The first table below looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills in IT contracts advertised for the Warwickshire 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 Warwickshire 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 18 24 22
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -2
Contract jobs citing Agile Software Development 14 4 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warwickshire 6.335% 1.770% 3.540%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.091% 3.030% 5.369%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 5
Average daily rate £450 £250 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+80.00% -23.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £208 £273
10% offered a daily rate of more than £540 £390 £385
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
Warwickshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
154 132 149
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warwickshire 69.68% 58.41% 65.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 59 51
Average daily rate £325 £300 £385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -22.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £206 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 22
Average hourly rate £26.50 £16.72 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+58.49% -33.12%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Agile Software Development
West Midlands

Agile Software Development
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Warwickshire 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 Warwickshire region.

Warwickshire 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 Warwickshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Warwickshire Agile Software Development Daily 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 Warwickshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Warwick - 3 £450 - 6
Rugby - 2 - -
Leamington Spa 0 1 £450 - 4
Nuneaton - 1 £600 -
Agile Software Development
West Midlands

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warwickshire 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 5 (27.78%) Ruby
1 5 (27.78%) Ruby on Rails
1 5 (27.78%) C#
1 5 (27.78%) .NET
1 5 (27.78%) LDAP
1 5 (27.78%) OpenID
2 4 (22.22%) OAuth
2 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 4 (22.22%) ASP.NET
2 4 (22.22%) SQL
3 3 (16.67%) .NET Framework
3 3 (16.67%) Business Analysis
3 3 (16.67%) Scrum
3 3 (16.67%) HTML
3 3 (16.67%) CSS
3 3 (16.67%) Web Services
3 3 (16.67%) MySQL
3 3 (16.67%) Linux
3 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (16.67%) SAML
3 3 (16.67%) Middleware
3 3 (16.67%) jQuery
3 3 (16.67%) Open Source
3 3 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
3 3 (16.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 2 (11.11%) Test Strategy
4 2 (11.11%) Web Development
4 2 (11.11%) Use Case
4 2 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warwickshire 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 5 (27.78%) Ruby on Rails
1 5 (27.78%) .NET
1 5 (27.78%) OpenID
2 4 (22.22%) OAuth
2 4 (22.22%) ASP.NET
3 3 (16.67%) .NET Framework
3 3 (16.67%) HTML
3 3 (16.67%) CSS
3 3 (16.67%) Web Services
3 3 (16.67%) SAML
3 3 (16.67%) Middleware
3 3 (16.67%) jQuery
3 3 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
3 3 (16.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 2 (11.11%) J2EE
4 2 (11.11%) Ajax
5 1 (5.556%) NHibernate
5 1 (5.556%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.556%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (5.556%) SPSS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) LDAP
2 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 2 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 3 (16.67%) MySQL
3 1 (5.556%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Visual Studio
2 1 (5.556%) NUnit
2 1 (5.556%) Subversion
2 1 (5.556%) WatiN
2 1 (5.556%) Git (software)
2 1 (5.556%) Rhino Mocks
2 1 (5.556%) NMock
2 1 (5.556%) Moq
2 1 (5.556%) SpecFlow
General
1 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
2 1 (5.556%) Automotive
2 1 (5.556%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (61.11%) Developer
2 5 (27.78%) Ruby on Rails Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Analyst
3 4 (22.22%) C# Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Business Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) .NET Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Agile Business Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Technical Design Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (11.11%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Design Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Architect
5 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Technical Engineer
6 1 (5.556%) Senior C# Developer
6 1 (5.556%) Test Analyst
6 1 (5.556%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.556%) Programmer
6 1 (5.556%) Lead Business Analyst
6 1 (5.556%) Head of IT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Open Source
2 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.556%) Statistics
3 1 (5.556%) N-Tier
3 1 (5.556%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (16.67%) Business Analysis
1 3 (16.67%) Scrum
2 2 (11.11%) Test Strategy
2 2 (11.11%) Web Development
2 2 (11.11%) Use Case
2 2 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (11.11%) OO
2 2 (11.11%) Information Management
2 2 (11.11%) Document Management
2 2 (11.11%) TDD
2 2 (11.11%) MVC
2 2 (11.11%) Workflow
3 1 (5.556%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (5.556%) E-Commerce
3 1 (5.556%) ERP
3 1 (5.556%) Six Sigma
3 1 (5.556%) Choice Modelling
3 1 (5.556%) Unit Testing
3 1 (5.556%) BDD
3 1 (5.556%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) Ruby
1 5 (27.78%) C#
2 4 (22.22%) SQL
3 2 (11.11%) Java
3 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.11%) T-SQL
4 1 (5.556%) VB6
4 1 (5.556%) VB
4 1 (5.556%) VB.NET
4 1 (5.556%) VBA
4 1 (5.556%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.556%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.556%) IBM
2 1 (5.556%) TIBCO
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