The first table below looks at the demand for Extreme Programming 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 Extreme Programming over the 3 months to 17 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extreme Programming (XP)
Rank 358 386 390
Rank change year-on-year
+28 +4
Contract jobs citing Extreme Programming 27 20 47
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.125% 0.075% 0.150%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.168% 0.104% 0.211%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 20 31
Average daily rate £475 £450 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.55% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £347 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £600 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £375 £310
% change year-on-year
+13.33% +20.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.50 - -
All Processes & Methodologies
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
16095 19235 22284
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 74.54% 71.82% 71.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11073 12624 14702
Average daily rate £450 £450 £480
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £303
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 334 354
Average hourly rate £30.00 £29.00 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% +3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £45.00 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Extreme Programming
England

Extreme Programming
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Extreme Programming Jobs Demand Trend

Extreme Programming
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Extreme Programming across the London region.

London Extreme Programming Daily Rate Trend

Extreme Programming
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Extreme Programming across the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London Extreme Programming Daily Rate Histogram

Extreme Programming
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Extreme Programming across the London region.

London Extreme Programming Hourly Rate Trend

Extreme Programming
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Extreme Programming within the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
City of London +18 10 £450 +14.28%
Brentford - 1 £475 -
Extreme Programming
England

Extreme Programming
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Extreme Programming 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 Extreme Programming.

1 39 (72.22%) TDD
2 32 (59.26%) BDD
3 31 (57.41%) Scrum
4 30 (55.56%) Java
5 28 (51.85%) Agile Software Development
6 22 (40.74%) Spring
7 20 (37.04%) Continuous Integration
8 18 (33.33%) Pair Programming
9 16 (29.63%) Hibernate
9 16 (29.63%) .NET
10 15 (27.78%) C#
10 15 (27.78%) ASP.NET
11 14 (25.93%) J2EE
11 14 (25.93%) MVC
12 12 (22.22%) OO
12 12 (22.22%) Cucumber
13 11 (20.37%) Kanban
13 11 (20.37%) SQL
14 10 (18.52%) MySQL
14 10 (18.52%) SQL Server
14 10 (18.52%) XML
14 10 (18.52%) Ruby
15 9 (16.67%) WCF
15 9 (16.67%) Microsoft
15 9 (16.67%) Web Services
15 9 (16.67%) Oracle
15 9 (16.67%) Unit Testing
15 9 (16.67%) RESTful
16 8 (14.81%) TeamCity
16 8 (14.81%) XML Schema

Extreme Programming
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Extreme Programming 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 Extreme Programming. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 22 (40.74%) Spring
2 16 (29.63%) Hibernate
2 16 (29.63%) .NET
3 15 (27.78%) ASP.NET
4 14 (25.93%) J2EE
5 10 (18.52%) XML
6 9 (16.67%) Web Services
6 9 (16.67%) WCF
6 9 (16.67%) RESTful
7 8 (14.81%) Spring MVC
7 8 (14.81%) XML Schema
8 7 (12.96%) Silverlight
8 7 (12.96%) NHibernate
8 7 (12.96%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 6 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC
9 6 (11.11%) StructureMap
9 6 (11.11%) WPF
9 6 (11.11%) Java EE
10 5 (9.259%) JMS
10 5 (9.259%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 6 (11.11%) Documentum
2 3 (5.556%) WebSphere MQ
3 2 (3.704%) GlassFish
3 2 (3.704%) Apache Solr
3 2 (3.704%) Apache Pig
4 1 (1.852%) Windows Azure
4 1 (1.852%) Kafka
4 1 (1.852%) CMS
4 1 (1.852%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (7.407%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 1 (1.852%) ION MarketView
1 1 (1.852%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.81%) HTTP
2 1 (1.852%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (18.52%) MySQL
1 10 (18.52%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.407%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.704%) Hadoop
3 2 (3.704%) Apache Hive
3 2 (3.704%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.852%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.852%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (1.852%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 12 (22.22%) Cucumber
2 8 (14.81%) NUnit
2 8 (14.81%) JIRA
2 8 (14.81%) TeamCity
3 7 (12.96%) Selenium
3 7 (12.96%) NMock
4 6 (11.11%) MSBuild
5 5 (9.259%) Jenkins
5 5 (9.259%) JUnit
6 4 (7.407%) CruiseControl
6 4 (7.407%) Maven
6 4 (7.407%) Hudson
7 3 (5.556%) Ant
7 3 (5.556%) WebDriver
7 3 (5.556%) SpecFlow
7 3 (5.556%) Subversion
7 3 (5.556%) FitNesse
7 3 (5.556%) Git (software)
7 3 (5.556%) RSpec
8 2 (3.704%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 6 (11.11%) Back Office
1 6 (11.11%) Finance
2 3 (5.556%) Banking
3 2 (3.704%) Publishing
4 1 (1.852%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.852%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 41 (75.93%) Developer
2 18 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 10 (18.52%) Senior Developer
4 9 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
5 8 (14.81%) C# Developer
6 6 (11.11%) Agile C# Developer
7 5 (9.259%) .NET Developer
8 4 (7.407%) Architect
8 4 (7.407%) Agile Java Developer
9 3 (5.556%) Lead Architect
9 3 (5.556%) Web Developer
10 2 (3.704%) Applications Specialist
10 2 (3.704%) Team Leader
10 2 (3.704%) Python Developer
10 2 (3.704%) .NET Team Leader
10 2 (3.704%) Build Engineer
10 2 (3.704%) Ruby on Rails Developer
10 2 (3.704%) Hadoop Developer
11 1 (1.852%) DevOps Engineer
11 1 (1.852%) ScrumMaster
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.96%) RIA
2 6 (11.11%) Inversion of Control
3 4 (7.407%) Open Source
4 1 (1.852%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.852%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.852%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.96%) Windows
2 5 (9.259%) Linux
3 4 (7.407%) UNIX
4 2 (3.704%) Solaris
5 1 (1.852%) CentOS
5 1 (1.852%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (72.22%) TDD
2 32 (59.26%) BDD
3 31 (57.41%) Scrum
4 28 (51.85%) Agile Software Development
5 20 (37.04%) Continuous Integration
6 18 (33.33%) Pair Programming
7 14 (25.93%) MVC
8 12 (22.22%) OO
9 11 (20.37%) Kanban
10 9 (16.67%) Unit Testing
11 7 (12.96%) Multithreading
12 6 (11.11%) OOD
13 5 (9.259%) SOA
14 4 (7.407%) Refactoring
14 4 (7.407%) Domain-Driven Design
15 3 (5.556%) Pattern Recognition
15 3 (5.556%) Technical Architecture
15 3 (5.556%) Workflow
15 3 (5.556%) Project Management
15 3 (5.556%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (55.56%) Java
2 15 (27.78%) C#
3 11 (20.37%) SQL
4 10 (18.52%) Ruby
5 7 (12.96%) Groovy
6 6 (11.11%) Scala
7 5 (9.259%) JavaScript
7 5 (9.259%) PHP
8 2 (3.704%) Python
8 2 (3.704%) XQuery
8 2 (3.704%) Bash shell
8 2 (3.704%) XPath
9 1 (1.852%) C
9 1 (1.852%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.852%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.704%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.852%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (1.852%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (3.704%) Puppet
2 1 (1.852%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (1.852%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 9 (16.67%) Oracle
1 9 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.259%) Red Hat
3 3 (5.556%) StreamBase
4 2 (3.704%) Zend
4 2 (3.704%) Atlassian
4 2 (3.704%) JBoss
5 1 (1.852%) ION Trading
London
Key skills: - 2+ years commercial experience as an iOS developer - Objective C and complimentary technologies/languages. - Fluent with XCode and related tools/processes. - Demonstrable iOS iPhone and iPad...
Gregory James
Rate: £380 to £430 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013