The first table below looks at the demand for Scrum skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Scrum over the 3 months to 19 June 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 City of London 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Scrum
Rank 33 62 77
Rank change year-on-year
+29 +15
Contract jobs citing Scrum 322 217 229
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 4.749% 2.803% 2.287%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.405% 3.877% 3.220%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 165 178
Average daily rate £425 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £325 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 £36.36 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-9.24% -14.44%
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
5027 5597 7112
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 74.14% 72.30% 71.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3796 4123 5235
Average daily rate £450 £475 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.26% -5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £301 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 82 123
Average hourly rate £31.25 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £16.65 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £125.00 £47.85 £54.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Scrum
London

Scrum
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London 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 City of London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

City of London Scrum Daily Rate Histogram

Scrum
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Scrum across the City of London region.

City of London Scrum Hourly Rate Trend

Scrum
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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.

1 250 (40.45%) TDD
2 230 (37.22%) Agile Software Development
3 188 (30.42%) Finance
4 171 (27.67%) .NET
5 158 (25.57%) C#
6 153 (24.76%) Java
7 148 (23.95%) BDD
8 145 (23.46%) Banking
9 136 (22.01%) SQL
10 128 (20.71%) JavaScript
11 103 (16.67%) SQL Server
12 102 (16.50%) CSS
13 92 (14.89%) MVC
14 81 (13.11%) E-Commerce
15 80 (12.94%) HTML
16 79 (12.78%) Web Services
17 78 (12.62%) ASP.NET
18 77 (12.46%) OO
19 70 (11.33%) HTML5
20 69 (11.17%) Selenium
21 64 (10.36%) Oracle
22 63 (10.19%) WCF
23 62 (10.03%) Project Management
24 58 (9.385%) Continuous Integration
25 57 (9.223%) Windows
26 53 (8.576%) MS Excel
27 52 (8.414%) Microsoft
28 48 (7.767%) jQuery
28 48 (7.767%) User Stories
29 46 (7.443%) Spring

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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
1 171 (27.67%) .NET
2 102 (16.50%) CSS
3 80 (12.94%) HTML
4 79 (12.78%) Web Services
5 78 (12.62%) ASP.NET
6 70 (11.33%) HTML5
7 63 (10.19%) WCF
8 48 (7.767%) jQuery
9 46 (7.443%) Spring
10 42 (6.796%) XML
11 40 (6.472%) WPF
11 40 (6.472%) REST
12 39 (6.311%) Hibernate
13 37 (5.987%) ASP.NET MVC
14 35 (5.663%) CSS3
15 33 (5.340%) J2EE
15 33 (5.340%) JSON
16 32 (5.178%) RESTful
16 32 (5.178%) Ajax
17 30 (4.854%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 19 (3.074%) CMS
2 13 (2.104%) Apache Pig
2 13 (2.104%) Windows Azure
3 11 (1.780%) Apache
4 10 (1.618%) WebLogic
5 9 (1.456%) Amazon AWS
6 8 (1.294%) IIS
7 7 (1.133%) WordPress
7 7 (1.133%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (1.133%) Umbraco
7 7 (1.133%) SharePoint
7 7 (1.133%) Tomcat
8 6 (0.971%) Amazon S3
8 6 (0.971%) Sitecore CMS
8 6 (0.971%) Kentico
8 6 (0.971%) Route 53
9 5 (0.809%) SharePoint 2010
9 5 (0.809%) Confluence
10 4 (0.647%) EPiServer CMS
10 4 (0.647%) ElasticSearch
Applications
1 53 (8.576%) MS Excel
2 14 (2.265%) MS Visio
3 9 (1.456%) MS Project
3 9 (1.456%) MS Office
4 8 (1.294%) Photoshop
5 4 (0.647%) Fireworks
6 3 (0.485%) MS PowerPoint
6 3 (0.485%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.324%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 7 (1.133%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.971%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 2 (0.324%) HFM
4 1 (0.162%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.162%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.162%) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking
1 26 (4.207%) Internet
2 20 (3.236%) HTTP
3 14 (2.265%) NFC
4 5 (0.809%) Intranet
5 3 (0.485%) Broadband
6 2 (0.324%) LDAP
6 2 (0.324%) SMS
6 2 (0.324%) ADSL
6 2 (0.324%) Extranet
7 1 (0.162%) Network Security
7 1 (0.162%) AMQP
7 1 (0.162%) SSH
7 1 (0.162%) BSS
7 1 (0.162%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.162%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 36 (5.825%) MySQL
3 30 (4.854%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (4.531%) SQL Server 2008
5 25 (4.045%) NoSQL
6 24 (3.883%) MongoDB
7 23 (3.722%) Hadoop
8 19 (3.074%) Big Data
9 18 (2.913%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 16 (2.589%) Apache Cassandra
11 15 (2.427%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 13 (2.104%) Apache Hive
12 13 (2.104%) RDBMS
13 10 (1.618%) OLAP
13 10 (1.618%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 10 (1.618%) Redis
14 8 (1.294%) Data Mining
14 8 (1.294%) SQL Server 2005
14 8 (1.294%) QlikView
15 7 (1.133%) Mahout
Development Applications
1 69 (11.17%) Selenium
2 46 (7.443%) JUnit
3 37 (5.987%) Maven
3 37 (5.987%) Subversion
4 30 (4.854%) Git (software)
5 29 (4.693%) Cucumber
6 27 (4.369%) JIRA
7 24 (3.883%) Visual Studio
8 22 (3.560%) Xcode
9 19 (3.074%) Mockito
10 18 (2.913%) Team Foundation Server
11 17 (2.751%) Ant
12 15 (2.427%) Rhino Mocks
13 14 (2.265%) Jenkins
14 12 (1.942%) NUnit
15 11 (1.780%) SpecFlow
15 11 (1.780%) Hudson
16 9 (1.456%) Eclipse
17 8 (1.294%) WebDriver
18 7 (1.133%) FitNesse
General
1 188 (30.42%) Finance
2 145 (23.46%) Banking
3 40 (6.472%) Investment Banking
4 34 (5.502%) Retail
4 34 (5.502%) Front Office
5 25 (4.045%) Financial Institution
6 20 (3.236%) Publishing
7 18 (2.913%) Back Office
7 18 (2.913%) Marketing
8 15 (2.427%) Telecoms
9 14 (2.265%) Retail Banking
10 11 (1.780%) Games
11 8 (1.294%) Advertising
12 6 (0.971%) Electronics
12 6 (0.971%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.485%) Legal
14 2 (0.324%) Spanish Language
14 2 (0.324%) Corporate Banking
15 1 (0.162%) Billing
15 1 (0.162%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 297 (48.06%) Developer
2 91 (14.72%) Analyst
3 72 (11.65%) Business Analyst
4 60 (9.709%) .NET Developer
5 54 (8.738%) Project Manager
6 52 (8.414%) Java Developer
7 46 (7.443%) Senior Developer
8 38 (6.149%) ScrumMaster
9 36 (5.825%) C# Developer
10 25 (4.045%) Front-End Developer
11 24 (3.883%) iOS Developer
12 20 (3.236%) Agile Java Developer
13 19 (3.074%) Agile Business Analyst
14 18 (2.913%) Senior iOS Developer
15 16 (2.589%) Lead Developer
15 16 (2.589%) Architect
15 16 (2.589%) Technical Leader
16 15 (2.427%) Senior Analyst
17 14 (2.265%) Senior Business Analyst
17 14 (2.265%) Mobile Developer
Miscellaneous
1 37 (5.987%) Mobile App
2 31 (5.016%) Open Source
3 30 (4.854%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 27 (4.369%) iPhone
5 25 (4.045%) Derivative
6 24 (3.883%) Computer Science
7 18 (2.913%) Blackberry
8 17 (2.751%) Fixed Income
9 16 (2.589%) Inversion of Control
10 15 (2.427%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (2.427%) N-Tier
11 13 (2.104%) Java Card
12 9 (1.456%) Mathematics
12 9 (1.456%) Physics
13 8 (1.294%) Management Information System
14 7 (1.133%) Machine Learning
14 7 (1.133%) Reference Data
14 7 (1.133%) Data Integration
14 7 (1.133%) SaaS
14 7 (1.133%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 57 (9.223%) Windows
2 43 (6.958%) Apple iOS
2 43 (6.958%) Android
3 32 (5.178%) Linux
4 15 (2.427%) UNIX
5 13 (2.104%) Windows Phone
6 7 (1.133%) Windows Mobile
7 4 (0.647%) Windows 7
7 4 (0.647%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.485%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (0.485%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (0.324%) Windows Phone 7
10 1 (0.162%) Debian
10 1 (0.162%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.162%) AIX
10 1 (0.162%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (40.45%) TDD
2 230 (37.22%) Agile Software Development
3 148 (23.95%) BDD
4 92 (14.89%) MVC
5 81 (13.11%) E-Commerce
6 77 (12.46%) OO
7 62 (10.03%) Project Management
8 58 (9.385%) Continuous Integration
9 48 (7.767%) User Stories
10 43 (6.958%) Kanban
11 42 (6.796%) Multithreading
12 41 (6.634%) Business Analysis
13 40 (6.472%) UML
14 35 (5.663%) Unit Testing
15 33 (5.340%) Software Engineering
15 33 (5.340%) Waterfall
16 31 (5.016%) Data Modelling
17 29 (4.693%) SOA
17 29 (4.693%) Mobile Application Development
18 28 (4.531%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 158 (25.57%) C#
2 153 (24.76%) Java
3 136 (22.01%) SQL
4 128 (20.71%) JavaScript
5 38 (6.149%) Ruby
6 28 (4.531%) C++
7 27 (4.369%) Groovy
8 24 (3.883%) Objective-C
9 23 (3.722%) T-SQL
10 17 (2.751%) PHP
11 16 (2.589%) Python
11 16 (2.589%) Scala
12 15 (2.427%) PL/SQL
13 11 (1.780%) Perl
14 10 (1.618%) VB
15 7 (1.133%) Bash shell
16 6 (0.971%) VBA
16 6 (0.971%) C
17 4 (0.647%) ActionScript
17 4 (0.647%) F#
Qualifications
1 27 (4.369%) Degree
2 10 (1.618%) PhD
3 9 (1.456%) Security Cleared
4 6 (0.971%) ISEB
5 5 (0.809%) SC Cleared
6 3 (0.485%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 3 (0.485%) ISTQB
6 3 (0.485%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 3 (0.485%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (0.485%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.324%) CIMA
7 2 (0.324%) ACCA
7 2 (0.324%) BC Cleared
7 2 (0.324%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.162%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.162%) CBAP
8 1 (0.162%) MCPD
8 1 (0.162%) CFA
8 1 (0.162%) MBA
8 1 (0.162%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (7.120%) QA
2 4 (0.647%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (0.324%) Dublin Core
3 2 (0.324%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.162%) WCAG
4 1 (0.162%) WAI
System Software
1 3 (0.485%) Hyper-V
1 3 (0.485%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.162%) Apache Flume
2 1 (0.162%) ClearTrust
Systems Management
1 13 (2.104%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.162%) Puppet
2 1 (0.162%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 64 (10.36%) Oracle
2 52 (8.414%) Microsoft
3 13 (2.104%) HP
4 12 (1.942%) Cognos
5 10 (1.618%) IBM
6 9 (1.456%) Google
6 9 (1.456%) TIBCO
7 8 (1.294%) Bloomberg
8 7 (1.133%) Sitecore
8 7 (1.133%) Zend
8 7 (1.133%) Business Objects
8 7 (1.133%) SAP
9 6 (0.971%) JBoss
9 6 (0.971%) Sybase
9 6 (0.971%) Siebel
9 6 (0.971%) Symantec
9 6 (0.971%) Percona
10 5 (0.809%) Sencha
10 5 (0.809%) Informatica
10 5 (0.809%) Adobe
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