The first table below looks at the demand for Scrum skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh 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 53 57 57
Rank change year-on-year
+4 0
Contract jobs citing Scrum 4 6 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.480% 0.552% 0.849%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.701% 0.825% 1.284%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
Average daily rate £350 £355 £440
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.40% -19.31%
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
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
571 727 857
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 68.55% 66.88% 66.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 362 465
Average daily rate £413 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £246 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £475 £535
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 16 8
Average hourly rate £20.00 £27.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-27.27% +57.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.88 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.45 £39.00 £43.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Scrum
Scotland

Scrum
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Scrum Hourly Rate Trend

Scrum
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 6 (46.15%) Java
2 5 (38.46%) Finance
3 4 (30.77%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (30.77%) Subversion
3 4 (30.77%) Android
3 4 (30.77%) Mobile App
3 4 (30.77%) .NET
4 3 (23.08%) SQL
4 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 3 (23.08%) HTML
4 3 (23.08%) Web Services
4 3 (23.08%) UML
4 3 (23.08%) CSS
4 3 (23.08%) Hibernate
4 3 (23.08%) JSF
4 3 (23.08%) Mobile Application Development
4 3 (23.08%) JPA
4 3 (23.08%) Apple iOS
4 3 (23.08%) Banking
5 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (15.38%) Multithreading
5 2 (15.38%) iPhone
5 2 (15.38%) Facelets
5 2 (15.38%) Content Management
5 2 (15.38%) jQuery
5 2 (15.38%) NFC
5 2 (15.38%) Java Card
5 2 (15.38%) TDD
5 2 (15.38%) iOS SDK
5 2 (15.38%) CSS3

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 (30.77%) .NET
2 3 (23.08%) HTML
2 3 (23.08%) Web Services
2 3 (23.08%) CSS
2 3 (23.08%) Hibernate
2 3 (23.08%) JSF
2 3 (23.08%) JPA
3 2 (15.38%) Facelets
3 2 (15.38%) jQuery
3 2 (15.38%) iOS SDK
3 2 (15.38%) CSS3
3 2 (15.38%) Cocoa Touch
3 2 (15.38%) HTML5
3 2 (15.38%) Cocoa
3 2 (15.38%) XML
3 2 (15.38%) JavaBeans
3 2 (15.38%) JSP
3 2 (15.38%) Servlets
4 1 (7.692%) SOAP
4 1 (7.692%) Struts
Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) Apache
2 1 (7.692%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (7.692%) IIS
2 1 (7.692%) TeamSite
2 1 (7.692%) CMS
2 1 (7.692%) WebSphere Portal
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.692%) SQL Server
1 1 (7.692%) MySQL
1 1 (7.692%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (7.692%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (7.692%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (7.692%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (7.692%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Subversion
2 2 (15.38%) Xcode
3 1 (7.692%) JUnit
3 1 (7.692%) Eclipse
3 1 (7.692%) Maven
3 1 (7.692%) JIRA
3 1 (7.692%) Selenium
3 1 (7.692%) MSTest
3 1 (7.692%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.692%) Eclipse RCP
3 1 (7.692%) FogBugz
3 1 (7.692%) Trac
3 1 (7.692%) NUnit
3 1 (7.692%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Banking
3 1 (7.692%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Java Developer
2 2 (15.38%) iOS Developer
3 1 (7.692%) Project Manager
3 1 (7.692%) Software Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Analyst
3 1 (7.692%) Test Analyst
3 1 (7.692%) Systems Analyst
3 1 (7.692%) Senior Developer
3 1 (7.692%) Systems Support
3 1 (7.692%) Systems Manager
3 1 (7.692%) WebSphere Developer
3 1 (7.692%) WebSphere Portal Developer
3 1 (7.692%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (7.692%) Senior iOS Developer
3 1 (7.692%) C# Developer
3 1 (7.692%) PHP Developer
3 1 (7.692%) Systems Test Analyst
3 1 (7.692%) ScrumMaster
3 1 (7.692%) Cisco Support
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Mobile App
2 2 (15.38%) iPhone
2 2 (15.38%) Java Card
3 1 (7.692%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Android
2 3 (23.08%) Apple iOS
3 1 (7.692%) Windows
3 1 (7.692%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (23.08%) UML
2 3 (23.08%) Mobile Application Development
3 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (15.38%) Multithreading
3 2 (15.38%) Content Management
3 2 (15.38%) TDD
3 2 (15.38%) Dependency Injection
3 2 (15.38%) Extreme Programming
3 2 (15.38%) MVC
4 1 (7.692%) PRINCE2
4 1 (7.692%) OOA/OOD
4 1 (7.692%) OO
4 1 (7.692%) ETL
4 1 (7.692%) Software Engineering
4 1 (7.692%) Web Development
4 1 (7.692%) Waterfall
4 1 (7.692%) BDD
4 1 (7.692%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (7.692%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Java
2 3 (23.08%) SQL
2 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
3 2 (15.38%) Objective-C
3 2 (15.38%) PL/SQL
4 1 (7.692%) C#
4 1 (7.692%) PHP
4 1 (7.692%) T-SQL
4 1 (7.692%) XPath
4 1 (7.692%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 1 (7.692%) ISEB
1 1 (7.692%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (7.692%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (7.692%) IBM Certification
1 1 (7.692%) MCSE
1 1 (7.692%) ISTQB
1 1 (7.692%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.692%) WAI
1 1 (7.692%) Section 508
System Software
1 1 (7.692%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle
2 1 (7.692%) Cisco
2 1 (7.692%) IBM
2 1 (7.692%) HP
2 1 (7.692%) JBoss
2 1 (7.692%) VMware
2 1 (7.692%) Cadis
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