The first table below looks at the demand for Scrum skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey 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 Surrey 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 26 38 32
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -6
Contract jobs citing Scrum 61 66 81
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 5.272% 4.010% 4.443%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.305% 5.867% 6.169%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 41 39
Average daily rate £400 £325 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% -21.21%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £323 £250 £340
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £575 £498
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
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
835 1125 1313
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 72.17% 68.35% 72.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 421 635 678
Average daily rate £415 £350 £408
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.57% -14.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £273 £250 £284
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £525 £515
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 58 37
Average hourly rate £37.50 £31.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+19.04% -3.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £15.50 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £55.12 £41.50 £45.00
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 Surrey region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

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

Surrey Scrum Daily Rate Histogram

Scrum
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Scrum across the Surrey region.

Surrey Scrum Hourly 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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 22 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
Guildford -1 13 £425 +9.67%
Woking -3 8 £390 -8.23%
Staines +2 6 £400 +52.38%
Epsom - 5 £325 -
Reigate +10 2 £425 -
Scrum
South East

Scrum
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 80 (53.33%) .NET
2 71 (47.33%) C#
3 51 (34.00%) Agile Software Development
4 49 (32.67%) SQL
4 49 (32.67%) Microsoft
5 41 (27.33%) ASP.NET
6 40 (26.67%) XML
6 40 (26.67%) WCF
7 38 (25.33%) Visual Studio
8 36 (24.00%) Windows
8 36 (24.00%) MVC
9 33 (22.00%) TDD
10 29 (19.33%) SQL Server
11 27 (18.00%) JavaScript
12 26 (17.33%) XSLT
12 26 (17.33%) CRM
12 26 (17.33%) WF
13 24 (16.00%) VB.NET
14 23 (15.33%) Finance
14 23 (15.33%) BDD
15 22 (14.67%) Workflow
15 22 (14.67%) MS Office
15 22 (14.67%) SharePoint
16 21 (14.00%) WPF
16 21 (14.00%) Dynamics CRM
17 19 (12.67%) Java
18 18 (12.00%) Oracle
18 18 (12.00%) UML
18 18 (12.00%) Continuous Integration
19 17 (11.33%) Spring

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 80 (53.33%) .NET
2 41 (27.33%) ASP.NET
3 40 (26.67%) XML
3 40 (26.67%) WCF
4 26 (17.33%) XSLT
4 26 (17.33%) WF
5 21 (14.00%) WPF
6 17 (11.33%) Spring
7 16 (10.67%) .NET Framework
8 15 (10.00%) NHibernate
9 13 (8.667%) CSS
9 13 (8.667%) Hibernate
10 11 (7.333%) Web Services
10 11 (7.333%) HTML
11 10 (6.667%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 10 (6.667%) jQuery
12 9 (6.000%) SOAP
13 8 (5.333%) ASP.NET MVC
13 8 (5.333%) LINQ
14 7 (4.667%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 22 (14.67%) SharePoint
2 16 (10.67%) Windows Azure
3 8 (5.333%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (4.000%) ESB
5 3 (2.000%) Force.com
5 3 (2.000%) WebLogic
5 3 (2.000%) IIS
6 2 (1.333%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.333%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (1.333%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.667%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (0.667%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.667%) CMS
Applications
1 22 (14.67%) MS Office
2 14 (9.333%) MS Excel
3 5 (3.333%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.667%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.667%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.667%) Maya
Business Applications
1 21 (14.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (3.333%) SAP CRM
3 2 (1.333%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.667%) 3GPP
1 4 (2.667%) SNMP
2 1 (0.667%) BSS
2 1 (0.667%) Intranet
2 1 (0.667%) Extranet
2 1 (0.667%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (19.33%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.667%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (2.667%) Data Mining
4 3 (2.000%) Hadoop
4 3 (2.000%) GIS
5 2 (1.333%) MySQL
5 2 (1.333%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.333%) Oracle 10g
5 2 (1.333%) Oracle 11g
5 2 (1.333%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (0.667%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.667%) SQL Server 2012
6 1 (0.667%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.667%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 38 (25.33%) Visual Studio
2 15 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 6 (4.000%) Expression Blend
3 6 (4.000%) Subversion
4 5 (3.333%) Moq
5 4 (2.667%) Telelogic TAU
5 4 (2.667%) JMeter
5 4 (2.667%) Rational Rose
5 4 (2.667%) Git (software)
5 4 (2.667%) ReSharper
5 4 (2.667%) Maven
6 3 (2.000%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.000%) Selenium
6 3 (2.000%) TeamCity
6 3 (2.000%) MSI
7 2 (1.333%) QuickTest Pro
7 2 (1.333%) JUnit
7 2 (1.333%) NUnit
8 1 (0.667%) Hudson
8 1 (0.667%) Capistrano
General
1 23 (15.33%) Finance
2 16 (10.67%) Games
3 8 (5.333%) Telecoms
4 7 (4.667%) Publishing
5 2 (1.333%) Legal
5 2 (1.333%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.667%) Marketing
6 1 (0.667%) Law
Job Titles
1 73 (48.67%) Developer
2 35 (23.33%) .NET Developer
3 19 (12.67%) C# Developer
4 18 (12.00%) Analyst
5 13 (8.667%) C# .NET Developer
6 12 (8.000%) VB.NET Developer
7 11 (7.333%) Business Analyst
7 11 (7.333%) ScrumMaster
7 11 (7.333%) ASP.NET Developer
8 9 (6.000%) Architect
9 8 (5.333%) Agile Business Analyst
9 8 (5.333%) Agile .NET Developer
10 7 (4.667%) C# ASP.NET Developer
10 7 (4.667%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (4.667%) Test Analyst
11 6 (4.000%) Senior Developer
11 6 (4.000%) Technical Leader
11 6 (4.000%) WPF Developer
12 5 (3.333%) Development Engineer
13 4 (2.667%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.67%) Computer Science
2 11 (7.333%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (6.000%) SaaS
4 8 (5.333%) Online Games
5 6 (4.000%) Mathematics
5 6 (4.000%) Physics
6 4 (2.667%) Streaming Video
6 4 (2.667%) Visualisation
6 4 (2.667%) PaaS
6 4 (2.667%) Kinect
7 3 (2.000%) Heroku
7 3 (2.000%) Inversion of Control
7 3 (2.000%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.333%) Blackberry
8 2 (1.333%) iPhone
8 2 (1.333%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.333%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.333%) iPad
9 1 (0.667%) Animation
9 1 (0.667%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 36 (24.00%) Windows
2 5 (3.333%) Linux
3 4 (2.667%) CentOS
3 4 (2.667%) Windows 8
4 3 (2.000%) Apple iOS
4 3 (2.000%) Android
5 2 (1.333%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.667%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (34.00%) Agile Software Development
2 36 (24.00%) MVC
3 33 (22.00%) TDD
4 26 (17.33%) CRM
5 23 (15.33%) BDD
6 22 (14.67%) Workflow
7 18 (12.00%) UML
7 18 (12.00%) Continuous Integration
8 15 (10.00%) Project Management
9 14 (9.333%) PRINCE2
10 13 (8.667%) E-Commerce
10 13 (8.667%) Release Management
10 13 (8.667%) MVVM
11 12 (8.000%) User Stories
12 10 (6.667%) Data Analysis
12 10 (6.667%) Test Automation
13 9 (6.000%) Migration
13 9 (6.000%) OO
13 9 (6.000%) SOA
14 8 (5.333%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 71 (47.33%) C#
2 49 (32.67%) SQL
3 27 (18.00%) JavaScript
4 24 (16.00%) VB.NET
5 19 (12.67%) Java
6 14 (9.333%) Python
7 10 (6.667%) Ruby
8 9 (6.000%) Apex Code
9 6 (4.000%) C++
10 5 (3.333%) C
10 5 (3.333%) MATLAB
11 4 (2.667%) Groovy
12 3 (2.000%) XPath
12 3 (2.000%) Objective-C
13 2 (1.333%) Scala
14 1 (0.667%) sed
14 1 (0.667%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.667%) Bash shell
14 1 (0.667%) Perl
14 1 (0.667%) PHP
Qualifications
1 16 (10.67%) Degree
2 12 (8.000%) ISEB
3 6 (4.000%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.333%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.333%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.333%) CBAP
6 1 (0.667%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (0.667%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.667%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.667%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (5.333%) SCOM
2 1 (0.667%) SCCM
Vendors
1 49 (32.67%) Microsoft
2 18 (12.00%) Oracle
3 13 (8.667%) Salesforce.com
4 8 (5.333%) SAP
5 5 (3.333%) Siebel
6 4 (2.667%) Telelogic
6 4 (2.667%) Teradata
6 4 (2.667%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.667%) Nokia Siemens Networks
7 2 (1.333%) JBoss
7 2 (1.333%) WSO2
8 1 (0.667%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.667%) Adobe
8 1 (0.667%) Autodesk
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