M4 Corridor Scrum Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Scrum skills within the M4 Corridor region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Scrum over the 3 months to 1 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Scrum
Location Berkshire Birmingham Brentford Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Farnham Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Kingston Upon Thames London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North West Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Romford Scotland Solihull Somerset South East South West Southampton Staffordshire Staines Surrey Twickenham UK West Midlands Woking Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 1 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	20
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	2.740 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£351	£334
% change on same period last year	+4.97 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.68	£45.75
% change on same period last year	-30.75 %
Processes & Methodologies M4 Corridor
Matching contract IT job ads	66	73
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.105 %	0.078 %
Daily rates quoted	14	19
Average minimum daily rate	£353	£383
Average daily rate	£387	£395
% change on same period last year	-1.87 %
Average maximum daily rate	£421	£407
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£371
% change on same period last year	+2.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£35.00
Average hourly rate	-	£40.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.11	£29.69
% change on same period last year	-5.31 %
Scrum South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Scrum
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Scrum across the M4 Corridor region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Scrum
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Scrum across the M4 Corridor region.