Agile Software Development Contracts in the North West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West 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 North West 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 37 37 48
Rank change year-on-year
0 +11
Contract jobs citing Agile Software Development 100 133 89
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 4.290% 4.275% 2.918%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.042% 6.927% 4.504%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 84 46
Average daily rate £350 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £242 £273
10% offered a daily rate of more than £419 £429 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £363
% change year-on-year
- -3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
Average hourly rate £21.00 £37.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-43.24% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £37.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-12.16% +5.71%
Search 103 Agile Software Development jobs in the North West
All Processes & Methodologies
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 1655 1920 1976
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 71.00% 61.72% 64.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 814 983 1018
Average daily rate £350 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £236 £238 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 81 96
Average hourly rate £21.00 £18.00 £20.30
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -11.30%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.25 £13.30 £12.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £49.00 £37.50 £38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
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 North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

North West 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 North West region.

North West Agile Software Development Hourly Rate Trend

Agile Software Development
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Agile Software Development across the North West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

North West Agile Software Development Hourly Rate Histogram

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 North West region over the 3 months to 24 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
Manchester -1 48 £331 +1.92%
Cheshire +4 31 £375 +15.38%
Merseyside -12 5 £330 -14.83%
Lancashire -12 4 £288 -28.12%
Cumbria - 3 £363 -
Agile Software Development
England

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 69 (37.10%) Java
2 68 (36.56%) JavaScript
3 51 (27.42%) jQuery
4 49 (26.34%) .NET
5 45 (24.19%) CSS
5 45 (24.19%) Scrum
5 45 (24.19%) TDD
6 44 (23.66%) SQL
6 44 (23.66%) SQL Server
7 42 (22.58%) C#
8 40 (21.51%) Web Services
9 34 (18.28%) XML
9 34 (18.28%) J2EE
10 33 (17.74%) MVC
11 32 (17.20%) HTML
12 31 (16.67%) ASP.NET
13 29 (15.59%) Spring
14 27 (14.52%) OO
15 25 (13.44%) Project Management
16 24 (12.90%) Oracle
16 24 (12.90%) Ajax
17 23 (12.37%) SQL Server 2008
18 22 (11.83%) BDD
18 22 (11.83%) Continuous Integration
18 22 (11.83%) SQL Server 2005
19 21 (11.29%) Hibernate
20 20 (10.75%) JSON
21 19 (10.22%) HTML5
21 19 (10.22%) Pair Programming
21 19 (10.22%) XSLT

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 51 (27.42%) jQuery
2 49 (26.34%) .NET
3 45 (24.19%) CSS
4 40 (21.51%) Web Services
5 34 (18.28%) XML
5 34 (18.28%) J2EE
6 32 (17.20%) HTML
7 31 (16.67%) ASP.NET
8 29 (15.59%) Spring
9 24 (12.90%) Ajax
10 21 (11.29%) Hibernate
11 20 (10.75%) JSON
12 19 (10.22%) HTML5
12 19 (10.22%) XSLT
13 18 (9.677%) WCF
14 17 (9.140%) WebSphere
14 17 (9.140%) .NET Framework
14 17 (9.140%) Servlets
15 16 (8.602%) JSP
16 14 (7.527%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 8 (4.301%) SharePoint
1 8 (4.301%) Apache
2 7 (3.763%) ESB
3 6 (3.226%) CMS
4 5 (2.688%) Umbraco
4 5 (2.688%) WebLogic
4 5 (2.688%) IIS
5 4 (2.151%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (1.075%) Lotus Domino
7 1 (0.538%) Magento
7 1 (0.538%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.538%) WordPress
7 1 (0.538%) Mule
7 1 (0.538%) Drupal
7 1 (0.538%) SharePoint 2013
7 1 (0.538%) Orchard CMS
Applications
1 9 (4.839%) MS Excel
2 4 (2.151%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.538%) Maya
3 1 (0.538%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.538%) MS Office
3 1 (0.538%) Fireworks
3 1 (0.538%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.613%) Maximo
1 3 (1.613%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.538%) Google Analytics
2 1 (0.538%) Visualfiles
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.065%) Internet
2 3 (1.613%) HTTP
3 2 (1.075%) SNMP
3 2 (1.075%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.075%) TELNET
3 2 (1.075%) NFC
4 1 (0.538%) Intranet
4 1 (0.538%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (23.66%) SQL Server
2 23 (12.37%) SQL Server 2008
3 22 (11.83%) SQL Server 2005
4 10 (5.376%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 9 (4.839%) SQL Server 2012
6 8 (4.301%) NoSQL
7 7 (3.763%) MySQL
7 7 (3.763%) SQL Server 2000
8 6 (3.226%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (3.226%) DB2
9 5 (2.688%) MongoDB
9 5 (2.688%) IDMS
9 5 (2.688%) VLDB
9 5 (2.688%) OLTP
10 3 (1.613%) SQLite
10 3 (1.613%) Crystal Reports
10 3 (1.613%) Oracle 8/8i
11 2 (1.075%) SQL Server 7
11 2 (1.075%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (1.075%) MarkLogic
Development Applications
1 17 (9.140%) Subversion
2 14 (7.527%) Visual Studio
3 12 (6.452%) Git (software)
4 8 (4.301%) Eclipse
4 8 (4.301%) JUnit
5 7 (3.763%) JIRA
5 7 (3.763%) Gradle
6 6 (3.226%) Selenium
7 5 (2.688%) Team Foundation Server
7 5 (2.688%) ClearCase
8 4 (2.151%) Jenkins
8 4 (2.151%) MTASC
8 4 (2.151%) WebDriver
9 3 (1.613%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.075%) Ant
10 2 (1.075%) Maven
10 2 (1.075%) Xcode
10 2 (1.075%) QUnit
10 2 (1.075%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (1.075%) Rational DOORS
General
1 17 (9.140%) Finance
2 12 (6.452%) Retail
3 10 (5.376%) Banking
4 3 (1.613%) Publishing
5 2 (1.075%) Electronics
5 2 (1.075%) Games
6 1 (0.538%) Automotive
6 1 (0.538%) Law
6 1 (0.538%) Legal
6 1 (0.538%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.538%) Retail Banking
6 1 (0.538%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 98 (52.69%) Developer
2 34 (18.28%) Java Developer
3 25 (13.44%) Analyst
4 23 (12.37%) Project Manager
5 20 (10.75%) .NET Developer
6 15 (8.065%) Business Analyst
7 14 (7.527%) Web Developer
7 14 (7.527%) Senior Developer
8 12 (6.452%) Senior Java Developer
9 11 (5.914%) Software Engineer
10 8 (4.301%) Test Engineer
11 7 (3.763%) C# Developer
11 7 (3.763%) Software Developer
12 6 (3.226%) Test Analyst
12 6 (3.226%) Flash Developer
12 6 (3.226%) Applications Developer
12 6 (3.226%) Agile Project Manager
13 5 (2.688%) Java/J2EE Developer
13 5 (2.688%) Web Applications Developer
13 5 (2.688%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.989%) Mobile App
2 10 (5.376%) Management Information System
3 8 (4.301%) PMI
3 8 (4.301%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (2.688%) Data Integration
4 5 (2.688%) Statistics
5 4 (2.151%) Web 2.0
5 4 (2.151%) Embedded Systems
5 4 (2.151%) Semantic Web
6 3 (1.613%) iPad
6 3 (1.613%) Computer Science
6 3 (1.613%) Digital Media
6 3 (1.613%) Replication
6 3 (1.613%) Blackberry
7 2 (1.075%) N-Tier
7 2 (1.075%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.075%) Interactive TV
7 2 (1.075%) Smartphone
7 2 (1.075%) Streaming Video
7 2 (1.075%) BBC
Operating Systems
1 17 (9.140%) Android
2 14 (7.527%) Windows
3 13 (6.989%) Apple iOS
4 8 (4.301%) Linux
5 3 (1.613%) Windows Mobile
5 3 (1.613%) Windows CE
6 2 (1.075%) Mac OS X
6 2 (1.075%) bada
6 2 (1.075%) Maemo
7 1 (0.538%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.538%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.538%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (24.19%) Scrum
1 45 (24.19%) TDD
2 33 (17.74%) MVC
3 27 (14.52%) OO
4 25 (13.44%) Project Management
5 22 (11.83%) BDD
5 22 (11.83%) Continuous Integration
6 19 (10.22%) Pair Programming
7 18 (9.677%) PRINCE2
8 16 (8.602%) E-Commerce
9 13 (6.989%) Waterfall
10 11 (5.914%) Unit Testing
10 11 (5.914%) RDF
11 10 (5.376%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (5.376%) Test Automation
12 9 (4.839%) Web Development
12 9 (4.839%) Enterprise Architecture
12 9 (4.839%) OOP
13 8 (4.301%) Benchmarking
13 8 (4.301%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 69 (37.10%) Java
2 68 (36.56%) JavaScript
3 44 (23.66%) SQL
4 42 (22.58%) C#
5 16 (8.602%) XPath
6 11 (5.914%) T-SQL
7 9 (4.839%) ActionScript
7 9 (4.839%) C++
7 9 (4.839%) XQuery
8 8 (4.301%) ActionScript 2.0
9 7 (3.763%) PHP
10 6 (3.226%) Shell Script
10 6 (3.226%) VB.NET
11 5 (2.688%) PL/SQL
12 4 (2.151%) C
12 4 (2.151%) VB
12 4 (2.151%) Objective-C
13 3 (1.613%) Groovy
14 2 (1.075%) VB6
14 2 (1.075%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 16 (8.602%) Degree
2 9 (4.839%) PMI Certification
3 6 (3.226%) ISEB
4 5 (2.688%) ISTQB
5 4 (2.151%) Security Cleared
6 3 (1.613%) PhD
6 3 (1.613%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 2 (1.075%) Sun Certification
7 2 (1.075%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.538%) APMP
8 1 (0.538%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.538%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.538%) QA
1 1 (0.538%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.538%) vSphere
Vendors
1 24 (12.90%) Oracle
2 14 (7.527%) Microsoft
3 11 (5.914%) JBoss
4 8 (4.301%) IBM
5 5 (2.688%) Chordiant
6 4 (2.151%) Apple
7 3 (1.613%) EPiServer
7 3 (1.613%) Perforce
7 3 (1.613%) Business Objects
7 3 (1.613%) SAP
8 2 (1.075%) Symbian
8 2 (1.075%) Adobe
8 2 (1.075%) Lotus
8 2 (1.075%) Cognos
8 2 (1.075%) Orchard
8 2 (1.075%) Ab Initio
8 2 (1.075%) Zend
8 2 (1.075%) Razor Risk
9 1 (0.538%) VMware
9 1 (0.538%) Google
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