The first table below looks at the demand for Feature Driven Development skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Feature Driven Development 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
Feature Driven Development (FDD)
Rank 515 583 578
Rank change year-on-year
+68 -5
Contract jobs citing Feature Driven Development 14 1 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.030% 0.002% 0.010%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.043% 0.003% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 2
Average daily rate £400 £550 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-27.27% +37.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £550 £360
10% offered a daily rate of more than £465 £550 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
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%

Feature Driven Development
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Feature Driven Development Jobs Demand Trend

Feature Driven Development
Daily Rate Trend

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

Feature Driven Development Daily Rate Trend

Feature Driven Development
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Feature Driven Development Daily Rate Histogram

Feature Driven Development
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Feature Driven Development Hourly Rate Trend

Feature Driven Development
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Feature Driven Development 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 +59 14 £400 -27.27%
London +48 11 £400 -27.27%
Cheshire - 3 - -
Warrington - 3 - -
North West - 3 - -
City of London +15 1 £375 -31.81%

Feature Driven Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 13 (39.39%) Oracle
1 13 (39.39%) Agile Software Development
1 13 (39.39%) TDD
2 11 (33.33%) Java
3 10 (30.30%) SQL
4 9 (27.27%) Test Scripting
5 8 (24.24%) Finance
6 7 (21.21%) Scrum
6 7 (21.21%) Siebel
7 6 (18.18%) Project Management
7 6 (18.18%) Migration
7 6 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
7 6 (18.18%) BDD
8 5 (15.15%) Matrix Management
8 5 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (15.15%) Change Management
8 5 (15.15%) Front Office
8 5 (15.15%) Back Office
8 5 (15.15%) ERP
8 5 (15.15%) C#
8 5 (15.15%) PeopleSoft
8 5 (15.15%) PRINCE2
9 4 (12.12%) ASP.NET
9 4 (12.12%) .NET
9 4 (12.12%) SQL Server
9 4 (12.12%) SOA
9 4 (12.12%) MS Excel
9 4 (12.12%) Microsoft
9 4 (12.12%) HP
9 4 (12.12%) LoadRunner

Feature Driven Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (12.12%) ASP.NET
1 4 (12.12%) .NET
2 3 (9.091%) WCF
2 3 (9.091%) WPF
2 3 (9.091%) Windows SharePoint Services
2 3 (9.091%) WebSphere
2 3 (9.091%) .NET Framework
2 3 (9.091%) Java EE
3 2 (6.061%) Web Services
4 1 (3.030%) AutoMapper
4 1 (3.030%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 1 (3.030%) RESTful
4 1 (3.030%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (3.030%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (3.030%) Backbone.js
4 1 (3.030%) jQuery
4 1 (3.030%) COM
4 1 (3.030%) CSS
4 1 (3.030%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 3 (9.091%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (12.12%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (9.091%) Google Analytics
1 3 (9.091%) Maximo
1 3 (9.091%) WebTrends
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.030%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) SQL Server
1 4 (12.12%) MongoDB
2 3 (9.091%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (9.091%) Oracle BI EE
2 3 (9.091%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (9.091%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (3.030%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (12.12%) LoadRunner
1 4 (12.12%) JMeter
2 3 (9.091%) Visual Studio
3 2 (6.061%) Git (software)
3 2 (6.061%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.061%) GitHub
3 2 (6.061%) Hudson
4 1 (3.030%) SpecFlow
General
1 8 (24.24%) Finance
2 5 (15.15%) Front Office
2 5 (15.15%) Back Office
3 2 (6.061%) Publishing
4 1 (3.030%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (24.24%) Technical Leader
2 7 (21.21%) Architect
3 6 (18.18%) Test Architect
4 5 (15.15%) ERP Manager
4 5 (15.15%) ERP Project Manager
4 5 (15.15%) Project Manager
5 3 (9.091%) Performance Engineer
5 3 (9.091%) Analyst
5 3 (9.091%) Tester
5 3 (9.091%) Software Engineer
6 2 (6.061%) Developer
6 2 (6.061%) Test Analyst
6 2 (6.061%) C# Developer
6 2 (6.061%) Performance Tester
6 2 (6.061%) Siebel Analyst
7 1 (3.030%) Agile Coach
7 1 (3.030%) Front-End Developer
7 1 (3.030%) Agile Business Analyst
7 1 (3.030%) Siebel Functional Consultant
7 1 (3.030%) Testing Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.091%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.061%) FMCG
3 1 (3.030%) Computer Science
3 1 (3.030%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.091%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (39.39%) Agile Software Development
1 13 (39.39%) TDD
2 9 (27.27%) Test Scripting
3 7 (21.21%) Scrum
4 6 (18.18%) Project Management
4 6 (18.18%) Migration
4 6 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
4 6 (18.18%) BDD
5 5 (15.15%) Matrix Management
5 5 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (15.15%) Change Management
5 5 (15.15%) ERP
5 5 (15.15%) PRINCE2
6 4 (12.12%) SOA
6 4 (12.12%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (12.12%) Agile Testing
7 3 (9.091%) Analytics
7 3 (9.091%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (9.091%) Web Analytics
7 3 (9.091%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (33.33%) Java
2 10 (30.30%) SQL
3 5 (15.15%) C#
4 1 (3.030%) Ruby
4 1 (3.030%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.030%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (12.12%) Degree
2 2 (6.061%) ISEB
3 1 (3.030%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (12.12%) HP SiteScope
Vendors
1 13 (39.39%) Oracle
2 7 (21.21%) Siebel
3 5 (15.15%) PeopleSoft
4 4 (12.12%) Microsoft
4 4 (12.12%) HP
4 4 (12.12%) RightScale
5 3 (9.091%) Google
5 3 (9.091%) IBM
5 3 (9.091%) SAP
6 2 (6.061%) Mercator
7 1 (3.030%) Informatica
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