The first table below looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes 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 24 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 Milton Keynes 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Agile Software Development
Rank 21 43 48
Rank change year-on-year
+22 +5
Contract jobs citing Agile Software Development 36 19 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 6.780% 2.722% 1.329%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.375% 4.130% 2.367%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 11 3
Average daily rate £375 £310 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.96% -11.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £319 £300 £318
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £375 £550
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 £32.50 £37.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-12.16% +5.71%
All Processes & Methodologies
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
384 460 338
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 72.32% 65.90% 56.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 208 150
Average daily rate £350 £325 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £222 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 23 31
Average hourly rate £17.50 £14.75 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.64% -1.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.20 £10.58 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £17.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Agile Software Development
Buckinghamshire

Agile Software Development
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes Agile Software Development Hourly Rate Trend

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 32 (62.75%) .NET
2 30 (58.82%) C#
3 25 (49.02%) MVC
4 22 (43.14%) WCF
5 15 (29.41%) NHibernate
5 15 (29.41%) ASP.NET
6 14 (27.45%) Scrum
6 14 (27.45%) ASP.NET MVC
7 13 (25.49%) JavaScript
8 11 (21.57%) OO
8 11 (21.57%) Finance
8 11 (21.57%) .NET Framework
9 10 (19.61%) Team Foundation Server
9 10 (19.61%) SQL
10 9 (17.65%) CSS
10 9 (17.65%) Web Services
10 9 (17.65%) XML
10 9 (17.65%) TDD
10 9 (17.65%) Web Application Development
11 8 (15.69%) KnockoutJS
11 8 (15.69%) HTML5
11 8 (15.69%) Oracle 11g
11 8 (15.69%) Oracle
11 8 (15.69%) SOAP
12 7 (13.73%) SOA
12 7 (13.73%) WSDL
12 7 (13.73%) Middleware
12 7 (13.73%) BPEL
12 7 (13.73%) XPath
12 7 (13.73%) Web Development

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 32 (62.75%) .NET
2 22 (43.14%) WCF
3 15 (29.41%) NHibernate
3 15 (29.41%) ASP.NET
4 14 (27.45%) ASP.NET MVC
5 11 (21.57%) .NET Framework
6 9 (17.65%) CSS
6 9 (17.65%) Web Services
6 9 (17.65%) XML
7 8 (15.69%) KnockoutJS
7 8 (15.69%) HTML5
7 8 (15.69%) SOAP
8 7 (13.73%) WSDL
8 7 (13.73%) Middleware
8 7 (13.73%) REST
8 7 (13.73%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 6 (11.76%) Ajax
10 5 (9.804%) jQuery
10 5 (9.804%) XSD
10 5 (9.804%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 7 (13.73%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 7 (13.73%) Oracle Service Bus
2 5 (9.804%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (3.922%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.961%) Apache Solr
4 1 (1.961%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (3.922%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (3.922%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.922%) Internet
2 1 (1.961%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.69%) Oracle 11g
2 5 (9.804%) Oracle 8/8i
2 5 (9.804%) SQL Server
3 4 (7.843%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (1.961%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (1.961%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (19.61%) Team Foundation Server
2 5 (9.804%) JDeveloper
2 5 (9.804%) Eclipse
2 5 (9.804%) Ant
3 3 (5.882%) Selenium
3 3 (5.882%) QuickTest Pro
4 2 (3.922%) Visual Studio
4 2 (3.922%) WebDriver
4 2 (3.922%) Git (software)
5 1 (1.961%) NUnit
5 1 (1.961%) NMock
General
1 11 (21.57%) Finance
Job Titles
1 40 (78.43%) Developer
2 21 (41.18%) .NET Developer
3 8 (15.69%) Oracle Developer
4 6 (11.76%) ASP.NET Developer
5 5 (9.804%) JavaScript Developer
5 5 (9.804%) Lead Developer
5 5 (9.804%) Oracle SOA Developer
5 5 (9.804%) SOA Developer
6 4 (7.843%) Web Developer
6 4 (7.843%) Programmer
6 4 (7.843%) .NET Web Developer
6 4 (7.843%) Agile .NET Developer
7 3 (5.882%) UI Developer
7 3 (5.882%) ScrumMaster
7 3 (5.882%) SQL Developer
7 3 (5.882%) .NET Programmer
7 3 (5.882%) Senior Developer
7 3 (5.882%) UI Programmer
8 2 (3.922%) Agile Coach
8 2 (3.922%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.804%) Web 2.0
2 4 (7.843%) N-Tier
3 1 (1.961%) Open Source
3 1 (1.961%) EPoS
3 1 (1.961%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.922%) MVS
2 1 (1.961%) UNIX
2 1 (1.961%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (49.02%) MVC
2 14 (27.45%) Scrum
3 11 (21.57%) OO
4 9 (17.65%) TDD
4 9 (17.65%) Web Application Development
5 7 (13.73%) SOA
5 7 (13.73%) BPEL
5 7 (13.73%) Web Development
6 6 (11.76%) Unit Testing
7 5 (9.804%) Enterprise Architecture
7 5 (9.804%) Workflow
7 5 (9.804%) UML
8 3 (5.882%) DSDM
9 2 (3.922%) User Stories
9 2 (3.922%) ITIL
9 2 (3.922%) PRINCE2
9 2 (3.922%) Project Management
9 2 (3.922%) Service Delivery
9 2 (3.922%) Web Design
9 2 (3.922%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (58.82%) C#
2 13 (25.49%) JavaScript
3 10 (19.61%) SQL
4 7 (13.73%) XPath
5 5 (9.804%) XQuery
6 2 (3.922%) Java
7 1 (1.961%) Korn
7 1 (1.961%) PHP
7 1 (1.961%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (3.922%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (1.961%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (1.961%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (1.961%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1 (1.961%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 8 (15.69%) Oracle
2 2 (3.922%) HP
3 1 (1.961%) Omniture
3 1 (1.961%) Microsoft
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