The first table below looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills in IT jobs advertised for the Stevenage 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 Stevenage region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Agile Software Development
Rank 28 25 19
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -6
Permanent jobs citing Agile Software Development 7 22 20
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stevenage 4.795% 10.78% 10.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.983% 13.58% 12.58%
Number of salaries quoted 5 22 18
Average salary £47,500 £50,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.00% +17.64%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £42,500 £39,100
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £52,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Processes & Methodologies
Stevenage
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
117 162 159
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stevenage 80.14% 79.41% 79.90%
Number of salaries quoted 36 148 154
Average salary £40,000 £50,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.00% +17.64%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £35,000 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £50,000 £59,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Agile Software Development
Hertfordshire

Agile Software Development
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stevenage 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 Stevenage region.

Stevenage 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 Stevenage region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Stevenage Agile Software Development Salary Histogram

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stevenage 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 9 (60.00%) Scrum
2 7 (46.67%) CSS
3 6 (40.00%) TDD
3 6 (40.00%) Ruby on Rails
3 6 (40.00%) Ruby
3 6 (40.00%) Selenium
3 6 (40.00%) Cucumber
4 5 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 5 (33.33%) Linux
5 4 (26.67%) Mac OS X
5 4 (26.67%) Internet
5 4 (26.67%) SQL
5 4 (26.67%) HTML
5 4 (26.67%) Java
5 4 (26.67%) MySQL
5 4 (26.67%) Ajax
5 4 (26.67%) Degree
5 4 (26.67%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (26.67%) HTML5
6 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
6 3 (20.00%) Web Services
6 3 (20.00%) C#
6 3 (20.00%) UML
6 3 (20.00%) Windows
6 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
7 2 (13.33%) ISEB
7 2 (13.33%) JBoss
7 2 (13.33%) Tomcat
7 2 (13.33%) C
7 2 (13.33%) Middleware

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stevenage 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 7 (46.67%) CSS
2 6 (40.00%) Ruby on Rails
3 4 (26.67%) HTML
3 4 (26.67%) Ajax
3 4 (26.67%) HTML5
4 3 (20.00%) Web Services
5 2 (13.33%) Middleware
5 2 (13.33%) .NET
5 2 (13.33%) Servlets
5 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET
5 2 (13.33%) Hibernate
5 2 (13.33%) WinForms
5 2 (13.33%) .NET Framework
5 2 (13.33%) Java EE
5 2 (13.33%) Spring
5 2 (13.33%) JSF
6 1 (6.667%) CSS3
6 1 (6.667%) WCF
6 1 (6.667%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) Internet
2 2 (13.33%) Intranet
3 1 (6.667%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) MySQL
1 4 (26.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (13.33%) OLAP
2 2 (13.33%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 2 (13.33%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (6.667%) MongoDB
3 1 (6.667%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Selenium
1 6 (40.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (13.33%) Git (software)
2 2 (13.33%) Subversion
2 2 (13.33%) RSpec
3 1 (6.667%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (13.33%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Developer
2 5 (33.33%) Ruby Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Software Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Java Developer
3 2 (13.33%) SQL Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Development Team Leader
4 1 (6.667%) QA Tester
4 1 (6.667%) Web Designer
4 1 (6.667%) Team Leader
4 1 (6.667%) Software Tester
4 1 (6.667%) Graduate Software Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) Designer
4 1 (6.667%) Graduate
4 1 (6.667%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Linux
2 4 (26.67%) Mac OS X
3 3 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Scrum
2 6 (40.00%) TDD
3 3 (20.00%) UML
4 2 (13.33%) Software Testing
4 2 (13.33%) Test Scripting
4 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
5 1 (6.667%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (6.667%) Software Deployment
5 1 (6.667%) User Stories
5 1 (6.667%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (6.667%) Unit Testing
5 1 (6.667%) MVC
5 1 (6.667%) OO
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Ruby
2 5 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 4 (26.67%) SQL
3 4 (26.67%) Java
4 3 (20.00%) C#
5 2 (13.33%) C
5 2 (13.33%) T-SQL
6 1 (6.667%) PHP
6 1 (6.667%) C++
6 1 (6.667%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) ISEB
2 2 (13.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) JBoss