The first table below looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills in IT contracts advertised for the Luton 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 21 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 Luton 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Agile Software Development
Rank 12 10 10
Rank change year-on-year
-2 0
Contract jobs citing Agile Software Development 6 4 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Luton 7.595% 6.061% 3.774%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.17% 7.547% 5.556%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 2
Average daily rate £363 £293 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.93% -38.42%
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 £37.50 £37.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.35% +5.71%
All Processes & Methodologies
Luton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
59 53 36
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Luton 74.68% 80.30% 67.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 36 23
Average daily rate £375 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £194 £273
10% offered a daily rate of more than £498 £425 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £35.50 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +222.72%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Agile Software Development
Bedfordshire

Agile Software Development
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Luton 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 Luton region.

Luton 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 Luton region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Luton Agile Software Development Daily Rate Histogram

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Luton 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 5 (71.43%) C#
1 5 (71.43%) .NET
2 4 (57.14%) ASP.NET
2 4 (57.14%) Scrum
2 4 (57.14%) MVC
3 3 (42.86%) BDD
3 3 (42.86%) NHibernate
3 3 (42.86%) HTML
3 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 3 (42.86%) E-Commerce
3 3 (42.86%) SOA
4 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
5 1 (14.29%) Refactoring
5 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
5 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (14.29%) TDD
5 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
5 1 (14.29%) Change Management
5 1 (14.29%) ETL
5 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
5 1 (14.29%) Web Services
5 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2
5 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
5 1 (14.29%) Aerospace

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Luton 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 5 (71.43%) .NET
2 4 (57.14%) ASP.NET
3 3 (42.86%) NHibernate
3 3 (42.86%) HTML
4 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
5 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (14.29%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Web Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Agile .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Team Leader
3 1 (14.29%) Development Team Leader
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Scrum
1 4 (57.14%) MVC
2 3 (42.86%) BDD
2 3 (42.86%) E-Commerce
2 3 (42.86%) SOA
3 1 (14.29%) Refactoring
3 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (14.29%) TDD
3 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) ETL
3 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) C#
2 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft