The first table below looks at the demand for Scrum skills in IT contracts advertised for the North Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Scrum over the 3 months to 23 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 North Yorkshire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Scrum
Rank 22 24 -
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -
Contract jobs citing Scrum 4 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in North Yorkshire 2.614% 1.734% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.301% 2.500% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
Average daily rate £388 £213 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+82.35% -
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 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-16.98% -6.47%
All Processes & Methodologies
North Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
93 120 135
As % of all contract IT jobs located in North Yorkshire 60.78% 69.36% 71.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 63 48
Average daily rate £354 £300 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.83% -20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £251 £230 £226
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £508
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 9
Average hourly rate £175.00 £16.50 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+960.60% -41.07%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Scrum
Yorkshire

Scrum
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North Yorkshire 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 North Yorkshire region.

North Yorkshire 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 North Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Harrogate +2 1 - -
Scrum
Yorkshire

Scrum
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire 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 5 (35.71%) Workflow
1 5 (35.71%) JIRA
2 3 (21.43%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (21.43%) TDD
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (21.43%) Data Mart
2 3 (21.43%) Data Architecture
2 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
2 3 (21.43%) Data Governance
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle 10g
2 3 (21.43%) Informatica
2 3 (21.43%) PowerCenter
2 3 (21.43%) C#
2 3 (21.43%) PL/SQL
2 3 (21.43%) SQL
2 3 (21.43%) .NET
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle
2 3 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
2 3 (21.43%) ETL
2 3 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 2 (14.29%) Visual Studio
3 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET
3 2 (14.29%) Validation
3 2 (14.29%) User Stories
3 2 (14.29%) SharePoint 2010
3 2 (14.29%) BDD
3 2 (14.29%) WebDriver

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire 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 3 (21.43%) .NET
2 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET
3 1 (7.143%) WCF
3 1 (7.143%) WPF
3 1 (7.143%) Ajax
3 1 (7.143%) .NET Framework
3 1 (7.143%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (7.143%) CSS
3 1 (7.143%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) SharePoint 2010
1 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.143%) WordPress
2 1 (7.143%) BizTalk Server
Business Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle EBS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Data Mart
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle 10g
1 3 (21.43%) PowerCenter
1 3 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.143%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) Visual Studio
2 2 (14.29%) WebDriver
2 2 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (14.29%) Selenium
General
1 3 (21.43%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Analyst
2 5 (35.71%) Business Analyst
2 5 (35.71%) Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Web Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Designer
4 1 (7.143%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (7.143%) ScrumMaster
4 1 (7.143%) Financial Business Analyst
4 1 (7.143%) QA Analyst
4 1 (7.143%) C# Web Developer
4 1 (7.143%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (7.143%) .NET Developer
4 1 (7.143%) C# Developer
4 1 (7.143%) ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Data Warehouse Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Data Warehouse Architect
4 1 (7.143%) .NET Web Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Software Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.143%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.143%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Workflow
2 3 (21.43%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (21.43%) TDD
2 3 (21.43%) Data Architecture
2 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
2 3 (21.43%) Data Governance
2 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
2 3 (21.43%) ETL
2 3 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (14.29%) Validation
3 2 (14.29%) User Stories
3 2 (14.29%) BDD
4 1 (7.143%) Release Management
4 1 (7.143%) SEO
4 1 (7.143%) Content Management
4 1 (7.143%) Systems Analysis
4 1 (7.143%) Waterfall
4 1 (7.143%) Extreme Programming
4 1 (7.143%) MVC
4 1 (7.143%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) C#
1 3 (21.43%) PL/SQL
1 3 (21.43%) SQL
2 1 (7.143%) VB.NET
2 1 (7.143%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.143%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Informatica
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle
2 1 (7.143%) Microsoft