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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Scrum
Rank 30 31 28
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -3
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 9 7 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Portsmouth 4.186% 3.465% 5.742%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.625% 4.575% 8.633%
Number of salaries quoted 9 7 12
Average salary £44,000 £42,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.52% +13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £39,000 £37,100 £33,592
10% offered a salary of more than £45,300 £60,500 £54,150
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £41,500
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +2.40%
All Processes & Methodologies
Portsmouth
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
160 153 139
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Portsmouth 74.42% 75.74% 66.51%
Number of salaries quoted 146 138 132
Average salary £42,500 £37,500 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.33% +19.04%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £27,000 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £47,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Scrum
Hampshire

Scrum
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth region.

Portsmouth Scrum Salary Trend

Scrum
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Portsmouth 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 24 (85.71%) C#
2 19 (67.86%) Java
2 19 (67.86%) Linux
3 18 (64.29%) Python
4 15 (53.57%) .NET
4 15 (53.57%) OO
5 14 (50.00%) MVC
5 14 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
6 12 (42.86%) SQL Server
6 12 (42.86%) Visual Studio
7 11 (39.29%) ASP.NET
7 11 (39.29%) E-Commerce
8 10 (35.71%) MySQL
8 10 (35.71%) VB.NET
8 10 (35.71%) Ruby
8 10 (35.71%) NHibernate
8 10 (35.71%) Open Source
9 9 (32.14%) GWT
9 9 (32.14%) HTML5
9 9 (32.14%) Degree
9 9 (32.14%) Computer Science
9 9 (32.14%) Web Development
9 9 (32.14%) Software Engineering
9 9 (32.14%) Electronics
9 9 (32.14%) C
9 9 (32.14%) C++
9 9 (32.14%) JavaScript
9 9 (32.14%) CSS
9 9 (32.14%) UNIX
9 9 (32.14%) Windows

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Portsmouth 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 15 (53.57%) .NET
2 11 (39.29%) ASP.NET
3 10 (35.71%) NHibernate
4 9 (32.14%) GWT
4 9 (32.14%) HTML5
4 9 (32.14%) CSS
5 6 (21.43%) Ajax
6 5 (17.86%) WCF
6 5 (17.86%) LINQ
6 5 (17.86%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 5 (17.86%) REST
6 5 (17.86%) .NET Framework
6 5 (17.86%) SOAP
6 5 (17.86%) Web Services
6 5 (17.86%) XML
7 3 (10.71%) ASP.NET MVC 3
7 3 (10.71%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (10.71%) XSD
7 3 (10.71%) XSLT
Applications
1 3 (10.71%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 10 (35.71%) MySQL
3 6 (21.43%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.571%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (42.86%) Visual Studio
2 3 (10.71%) JIRA
2 3 (10.71%) ReSharper
2 3 (10.71%) Selenium
2 3 (10.71%) Cucumber
2 3 (10.71%) WebDriver
2 3 (10.71%) Bugzilla
3 1 (3.571%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 9 (32.14%) Electronics
2 2 (7.143%) Retail
2 2 (7.143%) Finance
3 1 (3.571%) Games
Job Titles
1 12 (42.86%) Software Engineer
2 10 (35.71%) Developer
3 8 (28.57%) .NET Developer
3 8 (28.57%) C# Developer
3 8 (28.57%) ASP.NET Developer
3 8 (28.57%) C# .NET Developer
3 8 (28.57%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 6 (21.43%) Senior Developer
5 4 (14.29%) Project Manager
5 4 (14.29%) Senior C# Developer
5 4 (14.29%) Senior .NET Developer
5 4 (14.29%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
6 3 (10.71%) QA Engineer
6 3 (10.71%) Team Leader
6 3 (10.71%) .NET Team Leader
7 2 (7.143%) Web Project Manager
7 2 (7.143%) Web Manager
7 2 (7.143%) Product Manager
8 1 (3.571%) Agile Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 10 (35.71%) Open Source
2 9 (32.14%) Computer Science
3 7 (25.00%) Web 2.0
4 6 (21.43%) Social Network
5 2 (7.143%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 19 (67.86%) Linux
2 9 (32.14%) UNIX
2 9 (32.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (53.57%) OO
2 14 (50.00%) MVC
2 14 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 11 (39.29%) E-Commerce
4 9 (32.14%) Web Development
4 9 (32.14%) Software Engineering
5 7 (25.00%) ERP
6 6 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (14.29%) Project Management
8 3 (10.71%) Refactoring
8 3 (10.71%) Performance Testing
8 3 (10.71%) Test Management
8 3 (10.71%) Test Scripting
8 3 (10.71%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (10.71%) Web Application Development
8 3 (10.71%) BDD
8 3 (10.71%) Software Testing
8 3 (10.71%) TDD
8 3 (10.71%) Pair Programming
8 3 (10.71%) UML
Programming Languages
1 24 (85.71%) C#
2 19 (67.86%) Java
3 18 (64.29%) Python
4 10 (35.71%) VB.NET
4 10 (35.71%) Ruby
5 9 (32.14%) C
5 9 (32.14%) C++
5 9 (32.14%) JavaScript
6 3 (10.71%) XPath
6 3 (10.71%) Perl
6 3 (10.71%) PHP
Qualifications
1 9 (32.14%) Degree
2 2 (7.143%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (7.143%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (3.571%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (25.00%) Oracle
2 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
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