The first table below looks at the demand for Scrum skills in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow 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 Glasgow 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 71 51 49
Rank change year-on-year
-20 -2
Contract jobs citing Scrum 9 9 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.955% 1.166% 2.000%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.404% 1.718% 2.941%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 11
Average daily rate £360 £350 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -17.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £331 £284 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £415 £426 £475
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
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
641 524 476
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 68.05% 67.88% 68.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 339 285 285
Average daily rate £338 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.57% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £236 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £499
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 22 14
Average hourly rate £9.25 £25.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-63.00% -37.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Scrum
Scotland

Scrum
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Glasgow Scrum Daily Rate Histogram

Scrum
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 46 (83.64%) Agile Software Development
2 38 (69.09%) Java
3 34 (61.82%) Spring
4 22 (40.00%) Web Services
5 19 (34.55%) SQL
5 19 (34.55%) Sybase
6 18 (32.73%) UNIX
6 18 (32.73%) SQL Server
6 18 (32.73%) Tomcat
7 16 (29.09%) Oracle
7 16 (29.09%) MVC
7 16 (29.09%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (27.27%) Hibernate
8 15 (27.27%) Eclipse
9 14 (25.45%) Extreme Programming
9 14 (25.45%) Continuous Integration
10 12 (21.82%) Kanban
10 12 (21.82%) Maven
10 12 (21.82%) XML
11 11 (20.00%) JSON
11 11 (20.00%) Spring MVC
11 11 (20.00%) TDD
11 11 (20.00%) Subversion
11 11 (20.00%) RESTful
12 9 (16.36%) Finance
12 9 (16.36%) CSS
12 9 (16.36%) HTML
13 8 (14.55%) N-Tier
13 8 (14.55%) JIRA
14 7 (12.73%) Selenium

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 34 (61.82%) Spring
2 22 (40.00%) Web Services
3 15 (27.27%) Hibernate
4 12 (21.82%) XML
5 11 (20.00%) Spring MVC
5 11 (20.00%) JSON
5 11 (20.00%) RESTful
6 9 (16.36%) HTML
6 9 (16.36%) CSS
7 7 (12.73%) JMS
8 6 (10.91%) SOAP
8 6 (10.91%) JPA
9 5 (9.091%) JDBC
9 5 (9.091%) JSP
9 5 (9.091%) Servlets
9 5 (9.091%) JSF
10 4 (7.273%) XMLBeans
10 4 (7.273%) TopLink
10 4 (7.273%) EJB
10 4 (7.273%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 18 (32.73%) Tomcat
2 6 (10.91%) Mule
3 1 (1.818%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.818%) GlassFish
Applications
1 2 (3.636%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (32.73%) SQL Server
2 6 (10.91%) RDBMS
3 5 (9.091%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.818%) MySQL
4 1 (1.818%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (1.818%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.818%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (1.818%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.818%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.818%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (1.818%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 15 (27.27%) Eclipse
2 12 (21.82%) Maven
3 11 (20.00%) Subversion
4 8 (14.55%) JIRA
5 7 (12.73%) Selenium
6 6 (10.91%) Cucumber
6 6 (10.91%) Jenkins
7 3 (5.455%) CruiseControl
8 2 (3.636%) Visual Studio
8 2 (3.636%) Hudson
8 2 (3.636%) JBehave
9 1 (1.818%) MbUnit
9 1 (1.818%) WATIR
9 1 (1.818%) Spring Roo
9 1 (1.818%) MSBuild
9 1 (1.818%) PVCS
9 1 (1.818%) Git (software)
9 1 (1.818%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (1.818%) RSpec
General
1 9 (16.36%) Finance
2 5 (9.091%) Banking
3 4 (7.273%) Investment Banking
4 3 (5.455%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.636%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (61.82%) Developer
2 24 (43.64%) Java Developer
3 10 (18.18%) ScrumMaster
4 6 (10.91%) Analyst
5 5 (9.091%) Informatica Developer
6 3 (5.455%) Senior Developer
6 3 (5.455%) Senior Informatica Developer
6 3 (5.455%) Test Analyst
6 3 (5.455%) Business Systems Analyst
6 3 (5.455%) Systems Analyst
6 3 (5.455%) Business Analyst
7 2 (3.636%) Consultant
7 2 (3.636%) Systems Designer
7 2 (3.636%) Designer
8 1 (1.818%) Build Engineer
8 1 (1.818%) Automation Analyst
8 1 (1.818%) C# .NET Developer
8 1 (1.818%) DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.818%) Automation Test Analyst
8 1 (1.818%) Web Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 16 (29.09%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (14.55%) N-Tier
3 5 (9.091%) Data Integration
4 3 (5.455%) Clustering
5 2 (3.636%) W3C
6 1 (1.818%) Mashup
6 1 (1.818%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.818%) Open Source
6 1 (1.818%) SaaS
6 1 (1.818%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 18 (32.73%) UNIX
2 2 (3.636%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (83.64%) Agile Software Development
2 16 (29.09%) MVC
3 14 (25.45%) Extreme Programming
3 14 (25.45%) Continuous Integration
4 12 (21.82%) Kanban
5 11 (20.00%) TDD
6 7 (12.73%) Unit Testing
6 7 (12.73%) BDD
6 7 (12.73%) OO
7 6 (10.91%) SOA
7 6 (10.91%) Test Automation
8 5 (9.091%) ETL
8 5 (9.091%) UML
9 4 (7.273%) Data Modelling
9 4 (7.273%) Product Management
10 3 (5.455%) Multithreading
10 3 (5.455%) Pair Programming
10 3 (5.455%) Business Intelligence
11 2 (3.636%) Web Design
11 2 (3.636%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 38 (69.09%) Java
2 19 (34.55%) SQL
3 6 (10.91%) C#
4 5 (9.091%) JavaScript
4 5 (9.091%) Shell Script
4 5 (9.091%) PL/SQL
5 4 (7.273%) Ruby
6 3 (5.455%) Perl
7 2 (3.636%) Groovy
8 1 (1.818%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.818%) Smalltalk
8 1 (1.818%) C++
Qualifications
1 7 (12.73%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.636%) WCAG
1 2 (3.636%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.818%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.818%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (1.818%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (34.55%) Sybase
2 16 (29.09%) Oracle
3 6 (10.91%) Informatica
4 4 (7.273%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.636%) JBoss
5 2 (3.636%) CA
6 1 (1.818%) IBM
6 1 (1.818%) HP
6 1 (1.818%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.818%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.818%) VMware