Scrum Contracts in Cheshire
 
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 Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Scrum over the 3 months to 21 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 Cheshire 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Scrum
Rank 55 63 69
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +6
Contract jobs citing Scrum 8 3 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 1.088% 0.373% 0.719%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.457% 0.609% 1.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 6
Average daily rate £330 £228 £357
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+45.05% -36.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £306 £190 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £426 £266 £363
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 £39.75 £40.50
% change year-on-year
-16.98% -1.85%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 549 493 670
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 74.69% 61.24% 68.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 250 374
Average daily rate £375 £353 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.30% +8.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £271 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £465 £500 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 12 25
Average hourly rate £40.00 £22.41 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+78.49% +17.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.95 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.83 £31.10 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Scrum
North West

Scrum
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Warrington -2 2 - -
Chester - 1 £300 -
Scrum
North West

Scrum
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 8 (57.14%) Agile Software Development
1 8 (57.14%) JavaScript
2 7 (50.00%) HTML
2 7 (50.00%) Java
2 7 (50.00%) TDD
3 6 (42.86%) CSS
4 5 (35.71%) Oracle
4 5 (35.71%) SQL Server
4 5 (35.71%) .NET
4 5 (35.71%) J2EE
4 5 (35.71%) C#
4 5 (35.71%) ASP.NET
4 5 (35.71%) Spring
4 5 (35.71%) SQL Server 2005
4 5 (35.71%) SQL Server 2008
5 4 (28.57%) JIRA
5 4 (28.57%) Hibernate
5 4 (28.57%) MVC
5 4 (28.57%) JUnit
5 4 (28.57%) SQL
6 3 (21.43%) IIS
6 3 (21.43%) XML
6 3 (21.43%) Oracle 8/8i
6 3 (21.43%) Flash
6 3 (21.43%) Client/Server
6 3 (21.43%) Eclipse
6 3 (21.43%) TELNET
6 3 (21.43%) SNMP
6 3 (21.43%) TCP/IP
6 3 (21.43%) Adobe

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 7 (50.00%) HTML
2 6 (42.86%) CSS
3 5 (35.71%) .NET
3 5 (35.71%) J2EE
3 5 (35.71%) ASP.NET
3 5 (35.71%) Spring
4 4 (28.57%) Hibernate
5 3 (21.43%) XML
5 3 (21.43%) Flash
5 3 (21.43%) Apache Flex
5 3 (21.43%) jQuery
6 2 (14.29%) WCF
6 2 (14.29%) WPF
6 2 (14.29%) Ajax
6 2 (14.29%) Windows SharePoint Services
6 2 (14.29%) WebSphere
6 2 (14.29%) .NET Framework
6 2 (14.29%) Java EE
6 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (14.29%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 3 (21.43%) IIS
2 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 2 (14.29%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) MS Excel
2 1 (7.143%) Photoshop
2 1 (7.143%) Fireworks
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) TELNET
1 3 (21.43%) SNMP
1 3 (21.43%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.143%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) SQL Server
1 5 (35.71%) SQL Server 2005
1 5 (35.71%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle 8/8i
2 3 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (14.29%) MySQL
4 1 (7.143%) RDBMS
4 1 (7.143%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) JIRA
1 4 (28.57%) JUnit
2 3 (21.43%) Eclipse
2 3 (21.43%) TestNG
2 3 (21.43%) Team Foundation Server
2 3 (21.43%) Selenium
3 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 2 (14.29%) Mercurial
3 2 (14.29%) MyEclipse
3 2 (14.29%) WebSpeed
3 2 (14.29%) Visual Studio
3 2 (14.29%) PVCS
3 2 (14.29%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 1 (7.143%) Banking
1 1 (7.143%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (78.57%) Developer
2 5 (35.71%) Java Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Software Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 2 (14.29%) .NET Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Progress Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Team Leader
4 1 (7.143%) Development Team Leader
4 1 (7.143%) Front-End Developer
4 1 (7.143%) User Experience Developer
4 1 (7.143%) .NET Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Client/Server
2 2 (14.29%) Mobile App
2 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.143%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Apple iOS
1 3 (21.43%) Android
2 2 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (50.00%) TDD
3 4 (28.57%) MVC
4 3 (21.43%) Unit Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (14.29%) Feature Driven Development
5 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (14.29%) BDD
5 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (14.29%) Change Management
5 2 (14.29%) Extreme Programming
5 2 (14.29%) Pair Programming
5 2 (14.29%) Asset Management
5 2 (14.29%) Data Management
6 1 (7.143%) OO
6 1 (7.143%) DSDM
6 1 (7.143%) E-Commerce
6 1 (7.143%) Web Design
6 1 (7.143%) Migration
6 1 (7.143%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) JavaScript
2 7 (50.00%) Java
3 5 (35.71%) C#
4 4 (28.57%) SQL
5 2 (14.29%) Progress 4GL
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Oracle
2 3 (21.43%) Adobe
3 2 (14.29%) Sculptor
3 2 (14.29%) IBM
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 2 (14.29%) Progress
3 2 (14.29%) SAP
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