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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Scrum
Rank - 11 -
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 0 3 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Blackpool - 9.677% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 9.677% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 3 0
Average salary - £37,000 -
UK excluding London average salary £40,500 £42,500 £41,500
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +2.40%
All Processes & Methodologies
Blackpool
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
23 31 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Blackpool 71.88% 100.00% 52.38%
Number of salaries quoted 21 29 4
Average salary £32,500 £37,000 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.16% +34.54%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,700 £21,800 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £42,000 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Scrum
Lancashire

Scrum
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Blackpool 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 Blackpool region.

Blackpool Scrum Salary Trend

Scrum
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Blackpool 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 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) VB
1 1 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) MCP
1 1 (100.00%) MCAD
1 1 (100.00%) MCSD
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) WinForms
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
1 1 (100.00%) MCTS
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) WPF
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Spring.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
1 1 (100.00%) Inversion of Control
1 1 (100.00%) MSTest
1 1 (100.00%) MVVM
1 1 (100.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 1 (100.00%) Moq
1 1 (100.00%) Castle Windsor

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Blackpool 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 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) WinForms
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) WPF
1 1 (100.00%) Spring.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Castle Windsor
1 1 (100.00%) Ninject
1 1 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
1 1 (100.00%) Unity DI Container
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
1 1 (100.00%) MSTest
1 1 (100.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 1 (100.00%) Moq
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
1 1 (100.00%) MVVM
1 1 (100.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) VB
1 1 (100.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) MCP
1 1 (100.00%) MCAD
1 1 (100.00%) MCSD
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) MCTS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft