The first table below looks at the demand for Agile Project Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Agile Project Management over the 3 months to 22 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 for the West Yorkshire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Agile Project Management
Rank 89 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Agile Project Management 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.157% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.222% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £400 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £335 £525
% change year-on-year
+0.74% -36.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £62.00
All Processes & Methodologies
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
902 1172 728
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 70.86% 72.44% 65.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 676 350
Average daily rate £325 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £235 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £459 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 26 29
Average hourly rate £23.75 £18.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+31.94% +2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.78 £12.00 £7.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £61.20 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Agile Project Management
Yorkshire

Agile Project Management
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Agile Project Management across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

West Yorkshire Agile Project Management Jobs Demand Trend

Agile Project Management
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Agile Project Management across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire Agile Project Management Daily Rate Trend

Agile Project Management
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing Agile Project Management 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 Project Management.

1 3 (100.00%) Project Management
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) Business Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) Retail
3 1 (33.33%) Project Planning
3 1 (33.33%) JIRA
3 1 (33.33%) QA
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) OOP
3 1 (33.33%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce

Agile Project Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing Agile Project Management 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 Project Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (66.67%) Agile Project Manager
2 2 (66.67%) ScrumMaster
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Project Management
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) Business Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) Project Planning
3 1 (33.33%) OOP
3 1 (33.33%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
West Yorkshire
SCRUM certification is essential for this role, as is knowledge of one or more Agile project management frameworks, excellent verbal and written communication skills and previous experience of...
Hudson
Rate: £350 - £450 per day
Posted: 9 May 2013