The first table below looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills in IT contracts advertised for the Warrington 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 19 June 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 Warrington 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Agile Software Development
Rank 14 13 12
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -1
Contract jobs citing Agile Software Development 6 9 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warrington 5.882% 8.036% 4.545%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.000% 10.84% 8.000%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 2
Average daily rate £248 £365 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-32.19% +7.35%
UK excluding London average daily rate £358 £338 £375
% change year-on-year
+5.92% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £37.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+8.10% +5.71%
All Processes & Methodologies
Warrington
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
75 83 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warrington 73.53% 74.11% 56.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 33 16
Average daily rate £380 £350 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.57% +2.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £109 £269 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
Average hourly rate £12.50 £25.00 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-50.00% +92.30%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Agile Software Development
Cheshire

Agile Software Development
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Warrington 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 Warrington region.

Warrington Agile Software Development Daily Rate Trend

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warrington 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 11 (91.67%) C#
1 11 (91.67%) .NET
1 11 (91.67%) SQL Server
1 11 (91.67%) .NET Framework
2 8 (66.67%) ASP.NET
2 8 (66.67%) SQL
3 7 (58.33%) Visual Studio
3 7 (58.33%) Management Information System
3 7 (58.33%) SQL Server 2005
4 5 (41.67%) Oracle
4 5 (41.67%) Java
5 4 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
5 4 (33.33%) Feature Driven Development
5 4 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (33.33%) Windows SharePoint Services
5 4 (33.33%) WebSphere
5 4 (33.33%) Asset Management
5 4 (33.33%) Data Management
5 4 (33.33%) Java EE
5 4 (33.33%) Degree
5 4 (33.33%) WCF
5 4 (33.33%) WPF
5 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
5 4 (33.33%) SAP
5 4 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (33.33%) IBM
5 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 4 (33.33%) Windows
5 4 (33.33%) Oracle 8/8i
5 4 (33.33%) MS Excel

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warrington 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 11 (91.67%) .NET
1 11 (91.67%) .NET Framework
2 8 (66.67%) ASP.NET
3 4 (33.33%) Windows SharePoint Services
3 4 (33.33%) WebSphere
3 4 (33.33%) Java EE
3 4 (33.33%) WCF
3 4 (33.33%) WPF
4 3 (25.00%) Web Services
4 3 (25.00%) LINQ
4 3 (25.00%) jQuery
4 3 (25.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 1 (8.333%) soapUI
5 1 (8.333%) HTML
5 1 (8.333%) J2EE
5 1 (8.333%) CSS
5 1 (8.333%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 4 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (33.33%) MS Excel
2 3 (25.00%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Maximo
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (91.67%) SQL Server
2 7 (58.33%) SQL Server 2005
3 4 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (33.33%) Oracle 8/8i
4 3 (25.00%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) Visual Studio
2 1 (8.333%) FitNesse
General
1 1 (8.333%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Developer
2 5 (41.67%) Software Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) C# Developer
4 3 (25.00%) .NET Developer
4 3 (25.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 3 (25.00%) ASP.NET Developer
4 3 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Agile Test Analyst
5 1 (8.333%) SQL Developer
5 1 (8.333%) C# Web Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Analyst
5 1 (8.333%) Test Analyst
5 1 (8.333%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Management Information System
2 3 (25.00%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
2 3 (25.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Feature Driven Development
1 4 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (33.33%) Asset Management
1 4 (33.33%) Data Management
1 4 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Scrum
2 3 (25.00%) Contact Management
3 1 (8.333%) Automated Testing
3 1 (8.333%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) C#
2 8 (66.67%) SQL
3 5 (41.67%) Java
4 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
5 3 (25.00%) T-SQL
5 3 (25.00%) VB.NET
6 1 (8.333%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.333%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Oracle
2 4 (33.33%) SAP
2 4 (33.33%) IBM
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft