The first table below looks at the demand for Scrum skills in IT jobs advertised for the Croydon region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Scrum over the 3 months to 17 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 Croydon region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Scrum
Rank 26 39 28
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -11
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 8 10 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Croydon 2.797% 2.924% 4.594%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.082% 3.623% 6.633%
Number of salaries quoted 8 10 13
Average salary £48,000 £48,750 £67,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.53% -27.77%
90% offered a salary of more than £47,100 £35,000 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £60,500 £72,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £41,500
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +2.40%
All Processes & Methodologies
Croydon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
196 276 196
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Croydon 68.53% 80.70% 69.26%
Number of salaries quoted 179 255 184
Average salary £48,500 £42,500 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.11% -22.72%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £80,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Scrum
London

Scrum
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Croydon 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 Croydon region.

Croydon Scrum Salary Trend

Scrum
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Croydon 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 (63.64%) ASP.NET
1 7 (63.64%) C#
1 7 (63.64%) .NET
1 7 (63.64%) MVC
2 5 (45.45%) SQL
3 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
3 4 (36.36%) Business Analysis
3 4 (36.36%) .NET Framework
4 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
4 3 (27.27%) T-SQL
4 3 (27.27%) Web Services
4 3 (27.27%) jQuery
4 3 (27.27%) Unit Testing
4 3 (27.27%) ASP.NET MVC
4 3 (27.27%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 3 (27.27%) User Stories
5 2 (18.18%) Java
5 2 (18.18%) TDD
6 1 (9.091%) Automated Testing
6 1 (9.091%) Degree
6 1 (9.091%) Marketing
6 1 (9.091%) Management Information System
6 1 (9.091%) MS Project
6 1 (9.091%) PRINCE2
6 1 (9.091%) MS Excel
6 1 (9.091%) E-Commerce
6 1 (9.091%) Project Management
6 1 (9.091%) Test Strategy
6 1 (9.091%) Customer Insight
6 1 (9.091%) Waterfall

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Croydon 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 7 (63.64%) .NET
1 7 (63.64%) ASP.NET
2 4 (36.36%) .NET Framework
3 3 (27.27%) jQuery
3 3 (27.27%) ASP.NET MVC
3 3 (27.27%) ASP.NET MVC 3
3 3 (27.27%) Web Services
Applications
1 1 (9.091%) MS Project
1 1 (9.091%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (9.091%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Team Leader
1 4 (36.36%) .NET Team Leader
2 3 (27.27%) Software Manager
2 3 (27.27%) Software Development Manager
2 3 (27.27%) Development Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Java Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Junior Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Junior
3 2 (18.18%) Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Junior Java Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Business Project Manager
4 1 (9.091%) Business Manager
4 1 (9.091%) Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Project Manager
4 1 (9.091%) Business Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) QA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.091%) Management Information System
1 1 (9.091%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) MVC
2 4 (36.36%) Business Analysis
3 3 (27.27%) Unit Testing
3 3 (27.27%) User Stories
4 2 (18.18%) TDD
5 1 (9.091%) Automated Testing
5 1 (9.091%) PRINCE2
5 1 (9.091%) E-Commerce
5 1 (9.091%) Project Management
5 1 (9.091%) Test Automation
5 1 (9.091%) Waterfall
5 1 (9.091%) Test Strategy
5 1 (9.091%) Customer Insight
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) C#
2 5 (45.45%) SQL
3 3 (27.27%) T-SQL
3 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
4 2 (18.18%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (9.091%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.091%) QA
1 1 (9.091%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 1 (9.091%) Acunetix