Agile Software Development Contracts in the Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills in IT contracts advertised for the Midlands 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 Midlands 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 19 29 34
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +5
Contract jobs citing Agile Software Development 5 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Midlands 2.941% 1.091% 0.576%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.464% 2.190% 0.897%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
Average daily rate £400 £340 £445
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.64% -23.59%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.25 £37.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-5.36% +6.42%
All Processes & Methodologies
Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 112 137 223
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Midlands 65.88% 49.82% 64.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 61 57
Average daily rate £475 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.75% -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £250 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £550 £560
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 57
Average hourly rate £32.00 £21.00 £24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+52.38% -12.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Agile Software Development
England

Agile Software Development
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Midlands 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 Midlands region.

Midlands Agile Software Development Daily Rate Trend

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 Midlands region.

Midlands Agile Software Development Hourly Rate Trend

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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 3 (37.50%) Scrum
1 3 (37.50%) InterSystems
1 3 (37.50%) SOA
1 3 (37.50%) Middleware
1 3 (37.50%) C#
1 3 (37.50%) .NET
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
1 3 (37.50%) Web Services
1 3 (37.50%) XML
1 3 (37.50%) Subversion
1 3 (37.50%) InterSystems Cache
1 3 (37.50%) ESB
1 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (25.00%) Embedded Software Development
2 2 (25.00%) Modbus
2 2 (25.00%) Ajax
2 2 (25.00%) jQuery
2 2 (25.00%) UML
2 2 (25.00%) OO
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (25.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle
2 2 (25.00%) C++
2 2 (25.00%) HTML
2 2 (25.00%) Siemens
2 2 (25.00%) TIBCO
2 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (25.00%) C
2 2 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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 3 (37.50%) .NET
1 3 (37.50%) Middleware
1 3 (37.50%) Web Services
1 3 (37.50%) XML
2 2 (25.00%) jQuery
2 2 (25.00%) Ajax
2 2 (25.00%) HTML
2 2 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
3 1 (12.50%) Dojo
3 1 (12.50%) Ext JS
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (12.50%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 1 (12.50%) Node.js
3 1 (12.50%) KnockoutJS
3 1 (12.50%) Ember.js
3 1 (12.50%) DOM
Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) ESB
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (25.00%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
1 3 (37.50%) InterSystems Cache
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Subversion
2 2 (25.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (12.50%) Git (software)
3 1 (12.50%) QUnit
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) SOA Developer
3 1 (12.50%) UI Programmer
3 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2 Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) UI Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Front-End Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Agile Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) SOA
1 3 (37.50%) Scrum
2 2 (25.00%) Embedded Software Development
2 2 (25.00%) UML
2 2 (25.00%) OO
3 1 (12.50%) ERP
3 1 (12.50%) ITIL
3 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2
3 1 (12.50%) MVC
3 1 (12.50%) Validation
3 1 (12.50%) Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Web Development
3 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
3 1 (12.50%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) C#
2 2 (25.00%) C++
2 2 (25.00%) C
3 1 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) InterSystems
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle
2 2 (25.00%) Siemens
2 2 (25.00%) TIBCO
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
Java/ Hybris Developer - (Retail)
Midlands
The successful Java / Hybris Developer will be: *Adhere to the clients methods; specifically integration of Iteration approach with existing standards *Day to day completion of technical project tasks *...
Claremont Consulting Ltd
Rate: £350 - £450 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
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