The first table below looks at the demand for Scrum skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Scrum over the 3 months to 18 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Manchester 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Scrum
Rank 39 55 33
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -22
Contract jobs citing Scrum 31 28 38
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 3.179% 2.271% 3.598%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.613% 3.594% 5.706%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 18 27
Average daily rate £325 £350 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +27.27%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £296 £272 £256
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-17.50% -5.88%
All Processes & Methodologies
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
672 779 666
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 68.92% 63.18% 63.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 388 312
Average daily rate £338 £315 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £233 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 34 34
Average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.77% +2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.90 £12.01 £11.06
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £77.50 £35.00 £30.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Scrum
North West

Scrum
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Scrum Daily Rate Trend

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Scrum across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Manchester Scrum Daily Rate Histogram

Scrum
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 18 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
(Click each for more statistics)
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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Salford -2 5 £325 -16.12% 3
Cheadle - 2 £300 -
Bolton - 1 - - 1
Sale - - - -
Stockport - - - - 2
Wigan - - - -
Scrum
North West

Scrum
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 27 (44.26%) Agile Software Development
2 25 (40.98%) TDD
3 23 (37.70%) JavaScript
4 22 (36.07%) CSS
5 20 (32.79%) Java
6 17 (27.87%) HTML
7 16 (26.23%) Web Services
8 13 (21.31%) XML
8 13 (21.31%) Internet
9 12 (19.67%) C#
9 12 (19.67%) SQL Server
9 12 (19.67%) Kanban
10 11 (18.03%) Continuous Integration
10 11 (18.03%) .NET
11 10 (16.39%) SQL
11 10 (16.39%) Subversion
11 10 (16.39%) Mobile App
12 9 (14.75%) jQuery
12 9 (14.75%) Git (software)
12 9 (14.75%) RESTful
12 9 (14.75%) SQL Server 2008
12 9 (14.75%) MVC
13 8 (13.11%) OO
13 8 (13.11%) ASP.NET
13 8 (13.11%) Windows
14 7 (11.48%) OOP
14 7 (11.48%) Visual Studio
14 7 (11.48%) PHP
14 7 (11.48%) Project Management
14 7 (11.48%) BDD

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 22 (36.07%) CSS
2 17 (27.87%) HTML
3 16 (26.23%) Web Services
4 13 (21.31%) XML
5 11 (18.03%) .NET
6 9 (14.75%) jQuery
6 9 (14.75%) RESTful
7 8 (13.11%) ASP.NET
8 6 (9.836%) Flash
8 6 (9.836%) Hibernate
8 6 (9.836%) Spring
9 5 (8.197%) Ajax
9 5 (8.197%) JSON
9 5 (8.197%) HTML5
9 5 (8.197%) LINQ
10 4 (6.557%) XHTML
10 4 (6.557%) XSLT
11 3 (4.918%) CSS3
11 3 (4.918%) WCF
12 2 (3.279%) Regular Expression
Application Platforms
1 4 (6.557%) Apache
2 2 (3.279%) Apache Solr
2 2 (3.279%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.639%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.639%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.639%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (3.279%) MS Office
1 2 (3.279%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.639%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 13 (21.31%) Internet
2 5 (8.197%) HTTP
3 4 (6.557%) Firewall
4 2 (3.279%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (19.67%) SQL Server
2 9 (14.75%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (8.197%) SQL Server 2005
3 5 (8.197%) MySQL
4 4 (6.557%) RavenDB
5 3 (4.918%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (3.279%) CouchDB
6 2 (3.279%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.639%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (1.639%) OLAP
7 1 (1.639%) Oracle 8/8i
7 1 (1.639%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.639%) SQL Server 2000
7 1 (1.639%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.639%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (1.639%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (16.39%) Subversion
2 9 (14.75%) Git (software)
3 7 (11.48%) Visual Studio
4 4 (6.557%) JIRA
4 4 (6.557%) MTASC
4 4 (6.557%) Hudson
4 4 (6.557%) Jenkins
5 3 (4.918%) QUnit
5 3 (4.918%) Eclipse
6 2 (3.279%) Ant
6 2 (3.279%) CruiseControl
6 2 (3.279%) Maven
6 2 (3.279%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (3.279%) PHPUnit
7 1 (1.639%) Axure RP
7 1 (1.639%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (1.639%) Xcode
General
1 3 (4.918%) Finance
2 2 (3.279%) Publishing
2 2 (3.279%) Multimedia
3 1 (1.639%) Billing
3 1 (1.639%) Games
3 1 (1.639%) Retail
3 1 (1.639%) Legal
Job Titles
1 32 (52.46%) Developer
2 10 (16.39%) Project Manager
3 9 (14.75%) Analyst
3 9 (14.75%) Web Developer
4 8 (13.11%) Business Analyst
5 7 (11.48%) .NET Developer
6 6 (9.836%) Java Developer
7 4 (6.557%) Java Web Developer
7 4 (6.557%) C# Developer
7 4 (6.557%) Test Engineer
7 4 (6.557%) Flash Developer
7 4 (6.557%) Systems Engineer
8 3 (4.918%) Technical Project Manager
8 3 (4.918%) Agile Java Developer
8 3 (4.918%) Web Analyst
8 3 (4.918%) ActionScript Developer
8 3 (4.918%) Web Business Analyst
8 3 (4.918%) Android Developer
8 3 (4.918%) Flash ActionScript Developer
8 3 (4.918%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.39%) Mobile App
2 4 (6.557%) Embedded Systems
3 3 (4.918%) NHS
3 3 (4.918%) BBC
3 3 (4.918%) Computer Science
4 2 (3.279%) Social Network
4 2 (3.279%) Interactive TV
4 2 (3.279%) Web 2.0
4 2 (3.279%) Smartphone
4 2 (3.279%) Streaming Video
4 2 (3.279%) Blackberry
4 2 (3.279%) Linked Data
4 2 (3.279%) Semantic Web
4 2 (3.279%) Open Source
4 2 (3.279%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.279%) New Media
5 1 (1.639%) iPad
5 1 (1.639%) E-Learning
5 1 (1.639%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.11%) Windows
2 6 (9.836%) Android
2 6 (9.836%) Apple iOS
3 5 (8.197%) Linux
4 3 (4.918%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (44.26%) Agile Software Development
2 25 (40.98%) TDD
3 12 (19.67%) Kanban
4 11 (18.03%) Continuous Integration
5 9 (14.75%) MVC
6 8 (13.11%) OO
7 7 (11.48%) Project Management
7 7 (11.48%) OOP
7 7 (11.48%) BDD
8 6 (9.836%) User Stories
8 6 (9.836%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (9.836%) Content Management
9 5 (8.197%) Business Analysis
9 5 (8.197%) UML
9 5 (8.197%) Test Scripting
10 4 (6.557%) Pair Programming
10 4 (6.557%) Memory Management
10 4 (6.557%) E-Commerce
10 4 (6.557%) Performance Testing
11 3 (4.918%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 23 (37.70%) JavaScript
2 20 (32.79%) Java
3 12 (19.67%) C#
4 10 (16.39%) SQL
5 7 (11.48%) PHP
6 6 (9.836%) ActionScript
6 6 (9.836%) Objective-C
7 5 (8.197%) ActionScript 2.0
7 5 (8.197%) T-SQL
7 5 (8.197%) C++
8 2 (3.279%) Ruby
8 2 (3.279%) Haskell
8 2 (3.279%) Scala
9 1 (1.639%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (4.918%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.279%) Sun Certification
2 2 (3.279%) Degree
3 1 (1.639%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.279%) QA
System Software
1 3 (4.918%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 5 (8.197%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.918%) Apple
2 3 (4.918%) VMware
2 3 (4.918%) Zend
3 2 (3.279%) Juniper
3 2 (3.279%) Cisco
4 1 (1.639%) Oracle
Greater Manchester, North West
Experience of Spring and Hibernate. * Knowledge of agile methodologies including TDD, SCRUM and Pair Programming. * Working knowledge of database systems, SQL, stored procedures, data modelling. * Experience in applying...
Computer Futures
Rate: £250 - £350 per day
Posted: 5 June 2013
Manchester, North West
A large online eCommerce business in Manchester is looking for a BI Developer to join their team in the City Centre for an immediate start, the contract will...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £300 - £350 per day + Contract
Posted: 3 June 2013
Salford, Lancashire
People skills are vital as the role requires working with multiple workstreams pulling together ideas, therefore successful applicants will have a proven record with Stakeholder Management. In addition,...
Reed Technology
Rate: £300 - £450 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
Manchester, North West
Front-End HTML5/Javascript Developer - Manchester - £200 - £260 Per Day (HTML5/CSS3/Javascript) My large well-known global client has a fantastic contract opportunity for a Front-End...
Real Staffing
Rate: £200 - £260 per day
Posted: 31 May 2013
Manchester, North West
Front-End HTML5/Javascript Developer - Manchester - £200 - £260 Per Day (HTML5/CSS3/Javascript) My large well-known global client has a fantastic contract opportunity for a Front-End...
Real Staffing
Rate: £200 - £300 per day
Posted: 11 June 2013