The first table below looks at the demand for Scrum skills in IT contracts advertised for the Welwyn Garden City 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 Welwyn Garden City 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 7 5 13
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +8
Contract jobs citing Scrum 2 4 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Welwyn Garden City 6.061% 10.00% 2.778%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.692% 12.90% 3.448%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £300
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
Welwyn Garden City
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
26 31 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Welwyn Garden City 78.79% 77.50% 80.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 9
Average daily rate £400 £380 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.26% -10.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £438 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 11
Average hourly rate £14.50 £11.00 £16.10
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+31.81% -31.67%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Scrum
Hertfordshire

Scrum
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Welwyn Garden City 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 Welwyn Garden City region.

Welwyn Garden City Scrum Daily Rate Trend

Scrum
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Welwyn Garden City 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 4 (66.67%) E-Commerce
2 3 (50.00%) N-Tier
2 3 (50.00%) SOA
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) C#
2 3 (50.00%) .NET
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (50.00%) XML
2 3 (50.00%) MVC
2 3 (50.00%) TDD
2 3 (50.00%) Automated Testing
2 3 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 3 (50.00%) WCF
2 3 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 3 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 3 (50.00%) Unity DI Container
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) UML
4 1 (16.67%) Project Management
4 1 (16.67%) Requirements Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Matrix Management
4 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Systems Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Retail
4 1 (16.67%) Finance

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Welwyn Garden City 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 (50.00%) .NET
1 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (50.00%) XML
1 3 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 3 (50.00%) WCF
1 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 3 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 3 (50.00%) Unity DI Container
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (16.67%) Retail
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 3 (50.00%) .NET Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Senior .NET Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Agile .NET Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Project Leader
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Business Systems Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce Manager
3 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) E-Commerce
2 3 (50.00%) SOA
2 3 (50.00%) MVC
2 3 (50.00%) TDD
2 3 (50.00%) Automated Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) UML
4 1 (16.67%) Project Management
4 1 (16.67%) Requirements Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Matrix Management
4 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) C#
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft