The first table below looks at the demand for the ScrumMaster role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ScrumMaster in their job title over the 3 months to 18 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 Job Titles currently tracked.

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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Scrum Master
Rank 419 497 486
Rank change year-on-year
+78 -11
Contract jobs requiring a ScrumMaster 135 92 101
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.277% 0.158% 0.162%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.301% 0.171% 0.175%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 57 61
Average daily rate £475 £450 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.55% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £350 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £525 £450
% change year-on-year
-23.80% +16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £50.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £50.00 - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
44867 53712 57592
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.17% 92.50% 92.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 25887 29609 31515
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2132 2587 2980
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.25 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £40.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

ScrumMaster
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ScrumMaster within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

ScrumMaster Jobs Demand Trend

ScrumMaster
Daily Rate Trend

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

ScrumMaster Daily Rate Trend

ScrumMaster
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ScrumMaster within the UK over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

ScrumMaster Daily Rate Histogram

ScrumMaster
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ScrumMaster within the UK.

ScrumMaster Hourly Rate Trend

ScrumMaster
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ScrumMaster within the UK over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +53 130 £475 +5.55% 22
London +54 90 £519 +22.05% 10
City of London +26 29 £530 +26.56% 4
South East +12 18 £412 -21.61% 6
Surrey - 11 £416 -
South West +35 9 £381 -30.68% 2
East of England +17 6 £450 +2.85%
Leeds 0 5 £348 -0.71% 1
West Yorkshire 0 5 £348 -0.71% 1
Yorkshire -1 5 £348 -0.71% 3
Hampshire -6 4 £375 -21.05% 1
Woking - 4 £390 -
Bedfordshire +5 3 - -
Southampton -7 1 £325 -
Berkshire - 1 - - 1
North West - 1 £375 -
Scotland - - - - 1
Tyne and Wear - - - - 1
West Midlands - - - -
Hammersmith - - - -
East Sussex - - - - 1
West Sussex - - - - 1
North East - - - - 1
Winchester - - - - 1
York - - - - 1
Kent - - - - 1
North Yorkshire - - - - 1
Oxfordshire - - - -
Somerset - - - -
South Yorkshire - - - - 1

ScrumMaster
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited ScrumMaster in their job title 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 with ScrumMaster in their job title.

1 220 (100.00%) Scrum
2 134 (60.91%) Agile Software Development
3 54 (24.55%) Banking
4 50 (22.73%) Project Management
5 44 (20.00%) Java
6 41 (18.64%) .NET
6 41 (18.64%) TDD
7 38 (17.27%) Finance
8 28 (12.73%) C#
9 25 (11.36%) BDD
10 23 (10.45%) User Stories
11 20 (9.091%) Investment Banking
11 20 (9.091%) PRINCE2
12 19 (8.636%) SQL Server
12 19 (8.636%) E-Commerce
13 18 (8.182%) Web Development
13 18 (8.182%) Kanban
14 15 (6.818%) Continuous Integration
15 14 (6.364%) Spring
15 14 (6.364%) Waterfall
15 14 (6.364%) Enterprise Software
15 14 (6.364%) Microsoft
16 13 (5.909%) SQL
17 12 (5.455%) Retail
17 12 (5.455%) Velocity
18 11 (5.000%) Derivative
18 11 (5.000%) Stakeholder Management
18 11 (5.000%) J2EE
18 11 (5.000%) Windows
18 11 (5.000%) OO

ScrumMaster
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited ScrumMaster in their job title 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 with ScrumMaster in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 41 (18.64%) .NET
2 14 (6.364%) Spring
3 12 (5.455%) Velocity
4 11 (5.000%) J2EE
5 7 (3.182%) HTML
6 5 (2.273%) Spring MVC
6 5 (2.273%) .NET Framework
7 4 (1.818%) Java EE
7 4 (1.818%) CSS
7 4 (1.818%) JSP
7 4 (1.818%) Hibernate
8 3 (1.364%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.909%) WinForms
9 2 (0.909%) XML
9 2 (0.909%) NHibernate
9 2 (0.909%) WPF
10 1 (0.455%) LINQ
10 1 (0.455%) ASP.NET MVC
10 1 (0.455%) HTML5
10 1 (0.455%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 6 (2.727%) Tomcat
2 4 (1.818%) IIS
3 3 (1.364%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.364%) CMS
4 2 (0.909%) Windows Azure
4 2 (0.909%) Confluence
4 2 (0.909%) Adobe CQ
5 1 (0.455%) SharePoint 2013
5 1 (0.455%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.455%) Drupal
5 1 (0.455%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.455%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (4.091%) MS Excel
2 6 (2.727%) MS Project
3 5 (2.273%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.818%) MS Office
5 1 (0.455%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.182%) Internet
2 3 (1.364%) SMS
2 3 (1.364%) SAN
2 3 (1.364%) Intranet
3 1 (0.455%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.636%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.364%) UniData
2 3 (1.364%) Big Data
3 2 (0.909%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (0.455%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (0.455%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (3.182%) Eclipse
2 5 (2.273%) Visual Studio
2 5 (2.273%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 5 (2.273%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (1.364%) JIRA
4 1 (0.455%) PowerBuilder
4 1 (0.455%) NUnit
General
1 54 (24.55%) Banking
2 38 (17.27%) Finance
3 20 (9.091%) Investment Banking
4 12 (5.455%) Retail
5 8 (3.636%) Front Office
5 8 (3.636%) Publishing
6 3 (1.364%) Games
6 3 (1.364%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.364%) Marketing
7 2 (0.909%) Advertising
8 1 (0.455%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.455%) Automotive
8 1 (0.455%) Legal
8 1 (0.455%) Local Government
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.364%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (5.000%) Derivative
3 8 (3.636%) Fixed Income
4 6 (2.727%) Equities
4 6 (2.727%) Digital Media
4 6 (2.727%) Mobile App
4 6 (2.727%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (1.364%) PMI
6 2 (0.909%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.455%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.455%) Online Banking
7 1 (0.455%) Swaptions
7 1 (0.455%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.455%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.000%) Windows
2 3 (1.364%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.455%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (100.00%) Scrum
2 134 (60.91%) Agile Software Development
3 50 (22.73%) Project Management
4 41 (18.64%) TDD
5 25 (11.36%) BDD
6 23 (10.45%) User Stories
7 20 (9.091%) PRINCE2
8 19 (8.636%) E-Commerce
9 18 (8.182%) Kanban
9 18 (8.182%) Web Development
10 15 (6.818%) Continuous Integration
11 14 (6.364%) Waterfall
12 11 (5.000%) OO
12 11 (5.000%) Stakeholder Management
13 8 (3.636%) MVC
13 8 (3.636%) Content Management
13 8 (3.636%) SOA
14 7 (3.182%) Agile Testing
15 6 (2.727%) Continuous Improvement
15 6 (2.727%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 44 (20.00%) Java
2 28 (12.73%) C#
3 13 (5.909%) SQL
4 9 (4.091%) JavaScript
5 6 (2.727%) C++
6 2 (0.909%) PHP
6 2 (0.909%) VBA
6 2 (0.909%) Python
7 1 (0.455%) C
7 1 (0.455%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.455%) VB
Qualifications
1 9 (4.091%) Degree
2 3 (1.364%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 3 (1.364%) PMI Certification
3 2 (0.909%) ISEB
3 2 (0.909%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.455%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.818%) QA
2 1 (0.455%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (0.455%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (0.909%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 14 (6.364%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.545%) Oracle
3 8 (3.636%) Sybase
4 3 (1.364%) VMware
5 2 (0.909%) Cognos
6 1 (0.455%) Progress
6 1 (0.455%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.455%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.455%) Adobe
City of London
Essential Skills: -Extensive experience as a Scrum Master -Ability to coach -Global reach -Experience of global rollouts/distributions-Agile advocator/evangelist Interviews available immediately for the right candidates.
Huxley Associates
Rate: £500 - £650 per day
Posted: 3 June 2013
London
environments using agile methodologies like XP / SCRUM, within Java/J2EE Projects... Must have worked in environments using agile methodologies like (XP, SCRUM) ... ust have development/Project Management experience...
Coal IT Services
Rate: From £400 to £425 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
City, London
Therefore, knowledge of Agile Development Methodology (TDD/BDD) is essential, as is the ability to demonstrate experience of working as a Scrum Master with successful delivery records... Awareness...
Thomson Keene Associates
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 11 June 2013
London
We don't necessarily even need direct experience of Magento (though its preferable of course) but would need experience of leading a development team (even if it was...
Real Staffing
Rate: £350 - £375 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
Experience of developing n-tier, complex, data rich, systems. -Net 4; C#; MVC3; Oracle DB; Visual Studio 2010 -Proven experience with Team Foundation Server and ability to exploit...
Harvey Nash plc
Posted: 11 June 2013
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