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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Scrum
Rank 20 39 34
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -5
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 6 2 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the Midlands 2.844% 0.615% 1.020%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.797% 1.058% 1.695%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 3
Average salary £45,000 £67,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-33.33% +58.82%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £63,500 £36,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,750 £71,500 £58,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,500 £42,500 £41,500
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +2.40%
All Processes & Methodologies
Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
158 189 177
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the Midlands 74.88% 58.15% 60.20%
Number of salaries quoted 108 147 134
Average salary £58,500 £45,000 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+30.00% -18.18%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £32,500 £40,000
10% offered a salary of more than £77,500 £85,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Scrum
England

Scrum
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Midlands 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 Midlands region.

Midlands Scrum Salary Trend

Scrum
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Scrum across the Midlands region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Midlands Scrum Salary Histogram

Scrum
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Midlands 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 (72.73%) Java
2 6 (54.55%) Windows
2 6 (54.55%) Linux
3 5 (45.45%) SQL
3 5 (45.45%) XML
4 4 (36.36%) XSLT
4 4 (36.36%) UNIX
4 4 (36.36%) Ant
4 4 (36.36%) JDBC
4 4 (36.36%) SOAP
4 4 (36.36%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (36.36%) Maven
4 4 (36.36%) iSeries
5 3 (27.27%) Waterfall
5 3 (27.27%) Finance
5 3 (27.27%) .NET
5 3 (27.27%) C#
5 3 (27.27%) Oracle
6 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
6 2 (18.18%) MySQL
6 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET
6 2 (18.18%) Internet
6 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
6 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (18.18%) Requirements Management
6 2 (18.18%) Velocity
6 2 (18.18%) Degree
6 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
6 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (9.091%) Kanban

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Midlands 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 5 (45.45%) XML
2 4 (36.36%) XSLT
2 4 (36.36%) JDBC
2 4 (36.36%) SOAP
3 3 (27.27%) .NET
4 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET
4 2 (18.18%) Velocity
5 1 (9.091%) Grails
5 1 (9.091%) WebSphere
5 1 (9.091%) Spring
5 1 (9.091%) Hibernate
5 1 (9.091%) WSDL
5 1 (9.091%) XML Schema
5 1 (9.091%) JAXB
5 1 (9.091%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
2 1 (9.091%) GlassFish
2 1 (9.091%) CICS
2 1 (9.091%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
1 2 (18.18%) MySQL
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Ant
1 4 (36.36%) Maven
2 1 (9.091%) JUnit
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 1 (9.091%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Software Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Software Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Java Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Support Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Team Leader
3 2 (18.18%) Requirements Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Software Programmer
4 1 (9.091%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Project Manager
4 1 (9.091%) Programme Manager
4 1 (9.091%) Applications Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) iSeries
2 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
3 1 (9.091%) Mobile App
3 1 (9.091%) W3C
3 1 (9.091%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Windows
1 6 (54.55%) Linux
2 4 (36.36%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (27.27%) Waterfall
3 2 (18.18%) Requirements Management
4 1 (9.091%) Kanban
4 1 (9.091%) Unit Testing
4 1 (9.091%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (9.091%) Business Transformation
4 1 (9.091%) User Stories
4 1 (9.091%) Feature Driven Development
4 1 (9.091%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (9.091%) TDD
4 1 (9.091%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (9.091%) E-Commerce
4 1 (9.091%) ETL
4 1 (9.091%) Project Management
4 1 (9.091%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Java
2 5 (45.45%) SQL
3 3 (27.27%) C#
4 1 (9.091%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
2 1 (9.091%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle