The first table below looks at the demand for Scrum skills in IT contracts advertised for the Warwickshire 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 Warwickshire 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 30 23 24
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +1
Contract jobs citing Scrum 1 4 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warwickshire 0.469% 1.600% 0.943%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.667% 2.667% 1.515%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
Average daily rate £375 £325 £263
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% +23.80%
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
Warwickshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
150 150 132
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warwickshire 70.42% 60.00% 62.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 69 48
Average daily rate £325 £320 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.56% -14.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £217 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 19
Average hourly rate £29.00 £16.85 £25.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+72.10% -34.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.65 £10.00 £14.85
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £22.90 £32.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Scrum
West Midlands

Scrum
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Warwickshire 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 Warwickshire region.

Warwickshire Scrum Daily Rate Trend

Scrum
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the Warwickshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Warwick -3 1 £375 +50.00%
Kenilworth - 1 £375 -
Leamington Spa - 1 £375 -
Stratford-upon-Avon - 1 £375 -
Scrum
West Midlands

Scrum
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warwickshire 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%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) VB.NET
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) XSLT
2 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) Web Development
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) HTML

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warwickshire 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%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) XSLT
1 1 (50.00%) Ajax
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (50.00%) Rational DOORS
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) VB.NET
2 1 (50.00%) C#
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft