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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Scrum
Rank 42 52 46
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -6
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 16 13 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 3.265% 2.313% 1.072%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.520% 3.359% 1.613%
Number of salaries quoted 14 11 3
Average salary £35,000 £37,000 £28,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.40% +29.82%
UK excluding London average salary £40,500 £42,500 £41,500
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +2.40%
All Processes & Methodologies
Lancashire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
354 387 248
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 72.24% 68.86% 66.49%
Number of salaries quoted 312 356 209
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £35,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.80%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £22,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Scrum
North West

Scrum
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Lancashire Scrum Salary Trend

Scrum
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Preston +8 9 £35,000 +7.69%
Chorley - 2 £33,000 -
Lytham St Annes - 1 £35,000 -
Scrum
North West

Scrum
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 22 (73.33%) C#
1 22 (73.33%) .NET
1 22 (73.33%) SQL Server
1 22 (73.33%) ASP.NET
2 21 (70.00%) TDD
3 19 (63.33%) WCF
4 16 (53.33%) Kanban
5 14 (46.67%) MCTS
5 14 (46.67%) ASP.NET MVC
5 14 (46.67%) Castle Windsor
5 14 (46.67%) Rhino Mocks
5 14 (46.67%) Web Application Development
5 14 (46.67%) ASP.NET MVC 4
5 14 (46.67%) NUnit
5 14 (46.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (46.67%) MVC
5 14 (46.67%) MCP
5 14 (46.67%) MCAD
5 14 (46.67%) MCSD
6 13 (43.33%) OO
7 12 (40.00%) Microsoft
7 12 (40.00%) SQL Server 2012
8 10 (33.33%) Selenium
9 8 (26.67%) Team Foundation Server
9 8 (26.67%) Windows
9 8 (26.67%) HTML
10 7 (23.33%) Java
10 7 (23.33%) JavaScript
10 7 (23.33%) CSS
10 7 (23.33%) Lucene

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 22 (73.33%) .NET
1 22 (73.33%) ASP.NET
2 19 (63.33%) WCF
3 14 (46.67%) ASP.NET MVC
3 14 (46.67%) Castle Windsor
3 14 (46.67%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 8 (26.67%) HTML
5 7 (23.33%) CSS
5 7 (23.33%) Lucene
5 7 (23.33%) WinForms
5 7 (23.33%) LINQ
5 7 (23.33%) NHibernate
5 7 (23.33%) WPF
5 7 (23.33%) Razor View Engine
5 7 (23.33%) Spring.NET
5 7 (23.33%) Unity DI Container
5 7 (23.33%) Ninject
6 5 (16.67%) WF
6 5 (16.67%) .NET Framework
6 5 (16.67%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 5 (16.67%) SharePoint
1 5 (16.67%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (3.333%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (3.333%) WebSphere MQ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (73.33%) SQL Server
2 12 (40.00%) SQL Server 2012
3 5 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (6.667%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.333%) RDBMS
5 1 (3.333%) DB2
Development Applications
1 14 (46.67%) Rhino Mocks
1 14 (46.67%) NUnit
2 10 (33.33%) Selenium
3 8 (26.67%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (23.33%) Moq
4 7 (23.33%) MSTest
4 7 (23.33%) Cucumber
5 6 (20.00%) Visual Studio
6 3 (10.00%) WebDriver
7 2 (6.667%) Jasmine
7 2 (6.667%) Eclipse
8 1 (3.333%) Jenkins
8 1 (3.333%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 7 (23.33%) Advertising
2 4 (13.33%) Finance
3 2 (6.667%) Automotive
4 1 (3.333%) Retail
4 1 (3.333%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 29 (96.67%) Developer
2 17 (56.67%) .NET Developer
3 5 (16.67%) Lead Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Technical Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Technical Leader
5 3 (10.00%) .NET Web Developer
5 3 (10.00%) ASP.NET Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Web Developer
6 2 (6.667%) JavaScript Developer
6 2 (6.667%) Senior JavaScript Developer
6 2 (6.667%) Analyst
6 2 (6.667%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.667%) Java Developer
6 2 (6.667%) SharePoint Developer
7 1 (3.333%) Blackberry Developer
7 1 (3.333%) Senior Analyst
7 1 (3.333%) Test Consultant
7 1 (3.333%) Java Programmer
7 1 (3.333%) Senior Test Analyst
7 1 (3.333%) Analyst Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) Inversion of Control
2 4 (13.33%) Mobile App
3 2 (6.667%) New Media
3 2 (6.667%) Blackberry
4 1 (3.333%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 8 (26.67%) Windows
2 4 (13.33%) Linux
3 2 (6.667%) UNIX
4 1 (3.333%) Apple iOS
4 1 (3.333%) BlackBerry OS
4 1 (3.333%) Windows Phone 7
4 1 (3.333%) Windows Phone
4 1 (3.333%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (70.00%) TDD
2 16 (53.33%) Kanban
3 14 (46.67%) Web Application Development
3 14 (46.67%) MVC
4 13 (43.33%) OO
5 7 (23.33%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (23.33%) Scrum-ban
5 7 (23.33%) Dependency Injection
5 7 (23.33%) MVVM
5 7 (23.33%) BDD
6 6 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
7 5 (16.67%) Workflow
8 2 (6.667%) Unit Testing
8 2 (6.667%) UML
9 1 (3.333%) E-Commerce
9 1 (3.333%) OOP
9 1 (3.333%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 22 (73.33%) C#
2 7 (23.33%) Java
2 7 (23.33%) JavaScript
3 6 (20.00%) VB.NET
4 3 (10.00%) PHP
4 3 (10.00%) VB
5 2 (6.667%) C++
5 2 (6.667%) Python
6 1 (3.333%) C
6 1 (3.333%) Ruby
6 1 (3.333%) XAML
6 1 (3.333%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (46.67%) MCTS
1 14 (46.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 14 (46.67%) MCP
1 14 (46.67%) MCAD
1 14 (46.67%) MCSD
2 1 (3.333%) ISEB
2 1 (3.333%) ISTQB
2 1 (3.333%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.333%) QA
Vendors
1 12 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) TippingPoint
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