Agile Software Development Contracts in Manchester
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester 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 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 Manchester 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
Agile Software Development
Rank 29 27 34
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +7
Contract jobs citing Agile Software Development 47 67 40
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 5.142% 5.150% 3.857%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.309% 8.024% 5.961%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 50 24
Average daily rate £339 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.23% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £237 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £418
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
Average hourly rate £21.00 £37.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-43.24% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.25 £37.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-5.36% +6.42%
All Processes & Methodologies
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 643 835 671
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 70.35% 64.18% 64.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 413 300
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £230 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £456 £454
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 41 38
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.01 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £80.50 £37.00 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Agile Software Development
North West

Agile Software Development
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester 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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester 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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Manchester 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 Manchester 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
Salford +4 11 £324 -16.45%
Stockport - 3 £350 -
Cheadle - 2 £300 -
Agile Software Development
North West

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 37 (41.11%) Java
2 30 (33.33%) TDD
3 29 (32.22%) JavaScript
4 27 (30.00%) Scrum
5 23 (25.56%) OO
6 21 (23.33%) XML
7 20 (22.22%) Spring
8 18 (20.00%) BDD
9 16 (17.78%) Pair Programming
9 16 (17.78%) Web Services
9 16 (17.78%) J2EE
10 15 (16.67%) HTML
10 15 (16.67%) CSS
10 15 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
11 14 (15.56%) jQuery
12 13 (14.44%) JSON
12 13 (14.44%) RESTful
12 13 (14.44%) Internet
13 12 (13.33%) .NET
13 12 (13.33%) SQL
13 12 (13.33%) MVC
14 11 (12.22%) Project Management
15 10 (11.11%) RDF
15 10 (11.11%) PHP
15 10 (11.11%) XSLT
15 10 (11.11%) Linux
15 10 (11.11%) OOP
16 9 (10.00%) C#
16 9 (10.00%) ActionScript
16 9 (10.00%) SQL Server

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 21 (23.33%) XML
2 20 (22.22%) Spring
3 16 (17.78%) Web Services
3 16 (17.78%) J2EE
4 15 (16.67%) HTML
4 15 (16.67%) CSS
5 14 (15.56%) jQuery
6 13 (14.44%) RESTful
6 13 (14.44%) JSON
7 12 (13.33%) .NET
8 10 (11.11%) XSLT
9 9 (10.00%) Flash
10 8 (8.889%) REST
10 8 (8.889%) JAX-RS
11 7 (7.778%) Hibernate
12 5 (5.556%) Ajax
12 5 (5.556%) ASP.NET MVC
12 5 (5.556%) ASP.NET
12 5 (5.556%) JSP
13 4 (4.444%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 4 (4.444%) BizTalk Server
1 4 (4.444%) ESB
2 3 (3.333%) CMS
2 3 (3.333%) Apache
3 2 (2.222%) Orchard CMS
4 1 (1.111%) Drupal
4 1 (1.111%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 7 (7.778%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.111%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.111%) Maya
2 1 (1.111%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.333%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.111%) Visualfiles
Communications & Networking
1 13 (14.44%) Internet
2 4 (4.444%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.556%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (4.444%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.333%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (3.333%) MySQL
5 2 (2.222%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (2.222%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (2.222%) CouchDB
5 2 (2.222%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.222%) RavenDB
5 2 (2.222%) MarkLogic
6 1 (1.111%) QlikView
6 1 (1.111%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 8 (8.889%) Subversion
2 6 (6.667%) Git (software)
3 4 (4.444%) MTASC
4 3 (3.333%) Cucumber
4 3 (3.333%) Visual Studio
4 3 (3.333%) Gradle
5 2 (2.222%) PHPUnit
5 2 (2.222%) Ant
5 2 (2.222%) Xcode
5 2 (2.222%) Maven
5 2 (2.222%) JIRA
5 2 (2.222%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (2.222%) MSBuild
5 2 (2.222%) QUnit
5 2 (2.222%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.111%) WebDriver
6 1 (1.111%) Selenium
6 1 (1.111%) Eclipse
6 1 (1.111%) Axure RP
General
1 4 (4.444%) Finance
2 3 (3.333%) Games
3 2 (2.222%) Retail
3 2 (2.222%) Publishing
4 1 (1.111%) Electronics
4 1 (1.111%) Law
4 1 (1.111%) Legal
4 1 (1.111%) Multimedia
4 1 (1.111%) Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (50.00%) Developer
2 19 (21.11%) Java Developer
3 18 (20.00%) Analyst
4 13 (14.44%) Project Manager
5 12 (13.33%) Business Analyst
6 7 (7.778%) Software Engineer
7 6 (6.667%) Flash Developer
7 6 (6.667%) Test Engineer
7 6 (6.667%) Web Developer
8 5 (5.556%) .NET Developer
8 5 (5.556%) Senior Developer
8 5 (5.556%) Java Software Engineer
9 4 (4.444%) Senior Java Developer
9 4 (4.444%) Java/J2EE Developer
10 3 (3.333%) Agile Java Developer
10 3 (3.333%) ActionScript Developer
10 3 (3.333%) Java Web Developer
10 3 (3.333%) Flash ActionScript Developer
10 3 (3.333%) Senior Software Engineer
10 3 (3.333%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.667%) Mobile App
2 4 (4.444%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (4.444%) Embedded Systems
2 4 (4.444%) Statistics
2 4 (4.444%) Semantic Web
3 3 (3.333%) Blackberry
3 3 (3.333%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.222%) BBC
4 2 (2.222%) Streaming Video
4 2 (2.222%) Interactive TV
4 2 (2.222%) Smartphone
4 2 (2.222%) Linked Data
4 2 (2.222%) iPhone
5 1 (1.111%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.111%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.11%) Linux
2 8 (8.889%) Apple iOS
3 7 (7.778%) Windows
3 7 (7.778%) Android
4 5 (5.556%) Mac OS X
5 3 (3.333%) Windows Mobile
6 2 (2.222%) bada
6 2 (2.222%) Maemo
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (33.33%) TDD
2 27 (30.00%) Scrum
3 23 (25.56%) OO
4 18 (20.00%) BDD
5 16 (17.78%) Pair Programming
6 15 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
7 12 (13.33%) MVC
8 11 (12.22%) Project Management
9 10 (11.11%) RDF
9 10 (11.11%) OOP
10 8 (8.889%) PRINCE2
10 8 (8.889%) Benchmarking
10 8 (8.889%) Test Automation
11 7 (7.778%) Enterprise Architecture
12 6 (6.667%) Kanban
12 6 (6.667%) User Stories
12 6 (6.667%) Business Analysis
13 5 (5.556%) Content Management
13 5 (5.556%) Stakeholder Management
13 5 (5.556%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 37 (41.11%) Java
2 29 (32.22%) JavaScript
3 12 (13.33%) SQL
4 10 (11.11%) PHP
5 9 (10.00%) C#
5 9 (10.00%) ActionScript
6 8 (8.889%) ActionScript 2.0
7 7 (7.778%) XPath
7 7 (7.778%) XQuery
8 6 (6.667%) C++
9 5 (5.556%) Shell Script
9 5 (5.556%) Ruby
10 4 (4.444%) Objective-C
11 3 (3.333%) T-SQL
12 2 (2.222%) Haskell
12 2 (2.222%) SPARQL
12 2 (2.222%) Scala
13 1 (1.111%) ActionScript 3.0
13 1 (1.111%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 6 (6.667%) Degree
2 3 (3.333%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.333%) ISTQB
2 3 (3.333%) ISEB
3 2 (2.222%) Sun Certification
3 2 (2.222%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.111%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.111%) SLA
Vendors
1 7 (7.778%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.444%) Apple
2 4 (4.444%) JBoss
3 3 (3.333%) Oracle
3 3 (3.333%) Business Objects
3 3 (3.333%) Zend
4 2 (2.222%) Symbian
5 1 (1.111%) Sage
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