Scrum Contracts in Merseyside
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Scrum skills in IT contracts advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Scrum over the 3 months to 21 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 Merseyside 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Scrum
Rank 26 15 24
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +9
Contract jobs citing Scrum 7 20 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 3.226% 7.752% 3.226%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.762% 13.07% 5.263%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 2
Average daily rate £350 £388 £273
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.67% +42.20%
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 £40.50
% change year-on-year
-16.98% -1.85%
All Processes & Methodologies
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 147 153 152
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 67.74% 59.30% 61.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 82 74
Average daily rate £350 £321 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.13% -1.32%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £243 £254 £243
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £496 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 14
Average hourly rate - £17.51 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -22.17%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Scrum
North West

Scrum
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside Scrum Daily Rate Trend

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 Merseyside region over the 3 months to 21 May 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
Liverpool -2 5 £350 +1.68%
Scrum
North West

Scrum
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 (38.89%) Java
1 7 (38.89%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (33.33%) .NET
3 5 (27.78%) C#
3 5 (27.78%) WCF
4 4 (22.22%) Web Services
4 4 (22.22%) Digital Media
5 3 (16.67%) Web Application Development
5 3 (16.67%) Game Development
5 3 (16.67%) 3D Modelling
5 3 (16.67%) HTML5
5 3 (16.67%) Unity DI Container
5 3 (16.67%) C
5 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (16.67%) MVC
5 3 (16.67%) OpenGL
5 3 (16.67%) Project Management
5 3 (16.67%) C++
5 3 (16.67%) MCP
5 3 (16.67%) MCAD
5 3 (16.67%) MCSD
5 3 (16.67%) Kanban
5 3 (16.67%) Git (software)
5 3 (16.67%) NUnit
5 3 (16.67%) Mathematics
5 3 (16.67%) 3D Graphics
5 3 (16.67%) Games
5 3 (16.67%) MCTS
6 2 (11.11%) SQL Server 2005
6 2 (11.11%) jQuery

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 6 (33.33%) .NET
2 5 (27.78%) WCF
3 4 (22.22%) Web Services
4 3 (16.67%) HTML5
4 3 (16.67%) Unity DI Container
4 3 (16.67%) OpenGL
5 2 (11.11%) jQuery
5 2 (11.11%) HTML
5 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET
5 2 (11.11%) CSS
5 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC 2
5 2 (11.11%) soapUI
6 1 (5.556%) XML
6 1 (5.556%) XSLT
6 1 (5.556%) SOAP
6 1 (5.556%) LINQ
6 1 (5.556%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.556%) SharePoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server 2000
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (5.556%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Git (software)
1 3 (16.67%) NUnit
2 2 (11.11%) Visual Studio
2 2 (11.11%) Selenium
2 2 (11.11%) WebDriver
3 1 (5.556%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.556%) Eclipse
3 1 (5.556%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 3 (16.67%) Games
2 1 (5.556%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Project Manager
2 5 (27.78%) Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Gameplay Developer
3 3 (16.67%) C++ Games Developer
3 3 (16.67%) C++/C# Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Games Developer
3 3 (16.67%) C++ Developer
3 3 (16.67%) C# Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Test Leader
5 1 (5.556%) Automation Tester
5 1 (5.556%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.556%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.556%) Tester
5 1 (5.556%) Development Manager
5 1 (5.556%) ScrumMaster
5 1 (5.556%) PRINCE2 Project Manager
5 1 (5.556%) Agile Project Manager
5 1 (5.556%) Software Manager
5 1 (5.556%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Digital Media
2 3 (16.67%) Mathematics
2 3 (16.67%) 3D Graphics
3 2 (11.11%) PMI
4 1 (5.556%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.556%) Windows
1 1 (5.556%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (16.67%) Web Application Development
2 3 (16.67%) Game Development
2 3 (16.67%) 3D Modelling
2 3 (16.67%) MVC
2 3 (16.67%) Project Management
2 3 (16.67%) Kanban
3 2 (11.11%) PRINCE2
3 2 (11.11%) Business Transformation
4 1 (5.556%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (5.556%) UML
4 1 (5.556%) E-Commerce
4 1 (5.556%) Test Scripting
4 1 (5.556%) Test Automation
4 1 (5.556%) Domain-Driven Design
4 1 (5.556%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) Java
2 5 (27.78%) C#
3 3 (16.67%) C
3 3 (16.67%) C++
4 1 (5.556%) SQL
4 1 (5.556%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (16.67%) MCP
1 3 (16.67%) MCAD
1 3 (16.67%) MCSD
1 3 (16.67%) MCTS
2 2 (11.11%) PMI Certification
2 2 (11.11%) ISEB
3 1 (5.556%) APMP
3 1 (5.556%) ISTQB
3 1 (5.556%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.556%) SLA
1 1 (5.556%) QA
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