The first table below looks at the demand for Scrum skills in IT contracts advertised for the Guildford 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 Guildford 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 17 19 15
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -4
Contract jobs citing Scrum 15 3 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 6.881% 2.479% 4.511%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.14% 4.054% 8.333%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 3
Average daily rate £400 £388 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.22% -6.06%
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
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
148 74 72
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 67.89% 61.16% 54.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 37 36
Average daily rate £425 £375 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.33% +15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £281 £316 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £425 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 4 1
Average hourly rate £37.50 £27.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+36.36% -15.38%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Scrum
Surrey

Scrum
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford 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 Guildford region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Guildford Scrum Daily Rate Histogram

Scrum
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 11 (61.11%) C#
2 10 (55.56%) JavaScript
2 10 (55.56%) Games
3 9 (50.00%) MS Excel
3 9 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 8 (44.44%) Windows
5 7 (38.89%) SQL
5 7 (38.89%) .NET
5 7 (38.89%) Python
5 7 (38.89%) Game Development
6 6 (33.33%) SQL Server
6 6 (33.33%) Computer Science
7 5 (27.78%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (27.78%) Analytics
7 5 (27.78%) Visualisation
8 4 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (22.22%) Windows Azure
8 4 (22.22%) Software Architecture
8 4 (22.22%) Process Architecture
8 4 (22.22%) LINQ
8 4 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (22.22%) SQL Server 2008
8 4 (22.22%) Test Automation
8 4 (22.22%) Kinect
8 4 (22.22%) Test Strategy
8 4 (22.22%) Windows 8
8 4 (22.22%) Regression Testing
8 4 (22.22%) MVC
8 4 (22.22%) Streaming Video
8 4 (22.22%) WCF

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 7 (38.89%) .NET
2 4 (22.22%) LINQ
2 4 (22.22%) WCF
2 4 (22.22%) .NET Framework
3 3 (16.67%) CSS
3 3 (16.67%) CSS3
3 3 (16.67%) jQuery
3 3 (16.67%) HTML5
4 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (11.11%) Backbone.js
4 2 (11.11%) KnockoutJS
4 2 (11.11%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 2 (11.11%) Caliburn.Micro
4 2 (11.11%) Cocoa Touch
4 2 (11.11%) Cocoa
4 2 (11.11%) NHibernate
4 2 (11.11%) WPF
4 2 (11.11%) XML
4 2 (11.11%) ASP
4 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 4 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
1 4 (22.22%) Windows Azure
2 2 (11.11%) ESB
2 2 (11.11%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (5.556%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 4 (22.22%) MS Visio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (22.22%) SQL Server 2008
2 4 (22.22%) Data Mining
3 2 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (11.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (11.11%) SQL Server 2012
3 2 (11.11%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (11.11%) OLAP
3 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.556%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (5.556%) Big Data
4 1 (5.556%) Hadoop
4 1 (5.556%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Moq
1 2 (11.11%) TeamCity
1 2 (11.11%) Subversion
1 2 (11.11%) ReSharper
1 2 (11.11%) MSI
2 1 (5.556%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (55.56%) Games
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Development Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Mobile Applications Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Mobile Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 2 (11.11%) BizTalk Consultant
4 1 (5.556%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.556%) Business Analyst
4 1 (5.556%) Analyst
4 1 (5.556%) Web Developer
4 1 (5.556%) Business Developer
4 1 (5.556%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) .NET Developer
4 1 (5.556%) C# Developer
4 1 (5.556%) ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (5.556%) Project Analyst
4 1 (5.556%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (5.556%) ScrumMaster
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 5 (27.78%) Visualisation
3 4 (22.22%) Kinect
3 4 (22.22%) Streaming Video
4 3 (16.67%) Online Games
5 2 (11.11%) iPad
5 2 (11.11%) Inversion of Control
5 2 (11.11%) iPhone
5 2 (11.11%) Mobile App
5 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (11.11%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) Windows
2 4 (22.22%) Windows 8
3 2 (11.11%) Apple iOS
3 2 (11.11%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Game Development
2 5 (27.78%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (27.78%) Analytics
3 4 (22.22%) Software Architecture
3 4 (22.22%) Process Architecture
3 4 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (22.22%) Test Automation
3 4 (22.22%) Test Strategy
3 4 (22.22%) Regression Testing
3 4 (22.22%) MVC
3 4 (22.22%) Data Analysis
3 4 (22.22%) Automated Testing
3 4 (22.22%) Software Engineering
3 4 (22.22%) Code Coverage
4 3 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (16.67%) TDD
4 3 (16.67%) Release Management
4 3 (16.67%) BDD
5 2 (11.11%) User Stories
5 2 (11.11%) OO
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) C#
2 10 (55.56%) JavaScript
3 7 (38.89%) SQL
3 7 (38.89%) Python
4 4 (22.22%) C++
4 4 (22.22%) C
5 3 (16.67%) Ruby
6 2 (11.11%) Objective-C
6 2 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (5.556%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.556%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) SCOM
2 1 (5.556%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.556%) Oracle
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