The first table below looks at the demand for Scrum skills in IT contracts advertised for the Essex 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 Essex 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 26 36 20
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -16
Contract jobs citing Scrum 21 9 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 5.224% 2.169% 7.908%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.292% 3.586% 12.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 10
Average daily rate £331 £350 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.35% +3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £236 £248 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £426 £409 £364
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £365
% change year-on-year
- -4.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 7
Average hourly rate £29.92 £35.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.51% +16.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £32.60 £26.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £35.18 £30.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 £39.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-16.98% -6.47%
All Processes & Methodologies
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
288 251 239
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 71.64% 60.48% 60.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 119 108
Average daily rate £325 £350 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -3.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £125 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 37 38
Average hourly rate £32.50 £27.00 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.37% -10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £17.00 £23.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £46.00 £38.98 £39.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Scrum
East of England

Scrum
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex Scrum Daily Rate Trend

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Scrum across the Essex region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Essex Scrum Daily Rate Histogram

Scrum
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Essex Scrum Hourly Rate Trend

Scrum
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Scrum across the Essex region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Essex Scrum Hourly Rate Histogram

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 Essex 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
Brentwood - 6 £213 -
Harlow +5 3 £450 +14.64%
Basildon - 2 - -
Scrum
East of England

Scrum
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 20 (80.00%) SQL
1 20 (80.00%) J2EE
2 11 (44.00%) Project Management
2 11 (44.00%) PRINCE2
2 11 (44.00%) Waterfall
3 10 (40.00%) OO
3 10 (40.00%) XHTML
3 10 (40.00%) Oracle
3 10 (40.00%) CSS
3 10 (40.00%) XML
3 10 (40.00%) HTML
3 10 (40.00%) Java
3 10 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 10 (40.00%) Ajax
4 9 (36.00%) JSP
4 9 (36.00%) RUP
4 9 (36.00%) AccuRev
5 8 (32.00%) FQL
5 8 (32.00%) Facebook
5 8 (32.00%) Twitter
6 7 (28.00%) RAD
6 7 (28.00%) Social Media
7 6 (24.00%) PL/SQL
7 6 (24.00%) C++
8 5 (20.00%) SQL Server
8 5 (20.00%) Content Management
8 5 (20.00%) Marketing
8 5 (20.00%) Configuration Management
9 4 (16.00%) FatWire
9 4 (16.00%) Automotive

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 20 (80.00%) J2EE
2 10 (40.00%) XHTML
2 10 (40.00%) CSS
2 10 (40.00%) XML
2 10 (40.00%) HTML
2 10 (40.00%) Ajax
3 9 (36.00%) JSP
4 4 (16.00%) WebSphere
4 4 (16.00%) WebCenter
5 1 (4.000%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 1 (4.000%) REST
5 1 (4.000%) CSS3
5 1 (4.000%) KnockoutJS
5 1 (4.000%) HTML5
5 1 (4.000%) SOAP
5 1 (4.000%) XSLT
5 1 (4.000%) .NET
5 1 (4.000%) .NET Framework
5 1 (4.000%) LINQ
5 1 (4.000%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 3 (12.00%) CMS
2 1 (4.000%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.000%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (4.000%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.000%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Ant
2 1 (4.000%) Visual Studio
2 1 (4.000%) NUnit
2 1 (4.000%) CruiseControl
2 1 (4.000%) ReSharper
General
1 5 (20.00%) Marketing
2 4 (16.00%) Automotive
2 4 (16.00%) Legal
3 1 (4.000%) Advertising
3 1 (4.000%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 13 (52.00%) Developer
2 10 (40.00%) Project Manager
3 8 (32.00%) Technical Project Manager
3 8 (32.00%) Technical Manager
4 4 (16.00%) Project Leader
4 4 (16.00%) Development Manager
4 4 (16.00%) Technical Development Manager
4 4 (16.00%) Development Project Manager
4 4 (16.00%) Technical Project Leader
5 3 (12.00%) Technical Leader
6 2 (8.000%) Java Developer
6 2 (8.000%) Team Leader
6 2 (8.000%) Technical Team Leader
6 2 (8.000%) Programmer
6 2 (8.000%) Lead Developer
6 2 (8.000%) Applications Developer
6 2 (8.000%) Technical Developer
7 1 (4.000%) Lead Project Manager
7 1 (4.000%) Digital Project Manager
7 1 (4.000%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.00%) UNIX
1 4 (16.00%) Linux
1 4 (16.00%) Apple iOS
1 4 (16.00%) Android
2 1 (4.000%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (4.000%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) Project Management
1 11 (44.00%) PRINCE2
1 11 (44.00%) Waterfall
2 10 (40.00%) OO
3 9 (36.00%) RUP
4 7 (28.00%) RAD
5 5 (20.00%) Content Management
5 5 (20.00%) Configuration Management
6 3 (12.00%) E-Commerce
6 3 (12.00%) CRM
7 2 (8.000%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (8.000%) Load Testing
8 1 (4.000%) Continuous Integration
8 1 (4.000%) Dependency Injection
8 1 (4.000%) Analytics
8 1 (4.000%) SSADM
8 1 (4.000%) MVC
8 1 (4.000%) Agile Software Development
8 1 (4.000%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 20 (80.00%) SQL
2 10 (40.00%) Java
2 10 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 8 (32.00%) FQL
4 6 (24.00%) PL/SQL
4 6 (24.00%) C++
5 1 (4.000%) C#
5 1 (4.000%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1 (4.000%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.000%) QA
Vendors
1 10 (40.00%) Oracle
2 9 (36.00%) AccuRev
3 8 (32.00%) Facebook
3 8 (32.00%) Twitter
4 4 (16.00%) FatWire
4 4 (16.00%) IBM
5 1 (4.000%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.000%) Google
Essex, South East
design patterns Attention to detail, Logical, Analytical, Strong Problem solving skills, Entity Framework, Linq to objects (at least 12 months commercial experience)Visual Studio 2010/2012 - MVC 2...
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Posted: 21 May 2013