The first table below looks at the demand for Scrum skills in IT contracts advertised for the Brighton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Scrum over the 3 months to 20 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 Brighton 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Scrum
Rank 17 2 6
Rank change year-on-year
-15 +4
Contract jobs citing Scrum 10 48 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 7.042% 18.75% 15.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.615% 26.67% 21.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 18 12
Average daily rate £308 £525 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-41.42% +35.48%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £400 £375
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £525 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £363
% change year-on-year
- -3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 £39.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-16.98% -0.62%
All Processes & Methodologies
Brighton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
104 180 91
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 73.24% 70.31% 70.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 89 50
Average daily rate £350 £400 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% +14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £525 £415
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 3
Average hourly rate £32.50 £22.00 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+47.72% -51.11%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
Scrum
East Sussex

Scrum
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton Scrum Daily Rate Trend

Scrum
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 10 (58.82%) TDD
2 9 (52.94%) .NET
3 8 (47.06%) Performance Testing
4 7 (41.18%) Selenium
5 6 (35.29%) Agile Software Development
5 6 (35.29%) ASP.NET
5 6 (35.29%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (29.41%) MVC
6 5 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (29.41%) ISEB
6 5 (29.41%) QA
6 5 (29.41%) User Acceptance Testing
6 5 (29.41%) ASP.NET MVC
6 5 (29.41%) Gherkin
7 4 (23.53%) Cucumber
7 4 (23.53%) jQuery
7 4 (23.53%) Data Integration
7 4 (23.53%) FitNesse
7 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
7 4 (23.53%) CSS
7 4 (23.53%) Web Services
7 4 (23.53%) C#
7 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
8 3 (17.65%) Workflow
8 3 (17.65%) ISEB Practitioner
8 3 (17.65%) Content Management
8 3 (17.65%) Penetration Testing
8 3 (17.65%) SQL Server 2008
8 3 (17.65%) Sitecore CMS
8 3 (17.65%) Sitecore

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 9 (52.94%) .NET
2 6 (35.29%) ASP.NET
3 5 (29.41%) ASP.NET MVC
3 5 (29.41%) Gherkin
4 4 (23.53%) jQuery
4 4 (23.53%) CSS
4 4 (23.53%) Web Services
5 3 (17.65%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 2 (11.76%) HTML
6 2 (11.76%) XML
6 2 (11.76%) XSLT
6 2 (11.76%) Ajax
6 2 (11.76%) .NET Framework
6 2 (11.76%) LINQ
6 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET MVC 3
6 2 (11.76%) Razor View Engine
6 2 (11.76%) HTML5
6 2 (11.76%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 1 (5.882%) REST
7 1 (5.882%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 3 (17.65%) Sitecore CMS
2 2 (11.76%) Windows Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) HTTP
2 1 (5.882%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
3 3 (17.65%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (5.882%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (5.882%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (5.882%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) Selenium
2 4 (23.53%) FitNesse
2 4 (23.53%) Cucumber
3 2 (11.76%) SpecFlow
3 2 (11.76%) Visual Studio
3 2 (11.76%) NUnit
3 2 (11.76%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (11.76%) Rhino Mocks
General
1 2 (11.76%) Finance
2 1 (5.882%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Analyst
1 6 (35.29%) Test Analyst
2 5 (29.41%) Tester
2 5 (29.41%) Automated Tester
3 4 (23.53%) Developer
3 4 (23.53%) Test Leader
4 2 (11.76%) QA Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Test Team Leader
4 2 (11.76%) Team Leader
5 1 (5.882%) SQL Developer
5 1 (5.882%) ETL Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Data Warehouse Analyst
5 1 (5.882%) Data Analyst
5 1 (5.882%) .NET Developer
5 1 (5.882%) C# Developer
5 1 (5.882%) ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (5.882%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Agile Test Analyst
5 1 (5.882%) Data Warehouse Test Analyst
5 1 (5.882%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Data Integration
2 1 (5.882%) Health Informatics
2 1 (5.882%) NHS
2 1 (5.882%) Informatics
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) TDD
2 8 (47.06%) Performance Testing
3 6 (35.29%) Agile Software Development
4 5 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (29.41%) MVC
4 5 (29.41%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (17.65%) User Stories
5 3 (17.65%) Workflow
5 3 (17.65%) Content Management
5 3 (17.65%) Penetration Testing
6 2 (11.76%) Automated Testing
6 2 (11.76%) Project Management
6 2 (11.76%) Pair Programming
7 1 (5.882%) ETL
7 1 (5.882%) Process Management
7 1 (5.882%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (5.882%) Business Analysis
7 1 (5.882%) Data Analysis
7 1 (5.882%) Web Testing
7 1 (5.882%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) C#
1 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.882%) PL/SQL
2 1 (5.882%) SQL
2 1 (5.882%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) ISEB
2 3 (17.65%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) QA
2 1 (5.882%) Solvency II
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Sitecore
2 2 (11.76%) DevExpress
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.882%) Oracle