The first table below looks at the demand for Scrum skills in IT contracts advertised for the Swindon 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 Swindon 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 34 34
Rank change year-on-year
+8 0
Contract jobs citing Scrum 14 7 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 4.795% 1.918% 0.949%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.364% 2.834% 1.316%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 3
Average daily rate £425 £280 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+51.78% -37.77%
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
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
220 247 228
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 75.34% 67.67% 72.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 179 138
Average daily rate £425 £425 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -2.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £250 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 10
Average hourly rate £15.50 £22.50 £21.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-31.11% +3.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.40 £15.70 £11.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.00 £30.50 £34.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Scrum
Wiltshire

Scrum
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon Scrum Hourly Rate Trend

Scrum
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 14 (58.33%) SQL
2 11 (45.83%) .NET
2 11 (45.83%) C#
2 11 (45.83%) JavaScript
2 11 (45.83%) jQuery
3 10 (41.67%) Finance
4 9 (37.50%) .NET Framework
4 9 (37.50%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 8 (33.33%) WCF
5 8 (33.33%) XML
6 7 (29.17%) Web Services
6 7 (29.17%) Agile Software Development
6 7 (29.17%) Team Foundation Server
7 6 (25.00%) Oracle EBS R12
7 6 (25.00%) Ajax
7 6 (25.00%) JSON
7 6 (25.00%) Unit Testing
7 6 (25.00%) ASP.NET
7 6 (25.00%) CSS
7 6 (25.00%) PRINCE2
7 6 (25.00%) Oracle
7 6 (25.00%) SQL Server
7 6 (25.00%) XSLT
7 6 (25.00%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (20.83%) HTML
8 5 (20.83%) Java
9 4 (16.67%) PL/SQL
9 4 (16.67%) Visual Studio
9 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
9 4 (16.67%) Middleware

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 11 (45.83%) .NET
1 11 (45.83%) jQuery
2 9 (37.50%) .NET Framework
2 9 (37.50%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 8 (33.33%) WCF
3 8 (33.33%) XML
4 7 (29.17%) Web Services
5 6 (25.00%) Ajax
5 6 (25.00%) JSON
5 6 (25.00%) ASP.NET
5 6 (25.00%) CSS
5 6 (25.00%) XSLT
6 5 (20.83%) HTML
7 4 (16.67%) Middleware
8 3 (12.50%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (12.50%) Silverlight
9 2 (8.333%) J2EE
9 2 (8.333%) ASP.NET MVC 3
9 2 (8.333%) Razor View Engine
9 2 (8.333%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 2 (8.333%) SharePoint
1 2 (8.333%) Oracle Workflow
1 2 (8.333%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (4.167%) Windows Azure
2 1 (4.167%) Oracle 10gAS
2 1 (4.167%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (8.333%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Oracle EBS R12
1 6 (25.00%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (12.50%) Endur
2 3 (12.50%) Findur
2 3 (12.50%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (8.333%) Oracle HRMS
4 1 (4.167%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.333%) SAN
1 2 (8.333%) NAS
2 1 (4.167%) VPN
2 1 (4.167%) LAN
2 1 (4.167%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (16.67%) Oracle BI EE
3 2 (8.333%) MS Access
3 2 (8.333%) Oracle 10g
3 2 (8.333%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (4.167%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (4.167%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (4.167%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (4.167%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (29.17%) Team Foundation Server
2 4 (16.67%) Visual Studio
3 2 (8.333%) Oracle Forms
General
1 10 (41.67%) Finance
2 3 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (66.67%) Developer
2 8 (33.33%) .NET Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Analyst
4 2 (8.333%) Oracle Developer
4 2 (8.333%) Software Project Manager
4 2 (8.333%) Project Manager
4 2 (8.333%) Software Manager
5 1 (4.167%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (4.167%) Information Assurance Leader
5 1 (4.167%) Agile Business Analyst
5 1 (4.167%) Financial Business Analyst
5 1 (4.167%) Financial Services Business Analyst
5 1 (4.167%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (4.167%) Business Analyst
5 1 (4.167%) Test Analyst
5 1 (4.167%) DBA
5 1 (4.167%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.167%) Database Analyst
5 1 (4.167%) Infrastructure Team Leader
5 1 (4.167%) Oracle Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.333%) Data Conversion
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.333%) Linux
2 1 (4.167%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (29.17%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (25.00%) Unit Testing
2 6 (25.00%) PRINCE2
3 3 (12.50%) ETRM
3 3 (12.50%) Performance Management
3 3 (12.50%) MVC
3 3 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (12.50%) ITIL
3 3 (12.50%) ETL
4 2 (8.333%) CRM
4 2 (8.333%) SOA
4 2 (8.333%) Content Management
4 2 (8.333%) Workflow
4 2 (8.333%) Change Management
4 2 (8.333%) Migration
4 2 (8.333%) Release Management
4 2 (8.333%) TDD
4 2 (8.333%) Data Migration
5 1 (4.167%) Information Assurance
5 1 (4.167%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 14 (58.33%) SQL
2 11 (45.83%) C#
2 11 (45.83%) JavaScript
3 5 (20.83%) Java
4 4 (16.67%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.333%) OCP
1 2 (8.333%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 2 (8.333%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (4.167%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Oracle
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (12.50%) OpenLink
3 3 (12.50%) Hyperion
4 2 (8.333%) Siebel
4 2 (8.333%) Stellent
5 1 (4.167%) Informatica
5 1 (4.167%) VMware