The first table below looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire 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 40 46 23
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -23
Contract jobs citing Agile Software Development 11 11 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 2.412% 1.777% 5.400%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.503% 2.997% 9.653%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 16
Average daily rate £320 £413 £283
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.42% +46.01%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £304 £350 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £344 £488 £325
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
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
314 367 259
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 68.86% 59.29% 55.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 189 136
Average daily rate £350 £400 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% +26.98%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £253 £183
10% offered a daily rate of more than £498 £500 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 35 10
Average hourly rate £11.50 £22.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-48.88% -10.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Agile Software Development
South East

Agile Software Development
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire Agile Software Development Hourly Rate Trend

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 Oxfordshire 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
Oxford +5 5 £300 -36.84%
Abingdon - 1 - -
Agile Software Development
South East

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 11 (35.48%) HTML
2 9 (29.03%) JavaScript
2 9 (29.03%) CSS
3 8 (25.81%) SQL
3 8 (25.81%) .NET
3 8 (25.81%) Project Management
3 8 (25.81%) Scrum
4 7 (22.58%) TDD
5 6 (19.35%) Ajax
5 6 (19.35%) Degree
5 6 (19.35%) Publishing
5 6 (19.35%) Oracle
6 5 (16.13%) SQL Server
6 5 (16.13%) Java
6 5 (16.13%) C#
6 5 (16.13%) E-Commerce
6 5 (16.13%) IBM
6 5 (16.13%) Microsoft
6 5 (16.13%) Use Case
6 5 (16.13%) Waterfall
7 4 (12.90%) Data Integration
7 4 (12.90%) JIRA
7 4 (12.90%) ISEB Practitioner
7 4 (12.90%) Enterprise Architecture
7 4 (12.90%) Data Management
7 4 (12.90%) Hibernate
7 4 (12.90%) Spring
7 4 (12.90%) Maven
7 4 (12.90%) Eclipse
7 4 (12.90%) ISEB

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 11 (35.48%) HTML
2 9 (29.03%) CSS
3 8 (25.81%) .NET
4 6 (19.35%) Ajax
5 4 (12.90%) Hibernate
5 4 (12.90%) Spring
6 3 (9.677%) JSP
6 3 (9.677%) Servlets
6 3 (9.677%) Struts
6 3 (9.677%) XML
6 3 (9.677%) XSL
6 3 (9.677%) J2EE
6 3 (9.677%) WebSphere
6 3 (9.677%) Spring MVC
6 3 (9.677%) jQuery
7 2 (6.452%) JPA
8 1 (3.226%) Web Services
8 1 (3.226%) ASP
8 1 (3.226%) ASP.NET
8 1 (3.226%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 4 (12.90%) Apache
1 4 (12.90%) Tomcat
2 2 (6.452%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.226%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 1 (3.226%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (9.677%) MS Visio
2 2 (6.452%) MS PowerPoint
2 2 (6.452%) Photoshop
2 2 (6.452%) MS Office
2 2 (6.452%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.226%) Internet
1 1 (3.226%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.13%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.452%) DB2
3 1 (3.226%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (12.90%) JIRA
1 4 (12.90%) Maven
1 4 (12.90%) Eclipse
2 3 (9.677%) JUnit
2 3 (9.677%) Subversion
2 3 (9.677%) Git (software)
3 1 (3.226%) QuickTest Pro
3 1 (3.226%) Mercurial
3 1 (3.226%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (19.35%) Publishing
2 1 (3.226%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (3.226%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (35.48%) Developer
2 8 (25.81%) Project Manager
3 5 (16.13%) Architect
3 5 (16.13%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (12.90%) C# .NET Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Java Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Service Manager
4 4 (12.90%) .NET Developer
4 4 (12.90%) C# Developer
5 3 (9.677%) Programmer
5 3 (9.677%) Java Programmer
5 3 (9.677%) Business Manager
5 3 (9.677%) Agile .NET Developer
5 3 (9.677%) Agile C# Developer
5 3 (9.677%) Agile Project Manager
6 2 (6.452%) PHP Developer
6 2 (6.452%) Business Project Manager
7 1 (3.226%) Senior Developer
7 1 (3.226%) Web Developer
7 1 (3.226%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Data Integration
2 3 (9.677%) N-Tier
2 3 (9.677%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.226%) Mainframe
3 1 (3.226%) Graphic Design
3 1 (3.226%) SaaS
3 1 (3.226%) Social Media
3 1 (3.226%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Windows
1 4 (12.90%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (25.81%) Project Management
1 8 (25.81%) Scrum
2 7 (22.58%) TDD
3 5 (16.13%) E-Commerce
3 5 (16.13%) Use Case
3 5 (16.13%) Waterfall
4 4 (12.90%) Enterprise Architecture
4 4 (12.90%) Data Management
4 4 (12.90%) MVC
4 4 (12.90%) Workflow
5 3 (9.677%) Workflow Management
5 3 (9.677%) Web Development
5 3 (9.677%) Test Automation
5 3 (9.677%) Unit Testing
6 2 (6.452%) Operations Management
6 2 (6.452%) Project Planning
6 2 (6.452%) Content Management
6 2 (6.452%) PRINCE2
6 2 (6.452%) CRM
7 1 (3.226%) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages
1 9 (29.03%) JavaScript
2 8 (25.81%) SQL
3 5 (16.13%) Java
3 5 (16.13%) C#
4 3 (9.677%) Python
5 2 (6.452%) PHP
6 1 (3.226%) C
Qualifications
1 6 (19.35%) Degree
2 4 (12.90%) ISEB Practitioner
2 4 (12.90%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.226%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (19.35%) Oracle
2 5 (16.13%) IBM
2 5 (16.13%) Microsoft
3 3 (9.677%) JBoss
3 3 (9.677%) Jaspersoft
4 2 (6.452%) Compuware
5 1 (3.226%) HP