Agile Software Development Contracts in the East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for Agile Software Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Agile Software Development over the 3 months to 25 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Agile Software Development England / East of England
Location	3 months to 25 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	1	2	4
Rank change year-on-year	+1	+2
Contract jobs citing Agile Software Development	535	499	447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England	23.25%	20.01%	14.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	27.59%	24.99%	18.36%
Number of daily rates quoted	345	322	263
Median daily rate	£450	£425	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.88%	+6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£310	£300	£300
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£595	£570	£500
UK excluding London median daily rate	£425	£425	£388
% change year-on-year	-	+9.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted	4	14	9
Median hourly rate	£39.63	£35.00	£37.45
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+13.21%	-6.54%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£23.05	£30.65	£32.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£43.25	£43.58	£70.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£43.25	£42.25	£37.00
% change year-on-year	+2.36%	+14.18%

Agile Software Development is in the process and methodology skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for process and methodology skills.

Contract Process & Methodology Skills East of England
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for process and methodology skills	1939	1997	2434
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the East of England	84.27%	80.07%	79.88%
Number of daily rates quoted	1122	1153	1450
Median daily rate	£450	£425	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.88%	+6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£290	£260	£273
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£575	£575	£525
UK excluding London median daily rate	£415	£400	£380
% change year-on-year	+3.75%	+5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted	136	152	179
Median hourly rate	£35.00	£27.62	£33.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+26.71%	-16.30%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£13.00	£16.50	£12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£62.50	£47.50	£48.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£34.00	£28.50	£30.00
% change year-on-year	+19.29%	-5.00%

Agile Software Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in the East of England citing Agile Software Development as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Processes & Methodologies category.

Job vacancy trend for Agile Software Development in the East of England

Agile Software Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Agile Software Development in the East of England.

Contractor daily rate trend for Agile Software Development in the East of England

Agile Software Development
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Agile Software Development in the East of England over the 3 months to 25 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Agile Software Development in the East of England

Agile Software Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Software Development in the East of England.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Agile Software Development in the East of England

Agile Software Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Agile Software Development in the East of England over the 3 months to 25 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Agile Software Development in the East of England

Agile Software Development
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Software Development within the East of England region over the 3 months to 25 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
Essex	+5	195	£500	+60.00%	23
Cambridgeshire	-1	111	£400	+6.66%	106
Hertfordshire	-1	93	£450	+5.88%	52
Bedfordshire	-1	63	£450	-10.00%	15
Norfolk	0	44	£450	-	10
East Anglia	+4	14	£450	+0.55%
Suffolk	-9	12	£325	-30.66%	11
Agile Software Development England

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in the East of England

For the 6 months to 25 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Agile Software Development also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the East of England region with a requirement for Agile Software Development.

1	411 (39.41%)	TDD
2	323 (30.97%)	Scrum
3	280 (26.85%)	Java
4	205 (19.65%)	Continuous Integration
5	199 (19.08%)	SOA
6	195 (18.70%)	Finance
7	192 (18.41%)	DevOps
8	186 (17.83%)	Test Automation
9	173 (16.59%)	Oracle
10	167 (16.01%)	Git (software)
11	162 (15.53%)	XML
12	159 (15.24%)	JavaScript
13	151 (14.48%)	SQL
14	148 (14.19%)	Linux
15	147 (14.09%)	.NET

16	146 (14.00%)	Middleware
17	142 (13.61%)	C#
18	141 (13.52%)	E-Commerce
18	141 (13.52%)	Jenkins
19	132 (12.66%)	BDD
20	130 (12.46%)	User Stories
21	126 (12.08%)	HTML
21	126 (12.08%)	Kanban
22	122 (11.70%)	JIRA
23	121 (11.60%)	CSS
24	117 (11.22%)	JSON
25	113 (10.83%)	Mentoring
26	101 (9.68%)	Web Services
27	100 (9.59%)	Coaching
28	99 (9.49%)	Waterfall

Agile Software Development
Co-occurring IT Skills in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	80 (7.67%)	Oracle SOA Suite
2	60 (5.75%)	Confluence
3	58 (5.56%)	JBoss
4	54 (5.18%)	Apache
5	48 (4.60%)	WebLogic
6	38 (3.64%)	Mule
7	36 (3.45%)	Oracle Service Bus
8	35 (3.36%)	CMS
9	20 (1.92%)	WebSphere
10	17 (1.63%)	Tomcat
11	16 (1.53%)	Adobe Experience Manager
12	14 (1.34%)	SharePoint
13	11 (1.05%)	Skype for Business
14	10 (0.96%)	Cloud Foundry
15	9 (0.86%)	Apache Spark
16	8 (0.77%)	Apache Solr
16	8 (0.77%)	IIS
17	7 (0.67%)	BizTalk Server
17	7 (0.67%)	Sitecore CMS
18	6 (0.58%)	WebSphere Application Server

Applications
1	15 (1.44%)	MS Visio
1	15 (1.44%)	Photoshop
2	12 (1.15%)	Microsoft Office
3	11 (1.05%)	Microsoft Excel
4	7 (0.67%)	Adobe Illustrator
5	6 (0.58%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
5	6 (0.58%)	Microsoft Project
6	5 (0.48%)	OmniGraffle
7	3 (0.29%)	Adobe Creative Suite
8	2 (0.19%)	Snagit
8	2 (0.19%)	UXPin
9	1 (0.096%)	InDesign
9	1 (0.096%)	InVision

Business Applications
1	62 (5.94%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	10 (0.96%)	SDL Web 8
3	8 (0.77%)	Dynamics CRM
4	6 (0.58%)	Payment Gateway
5	5 (0.48%)	Oracle BPM
5	5 (0.48%)	SAP HCM
6	4 (0.38%)	Adobe Campaign
6	4 (0.38%)	Magento
6	4 (0.38%)	Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6	4 (0.38%)	SAP SD
7	2 (0.19%)	Oracle Applications
7	2 (0.19%)	Oracle ERP
7	2 (0.19%)	SAP HR
7	2 (0.19%)	SAP Payroll
7	2 (0.19%)	SystmOne
7	2 (0.19%)	Unica
8	1 (0.096%)	Oracle EBS R12
8	1 (0.096%)	Oracle Retail
8	1 (0.096%)	Remedy ITSM
8	1 (0.096%)	SAP ERP

Cloud Services
1	68 (6.52%)	Amazon AWS
2	63 (6.04%)	Microsoft Azure
3	31 (2.97%)	IaaS
4	27 (2.59%)	PaaS
5	17 (1.63%)	Office 365
6	13 (1.25%)	Dynamics 365
7	8 (0.77%)	Amazon S3
8	7 (0.67%)	SaaS
8	7 (0.67%)	SuccessFactors
9	6 (0.58%)	Google Analytics
10	5 (0.48%)	AWS CloudFormation
10	5 (0.48%)	Boomi
10	5 (0.48%)	GitHub
11	4 (0.38%)	Amazon EC2
11	4 (0.38%)	AWS Lambda
11	4 (0.38%)	Cloud Computing
12	2 (0.19%)	Amazon ELB
12	2 (0.19%)	Amazon SQS
12	2 (0.19%)	G Suite
12	2 (0.19%)	Route 53

Communications & Networking
1	76 (7.29%)	HTTP
2	58 (5.56%)	SSL
2	58 (5.56%)	TCP/IP
3	18 (1.73%)	DNS
3	18 (1.73%)	Internet
4	15 (1.44%)	LDAP
5	11 (1.05%)	WAN
6	10 (0.96%)	Skype
7	8 (0.77%)	Intranet
8	6 (0.58%)	LAN
9	4 (0.38%)	Firewall
9	4 (0.38%)	SMS
9	4 (0.38%)	Wireless
10	3 (0.29%)	MQTT
10	3 (0.29%)	Wi-Fi
10	3 (0.29%)	ZigBee
11	2 (0.19%)	HTTPS
11	2 (0.19%)	IMAP
11	2 (0.19%)	SMTP
11	2 (0.19%)	Wireshark

Database & Business Intelligence
1	86 (8.25%)	Relational Database
2	81 (7.77%)	SQL Server
3	49 (4.70%)	MySQL
4	33 (3.16%)	Big Data
5	32 (3.07%)	NoSQL
6	19 (1.82%)	Oracle Database
7	16 (1.53%)	Hadoop
7	16 (1.53%)	MariaDB
7	16 (1.53%)	MongoDB
8	15 (1.44%)	SQL Server Integration Services
8	15 (1.44%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
9	14 (1.34%)	Apache Cassandra
9	14 (1.34%)	Ingres
9	14 (1.34%)	PostgreSQL
10	13 (1.25%)	Data Warehouse
11	11 (1.05%)	RDBMS
11	11 (1.05%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
12	10 (0.96%)	Data Mining
13	9 (0.86%)	SQL Server 2008
13	9 (0.86%)	SQL Server 2012

Development Applications
1	167 (16.01%)	Git (software)
2	141 (13.52%)	Jenkins
3	122 (11.70%)	JIRA
4	79 (7.57%)	Maven
5	70 (6.71%)	Subversion
6	66 (6.33%)	Selenium
7	57 (5.47%)	Cucumber
8	51 (4.89%)	SoapUI
9	44 (4.22%)	JUnit
10	36 (3.45%)	Team Foundation Server
11	26 (2.49%)	Mockito
12	24 (2.30%)	Atlassian Bamboo
12	24 (2.30%)	JMeter
13	19 (1.82%)	Appium
13	19 (1.82%)	gulp
13	19 (1.82%)	JIRA Agile
14	18 (1.73%)	Calabash
14	18 (1.73%)	WebDriver
15	17 (1.63%)	SpecFlow
16	15 (1.44%)	Grunt

General
1	195 (18.70%)	Finance
2	85 (8.15%)	Marketing
3	76 (7.29%)	Telecoms
4	72 (6.90%)	Manufacturing
5	65 (6.23%)	Electronics
6	64 (6.14%)	Retail
7	18 (1.73%)	Law
8	16 (1.53%)	Banking
8	16 (1.53%)	Legal
9	15 (1.44%)	Automotive
10	10 (0.96%)	Local Government
10	10 (0.96%)	Pharmaceutical
11	8 (0.77%)	Games
12	6 (0.58%)	Publishing
13	4 (0.38%)	Back Office
14	3 (0.29%)	Billing
15	2 (0.19%)	Corporate Banking
16	1 (0.096%)	Advertising
16	1 (0.096%)	Front Office

Job Titles
1	398 (38.16%)	Developer
2	147 (14.09%)	Java Developer
3	130 (12.46%)	Analyst
4	102 (9.78%)	Architect
5	81 (7.77%)	Business Analyst
6	72 (6.90%)	Agile Developer
7	64 (6.14%)	Senior Developer
8	58 (5.56%)	.NET Developer
9	57 (5.47%)	Project Manager
10	49 (4.70%)	DevOps Engineer
11	45 (4.31%)	Tester
12	44 (4.22%)	Designer
13	39 (3.74%)	Solutions Architect
14	37 (3.55%)	C# Developer
14	37 (3.55%)	Node.js Developer
14	37 (3.55%)	Scrum Master
15	36 (3.45%)	Integration Developer
16	35 (3.36%)	Consultant
16	35 (3.36%)	Senior Java Developer
17	33 (3.16%)	Test Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	162 (15.53%)	XML
2	147 (14.09%)	.NET
3	146 (14.00%)	Middleware
4	126 (12.08%)	HTML
5	121 (11.60%)	CSS
6	117 (11.22%)	JSON
7	101 (9.68%)	Web Services
8	89 (8.53%)	REST
9	86 (8.25%)	XSLT
10	84 (8.05%)	Spring
11	82 (7.86%)	J2EE
12	73 (7.00%)	Node.js
13	71 (6.81%)	AngularJS
14	68 (6.52%)	HTML5
15	64 (6.14%)	SOAP
16	63 (6.04%)	RESTful
17	62 (5.94%)	jQuery
18	47 (4.51%)	CSS3
19	44 (4.22%)	Hibernate
20	43 (4.12%)	Swagger

Miscellaneous
1	76 (7.29%)	Greenfield Project
2	70 (6.71%)	Analytical Skills
3	55 (5.27%)	Mobile App
4	50 (4.79%)	User Experience
5	39 (3.74%)	Enterprise Software
6	33 (3.16%)	Virtual Team
7	29 (2.78%)	Data Centre
8	26 (2.49%)	Management Information System
9	20 (1.92%)	Computer Science
10	17 (1.63%)	Client/Server
11	15 (1.44%)	Data Structures
12	13 (1.25%)	Animation
13	10 (0.96%)	Algorithms
14	9 (0.86%)	Data Protection Act
14	9 (0.86%)	Social Media
15	8 (0.77%)	DataPower
15	8 (0.77%)	N-Tier
16	7 (0.67%)	Mainframe
17	6 (0.58%)	Graphic Design
18	5 (0.48%)	RIA

Operating Systems
1	148 (14.19%)	Linux
2	66 (6.33%)	Windows
3	61 (5.85%)	Unix
4	38 (3.64%)	Apple iOS
5	37 (3.55%)	Android
5	37 (3.55%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6	32 (3.07%)	Mac OS X
7	16 (1.53%)	Solaris
8	13 (1.25%)	Windows Server
9	12 (1.15%)	Ubuntu
10	10 (0.96%)	CoreOS
10	10 (0.96%)	Windows 10
11	7 (0.67%)	Windows Server 2012
12	6 (0.58%)	VME
13	4 (0.38%)	HPUX
13	4 (0.38%)	Windows 7
13	4 (0.38%)	Windows Server 2008
13	4 (0.38%)	Windows Vista
14	3 (0.29%)	AIX
14	3 (0.29%)	Embedded Linux

Processes & Methodologies
1	411 (39.41%)	TDD
2	323 (30.97%)	Scrum
3	205 (19.65%)	Continuous Integration
4	199 (19.08%)	SOA
5	192 (18.41%)	DevOps
6	186 (17.83%)	Test Automation
7	141 (13.52%)	E-Commerce
8	132 (12.66%)	BDD
9	130 (12.46%)	User Stories
10	126 (12.08%)	Kanban
11	113 (10.83%)	Mentoring
12	100 (9.59%)	Coaching
13	99 (9.49%)	Waterfall
14	97 (9.30%)	Project Management
15	92 (8.82%)	Business Intelligence
16	89 (8.53%)	MVC
17	84 (8.05%)	Configuration Management
17	84 (8.05%)	Microservices
17	84 (8.05%)	OO
17	84 (8.05%)	Open Source

Programming Languages
1	280 (26.85%)	Java
2	159 (15.24%)	JavaScript
3	151 (14.48%)	SQL
4	142 (13.61%)	C#
5	60 (5.75%)	Python
6	44 (4.22%)	XPath
7	33 (3.16%)	C
8	32 (3.07%)	Groovy
9	30 (2.88%)	Perl
10	28 (2.68%)	Ruby
11	23 (2.21%)	PL/SQL
12	21 (2.01%)	C++
13	18 (1.73%)	PowerShell
14	16 (1.53%)	Scala
15	14 (1.34%)	PHP
15	14 (1.34%)	T-SQL
16	11 (1.05%)	TypeScript
17	10 (0.96%)	Clojure
17	10 (0.96%)	Go
17	10 (0.96%)	Rust

Qualifications
1	44 (4.22%)	Degree
2	33 (3.16%)	ISEB
3	32 (3.07%)	Security Cleared
4	24 (2.30%)	ISTQB
5	18 (1.73%)	SC Cleared
6	14 (1.34%)	BPSS Clearance
7	10 (0.96%)	Computer Science Degree
7	10 (0.96%)	ISTQB Foundation Certification
8	9 (0.86%)	Master's Degree
9	6 (0.58%)	ITIL Certification
9	6 (0.58%)	PMP
9	6 (0.58%)	PRINCE2 Practitioner
10	5 (0.48%)	PMI Certification
10	5 (0.48%)	PRINCE2 Certification
11	4 (0.38%)	CISSP
11	4 (0.38%)	Microsoft Certification
12	3 (0.29%)	CEH
12	3 (0.29%)	CREST Certified
12	3 (0.29%)	ITIL Foundation Certificate
12	3 (0.29%)	OSCP

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	62 (5.94%)	QA
2	17 (1.63%)	GDPR
3	15 (1.44%)	Data Quality
3	15 (1.44%)	PMO
4	13 (1.25%)	NIST 800
5	11 (1.05%)	Disclosure Scotland
6	7 (0.67%)	ISO/IEC 27001
7	4 (0.38%)	PCI DSS
8	3 (0.29%)	SLA
8	3 (0.29%)	WAI
9	2 (0.19%)	ISO 8583
9	2 (0.19%)	JSP 440
9	2 (0.19%)	PMBOK
9	2 (0.19%)	SEPA
9	2 (0.19%)	WCAG
10	1 (0.096%)	IFRS
10	1 (0.096%)	IFRS 9
10	1 (0.096%)	MiFID

System Software
1	60 (5.75%)	Docker
2	14 (1.34%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	9 (0.86%)	Virtual Machines
4	7 (0.67%)	Active Directory
5	4 (0.38%)	Apache Flume
5	4 (0.38%)	VMware ESXi
6	3 (0.29%)	Firmware
6	3 (0.29%)	HDFS
7	2 (0.19%)	Microsoft App-V
7	2 (0.19%)	Virtual Desktop
7	2 (0.19%)	Xen
8	1 (0.096%)	KVM
8	1 (0.096%)	LXC
8	1 (0.096%)	Slurm Workload Manager
8	1 (0.096%)	Tivoli Directory Server

Systems Management
1	80 (7.67%)	Opscode Chef
2	62 (5.94%)	Puppet
3	39 (3.74%)	Ansible
4	7 (0.67%)	HP Quality Center
5	6 (0.58%)	WebSphere Cast Iron
6	3 (0.29%)	Hadoop YARN
6	3 (0.29%)	TeamSite
6	3 (0.29%)	Terraform
7	2 (0.19%)	BladeLogic
7	2 (0.19%)	SCCM
7	2 (0.19%)	Tivoli
8	1 (0.096%)	Grafana
8	1 (0.096%)	McAfee ePO
8	1 (0.096%)	Mesos
8	1 (0.096%)	Oozie
8	1 (0.096%)	Systems Management Server (SMS)
8	1 (0.096%)	Tivoli Identity Manager

Vendors
1	173 (16.59%)	Oracle
2	85 (8.15%)	Microsoft
3	82 (7.86%)	SAP
4	78 (7.48%)	WSO2
5	27 (2.59%)	Adobe
5	27 (2.59%)	IBM
6	15 (1.44%)	Atlassian
6	15 (1.44%)	Xamarin
7	14 (1.34%)	Google
7	14 (1.34%)	VMware
8	12 (1.15%)	Red Hat
9	11 (1.05%)	HP
10	10 (0.96%)	Sitecore
11	8 (0.77%)	JDA
12	6 (0.58%)	MuleSoft
13	5 (0.48%)	Dell
13	5 (0.48%)	Fujitsu
13	5 (0.48%)	Omniture
14	4 (0.38%)	Cloudera
14	4 (0.38%)	Telerik