The first table below looks at the demand for Scrum skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leatherhead region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Scrum over the 3 months to 20 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 Leatherhead 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Scrum
Rank - 18 5
Contract jobs citing Scrum 0 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leatherhead - 3.488% 6.667%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 4.762% 9.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 0
Average daily rate - £375 -
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 £39.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-16.98% -0.62%
All Processes & Methodologies
Leatherhead
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
15 63 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leatherhead 65.22% 73.26% 73.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 49 7
Average daily rate £350 £425 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.64% +41.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £304 £220 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £565 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 2
Average hourly rate £50.00 £32.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+56.25% +52.38%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
Scrum
Surrey

Scrum
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leatherhead 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 Leatherhead region.

Leatherhead Scrum Daily Rate Trend

Scrum
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leatherhead 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 7 (100.00%) .NET
1 7 (100.00%) C#
2 6 (85.71%) Oracle
2 6 (85.71%) XML
2 6 (85.71%) SOA
2 6 (85.71%) Telecoms
3 5 (71.43%) Data Modelling
3 5 (71.43%) UML
3 5 (71.43%) SOAP
3 5 (71.43%) Degree
3 5 (71.43%) Mathematics
3 5 (71.43%) Physics
3 5 (71.43%) Computer Science
3 5 (71.43%) Silverlight
3 5 (71.43%) Use Case
4 4 (57.14%) Performance Management
4 4 (57.14%) Telelogic
4 4 (57.14%) Telelogic TAU
4 4 (57.14%) CORBA
4 4 (57.14%) Rational Rose
4 4 (57.14%) 3GPP
4 4 (57.14%) SNMP
4 4 (57.14%) Product Management
4 4 (57.14%) Nokia Siemens Networks
4 4 (57.14%) User Stories
5 3 (42.86%) MVVM
5 3 (42.86%) Network Management
5 3 (42.86%) Management Information System
5 3 (42.86%) GIS
5 3 (42.86%) Java

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leatherhead 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 (100.00%) .NET
2 6 (85.71%) XML
3 5 (71.43%) SOAP
3 5 (71.43%) Silverlight
4 4 (57.14%) CORBA
5 3 (42.86%) WCF
6 2 (28.57%) XSLT
6 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
6 2 (28.57%) WSDL
6 2 (28.57%) XML Schema
7 1 (14.29%) Middleware
7 1 (14.29%) Hibernate
7 1 (14.29%) Spring
7 1 (14.29%) NHibernate
7 1 (14.29%) Web Services
7 1 (14.29%) XSD
7 1 (14.29%) WPF
7 1 (14.29%) REST
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) WebLogic
1 1 (14.29%) IIS
1 1 (14.29%) ESB
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Coherence
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) 3GPP
1 4 (57.14%) SNMP
2 1 (14.29%) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) GIS
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Rational Rose
1 4 (57.14%) Telelogic TAU
2 3 (42.86%) Selenium
3 1 (14.29%) Moq
3 1 (14.29%) NUnit
3 1 (14.29%) Subversion
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 6 (85.71%) Telecoms
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Silverlight Developer
3 2 (28.57%) C# Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Web Applications Developer
4 1 (14.29%) C# Web Developer
4 1 (14.29%) C# Application Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Web Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Applications Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Design Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Agile C# Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Middleware Developer
4 1 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Mathematics
1 5 (71.43%) Physics
1 5 (71.43%) Computer Science
2 3 (42.86%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) SOA
2 5 (71.43%) UML
2 5 (71.43%) Use Case
2 5 (71.43%) Data Modelling
3 4 (57.14%) Performance Management
3 4 (57.14%) Product Management
3 4 (57.14%) User Stories
4 3 (42.86%) MVVM
4 3 (42.86%) Network Management
4 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
4 3 (42.86%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (14.29%) Release Management
6 1 (14.29%) Integration Testing
6 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
6 1 (14.29%) TDD
6 1 (14.29%) Data Management
6 1 (14.29%) Network Planning
6 1 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
6 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (42.86%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) XPath
4 1 (14.29%) sed
4 1 (14.29%) Perl
4 1 (14.29%) Python
4 1 (14.29%) AWK
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Oracle
2 4 (57.14%) Telelogic
2 4 (57.14%) Nokia Siemens Networks
3 2 (28.57%) WSO2
4 1 (14.29%) Teradata