The first table below looks at the demand for Scrum skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Scrum over the 3 months to 20 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 West Yorkshire 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Scrum
Rank 27 55 55
Rank change year-on-year
+28 0
Contract jobs citing Scrum 78 37 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 6.151% 2.284% 1.651%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.638% 3.117% 2.514%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 28 10
Average daily rate £300 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £236 £200 £248
10% offered a daily rate of more than £356 £383 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £363
% change year-on-year
- -3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 £39.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-16.98% -0.62%
All Processes & Methodologies
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
903 1187 716
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 71.21% 73.27% 65.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 684 345
Average daily rate £325 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £235 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £453 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 23 28
Average hourly rate £24.00 £18.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+33.33% +2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.68 £12.00 £7.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £62.50 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
Scrum
Yorkshire

Scrum
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire Scrum Daily Rate Trend

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Scrum across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

West Yorkshire Scrum Daily Rate Histogram

Scrum
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Scrum across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire Scrum Hourly 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 West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Leeds +22 69 £300 -7.69%
Bradford - 3 £250 -
Scrum
Yorkshire

Scrum
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 58 (49.57%) Web Services
2 45 (38.46%) TDD
3 42 (35.90%) Agile Software Development
4 40 (34.19%) .NET
5 35 (29.91%) C#
5 35 (29.91%) JavaScript
6 33 (28.21%) Kanban
7 31 (26.50%) Amazon EC2
7 31 (26.50%) Amazon S3
7 31 (26.50%) Amazon AWS
7 31 (26.50%) MongoDB
7 31 (26.50%) Redis
7 31 (26.50%) Route 53
7 31 (26.50%) MySQL
7 31 (26.50%) Internet
7 31 (26.50%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (22.22%) CSS
9 25 (21.37%) ASP.NET
9 25 (21.37%) jQuery
10 24 (20.51%) Oracle
10 24 (20.51%) C++
11 23 (19.66%) Apache
11 23 (19.66%) Python
11 23 (19.66%) Continuous Integration
11 23 (19.66%) Ruby
12 22 (18.80%) BDD
12 22 (18.80%) PHP
13 21 (17.95%) Java
13 21 (17.95%) Linux
13 21 (17.95%) HTTP

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 58 (49.57%) Web Services
2 40 (34.19%) .NET
3 26 (22.22%) CSS
4 25 (21.37%) ASP.NET
4 25 (21.37%) jQuery
5 21 (17.95%) Node.js
6 19 (16.24%) HTML5
7 18 (15.38%) J2EE
8 17 (14.53%) .NET Framework
9 15 (12.82%) ASP.NET MVC
10 14 (11.97%) HTML
10 14 (11.97%) POSIX
10 14 (11.97%) CSS3
11 13 (11.11%) REST
12 12 (10.26%) Hibernate
12 12 (10.26%) SOAP
12 12 (10.26%) XML
12 12 (10.26%) Spring
13 10 (8.547%) Ajax
14 7 (5.983%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 31 (26.50%) Amazon EC2
1 31 (26.50%) Amazon S3
1 31 (26.50%) Amazon AWS
1 31 (26.50%) Route 53
2 23 (19.66%) Apache
3 21 (17.95%) nginx
4 12 (10.26%) Adobe CQ
5 9 (7.692%) Apache Solr
6 7 (5.983%) Tomcat
6 7 (5.983%) SharePoint
7 3 (2.564%) Umbraco
7 3 (2.564%) SharePoint 2010
8 1 (0.855%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.855%) Confluence
8 1 (0.855%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.855%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.855%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.855%) IIS
8 1 (0.855%) CMS
8 1 (0.855%) Plone
Applications
1 3 (2.564%) MS Office
2 1 (0.855%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 17 (14.53%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.855%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 31 (26.50%) Internet
2 21 (17.95%) HTTP
2 21 (17.95%) DNS
3 2 (1.709%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (26.50%) MySQL
1 31 (26.50%) MongoDB
1 31 (26.50%) Redis
1 31 (26.50%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (11.97%) Couchbase
2 14 (11.97%) NoSQL
2 14 (11.97%) RDBMS
2 14 (11.97%) SimpleDB
3 12 (10.26%) SQL Server
4 10 (8.547%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (4.274%) SQL Server 2008
6 4 (3.419%) SQL Server 2005
7 2 (1.709%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (1.709%) SQL Server 2000
7 2 (1.709%) RavenDB
7 2 (1.709%) Big Data
7 2 (1.709%) SQL Server 2012
8 1 (0.855%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 19 (16.24%) Git (software)
1 19 (16.24%) Jenkins
2 12 (10.26%) Maven
3 11 (9.402%) Visual Studio
3 11 (9.402%) Selenium
4 6 (5.128%) WebDriver
4 6 (5.128%) JIRA
5 4 (3.419%) Subversion
6 3 (2.564%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.564%) SpecFlow
6 3 (2.564%) TeamCity
6 3 (2.564%) JUnit
6 3 (2.564%) Xcode
6 3 (2.564%) MSI
7 2 (1.709%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.855%) WebSpeed
8 1 (0.855%) PVCS
8 1 (0.855%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 12 (10.26%) Telecoms
2 9 (7.692%) Finance
3 5 (4.274%) Retail
4 2 (1.709%) Local Government
4 2 (1.709%) Marketing
4 2 (1.709%) Games
5 1 (0.855%) Banking
5 1 (0.855%) Legal
5 1 (0.855%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 52 (44.44%) Developer
2 20 (17.09%) ScrumMaster
3 17 (14.53%) Java Developer
4 15 (12.82%) Project Manager
5 14 (11.97%) Software Engineer
6 12 (10.26%) .NET Developer
7 9 (7.692%) Analyst
8 7 (5.983%) Web Developer
8 7 (5.983%) C# Developer
8 7 (5.983%) ASP.NET Developer
8 7 (5.983%) C# .NET Developer
9 6 (5.128%) Agile Project Manager
9 6 (5.128%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 6 (5.128%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 6 (5.128%) Business Analyst
10 5 (4.274%) Applications Developer
10 5 (4.274%) Front-End Developer
10 5 (4.274%) Front-End Web Developer
10 5 (4.274%) Mobile Developer
11 4 (3.419%) Product Manager
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.26%) Client/Server
2 5 (4.274%) Open Source
3 4 (3.419%) NHS
4 3 (2.564%) iPad
4 3 (2.564%) Computer Science
4 3 (2.564%) iPhone
4 3 (2.564%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.855%) IaaS
5 1 (0.855%) W3C
5 1 (0.855%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 21 (17.95%) Linux
2 5 (4.274%) Windows
3 3 (2.564%) Android
3 3 (2.564%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.709%) Windows Mobile
5 1 (0.855%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (38.46%) TDD
2 42 (35.90%) Agile Software Development
3 33 (28.21%) Kanban
4 23 (19.66%) Continuous Integration
5 22 (18.80%) BDD
6 20 (17.09%) Project Management
7 17 (14.53%) Software Engineering
7 17 (14.53%) Security Testing
8 16 (13.68%) Automated Testing
8 16 (13.68%) MVC
9 14 (11.97%) Configuration Management
10 13 (11.11%) SOA
10 13 (11.11%) Web Development
11 12 (10.26%) PRINCE2
12 10 (8.547%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (8.547%) Test Automation
13 9 (7.692%) OO
14 7 (5.983%) Business Intelligence
15 6 (5.128%) Multithreading
16 5 (4.274%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 35 (29.91%) C#
1 35 (29.91%) JavaScript
2 24 (20.51%) C++
3 23 (19.66%) Python
3 23 (19.66%) Ruby
4 22 (18.80%) PHP
5 21 (17.95%) Java
5 21 (17.95%) Bash shell
6 15 (12.82%) SQL
7 8 (6.838%) Perl
8 6 (5.128%) XAML
9 5 (4.274%) VB
10 3 (2.564%) T-SQL
10 3 (2.564%) Objective-C
11 2 (1.709%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.855%) Jython
12 1 (0.855%) VB6
12 1 (0.855%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.855%) C
12 1 (0.855%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 9 (7.692%) Degree
2 3 (2.564%) SC Cleared
2 3 (2.564%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.709%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (0.855%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.274%) QA
2 2 (1.709%) WAI
System Software
1 3 (2.564%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (11.97%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (20.51%) Oracle
2 17 (14.53%) Percona
3 12 (10.26%) Adobe
3 12 (10.26%) hybris
4 6 (5.128%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.564%) VMware
6 2 (1.709%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.855%) Sculptor
7 1 (0.855%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.855%) Progress
West Yorkshire
The successful candidate will be working on a full lifecycle development project designing, building, testing and developing through to implementation..Ideally they are seeking a candidate with the...
Computer Futures
Rate: £325 - £375 per day
Posted: 18 May 2013
West Yorkshire
SCRUM certification is essential for this role, as is knowledge of one or more Agile project management frameworks, excellent verbal and written communication skills and previous experience of...
Hudson
Rate: £350 - £450 per day
Posted: 9 May 2013