The first table below looks at the demand for Scrum skills in IT contracts advertised for the Uxbridge 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 Uxbridge 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 18 24 -
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -
Contract jobs citing Scrum 2 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Uxbridge 1.942% 0.735% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.410% 0.893% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £281 - -
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
Uxbridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
83 112 78
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Uxbridge 80.58% 82.35% 73.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 86 44
Average daily rate £430 £460 £430
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.52% +6.97%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £298 £375 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £578 £570 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
Average hourly rate £19.00 £13.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+46.15% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Scrum
London

Scrum
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Uxbridge 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 Uxbridge region.

Uxbridge Scrum Daily Rate Trend

Scrum
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Uxbridge 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 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
2 1 (50.00%) Web Development
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Zend
2 1 (50.00%) Zend Framework
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Confluence
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) CSS3
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) XSLT
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Uxbridge 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 1 (50.00%) Zend Framework
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (50.00%) HTML5
1 1 (50.00%) CSS3
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Front-End Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Web Development
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Zend