Scrum Contracts in Bedfordshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Scrum skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Scrum over the 3 months to 23 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 Bedfordshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Scrum
Rank 14 33 29
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -4
Contract jobs citing Scrum 14 3 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 7.487% 1.083% 4.762%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.333% 1.500% 6.481%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 9
Average daily rate £350 £425 £195
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.64% +117.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £290 £425 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £383 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £363
% change year-on-year
- -3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £190.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 £39.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-16.98% -6.47%
All Processes & Methodologies
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 150 200 216
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 80.21% 72.20% 73.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 106 110
Average daily rate £350 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £238 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £488 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 8
Average hourly rate £32.75 £41.50 £47.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.08% -12.63%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Scrum
East of England

Scrum
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Scrum across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Bedfordshire Scrum Jobs Demand Trend

Scrum
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Scrum across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Scrum Daily Rate Trend

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Scrum across the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Bedfordshire Scrum Daily Rate Histogram

Scrum
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. 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
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Luton - 7 £363 -
Scrum
East of England

Scrum
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Scrum 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited Scrum.

1 13 (81.25%) .NET
1 13 (81.25%) ASP.NET
1 13 (81.25%) E-Commerce
2 11 (68.75%) MVC
3 10 (62.50%) C#
4 9 (56.25%) BDD
5 8 (50.00%) SOA
6 7 (43.75%) JavaScript
6 7 (43.75%) Windows
6 7 (43.75%) Agile Software Development
7 6 (37.50%) TDD
7 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
7 6 (37.50%) ASP.NET MVC
7 6 (37.50%) Git (software)
8 5 (31.25%) SpecFlow
8 5 (31.25%) Agile Testing
8 5 (31.25%) SQL Server
9 4 (25.00%) NHibernate
9 4 (25.00%) Web Development
9 4 (25.00%) Visual Studio
9 4 (25.00%) HTML
9 4 (25.00%) KnockoutJS
9 4 (25.00%) Windows Azure
10 3 (18.75%) Waterfall
10 3 (18.75%) NServiceBus
10 3 (18.75%) .NET Framework
11 2 (12.50%) WATIR
11 2 (12.50%) Selenium
11 2 (12.50%) Java
11 2 (12.50%) Python

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Scrum also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Scrum. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (81.25%) .NET
1 13 (81.25%) ASP.NET
2 6 (37.50%) ASP.NET MVC
3 4 (25.00%) NHibernate
3 4 (25.00%) HTML
3 4 (25.00%) KnockoutJS
4 3 (18.75%) .NET Framework
5 1 (6.250%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 4 (25.00%) Windows Azure
2 3 (18.75%) NServiceBus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Git (software)
2 5 (31.25%) SpecFlow
3 4 (25.00%) Visual Studio
4 2 (12.50%) WATIR
4 2 (12.50%) Selenium
4 2 (12.50%) WebDriver
4 2 (12.50%) Cucumber
General
1 1 (6.250%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Developer
2 6 (37.50%) Web Developer
3 5 (31.25%) ScrumMaster
4 3 (18.75%) Test Leader
4 3 (18.75%) Agile Project Manager
4 3 (18.75%) Project Manager
4 3 (18.75%) .NET Developer
5 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Agile .NET Developer
6 1 (6.250%) Agile C# Developer
6 1 (6.250%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (6.250%) .NET Web Developer
6 1 (6.250%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (6.250%) C# Developer
6 1 (6.250%) C# Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.250%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 7 (43.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) E-Commerce
2 11 (68.75%) MVC
3 9 (56.25%) BDD
4 8 (50.00%) SOA
5 7 (43.75%) Agile Software Development
6 6 (37.50%) TDD
7 5 (31.25%) Agile Testing
8 4 (25.00%) Web Development
9 3 (18.75%) Waterfall
10 2 (12.50%) Kanban
11 1 (6.250%) Dependency Injection
11 1 (6.250%) Project Management
11 1 (6.250%) Test Management
11 1 (6.250%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) C#
2 7 (43.75%) JavaScript
3 2 (12.50%) Java
3 2 (12.50%) Python
3 2 (12.50%) Ruby
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
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