The first table below looks at the demand for Scrum skills in IT jobs advertised for the Durham 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 Durham region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Scrum
Rank 15 - 19
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 6 0 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Durham 8.333% - 2.020%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.29% - 3.077%
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 0
Average salary £33,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £40,500 £42,500 £41,500
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +2.40%
All Processes & Methodologies
Durham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
42 90 65
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Durham 58.33% 61.64% 65.66%
Number of salaries quoted 38 79 46
Average salary £33,000 £32,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.12% -8.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £23,000 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Scrum
North East

Scrum
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Durham 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 Durham region.

Durham Scrum Salary Trend

Scrum
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Durham 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 8 (88.89%) .NET
1 8 (88.89%) CSS
2 6 (66.67%) SOAP
2 6 (66.67%) ECMAScript
2 6 (66.67%) Ethernet
2 6 (66.67%) Internet
2 6 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 6 (66.67%) MFC
2 6 (66.67%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 6 (66.67%) Linux
2 6 (66.67%) OOP
2 6 (66.67%) VC++
2 6 (66.67%) Python
2 6 (66.67%) C
2 6 (66.67%) C#
2 6 (66.67%) C++
2 6 (66.67%) HTML
2 6 (66.67%) Perl
2 6 (66.67%) PHP
2 6 (66.67%) SQL
2 6 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (66.67%) Subversion
2 6 (66.67%) Refactoring
2 6 (66.67%) Marketing
2 6 (66.67%) Qt
2 6 (66.67%) Multithreading
3 3 (33.33%) Embedded Systems
3 3 (33.33%) Visual Studio
4 2 (22.22%) jQuery
4 2 (22.22%) .NET Framework

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Durham 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 8 (88.89%) .NET
1 8 (88.89%) CSS
2 6 (66.67%) SOAP
2 6 (66.67%) MFC
2 6 (66.67%) HTML
2 6 (66.67%) Qt
3 2 (22.22%) jQuery
3 2 (22.22%) .NET Framework
3 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (22.22%) HTML5
3 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 2 (22.22%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 2 (22.22%) CSS3
3 2 (22.22%) Razor View Engine
3 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) Windows Azure
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) Ethernet
1 6 (66.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 6 (66.67%) Subversion
2 3 (33.33%) Visual Studio
3 1 (11.11%) Selenium
General
1 6 (66.67%) Marketing
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Test Team Leader
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) C# Developer
3 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Team Leader
3 1 (11.11%) Test Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
3 1 (11.11%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Testing Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Configuration Management
1 6 (66.67%) OOP
1 6 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
1 6 (66.67%) Refactoring
1 6 (66.67%) Multithreading
2 2 (22.22%) MVC
3 1 (11.11%) E-Commerce
3 1 (11.11%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) ECMAScript
1 6 (66.67%) VC++
1 6 (66.67%) Python
1 6 (66.67%) C
1 6 (66.67%) C#
1 6 (66.67%) C++
1 6 (66.67%) Perl
1 6 (66.67%) PHP
1 6 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
County Durham
Beneficial skills and experience: - Commercial experience with WCF, ASP.NET Web Forms, MS SQL Server Reporting Services, HTML5, CSS3, TFS, and Jira... - Industry recognised qualifications, such as Microsoft...
Catalyst
Salary: From £30,000 to £35,000 per annum Salary flexible depending upon exper
Posted: 21 May 2013
County Durham
Requirements analysis... Required skills and experience: - A degree in a relevant discipline - At least 3 years commercial development experience (at least 1-2 years specifically in .NET web...
Catalyst
Salary: From £30,000 to £40,000 per annum Salary flexible depending upon exper
Posted: 21 May 2013
Durham, County Durham
Software Engineer, Software Developer, Embedded Software, C/C++, VC++, MFC, GUI, Qt, ARM9, .NET, OOP, SQL, Python, Perl, Ethernet, USB, Linux, HTML, PHP, CSS, SOAP, Agile, SCRUM... Qt, ...
Saxon Recruitment Solutions
Salary: £28000 - £38000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013