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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Scrum
Rank 19 23 6
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -17
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 26 23 46
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Luton 7.027% 6.133% 17.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.581% 10.55% 20.18%
Number of salaries quoted 25 20 41
Average salary £55,000 £52,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.76% +31.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £34,750 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £60,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £41,500
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +2.40%
All Processes & Methodologies
Luton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
303 218 228
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Luton 81.89% 58.13% 88.72%
Number of salaries quoted 266 180 194
Average salary £47,500 £47,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +11.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,250 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £57,500 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Scrum
Bedfordshire

Scrum
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Luton 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 Luton region.

Luton Scrum Salary Trend

Scrum
Salary Histogram

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

Luton Scrum Salary Histogram

Scrum
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Luton 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 48 (57.14%) .NET
2 46 (54.76%) ASP.NET
3 44 (52.38%) C#
4 41 (48.81%) MVC
5 37 (44.05%) E-Commerce
6 33 (39.29%) Web Development
7 30 (35.71%) HTML
8 27 (32.14%) PRINCE2
8 27 (32.14%) TDD
8 27 (32.14%) Refactoring
9 24 (28.57%) BDD
10 23 (27.38%) JavaScript
11 22 (26.19%) SQL Server
12 16 (19.05%) TOGAF
13 15 (17.86%) SOA
14 14 (16.67%) Windows
15 13 (15.48%) BPMN
16 12 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
16 12 (14.29%) Web Services
17 11 (13.10%) SQL
17 11 (13.10%) Dependency Injection
17 11 (13.10%) Inversion of Control
17 11 (13.10%) NHibernate
18 10 (11.90%) Visual Studio
19 9 (10.71%) Microsoft
19 9 (10.71%) Retail
19 9 (10.71%) Windows Azure
20 8 (9.524%) Agile Software Development
21 7 (8.333%) Enterprise Architecture
21 7 (8.333%) QA

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Luton 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 48 (57.14%) .NET
2 46 (54.76%) ASP.NET
3 30 (35.71%) HTML
4 12 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
4 12 (14.29%) Web Services
5 11 (13.10%) NHibernate
6 6 (7.143%) WinForms
7 2 (2.381%) .NET Framework
8 1 (1.190%) XML
8 1 (1.190%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 9 (10.71%) Windows Azure
2 5 (5.952%) SharePoint
2 5 (5.952%) BizTalk Server
3 3 (3.571%) CMS
4 2 (2.381%) ESB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (26.19%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.952%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.190%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (1.190%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 10 (11.90%) Visual Studio
2 6 (7.143%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (3.571%) Selenium
4 1 (1.190%) NUnit
General
1 9 (10.71%) Retail
2 3 (3.571%) Investment Banking
2 3 (3.571%) Games
2 3 (3.571%) Finance
2 3 (3.571%) Manufacturing
2 3 (3.571%) Banking
3 1 (1.190%) Advertising
3 1 (1.190%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 38 (45.24%) Developer
2 34 (40.48%) Architect
3 27 (32.14%) .NET Developer
4 18 (21.43%) C# Developer
5 14 (16.67%) Infrastructure Architect
6 13 (15.48%) Enterprise Architect
7 9 (10.71%) C# .NET Developer
8 7 (8.333%) ASP.NET Developer
8 7 (8.333%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (8.333%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 5 (5.952%) Analyst
10 4 (4.762%) Agile .NET Developer
10 4 (4.762%) Agile C# Developer
11 3 (3.571%) Software Test Analyst
11 3 (3.571%) Tester
11 3 (3.571%) Test Manager
11 3 (3.571%) Test Analyst
11 3 (3.571%) Senior Developer
11 3 (3.571%) QA Tester
12 2 (2.381%) .NET Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.10%) Inversion of Control
2 3 (3.571%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.190%) Mathematics
3 1 (1.190%) Computer Science
3 1 (1.190%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 14 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (48.81%) MVC
2 37 (44.05%) E-Commerce
3 33 (39.29%) Web Development
4 27 (32.14%) PRINCE2
4 27 (32.14%) TDD
4 27 (32.14%) Refactoring
5 24 (28.57%) BDD
6 16 (19.05%) TOGAF
7 15 (17.86%) SOA
8 13 (15.48%) BPMN
9 11 (13.10%) Dependency Injection
10 8 (9.524%) Agile Software Development
11 7 (8.333%) Enterprise Architecture
12 6 (7.143%) Service Delivery
13 5 (5.952%) ETL
13 5 (5.952%) Unit Testing
14 3 (3.571%) Continuous Improvement
14 3 (3.571%) Test Strategy
14 3 (3.571%) Test Automation
14 3 (3.571%) Agile Testing
Programming Languages
1 44 (52.38%) C#
2 23 (27.38%) JavaScript
3 11 (13.10%) SQL
4 1 (1.190%) C
4 1 (1.190%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (1.190%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.333%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (3.571%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 9 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.571%) HP
3 2 (2.381%) Informatica
3 2 (2.381%) TIBCO
3 2 (2.381%) Oracle
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