The first table below looks at the demand for the Agile Coach role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Agile Coach in their job title 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 Job Titles currently tracked.

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
Agile Coach
Rank 529 567 560
Rank change year-on-year
+38 -7
Contract jobs requiring an Agile Coach 11 14 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.023% 0.024% 0.033%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.026% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 19
Average daily rate £475 £513 £625
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.31% -18.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £445 £425 £470
10% offered a daily rate of more than £515 £605 £665
UK excluding London average daily rate £488 £488 £525
% change year-on-year
- -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
43539 54119 55808
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.22% 92.58% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 24944 29835 30377
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2174 2589 2882
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.28
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Agile Coach
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Agile Coach within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Agile Coach Jobs Demand Trend

Agile Coach
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Agile Coach within the UK.

Agile Coach Daily Rate Trend

Agile Coach
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Coach within the UK 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
England +40 8 £469 -11.76%
London +10 5 £463 -15.90%
Scotland -12 2 - -
Buckinghamshire - 2 £488 -
Milton Keynes - 2 £488 -
Dundee - 2 - -
South East - 2 £488 -
City of London +14 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £425 -
Leicestershire - 1 £425 -

Agile Coach
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Agile Coach in their job title 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 with Agile Coach in their job title.

1 19 (95.00%) Scrum
2 13 (65.00%) Agile Software Development
3 8 (40.00%) Waterfall
4 7 (35.00%) BDD
4 7 (35.00%) Kanban
4 7 (35.00%) TDD
5 5 (25.00%) Pair Programming
6 4 (20.00%) JIRA
7 3 (15.00%) Extreme Programming
7 3 (15.00%) Spring
7 3 (15.00%) User Stories
7 3 (15.00%) Banking
7 3 (15.00%) Java
7 3 (15.00%) .NET
8 2 (10.00%) DSDM
8 2 (10.00%) E-Commerce
8 2 (10.00%) Finance
9 1 (5.000%) Feature Driven Development
9 1 (5.000%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (5.000%) C#
9 1 (5.000%) Investment Banking
9 1 (5.000%) Marketing
9 1 (5.000%) WebSphere
9 1 (5.000%) Programme Management
9 1 (5.000%) Digital Marketing
9 1 (5.000%) Publishing
9 1 (5.000%) Migration
9 1 (5.000%) Service Management
9 1 (5.000%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (5.000%) Retail

Agile Coach
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Agile Coach in their job title 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 with Agile Coach in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (15.00%) Spring
1 3 (15.00%) .NET
2 1 (5.000%) WebSphere
2 1 (5.000%) Middleware
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.000%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (15.00%) Banking
2 2 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.000%) Investment Banking
3 1 (5.000%) Marketing
3 1 (5.000%) Publishing
3 1 (5.000%) Retail
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.000%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (5.000%) UNIX
1 1 (5.000%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (95.00%) Scrum
2 13 (65.00%) Agile Software Development
3 8 (40.00%) Waterfall
4 7 (35.00%) BDD
4 7 (35.00%) Kanban
4 7 (35.00%) TDD
5 5 (25.00%) Pair Programming
6 3 (15.00%) Extreme Programming
6 3 (15.00%) User Stories
7 2 (10.00%) DSDM
7 2 (10.00%) E-Commerce
8 1 (5.000%) Feature Driven Development
8 1 (5.000%) Programme Management
8 1 (5.000%) Digital Marketing
8 1 (5.000%) Migration
8 1 (5.000%) Service Management
8 1 (5.000%) Project Management
8 1 (5.000%) ITIL
8 1 (5.000%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) Java
2 1 (5.000%) C#
Vendors
1 1 (5.000%) Red Hat