The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Agile Software Development over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category.

Agile Software Development
Location
3 months to
21 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank212427
Rank change year-on-year
Up+3Up+3
Matching permanent IT job ads1008484305366
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK8.321 %6.909 %5.635 %
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category11.28 %9.489 %7.964 %
Number of salaries quoted904973244558
Average salary£45,000£45,000£47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
--5.26 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£32,500£32,000£32,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£70,000£72,500£72,500
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£40,000£38,500
% change year-on-year
-+3.89 %
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryAll Processes & Methodologies
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
893688884467380
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK73.74 %72.81 %70.76 %
Number of salaries quoted759367435255206
Average salary£47,000£47,500£47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.05 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£30,000£29,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£75,000£77,500£75,000
UK excluding London average salary£41,000£40,000£40,000
% change year-on-year
+2.50 %-

Agile Software Development
Demand Trend

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

Agile Software Development Demand Trend

Agile Software Development
Salary Trend

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

Agile Software Development Salary Trend

Agile Software Development
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Agile Software Development over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 within the UK.

Agile Software Development Salary Histogram

Agile Software Development
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+49599£45,000-4.25 %
LondonUp+54954£52,500-
South EastUp+61893£45,000-
City of LondonUp+41160£57,500+4.54 %
East of EnglandUp+7741£45,000+12.50 %
SurreyUp+1556£47,500-
North WestDown-7550£37,000+5.71 %
YorkshireUp+17546£35,000+2.94 %
BerkshireUp+21532£40,000-11.11 %
South WestUp+6389£37,500-
West YorkshireUp+9374£36,250+4.31 %
CambridgeshireUp+4330£46,250+15.62 %
West MidlandsUp+31299£42,500+6.25 %
ScotlandUp+7285£40,000+5.26 %
HampshireUp+21279£40,000+1.26 %
LeedsUp+6267£37,500+10.29 %
ManchesterDown-12251£35,000+6.06 %
East MidlandsUp+31192£40,000+14.28 %
CheshireUp+2181£37,500-11.76 %
CambridgeNo change0181£42,500+13.33 %
ReadingUp+21177£37,500-2.59 %
EdinburghUp+16163£40,000+14.28 %
West SussexUp+12161£45,000-9.09 %
HertfordshireDown-7146£50,000+25.00 %
SouthamptonUp+11139£37,500-2.59 %
WalesUp+3124£32,500-18.75 %
WarwickshireUp+7119£45,000+12.50 %
BristolDown-3117£38,750-3.12 %
NottinghamshireUp+29109£40,000+14.28 %
South WalesNo change0107£35,000-16.66 %

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

16810 (35.28 %)Java
26386 (33.08 %).NET
36187 (32.05 %)C#
45008 (25.95 %)SQL
54501 (23.32 %)JavaScript
64484 (23.23 %)Scrum
74430 (22.95 %)Finance
84215 (21.84 %)SQL Server
93772 (19.54 %)CSS
103609 (18.70 %)TDD
113539 (18.33 %)HTML
123502 (18.14 %)OO
133464 (17.95 %)Degree
143462 (17.94 %)ASP.NET
153104 (16.08 %)XML
162700 (13.99 %)Web Services
172686 (13.92 %)MVC
182543 (13.17 %)Oracle
192541 (13.16 %)Spring
202364 (12.25 %)Microsoft
212284 (11.83 %)Linux
222278 (11.80 %)E-Commerce
232196 (11.38 %)QA
242070 (10.72 %)jQuery
252016 (10.44 %)J2EE
261990 (10.31 %)Project Management
271911 (9.901 %)Windows
281839 (9.528 %)C++
291836 (9.512 %)Ajax
301803 (9.341 %)Hibernate

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
16386 (33.08 %).NET
23772 (19.54 %)CSS
33539 (18.33 %)HTML
43462 (17.94 %)ASP.NET
53104 (16.08 %)XML
62700 (13.99 %)Web Services
72541 (13.16 %)Spring
82070 (10.72 %)jQuery
92016 (10.44 %)J2EE
101836 (9.512 %)Ajax
111803 (9.341 %)Hibernate
121614 (8.362 %)WCF
131219 (6.315 %).NET Framework
141031 (5.341 %)WPF
15968 (5.015 %)ASP.NET MVC
16931 (4.823 %)HTML5
17857 (4.440 %)JSP
18820 (4.248 %)SOAP
19802 (4.155 %)XHTML
20777 (4.025 %)XSLT
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11045 (5.414 %)Apache
2966 (5.005 %)Tomcat
3709 (3.673 %)SharePoint
4583 (3.020 %)CMS
5381 (1.974 %)WebLogic
6351 (1.818 %)IIS
7218 (1.129 %)SharePoint 2010
8204 (1.057 %)BizTalk Server
9200 (1.036 %)SharePoint Server
10180 (0.933 %)Drupal
11151 (0.782 %)ESB
12140 (0.725 %)Jetty
13127 (0.658 %)ActiveMQ
14121 (0.627 %)Apache Solr
15119 (0.617 %)Umbraco
1697 (0.503 %)Magento
1789 (0.461 %)Oracle Coherence
1888 (0.456 %)Confluence
1986 (0.446 %)GlassFish
2078 (0.404 %)Amazon AWS
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11127 (5.839 %)MS Excel
2626 (3.243 %)MS Visio
3289 (1.497 %)MS Office
4230 (1.192 %)Photoshop
5161 (0.834 %)MS Project
6109 (0.565 %)MS PowerPoint
785 (0.440 %)MATLAB
881 (0.420 %)Adobe Illustrator
962 (0.321 %)Mingle
1046 (0.238 %)Fireworks
1135 (0.181 %)Google Apps
1231 (0.161 %)InfoPath
1316 (0.083 %)Spreadsheet
1415 (0.078 %)PowerPivot
1512 (0.062 %)OmniGraffle
1611 (0.057 %)XMetaL
1710 (0.052 %)Adobe After Effects
188 (0.041 %)Acrobat
188 (0.041 %)FrameMaker
197 (0.036 %)Paint Shop Pro
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1190 (0.984 %)Dynamics CRM
274 (0.383 %)Oracle BPM
356 (0.290 %)Google Analytics
425 (0.130 %)Oracle EBS
521 (0.109 %)WebTrends
619 (0.098 %)Dynamics AX
718 (0.093 %)Oracle Applications
817 (0.088 %)ION MarketView
915 (0.078 %)RMDS
1013 (0.067 %)Oracle EBS R12
1111 (0.057 %)Visualfiles
1210 (0.052 %)SAP CRM
138 (0.041 %)Oracle 11i
138 (0.041 %)SiteCatalyst
147 (0.036 %)Teamcenter
156 (0.031 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
156 (0.031 %)ENOVIA
165 (0.026 %)SAP HR
165 (0.026 %)Endur
165 (0.026 %)SAP FI
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1895 (4.637 %)Internet
2393 (2.036 %)HTTP
3260 (1.347 %)TCP/IP
4204 (1.057 %)Intranet
5125 (0.648 %)GSM
6114 (0.591 %)UMTS
7106 (0.549 %)Broadband
876 (0.394 %)SAN
975 (0.389 %)Firewall
1070 (0.363 %)LDAP
1154 (0.280 %)LAN
1244 (0.228 %)WAN
1343 (0.223 %)DNS
1442 (0.218 %)Wireless
1539 (0.202 %)SNMP
1539 (0.202 %)VoIP
1637 (0.192 %)SSL
1730 (0.155 %)AMQP
1730 (0.155 %)SMTP
1825 (0.130 %)VPN
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
14215 (21.84 %)SQL Server
21615 (8.367 %)MySQL
31131 (5.859 %)SQL Server 2008
4856 (4.435 %)SQL Server 2005
5536 (2.777 %)RDBMS
6441 (2.285 %)SQL Server Integration Services
7420 (2.176 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
8348 (1.803 %)Data Warehouse
9270 (1.399 %)NoSQL
10251 (1.300 %)ETL
11231 (1.197 %)PostgreSQL
12199 (1.031 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
13183 (0.948 %)Hadoop
14156 (0.808 %)Oracle 11g
15152 (0.787 %)Data Mining
16127 (0.658 %)Oracle 8/8i
17122 (0.632 %)MongoDB
18120 (0.622 %)Oracle 10g
1999 (0.513 %)SQL Server 2000
2091 (0.471 %)Apache Cassandra
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
11386 (7.181 %)Subversion
21238 (6.414 %)Selenium
31017 (5.269 %)Visual Studio
4895 (4.637 %)JUnit
5686 (3.554 %)Maven
6643 (3.331 %)Git (software)
7611 (3.165 %)Eclipse
8610 (3.160 %)Team Foundation Server
9601 (3.114 %)Ant
10552 (2.860 %)NUnit
11457 (2.368 %)Cucumber
12424 (2.197 %)JIRA
13372 (1.927 %)QuickTest Pro
14274 (1.420 %)Hudson
15260 (1.347 %)FitNesse
16202 (1.047 %)Rhino Mocks
17178 (0.922 %)TeamCity
18172 (0.891 %)RSpec
19169 (0.876 %)WebDriver
20163 (0.844 %)Bugzilla
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
14430 (22.95 %)Finance
21363 (7.061 %)Banking
3998 (5.170 %)Telecoms
4881 (4.564 %)Games
5695 (3.601 %)Retail
6611 (3.165 %)Marketing
7499 (2.585 %)Investment Banking
8481 (2.492 %)Front Office
9310 (1.606 %)Back Office
10291 (1.508 %)Publishing
11252 (1.306 %)Advertising
12173 (0.896 %)Legal
13140 (0.725 %)Law
14108 (0.560 %)Financial Institution
1591 (0.471 %)Billing
1677 (0.399 %)Automotive
1775 (0.389 %)Multimedia
1869 (0.357 %)Pharmaceutical
1967 (0.347 %)Electronics
2062 (0.321 %)Online Betting
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
110338 (53.56 %)Developer
22798 (14.50 %)Java Developer
32264 (11.73 %)Senior Developer
42247 (11.64 %).NET Developer
52201 (11.40 %)Analyst
61728 (8.952 %)C# Developer
71524 (7.896 %)Project Manager
81171 (6.067 %)Software Developer
91167 (6.046 %)C# .NET Developer
101049 (5.435 %)Business Analyst
111025 (5.310 %)Web Developer
12988 (5.119 %)Software Engineer
13822 (4.259 %)ASP.NET Developer
14807 (4.181 %)Tester
15784 (4.062 %)Senior Java Developer
16773 (4.005 %)Architect
17661 (3.425 %)Test Analyst
18610 (3.160 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
19577 (2.989 %)PHP Developer
20539 (2.792 %)Agile Project Manager
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11595 (8.263 %)Computer Science
2949 (4.917 %)Open Source
3582 (3.015 %)Mathematics
4536 (2.777 %)Derivative
5408 (2.114 %)iPhone
6368 (1.907 %)Social Media
7356 (1.844 %)N-Tier
8354 (1.834 %)Online Games
9316 (1.637 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
10283 (1.466 %)Blackberry
11282 (1.461 %)SaaS
12235 (1.217 %)Digital Media
13213 (1.104 %)Hedge funds
14193 (1.000 %)iPad
15192 (0.995 %)Web 2.0
16182 (0.943 %)Client/Server
17169 (0.876 %)Fixed Income
18168 (0.870 %)Management Information System
19164 (0.850 %)Social Network
20159 (0.824 %)Equities
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
12284 (11.83 %)Linux
21911 (9.901 %)Windows
31349 (6.989 %)UNIX
4744 (3.855 %)Android
5419 (2.171 %)Apple iOS
6244 (1.264 %)Solaris
7129 (0.668 %)CentOS
8111 (0.575 %)Windows Server 2008
9107 (0.554 %)Mac OS X
1096 (0.497 %)Windows Server 2003
1194 (0.487 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1282 (0.425 %)Windows Mobile
1375 (0.389 %)Debian
1471 (0.368 %)Windows 7
1567 (0.347 %)Windows Vista
1657 (0.295 %)VxWorks
1750 (0.259 %)Windows XP
1750 (0.259 %)LynxOS
1849 (0.254 %)Mac OS
1944 (0.228 %)Ubuntu
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
14484 (23.23 %)Scrum
23609 (18.70 %)TDD
33502 (18.14 %)OO
42686 (13.92 %)MVC
52278 (11.80 %)E-Commerce
61990 (10.31 %)Project Management
71410 (7.305 %)Continuous Integration
81384 (7.170 %)UML
91337 (6.927 %)Unit Testing
101221 (6.326 %)Web Development
111026 (5.316 %)Automated Testing
12924 (4.787 %)Waterfall
13903 (4.678 %)Software Engineering
14902 (4.673 %)Multithreading
15866 (4.487 %)BDD
16827 (4.285 %)PRINCE2
17771 (3.994 %)OOP
18739 (3.829 %)SOA
19735 (3.808 %)Business Analysis
20674 (3.492 %)Test Automation
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
16810 (35.28 %)Java
26187 (32.05 %)C#
35008 (25.95 %)SQL
44501 (23.32 %)JavaScript
51839 (9.528 %)C++
61507 (7.807 %)PHP
7970 (5.025 %)Python
8848 (4.393 %)Ruby
9779 (4.036 %)C
10740 (3.834 %)T-SQL
11656 (3.399 %)VB.NET
12638 (3.305 %)Perl
13370 (1.917 %)VB
14355 (1.839 %)XPath
15325 (1.684 %)PL/SQL
16259 (1.342 %)PHP5
17240 (1.243 %)Groovy
18231 (1.197 %)Scala
19228 (1.181 %)ActionScript
20203 (1.052 %)Bash shell
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
13464 (17.95 %)Degree
2851 (4.409 %)ISEB
3384 (1.989 %)Microsoft Certification
4338 (1.751 %)ISTQB
5296 (1.534 %)Security Cleared
6198 (1.026 %)PRINCE2 Certification
7183 (0.948 %)SC Cleared
8175 (0.907 %)MCTS
9164 (0.850 %)PMI Certification
10157 (0.813 %)MCP
11156 (0.808 %)MCSD
12144 (0.746 %)MCAD
13107 (0.554 %)PMP
1498 (0.508 %)DV Cleared
1574 (0.383 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
1658 (0.300 %)PhD
1748 (0.249 %)ITIL Certification
1845 (0.233 %)Sun Certification
1845 (0.233 %)MCPD
1943 (0.223 %)Postgraduate
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
12196 (11.38 %)QA
2106 (0.549 %)SLA
396 (0.497 %)ISO 9001
446 (0.238 %)DO-178B
535 (0.181 %)PCI DSS
625 (0.130 %)Basel III
722 (0.114 %)HL7
821 (0.109 %)ISO 9000
918 (0.093 %)21 CFR Part 11
1017 (0.088 %)ISO/IEC 27001
1111 (0.057 %)Solvency II
1210 (0.052 %)COBIT
1210 (0.052 %)WAI
139 (0.047 %)WCAG
148 (0.041 %)TickIT
156 (0.031 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
156 (0.031 %)Data Quality
165 (0.026 %)Basel II
174 (0.021 %)MiFID
174 (0.021 %)GAMP
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1176 (0.912 %)Active Directory
276 (0.394 %)VMware Infrastructure
321 (0.109 %)NFS
417 (0.088 %)VMware ESX
515 (0.078 %)Veritas Cluster Server
613 (0.067 %)vSphere
613 (0.067 %)Sendmail
613 (0.067 %)Xen
711 (0.057 %)Oracle RMAN
711 (0.057 %)Hyper-V
810 (0.052 %)Squid
98 (0.041 %)Oracle RAC
98 (0.041 %)vCloud
107 (0.036 %)Samba
107 (0.036 %)OpenSSO
107 (0.036 %)Varnish
116 (0.031 %)qmail
125 (0.026 %)XenServer
132 (0.010 %)VMware ESXi
141 (0.005 %)FreeRADIUS
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1276 (1.430 %)HP Quality Center
2105 (0.544 %)Puppet
353 (0.275 %)SCCM
447 (0.243 %)Nagios
545 (0.233 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
545 (0.233 %)WMI
624 (0.124 %)ZABBIX
716 (0.083 %)EMC NetWorker
815 (0.078 %)Foglight
913 (0.067 %)NetBackup
1010 (0.052 %)Tivoli
118 (0.041 %)SCOM
118 (0.041 %)BMC PATROL
118 (0.041 %)Cobbler
126 (0.031 %)Legato
135 (0.026 %)Netcool
135 (0.026 %)MOM
144 (0.021 %)Ganglia
144 (0.021 %)Data Guard
144 (0.021 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
12543 (13.17 %)Oracle
22364 (12.25 %)Microsoft
3688 (3.564 %)JBoss
4425 (2.202 %)Zend
5278 (1.440 %)Google
6231 (1.197 %)Adobe
7229 (1.186 %)IBM
8218 (1.129 %)TIBCO
9216 (1.119 %)HP
10184 (0.953 %)SAP
11173 (0.896 %)Red Hat
12158 (0.819 %)Sybase
13137 (0.710 %)VMware
14131 (0.679 %)Salesforce.com
15119 (0.617 %)Sitecore
16118 (0.611 %)Business Objects
17115 (0.596 %)Facebook
18109 (0.565 %)ATG
1992 (0.477 %)Sun
2088 (0.456 %)Atlassian