The first table below looks at the demand for Scrum skills in IT contracts advertised for the Southampton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Scrum over the 3 months to 24 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 Southampton 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Scrum
Rank 28 32 26
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -6
Contract jobs citing Scrum 7 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 2.326% 0.424% 0.529%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.784% 0.714% 0.826%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £295 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £365
% change year-on-year
- -4.10%
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
Southampton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
185 140 121
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 61.46% 59.32% 64.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 80 59
Average daily rate £365 £400 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.75% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £254 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £513 £500 £553
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 17 18
Average hourly rate £27.50 £20.00 £33.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+37.50% -39.39%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.00 £17.50 £11.33
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.50 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Scrum
Hampshire

Scrum
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton Scrum Daily Rate Trend

Scrum
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 12 (54.55%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (27.27%) Kanban
3 5 (22.73%) Project Management
3 5 (22.73%) ITIL
3 5 (22.73%) PRINCE2
3 5 (22.73%) Velocity
4 4 (18.18%) Test Automation
4 4 (18.18%) TDD
4 4 (18.18%) Software Engineering
4 4 (18.18%) .NET
4 4 (18.18%) Python
4 4 (18.18%) Java
4 4 (18.18%) Oracle
4 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (13.64%) XML
5 3 (13.64%) C#
5 3 (13.64%) SQL
5 3 (13.64%) UNIX
6 2 (9.091%) Performance Testing
6 2 (9.091%) Load Testing
6 2 (9.091%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (9.091%) PowerShell
6 2 (9.091%) Android
6 2 (9.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (9.091%) Xcode
6 2 (9.091%) Selenium
6 2 (9.091%) Korn
6 2 (9.091%) Degree
6 2 (9.091%) JSON
6 2 (9.091%) Multimedia

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 5 (22.73%) Velocity
2 4 (18.18%) .NET
3 3 (13.64%) XML
4 2 (9.091%) JSON
4 2 (9.091%) LAMP
4 2 (9.091%) JDBC
4 2 (9.091%) HTML
4 2 (9.091%) SOAP
4 2 (9.091%) Web Services
4 2 (9.091%) REST
5 1 (4.545%) ASP.NET
5 1 (4.545%) CSS
5 1 (4.545%) JMS
5 1 (4.545%) JSP
5 1 (4.545%) Servlets
5 1 (4.545%) J2EE
5 1 (4.545%) BAPI
5 1 (4.545%) WinForms
5 1 (4.545%) Hibernate
5 1 (4.545%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 2 (9.091%) TeamSite
2 1 (4.545%) OpenStack
2 1 (4.545%) CMS
2 1 (4.545%) WebLogic
2 1 (4.545%) Tomcat
2 1 (4.545%) Magento
2 1 (4.545%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 2 (9.091%) MS Project
2 1 (4.545%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 1 (4.545%) SAP ERP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.091%) DVB
1 2 (9.091%) LAN
1 2 (9.091%) WAN
1 2 (9.091%) IPv4
2 1 (4.545%) Intranet
2 1 (4.545%) Internet
2 1 (4.545%) HTTP
2 1 (4.545%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.091%) GIS
2 1 (4.545%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.545%) MySQL
2 1 (4.545%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.545%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (4.545%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (9.091%) Xcode
1 2 (9.091%) Selenium
2 1 (4.545%) Hudson
2 1 (4.545%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.545%) Cucumber
2 1 (4.545%) Visual Studio
2 1 (4.545%) JUnit
2 1 (4.545%) Log4j
2 1 (4.545%) Subversion
2 1 (4.545%) JIRA
2 1 (4.545%) FitNesse
General
1 2 (9.091%) Multimedia
2 1 (4.545%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Developer
2 5 (22.73%) Project Manager
3 3 (13.64%) Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) ScrumMaster
4 2 (9.091%) Web Manager
4 2 (9.091%) Web Project Manager
4 2 (9.091%) Systems Manager
4 2 (9.091%) Tester
4 2 (9.091%) Mobile Tester
5 1 (4.545%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (4.545%) Test Analyst
5 1 (4.545%) Technical Architect
5 1 (4.545%) Software Architect
5 1 (4.545%) Development Manager
5 1 (4.545%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.545%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.545%) Business Analyst
5 1 (4.545%) Software Developer
5 1 (4.545%) Architect
5 1 (4.545%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.091%) MPEG
2 1 (4.545%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) UNIX
2 2 (9.091%) Android
2 2 (9.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (9.091%) Windows
2 2 (9.091%) Linux
2 2 (9.091%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (27.27%) Kanban
3 5 (22.73%) Project Management
3 5 (22.73%) ITIL
3 5 (22.73%) PRINCE2
4 4 (18.18%) Test Automation
4 4 (18.18%) TDD
4 4 (18.18%) Software Engineering
4 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (9.091%) Performance Testing
5 2 (9.091%) Load Testing
5 2 (9.091%) UML
5 2 (9.091%) OO
5 2 (9.091%) MVC
5 2 (9.091%) SOA
5 2 (9.091%) PRINCE
5 2 (9.091%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (4.545%) User Stories
6 1 (4.545%) ATDD
6 1 (4.545%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (18.18%) Python
1 4 (18.18%) Java
2 3 (13.64%) C#
2 3 (13.64%) SQL
3 2 (9.091%) PowerShell
3 2 (9.091%) Korn
3 2 (9.091%) JavaScript
3 2 (9.091%) Bash shell
4 1 (4.545%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.545%) SAPscript
4 1 (4.545%) PHP
4 1 (4.545%) PL/SQL
4 1 (4.545%) VB.NET
4 1 (4.545%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 2 (9.091%) Degree
1 2 (9.091%) ISEB
2 1 (4.545%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 2 (9.091%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.545%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Oracle
2 2 (9.091%) VMware
3 1 (4.545%) HP
3 1 (4.545%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.545%) ATG
3 1 (4.545%) SAP
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Posted: 22 May 2013