West Midlands Agile Software Development Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Agile Software Development skills within the West Midlands 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 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Agile Software Development
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Amersham Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexley Bexleyheath Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carmarthenshire Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chessington Chester City of London Clapham Colchester Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cwmbran Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Flintshire Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Hounslow Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston Llanelli London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Milton Keynes New Milton Newbury Newcastle Newmarket Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrew Renfrewshire Rugby Salford Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans Staines Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Street Suffolk Surrey Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Torfaen Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Witham Witney Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Wotton-under-Edge York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	158	180
Rank change on same period last year	+22
Matching permanent IT job ads	61	55
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.035 %	0.024 %
As % of the category below	1.314 %	1.142 %
Salaries quoted	53	28
Average minimum salary	£35,614	£41,036
Average salary	£38,303	£46,625
% change on same period last year	-17.84 %
Average maximum salary	£40,991	£52,214
UK excluding London average salary	£39,708	£41,478
% change on same period last year	-4.26 %
Processes & Methodologies West Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	4642	4818
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.687 %	2.073 %
Salaries quoted	3958	4080
Average minimum salary	£36,528	£36,115
Average salary	£40,084	£39,246
% change on same period last year	+2.13 %
Average maximum salary	£43,640	£42,377
UK excluding London average salary	£42,675	£44,216
% change on same period last year	-3.48 %
Agile Software Development 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 West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

Agile Software Development
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Agile Software Development across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 10 October 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
Birmingham	-6	17	£39,269	-20.09 %
Herefordshire	+11	13	£43,346	-13.30 %
Worcestershire	-	12	£36,542	-
Coventry	+5	11	£39,045	+5.05 %
Warwickshire	+2	5	£29,643	-31.85 %

Agile Software Development England

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 53 (33.33 %) Java 2 51 (32.08 %) .NET 3 46 (28.93 %) SQL 4 34 (21.38 %) J2EE 4 34 (21.38 %) Scrum 5 32 (20.13 %) Finance 5 32 (20.13 %) XML 6 31 (19.50 %) SQL Server 7 27 (16.98 %) C# 7 27 (16.98 %) ASP.NET 8 25 (15.72 %) UML 8 25 (15.72 %) OO 9 23 (14.47 %) Oracle 9 23 (14.47 %) Project Management 10 21 (13.21 %) SQL Server 2000

10 21 (13.21 %) HTML 11 19 (11.95 %) Hibernate 11 19 (11.95 %) Spring 12 18 (11.32 %) JavaScript 13 17 (10.69 %) Government 13 17 (10.69 %) WebServices 13 17 (10.69 %) Retail 14 16 (10.06 %) Web Development 14 16 (10.06 %) CSS 14 16 (10.06 %) Internet 14 16 (10.06 %) OOD 14 16 (10.06 %) SOA 15 15 (9.434 %) VB.NET 15 15 (9.434 %) TDD 16 14 (8.805 %) XSLT

Agile Software Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 51 (32.08 %) .NET 2 34 (21.38 %) J2EE 3 32 (20.13 %) XML 4 27 (16.98 %) ASP.NET 5 21 (13.21 %) HTML 6 19 (11.95 %) Hibernate 6 19 (11.95 %) Spring 7 17 (10.69 %) WebServices 8 16 (10.06 %) CSS 9 14 (8.805 %) XSLT 10 13 (8.176 %) AJAX 10 13 (8.176 %) Struts 11 10 (6.289 %) .NET Framework 11 10 (6.289 %) Acegi Security 12 9 (5.660 %) XHTML 13 4 (2.516 %) XSL 14 3 (1.887 %) MVC 14 3 (1.887 %) Spring MVC 15 2 (1.258 %) ASP 16 1 (0.629 %) EJB	Application Platforms 1 4 (2.516 %) SharePoint 1 4 (2.516 %) BizTalk Server 2 3 (1.887 %) Apache 2 3 (1.887 %) Tomcat 3 2 (1.258 %) Content Management Server 4 1 (0.629 %) CMS 4 1 (0.629 %) SharePoint Portal Server
Applications 1 12 (7.547 %) MS Visio 2 8 (5.031 %) MS Excel 3 1 (0.629 %) Photoshop 3 1 (0.629 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 9 (5.660 %) Staffware
Communications & Networking 1 16 (10.06 %) Internet 2 2 (1.258 %) LDAP 3 1 (0.629 %) ATM 3 1 (0.629 %) SDH 3 1 (0.629 %) VoIP 3 1 (0.629 %) Ethernet 3 1 (0.629 %) SNMP 3 1 (0.629 %) Intranet 3 1 (0.629 %) DSL 3 1 (0.629 %) Megaco	Database & Business Intelligence 1 31 (19.50 %) SQL Server 2 21 (13.21 %) SQL Server 2000 3 12 (7.547 %) SQL Server 2005 4 6 (3.774 %) ETL 4 6 (3.774 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 4 (2.516 %) MySQL 6 2 (1.258 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 2 (1.258 %) MS Access 6 2 (1.258 %) Datawarehouse 6 2 (1.258 %) SQL Server Integration Services 6 2 (1.258 %) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications 1 7 (4.403 %) Visual Studio 2 3 (1.887 %) Flash 2 3 (1.887 %) Selenium 3 2 (1.258 %) FitNesse 3 2 (1.258 %) TestComplete 3 2 (1.258 %) Subversion 3 2 (1.258 %) Eclipse 4 1 (0.629 %) Dreamweaver 4 1 (0.629 %) CruiseControl	General 1 32 (20.13 %) Finance 2 17 (10.69 %) Government 2 17 (10.69 %) Retail 3 10 (6.289 %) Insurance 4 9 (5.660 %) Health 5 6 (3.774 %) Marketing 6 3 (1.887 %) Online Banking 6 3 (1.887 %) Education 6 3 (1.887 %) Banking 7 2 (1.258 %) Local Government 8 1 (0.629 %) Pensions 8 1 (0.629 %) Telecoms 8 1 (0.629 %) Manufacturing 8 1 (0.629 %) Games
Job Titles 1 59 (37.11 %) Developer 2 27 (16.98 %) Java Developer 3 23 (14.47 %) .NET Developer 3 23 (14.47 %) Development Manager 4 21 (13.21 %) Project Manager 5 18 (11.32 %) Senior Developer 6 15 (9.434 %) Senior Java Developer 7 11 (6.918 %) ASP.NET Developer 7 11 (6.918 %) Analyst 8 10 (6.289 %) Team Leader 9 9 (5.660 %) Software Engineer 9 9 (5.660 %) C# Developer 10 8 (5.031 %) Tester 10 8 (5.031 %) Applications Manager 11 7 (4.403 %) Senior Tester 11 7 (4.403 %) Business Analyst 12 6 (3.774 %) Test Manager 12 6 (3.774 %) Applications Developer 12 6 (3.774 %) UML Business Analyst 13 5 (3.145 %) Applications Development Manager	Miscellaneous 1 6 (3.774 %) Client/Server 2 2 (1.258 %) NHS 2 2 (1.258 %) Management Information System 3 1 (0.629 %) Web 2.0 3 1 (0.629 %) Computer Science 3 1 (0.629 %) N-Tier
Operating Systems 1 4 (2.516 %) UNIX 2 3 (1.887 %) Windows 2 3 (1.887 %) Solaris 2 3 (1.887 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (0.629 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 34 (21.38 %) Scrum 2 25 (15.72 %) UML 2 25 (15.72 %) OO 3 23 (14.47 %) Project Management 4 16 (10.06 %) Web Development 4 16 (10.06 %) OOD 4 16 (10.06 %) SOA 5 15 (9.434 %) TDD 6 14 (8.805 %) CRM 7 11 (6.918 %) PRINCE2 8 9 (5.660 %) RUP 8 9 (5.660 %) Process Management 8 9 (5.660 %) Matrix Management 9 8 (5.031 %) E-Commerce 10 6 (3.774 %) OOP 10 6 (3.774 %) Regression Testing 10 6 (3.774 %) E-business 10 6 (3.774 %) Content Management 10 6 (3.774 %) Time Management 11 5 (3.145 %) Extreme Programming
Programming Languages 1 53 (33.33 %) Java 2 46 (28.93 %) SQL 3 27 (16.98 %) C# 4 18 (11.32 %) JavaScript 5 15 (9.434 %) VB.NET 6 13 (8.176 %) C 7 10 (6.289 %) Transact-SQL 7 10 (6.289 %) C++ 8 8 (5.031 %) PL/SQL 9 3 (1.887 %) ActionScript 9 3 (1.887 %) PHP 10 2 (1.258 %) DHTML 10 2 (1.258 %) Smalltalk 10 2 (1.258 %) Ruby 11 1 (0.629 %) Perl	Qualifications 1 10 (6.289 %) ISEB 2 8 (5.031 %) Microsoft Certification 3 7 (4.403 %) MCAD 3 7 (4.403 %) MCSD 4 6 (3.774 %) ISEB Practitioner 5 3 (1.887 %) Degree 6 2 (1.258 %) PMP 6 2 (1.258 %) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (1.887 %) ISO9001 1 3 (1.887 %) QA	System Software 1 9 (5.660 %) AquaLogic
Vendors 1 23 (14.47 %) Oracle 2 13 (8.176 %) Microsoft 3 9 (5.660 %) Lombardi 3 9 (5.660 %) Pega 3 9 (5.660 %) Chordiant 3 9 (5.660 %) IBM 3 9 (5.660 %) ILOG 3 9 (5.660 %) Vitria 3 9 (5.660 %) TIBCO 3 9 (5.660 %) FileNet 3 9 (5.660 %) Epiphany 4 4 (2.516 %) SAP 5 3 (1.887 %) Sun 6 2 (1.258 %) Redback