The first table below looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey 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 23 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 Surrey 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Agile Software Development
Rank 24 34 21
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -13
Contract jobs citing Agile Software Development 71 74 129
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 6.174% 4.596% 6.895%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.565% 6.697% 9.591%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 43 70
Average daily rate £425 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.25% -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £321 £284 £299
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £450 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £363
% change year-on-year
- -3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £36.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.75 £37.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-11.48% +5.71%
All Processes & Methodologies
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
829 1105 1345
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 72.09% 68.63% 71.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 625 697
Average daily rate £415 £350 £404
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.57% -13.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £250 £280
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £525 £515
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 57 37
Average hourly rate £37.50 £31.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+19.04% -3.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £15.50 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £55.12 £41.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Agile Software Development
South East

Agile Software Development
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey 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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey Agile Software Development Hourly Rate Trend

Agile Software Development
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Agile Software Development across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Surrey Agile Software Development Hourly Rate Histogram

Agile Software Development
Contract Locations

The table below 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 23 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
Guildford -5 19 £460 +8.23%
Camberley - 12 £395 -
Staines +1 7 £500 -
Woking +4 5 £375 +2.73%
Epsom - 2 £345 -
Reigate - 2 £425 -
Cobham -1 1 - -
Agile Software Development
South East

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, 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 50 (35.21%) Scrum
2 31 (21.83%) .NET
2 31 (21.83%) TDD
3 29 (20.42%) Java
4 28 (19.72%) PRINCE2
5 25 (17.61%) C#
6 24 (16.90%) Spring
7 23 (16.20%) Hibernate
8 18 (12.68%) Oracle
8 18 (12.68%) SQL Server
9 15 (10.56%) Security Cleared
10 14 (9.859%) JavaScript
10 14 (9.859%) ITIL
10 14 (9.859%) XML
10 14 (9.859%) Project Management
10 14 (9.859%) BDD
11 13 (9.155%) Finance
11 13 (9.155%) Continuous Integration
11 13 (9.155%) SC Cleared
12 12 (8.451%) Maven
12 12 (8.451%) ISEB
12 12 (8.451%) User Stories
13 11 (7.746%) SOA
13 11 (7.746%) ERP
13 11 (7.746%) CSS
13 11 (7.746%) Telecoms
13 11 (7.746%) MVC
14 10 (7.042%) Migration
14 10 (7.042%) HTML
14 10 (7.042%) Linux

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, 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 31 (21.83%) .NET
2 24 (16.90%) Spring
3 23 (16.20%) Hibernate
4 14 (9.859%) XML
5 11 (7.746%) CSS
6 10 (7.042%) HTML
6 10 (7.042%) NHibernate
6 10 (7.042%) WPF
6 10 (7.042%) GWT
7 9 (6.338%) WCF
7 9 (6.338%) Web Services
8 8 (5.634%) .NET Framework
8 8 (5.634%) Spring Security
8 8 (5.634%) Guice
8 8 (5.634%) RESTful
8 8 (5.634%) Spring Batch
9 7 (4.930%) Silverlight
9 7 (4.930%) ASP.NET
10 6 (4.225%) jQuery
11 5 (3.521%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 4 (2.817%) Oracle Coherence
2 2 (1.408%) WebLogic
2 2 (1.408%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.408%) Force.com
3 1 (0.704%) Mule
3 1 (0.704%) Windows Azure
3 1 (0.704%) ESB
3 1 (0.704%) CMS
3 1 (0.704%) Apache
3 1 (0.704%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.704%) MSMQ
Applications
1 1 (0.704%) MS PowerPoint
1 1 (0.704%) Maya
1 1 (0.704%) FrameMaker
1 1 (0.704%) MS Excel
1 1 (0.704%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.704%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.113%) BSS
2 2 (1.408%) SAN
2 2 (1.408%) Internet
3 1 (0.704%) Extranet
3 1 (0.704%) Intranet
3 1 (0.704%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.68%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.817%) Oracle 10g
2 4 (2.817%) Oracle 11g
3 3 (2.113%) SQL Server 2012
3 3 (2.113%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (2.113%) Hadoop
3 3 (2.113%) MySQL
4 2 (1.408%) RDBMS
4 2 (1.408%) GIS
4 2 (1.408%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.704%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.704%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.704%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.704%) SQL Server 2000
5 1 (0.704%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.704%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 12 (8.451%) Maven
2 10 (7.042%) Jenkins
3 8 (5.634%) TestNG
3 8 (5.634%) DbUnit
3 8 (5.634%) Mockito
4 6 (4.225%) NUnit
4 6 (4.225%) Moq
5 5 (3.521%) Git (software)
6 4 (2.817%) Visual Studio
6 4 (2.817%) TestDirector
6 4 (2.817%) Subversion
7 3 (2.113%) PHPUnit
7 3 (2.113%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (2.113%) JUnit
8 2 (1.408%) QuickTest Pro
8 2 (1.408%) Hudson
9 1 (0.704%) Phing
9 1 (0.704%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.704%) Capistrano
9 1 (0.704%) Cucumber
General
1 13 (9.155%) Finance
2 11 (7.746%) Telecoms
3 6 (4.225%) Publishing
4 3 (2.113%) Games
5 2 (1.408%) Banking
6 1 (0.704%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.704%) Retail
6 1 (0.704%) Legal
6 1 (0.704%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 56 (39.44%) Developer
2 28 (19.72%) Analyst
3 23 (16.20%) Business Analyst
4 19 (13.38%) Project Manager
5 14 (9.859%) C# Developer
6 11 (7.746%) .NET Developer
7 10 (7.042%) ScrumMaster
8 9 (6.338%) Java Developer
8 9 (6.338%) Test Manager
9 8 (5.634%) Senior Manager
9 8 (5.634%) Senior Developer
9 8 (5.634%) Senior Project Manager
9 8 (5.634%) C# .NET Developer
10 7 (4.930%) Agile Business Analyst
11 6 (4.225%) Senior .NET Developer
12 5 (3.521%) Technical Leader
12 5 (3.521%) Test Analyst
13 4 (2.817%) Design Engineer
13 4 (2.817%) Senior C# Developer
13 4 (2.817%) Salesforce.com Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.930%) Mobile App
2 4 (2.817%) SaaS
2 4 (2.817%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (2.113%) iPhone
3 3 (2.113%) PaaS
3 3 (2.113%) Inversion of Control
3 3 (2.113%) Open Source
3 3 (2.113%) Computer Science
4 2 (1.408%) Blackberry
4 2 (1.408%) Mathematics
4 2 (1.408%) Physics
4 2 (1.408%) iPad
4 2 (1.408%) Heroku
5 1 (0.704%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.704%) Data Integration
5 1 (0.704%) Smartphone
5 1 (0.704%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.042%) Linux
2 8 (5.634%) Windows
3 5 (3.521%) Apple iOS
4 4 (2.817%) CentOS
4 4 (2.817%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.113%) Android
5 3 (2.113%) Windows 7
6 2 (1.408%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (35.21%) Scrum
2 31 (21.83%) TDD
3 28 (19.72%) PRINCE2
4 14 (9.859%) ITIL
4 14 (9.859%) Project Management
4 14 (9.859%) BDD
5 13 (9.155%) Continuous Integration
6 12 (8.451%) User Stories
7 11 (7.746%) SOA
7 11 (7.746%) ERP
7 11 (7.746%) MVC
8 10 (7.042%) Migration
8 10 (7.042%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (7.042%) Web Development
9 9 (6.338%) Knowledge Management
9 9 (6.338%) UML
9 9 (6.338%) E-Commerce
10 8 (5.634%) Use Case
10 8 (5.634%) Waterfall
10 8 (5.634%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 29 (20.42%) Java
2 25 (17.61%) C#
3 14 (9.859%) JavaScript
4 9 (6.338%) SQL
5 8 (5.634%) Groovy
6 5 (3.521%) Objective-C
6 5 (3.521%) AWK
6 5 (3.521%) Perl
7 4 (2.817%) PHP
7 4 (2.817%) Python
7 4 (2.817%) Apex Code
8 3 (2.113%) sed
8 3 (2.113%) C++
9 2 (1.408%) XPath
9 2 (1.408%) Ruby
9 2 (1.408%) Scala
10 1 (0.704%) Bash shell
10 1 (0.704%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.704%) C
Qualifications
1 15 (10.56%) Security Cleared
2 13 (9.155%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.451%) ISEB
4 3 (2.113%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (0.704%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.704%) Degree
5 1 (0.704%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.704%) MCP
5 1 (0.704%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.521%) QA
2 1 (0.704%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 3 (2.113%) Hyper-V
1 3 (2.113%) XenApp
1 3 (2.113%) XenServer
1 3 (2.113%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 5 (3.521%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 18 (12.68%) Oracle
2 7 (4.930%) Salesforce.com
3 6 (4.225%) Red Hat
4 5 (3.521%) Teradata
5 4 (2.817%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.113%) AppSense
6 3 (2.113%) Citrix
7 2 (1.408%) SAP
7 2 (1.408%) JBoss
7 2 (1.408%) StorageTek
7 2 (1.408%) Brocade
8 1 (0.704%) Twitter
8 1 (0.704%) WSO2
8 1 (0.704%) Google
8 1 (0.704%) Zend
8 1 (0.704%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.704%) Autodesk
8 1 (0.704%) Adobe
Godalming, Surrey
Agile development experience - Scrum/TDD/Extreme programming - Strong understanding of object-oriented programming concepts... § Highly experienced in § Core java and J2EE § UML and Design Patterns § Spring Framework § JSP,...
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Posted: 10 May 2013