The first table below looks at the demand for Agile Testing 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 Testing over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Agile Testing
Rank 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Agile Testing 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Luton 1.250% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.639% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £413 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £413 £450
% change year-on-year
-15.15% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £12.50 £56.50
% change year-on-year
+60.00% -77.87%
All Processes & Methodologies
Luton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
61 50 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Luton 76.25% 80.65% 72.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 33 23
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £187 £273
10% offered a daily rate of more than £490 £425 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -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 £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Agile Testing
Bedfordshire

Agile Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Luton Agile Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Agile Testing
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Agile Testing across the Luton region.

Luton Agile Testing Daily Rate Trend

Agile Testing
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Luton region citing Agile Testing 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 Testing.

1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Test Management
3 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
3 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 1 (33.33%) MVC
3 1 (33.33%) Web Development

Agile Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Luton region citing Agile Testing 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 Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) ScrumMaster
2 1 (33.33%) Test Leader
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Test Management
2 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
2 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 1 (33.33%) MVC
2 1 (33.33%) Web Development
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft