The first table below looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills in IT contracts advertised for the St Albans 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 St Albans 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 - 12 5
Contract jobs citing Agile Software Development 0 1 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in St Albans - 2.703% 16.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 3.846% 21.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 4
Average daily rate - £463 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -19.56%
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
St Albans
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
25 26 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in St Albans 92.59% 70.27% 74.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 15 18
Average daily rate £360 £350 £488
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -28.20%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £298 £250 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £495 £500 £515
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Average hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Agile Software Development
Hertfordshire

Agile Software Development
Jobs Demand Trend

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

St Albans 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 St Albans region.

St Albans Agile Software Development Daily Rate Trend

Agile Software Development
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the St Albans 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 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) OO
1 3 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 3 (100.00%) Web Development
1 3 (100.00%) jQuery
1 3 (100.00%) Video on Demand
1 3 (100.00%) HTML5
1 3 (100.00%) BDD
1 3 (100.00%) CSS3

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the St Albans 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 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) jQuery
1 3 (100.00%) HTML5
1 3 (100.00%) CSS3
General
1 3 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Video on Demand
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) OO
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 3 (100.00%) Web Development
1 3 (100.00%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript