Edinburgh Agile Software Development Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills within the Edinburgh region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT job ads that have cited Agile Software Development over the 3 months to 9 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Agile Software Development
Location Amersham Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Chatham Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Corby County Antrim Coventry Cranleigh Crawley Croydon Cumbria Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Folkestone Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Penicuik Peterborough Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Rugby Runcorn Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset Somerton South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stirlingshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 9 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	69	80
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching permanent IT job ads	20	28
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.010 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	2.301 %	2.424 %
Salaries quoted	11	17
Average minimum salary	£29,091	£38,529
Average salary	£32,182	£41,324
% change on same period last year	-22.12 %
Average maximum salary	£35,273	£44,118
UK excluding London average salary	£40,572	£42,551
% change on same period last year	-4.65 %
Processes & Methodologies Edinburgh
Matching permanent IT job ads	869	1155
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.447 %	0.481 %
Salaries quoted	610	777
Average minimum salary	£34,313	£36,328
Average salary	£37,672	£39,124
% change on same period last year	-3.71 %
Average maximum salary	£41,031	£41,920
UK excluding London average salary	£42,534	£44,521
% change on same period last year	-4.46 %
Agile Software Development Scotland

Agile Software Development
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Agile Software Development across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Agile Software Development
Salary Trend

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

Agile Software Development
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Agile Software Development across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 9 July 2008.

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 July 2008, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 34 (65.38 %) C# 2 33 (63.46 %) C++ 3 22 (42.31 %) OO 3 22 (42.31 %) Degree 4 20 (38.46 %) XML 4 20 (38.46 %) J2SE 5 19 (36.54 %) Java 6 17 (32.69 %) Swing 7 12 (23.08 %) .NET 8 10 (19.23 %) Smartcard 9 9 (17.31 %) Scrum 10 8 (15.38 %) Extreme Programming 10 8 (15.38 %) OOD 11 7 (13.46 %) SQL Server 11 7 (13.46 %) Finance

12 6 (11.54 %) Visual Studio 12 6 (11.54 %) Software Engineering 12 6 (11.54 %) Pensions 13 5 (9.615 %) Unit Testing 13 5 (9.615 %) ASP.NET 13 5 (9.615 %) SQL 13 5 (9.615 %) VB 14 4 (7.692 %) MS Office 14 4 (7.692 %) UML 14 4 (7.692 %) Microsoft 14 4 (7.692 %) ISEB 14 4 (7.692 %) MS Visio 14 4 (7.692 %) Physics 14 4 (7.692 %) Pair Programming 15 3 (5.769 %) .NET Framework

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 July 2008, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 20 (38.46 %) XML 1 20 (38.46 %) J2SE 2 17 (32.69 %) Swing 3 12 (23.08 %) .NET 4 5 (9.615 %) ASP.NET 5 3 (5.769 %) ActiveX 5 3 (5.769 %) DirectX 5 3 (5.769 %) .NET Framework 6 1 (1.923 %) Java EE 6 1 (1.923 %) WinForms 6 1 (1.923 %) Spring 6 1 (1.923 %) NHibernate 6 1 (1.923 %) HTML 6 1 (1.923 %) CSS 6 1 (1.923 %) WebServices 6 1 (1.923 %) J2EE 6 1 (1.923 %) ASP	Applications 1 4 (7.692 %) MS Office 1 4 (7.692 %) MS Visio 2 2 (3.846 %) MS Excel 3 1 (1.923 %) MS Project
Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (13.46 %) SQL Server 2 2 (3.846 %) SQL Server 2000 2 2 (3.846 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (1.923 %) SQL Server Integration Services 3 1 (1.923 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 3 1 (1.923 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 3 1 (1.923 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 3 1 (1.923 %) Oracle 9i 3 1 (1.923 %) DTS 3 1 (1.923 %) Oracle 10g	Development Applications 1 6 (11.54 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (3.846 %) TestDirector 3 1 (1.923 %) NUnit 3 1 (1.923 %) Subversion 3 1 (1.923 %) Visual Studio Team System
General 1 7 (13.46 %) Finance 2 6 (11.54 %) Pensions 3 2 (3.846 %) Telecoms 4 1 (1.923 %) Financial Institution 4 1 (1.923 %) Construction 4 1 (1.923 %) Education 4 1 (1.923 %) Health 4 1 (1.923 %) Manufacturing 4 1 (1.923 %) Games 4 1 (1.923 %) Banking 4 1 (1.923 %) Retail 4 1 (1.923 %) Insurance	Job Titles 1 27 (51.92 %) Developer 2 14 (26.92 %) Software Engineer 3 11 (21.15 %) Senior Developer 4 10 (19.23 %) Software Developer 5 6 (11.54 %) Analyst 5 6 (11.54 %) C++ Developer 6 4 (7.692 %) Business Analyst 6 4 (7.692 %) Senior C++ Developer 7 3 (5.769 %) Senior Software Engineer 8 2 (3.846 %) ASP.NET Developer 8 2 (3.846 %) Web Developer 8 2 (3.846 %) Java Developer 8 2 (3.846 %) .NET Developer 8 2 (3.846 %) .NET Web Developer 9 1 (1.923 %) Senior J2EE Developer 9 1 (1.923 %) Senior C# Developer 9 1 (1.923 %) Senior Java Developer 9 1 (1.923 %) C# Developer 9 1 (1.923 %) Embedded Software Engineer 9 1 (1.923 %) Analyst Programmer
Miscellaneous 1 10 (19.23 %) Smartcard 2 4 (7.692 %) Physics 3 2 (3.846 %) Computer Science 3 2 (3.846 %) French Language 3 2 (3.846 %) German Language 3 2 (3.846 %) Japanese Language 3 2 (3.846 %) CCTV 3 2 (3.846 %) Mathematics 4 1 (1.923 %) Mainframe 4 1 (1.923 %) Web 2.0 4 1 (1.923 %) Polish Language 4 1 (1.923 %) Firmware	Operating Systems 1 2 (3.846 %) Windows 2 1 (1.923 %) Linux 2 1 (1.923 %) Unix
Processes & Methodologies 1 22 (42.31 %) OO 2 9 (17.31 %) Scrum 3 8 (15.38 %) Extreme Programming 3 8 (15.38 %) OOD 4 6 (11.54 %) Software Engineering 5 5 (9.615 %) Unit Testing 6 4 (7.692 %) Pair Programming 6 4 (7.692 %) UML 7 3 (5.769 %) OOP 7 3 (5.769 %) Project Management 8 2 (3.846 %) Change Management 8 2 (3.846 %) TDD 8 2 (3.846 %) Business Analysis 8 2 (3.846 %) Web Development 9 1 (1.923 %) Test Scripting 9 1 (1.923 %) Continuous Integration 9 1 (1.923 %) ITIL 9 1 (1.923 %) Workflow 9 1 (1.923 %) SOA 9 1 (1.923 %) Configuration Management	Programming Languages 1 34 (65.38 %) C# 2 33 (63.46 %) C++ 3 19 (36.54 %) Java 4 5 (9.615 %) SQL 4 5 (9.615 %) VB 5 3 (5.769 %) VC++ 5 3 (5.769 %) C 6 1 (1.923 %) Embedded C 6 1 (1.923 %) Embedded C++ 6 1 (1.923 %) VB.NET 6 1 (1.923 %) PL/SQL
Qualifications 1 22 (42.31 %) Degree 2 4 (7.692 %) ISEB	Vendors 1 4 (7.692 %) Microsoft 2 1 (1.923 %) Oracle