The first table below looks at the demand for Scrum skills in IT contracts advertised for the Warrington region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Scrum over the 3 months to 24 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 Warrington 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Scrum
Rank 18 17 -
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -
Contract jobs citing Scrum 3 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warrington 2.459% 1.064% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.529% 1.471% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £365
% change year-on-year
- -4.10%
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
Warrington
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
85 68 52
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warrington 69.67% 72.34% 66.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 21 18
Average daily rate £380 £355 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.04% +5.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £255 £313
10% offered a daily rate of more than £495 £418 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 3
Average hourly rate £12.50 £25.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-50.00% +31.57%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Scrum
Cheshire

Scrum
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Warrington 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 Warrington region.

Warrington Scrum Daily Rate Trend

Scrum
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warrington 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 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 3 (100.00%) SAP
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle 8/8i
1 3 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 3 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) IBM
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (100.00%) Maximo
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 3 (100.00%) Data Management
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 3 (100.00%) Windows SharePoint Services
1 3 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 3 (100.00%) Java EE
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
1 3 (100.00%) WCF
1 3 (100.00%) WPF
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warrington 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 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) Windows SharePoint Services
1 3 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 3 (100.00%) Java EE
1 3 (100.00%) WCF
1 3 (100.00%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (100.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Maximo
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle 8/8i
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 3 (100.00%) Data Management
1 3 (100.00%) Feature Driven Development
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) SAP
1 3 (100.00%) IBM
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft