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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Scrum
Rank 27 32 62
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +30
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 71 68 39
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 6.629% 4.993% 2.486%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.765% 6.793% 3.148%
Number of salaries quoted 29 55 31
Average salary £42,500 £37,500 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.33% +1.35%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £31,000
10% offered a salary of more than £49,000 £45,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £41,500
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +2.40%
All Processes & Methodologies
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
810 1001 1239
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 75.63% 73.49% 78.97%
Number of salaries quoted 477 699 869
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -3.61%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £27,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Scrum
Scotland

Scrum
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Scrum Salary Trend

Scrum
Salary Histogram

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

Edinburgh Scrum Salary Histogram

Scrum
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 71 (54.62%) .NET
2 66 (50.77%) C#
3 61 (46.92%) Finance
4 59 (45.38%) Agile Software Development
5 55 (42.31%) SQL Server
6 53 (40.77%) TDD
7 47 (36.15%) Continuous Integration
8 41 (31.54%) .NET Framework
9 40 (30.77%) ASP.NET
10 39 (30.00%) JavaScript
11 38 (29.23%) Microsoft
12 31 (23.85%) Project Management
12 31 (23.85%) jQuery
12 31 (23.85%) Team Foundation Server
13 29 (22.31%) Visual Studio
14 28 (21.54%) Degree
15 26 (20.00%) Java
16 25 (19.23%) MVC
17 23 (17.69%) HTML
18 22 (16.92%) ASP.NET MVC
19 20 (15.38%) Games
20 19 (14.62%) CSS
20 19 (14.62%) Unit Testing
20 19 (14.62%) Jenkins
21 18 (13.85%) SQL Server 2008
22 17 (13.08%) QA
23 16 (12.31%) Selenium
23 16 (12.31%) WCF
23 16 (12.31%) Computer Science
23 16 (12.31%) Subversion

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 71 (54.62%) .NET
2 41 (31.54%) .NET Framework
3 40 (30.77%) ASP.NET
4 31 (23.85%) jQuery
5 23 (17.69%) HTML
6 22 (16.92%) ASP.NET MVC
7 19 (14.62%) CSS
8 16 (12.31%) WCF
9 13 (10.00%) XML
10 11 (8.462%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 10 (7.692%) Web Services
12 9 (6.923%) XSLT
12 9 (6.923%) J2EE
12 9 (6.923%) HTML5
13 8 (6.154%) Java EE
13 8 (6.154%) Spring
13 8 (6.154%) NHibernate
13 8 (6.154%) ASP
14 7 (5.385%) Hibernate
14 7 (5.385%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 12 (9.231%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (4.615%) IIS
3 5 (3.846%) Confluence
4 4 (3.077%) Apache
5 3 (2.308%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.538%) ESB
6 2 (1.538%) Mule
6 2 (1.538%) NServiceBus
6 2 (1.538%) CMS
6 2 (1.538%) TeamSite
6 2 (1.538%) MSMQ
7 1 (0.769%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.769%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.769%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (0.769%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 15 (11.54%) MS Excel
2 7 (5.385%) MS Office
3 4 (3.077%) FrameMaker
3 4 (3.077%) RoboHelp
Business Applications
1 3 (2.308%) Finacle
1 3 (2.308%) Temenos T24
2 2 (1.538%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (1.538%) BusinessWorks
3 1 (0.769%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 15 (11.54%) Internet
2 3 (2.308%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (42.31%) SQL Server
2 18 (13.85%) SQL Server 2008
3 9 (6.923%) SQL Server 2012
4 5 (3.846%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (3.077%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 4 (3.077%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (3.077%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (3.077%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.538%) Oracle 11g
7 1 (0.769%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 31 (23.85%) Team Foundation Server
2 29 (22.31%) Visual Studio
3 19 (14.62%) Jenkins
4 16 (12.31%) Selenium
4 16 (12.31%) Subversion
5 12 (9.231%) JIRA
6 11 (8.462%) Ant
7 9 (6.923%) Eclipse
7 9 (6.923%) Maven
8 5 (3.846%) Git (software)
9 3 (2.308%) QuickTest Pro
9 3 (2.308%) JUnit
10 2 (1.538%) Talend Open Studio
10 2 (1.538%) TestComplete
10 2 (1.538%) TestDirector
10 2 (1.538%) LoadRunner
11 1 (0.769%) WinRunner
11 1 (0.769%) Bugzilla
11 1 (0.769%) Concordion
11 1 (0.769%) Cucumber
General
1 61 (46.92%) Finance
2 20 (15.38%) Games
3 13 (10.00%) Banking
4 12 (9.231%) Retail
5 8 (6.154%) Publishing
6 7 (5.385%) Legal
7 5 (3.846%) Retail Banking
8 2 (1.538%) Advertising
9 1 (0.769%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.769%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.769%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.769%) Music
9 1 (0.769%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 62 (47.69%) Developer
2 49 (37.69%) .NET Developer
3 23 (17.69%) C# Developer
4 22 (16.92%) Project Manager
4 22 (16.92%) C# .NET Developer
5 21 (16.15%) ASP.NET Developer
6 20 (15.38%) Analyst
7 16 (12.31%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 13 (10.00%) Analyst Programmer
8 13 (10.00%) Programmer
9 12 (9.231%) .NET Analyst Programmer
9 12 (9.231%) .NET Programmer
9 12 (9.231%) C# Analyst Programmer
9 12 (9.231%) C# Programmer
9 12 (9.231%) Analyst Developer
10 11 (8.462%) Test Engineer
11 10 (7.692%) ASP.NET Programmer
12 9 (6.923%) Software Developer
12 9 (6.923%) ScrumMaster
13 8 (6.154%) Automated Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.31%) Computer Science
2 7 (5.385%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (2.308%) Client/Server
4 1 (0.769%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.769%) AS400
4 1 (0.769%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.923%) Windows
1 9 (6.923%) Linux
2 5 (3.846%) Apple iOS
2 5 (3.846%) Android
3 3 (2.308%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (1.538%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (45.38%) Agile Software Development
2 53 (40.77%) TDD
3 47 (36.15%) Continuous Integration
4 31 (23.85%) Project Management
5 25 (19.23%) MVC
6 19 (14.62%) Unit Testing
7 15 (11.54%) Product Management
7 15 (11.54%) Analytics
8 13 (10.00%) Test Scripting
8 13 (10.00%) Waterfall
8 13 (10.00%) Web Testing
9 9 (6.923%) Extreme Programming
9 9 (6.923%) Release Management
10 8 (6.154%) Integration Testing
10 8 (6.154%) Build Automation
11 7 (5.385%) Data Modelling
11 7 (5.385%) BDD
11 7 (5.385%) Performance Management
11 7 (5.385%) Software Engineering
12 6 (4.615%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 66 (50.77%) C#
2 39 (30.00%) JavaScript
3 26 (20.00%) Java
4 13 (10.00%) PHP
5 11 (8.462%) SQL
6 5 (3.846%) Python
7 3 (2.308%) C++
7 3 (2.308%) Objective-C
8 2 (1.538%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.538%) VBScript
9 1 (0.769%) Perl
9 1 (0.769%) Groovy
9 1 (0.769%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 28 (21.54%) Degree
2 8 (6.154%) MCPD
2 8 (6.154%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (3.077%) Oracle Certification
3 4 (3.077%) Sun Certification
3 4 (3.077%) MCDBA
4 3 (2.308%) ISEB
4 3 (2.308%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.769%) MCP
5 1 (0.769%) MCAD
5 1 (0.769%) MCSD
5 1 (0.769%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.769%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.769%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (13.08%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.769%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (8.462%) Puppet
2 2 (1.538%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 38 (29.23%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.00%) Oracle
3 9 (6.923%) JBoss
4 6 (4.615%) Twitter
5 4 (3.077%) Perforce
6 3 (2.308%) Temenos
7 2 (1.538%) webMethods
7 2 (1.538%) TIBCO
7 2 (1.538%) IBM
7 2 (1.538%) Talend
8 1 (0.769%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.769%) Google
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