The first table below looks at the demand for Scrum skills in IT contracts advertised for the Middlesex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Scrum over the 3 months to 22 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 Middlesex 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Scrum
Rank 23 31 20
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -11
Contract jobs citing Scrum 5 2 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 2.381% 0.629% 5.655%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.247% 0.930% 6.960%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 8
Average daily rate £350 £350 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -22.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £350 £435
10% offered a daily rate of more than £380 £350 £565
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £366
% change year-on-year
- -4.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 £39.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-16.98% -6.47%
All Processes & Methodologies
Middlesex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
154 215 273
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 73.33% 67.61% 81.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 110 116
Average daily rate £383 £375 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.00% -11.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £260 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £525 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 11
Average hourly rate £16.00 £39.00 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-58.97% +4.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.40 £27.00 £29.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.60 £50.50 £38.52
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Scrum
South East

Scrum
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Middlesex Scrum Daily Rate Histogram

Scrum
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 6 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (37.50%) E-Commerce
2 3 (37.50%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) MVC
3 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (25.00%) SaaS
3 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 2 (25.00%) Salesforce.com
3 2 (25.00%) C#
3 2 (25.00%) Java
3 2 (25.00%) .NET
3 2 (25.00%) SAP
3 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (25.00%) TDD
3 2 (25.00%) Retail
4 1 (12.50%) Business Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
4 1 (12.50%) QA
4 1 (12.50%) Selenium
4 1 (12.50%) Drupal
4 1 (12.50%) Load Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
4 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Product Management
4 1 (12.50%) Force.com
4 1 (12.50%) Apex Code
4 1 (12.50%) WebDriver
4 1 (12.50%) Open Source

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
1 2 (25.00%) .NET
1 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (12.50%) Web Services
2 1 (12.50%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Drupal
1 1 (12.50%) Force.com
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) SAP CRM
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Selenium
1 1 (12.50%) WebDriver
1 1 (12.50%) JMeter
General
1 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
1 2 (25.00%) Retail
2 1 (12.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Project Manager
1 2 (25.00%) Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) QA Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Leader
2 1 (12.50%) Product Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Lead Test Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) ScrumMaster
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce.com Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Test Leader
2 1 (12.50%) Agile Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Test Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) QA Leader
2 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Product Manager
2 1 (12.50%) QA Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) QA Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) SaaS
2 1 (12.50%) Open Source
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (12.50%) PaaS
2 1 (12.50%) Heroku
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (37.50%) E-Commerce
2 3 (37.50%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) MVC
3 2 (25.00%) TDD
4 1 (12.50%) Business Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Load Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
4 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Product Management
4 1 (12.50%) CRM
4 1 (12.50%) Quality Management
4 1 (12.50%) Project Management
4 1 (12.50%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) C#
1 2 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) Apex Code
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Salesforce.com
1 2 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (12.50%) Siebel