The first table below looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills in IT contracts advertised for the Stoke-on-Trent 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 Stoke-on-Trent 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 17 18
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +1
Contract jobs citing Agile Software Development 3 6 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stoke-on-Trent 10.71% 9.836% 5.455%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.00% 12.50% 6.250%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
Average daily rate £325 £270 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.37% -
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
Stoke-on-Trent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
25 48 48
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stoke-on-Trent 89.29% 78.69% 87.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 27 14
Average daily rate £325 £295 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.16% -6.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £253 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £350 £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Agile Software Development
Staffordshire

Agile Software Development
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stoke-on-Trent 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 Stoke-on-Trent region.

Stoke-on-Trent Agile Software Development Daily Rate Trend

Agile Software Development
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent 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%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) XSLT
1 3 (100.00%) XHTML
1 3 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 3 (100.00%) N-Tier
1 3 (100.00%) SOA
1 3 (100.00%) SEO
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Document Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ajax
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
1 3 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (100.00%) AccuRev
1 3 (100.00%) HTML5
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 Stoke-on-Trent 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%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) XSLT
1 3 (100.00%) XHTML
1 3 (100.00%) Ajax
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 3 (100.00%) HTML5
1 3 (100.00%) CSS3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Developer
2 2 (66.67%) C# .NET Developer
2 2 (66.67%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
2 2 (66.67%) C# ASP.NET Developer
2 2 (66.67%) C# Developer
2 2 (66.67%) VB.NET Developer
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 3 (100.00%) SOA
1 3 (100.00%) SEO
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Document Management
1 3 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) AccuRev