The first table below looks at the demand for DSDM skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DSDM over the 3 months to 24 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.

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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM)
Rank 479 508 478
Rank change year-on-year
+29 -30
Contract jobs citing DSDM 50 76 106
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.108% 0.130% 0.174%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.152% 0.192% 0.257%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 41 58
Average daily rate £417 £400 £431
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.31% -7.24%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £300 £310
10% offered a daily rate of more than £508 £525 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £417 £400 £406
% change year-on-year
+4.31% -1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 6
Average hourly rate £17.58 - £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.58 - £42.50
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
32941 39581 41270
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 71.01% 67.87% 67.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 19678 22705 23413
Average daily rate £413 £403 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.48% -8.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £580 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 976 1282 1475
Average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £12.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%

DSDM
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing DSDM within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

DSDM Jobs Demand Trend

DSDM
Daily Rate Trend

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

DSDM Daily Rate Trend

DSDM
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DSDM within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

DSDM Daily Rate Histogram

DSDM
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing DSDM within the UK.

DSDM Hourly Rate Trend

DSDM
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DSDM within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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 +25 48 £410 +2.50%
London +34 18 £444 +4.41%
South East +5 13 £488 +57.25%
Berkshire +19 9 £388 +19.23%
South West +31 8 £410 +2.82%
Swindon +7 7 £410 -11.11%
Wiltshire +4 7 £410 +2.82%
East Midlands +1 6 £425 +1.07%
City of London +17 5 £420 -11.57%
Northamptonshire +16 4 £425 +1.07%
Northampton +11 4 £425 +1.07%
Milton Keynes +9 3 £500 +61.29%
Buckinghamshire +5 3 £500 +76.99%
Bracknell - 3 £388 -
Nottinghamshire -2 2 £325 -
Nottingham -3 2 £325 -
Slough - 2 - -
East of England +18 1 - -
Surrey +14 1 - -
North West +4 1 £388 -3.12%
West Yorkshire +2 1 £375 -14.28%
Yorkshire 0 1 £375 -14.28%
Cobham -1 1 - -
Leeds -7 1 £375 -
Scotland - 1 £450 -
Suffolk - 1 - -
Somerset - 1 - -
Cheshire - 1 £388 -
Ipswich - 1 - -
Glasgow - 1 £450 -

DSDM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing DSDM 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 DSDM.

1 53 (46.90%) Finance
2 47 (41.59%) UML
3 45 (39.82%) Scrum
4 37 (32.74%) Agile Software Development
5 29 (25.66%) SSADM
5 29 (25.66%) Stakeholder Management
6 28 (24.78%) Project Management
6 28 (24.78%) Banking
7 27 (23.89%) GAP Analysis
7 27 (23.89%) RUP
7 27 (23.89%) PRINCE2
8 26 (23.01%) Business Analysis
8 26 (23.01%) Business Transformation
9 24 (21.24%) Requirements Analysis
9 24 (21.24%) BPR
10 21 (18.58%) MS Visio
11 17 (15.04%) ITIL
11 17 (15.04%) Waterfall
12 16 (14.16%) User Acceptance Testing
12 16 (14.16%) Workflow
13 14 (12.39%) Use Case
14 13 (11.50%) Systems Analysis
14 13 (11.50%) Microsoft
14 13 (11.50%) E-Commerce
15 12 (10.62%) RAD
16 10 (8.850%) Java
16 10 (8.850%) J2EE
16 10 (8.850%) ISEB
17 9 (7.965%) Basel II
17 9 (7.965%) Risk Management

DSDM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing DSDM 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 DSDM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (8.850%) J2EE
2 7 (6.195%) .NET
3 6 (5.310%) JMS
4 5 (4.425%) Hibernate
4 5 (4.425%) LAMP
4 5 (4.425%) J2ME
4 5 (4.425%) XML
4 5 (4.425%) Spring
4 5 (4.425%) JPA
4 5 (4.425%) RESTful
5 3 (2.655%) HTML
6 2 (1.770%) WebSphere
6 2 (1.770%) EJB
6 2 (1.770%) CSS
6 2 (1.770%) JSP
6 2 (1.770%) XSD
6 2 (1.770%) WSDL
7 1 (0.885%) Middleware
7 1 (0.885%) Flash
7 1 (0.885%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 5 (4.425%) GlassFish
2 4 (3.540%) Sitecore CMS
2 4 (3.540%) SAS
2 4 (3.540%) CMS
3 3 (2.655%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.770%) WebSphere MQ
4 2 (1.770%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.885%) NetWeaver
5 1 (0.885%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.885%) IIS
5 1 (0.885%) Confluence
Applications
1 21 (18.58%) MS Visio
2 4 (3.540%) MS Project
3 3 (2.655%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.770%) MS PowerPoint
4 2 (1.770%) MS Office
4 2 (1.770%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.655%) SAP FI
1 3 (2.655%) SAP BPC
2 2 (1.770%) Eagle PACE
3 1 (0.885%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.195%) Internet
2 2 (1.770%) VoIP
2 2 (1.770%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.885%) Firewall
3 1 (0.885%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.885%) ATM
3 1 (0.885%) ISDN
3 1 (0.885%) LAN
3 1 (0.885%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.965%) RDBMS
2 6 (5.310%) SQL Server
3 5 (4.425%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (4.425%) MySQL
4 4 (3.540%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 4 (3.540%) DB2
5 3 (2.655%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (2.655%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.770%) Informix
6 2 (1.770%) TOAD
6 2 (1.770%) DataStage
7 1 (0.885%) Oracle 8/8i
7 1 (0.885%) SQL Server 2005
7 1 (0.885%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (0.885%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 8 (7.080%) JIRA
2 6 (5.310%) Selenium
3 5 (4.425%) Maven
3 5 (4.425%) CruiseControl
3 5 (4.425%) WATIR
3 5 (4.425%) Hudson
3 5 (4.425%) Cucumber
3 5 (4.425%) RSpec
3 5 (4.425%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.770%) JUnit
4 2 (1.770%) ERwin
5 1 (0.885%) PowerBuilder
5 1 (0.885%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.885%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.885%) PHPUnit
General
1 53 (46.90%) Finance
2 28 (24.78%) Banking
3 9 (7.965%) Retail
4 6 (5.310%) Investment Banking
4 6 (5.310%) Telecoms
5 2 (1.770%) Multimedia
5 2 (1.770%) Back Office
6 1 (0.885%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.885%) Advertising
6 1 (0.885%) Games
6 1 (0.885%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 66 (58.41%) Analyst
2 61 (53.98%) Business Analyst
3 28 (24.78%) Project Manager
4 17 (15.04%) Systems Analyst
5 16 (14.16%) Business Systems Analyst
6 13 (11.50%) Senior Analyst
6 13 (11.50%) Senior Business Analyst
7 11 (9.735%) Agile Project Manager
8 5 (4.425%) Developer
8 5 (4.425%) Test Analyst
8 5 (4.425%) Build Engineer
9 4 (3.540%) SAS Project Manager
9 4 (3.540%) ScrumMaster
9 4 (3.540%) Lead Business Analyst
9 4 (3.540%) PRINCE2 Project Manager
10 3 (2.655%) Architect
10 3 (2.655%) Senior SAP Business Analyst
10 3 (2.655%) Team Leader
10 3 (2.655%) SAP Business Analyst
10 3 (2.655%) SAP Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (2.655%) Equities
1 3 (2.655%) Fixed Income
1 3 (2.655%) Market Risk
1 3 (2.655%) Credit Risk
2 2 (1.770%) iSeries
2 2 (1.770%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (1.770%) Mainframe
3 1 (0.885%) NHS
3 1 (0.885%) CESG
3 1 (0.885%) CESG CLAS
3 1 (0.885%) Computer Science
3 1 (0.885%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.965%) UNIX
2 2 (1.770%) Linux
3 1 (0.885%) MVS
3 1 (0.885%) Windows
3 1 (0.885%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (41.59%) UML
2 45 (39.82%) Scrum
3 37 (32.74%) Agile Software Development
4 29 (25.66%) SSADM
4 29 (25.66%) Stakeholder Management
5 28 (24.78%) Project Management
6 27 (23.89%) GAP Analysis
6 27 (23.89%) RUP
6 27 (23.89%) PRINCE2
7 26 (23.01%) Business Analysis
7 26 (23.01%) Business Transformation
8 24 (21.24%) Requirements Analysis
8 24 (21.24%) BPR
9 17 (15.04%) ITIL
9 17 (15.04%) Waterfall
10 16 (14.16%) User Acceptance Testing
10 16 (14.16%) Workflow
11 14 (12.39%) Use Case
12 13 (11.50%) Systems Analysis
12 13 (11.50%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 10 (8.850%) Java
2 7 (6.195%) SQL
3 5 (4.425%) Ruby
4 2 (1.770%) RPG IV
4 2 (1.770%) RPG
4 2 (1.770%) C#
4 2 (1.770%) C++
4 2 (1.770%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.885%) Perl
5 1 (0.885%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (8.850%) ISEB
2 7 (6.195%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 6 (5.310%) Security Cleared
4 4 (3.540%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 3 (2.655%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.770%) Degree
7 1 (0.885%) ISEB Practitioner
7 1 (0.885%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.965%) Basel II
1 9 (7.965%) Basel III
1 9 (7.965%) Solvency II
2 4 (3.540%) QA
3 2 (1.770%) ISO 9000
4 1 (0.885%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (0.885%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (4.425%) Puppet
2 1 (0.885%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 13 (11.50%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.965%) SAP
3 7 (6.195%) Oracle
4 6 (5.310%) JBoss
5 5 (4.425%) Red Hat
6 4 (3.540%) Sitecore
7 3 (2.655%) Sybase
7 3 (2.655%) Business Objects
8 2 (1.770%) Fredhopper
8 2 (1.770%) Vermilion
8 2 (1.770%) IBM
8 2 (1.770%) Algorithmics
8 2 (1.770%) ATG
9 1 (0.885%) BEA
9 1 (0.885%) Citrix
9 1 (0.885%) Sun
9 1 (0.885%) Cognos
9 1 (0.885%) Siebel
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