The first table below looks at the demand for Scrum skills in IT contracts advertised for the Derbyshire 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 Derbyshire 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 20 27 32
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +5
Contract jobs citing Scrum 2 5 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Derbyshire 1.460% 2.358% 1.987%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.273% 3.788% 3.243%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £290 - -
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
Derbyshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
88 132 185
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Derbyshire 64.23% 62.26% 61.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 43 79
Average daily rate £290 £400 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-27.50% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £216 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £538
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 24 22
Average hourly rate £52.50 £55.00 £26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.54% +111.53%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £19.75 £11.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £56.25 £60.00 £48.36
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Scrum
East Midlands

Scrum
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Derbyshire 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 Derbyshire region.

Derbyshire Scrum Daily Rate Trend

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 Derbyshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Derby +10 1 £300 -
Scrum
East Midlands

Scrum
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Derbyshire 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 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) J2EE
1 2 (40.00%) Web Services
1 2 (40.00%) Eclipse
1 2 (40.00%) J2SE
1 2 (40.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (40.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (20.00%) PRINCE
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (20.00%) MS Project

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Derbyshire 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 2 (40.00%) J2EE
1 2 (40.00%) Web Services
1 2 (40.00%) J2SE
1 2 (40.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (40.00%) Spring
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (20.00%) MS Project
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Eclipse
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Business Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Java/J2EE Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Agile Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) PRINCE
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 1 (20.00%) Degree