The first table below looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Agile Software Development 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 Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Agile Software Development
Rank 16 18 20
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +2
Permanent jobs citing Agile Software Development 217 188 141
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 12.05% 9.363% 8.714%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.85% 12.24% 12.73%
Number of salaries quoted 145 149 121
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% -11.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,900 £32,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Processes & Methodologies
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1369 1536 1108
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 76.01% 76.49% 68.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1055 1344 944
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £39,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -3.84%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £61,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Agile Software Development
North West

Agile Software Development
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire Agile Software Development Jobs Demand Trend

Agile Software Development
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Agile Software Development across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire Agile Software Development Salary Trend

Agile Software Development
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Agile Software Development across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Cheshire Agile Software Development Salary Histogram

Agile Software Development
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Software Development within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Chester +24 83 £42,500 +14.86%
Knutsford +2 21 £39,500 +12.85%
Warrington -23 19 £30,000 -20.00%
Macclesfield +2 12 £37,500 -
Northwich +11 9 £32,500 -25.71%
Crewe +5 8 £30,000 -29.41%
Nantwich +4 8 £35,000 -22.22%
Wilmslow -10 8 £37,500 +11.94%
Runcorn +1 2 - -
Agile Software Development
North West

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Agile Software Development.

1 128 (34.50%) .NET
2 115 (31.00%) JavaScript
3 113 (30.46%) C#
4 111 (29.92%) HTML
5 108 (29.11%) CSS
6 106 (28.57%) SQL
7 105 (28.30%) Scrum
8 95 (25.61%) MVC
9 90 (24.26%) Java
10 89 (23.99%) TDD
11 86 (23.18%) SQL Server
12 85 (22.91%) E-Commerce
13 82 (22.10%) ASP.NET
14 81 (21.83%) Web Services
15 74 (19.95%) XML
16 71 (19.14%) Finance
17 61 (16.44%) Microsoft
18 59 (15.90%) Ajax
19 58 (15.63%) jQuery
20 51 (13.75%) Spring
21 50 (13.48%) ASP.NET MVC
22 47 (12.67%) SOAP
23 45 (12.13%) Oracle
23 45 (12.13%) HTTP
24 40 (10.78%) HTML5
25 39 (10.51%) Waterfall
25 39 (10.51%) Apache
26 37 (9.973%) Windows
26 37 (9.973%) Hibernate
26 37 (9.973%) .NET Framework

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Agile Software Development. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 128 (34.50%) .NET
2 111 (29.92%) HTML
3 108 (29.11%) CSS
4 82 (22.10%) ASP.NET
5 81 (21.83%) Web Services
6 74 (19.95%) XML
7 59 (15.90%) Ajax
8 58 (15.63%) jQuery
9 51 (13.75%) Spring
10 50 (13.48%) ASP.NET MVC
11 47 (12.67%) SOAP
12 40 (10.78%) HTML5
13 37 (9.973%) Hibernate
13 37 (9.973%) .NET Framework
13 37 (9.973%) WCF
14 31 (8.356%) XSLT
14 31 (8.356%) CSS3
15 30 (8.086%) WPF
16 29 (7.817%) Java EE
17 28 (7.547%) Servlets
Application Platforms
1 39 (10.51%) Apache
2 11 (2.965%) Tomcat
2 11 (2.965%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.426%) WebLogic
4 7 (1.887%) Umbraco
5 6 (1.617%) CMS
5 6 (1.617%) SAS
6 5 (1.348%) Magento
6 5 (1.348%) Jetty
7 4 (1.078%) LiveLink
7 4 (1.078%) CICS
7 4 (1.078%) IIS
8 2 (0.539%) Oracle Service Bus
8 2 (0.539%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.270%) ESB
Applications
1 21 (5.660%) MS Excel
2 9 (2.426%) MS Office
3 2 (0.539%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.539%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.270%) Fireworks
4 1 (0.270%) Maya
4 1 (0.270%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 12 (3.235%) Dynamics AX
2 6 (1.617%) Dynamics GP
2 6 (1.617%) Dynamics NAV
2 6 (1.617%) Sage 200
2 6 (1.617%) Agresso
3 2 (0.539%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (0.539%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.270%) SAP HR
Communications & Networking
1 45 (12.13%) HTTP
2 14 (3.774%) Internet
3 4 (1.078%) SMS
4 2 (0.539%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (23.18%) SQL Server
2 27 (7.278%) SQL Server 2008
3 21 (5.660%) MySQL
4 16 (4.313%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 13 (3.504%) SQL Server 2005
6 11 (2.965%) SQL Server 2000
7 9 (2.426%) DB2
7 9 (2.426%) OLTP
7 9 (2.426%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 8 (2.156%) Oracle 10g
9 6 (1.617%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.078%) Big Data
11 3 (0.809%) MS Access
11 3 (0.809%) Oracle 8/8i
11 3 (0.809%) Crystal Reports
11 3 (0.809%) OLAP
11 3 (0.809%) SQL Server 2012
12 2 (0.539%) Oracle 11g
12 2 (0.539%) DTS
13 1 (0.270%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 34 (9.164%) Visual Studio
2 21 (5.660%) Team Foundation Server
3 16 (4.313%) Selenium
3 16 (4.313%) NUnit
4 14 (3.774%) MSTest
4 14 (3.774%) JIRA
4 14 (3.774%) Rhino Mocks
4 14 (3.774%) Moq
4 14 (3.774%) JUnit
5 13 (3.504%) Subversion
6 11 (2.965%) Git (software)
7 9 (2.426%) Maven
8 7 (1.887%) Ant
8 7 (1.887%) Eclipse
9 6 (1.617%) ClearCase
10 5 (1.348%) Log4j
10 5 (1.348%) Mercurial
11 4 (1.078%) Mockito
11 4 (1.078%) Concordion
12 3 (0.809%) Cucumber
General
1 71 (19.14%) Finance
2 21 (5.660%) Retail
2 21 (5.660%) Legal
3 9 (2.426%) Banking
4 7 (1.887%) Games
5 6 (1.617%) Advertising
5 6 (1.617%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (1.078%) Retail Banking
7 3 (0.809%) Manufacturing
7 3 (0.809%) Marketing
8 2 (0.539%) Local Government
8 2 (0.539%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (0.539%) Automotive
8 2 (0.539%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.539%) Back Office
8 2 (0.539%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 217 (58.49%) Developer
2 68 (18.33%) .NET Developer
2 68 (18.33%) Analyst
3 59 (15.90%) Business Analyst
4 46 (12.40%) Java Developer
5 34 (9.164%) Web Developer
6 21 (5.660%) Data Analyst
7 19 (5.121%) Senior Developer
7 19 (5.121%) Software Developer
8 18 (4.852%) Junior
9 17 (4.582%) Architect
9 17 (4.582%) C# Developer
9 17 (4.582%) Agile Business Analyst
10 15 (4.043%) SQL Developer
11 13 (3.504%) Project Manager
11 13 (3.504%) C# .NET Developer
12 12 (3.235%) Solutions Architect
12 12 (3.235%) Junior Developer
13 11 (2.965%) Graduate
13 11 (2.965%) Graduate Developer
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.008%) Computer Science
2 14 (3.774%) Inversion of Control
3 11 (2.965%) Web 2.0
4 10 (2.695%) Replication
5 8 (2.156%) Life Science
6 7 (1.887%) Open Source
7 6 (1.617%) Social Media
7 6 (1.617%) Clustering
7 6 (1.617%) Client/Server
8 5 (1.348%) PMI
8 5 (1.348%) LIMS
8 5 (1.348%) SaaS
9 4 (1.078%) IBM Mainframe
9 4 (1.078%) Online Banking
9 4 (1.078%) Mobile Banking
9 4 (1.078%) Mainframe
10 3 (0.809%) N-Tier
10 3 (0.809%) e-Health
10 3 (0.809%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.809%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 37 (9.973%) Windows
2 35 (9.434%) Linux
3 25 (6.739%) UNIX
4 9 (2.426%) Windows XP
5 5 (1.348%) Solaris
6 4 (1.078%) Android
6 4 (1.078%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.809%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.270%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (28.30%) Scrum
2 95 (25.61%) MVC
3 89 (23.99%) TDD
4 85 (22.91%) E-Commerce
5 39 (10.51%) Waterfall
6 34 (9.164%) OO
7 33 (8.895%) Unit Testing
7 33 (8.895%) Continuous Integration
8 32 (8.625%) Stakeholder Management
9 31 (8.356%) Migration
9 31 (8.356%) Pair Programming
9 31 (8.356%) Project Management
10 29 (7.817%) Web Development
11 26 (7.008%) Data Migration
12 25 (6.739%) User Stories
12 25 (6.739%) Data Management
13 24 (6.469%) MVVM
14 23 (6.199%) Kanban
15 22 (5.930%) ETL
15 22 (5.930%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 115 (31.00%) JavaScript
2 113 (30.46%) C#
3 106 (28.57%) SQL
4 90 (24.26%) Java
5 35 (9.434%) PHP
6 25 (6.739%) PL/SQL
7 23 (6.199%) T-SQL
8 14 (3.774%) C++
9 13 (3.504%) VB.NET
10 12 (3.235%) XPath
11 11 (2.965%) Perl
12 9 (2.426%) VB
13 8 (2.156%) Ruby
13 8 (2.156%) VB6
14 5 (1.348%) C
15 4 (1.078%) Python
16 3 (0.809%) VBA
17 2 (0.539%) Assembly Language
17 2 (0.539%) FoxPro (VFP)
17 2 (0.539%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 29 (7.817%) Degree
2 21 (5.660%) ISEB
3 19 (5.121%) ISTQB
3 19 (5.121%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (3.774%) MCTS
4 14 (3.774%) MCP
4 14 (3.774%) MCAD
4 14 (3.774%) MCSD
5 9 (2.426%) Security Cleared
6 5 (1.348%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.582%) QA
2 2 (0.539%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (0.809%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 6 (1.617%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 61 (16.44%) Microsoft
2 45 (12.13%) Oracle
3 11 (2.965%) Zend
4 10 (2.695%) hybris
4 10 (2.695%) Apple
5 9 (2.426%) JBoss
5 9 (2.426%) IBM
6 7 (1.887%) Ab Initio
6 7 (1.887%) EPiServer
7 6 (1.617%) Infor
7 6 (1.617%) Sage
7 6 (1.617%) HP
8 3 (0.809%) Siebel
8 3 (0.809%) Avaya
8 3 (0.809%) Citrix
8 3 (0.809%) Cognizant
8 3 (0.809%) Perforce
9 2 (0.539%) Twitter
10 1 (0.270%) SAP
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Posted: 17 May 2013
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