Agile Software Development Contracts in Merseyside
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills in IT contracts advertised for the Merseyside 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 23 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 Merseyside 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Agile Software Development
Rank 30 16 16
Rank change year-on-year
-14 0
Contract jobs citing Agile Software Development 4 21 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 1.942% 7.955% 5.906%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.878% 13.04% 9.615%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 12 3
Average daily rate £330 £388 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.83% +40.90%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £314 £300 £271
10% offered a daily rate of more than £346 £480 £295
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 £32.75 £37.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-11.48% +5.71%
All Processes & Methodologies
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 139 161 156
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 67.48% 60.98% 61.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 83 76
Average daily rate £350 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £243 £255 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £494 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 14 15
Average hourly rate - £17.51 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -22.17%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
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 Merseyside region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside Agile Software Development Daily Rate Trend

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 Merseyside region over the 3 months to 23 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
Liverpool -10 1 - -
Agile Software Development
North West

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 7 (46.67%) Scrum
2 5 (33.33%) .NET
3 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
3 4 (26.67%) ASP.NET
3 4 (26.67%) WCF
4 3 (20.00%) jQuery
4 3 (20.00%) Degree
4 3 (20.00%) Project Management
4 3 (20.00%) E-Commerce
4 3 (20.00%) CSS
4 3 (20.00%) Web Services
4 3 (20.00%) C#
4 3 (20.00%) HTML
4 3 (20.00%) Java
5 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
5 2 (13.33%) PRINCE2
5 2 (13.33%) SQL
5 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
5 2 (13.33%) Internet
5 2 (13.33%) SQL Server 2000
5 2 (13.33%) ISEB
5 2 (13.33%) Selenium
5 2 (13.33%) Android
5 2 (13.33%) Test Scripting
5 2 (13.33%) SQL Server 2008
5 2 (13.33%) Git (software)
5 2 (13.33%) WebDriver
5 2 (13.33%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (13.33%) MVC
5 2 (13.33%) HTML5

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 (33.33%) .NET
2 4 (26.67%) ASP.NET
2 4 (26.67%) WCF
3 3 (20.00%) jQuery
3 3 (20.00%) CSS
3 3 (20.00%) Web Services
3 3 (20.00%) HTML
4 2 (13.33%) HTML5
4 2 (13.33%) soapUI
4 2 (13.33%) CSS3
4 2 (13.33%) Backbone.js
5 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET MVC 2
5 1 (6.667%) .NET Framework
5 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET 2.0
5 1 (6.667%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.667%) SharePoint 2013
2 1 (6.667%) CMS
2 1 (6.667%) Umbraco
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Internet
2 1 (6.667%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (13.33%) SQL Server 2000
2 2 (13.33%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (13.33%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (13.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (6.667%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (6.667%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Selenium
1 2 (13.33%) Git (software)
1 2 (13.33%) WebDriver
2 1 (6.667%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.667%) NUnit
2 1 (6.667%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (6.667%) InstallShield
2 1 (6.667%) Eclipse
2 1 (6.667%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (6.667%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Software Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Project Manager
4 2 (13.33%) Mobile Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Android Developer
4 2 (13.33%) iOS Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) Automation Tester
5 1 (6.667%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) Test Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) Technical Specialist
5 1 (6.667%) PRINCE2 Project Manager
5 1 (6.667%) ScrumMaster
5 1 (6.667%) Agile Project Manager
5 1 (6.667%) Tester
5 1 (6.667%) Architect
5 1 (6.667%) Analyst
5 1 (6.667%) Test Analyst
5 1 (6.667%) Consultant
5 1 (6.667%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.667%) Mobile App
1 1 (6.667%) PMI
1 1 (6.667%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Android
1 2 (13.33%) Apple iOS
2 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (6.667%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Scrum
2 3 (20.00%) Project Management
2 3 (20.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (13.33%) PRINCE2
3 2 (13.33%) Test Scripting
3 2 (13.33%) MVC
3 2 (13.33%) Business Transformation
4 1 (6.667%) User Stories
4 1 (6.667%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (6.667%) Extreme Programming
4 1 (6.667%) Resource Management
4 1 (6.667%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (6.667%) Unit Testing
4 1 (6.667%) Test Automation
4 1 (6.667%) OO
4 1 (6.667%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) C#
1 3 (20.00%) Java
2 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (13.33%) SQL
3 1 (6.667%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.667%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) ISEB
3 1 (6.667%) ISTQB
3 1 (6.667%) APMP
3 1 (6.667%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.667%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.667%) vSphere
Vendors
1 1 (6.667%) VMware
1 1 (6.667%) Oracle
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