The first table below looks at the demand for Scrum-ban skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Scrum-ban over the 3 months to 17 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.

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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Scrum-ban
Rank 529 577 -
Rank change year-on-year
+48 -
Contract jobs citing Scrum-ban 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.002% 0.002% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.003% 0.003% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £425 £250 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+70.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £250 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
32885 39492 41512
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 70.87% 67.77% 67.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 19655 22706 23594
Average daily rate £413 £400 £440
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.12% -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £579 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 974 1268 1474
Average hourly rate £31.25 £25.00 £29.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -15.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £13.00 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%

Scrum-ban
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scrum-ban Jobs Demand Trend

Scrum-ban
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Scrum-ban within the UK.

Scrum-ban Daily Rate Trend

Scrum-ban
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum-ban within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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
England +48 1 £425 +70.00%
London - 1 £425 -

Scrum-ban
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Scrum-ban 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-ban.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
1 1 (100.00%) NHibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) Silverlight
1 1 (100.00%) LINQ
1 1 (100.00%) Umbraco
1 1 (100.00%) EPiServer
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) Sitecore CMS
1 1 (100.00%) Sitecore
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
1 1 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
1 1 (100.00%) Web Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4

Scrum-ban
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Scrum-ban 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-ban. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) NHibernate
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) Silverlight
1 1 (100.00%) LINQ
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
1 1 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) Umbraco
1 1 (100.00%) Sitecore CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Developer
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead .NET Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) EPiServer
1 1 (100.00%) Sitecore