Hertfordshire Agile Software Development Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills within the Hertfordshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Agile Software Development over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Agile Software Development
Location Amersham Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Carmarthenshire Channel Islands Chatham Cheltenham Cheshire Chessington Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Durham 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 Harrow Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston Llanelli London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes New Milton Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Penicuik Peterborough Pontefract Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Rugby Runcorn Salford Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset Somerton South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stirling Stirlingshire Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Street 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 Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Witham Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	103	144
Rank change on same period last year	+41
Matching permanent IT job ads	65	33
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.034 %	0.014 %
As % of the category below	2.450 %	1.196 %
Salaries quoted	63	29
Average minimum salary	£48,873	£37,172
Average salary	£51,516	£39,414
% change on same period last year	+30.70 %
Average maximum salary	£54,159	£41,655
UK excluding London average salary	£40,434	£42,768
% change on same period last year	-5.45 %
Processes & Methodologies Hertfordshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	2653	2760
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.401 %	1.130 %
Salaries quoted	2268	2351
Average minimum salary	£41,255	£41,173
Average salary	£45,809	£44,395
% change on same period last year	+3.18 %
Average maximum salary	£50,362	£47,618
UK excluding London average salary	£42,567	£44,524
% change on same period last year	-4.39 %
Agile Software Development East of England

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 Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Agile Software Development
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Agile Software Development across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Agile Software Development
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Software Development within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
St Albans	-	23	£48,795	-
Watford	-9	9	£56,389	+41.41 %

Agile Software Development East of England

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 44 (47.83 %) .NET 2 33 (35.87 %) C# 3 31 (33.70 %) Microsoft 4 26 (28.26 %) Scrum 5 25 (27.17 %) OO 6 23 (25.00 %) ASP.NET 7 20 (21.74 %) C++ 8 19 (20.65 %) SQL Server 9 16 (17.39 %) SQL 9 16 (17.39 %) XML 10 13 (14.13 %) Retail 10 13 (14.13 %) Marketing 10 13 (14.13 %) Java 10 13 (14.13 %) Visual Studio 11 12 (13.04 %) Internet

11 12 (13.04 %) BizTalk Server 11 12 (13.04 %) Product Marketing 12 11 (11.96 %) Degree 12 11 (11.96 %) AJAX 13 10 (10.87 %) WinForms 13 10 (10.87 %) B2B 13 10 (10.87 %) VB 13 10 (10.87 %) Oracle 13 10 (10.87 %) Strategic Planning 13 10 (10.87 %) Use Case 14 9 (9.783 %) TDD 14 9 (9.783 %) XSLT 15 8 (8.696 %) Business Intelligence 15 8 (8.696 %) RAD 15 8 (8.696 %) E-Commerce

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 44 (47.83 %) .NET 2 23 (25.00 %) ASP.NET 3 16 (17.39 %) XML 4 11 (11.96 %) AJAX 5 10 (10.87 %) WinForms 6 9 (9.783 %) XSLT 7 8 (8.696 %) MFC 7 8 (8.696 %) ASP 8 7 (7.609 %) .NET Framework 8 7 (7.609 %) CSS 8 7 (7.609 %) JSP 9 6 (6.522 %) COM+ 10 5 (5.435 %) J2EE 10 5 (5.435 %) WebServices 11 4 (4.348 %) Ruby on Rails 11 4 (4.348 %) HTML 12 3 (3.261 %) ADO.NET 12 3 (3.261 %) XHTML 12 3 (3.261 %) WPF 13 2 (2.174 %) WCF	Application Platforms 1 12 (13.04 %) BizTalk Server 2 3 (3.261 %) IIS 3 2 (2.174 %) Apache 3 2 (2.174 %) SharePoint 4 1 (1.087 %) JBoss 4 1 (1.087 %) CMS 4 1 (1.087 %) WebLogic
Applications 1 7 (7.609 %) MS Excel 2 3 (3.261 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 2 (2.174 %) Singl.eView 1 2 (2.174 %) BASE24
Communications & Networking 1 12 (13.04 %) Internet 2 2 (2.174 %) SMTP 2 2 (2.174 %) FTP 2 2 (2.174 %) HTTP 2 2 (2.174 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (1.087 %) LDAP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 19 (20.65 %) SQL Server 2 6 (6.522 %) Datawarehouse 2 6 (6.522 %) SQL Server 2005 3 3 (3.261 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 3 3 (3.261 %) SQL Server 2000 3 3 (3.261 %) MySQL 4 2 (2.174 %) MS Access 4 2 (2.174 %) DB2 4 2 (2.174 %) PostgreSQL 5 1 (1.087 %) RDBMS 5 1 (1.087 %) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications 1 13 (14.13 %) Visual Studio 2 6 (6.522 %) Eclipse 3 5 (5.435 %) TestDirector 4 3 (3.261 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 3 (3.261 %) Ant 4 3 (3.261 %) Subversion 5 2 (2.174 %) NUnit 5 2 (2.174 %) CruiseControl 6 1 (1.087 %) Flash	General 1 13 (14.13 %) Retail 1 13 (14.13 %) Marketing 2 7 (7.609 %) Telecoms 3 5 (5.435 %) Aerospace 4 4 (4.348 %) Games 5 2 (2.174 %) Graphic Design 6 1 (1.087 %) Health
Job Titles 1 31 (33.70 %) Developer 2 17 (18.48 %) Project Manager 3 14 (15.22 %) C# Developer 3 14 (15.22 %) Product Manager 4 13 (14.13 %) Analyst 5 11 (11.96 %) Senior Developer 6 10 (10.87 %) Development Manager 6 10 (10.87 %) Senior Manager 6 10 (10.87 %) Marketing Manager 6 10 (10.87 %) Product Marketing Manager 7 9 (9.783 %) Senior Project Manager 8 8 (8.696 %) .NET Developer 8 8 (8.696 %) Senior C# Developer 9 7 (7.609 %) VB Developer 10 6 (6.522 %) Analyst Developer 11 4 (4.348 %) Software Developer 11 4 (4.348 %) Programme Manager 11 4 (4.348 %) Software Engineer 12 3 (3.261 %) Test Analyst 12 3 (3.261 %) Support Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 6 (6.522 %) N-Tier 2 5 (5.435 %) IPTV 2 5 (5.435 %) Computer Science 3 2 (2.174 %) DTV 3 2 (2.174 %) STB 4 1 (1.087 %) iDTV 4 1 (1.087 %) Multithreading
Operating Systems 1 7 (7.609 %) Windows 2 6 (6.522 %) Linux 2 6 (6.522 %) UNIX 3 2 (2.174 %) zOS	Processes & Methodologies 1 26 (28.26 %) Scrum 2 25 (27.17 %) OO 3 12 (13.04 %) Product Marketing 4 10 (10.87 %) B2B 4 10 (10.87 %) Strategic Planning 4 10 (10.87 %) Use Case 5 9 (9.783 %) TDD 6 8 (8.696 %) RAD 6 8 (8.696 %) E-Commerce 6 8 (8.696 %) Business Intelligence 7 7 (7.609 %) OOD 7 7 (7.609 %) PRINCE2 8 5 (5.435 %) UML 8 5 (5.435 %) Configuration Management 8 5 (5.435 %) Project Management 8 5 (5.435 %) Extreme Programming 8 5 (5.435 %) Programme Management 8 5 (5.435 %) Unit Testing 9 4 (4.348 %) Release Management 9 4 (4.348 %) Web Development
Programming Languages 1 33 (35.87 %) C# 2 20 (21.74 %) C++ 3 16 (17.39 %) SQL 4 13 (14.13 %) Java 5 10 (10.87 %) VB 6 4 (4.348 %) JavaScript 6 4 (4.348 %) Ruby 7 3 (3.261 %) VBA 8 2 (2.174 %) Python 8 2 (2.174 %) VB6 8 2 (2.174 %) PHP5 8 2 (2.174 %) PHP 8 2 (2.174 %) DHTML 8 2 (2.174 %) Transact-SQL 9 1 (1.087 %) VB.NET 9 1 (1.087 %) ActionScript 9 1 (1.087 %) C 9 1 (1.087 %) XPath	Qualifications 1 11 (11.96 %) Degree 2 5 (5.435 %) Microsoft Certification 3 2 (2.174 %) ISEB 3 2 (2.174 %) MCP 3 2 (2.174 %) MCAD 4 1 (1.087 %) MCSD 4 1 (1.087 %) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.087 %) SLA	Vendors 1 31 (33.70 %) Microsoft 2 10 (10.87 %) Oracle 3 2 (2.174 %) IBM 3 2 (2.174 %) Serena 4 1 (1.087 %) Adobe