Agile Software Development Contracts in Hampshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 28 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 South East / Hampshire
Location	3 months to 28 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	4	10	6
Rank change year-on-year	+6	-4
Contract jobs citing Agile Software Development	260	241	303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire	14.43%	12.11%	14.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	17.65%	15.17%	17.01%
Number of daily rates quoted	137	163	201
Median daily rate	£432	£400	£378
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+7.87%	+5.96%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£297	£296	£268
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£543	£500	£465
UK excluding London median daily rate	£425	£425	£388
% change year-on-year	-	+9.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted	12	10	6
Median hourly rate	£45.00	£45.00	£40.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-	+12.50%
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£42.88	£42.25	£37.45
% change year-on-year	+1.47%	+12.81%

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 Hampshire with a requirement for process and methodology skills.

Contract Process & Methodology Skills Hampshire
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for process and methodology skills	1473	1589	1781
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Hampshire	81.74%	79.85%	84.13%
Number of daily rates quoted	2787	3374	4074
Median daily rate	£413	£400	£375
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+3.12%	+6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£267	£280	£263
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£575	£550	£488
UK excluding London median daily rate	£415	£400	£380
% change year-on-year	+3.75%	+5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted	230	286	238
Median hourly rate	£42.50	£40.00	£33.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+6.25%	+21.21%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.50	£15.00	£12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£52.63	£58.75	£45.30
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 Hampshire

Job postings citing Agile Software Development as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Job vacancy trend for Agile Software Development in Hampshire

Agile Software Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor daily rate trend for Agile Software Development in Hampshire

Agile Software Development
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Agile Software Development in Hampshire over the 3 months to 28 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Agile Software Development in Hampshire

Agile Software Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor hourly rate trend for Agile Software Development in Hampshire

Agile Software Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in Hampshire

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Agile Software Development in Hampshire over the 3 months to 28 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Agile Software Development in Hampshire

Agile Software Development
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 3 months to 28 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
Basingstoke	+9	53	£432	+1.52%	21
Portsmouth	+5	34	£325	+8.33%	26
Southampton	-1	25	£370	-9.75%	22
Fareham	+1	19	£394	+9.37%	9
Farnborough	+2	11	£456	+4.28%	12
Eastleigh	+3	10	£500	+46.62%
Havant	+2	10	£500	+1.26%	6
Andover	+5	9	£394	+1.61%	5
Winchester	-3	9	£425	+16.04%	10
Hook	+6	5	£275	-41.48%	1
Aldershot	+2	3	£535	-
Fleet	+1	1	£525	+31.25%	5
Agile Software Development South East

Agile Software Development
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in Hampshire

For the 6 months to 28 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 Hampshire region with a requirement for Agile Software Development.

1	182 (34.02%)	Scrum
2	138 (25.79%)	SQL
3	112 (20.93%)	Security Cleared
4	110 (20.56%)	DevOps
5	108 (20.19%)	Microsoft
6	107 (20.00%)	.NET
6	107 (20.00%)	JavaScript
7	101 (18.88%)	SQL Server
8	99 (18.50%)	C#
9	95 (17.76%)	Linux
9	95 (17.76%)	TDD
10	90 (16.82%)	HTML
11	84 (15.70%)	SC Cleared
12	80 (14.95%)	Java
13	74 (13.83%)	CSS

13	74 (13.83%)	MVC
14	71 (13.27%)	Test Automation
15	70 (13.08%)	Web Services
16	68 (12.71%)	Oracle
17	67 (12.52%)	Continuous Integration
18	64 (11.96%)	Windows
19	63 (11.78%)	ITIL
19	63 (11.78%)	Software Engineering
20	57 (10.65%)	Git (software)
21	56 (10.47%)	Team Foundation Server
22	55 (10.28%)	SDLC
23	54 (10.09%)	ASP.NET
24	52 (9.72%)	jQuery
25	50 (9.35%)	XML
25	50 (9.35%)	BDD

Agile Software Development
Co-occurring IT Skills in Hampshire 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	39 (7.29%)	SharePoint
2	19 (3.55%)	IIS
3	18 (3.36%)	Apache
4	15 (2.80%)	OpenStack
5	12 (2.24%)	Tomcat
6	11 (2.06%)	SharePoint 2013
7	9 (1.68%)	CMS
8	8 (1.50%)	JBoss
9	5 (0.93%)	Confluence
10	4 (0.75%)	EPiServer
11	3 (0.56%)	ArcGIS
11	3 (0.56%)	Elasticsearch
11	3 (0.56%)	GlassFish
11	3 (0.56%)	Sitecore CMS
11	3 (0.56%)	WebLogic
12	2 (0.37%)	Apache Spark
12	2 (0.37%)	GeoServer
13	1 (0.19%)	Anypoint
13	1 (0.19%)	Cloud Foundry
13	1 (0.19%)	GemFire

Applications
1	15 (2.80%)	Microsoft Excel
1	15 (2.80%)	Microsoft Office
2	8 (1.50%)	MS Visio
3	7 (1.31%)	Microsoft Project
4	6 (1.12%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
5	5 (0.93%)	Photoshop
6	4 (0.75%)	Adobe Illustrator
7	3 (0.56%)	Spreadsheet
8	1 (0.19%)	LaTeX

Business Applications
1	12 (2.24%)	Remedy ITSM
2	4 (0.75%)	Oracle EBS
2	4 (0.75%)	SAP Oil and Gas
3	3 (0.56%)	Oracle Applications
3	3 (0.56%)	SAP ERP
4	2 (0.37%)	Dynamics CRM
4	2 (0.37%)	Maximo
4	2 (0.37%)	Oracle 11i
4	2 (0.37%)	Payment Gateway
4	2 (0.37%)	Primavera
4	2 (0.37%)	Salesforce.com CRM
5	1 (0.19%)	Oracle BRM
5	1 (0.19%)	Oracle ERP
5	1 (0.19%)	Pega PRPC
5	1 (0.19%)	SAP APO
5	1 (0.19%)	SAP CRM
5	1 (0.19%)	SAP Hybris
5	1 (0.19%)	WebTrends

Cloud Services
1	27 (5.05%)	Microsoft Azure
1	27 (5.05%)	SaaS
2	26 (4.86%)	IaaS
3	24 (4.49%)	PaaS
4	20 (3.74%)	Amazon AWS
5	12 (2.24%)	GitHub
6	5 (0.93%)	Office 365
7	3 (0.56%)	Bluemix
7	3 (0.56%)	IBM Cloud
8	2 (0.37%)	Amazon EC2
8	2 (0.37%)	Amazon S3
8	2 (0.37%)	Cloud Computing
8	2 (0.37%)	CloudSense
9	1 (0.19%)	Force.com
9	1 (0.19%)	Google Play
9	1 (0.19%)	Slack
9	1 (0.19%)	Taleo
9	1 (0.19%)	Trello
9	1 (0.19%)	Virtual Private Cloud

Communications & Networking
1	24 (4.49%)	Cisco Nexus
2	18 (3.36%)	DNS
3	17 (3.18%)	Firewall
4	15 (2.80%)	HTTP
4	15 (2.80%)	TCP/IP
5	14 (2.62%)	LAN
5	14 (2.62%)	PuTTY
5	14 (2.62%)	WinSCP
6	12 (2.24%)	WAN
7	11 (2.06%)	LDAP
8	9 (1.68%)	ATM
8	9 (1.68%)	HTTPS
8	9 (1.68%)	SSL
9	5 (0.93%)	Internet
9	5 (0.93%)	Kerberos
10	4 (0.75%)	Cisco ASA
10	4 (0.75%)	DVB
10	4 (0.75%)	MVNO
11	3 (0.56%)	IMAP
11	3 (0.56%)	Wireshark

Database & Business Intelligence
1	101 (18.88%)	SQL Server
2	32 (5.98%)	Oracle Database
3	31 (5.79%)	MySQL
4	30 (5.61%)	SQL Server 2008
5	23 (4.30%)	Oracle Database 11g
6	21 (3.93%)	Relational Database
7	17 (3.18%)	Oracle Database 10g
8	16 (2.99%)	SQL Server 2012
8	16 (2.99%)	SQL Server 2016
9	15 (2.80%)	Data Warehouse
9	15 (2.80%)	MongoDB
10	12 (2.24%)	Apache Cassandra
10	12 (2.24%)	Oracle Reports
10	12 (2.24%)	PostgreSQL
11	11 (2.06%)	Oracle BI EE
11	11 (2.06%)	Oracle OWB
11	11 (2.06%)	SQL Server 2014
12	10 (1.87%)	NoSQL
12	10 (1.87%)	RDBMS
12	10 (1.87%)	SQL Server Integration Services

Development Applications
1	57 (10.65%)	Git (software)
2	56 (10.47%)	Team Foundation Server
3	43 (8.04%)	Selenium
4	42 (7.85%)	Visual Studio
5	41 (7.66%)	Jenkins
5	41 (7.66%)	JIRA
6	21 (3.93%)	Oracle APEX
6	21 (3.93%)	SpecFlow
7	16 (2.99%)	HP UFT
8	15 (2.80%)	TeamCity
9	14 (2.62%)	Toad
10	11 (2.06%)	Eclipse
11	9 (1.68%)	SoapUI
12	8 (1.50%)	Gradle
12	8 (1.50%)	Moq
12	8 (1.50%)	Oracle Forms
12	8 (1.50%)	webpack
13	7 (1.31%)	Cucumber
13	7 (1.31%)	MSTest
13	7 (1.31%)	Visual Studio Team System

General
1	47 (8.79%)	Finance
2	31 (5.79%)	Retail
3	21 (3.93%)	Telecoms
4	19 (3.55%)	Marketing
5	14 (2.62%)	Manufacturing
6	8 (1.50%)	Advertising
7	7 (1.31%)	Military
8	6 (1.12%)	Back Office
9	5 (0.93%)	Electronics
10	4 (0.75%)	Aerospace
10	4 (0.75%)	Banking
10	4 (0.75%)	Publishing
11	3 (0.56%)	Automotive
11	3 (0.56%)	Pharmaceutical
12	2 (0.37%)	Local Government
12	2 (0.37%)	Retail Banking
13	1 (0.19%)	Dutch Language
13	1 (0.19%)	Financial Institution
13	1 (0.19%)	Games
13	1 (0.19%)	Legal

Job Titles
1	184 (34.39%)	Developer
2	60 (11.21%)	Analyst
3	56 (10.47%)	.NET Developer
4	54 (10.09%)	Architect
5	33 (6.17%)	Java Developer
6	29 (5.42%)	Project Manager
7	25 (4.67%)	Business Analyst
8	24 (4.49%)	Software Developer
9	23 (4.30%)	C# Developer
10	20 (3.74%)	ASP.NET MVC Developer
11	19 (3.55%)	C# .NET Developer
11	19 (3.55%)	Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11	19 (3.55%)	Scrum Master
11	19 (3.55%)	Test Analyst
12	16 (2.99%)	Systems Engineer
12	16 (2.99%)	Test Manager
12	16 (2.99%)	Tester
13	15 (2.80%)	DevOps Engineer
14	14 (2.62%)	Senior Developer
15	13 (2.43%)	Senior Manager

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	107 (20.00%)	.NET
2	90 (16.82%)	HTML
3	74 (13.83%)	CSS
4	70 (13.08%)	Web Services
5	54 (10.09%)	ASP.NET
6	52 (9.72%)	jQuery
7	50 (9.35%)	XML
8	41 (7.66%)	REST
9	38 (7.10%)	.NET Framework
10	37 (6.92%)	ASP.NET Web API
11	36 (6.73%)	Ajax
12	32 (5.98%)	AngularJS
12	32 (5.98%)	HTML5
13	28 (5.23%)	ASP.NET MVC
13	28 (5.23%)	Node.js
14	27 (5.05%)	WCF
15	23 (4.30%)	Entity Framework
16	21 (3.93%)	RESTful
16	21 (3.93%)	Spring
17	19 (3.55%)	Twitter Bootstrap

Miscellaneous
1	30 (5.61%)	Data Centre
2	27 (5.05%)	User Experience
3	14 (2.62%)	Video on Demand
4	13 (2.43%)	CMDB
5	11 (2.06%)	Analytical Skills
5	11 (2.06%)	Management Information System
6	10 (1.87%)	Smart Meter
7	9 (1.68%)	W3C
8	8 (1.50%)	Client/Server
8	8 (1.50%)	Computer Science
8	8 (1.50%)	Derivative
8	8 (1.50%)	Greenfield Project
8	8 (1.50%)	Linux Command Line
9	7 (1.31%)	MPEG
9	7 (1.31%)	Virtual Team
10	5 (0.93%)	Mobile App
10	5 (0.93%)	Replication
10	5 (0.93%)	STB
11	4 (0.75%)	Digital TV
11	4 (0.75%)	Enterprise Software

Operating Systems
1	95 (17.76%)	Linux
2	64 (11.96%)	Windows
3	46 (8.60%)	Unix
4	19 (3.55%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5	14 (2.62%)	CentOS
6	13 (2.43%)	Windows Server
7	10 (1.87%)	Windows Server 2012
8	4 (0.75%)	Android
8	4 (0.75%)	Ubuntu
9	2 (0.37%)	Apple iOS
9	2 (0.37%)	Oracle Linux
9	2 (0.37%)	Windows Server 2008

Processes & Methodologies
1	182 (34.02%)	Scrum
2	110 (20.56%)	DevOps
3	95 (17.76%)	TDD
4	74 (13.83%)	MVC
5	71 (13.27%)	Test Automation
6	67 (12.52%)	Continuous Integration
7	63 (11.78%)	ITIL
7	63 (11.78%)	Software Engineering
8	55 (10.28%)	SDLC
9	50 (9.35%)	BDD
10	48 (8.97%)	Waterfall
11	47 (8.79%)	Project Management
12	45 (8.41%)	Service Management
13	38 (7.10%)	Web Development
14	34 (6.36%)	PRINCE2
15	33 (6.17%)	Service Design
16	32 (5.98%)	User Stories
17	31 (5.79%)	Release Management
17	31 (5.79%)	Test Scripting
18	30 (5.61%)	Unit Testing

Programming Languages
1	138 (25.79%)	SQL
2	107 (20.00%)	JavaScript
3	99 (18.50%)	C#
4	80 (14.95%)	Java
5	35 (6.54%)	Python
6	30 (5.61%)	PHP
7	26 (4.86%)	T-SQL
8	23 (4.30%)	F#
9	22 (4.11%)	TypeScript
10	21 (3.93%)	Perl
11	19 (3.55%)	C++
12	18 (3.36%)	C
13	17 (3.18%)	Bash Shell
13	17 (3.18%)	PowerShell
14	15 (2.80%)	PL/SQL
14	15 (2.80%)	Ruby
15	11 (2.06%)	Shell Script
16	10 (1.87%)	VB.NET
17	9 (1.68%)	VB
18	7 (1.31%)	ES6

Qualifications
1	112 (20.93%)	Security Cleared
2	84 (15.70%)	SC Cleared
3	27 (5.05%)	ISEB
4	21 (3.93%)	Degree
5	19 (3.55%)	ISTQB
6	17 (3.18%)	ISTQB Foundation Certification
7	10 (1.87%)	DV Cleared
7	10 (1.87%)	ISEB Practitioner
8	7 (1.31%)	BPSS Clearance
9	6 (1.12%)	APMP
9	6 (1.12%)	PMP
10	4 (0.75%)	Computer Science Degree
10	4 (0.75%)	PMI Certification
10	4 (0.75%)	PRINCE2 Practitioner
10	4 (0.75%)	RHCE
10	4 (0.75%)	RHCSA
11	3 (0.56%)	CISSP
12	2 (0.37%)	ITIL Certification
12	2 (0.37%)	PRINCE2 Certification
13	1 (0.19%)	ISTQB Advanced Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	24 (4.49%)	QA
2	21 (3.93%)	ISO/IEC 27001
3	15 (2.80%)	ISO/IEC 15288
4	11 (2.06%)	PMO
5	7 (1.31%)	GDPR
5	7 (1.31%)	ISO/IEC 20000
5	7 (1.31%)	SLA
6	5 (0.93%)	JSP 440
7	2 (0.37%)	COBIT
7	2 (0.37%)	Data Quality
7	2 (0.37%)	PCI DSS
8	1 (0.19%)	Actionable Recommendations
8	1 (0.19%)	Disclosure Scotland
8	1 (0.19%)	GPG13
8	1 (0.19%)	Sarbanes-Oxley

System Software
1	33 (6.17%)	Docker
2	24 (4.49%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	13 (2.43%)	vSphere
4	11 (2.06%)	KVM
4	11 (2.06%)	Oracle RAC
4	11 (2.06%)	Xen
5	7 (1.31%)	Active Directory
6	6 (1.12%)	vCloud
6	6 (1.12%)	Virtual Machines
7	5 (0.93%)	HDFS
8	4 (0.75%)	Terminal Services
9	3 (0.56%)	Apache ZooKeeper
9	3 (0.56%)	VMware ESXi
10	1 (0.19%)	Shibboleth
10	1 (0.19%)	VMware Workstation

Systems Management
1	25 (4.67%)	Puppet
2	22 (4.11%)	Opscode Chef
3	17 (3.18%)	Ansible
4	13 (2.43%)	vRealize
5	12 (2.24%)	Kubernetes
5	12 (2.24%)	logstash
5	12 (2.24%)	Netcool
6	9 (1.68%)	Grafana
7	5 (0.93%)	Cobbler
7	5 (0.93%)	SCDPM
8	4 (0.75%)	Hadoop YARN
9	3 (0.56%)	SCOM
9	3 (0.56%)	vCenter Server
10	2 (0.37%)	Capistrano
10	2 (0.37%)	Consul
10	2 (0.37%)	Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
10	2 (0.37%)	Oracle Enterprise Manager
10	2 (0.37%)	Oracle RMAN
10	2 (0.37%)	SELinux
11	1 (0.19%)	Kibana

Vendors
1	108 (20.19%)	Microsoft
2	68 (12.71%)	Oracle
3	47 (8.79%)	VMware
4	33 (6.17%)	Red Hat
5	28 (5.23%)	HP
6	26 (4.86%)	Cisco
7	19 (3.55%)	Remedy
8	14 (2.62%)	Telerik
9	13 (2.43%)	BMC
9	13 (2.43%)	SAP
10	12 (2.24%)	Splunk
11	11 (2.06%)	IBM
11	11 (2.06%)	SaltStack
12	10 (1.87%)	Salesforce.com
13	9 (1.68%)	ServiceNow
14	8 (1.50%)	ESRI
15	6 (1.12%)	ATG
15	6 (1.12%)	CA Agile Central
15	6 (1.12%)	Citrix
15	6 (1.12%)	Twitter