The first table below looks at the demand for Scrum skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bradford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Scrum over the 3 months to 17 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 Bradford 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Scrum
Rank 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Scrum 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford 1.899% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.703% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £250 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £363
% change year-on-year
- -3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 £39.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year
-16.45% -2.46%
All Processes & Methodologies
Bradford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
111 106 91
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford 70.25% 66.67% 73.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 29 19
Average daily rate £320 £214 £245
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+49.70% -12.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £212 £150 £188
10% offered a daily rate of more than £465 £397 £339
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
Average hourly rate £12.42 £32.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-61.78% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Scrum
West Yorkshire

Scrum
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bradford 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 Bradford region.

Bradford Scrum Daily Rate Trend

Scrum
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford 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 4 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Plone
2 1 (25.00%) Web Development
2 1 (25.00%) Symfony
2 1 (25.00%) Django
2 1 (25.00%) jQuery
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) PHP
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (25.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) XHTML
2 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (25.00%) NHS
2 1 (25.00%) W3C
2 1 (25.00%) PRINCE
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford 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 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) XHTML
1 1 (25.00%) Symfony
1 1 (25.00%) Django
1 1 (25.00%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (25.00%) Plone
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 2 (50.00%) ScrumMaster
2 1 (25.00%) Development Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Software Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Web Development Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Web Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Software Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) NHS
1 1 (25.00%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (25.00%) Web Development
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (25.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) PRINCE
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) PHP
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
1 1 (25.00%) Python