The first table below looks at the demand for Scrum skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire 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 35 46 42
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -4
Contract jobs citing Scrum 17 7 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 3.720% 1.142% 1.633%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.030% 1.724% 2.308%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 3
Average daily rate £350 £280 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -37.77%
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
Wiltshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
338 406 390
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 73.96% 66.23% 70.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 260 214
Average daily rate £425 £386 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.24% -3.62%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £318 £238 £256
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 19 25
Average hourly rate £15.50 £28.00 £31.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.64% -9.67%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.30 £14.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.50 £41.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Scrum
South West

Scrum
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Swindon +9 14 £425 +51.78%
Scrum
South West

Scrum
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire 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 16 (50.00%) SQL
2 15 (46.88%) .NET
2 15 (46.88%) C#
3 14 (43.75%) JavaScript
3 14 (43.75%) jQuery
4 13 (40.63%) Finance
5 10 (31.25%) SQL Server
5 10 (31.25%) XML
5 10 (31.25%) WCF
6 9 (28.13%) Agile Software Development
6 9 (28.13%) .NET Framework
6 9 (28.13%) ASP.NET
6 9 (28.13%) Web Services
6 9 (28.13%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 8 (25.00%) PRINCE2
8 7 (21.88%) CSS
8 7 (21.88%) Oracle
8 7 (21.88%) Oracle EBS
8 7 (21.88%) Oracle EBS R12
8 7 (21.88%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (18.75%) Unit Testing
9 6 (18.75%) JSON
9 6 (18.75%) Ajax
9 6 (18.75%) XSLT
9 6 (18.75%) HTML
9 6 (18.75%) Java
10 5 (15.63%) PL/SQL
10 5 (15.63%) MVC
10 5 (15.63%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (15.63%) Microsoft

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire 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 15 (46.88%) .NET
2 14 (43.75%) jQuery
3 10 (31.25%) XML
3 10 (31.25%) WCF
4 9 (28.13%) .NET Framework
4 9 (28.13%) ASP.NET
4 9 (28.13%) Web Services
4 9 (28.13%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 7 (21.88%) CSS
6 6 (18.75%) JSON
6 6 (18.75%) Ajax
6 6 (18.75%) XSLT
6 6 (18.75%) HTML
7 5 (15.63%) Middleware
8 4 (12.50%) Oracle Fusion
9 3 (9.375%) J2EE
9 3 (9.375%) Silverlight
10 2 (6.250%) ASP.NET MVC 3
10 2 (6.250%) Razor View Engine
10 2 (6.250%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 4 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 3 (9.375%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (9.375%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (3.125%) IIS
3 1 (3.125%) Oracle 10gAS
3 1 (3.125%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 2 (6.250%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (21.88%) Oracle EBS
1 7 (21.88%) Oracle EBS R12
2 4 (12.50%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (9.375%) Endur
3 3 (9.375%) Findur
4 2 (6.250%) Oracle HRMS
5 1 (3.125%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.250%) NAS
1 2 (6.250%) SAN
2 1 (3.125%) VPN
2 1 (3.125%) LAN
2 1 (3.125%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (31.25%) SQL Server
2 5 (15.63%) Oracle BI EE
3 3 (9.375%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (6.250%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (6.250%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (6.250%) Oracle 10g
4 2 (6.250%) MS Access
4 2 (6.250%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.125%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.125%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (3.125%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (3.125%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (3.125%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 7 (21.88%) Team Foundation Server
2 4 (12.50%) Visual Studio
3 3 (9.375%) Oracle Forms
General
1 13 (40.63%) Finance
2 3 (9.375%) Retail
3 1 (3.125%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.125%) Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (65.63%) Developer
2 9 (28.13%) .NET Developer
3 4 (12.50%) C# Developer
3 4 (12.50%) Analyst
4 3 (9.375%) Project Manager
4 3 (9.375%) Oracle Developer
5 2 (6.250%) Software Manager
5 2 (6.250%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (6.250%) Software Project Manager
5 2 (6.250%) DBA
6 1 (3.125%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.125%) Database Analyst
6 1 (3.125%) Administrator
6 1 (3.125%) Business Analyst
6 1 (3.125%) Test Analyst
6 1 (3.125%) Data Analyst
6 1 (3.125%) Oracle DBA
6 1 (3.125%) Financial Business Analyst
6 1 (3.125%) SQL Server DBA
6 1 (3.125%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.250%) Data Conversion
2 1 (3.125%) N-Tier
2 1 (3.125%) Replication
2 1 (3.125%) Clustering
2 1 (3.125%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.250%) Linux
2 1 (3.125%) Windows
2 1 (3.125%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (28.13%) Agile Software Development
2 8 (25.00%) PRINCE2
3 6 (18.75%) Unit Testing
4 5 (15.63%) MVC
4 5 (15.63%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (12.50%) Performance Management
5 4 (12.50%) ITIL
6 3 (9.375%) CRM
6 3 (9.375%) Change Management
6 3 (9.375%) SOA
6 3 (9.375%) ETL
6 3 (9.375%) Workflow
6 3 (9.375%) TDD
6 3 (9.375%) ETRM
6 3 (9.375%) Release Management
7 2 (6.250%) Data Migration
7 2 (6.250%) Content Management
7 2 (6.250%) Migration
8 1 (3.125%) ERP
8 1 (3.125%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (50.00%) SQL
2 15 (46.88%) C#
3 14 (43.75%) JavaScript
4 6 (18.75%) Java
5 5 (15.63%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.125%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (9.375%) OCP
1 3 (9.375%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (3.125%) MCDBA
2 1 (3.125%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.375%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 2 (6.250%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (3.125%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) Oracle
2 5 (15.63%) Microsoft
3 4 (12.50%) Hyperion
4 3 (9.375%) OpenLink
4 3 (9.375%) Stellent
5 2 (6.250%) Siebel
6 1 (3.125%) Informatica
6 1 (3.125%) VMware