The first table below looks at the demand for the ScrumMaster role in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ScrumMaster in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the Hertfordshire 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 Master
Rank 61 68 61
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -7
Contract jobs requiring a ScrumMaster 2 2 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.314% 0.205% 0.342%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.329% 0.220% 0.359%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
Average daily rate £463 £488 £488
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.12% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £475 £450
% change year-on-year
-18.42% +5.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £50.00 - -
All Job Titles
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
608 909 836
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 95.45% 93.04% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 394 355
Average daily rate £400 £365 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.58% +4.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £235 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £520
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 85 104
Average hourly rate £17.49 £31.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-43.59% +82.35%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.19 £11.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £37.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
ScrumMaster
East of England

ScrumMaster
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ScrumMaster across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Hertfordshire ScrumMaster Jobs Demand Trend

ScrumMaster
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ScrumMaster across the Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire ScrumMaster Daily Rate Trend

ScrumMaster
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region that cited ScrumMaster in their job title 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 with ScrumMaster in their job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Scrum
2 14 (93.33%) Agile Software Development
3 12 (80.00%) TDD
3 12 (80.00%) C#
3 12 (80.00%) .NET
4 11 (73.33%) Retail
5 10 (66.67%) OO
6 9 (60.00%) SOA
6 9 (60.00%) Windows
7 2 (13.33%) User Stories
8 1 (6.667%) ATDD
8 1 (6.667%) Agile Testing
8 1 (6.667%) Agile Project Management
8 1 (6.667%) Unit Testing
8 1 (6.667%) Continuous Integration
8 1 (6.667%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (6.667%) Project Management
8 1 (6.667%) E-Commerce
8 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET
8 1 (6.667%) Programme Management
8 1 (6.667%) Telecoms

ScrumMaster
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region that cited ScrumMaster in their job title 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 with ScrumMaster in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (80.00%) .NET
2 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET
Development Applications
1 1 (6.667%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 11 (73.33%) Retail
2 1 (6.667%) Telecoms
Operating Systems
1 9 (60.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Scrum
2 14 (93.33%) Agile Software Development
3 12 (80.00%) TDD
4 10 (66.67%) OO
5 9 (60.00%) SOA
6 2 (13.33%) User Stories
7 1 (6.667%) ATDD
7 1 (6.667%) Agile Testing
7 1 (6.667%) Agile Project Management
7 1 (6.667%) Unit Testing
7 1 (6.667%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (6.667%) Project Management
7 1 (6.667%) E-Commerce
7 1 (6.667%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (80.00%) C#