The first table below looks at the demand for the ScrumMaster role in IT contracts advertised for the London 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 19 June 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 London 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Scrum Master
Rank 293 351 385
Rank change year-on-year
+58 +34
Contract jobs requiring a ScrumMaster 91 59 58
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.399% 0.222% 0.184%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.434% 0.240% 0.199%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 40 40
Average daily rate £525 £413 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+27.27% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £390 £349 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £525 £450
% change year-on-year
-23.80% +16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £50.00 - -
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
20976 24602 29086
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 91.99% 92.53% 92.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 14169 15932 18722
Average daily rate £450 £438 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -7.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £293
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 447 607 665
Average hourly rate £20.00 £19.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.56% -2.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
ScrumMaster
England

ScrumMaster
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London ScrumMaster Daily Rate Trend

ScrumMaster
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ScrumMaster across the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

London ScrumMaster Daily Rate Histogram

ScrumMaster
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ScrumMaster within the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
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Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
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Job
Vacancies
City of London +21 29 £530 +26.56% 3
Hammersmith - - - -
ScrumMaster
England

ScrumMaster
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

1 128 (100.00%) Scrum
2 70 (54.69%) Agile Software Development
3 51 (39.84%) Banking
4 36 (28.13%) Project Management
5 29 (22.66%) Finance
6 27 (21.09%) TDD
7 26 (20.31%) Java
8 21 (16.41%) BDD
9 18 (14.06%) Investment Banking
9 18 (14.06%) .NET
10 15 (11.72%) C#
10 15 (11.72%) Web Development
10 15 (11.72%) User Stories
11 13 (10.16%) Waterfall
12 12 (9.375%) E-Commerce
13 10 (7.813%) SQL Server
13 10 (7.813%) Derivative
13 10 (7.813%) Continuous Integration
14 9 (7.031%) Kanban
14 9 (7.031%) Microsoft
14 9 (7.031%) Enterprise Software
15 8 (6.250%) Front Office
15 8 (6.250%) J2EE
15 8 (6.250%) Oracle
15 8 (6.250%) JavaScript
15 8 (6.250%) Fixed Income
16 7 (5.469%) Content Management
16 7 (5.469%) SQL
16 7 (5.469%) HTML
16 7 (5.469%) MS Excel

ScrumMaster
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 18 (14.06%) .NET
2 8 (6.250%) J2EE
3 7 (5.469%) HTML
4 6 (4.688%) Spring
5 5 (3.906%) Spring MVC
5 5 (3.906%) .NET Framework
6 4 (3.125%) JSP
6 4 (3.125%) Velocity
7 3 (2.344%) Hibernate
7 3 (2.344%) Java EE
7 3 (2.344%) CSS
8 2 (1.563%) WinForms
8 2 (1.563%) NHibernate
9 1 (0.781%) ASP.NET MVC
9 1 (0.781%) HTML5
9 1 (0.781%) CSS3
9 1 (0.781%) WPF
9 1 (0.781%) LINQ
9 1 (0.781%) Ajax
9 1 (0.781%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 4 (3.125%) IIS
2 2 (1.563%) CMS
2 2 (1.563%) Adobe CQ
3 1 (0.781%) SharePoint 2013
3 1 (0.781%) SAS
3 1 (0.781%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (5.469%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.563%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.563%) MS Project
2 2 (1.563%) MS Office
3 1 (0.781%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.688%) Internet
2 2 (1.563%) SMS
3 1 (0.781%) NFC
3 1 (0.781%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.813%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.344%) Big Data
3 2 (1.563%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 5 (3.906%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 1 (0.781%) NUnit
General
1 51 (39.84%) Banking
2 29 (22.66%) Finance
3 18 (14.06%) Investment Banking
4 8 (6.250%) Front Office
5 6 (4.688%) Retail
6 4 (3.125%) Publishing
7 2 (1.563%) Advertising
8 1 (0.781%) Marketing
8 1 (0.781%) Law
8 1 (0.781%) Legal
8 1 (0.781%) Games
8 1 (0.781%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.781%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.813%) Derivative
2 9 (7.031%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (6.250%) Fixed Income
4 6 (4.688%) Digital Media
5 5 (3.906%) Equities
5 5 (3.906%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (3.125%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.781%) SaaS
7 1 (0.781%) Swaptions
7 1 (0.781%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.781%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.344%) Windows
2 1 (0.781%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.781%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (100.00%) Scrum
2 70 (54.69%) Agile Software Development
3 36 (28.13%) Project Management
4 27 (21.09%) TDD
5 21 (16.41%) BDD
6 15 (11.72%) Web Development
6 15 (11.72%) User Stories
7 13 (10.16%) Waterfall
8 12 (9.375%) E-Commerce
9 10 (7.813%) Continuous Integration
10 9 (7.031%) Kanban
11 7 (5.469%) Content Management
11 7 (5.469%) MVC
12 5 (3.906%) Business Analysis
12 5 (3.906%) Stakeholder Management
13 4 (3.125%) PRINCE2
13 4 (3.125%) OO
13 4 (3.125%) Time Management
13 4 (3.125%) High Availability
14 3 (2.344%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 26 (20.31%) Java
2 15 (11.72%) C#
3 8 (6.250%) JavaScript
4 7 (5.469%) SQL
5 6 (4.688%) C++
6 2 (1.563%) Python
6 2 (1.563%) VBA
7 1 (0.781%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (1.563%) Degree
2 1 (0.781%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 1 (0.781%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.781%) QA
1 1 (0.781%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 9 (7.031%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.250%) Oracle
3 1 (0.781%) ServiceNow
3 1 (0.781%) Progress
3 1 (0.781%) Adobe
City of London
Essential Skills: -Extensive experience as a Scrum Master -Ability to coach -Global reach -Experience of global rollouts/distributions-Agile advocator/evangelist Interviews available immediately for the right candidates.
Huxley Associates
Rate: £500 - £650 per day
Posted: 3 June 2013
London
environments using agile methodologies like XP / SCRUM, within Java/J2EE Projects... Must have worked in environments using agile methodologies like (XP, SCRUM) ... ust have development/Project Management experience...
Coal IT Services
Rate: From £400 to £425 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
London
We don't necessarily even need direct experience of Magento (though its preferable of course) but would need experience of leading a development team (even if it was...
Real Staffing
Rate: £350 - £375 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
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