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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Scrum
Rank 45 39 47
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +8
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 15 47 20
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 3.247% 6.912% 4.425%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.947% 9.289% 6.309%
Number of salaries quoted 10 39 17
Average salary £30,000 £45,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-33.33% +20.00%
UK excluding London average salary £40,500 £42,500 £41,500
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +2.40%
All Processes & Methodologies
Merseyside
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
380 506 317
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 82.25% 74.41% 70.13%
Number of salaries quoted 319 448 257
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £29,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
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 Merseyside region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside 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 Merseyside 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
Liverpool -2 14 £30,000 -25.00%
Scrum
North West

Scrum
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 32 (56.14%) TDD
2 30 (52.63%) Java
3 25 (43.86%) .NET
4 22 (38.60%) SQL Server
5 21 (36.84%) C#
6 20 (35.09%) Oracle
7 18 (31.58%) jQuery
8 17 (29.82%) Agile Software Development
9 16 (28.07%) Degree
10 15 (26.32%) ASP.NET
11 14 (24.56%) SQL
11 14 (24.56%) QA
12 13 (22.81%) WCF
12 13 (22.81%) Continuous Integration
12 13 (22.81%) JavaScript
12 13 (22.81%) MVC
13 12 (21.05%) HTML
13 12 (21.05%) J2EE
13 12 (21.05%) Windows
13 12 (21.05%) Mobile App
14 11 (19.30%) UNIX
14 11 (19.30%) Spring
15 10 (17.54%) Retail
15 10 (17.54%) Apache
15 10 (17.54%) E-Commerce
15 10 (17.54%) JIRA
16 9 (15.79%) EJB 3.0
16 9 (15.79%) Use Case
16 9 (15.79%) Open Source
16 9 (15.79%) BDD

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 25 (43.86%) .NET
2 18 (31.58%) jQuery
3 15 (26.32%) ASP.NET
4 13 (22.81%) WCF
5 12 (21.05%) HTML
5 12 (21.05%) J2EE
6 11 (19.30%) Spring
7 9 (15.79%) EJB 3.0
7 9 (15.79%) Swing
7 9 (15.79%) EJB
7 9 (15.79%) LAMP
7 9 (15.79%) Hibernate
8 8 (14.04%) .NET Framework
8 8 (14.04%) CSS
9 7 (12.28%) ASP.NET MVC
10 6 (10.53%) Web Services
10 6 (10.53%) WPF
11 5 (8.772%) Castle Windsor
11 5 (8.772%) Ninject
11 5 (8.772%) Spring.NET
Application Platforms
1 10 (17.54%) Apache
2 2 (3.509%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (3.509%) SharePoint Server
2 2 (3.509%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.509%) Tomcat
2 2 (3.509%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (1.754%) Orchard CMS
3 1 (1.754%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (7.018%) MS Excel
2 2 (3.509%) InfoPath
2 2 (3.509%) MS Office
3 1 (1.754%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.754%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (38.60%) SQL Server
2 9 (15.79%) Oracle 10g
3 7 (12.28%) SQL Server 2008
4 6 (10.53%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (7.018%) MySQL
6 2 (3.509%) SQL Server 2005
6 2 (3.509%) SQLite
7 1 (1.754%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (17.54%) JIRA
2 8 (14.04%) NUnit
3 7 (12.28%) MSTest
4 6 (10.53%) Subversion
4 6 (10.53%) JMeter
4 6 (10.53%) Jenkins
4 6 (10.53%) Behat
4 6 (10.53%) WebDriver
4 6 (10.53%) Moq
4 6 (10.53%) Hudson
4 6 (10.53%) Cucumber
4 6 (10.53%) Selenium
4 6 (10.53%) FitNesse
5 5 (8.772%) Rhino Mocks
6 3 (5.263%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (3.509%) Maven
7 2 (3.509%) CruiseControl
7 2 (3.509%) Xcode
7 2 (3.509%) Eclipse
7 2 (3.509%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (17.54%) Retail
2 7 (12.28%) Finance
3 3 (5.263%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.509%) Law
4 2 (3.509%) Legal
5 1 (1.754%) Back Office
5 1 (1.754%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 36 (63.16%) Developer
2 15 (26.32%) .NET Developer
3 12 (21.05%) Java Developer
3 12 (21.05%) Software Developer
4 10 (17.54%) Senior Developer
4 10 (17.54%) C# Developer
4 10 (17.54%) Software Manager
5 9 (15.79%) Java/J2EE Developer
5 9 (15.79%) Java Software Developer
6 7 (12.28%) C# .NET Developer
6 7 (12.28%) Quality Manager
6 7 (12.28%) QA Manager
7 6 (10.53%) Software Engineer
8 5 (8.772%) Senior Java Software Developer
8 5 (8.772%) Senior Java Developer
8 5 (8.772%) Senior Software Developer
9 4 (7.018%) Senior Java/J2EE Developer
9 4 (7.018%) Senior C# Developer
9 4 (7.018%) Development Manager
10 3 (5.263%) C# ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.05%) Mobile App
2 9 (15.79%) Open Source
3 7 (12.28%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (8.772%) Computer Science
4 5 (8.772%) Inversion of Control
5 3 (5.263%) PMI
6 1 (1.754%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 12 (21.05%) Windows
2 11 (19.30%) UNIX
3 4 (7.018%) Linux
4 3 (5.263%) Windows Mobile
5 1 (1.754%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (56.14%) TDD
2 17 (29.82%) Agile Software Development
3 13 (22.81%) Continuous Integration
3 13 (22.81%) MVC
4 10 (17.54%) E-Commerce
5 9 (15.79%) Use Case
5 9 (15.79%) BDD
5 9 (15.79%) Web Development
6 8 (14.04%) Unit Testing
6 8 (14.04%) Kanban
7 7 (12.28%) Manual Testing
7 7 (12.28%) System Testing
7 7 (12.28%) Test Scripting
7 7 (12.28%) Resource Management
7 7 (12.28%) Software Testing
8 6 (10.53%) Automated Testing
8 6 (10.53%) Regression Testing
8 6 (10.53%) User Stories
8 6 (10.53%) Test Automation
8 6 (10.53%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 30 (52.63%) Java
2 21 (36.84%) C#
3 14 (24.56%) SQL
4 13 (22.81%) JavaScript
5 8 (14.04%) PHP
6 7 (12.28%) T-SQL
7 3 (5.263%) Ruby
8 2 (3.509%) Objective-C
8 2 (3.509%) VB.NET
8 2 (3.509%) PL/SQL
8 2 (3.509%) C
9 1 (1.754%) C++
Qualifications
1 16 (28.07%) Degree
2 9 (15.79%) HND
3 7 (12.28%) ISEB
4 6 (10.53%) ISTQB
5 5 (8.772%) MCP
5 5 (8.772%) MCAD
5 5 (8.772%) MCSD
5 5 (8.772%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (8.772%) MCTS
6 3 (5.263%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (24.56%) QA
Vendors
1 20 (35.09%) Oracle
2 7 (12.28%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.754%) Zend
3 1 (1.754%) Apple
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