The first table below looks at the demand for Scrum skills in IT contracts advertised for the Stirling region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Scrum over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Stirling 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Scrum
Rank 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Scrum 4 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stirling 4.301% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.333% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 £36.36 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-9.24% -14.44%
All Processes & Methodologies
Stirling
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
75 29 60
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stirling 80.65% 53.70% 65.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 10 40
Average daily rate £350 £413 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.15% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £348 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Average hourly rate £15.50 £24.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.41% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Scrum
Scotland

Scrum
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stirling 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 Stirling region.

Stirling Scrum Daily Rate Trend

Scrum
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stirling 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 11 (73.33%) Linux
2 10 (66.67%) Web Application Development
3 9 (60.00%) Interactive TV
3 9 (60.00%) IPTV
4 8 (53.33%) PHP
5 6 (40.00%) Java
5 6 (40.00%) ActionScript
5 6 (40.00%) Flash
5 6 (40.00%) Ruby on Rails
6 5 (33.33%) Interactive Media
6 5 (33.33%) Web Services
6 5 (33.33%) Games
7 4 (26.67%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (26.67%) Wireless
7 4 (26.67%) MVC
7 4 (26.67%) Internet
7 4 (26.67%) Broadband
7 4 (26.67%) HTML
7 4 (26.67%) CSS
7 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
7 4 (26.67%) CSS3
7 4 (26.67%) Video on Demand
7 4 (26.67%) HTML5
7 4 (26.67%) MongoDB
7 4 (26.67%) Git (software)
7 4 (26.67%) Ruby
7 4 (26.67%) Smartphone
7 4 (26.67%) Retail
8 3 (20.00%) Business Analysis
8 3 (20.00%) Pega

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stirling 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 (40.00%) Flash
1 6 (40.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 5 (33.33%) Web Services
3 4 (26.67%) HTML
3 4 (26.67%) CSS
3 4 (26.67%) CSS3
3 4 (26.67%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) Apache
1 2 (13.33%) nginx
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (26.67%) Wireless
1 4 (26.67%) Internet
1 4 (26.67%) Broadband
2 2 (13.33%) TACACS
2 2 (13.33%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) MongoDB
2 2 (13.33%) MySQL
2 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Git (software)
General
1 5 (33.33%) Interactive Media
1 5 (33.33%) Games
2 4 (26.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Developer
2 9 (60.00%) Software Developer
3 5 (33.33%) Interactive Developer
3 5 (33.33%) Senior Interactive Developer
3 5 (33.33%) UI Developer
3 5 (33.33%) Senior UI Developer
3 5 (33.33%) UI Programmer
3 5 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 5 (33.33%) Senior Software Developer
4 4 (26.67%) Web Applications Developer
4 4 (26.67%) Web Developer
4 4 (26.67%) Applications Developer
5 3 (20.00%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
5 3 (20.00%) Analyst
5 3 (20.00%) Business Analyst
6 2 (13.33%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (13.33%) Linux Engineer
7 1 (6.667%) Front-End Developer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (60.00%) Interactive TV
1 9 (60.00%) IPTV
2 4 (26.67%) Video on Demand
2 4 (26.67%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 11 (73.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Web Application Development
2 4 (26.67%) MVC
3 3 (20.00%) Business Analysis
3 3 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) PHP
2 6 (40.00%) Java
2 6 (40.00%) ActionScript
3 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
3 4 (26.67%) Ruby
4 3 (20.00%) SQL
5 2 (13.33%) Python
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) ZABBIX
1 2 (13.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Pega