The first table below looks at the demand for Scrum skills in IT contracts advertised for the Docklands, London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Scrum over the 3 months to 17 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 Docklands, 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Scrum
Rank 28 18 59
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +41
Contract jobs citing Scrum 1 15 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Docklands, London 0.599% 6.787% 0.836%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.775% 8.772% 1.142%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 9 4
Average daily rate - £560 £442
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +26.62%
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 £39.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year
-16.45% -2.46%
All Processes & Methodologies
Docklands, London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
129 171 438
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Docklands, London 77.25% 77.38% 73.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 111 196
Average daily rate £463 £500 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.50% -4.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £315 £360 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 4
Average hourly rate - £26.00 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +13.04%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Scrum
London

Scrum
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Docklands, 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 Docklands, London region.

Docklands, London Scrum Daily Rate Trend

Scrum
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, 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 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) Banking
2 3 (75.00%) Retail
2 3 (75.00%) TDD
2 3 (75.00%) Change Management
2 3 (75.00%) Retail Banking
2 3 (75.00%) Bash shell
2 3 (75.00%) UNIX
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) OO
2 3 (75.00%) Cognos
2 3 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (75.00%) IBM
2 3 (75.00%) Perl
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle
3 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (25.00%) .NET
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) C++
3 1 (25.00%) HTML5
3 1 (25.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 1 (25.00%) SSDT
3 1 (25.00%) User Stories

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, 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 4 (100.00%) Web Services
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (25.00%) HTML5
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (25.00%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Subversion
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (100.00%) Banking
2 3 (75.00%) Retail
2 3 (75.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Development Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Development Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) UNIX
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) OO
1 3 (75.00%) Change Management
1 3 (75.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) Time Management
2 1 (25.00%) User Stories
2 1 (25.00%) MVC
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Perl
2 3 (75.00%) Bash shell
3 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) C++
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
1 3 (75.00%) Cognos
1 3 (75.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) TOWER Software