The first table below looks at the demand for Scrum skills in IT jobs advertised for the Colchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Scrum over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Colchester region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Scrum
Rank 26 30 33
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +3
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 3 12 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Colchester 1.734% 6.091% 6.024%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.752% 9.231% 8.523%
Number of salaries quoted 3 12 15
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% +33.33%
UK excluding London average salary £40,500 £42,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +1.19%
All Processes & Methodologies
Colchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
109 130 176
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Colchester 63.01% 65.99% 70.68%
Number of salaries quoted 92 110 142
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £45,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Scrum
Essex

Scrum
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Colchester 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 Colchester region.

Colchester Scrum Salary Trend

Scrum
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Scrum across the Colchester region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Colchester Scrum Salary Histogram

Scrum
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Colchester 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 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (71.43%) Finance
3 4 (57.14%) Test Scripting
3 4 (57.14%) Software Testing
4 2 (28.57%) C#
4 2 (28.57%) .NET
4 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
4 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET
4 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
4 2 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (14.29%) Banking
5 1 (14.29%) Investment Banking
5 1 (14.29%) Law
5 1 (14.29%) Migration
5 1 (14.29%) VMware
5 1 (14.29%) Programme Management
5 1 (14.29%) APMP
5 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
5 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
5 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
5 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2
5 1 (14.29%) Windows
5 1 (14.29%) LAN
5 1 (14.29%) WAN
5 1 (14.29%) Cisco
5 1 (14.29%) MS Project
5 1 (14.29%) SAP
5 1 (14.29%) Change Management
5 1 (14.29%) Citrix

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Colchester 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 2 (28.57%) .NET
1 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET
1 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) LAN
1 1 (14.29%) WAN
1 1 (14.29%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Investment Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Agile Test Analyst
1 4 (57.14%) Analyst
1 4 (57.14%) Test Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Software Developer
2 2 (28.57%) C# Software Developer
2 2 (28.57%) C# Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Junior Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Junior
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Test Scripting
1 4 (57.14%) Software Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Programme Management
3 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
3 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
3 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) APMP
1 1 (14.29%) PMP
1 1 (14.29%) PMI Certification
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) Citrix