Surrey Agile Software Development Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills within the Surrey region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Agile Software Development over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Agile Software Development
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Barnstaple Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnham Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Jersey Leeds Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Potters Bar Reading Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	34	86
Rank change on same period last year	+52
Matching contract IT job ads	90	25
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.120 %	0.025 %
As % of the category below	7.395 %	2.097 %
Daily rates quoted	58	6
Average minimum daily rate	£289	£347
Average daily rate	£306	£373
% change on same period last year	-18.07 %
Average maximum daily rate	£322	£399
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£388
% change on same period last year	-10.14 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.41	£36.67
% change on same period last year	-0.69 %
Processes & Methodologies Surrey
Matching contract IT job ads	1217	1192
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.622 %	1.206 %
Daily rates quoted	403	348
Average minimum daily rate	£340	£353
Average daily rate	£359	£374
% change on same period last year	-4.07 %
Average maximum daily rate	£378	£395
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	89	93
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.34	£29.74
Average hourly rate	£28.76	£30.96
% change on same period last year	-7.12 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.18	£32.18
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
Agile Software Development South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Agile Software Development
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Agile Software Development across the Surrey region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Agile Software Development
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Agile Software Development across the Surrey region.

Agile Software Development
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Agile Software Development across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Agile Software Development
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Agile Software Development across the Surrey region.

Agile Software Development
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Software Development within the Surrey region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Farnham	-	13	£287	-
Guildford	+10	2	£275	-24.13 %

Agile Software Development South East

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 80 (61.07 %) C# 2 73 (55.73 %) .NET 3 68 (51.91 %) Scrum 4 63 (48.09 %) TDD 5 57 (43.51 %) NUnit 6 51 (38.93 %) MVC 7 36 (27.48 %) Hibernate 8 33 (25.19 %) Visual Studio 9 29 (22.14 %) Spring 10 27 (20.61 %) SQL Server 11 24 (18.32 %) MonoRail 12 23 (17.56 %) .NET Framework 13 22 (16.79 %) Marketing 14 16 (12.21 %) J2EE 14 16 (12.21 %) Microsoft

15 13 (9.924 %) SQL 16 12 (9.160 %) BizTalk Server 16 12 (9.160 %) QA 17 10 (7.634 %) Cisco 17 10 (7.634 %) Java 17 10 (7.634 %) WebServices 17 10 (7.634 %) Motorola 18 9 (6.870 %) ASP.NET 18 9 (6.870 %) Apache 18 9 (6.870 %) SOA 19 8 (6.107 %) Business Intelligence 19 8 (6.107 %) Commerce Server 19 8 (6.107 %) IIS 19 8 (6.107 %) XML 19 8 (6.107 %) ITIL

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 73 (55.73 %) .NET 2 51 (38.93 %) MVC 3 36 (27.48 %) Hibernate 4 29 (22.14 %) Spring 5 24 (18.32 %) MonoRail 6 23 (17.56 %) .NET Framework 7 16 (12.21 %) J2EE 8 10 (7.634 %) WebServices 9 9 (6.870 %) ASP.NET 10 8 (6.107 %) XML 10 8 (6.107 %) NHibernate 11 6 (4.580 %) XHTML 12 5 (3.817 %) XSLT 12 5 (3.817 %) JSF 13 4 (3.053 %) Velocity 13 4 (3.053 %) AJAX 14 3 (2.290 %) WCF 14 3 (2.290 %) MyFaces 14 3 (2.290 %) Struts 14 3 (2.290 %) JMS	Application Platforms 1 12 (9.160 %) BizTalk Server 2 9 (6.870 %) Apache 3 8 (6.107 %) IIS 3 8 (6.107 %) Commerce Server 3 8 (6.107 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 8 (6.107 %) Commerce Server 2007 4 3 (2.290 %) WebLogic 4 3 (2.290 %) TIBCO EMS 5 1 (0.763 %) CMS 5 1 (0.763 %) JBoss 5 1 (0.763 %) Tomcat 5 1 (0.763 %) EPiServer
Applications 1 5 (3.817 %) MS Excel 2 1 (0.763 %) Photoshop	Communications & Networking 1 1 (0.763 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 27 (20.61 %) SQL Server 2 6 (4.580 %) MySQL 3 4 (3.053 %) SQL Server 2005 4 1 (0.763 %) DB2 4 1 (0.763 %) Oracle 9i 4 1 (0.763 %) Oracle 10g 4 1 (0.763 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (0.763 %) SQL Server Reporting Services	Development Applications 1 57 (43.51 %) NUnit 2 33 (25.19 %) Visual Studio 3 7 (5.344 %) Selenium 3 7 (5.344 %) WebLOAD 4 5 (3.817 %) Subversion 4 5 (3.817 %) JUnit 5 3 (2.290 %) ClearCase 5 3 (2.290 %) WebLogic Workshop 6 2 (1.527 %) TestDirector 6 2 (1.527 %) QuickTest Pro 7 1 (0.763 %) RequisitePro 7 1 (0.763 %) Eclipse 7 1 (0.763 %) Ant 7 1 (0.763 %) Flash 7 1 (0.763 %) ClearQuest
General 1 22 (16.79 %) Marketing 2 6 (4.580 %) Insurance 2 6 (4.580 %) Finance 2 6 (4.580 %) Health 3 2 (1.527 %) Advertising 3 2 (1.527 %) Publishing 4 1 (0.763 %) Automotive	Job Titles 1 89 (67.94 %) Developer 2 69 (52.67 %) C# Developer 3 34 (25.95 %) .NET Developer 4 26 (19.85 %) Senior Developer 5 21 (16.03 %) Senior C# Developer 6 18 (13.74 %) Analyst 7 10 (7.634 %) Senior .NET Developer 8 8 (6.107 %) Development Manager 8 8 (6.107 %) Support Analyst 9 6 (4.580 %) Java Developer 9 6 (4.580 %) Test Analyst 10 5 (3.817 %) PHP Developer 11 4 (3.053 %) Applications Development Manager 11 4 (3.053 %) Applications Manager 12 3 (2.290 %) Senior PHP Developer 12 3 (2.290 %) Developer Analyst 12 3 (2.290 %) Senior Analyst 12 3 (2.290 %) Senior Test Analyst 12 3 (2.290 %) Tester 13 2 (1.527 %) Software Developer
Miscellaneous 1 3 (2.290 %) N-Tier 2 2 (1.527 %) DTV 2 2 (1.527 %) STB 2 2 (1.527 %) German Language 3 1 (0.763 %) Credit Derivative 3 1 (0.763 %) Computer Science	Operating Systems 1 6 (4.580 %) Linux 2 2 (1.527 %) Windows 3 1 (0.763 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 68 (51.91 %) Scrum 2 63 (48.09 %) TDD 3 9 (6.870 %) SOA 4 8 (6.107 %) Business Intelligence 4 8 (6.107 %) ITIL 5 7 (5.344 %) OO 5 7 (5.344 %) RUP 6 6 (4.580 %) Load Testing 7 4 (3.053 %) UML 8 3 (2.290 %) Web Development 9 2 (1.527 %) Software Engineering 9 2 (1.527 %) Stakeholder Management 9 2 (1.527 %) Performance Testing 9 2 (1.527 %) SC Cleared 9 2 (1.527 %) Security Cleared 9 2 (1.527 %) E-Commerce 9 2 (1.527 %) DSDM 9 2 (1.527 %) Extreme Programming 10 1 (0.763 %) Content Management 10 1 (0.763 %) BPR	Programming Languages 1 80 (61.07 %) C# 2 13 (9.924 %) SQL 3 10 (7.634 %) Java 4 7 (5.344 %) JavaScript 5 5 (3.817 %) Perl 5 5 (3.817 %) PHP 5 5 (3.817 %) PHP5 5 5 (3.817 %) PHP4 6 4 (3.053 %) PL/SQL 6 4 (3.053 %) VB.NET 7 3 (2.290 %) Transact-SQL 8 2 (1.527 %) C 9 1 (0.763 %) XAML
Qualifications 1 2 (1.527 %) Degree 2 1 (0.763 %) ISEB	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 12 (9.160 %) QA 2 1 (0.763 %) SLA
System Software 1 3 (2.290 %) AquaLogic	Vendors 1 16 (12.21 %) Microsoft 2 10 (7.634 %) Cisco 2 10 (7.634 %) Motorola 3 5 (3.817 %) Oracle 4 3 (2.290 %) TIBCO 4 3 (2.290 %) BEA 5 1 (0.763 %) telerik 5 1 (0.763 %) Adobe