Extreme Programming Contracts in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Extreme Programming skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Extreme Programming over the 3 months to 21 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 Scotland 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Extreme Programming (XP)
Rank 117 108 111
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +3
Contract jobs citing Extreme Programming 5 1 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.202% 0.038% 0.183%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.297% 0.059% 0.272%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
Average daily rate £406 - £195
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £400 £310
% change year-on-year
+6.25% +29.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Average hourly rate £42.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.50 - -
All Processes & Methodologies
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 1682 1696 1838
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 68.04% 64.17% 67.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 867 863 956
Average daily rate £360 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £261 £225 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 66 48
Average hourly rate £20.50 £22.75 £29.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.89% -22.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.00 £35.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Extreme Programming
UK

Extreme Programming
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Extreme Programming across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Scotland Extreme Programming Jobs Demand Trend

Extreme Programming
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Extreme Programming across the Scotland region.

Scotland Extreme Programming Daily Rate Trend

Extreme Programming
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Extreme Programming across the Scotland region.

Scotland Extreme Programming Hourly Rate Trend

Extreme Programming
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Extreme Programming within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 21 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
Glasgow - 2 £406 -
Fife - 1 - -
Extreme Programming
UK

Extreme Programming
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Extreme Programming 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 Extreme Programming.

1 26 (100.00%) Scrum
2 25 (96.15%) Agile Software Development
3 20 (76.92%) Java
4 19 (73.08%) Hibernate
5 16 (61.54%) UNIX
6 14 (53.85%) SQL
7 11 (42.31%) Subversion
7 11 (42.31%) Maven
7 11 (42.31%) Sybase
8 10 (38.46%) JIRA
8 10 (38.46%) Selenium
8 10 (38.46%) Spring
8 10 (38.46%) Jenkins
9 9 (34.62%) JSF
9 9 (34.62%) JavaScript
9 9 (34.62%) Oracle
9 9 (34.62%) SQL Server
9 9 (34.62%) Eclipse
9 9 (34.62%) JavaBeans
10 8 (30.77%) HTML
10 8 (30.77%) CSS
10 8 (30.77%) Web Services
10 8 (30.77%) Cucumber
10 8 (30.77%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (30.77%) JPA
11 7 (26.92%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (26.92%) XML
11 7 (26.92%) UML
11 7 (26.92%) PL/SQL
11 7 (26.92%) Tomcat

Extreme Programming
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Extreme Programming 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 Extreme Programming. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 19 (73.08%) Hibernate
2 10 (38.46%) Spring
3 9 (34.62%) JSF
3 9 (34.62%) JavaBeans
4 8 (30.77%) HTML
4 8 (30.77%) CSS
4 8 (30.77%) Web Services
4 8 (30.77%) JPA
5 7 (26.92%) XML
6 5 (19.23%) Facelets
6 5 (19.23%) RESTful
7 4 (15.38%) JSP
7 4 (15.38%) Servlets
7 4 (15.38%) .NET
7 4 (15.38%) JMS
8 3 (11.54%) J2ME
8 3 (11.54%) J2EE
9 2 (7.692%) RichFaces
10 1 (3.846%) EJB
10 1 (3.846%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 7 (26.92%) Tomcat
2 5 (19.23%) Mule
3 3 (11.54%) GlassFish
Applications
1 1 (3.846%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (34.62%) SQL Server
2 5 (19.23%) RDBMS
3 3 (11.54%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (11.54%) MySQL
3 3 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (42.31%) Subversion
1 11 (42.31%) Maven
2 10 (38.46%) JIRA
2 10 (38.46%) Selenium
2 10 (38.46%) Jenkins
3 9 (34.62%) Eclipse
4 8 (30.77%) Cucumber
5 3 (11.54%) RSpec
5 3 (11.54%) Hudson
5 3 (11.54%) CruiseControl
5 3 (11.54%) WATIR
6 2 (7.692%) JUnit
6 2 (7.692%) Eclipse RCP
General
1 3 (11.54%) Finance
2 2 (7.692%) Investment Banking
2 2 (7.692%) Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (80.77%) Developer
2 14 (53.85%) Java Developer
3 5 (19.23%) Informatica Developer
3 5 (19.23%) Senior Developer
4 3 (11.54%) Build Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Senior Informatica Developer
5 2 (7.692%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (7.692%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.846%) Agile Coach
6 1 (3.846%) SQL Developer
6 1 (3.846%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (26.92%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (19.23%) Data Integration
3 4 (15.38%) N-Tier
4 3 (11.54%) Clustering
5 1 (3.846%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 16 (61.54%) UNIX
2 4 (15.38%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) Scrum
2 25 (96.15%) Agile Software Development
3 8 (30.77%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (26.92%) UML
5 6 (23.08%) Software Engineering
5 6 (23.08%) Dependency Injection
6 5 (19.23%) Test Automation
6 5 (19.23%) SOA
7 4 (15.38%) Data Modelling
7 4 (15.38%) Product Management
7 4 (15.38%) Unit Testing
8 3 (11.54%) Multithreading
8 3 (11.54%) DSDM
8 3 (11.54%) ETL
8 3 (11.54%) Workflow
8 3 (11.54%) TDD
9 1 (3.846%) Feature Driven Development
9 1 (3.846%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (76.92%) Java
2 14 (53.85%) SQL
3 9 (34.62%) JavaScript
4 7 (26.92%) PL/SQL
5 5 (19.23%) Shell Script
6 3 (11.54%) Ruby
7 1 (3.846%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) Security Cleared
1 6 (23.08%) SC Cleared
2 3 (11.54%) Degree
3 2 (7.692%) DV Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (42.31%) Sybase
2 9 (34.62%) Oracle
3 5 (19.23%) Informatica
3 5 (19.23%) JBoss
4 3 (11.54%) Red Hat
5 2 (7.692%) CA
6 1 (3.846%) Microsoft
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