Cambridgeshire Scrum Contracts

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Scrum skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Scrum over the 3 months to 22 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Cambridgeshire region.

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Location Bath Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Brentford Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Croydon Docklands, London Dorset East Grinstead East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Farnham Glasgow Glastonbury Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Isle of Man Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Newbury North West Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southport Staines Stockport Surrey Swindon Taunton Telford Thatcham Tunbridge Wells UK Wales West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Woking Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 22 Mar 2010	Same period 2009	Same period 2008
Rank	36	43	75
Rank change year-on-year	+7 +32
Matching contract IT job ads	7	3	3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire	1.639 %	0.585 %	0.265 %
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	2.966 %	1.310 %	0.600 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0	1
Average daily rate	£438	-	£320
UK excluding London average daily rate	£363	£345	£450
% change year-on-year	+5.070 % -23.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	0	0
Average hourly rate	£16.50	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.00	£50.00	-
% change year-on-year	-60.00 % -
All Processes & Methodologies Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the Processes & Methodologies category	236	229	500
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire	55.27 %	44.64 %	44.25 %
Daily rates quoted	96	92	153
Average daily rate	£314	£350	£375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	-10.35 % -6.660 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£205	£215	£270
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£500	£450	£500
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£357	£375
% change year-on-year	-1.960 % -4.800 %
Hourly rates quoted	37	32	58
Average hourly rate	£32.50	£30.00	£27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	+8.330 % +9.090 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£13.15	£18.10	£18.25
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£36.50	£40.00	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.50	£27.73	£30.00
% change year-on-year	-11.63 % -7.580 %
Scrum East of England

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Scrum across the Cambridgeshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Scrum across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 22 March 2010.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Scrum across the Cambridgeshire region.

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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 Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 22 March 2010. 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	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Cambridge	+3	5	£500	-

Scrum East of England

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Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 5 (62.50 %) Agile Software Development 2 3 (37.50 %) TDD 2 3 (37.50 %) Selenium 2 3 (37.50 %) ISEB 3 2 (25.00 %) MySQL 3 2 (25.00 %) Software Testing 3 2 (25.00 %) Wireless 4 1 (12.50 %) Electronics 4 1 (12.50 %) Electric 4 1 (12.50 %) Pair Programming 4 1 (12.50 %) ISTQB 4 1 (12.50 %) ZigBee 4 1 (12.50 %) Test Scripting

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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.

Communications & Networking 1 2 (25.00 %) Wireless 2 1 (12.50 %) ZigBee	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (25.00 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 3 (37.50 %) Selenium	General 1 1 (12.50 %) Electronics 1 1 (12.50 %) Electric
Job Titles 1 3 (37.50 %) Project Manager 1 3 (37.50 %) Agile Project Manager 2 2 (25.00 %) Tester 2 2 (25.00 %) Software Tester 2 2 (25.00 %) Test Engineer 3 1 (12.50 %) Software Test Engineer 3 1 (12.50 %) Hardware Engineer 3 1 (12.50 %) Software Engineer 3 1 (12.50 %) Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Test Analyst	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (62.50 %) Agile Software Development 2 3 (37.50 %) TDD 3 2 (25.00 %) Software Testing 4 1 (12.50 %) Pair Programming 4 1 (12.50 %) Test Scripting
Qualifications 1 3 (37.50 %) ISEB 2 1 (12.50 %) ISTQB