The first table below looks at the demand for Extreme Programming 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 Extreme Programming over the 3 months to 17 June 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
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extreme Programming (XP)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Extreme Programming 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside - - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £575 £300
% change year-on-year
-36.95% +91.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.50 - -
All Processes & Methodologies
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
127 171 153
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 65.80% 66.02% 57.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 91 80
Average daily rate £363 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.53% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £263 £273
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £485 £494
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 18 12
Average hourly rate - £17.51 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -22.17%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Extreme Programming
North West

Extreme Programming
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside Extreme Programming Jobs Demand Trend

Extreme Programming
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 1 (100.00%) InstallShield
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET 2.0
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008

Extreme Programming
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET 2.0
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) InstallShield
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree