The first table below looks at the demand for Scrum skills in IT contracts advertised for the Dorset 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 Dorset 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 - 38
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Scrum 4 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dorset 2.041% - 0.330%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.667% - 0.463%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £280 - -
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
Dorset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
150 180 216
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dorset 76.53% 68.44% 71.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 111 115
Average daily rate £350 £375 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +2.73%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £275 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £685 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 10 8
Average hourly rate £32.00 £27.50 £40.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.36% -32.09%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £25.50 £22.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £40.00 £165.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Scrum
South West

Scrum
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Dorset 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 Dorset region.

Dorset 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 Dorset region.

Dorset Scrum Hourly 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 Dorset region over the 3 months to 17 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
Bournemouth - 3 £320 -
Poole - 1 £275 -
Scrum
South West

Scrum
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 (50.00%) MVC
1 4 (50.00%) Java
1 4 (50.00%) Spring
2 3 (37.50%) HTML
2 3 (37.50%) TDD
2 3 (37.50%) Spring MVC
2 3 (37.50%) jQuery
2 3 (37.50%) XML
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) E-Commerce
3 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (25.00%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) CSS
3 2 (25.00%) QA
3 2 (25.00%) Spring Web Flow
3 2 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Integration Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Web Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
4 1 (12.50%) System Testing
4 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 1 (12.50%) Git (software)
4 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
4 1 (12.50%) HTML5
4 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC 2
4 1 (12.50%) Spring Integration
4 1 (12.50%) Gradle
4 1 (12.50%) Jenkins

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 (50.00%) Spring
2 3 (37.50%) XML
2 3 (37.50%) HTML
2 3 (37.50%) jQuery
2 3 (37.50%) Spring MVC
3 2 (25.00%) Spring Web Flow
3 2 (25.00%) CSS
4 1 (12.50%) Struts
4 1 (12.50%) .NET
4 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
4 1 (12.50%) Hibernate
4 1 (12.50%) Ajax
4 1 (12.50%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (12.50%) WPF
4 1 (12.50%) HTML5
4 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC 2
4 1 (12.50%) Spring Integration
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Office
1 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Internet
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
1 1 (12.50%) Maven
1 1 (12.50%) Git (software)
1 1 (12.50%) Gradle
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Test Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Junior
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Junior Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Junior Java Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior .NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Ruby on Rails Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Designer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Designer
4 1 (12.50%) Agile Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) UNIX
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) MVC
2 3 (37.50%) TDD
2 3 (37.50%) E-Commerce
3 2 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Integration Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Web Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
4 1 (12.50%) System Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
4 1 (12.50%) UML
4 1 (12.50%) RUP
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) Ruby
3 1 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) ISEB
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft