The first table below looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills in IT contracts advertised for the Norwich 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 19 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 Norwich 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Agile Software Development
Rank 19 25 22
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -3
Contract jobs citing Agile Software Development 6 5 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Norwich 4.167% 2.660% 6.278%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.742% 3.597% 8.284%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 1
Average daily rate £200 £440 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-54.54% +44.26%
UK excluding London average daily rate £358 £338 £375
% change year-on-year
+5.92% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £37.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+8.10% +5.71%
All Processes & Methodologies
Norwich
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
89 139 169
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Norwich 61.81% 73.94% 75.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 52 48
Average daily rate £255 £300 £395
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.00% -24.05%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £190 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £675 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 5
Average hourly rate £25.75 £23.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.95% -8.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Agile Software Development
Norfolk

Agile Software Development
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Norwich 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 Norwich region.

Norwich Agile Software Development Daily Rate Trend

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Norwich 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 6 (50.00%) .NET
2 5 (41.67%) C#
2 5 (41.67%) Finance
3 3 (25.00%) MVC
3 3 (25.00%) Project Management
3 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (25.00%) Scrum
3 3 (25.00%) WCF
3 3 (25.00%) Agile Project Management
4 2 (16.67%) Analytics
4 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 2 (16.67%) HTML5
4 2 (16.67%) WPF
4 2 (16.67%) Selenium
4 2 (16.67%) .NET Remoting
4 2 (16.67%) TDD
4 2 (16.67%) jQuery
4 2 (16.67%) Git (software)
4 2 (16.67%) Visual Studio
4 2 (16.67%) ADO.NET
4 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET
4 2 (16.67%) Internet
5 1 (8.333%) C
5 1 (8.333%) CMS
5 1 (8.333%) Bugzilla
5 1 (8.333%) Configuration Management
5 1 (8.333%) Regression Testing
5 1 (8.333%) CSS
5 1 (8.333%) Web Services
5 1 (8.333%) XML

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Norwich 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 6 (50.00%) .NET
2 3 (25.00%) WCF
3 2 (16.67%) HTML5
3 2 (16.67%) WPF
3 2 (16.67%) .NET Remoting
3 2 (16.67%) jQuery
3 2 (16.67%) ADO.NET
3 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET
4 1 (8.333%) CSS
4 1 (8.333%) Web Services
4 1 (8.333%) XML
4 1 (8.333%) XHTML
4 1 (8.333%) HTML
4 1 (8.333%) RESTful
4 1 (8.333%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (8.333%) Ajax
4 1 (8.333%) .NET Framework
4 1 (8.333%) LINQ
4 1 (8.333%) CSS3
4 1 (8.333%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 1 (8.333%) CMS
1 1 (8.333%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 1 (8.333%) MS Visio
1 1 (8.333%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Internet
2 1 (8.333%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.333%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (16.67%) Selenium
1 2 (16.67%) Git (software)
1 2 (16.67%) Visual Studio
2 1 (8.333%) Bugzilla
2 1 (8.333%) QuickTest Pro
2 1 (8.333%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (8.333%) NUnit
2 1 (8.333%) CruiseControl
2 1 (8.333%) Subversion
2 1 (8.333%) JIRA
2 1 (8.333%) Axure RP
2 1 (8.333%) SpecFlow
General
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) .NET Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Project Manager
4 1 (8.333%) Software Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) C# Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (8.333%) Architect
4 1 (8.333%) Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Test Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Web Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Solutions Designer
4 1 (8.333%) Agile Project Manager
4 1 (8.333%) Designer
4 1 (8.333%) Agile .NET Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Agile C# Developer
4 1 (8.333%) ScrumMaster
4 1 (8.333%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.333%) Inversion of Control
1 1 (8.333%) Web 2.0
1 1 (8.333%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.333%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) MVC
1 3 (25.00%) Project Management
1 3 (25.00%) Scrum
1 3 (25.00%) Agile Project Management
2 2 (16.67%) Analytics
2 2 (16.67%) TDD
3 1 (8.333%) Configuration Management
3 1 (8.333%) Regression Testing
3 1 (8.333%) UML
3 1 (8.333%) E-Commerce
3 1 (8.333%) Test Automation
3 1 (8.333%) Dependency Injection
3 1 (8.333%) Information Architecture
3 1 (8.333%) Usability Testing
3 1 (8.333%) Performance Testing
3 1 (8.333%) Unit Testing
3 1 (8.333%) Integration Testing
3 1 (8.333%) Web Testing
3 1 (8.333%) Test Management
3 1 (8.333%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) C#
2 1 (8.333%) C
2 1 (8.333%) C++
2 1 (8.333%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.333%) ISEB
1 1 (8.333%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.333%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.333%) Guidewire