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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Scrum
Rank 56 35 31
Rank change year-on-year
-21 -4
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 31 27 48
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 3.001% 4.259% 6.000%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.150% 6.207% 8.664%
Number of salaries quoted 31 27 45
Average salary £50,000 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £35,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £61,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £41,500
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +2.40%
All Processes & Methodologies
Oxford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
747 435 554
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 72.31% 68.61% 69.25%
Number of salaries quoted 631 386 499
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £44,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% -9.09%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,000 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £62,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Scrum
Oxfordshire

Scrum
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford Scrum Salary Trend

Scrum
Salary Histogram

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

Oxford Scrum Salary Histogram

Scrum
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 37 (49.33%) SQL
2 36 (48.00%) Java
3 33 (44.00%) TDD
4 31 (41.33%) MySQL
5 28 (37.33%) .NET
5 28 (37.33%) Hibernate
5 28 (37.33%) Spring
6 25 (33.33%) C#
7 24 (32.00%) Python
7 24 (32.00%) Java EE
8 22 (29.33%) Tomcat
9 21 (28.00%) PostgreSQL
9 21 (28.00%) Apache Solr
10 20 (26.67%) Open Source
10 20 (26.67%) NoSQL
10 20 (26.67%) Lucene
10 20 (26.67%) RDBMS
10 20 (26.67%) J2EE
10 20 (26.67%) SQL Server
11 15 (20.00%) ASP.NET
11 15 (20.00%) Performance Management
12 14 (18.67%) Agile Software Development
12 14 (18.67%) Web Services
13 13 (17.33%) Oracle
14 11 (14.67%) Publishing
14 11 (14.67%) XML
14 11 (14.67%) Microsoft
15 10 (13.33%) DB2
15 10 (13.33%) JavaScript
15 10 (13.33%) Degree

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 28 (37.33%) .NET
1 28 (37.33%) Hibernate
1 28 (37.33%) Spring
2 24 (32.00%) Java EE
3 20 (26.67%) Lucene
3 20 (26.67%) J2EE
4 15 (20.00%) ASP.NET
5 14 (18.67%) Web Services
6 11 (14.67%) XML
7 9 (12.00%) CSS
8 8 (10.67%) HTML
9 7 (9.333%) WCF
10 6 (8.000%) JSON
10 6 (8.000%) XML Schema
10 6 (8.000%) RESTful
11 5 (6.667%) Ajax
12 4 (5.333%) jQuery
12 4 (5.333%) HTML5
13 3 (4.000%) XSLT
14 2 (2.667%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
Application Platforms
1 22 (29.33%) Tomcat
2 21 (28.00%) Apache Solr
3 6 (8.000%) Amazon EMR
3 6 (8.000%) Amazon SQS
3 6 (8.000%) Amazon AWS
4 4 (5.333%) SharePoint
5 3 (4.000%) CMS
5 3 (4.000%) SharePoint Server
6 2 (2.667%) Umbraco
6 2 (2.667%) Windows Azure
7 1 (1.333%) nginx
7 1 (1.333%) IIS
7 1 (1.333%) Apache
Applications
1 9 (12.00%) MS Excel
2 3 (4.000%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 5 (6.667%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.667%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.333%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (41.33%) MySQL
2 21 (28.00%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (26.67%) NoSQL
3 20 (26.67%) RDBMS
3 20 (26.67%) SQL Server
4 10 (13.33%) DB2
5 7 (9.333%) MongoDB
6 6 (8.000%) Amazon DynamoDB
6 6 (8.000%) Hadoop
7 5 (6.667%) SQL Server 2008
8 4 (5.333%) SQL Server 2005
9 2 (2.667%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (2.667%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (8.000%) Eclipse
2 2 (2.667%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.333%) Ant
3 1 (1.333%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 11 (14.67%) Publishing
2 7 (9.333%) Finance
3 6 (8.000%) Billing
3 6 (8.000%) Local Government
4 1 (1.333%) Front Office
4 1 (1.333%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 62 (82.67%) Developer
2 27 (36.00%) Java Developer
3 21 (28.00%) Analyst
4 20 (26.67%) J2EE Developer
4 20 (26.67%) Java Programmer
4 20 (26.67%) Java Analyst Programmer
4 20 (26.67%) Developer Analyst
4 20 (26.67%) Java/J2EE Developer
4 20 (26.67%) J2EE Analyst Programmer
4 20 (26.67%) Analyst Programmer
4 20 (26.67%) Programmer
5 15 (20.00%) .NET Developer
6 13 (17.33%) C# Developer
7 8 (10.67%) Project Manager
8 7 (9.333%) C# .NET Developer
8 7 (9.333%) Software Developer
8 7 (9.333%) Software Engineer
9 6 (8.000%) Senior Project Manager
9 6 (8.000%) Senior Manager
10 5 (6.667%) C# ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 20 (26.67%) Open Source
2 9 (12.00%) NHS
3 6 (8.000%) Computer Science
3 6 (8.000%) Taxonomies
3 6 (8.000%) Ontologies
4 3 (4.000%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.333%) Visualisation
5 1 (1.333%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.333%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.333%) Blog
5 1 (1.333%) Informatics
5 1 (1.333%) Biotechnology
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.000%) UNIX
1 6 (8.000%) Windows
2 4 (5.333%) Linux
3 1 (1.333%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.333%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (44.00%) TDD
2 15 (20.00%) Performance Management
3 14 (18.67%) Agile Software Development
4 8 (10.67%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (9.333%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (9.333%) OOP
5 7 (9.333%) Refactoring
6 6 (8.000%) RDF
6 6 (8.000%) CRM
6 6 (8.000%) Business Transformation
7 5 (6.667%) Project Management
8 3 (4.000%) Software Architecture
8 3 (4.000%) MVC
8 3 (4.000%) Content Management
8 3 (4.000%) Web Development
9 2 (2.667%) Supply Chain Management
9 2 (2.667%) Workflow
9 2 (2.667%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (2.667%) Six Sigma
9 2 (2.667%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 37 (49.33%) SQL
2 36 (48.00%) Java
3 25 (33.33%) C#
4 24 (32.00%) Python
5 10 (13.33%) JavaScript
6 9 (12.00%) PHP
6 9 (12.00%) C++
7 6 (8.000%) C
8 2 (2.667%) VB6
8 2 (2.667%) VB
8 2 (2.667%) Bash shell
9 1 (1.333%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.333%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (13.33%) Degree
2 2 (2.667%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.333%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.000%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (8.000%) PCI DSS
1 6 (8.000%) Dublin Core
2 2 (2.667%) QA
Vendors
1 13 (17.33%) Oracle
2 11 (14.67%) Microsoft
3 9 (12.00%) SAP
3 9 (12.00%) Lotus
4 1 (1.333%) Sencha
4 1 (1.333%) Compuware
4 1 (1.333%) HP
4 1 (1.333%) IBM
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