
350 (2.235 %)MS Project
423 (1.028 %)MS Office
512 (0.536 %)MS PowerPoint
512 (0.536 %)Photoshop
610 (0.447 %)Spreadsheet
78 (0.358 %)Adobe Illustrator
87 (0.313 %)CA Clarity
92 (0.089 %)Fireworks
London IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
123 (1.028 %)SAP BPC
221 (0.939 %)Endur
37 (0.313 %)Oracle 11i
37 (0.313 %)BusinessWorks
37 (0.313 %)TIBCO iProcess
46 (0.268 %)SAP CO
46 (0.268 %)SAP FI/CO
46 (0.268 %)SAP FI
54 (0.179 %)Dynamics CRM
63 (0.134 %)Microsoft CRM
63 (0.134 %)Siebel Analytics
63 (0.134 %)SalesLogix
72 (0.089 %)Oracle BPM
72 (0.089 %)FENICS FX
72 (0.089 %)Temenos T24
72 (0.089 %)Temenos Globus
81 (0.045 %)BancWare
81 (0.045 %)SAP SD
81 (0.045 %)Oracle CRM
81 (0.045 %)Oracle Applications
London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1127 (5.677 %)Internet
261 (2.727 %)HTTP
328 (1.252 %)Intranet
418 (0.805 %)Bluetooth
512 (0.536 %)DSL
67 (0.313 %)DNS
74 (0.179 %)SAN
83 (0.134 %)SNMP
83 (0.134 %)NAS
92 (0.089 %)AMQP
92 (0.089 %)DVB
92 (0.089 %)X.500
92 (0.089 %)WAN
92 (0.089 %)LDAP
101 (0.045 %)Broadband
101 (0.045 %)LAN
101 (0.045 %)VoIP
101 (0.045 %)TCP/IP
101 (0.045 %)H.323
101 (0.045 %)Extranet
London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1342 (15.29 %)SQL Server
2147 (6.571 %)SQL Server 2005
398 (4.381 %)SQL Server 2008
477 (3.442 %)RDBMS
560 (2.682 %)SQL Server 2000
651 (2.280 %)Oracle 10g
739 (1.743 %)MySQL
836 (1.609 %)Datawarehouse
932 (1.430 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1026 (1.162 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1117 (0.760 %)Oracle 8/8i
1216 (0.715 %)Crystal Reports
1315 (0.671 %)BusinessObjects
1413 (0.581 %)Oracle Reports
159 (0.402 %)ETL
159 (0.402 %)OLAP
168 (0.358 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
177 (0.313 %)DB2
186 (0.268 %)Oracle 11g
195 (0.224 %)Oracle 9i
London IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1152 (6.795 %)Subversion
2131 (5.856 %)JUnit
3120 (5.364 %)FitNesse
4119 (5.320 %)Selenium
585 (3.800 %)JIRA
585 (3.800 %)Visual Studio
680 (3.576 %)NUnit
770 (3.129 %)Eclipse
866 (2.950 %)Maven
958 (2.593 %)QuickTest Pro
1042 (1.878 %)Ant
1133 (1.475 %)TeamCity
1231 (1.386 %)Team Foundation Server
1326 (1.162 %)EasyMock
1423 (1.028 %)jMock
1521 (0.939 %)WATIR
1620 (0.894 %)NCover
1718 (0.805 %)ClearCase
1817 (0.760 %)JMeter
1916 (0.715 %)Oracle Forms
London IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1628 (28.07 %)Banking
2387 (17.30 %)Finance
3371 (16.58 %)Investment Banking
4288 (12.87 %)Front Office
5116 (5.186 %)Back Office
667 (2.995 %)Government
762 (2.772 %)Games
831 (1.386 %)Publishing
927 (1.207 %)Insurance
1024 (1.073 %)General Ledger
1123 (1.028 %)Retail
1221 (0.939 %)Telecoms
1320 (0.894 %)Financial Institution
1418 (0.805 %)Electronics
1517 (0.760 %)Marketing
1616 (0.715 %)Health
1714 (0.626 %)Legal
189 (0.402 %)Home Office
189 (0.402 %)Education
197 (0.313 %)Construction
London IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11286 (57.49 %)Developer
2452 (20.21 %)Java Developer
3359 (16.05 %)C# Developer
4295 (13.19 %)Analyst
5290 (12.96 %)Senior Developer
6173 (7.734 %).NET Developer
7166 (7.421 %)Business Analyst
8141 (6.303 %)Project Manager
9116 (5.186 %)Senior C# Developer
10100 (4.470 %)Architect
10100 (4.470 %)Senior Java Developer
1190 (4.023 %)Tester
1274 (3.308 %)GUI Developer
1373 (3.263 %)Test Analyst
1373 (3.263 %)Web Developer
1472 (3.219 %)Agile Java Developer
1569 (3.084 %)WinForms Developer
1649 (2.190 %)SQL Developer
1743 (1.922 %)Software Developer
1743 (1.922 %)C++ Developer
London IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1347 (15.51 %)Derivative
2124 (5.543 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
3100 (4.470 %)Fixed Income
485 (3.800 %)Equity Derivative
561 (2.727 %)Equities
659 (2.637 %)Credit Derivative
757 (2.548 %)Interest Rate Derivative
856 (2.503 %)Multithreading
950 (2.235 %)Open Source
1027 (1.207 %)W3C
1126 (1.162 %)Client/Server
1223 (1.028 %)STB
1322 (0.983 %)Web 2.0
1421 (0.939 %)Computer Science
1421 (0.939 %)Wiki
1520 (0.894 %)iPhone
1619 (0.849 %)Social Network
1716 (0.715 %)Data Protection Act
1716 (0.715 %)Credit Risk
1815 (0.671 %)NHS
London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1193 (8.628 %)Windows
2151 (6.750 %)Linux
3142 (6.348 %)UNIX
436 (1.609 %)Solaris
523 (1.028 %)Windows Server 2003
615 (0.671 %)Windows XP
615 (0.671 %)Windows Mobile
714 (0.626 %)Red Hat Linux
89 (0.402 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
98 (0.358 %)Android
106 (0.268 %)Windows 2000
114 (0.179 %)Mac OS X
123 (0.134 %)CentOS
132 (0.089 %)Symbian OS
141 (0.045 %)Debian
London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1443 (19.80 %)Scrum
2434 (19.40 %)TDD
3341 (15.24 %)OO
4174 (7.778 %)OOD
4174 (7.778 %)Continuous Integration
5139 (6.214 %)Unit Testing
6128 (5.722 %)MVC
7124 (5.543 %)UML
8120 (5.364 %)E-Commerce
9103 (4.604 %)Project Management
1091 (4.068 %)OOA/OOD
1189 (3.979 %)SOA
1287 (3.889 %)Automated Testing
1375 (3.353 %)RAD
1471 (3.174 %)Web Development
1569 (3.084 %)OOP
1569 (3.084 %)Workflow
1666 (2.950 %)Pair Programming
1764 (2.861 %)Business Analysis
1860 (2.682 %)User Acceptance Testing
London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1849 (37.95 %)Java
2756 (33.80 %)C#
3428 (19.13 %)SQL
4267 (11.94 %)JavaScript
5107 (4.783 %)C++
6102 (4.560 %)PL/SQL
775 (3.353 %)PHP
853 (2.369 %)Perl
951 (2.280 %)ActionScript
1049 (2.190 %)T-SQL
1145 (2.012 %)C
1243 (1.922 %)VBA
1341 (1.833 %)VB
1439 (1.743 %)Ruby
1534 (1.520 %)VB.NET
1534 (1.520 %)ActionScript 2.0
1633 (1.475 %)Python
1718 (0.805 %)VB6
1815 (0.671 %)Groovy
1913 (0.581 %)Shell Script
London IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
177 (3.442 %)Security Cleared
269 (3.084 %)ISEB
360 (2.682 %)Degree
426 (1.162 %)CTC Cleared
522 (0.983 %)SC Cleared
613 (0.581 %)PMI Certification
712 (0.536 %)PRINCE2 Certification
86 (0.268 %)DV Cleared
95 (0.224 %)MCTS
95 (0.224 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
104 (0.179 %)ISTQB
104 (0.179 %)ISEB Practitioner
104 (0.179 %)Microsoft Certification
113 (0.134 %)MBA
113 (0.134 %)CFA
122 (0.089 %)PMP
131 (0.045 %)HP ASE
London IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1138 (6.169 %)QA
27 (0.313 %)WAI
36 (0.268 %)WCAG
42 (0.089 %)SLA
51 (0.045 %)ISO27001
London IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
118 (0.805 %)MSMQ
211 (0.492 %)VMware Infrastructure
33 (0.134 %)Active Directory
42 (0.089 %)Xen
42 (0.089 %)Oracle RAC
51 (0.045 %)Hyper-V
London IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
113 (0.581 %)HP Quality Center
23 (0.134 %)MOM
23 (0.134 %)YUM
32 (0.089 %)Zenoss
41 (0.045 %)Nagios
41 (0.045 %)AutoSys
41 (0.045 %)OVOW
41 (0.045 %)OVOU
41 (0.045 %)SCOM
41 (0.045 %)SCVMM
London IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1309 (13.81 %)Oracle
2129 (5.767 %)Microsoft
367 (2.995 %)TIBCO
463 (2.816 %)Sybase
531 (1.386 %)JBoss
629 (1.296 %)SAP
723 (1.028 %)Mercator
822 (0.983 %)Symbian
921 (0.939 %)Calypso
921 (0.939 %)VMware
1020 (0.894 %)Google
1119 (0.849 %)HP
1119 (0.849 %)DataSynapse
1216 (0.715 %)Red Hat
1216 (0.715 %)Adobe
1315 (0.671 %)Business Objects
1414 (0.626 %)IBM
1513 (0.581 %)Hummingbird
1513 (0.581 %)Zend
1612 (0.536 %)DevExpress