The first table below looks at the demand for Scrum skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bedford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 Bedford region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Scrum
Rank 8 4 12
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +8
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 72 63 29
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedford 28.69% 31.19% 17.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 35.47% 37.28% 22.31%
Number of salaries quoted 71 60 28
Average salary £42,500 £47,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.52% +18.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £32,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £67,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £41,500
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +2.40%
All Processes & Methodologies
Bedford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
203 169 130
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedford 80.88% 83.66% 79.27%
Number of salaries quoted 197 160 128
Average salary £40,000 £42,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.88% +13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Scrum
Bedfordshire

Scrum
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedford Scrum Jobs Demand Trend

Scrum
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Scrum across the Bedford region.

Bedford Scrum Salary Trend

Scrum
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Scrum across the Bedford region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Bedford Scrum Salary Histogram

Scrum
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedford 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Scrum.

1 86 (54.78%) Agile Software Development
2 66 (42.04%) DSDM
3 51 (32.48%) User Stories
4 50 (31.85%) .NET
4 50 (31.85%) BPMN
5 48 (30.57%) Microsoft
6 46 (29.30%) C#
7 43 (27.39%) UML
8 38 (24.20%) TDD
9 37 (23.57%) Team Foundation Server
10 33 (21.02%) Business Analysis
10 33 (21.02%) Project Management
10 33 (21.02%) MVC
11 32 (20.38%) SQL Server
11 32 (20.38%) ASP.NET
12 31 (19.75%) HTML
12 31 (19.75%) JavaScript
13 30 (19.11%) WCF
14 29 (18.47%) WPF
14 29 (18.47%) CSS
15 26 (16.56%) PRINCE2
16 24 (15.29%) SQL
16 24 (15.29%) T-SQL
17 23 (14.65%) MS Excel
17 23 (14.65%) E-Commerce
18 21 (13.38%) Stakeholder Management
18 21 (13.38%) WinForms
19 19 (12.10%) Silverlight
19 19 (12.10%) .NET Framework
20 18 (11.46%) Use Case

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedford 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Scrum. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 50 (31.85%) .NET
2 32 (20.38%) ASP.NET
3 31 (19.75%) HTML
4 30 (19.11%) WCF
5 29 (18.47%) WPF
5 29 (18.47%) CSS
6 21 (13.38%) WinForms
7 19 (12.10%) Silverlight
7 19 (12.10%) .NET Framework
8 16 (10.19%) XML
9 14 (8.917%) Web Services
9 14 (8.917%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 13 (8.280%) ASP.NET MVC
10 13 (8.280%) LINQ
10 13 (8.280%) WF
11 7 (4.459%) ASP
12 5 (3.185%) Ajax
13 4 (2.548%) jQuery
14 3 (1.911%) HTML5
14 3 (1.911%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 10 (6.369%) SharePoint
1 10 (6.369%) Windows Azure
2 7 (4.459%) SharePoint 2013
3 6 (3.822%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (0.637%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 23 (14.65%) MS Excel
2 3 (1.911%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (1.911%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (5.096%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (20.38%) SQL Server
2 14 (8.917%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 13 (8.280%) SQL Server 2008
3 13 (8.280%) Crystal Reports
4 10 (6.369%) SQL Server 2012
5 7 (4.459%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.911%) SQL Server 2000
7 2 (1.274%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 37 (23.57%) Team Foundation Server
2 14 (8.917%) NUnit
2 14 (8.917%) MSTest
3 13 (8.280%) Visual Studio Team System
4 11 (7.006%) Visual Studio
5 10 (6.369%) Subversion
6 9 (5.732%) Moq
7 4 (2.548%) PowerBuilder
7 4 (2.548%) Rhino Mocks
8 3 (1.911%) Balsamiq Mockups
8 3 (1.911%) Axure RP
9 1 (0.637%) JIRA
General
1 18 (11.46%) Marketing
2 16 (10.19%) Retail
3 3 (1.911%) Multimedia
4 1 (0.637%) Billing
4 1 (0.637%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 52 (33.12%) Project Manager
1 52 (33.12%) Business Analyst
1 52 (33.12%) Analyst
2 45 (28.66%) Agile Project Manager
3 31 (19.75%) Developer
4 29 (18.47%) Agile Business Analyst
5 27 (17.20%) ScrumMaster
6 20 (12.74%) C# Developer
7 17 (10.83%) C# .NET Developer
8 15 (9.554%) Team Leader
9 10 (6.369%) Senior Analyst
9 10 (6.369%) Senior Business Analyst
9 10 (6.369%) Business Analyst Team Leader
10 8 (5.096%) C# ASP.NET Developer
10 8 (5.096%) Software Team Leader
10 8 (5.096%) Agile C# Developer
11 7 (4.459%) Development Team Leader
12 6 (3.822%) Delivery Project Manager
12 6 (3.822%) Delivery Manager
12 6 (3.822%) Lead Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.280%) PMI
2 12 (7.643%) N-Tier
3 10 (6.369%) iPad
4 8 (5.096%) SaaS
5 6 (3.822%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.911%) New Media
6 3 (1.911%) Graphic Design
7 1 (0.637%) Inversion of Control
7 1 (0.637%) Computer Science
7 1 (0.637%) Wiki
7 1 (0.637%) Social Network
7 1 (0.637%) NHS
7 1 (0.637%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 18 (11.46%) Windows
2 10 (6.369%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (54.78%) Agile Software Development
2 66 (42.04%) DSDM
3 51 (32.48%) User Stories
4 50 (31.85%) BPMN
5 43 (27.39%) UML
6 38 (24.20%) TDD
7 33 (21.02%) Business Analysis
7 33 (21.02%) Project Management
7 33 (21.02%) MVC
8 26 (16.56%) PRINCE2
9 23 (14.65%) E-Commerce
10 21 (13.38%) Stakeholder Management
11 18 (11.46%) Use Case
12 15 (9.554%) Kanban
13 13 (8.280%) Matrix Management
14 12 (7.643%) Project Planning
15 11 (7.006%) Programme Management
16 10 (6.369%) Agile Project Management
17 9 (5.732%) CRM
18 8 (5.096%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 46 (29.30%) C#
2 31 (19.75%) JavaScript
3 24 (15.29%) SQL
3 24 (15.29%) T-SQL
4 4 (2.548%) VBScript
5 1 (0.637%) C
Qualifications
1 18 (11.46%) PMI Certification
2 9 (5.732%) Degree
3 6 (3.822%) ISEB
4 5 (3.185%) CBAP
4 5 (3.185%) PMP
5 1 (0.637%) MCTS
5 1 (0.637%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.637%) MCP
5 1 (0.637%) MCAD
5 1 (0.637%) MCSD
Vendors
1 48 (30.57%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.911%) Typemock
3 1 (0.637%) Capita
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