The first table below looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading 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 Reading 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 39 64 48
Rank change year-on-year
+25 -16
Contract jobs citing Agile Software Development 35 17 30
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 3.977% 1.477% 2.964%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.942% 2.255% 4.412%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 11 26
Average daily rate £395 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.33% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £350 £306
10% offered a daily rate of more than £473 £375 £400
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
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
589 754 680
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 66.93% 65.51% 67.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 288 313
Average daily rate £413 £370 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.48% +5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £264 £235 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £550 £493
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 18 15
Average hourly rate £30.00 £14.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+106.89% -27.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.50 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.50 £24.80 £24.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Agile Software Development
Berkshire

Agile Software Development
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading 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 Reading region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Agile Software Development Hourly Rate Trend

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 (42.11%) .NET
2 27 (35.53%) C#
3 26 (34.21%) TDD
4 24 (31.58%) Microsoft
5 19 (25.00%) MVC
6 18 (23.68%) Windows
7 16 (21.05%) ASP.NET
7 16 (21.05%) CSS
7 16 (21.05%) SQL Server
7 16 (21.05%) HTML5
8 15 (19.74%) BDD
8 15 (19.74%) Java
8 15 (19.74%) JavaScript
9 14 (18.42%) SQL
9 14 (18.42%) jQuery
10 13 (17.11%) QA
11 11 (14.47%) Selenium
11 11 (14.47%) .NET Framework
11 11 (14.47%) Web Services
11 11 (14.47%) Visual Studio
11 11 (14.47%) Scrum
12 10 (13.16%) Finance
12 10 (13.16%) Linux
12 10 (13.16%) Automated Testing
12 10 (13.16%) ASP.NET MVC
12 10 (13.16%) CSS3
13 9 (11.84%) KnockoutJS
13 9 (11.84%) XML
13 9 (11.84%) MS Project
14 8 (10.53%) Test Automation

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 (42.11%) .NET
2 16 (21.05%) ASP.NET
2 16 (21.05%) CSS
2 16 (21.05%) HTML5
3 14 (18.42%) jQuery
4 11 (14.47%) .NET Framework
4 11 (14.47%) Web Services
5 10 (13.16%) ASP.NET MVC
5 10 (13.16%) CSS3
6 9 (11.84%) KnockoutJS
6 9 (11.84%) XML
7 6 (7.895%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 6 (7.895%) HTML
7 6 (7.895%) Hibernate
7 6 (7.895%) Spring
7 6 (7.895%) WCF
7 6 (7.895%) WebSphere
8 5 (6.579%) ADO.NET
8 5 (6.579%) ASP.NET MVC 3
9 4 (5.263%) Sass
Application Platforms
1 4 (5.263%) CMS
2 3 (3.947%) SharePoint Server
2 3 (3.947%) MS Project Server
2 3 (3.947%) Windows Azure
2 3 (3.947%) Amazon AWS
2 3 (3.947%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.947%) CM System
3 2 (2.632%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (2.632%) Apache
3 2 (2.632%) Alfresco
3 2 (2.632%) Drupal
3 2 (2.632%) ESB
4 1 (1.316%) LiveCycle
4 1 (1.316%) Jetty
4 1 (1.316%) CICS
4 1 (1.316%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.316%) Orchard CMS
Applications
1 9 (11.84%) MS Project
2 4 (5.263%) MS Excel
3 3 (3.947%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.263%) LDAP
2 2 (2.632%) Internet
3 1 (1.316%) GSM
3 1 (1.316%) UMTS
3 1 (1.316%) VoIP
3 1 (1.316%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.316%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (21.05%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.579%) DB2
3 3 (3.947%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (3.947%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.947%) IDOL
3 3 (3.947%) Oracle 10g
3 3 (3.947%) DTS
3 3 (3.947%) OLAP
3 3 (3.947%) MySQL
4 2 (2.632%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.632%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (1.316%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.316%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (1.316%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.316%) Oracle OWB
5 1 (1.316%) Oracle ODI
5 1 (1.316%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 11 (14.47%) Selenium
1 11 (14.47%) Visual Studio
2 8 (10.53%) Team Foundation Server
3 6 (7.895%) Jasmine
3 6 (7.895%) Ant
4 5 (6.579%) Maven
4 5 (6.579%) Cucumber
5 4 (5.263%) QuickTest Pro
6 3 (3.947%) FitNesse
6 3 (3.947%) WATIR
6 3 (3.947%) TestComplete
6 3 (3.947%) WebDriver
6 3 (3.947%) MSTest
6 3 (3.947%) SpecFlow
7 2 (2.632%) JUnit
7 2 (2.632%) PVCS
7 2 (2.632%) WinRunner
7 2 (2.632%) StarTeam
7 2 (2.632%) JIRA
8 1 (1.316%) ReSharper
General
1 10 (13.16%) Finance
2 5 (6.579%) Telecoms
3 4 (5.263%) Banking
4 2 (2.632%) Retail
5 1 (1.316%) Retail Banking
5 1 (1.316%) Billing
5 1 (1.316%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 35 (46.05%) Developer
2 17 (22.37%) .NET Developer
3 8 (10.53%) C# Developer
4 7 (9.211%) C# .NET Developer
5 6 (7.895%) Analyst
6 5 (6.579%) UI Developer
6 5 (6.579%) Tester
7 4 (5.263%) UI Programmer
7 4 (5.263%) Business Analyst
7 4 (5.263%) Team Leader
7 4 (5.263%) Agile .NET Developer
7 4 (5.263%) JavaScript Developer
8 3 (3.947%) QA Engineer
8 3 (3.947%) Agile C# Developer
8 3 (3.947%) Java Developer
8 3 (3.947%) Test Manager
8 3 (3.947%) Architect
8 3 (3.947%) Business Systems Analyst
8 3 (3.947%) Systems Analyst
8 3 (3.947%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.263%) Clustering
1 4 (5.263%) DataPower
2 3 (3.947%) Open Source
2 3 (3.947%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.632%) Computer Science
4 1 (1.316%) Informatics
4 1 (1.316%) VSAM
4 1 (1.316%) Data Integration
4 1 (1.316%) Smart Meter
4 1 (1.316%) Inversion of Control
4 1 (1.316%) IVR
4 1 (1.316%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.316%) W3C
4 1 (1.316%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 18 (23.68%) Windows
2 10 (13.16%) Linux
3 4 (5.263%) AIX
3 4 (5.263%) Solaris
4 3 (3.947%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (2.632%) SUSE
5 2 (2.632%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.316%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (34.21%) TDD
2 19 (25.00%) MVC
3 15 (19.74%) BDD
4 11 (14.47%) Scrum
5 10 (13.16%) Automated Testing
6 8 (10.53%) Test Automation
6 8 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (9.211%) Project Management
7 7 (9.211%) UML
8 6 (7.895%) SOA
8 6 (7.895%) Programme Management
8 6 (7.895%) Kanban
8 6 (7.895%) Web Development
9 5 (6.579%) Project Planning
10 4 (5.263%) Change Control
10 4 (5.263%) High Availability
10 4 (5.263%) Test Scripting
10 4 (5.263%) Software Testing
11 3 (3.947%) Release Management
11 3 (3.947%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 27 (35.53%) C#
2 15 (19.74%) Java
2 15 (19.74%) JavaScript
3 14 (18.42%) SQL
4 4 (5.263%) Ruby
5 3 (3.947%) T-SQL
6 2 (2.632%) PHP
6 2 (2.632%) Python
6 2 (2.632%) Jython
6 2 (2.632%) Scala
7 1 (1.316%) Bash shell
7 1 (1.316%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.316%) JCL
7 1 (1.316%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 4 (5.263%) ISEB
1 4 (5.263%) IBM Certification
2 3 (3.947%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.947%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (3.947%) MCSD
3 2 (2.632%) Degree
4 1 (1.316%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.316%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (17.11%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.632%) Varnish
1 2 (2.632%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.316%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 24 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.895%) Oracle
2 6 (7.895%) IBM
3 3 (3.947%) Meridio
4 2 (2.632%) VMware
5 1 (1.316%) Informatica
5 1 (1.316%) Adobe
5 1 (1.316%) JBoss
5 1 (1.316%) Twitter
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