Midlands Agile Software Development Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills within the Midlands region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Agile Software Development over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Agile Software Development
Location Abingdon Barnstaple Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheshire Chester City of London Cleveland County Antrim Coventry Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Farnham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Jersey Leatherhead Leeds Livingston London Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	44	59
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching contract IT job ads	22	19
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.030 %	0.019 %
As % of the category below	3.618 %	2.121 %
Daily rates quoted	6	9
Average minimum daily rate	£385	£367
Average daily rate	£399	£427
% change on same period last year	-6.44 %
Average maximum daily rate	£413	£487
UK excluding London average daily rate	£334	£368
% change on same period last year	-9.24 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.21	£39.60
% change on same period last year	-8.54 %
Processes & Methodologies Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	608	896
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.822 %	0.884 %
Daily rates quoted	123	162
Average minimum daily rate	£377	£378
Average daily rate	£398	£404
% change on same period last year	-1.40 %
Average maximum daily rate	£420	£430
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£375
% change on same period last year	+0.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	53
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.33	£25.70
Average hourly rate	£26.00	£26.90
% change on same period last year	-3.32 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.67	£28.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.41	£30.41
% change on same period last year	+0.01 %
Agile Software Development England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Agile Software Development
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Agile Software Development across the Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Agile Software Development
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Agile Software Development across the Midlands region.

Agile Software Development
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Agile Software Development across the Midlands region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

Agile Software Development
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Agile Software Development across the Midlands region.

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 19 (61.29 %) .NET 2 15 (48.39 %) C# 3 14 (45.16 %) SQL Server 3 14 (45.16 %) CSS 4 13 (41.94 %) JavaScript 4 13 (41.94 %) ASP.NET 4 13 (41.94 %) XHTML 5 9 (29.03 %) Microsoft 5 9 (29.03 %) SOAP 5 9 (29.03 %) WebServices 5 9 (29.03 %) XML 5 9 (29.03 %) ASP.NET 2.0 6 8 (25.81 %) Financial Institution 6 8 (25.81 %) Finance 6 8 (25.81 %) W3C

6 8 (25.81 %) AJAX 7 7 (22.58 %) Automotive 7 7 (22.58 %) TestDirector 7 7 (22.58 %) QuickTest Pro 7 7 (22.58 %) NHS 7 7 (22.58 %) MS Excel 7 7 (22.58 %) SharePoint 7 7 (22.58 %) UML 7 7 (22.58 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 7 (22.58 %) Web Development 8 6 (19.35 %) Content Management 9 5 (16.13 %) Scrum 9 5 (16.13 %) OO 9 5 (16.13 %) Test Scripting 10 4 (12.90 %) .NET Framework

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 19 (61.29 %) .NET 2 14 (45.16 %) CSS 3 13 (41.94 %) ASP.NET 3 13 (41.94 %) XHTML 4 9 (29.03 %) SOAP 4 9 (29.03 %) WebServices 4 9 (29.03 %) XML 4 9 (29.03 %) ASP.NET 2.0 5 8 (25.81 %) AJAX 6 4 (12.90 %) .NET Framework 7 3 (9.677 %) Hibernate 7 3 (9.677 %) XSL 7 3 (9.677 %) HTML 7 3 (9.677 %) J2EE 8 2 (6.452 %) WCF 9 1 (3.226 %) LINQ 9 1 (3.226 %) Microsoft Enterprise Library 9 1 (3.226 %) Spring 9 1 (3.226 %) J2SE 9 1 (3.226 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 7 (22.58 %) SharePoint 2 1 (3.226 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 7 (22.58 %) MS Excel 2 1 (3.226 %) Fireworks 2 1 (3.226 %) Adobe Illustrator 2 1 (3.226 %) Photoshop	Database & Business Intelligence 1 14 (45.16 %) SQL Server 2 4 (12.90 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 7 (22.58 %) TestDirector 1 7 (22.58 %) QuickTest Pro 2 3 (9.677 %) Subversion 3 2 (6.452 %) JUnit 3 2 (6.452 %) WinRunner 4 1 (3.226 %) Flash 4 1 (3.226 %) Dreamweaver	General 1 8 (25.81 %) Financial Institution 1 8 (25.81 %) Finance 2 7 (22.58 %) Automotive 3 1 (3.226 %) Health 3 1 (3.226 %) Manufacturing 3 1 (3.226 %) Marketing 3 1 (3.226 %) Graphic Design 3 1 (3.226 %) Video Editing
Job Titles 1 18 (58.06 %) Developer 2 6 (19.35 %) SharePoint Developer 3 5 (16.13 %) Web Developer 4 4 (12.90 %) Team Leader 5 3 (9.677 %) Analyst 5 3 (9.677 %) Test Analyst 5 3 (9.677 %) Java Developer 5 3 (9.677 %) Java/J2EE Developer 6 2 (6.452 %) .NET Developer 6 2 (6.452 %) SQL Developer 6 2 (6.452 %) Web Team Leader 6 2 (6.452 %) J2EE Developer 6 2 (6.452 %) Web Designer 7 1 (3.226 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 1 (3.226 %) Senior Web Designer 7 1 (3.226 %) Graphic Designer 7 1 (3.226 %) C# Developer 7 1 (3.226 %) Solutions Architect 7 1 (3.226 %) Solutions Designer 7 1 (3.226 %) Lead Developer	Miscellaneous 1 8 (25.81 %) W3C 2 7 (22.58 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 2 (6.452 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (22.58 %) UML 1 7 (22.58 %) Web Development 1 7 (22.58 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 6 (19.35 %) Content Management 3 5 (16.13 %) Scrum 3 5 (16.13 %) OO 3 5 (16.13 %) Test Scripting 4 4 (12.90 %) CAD 5 3 (9.677 %) OOP 5 3 (9.677 %) RAD 6 2 (6.452 %) OOD 6 2 (6.452 %) TDD 7 1 (3.226 %) Web Design 7 1 (3.226 %) Usability Testing 7 1 (3.226 %) Internet Marketing 7 1 (3.226 %) B2B 7 1 (3.226 %) B2C 7 1 (3.226 %) Project Management
Programming Languages 1 15 (48.39 %) C# 2 13 (41.94 %) JavaScript 3 3 (9.677 %) SQL 3 3 (9.677 %) Java 4 1 (3.226 %) VB 4 1 (3.226 %) VB.NET	Vendors 1 9 (29.03 %) Microsoft