The first table below looks at the demand for Scrum skills in IT contracts advertised for the Crawley 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 Crawley 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 21 10 24
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +14
Contract jobs citing Scrum 4 28 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 2.721% 10.41% 1.754%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.738% 13.21% 2.500%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 19 2
Average daily rate £326 £310 £394
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.24% -21.26%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £300 £379
10% offered a daily rate of more than £340 £388 £409
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
Crawley
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
107 212 80
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 72.79% 78.81% 70.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 127 33
Average daily rate £375 £313 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -21.87%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £475 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 7
Average hourly rate £32.50 £14.50 £50.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+124.13% -71.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Scrum
West Sussex

Scrum
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Crawley 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 Crawley region.

Crawley Scrum Daily Rate Trend

Scrum
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Crawley Scrum Hourly Rate Trend

Scrum
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley 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 7 (63.64%) PRINCE2
2 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
3 5 (45.45%) .NET
4 4 (36.36%) MS Visio
4 4 (36.36%) Project Management
4 4 (36.36%) VMware
4 4 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (36.36%) Budget Control
5 3 (27.27%) Technical Architecture
5 3 (27.27%) MS Project
5 3 (27.27%) SAP
6 2 (18.18%) MS Office
6 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
6 2 (18.18%) E-Commerce
6 2 (18.18%) Use Case
6 2 (18.18%) Waterfall
6 2 (18.18%) Finance
6 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (18.18%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (18.18%) Business Analysis
7 1 (9.091%) Supplier Management
7 1 (9.091%) Project Planning
7 1 (9.091%) Service Delivery
7 1 (9.091%) Data Security
7 1 (9.091%) Telecoms
7 1 (9.091%) Java
7 1 (9.091%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2008
7 1 (9.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (9.091%) PRINCE2 Practitioner

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley 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 5 (45.45%) .NET
2 1 (9.091%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 1 (9.091%) WebLogic
1 1 (9.091%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (36.36%) MS Visio
2 3 (27.27%) MS Project
3 2 (18.18%) MS Office
4 1 (9.091%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Oracle 11i
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (9.091%) Oracle 10g
1 1 (9.091%) SQL Server
1 1 (9.091%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 1 (9.091%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Project Manager
2 4 (36.36%) Agile Project Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Business Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Team Leader
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Team Leader
3 2 (18.18%) PRINCE2 Project Manager
4 1 (9.091%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (9.091%) Software Project Manager
4 1 (9.091%) Software Manager
4 1 (9.091%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.091%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.091%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (9.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (9.091%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (9.091%) Windows
1 1 (9.091%) Solaris
1 1 (9.091%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) PRINCE2
2 4 (36.36%) Project Management
2 4 (36.36%) Budget Control
3 3 (27.27%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
4 2 (18.18%) E-Commerce
4 2 (18.18%) Use Case
4 2 (18.18%) Waterfall
4 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (18.18%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (18.18%) Business Analysis
5 1 (9.091%) Supplier Management
5 1 (9.091%) Project Planning
5 1 (9.091%) Service Delivery
5 1 (9.091%) Data Security
5 1 (9.091%) Data Protection
5 1 (9.091%) ERP
5 1 (9.091%) SOA
5 1 (9.091%) PRINCE
5 1 (9.091%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.091%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (9.091%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 1 (9.091%) PRINCE2 Certification
1 1 (9.091%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.091%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (9.091%) VMware ESX
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 4 (36.36%) VMware
3 3 (27.27%) SAP
4 1 (9.091%) EMC
4 1 (9.091%) NetApp
4 1 (9.091%) Red Hat
4 1 (9.091%) Oracle
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