The first table below looks at the demand for Scrum skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hammersmith 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 Hammersmith 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 4 3 3
Rank change year-on-year
-1 0
Contract jobs citing Scrum 4 10 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hammersmith 12.12% 24.39% 15.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.81% 35.71% 17.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 7 2
Average daily rate - £375 £390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -3.84%
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
Hammersmith
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
27 28 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hammersmith 81.82% 68.29% 85.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 21 5
Average daily rate £325 £356 £376
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.77% -5.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £250 £363
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £412 £394
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £21.34 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Scrum
London

Scrum
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hammersmith 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 Hammersmith region.

Hammersmith Scrum Daily Rate Trend

Scrum
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hammersmith 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 3 (50.00%) ITIL
1 3 (50.00%) Kanban
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (33.33%) Infoblox
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco PIX
2 2 (33.33%) Network Security
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (33.33%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) HTML
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) .NET
2 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 2 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 2 (33.33%) VoIP
2 2 (33.33%) VPN
2 2 (33.33%) SLA
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) Juniper
2 2 (33.33%) MPLS
2 2 (33.33%) OSPF
2 2 (33.33%) BGP
2 2 (33.33%) TACACS
2 2 (33.33%) NetScreen
2 2 (33.33%) Service Management
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) Wireless
2 2 (33.33%) IPsec
2 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (33.33%) Citrix
2 2 (33.33%) Fortinet

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hammersmith 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 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
1 2 (33.33%) HTML
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) ADO.NET
2 1 (16.67%) CSS
2 1 (16.67%) XML
2 1 (16.67%) XHTML
2 1 (16.67%) Ajax
2 1 (16.67%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
1 1 (16.67%) MS Exchange
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) MPLS
1 2 (33.33%) OSPF
1 2 (33.33%) BGP
1 2 (33.33%) TACACS
1 2 (33.33%) NetScreen
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) Wireless
1 2 (33.33%) IPsec
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco PIX
1 2 (33.33%) Network Security
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (33.33%) VoIP
1 2 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
1 1 (16.67%) NUnit
1 1 (16.67%) Git (software)
1 1 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (16.67%) MSTest
1 1 (16.67%) Rhino Mocks
General
1 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
1 1 (16.67%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior C# Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior .NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) C# ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Programme Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) e-Health
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (16.67%) CentOS
1 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) ITIL
1 3 (50.00%) Kanban
2 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 2 (33.33%) Service Management
2 2 (33.33%) Load Balancing
3 1 (16.67%) MVC
3 1 (16.67%) Workflow
3 1 (16.67%) TDD
3 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C#
1 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) Perl
2 1 (16.67%) PHP
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) MCSE
1 1 (16.67%) CCNP
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) NFS
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Xen
1 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Nagios
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
1 1 (16.67%) SCOM
1 1 (16.67%) Puppet
1 1 (16.67%) Splunk
1 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Spacewalk
1 1 (16.67%) Cobbler
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Citrix
1 2 (33.33%) Juniper
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
1 2 (33.33%) Fortinet
1 2 (33.33%) Infoblox
2 1 (16.67%) Tufin
2 1 (16.67%) Dell
2 1 (16.67%) NetApp
2 1 (16.67%) Veritas