The first table below looks at the demand for Scrum skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxford 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 Oxford 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 29 37 19
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -18
Contract jobs citing Scrum 6 1 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 2.586% 0.298% 4.790%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.774% 0.515% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 5
Average daily rate £350 £475 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-26.31% +63.79%
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
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
159 194 72
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 68.53% 57.74% 43.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 122 39
Average daily rate £350 £425 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.64% +54.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £300 £178
10% offered a daily rate of more than £498 £500 £398
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 19 4
Average hourly rate £10.33 £20.06 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-48.52% -19.76%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Scrum
Oxfordshire

Scrum
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford Scrum Daily Rate Trend

Scrum
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 10 (66.67%) C#
2 9 (60.00%) TDD
3 6 (40.00%) Mathematics
3 6 (40.00%) C++
3 6 (40.00%) OO
4 4 (26.67%) HTML
4 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
4 4 (26.67%) XML
4 4 (26.67%) XSL
4 4 (26.67%) CSS
4 4 (26.67%) Ajax
5 3 (20.00%) Unit Testing
5 3 (20.00%) .NET
6 2 (13.33%) ITIL
6 2 (13.33%) PRINCE2
6 2 (13.33%) UML
6 2 (13.33%) RAD
6 2 (13.33%) Python
6 2 (13.33%) N-Tier
6 2 (13.33%) IBM
6 2 (13.33%) ISEB
6 2 (13.33%) QuickTest Pro
6 2 (13.33%) Workflow
6 2 (13.33%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (13.33%) Web Services
6 2 (13.33%) Regression Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
6 2 (13.33%) Test Strategy
6 2 (13.33%) Integration Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 4 (26.67%) HTML
1 4 (26.67%) XML
1 4 (26.67%) XSL
1 4 (26.67%) CSS
1 4 (26.67%) Ajax
2 3 (20.00%) .NET
3 2 (13.33%) Web Services
3 2 (13.33%) WebSphere
3 2 (13.33%) JSON
4 1 (6.667%) WPF
4 1 (6.667%) .NET Framework
4 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (6.667%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (6.667%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 1 (6.667%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (6.667%) Oracle EBS R12
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.667%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (6.667%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) QuickTest Pro
1 2 (13.33%) Firebug
1 2 (13.33%) Fiddler
1 2 (13.33%) Selenium
1 2 (13.33%) FitNesse
2 1 (6.667%) JIRA
General
1 1 (6.667%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Developer
1 10 (66.67%) C# Developer
2 6 (40.00%) C++/C# Developer
2 6 (40.00%) C++ Developer
3 3 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 3 (20.00%) .NET Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Project Manager
4 2 (13.33%) Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Test Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Agile .NET Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Agile C# Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Agile Project Manager
5 1 (6.667%) WPF Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Consultant
5 1 (6.667%) Technical Project Manager
5 1 (6.667%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Mathematics
2 2 (13.33%) N-Tier
3 1 (6.667%) Hedge funds
3 1 (6.667%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) TDD
2 6 (40.00%) OO
3 3 (20.00%) Unit Testing
4 2 (13.33%) ITIL
4 2 (13.33%) PRINCE2
4 2 (13.33%) UML
4 2 (13.33%) RAD
4 2 (13.33%) Workflow
4 2 (13.33%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (13.33%) Regression Testing
4 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
4 2 (13.33%) Test Strategy
4 2 (13.33%) Integration Testing
4 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (13.33%) Software Testing
4 2 (13.33%) Workflow Management
4 2 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (13.33%) Compatibility Testing
5 1 (6.667%) MVVM
5 1 (6.667%) Performance Improvement
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) C#
2 6 (40.00%) C++
3 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
4 2 (13.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) ISEB
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) IBM
2 1 (6.667%) Oracle