The first table below looks at the demand for Scrum skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Scrum over the 3 months to 24 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 Bristol 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Scrum
Rank 37 53 39
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -14
Contract jobs citing Scrum 13 11 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 2.519% 1.316% 1.703%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.262% 1.937% 2.529%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 4
Average daily rate £363 £368 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.36% -2.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £331 £305
10% offered a daily rate of more than £419 £420 £393
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £365
% change year-on-year
- -4.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 £39.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-16.98% -6.47%
All Processes & Methodologies
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
305 568 435
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 59.11% 67.94% 67.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 379 249
Average daily rate £325 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £230 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £470 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 22 22
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £36.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -4.10%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £28.70 £16.00 £11.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £55.25 £37.50 £43.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Scrum
South West

Scrum
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol 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 Bristol region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Bristol Scrum Daily Rate Histogram

Scrum
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 21 (60.00%) Agile Software Development
2 14 (40.00%) TDD
3 13 (37.14%) .NET
4 12 (34.29%) C#
4 12 (34.29%) Java
5 9 (25.71%) ASP.NET
5 9 (25.71%) E-Commerce
5 9 (25.71%) jQuery
6 8 (22.86%) BDD
6 8 (22.86%) Web Services
7 7 (20.00%) Oracle
7 7 (20.00%) MVC
8 6 (17.14%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (17.14%) WCF
8 6 (17.14%) RESTful
9 5 (14.29%) Spring
9 5 (14.29%) Ruby
9 5 (14.29%) Degree
9 5 (14.29%) SQL Server
10 4 (11.43%) CSS
10 4 (11.43%) PHP
10 4 (11.43%) UML
10 4 (11.43%) User Stories
11 3 (8.571%) QA
11 3 (8.571%) Kanban
11 3 (8.571%) WinForms
11 3 (8.571%) Finance
11 3 (8.571%) Aerospace
11 3 (8.571%) Law
11 3 (8.571%) NHibernate

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 (37.14%) .NET
2 9 (25.71%) ASP.NET
2 9 (25.71%) jQuery
3 8 (22.86%) Web Services
4 6 (17.14%) WCF
4 6 (17.14%) RESTful
5 5 (14.29%) Spring
6 4 (11.43%) CSS
7 3 (8.571%) WinForms
7 3 (8.571%) NHibernate
7 3 (8.571%) .NET Framework
7 3 (8.571%) J2EE
8 2 (5.714%) HTML
8 2 (5.714%) XML
8 2 (5.714%) Middleware
8 2 (5.714%) Ajax
8 2 (5.714%) JSON
8 2 (5.714%) Hibernate
8 2 (5.714%) Grails
8 2 (5.714%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 3 (8.571%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.857%) Shopify
2 1 (2.857%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (2.857%) Magento
2 1 (2.857%) Apache Solr
2 1 (2.857%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (2.857%) Drupal
2 1 (2.857%) Mule
2 1 (2.857%) CMS
2 1 (2.857%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (2.857%) ESB
Applications
1 1 (2.857%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.714%) MySQL
3 1 (2.857%) MarkLogic
3 1 (2.857%) Hazelcast
3 1 (2.857%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (2.857%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (5.714%) JUnit
1 2 (5.714%) Visual Studio
1 2 (5.714%) JIRA
1 2 (5.714%) Maven
1 2 (5.714%) WATIR
1 2 (5.714%) Selenium
1 2 (5.714%) FitNesse
1 2 (5.714%) Cucumber
1 2 (5.714%) WebDriver
1 2 (5.714%) Jenkins
1 2 (5.714%) Hudson
1 2 (5.714%) SpecFlow
2 1 (2.857%) Subversion
General
1 3 (8.571%) Finance
1 3 (8.571%) Aerospace
1 3 (8.571%) Law
2 2 (5.714%) Banking
2 2 (5.714%) Legal
2 2 (5.714%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.857%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (42.86%) Developer
2 5 (14.29%) .NET Developer
3 4 (11.43%) Analyst
3 4 (11.43%) Business Analyst
3 4 (11.43%) Software Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) Java Developer
4 3 (8.571%) Agile Project Manager
4 3 (8.571%) Software Manager
4 3 (8.571%) Software Development Manager
4 3 (8.571%) Development Manager
4 3 (8.571%) Project Manager
5 2 (5.714%) Architect
5 2 (5.714%) Technical Architect
5 2 (5.714%) SharePoint Developer
5 2 (5.714%) C++ Software Engineer
5 2 (5.714%) ScrumMaster
5 2 (5.714%) Python Software Engineer
5 2 (5.714%) QA Engineer
5 2 (5.714%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
6 1 (2.857%) Drupal Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.714%) Mathematics
1 2 (5.714%) Physics
1 2 (5.714%) Open Source
1 2 (5.714%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.571%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (60.00%) Agile Software Development
2 14 (40.00%) TDD
3 9 (25.71%) E-Commerce
4 8 (22.86%) BDD
5 7 (20.00%) MVC
6 6 (17.14%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (11.43%) UML
7 4 (11.43%) User Stories
8 3 (8.571%) Kanban
8 3 (8.571%) OO
9 2 (5.714%) SOA
9 2 (5.714%) Software Engineering
9 2 (5.714%) Data Security
9 2 (5.714%) Web Testing
9 2 (5.714%) Automation Testing
9 2 (5.714%) Agile Testing
10 1 (2.857%) Unit Testing
10 1 (2.857%) Stakeholder Management
10 1 (2.857%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 12 (34.29%) C#
1 12 (34.29%) Java
2 5 (14.29%) Ruby
3 4 (11.43%) PHP
4 3 (8.571%) SQL
4 3 (8.571%) VB.NET
4 3 (8.571%) JavaScript
4 3 (8.571%) C++
5 2 (5.714%) Python
5 2 (5.714%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.857%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) Degree
2 2 (5.714%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.571%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (20.00%) Oracle
2 3 (8.571%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.857%) Sitecore
3 1 (2.857%) Zend
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