The first table below looks at the demand for Scrum skills in IT jobs advertised for the Runcorn region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Scrum over the 3 months to 23 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 Runcorn region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Scrum
Rank 7 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 6 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Runcorn 27.27% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 28.57% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
Average salary £35,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £41,500
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +2.40%
All Processes & Methodologies
Runcorn
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
21 40 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Runcorn 95.45% 81.63% 60.00%
Number of salaries quoted 18 36 14
Average salary £29,500 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-34.44% +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 £30,000 £29,550
10% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £65,000 £53,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Scrum
Cheshire

Scrum
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Runcorn 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 Runcorn region.

Runcorn Scrum Salary Trend

Scrum
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Runcorn 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 9 (100.00%) C++
1 9 (100.00%) Mathematics
2 7 (77.78%) Microsoft
3 5 (55.56%) COM
3 5 (55.56%) Degree
4 4 (44.44%) Visual Studio
4 4 (44.44%) C#
4 4 (44.44%) Games
4 4 (44.44%) Perforce
4 4 (44.44%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (44.44%) TDD
4 4 (44.44%) Software Engineering
5 3 (33.33%) .NET
5 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (33.33%) Assembly Language
5 3 (33.33%) CAD
5 3 (33.33%) Windows
5 3 (33.33%) Resource Management
6 2 (22.22%) Twitter
6 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
7 1 (11.11%) Game Development
7 1 (11.11%) Lua
7 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (11.11%) Maya
7 1 (11.11%) Python
7 1 (11.11%) Client/Server
7 1 (11.11%) HTML
7 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
7 1 (11.11%) PHP

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Runcorn 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 (55.56%) COM
2 3 (33.33%) .NET
3 1 (11.11%) HTML
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Maya
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (44.44%) Games
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Programmer
2 4 (44.44%) C++ Programmer
3 3 (33.33%) Games Programmer
3 3 (33.33%) Software Developer
3 3 (33.33%) C++ Games Programmer
4 2 (22.22%) Junior
4 2 (22.22%) C++ Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Junior Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Junior C++ Developer
5 1 (11.11%) C# Programmer
5 1 (11.11%) Tools Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (100.00%) Mathematics
2 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
3 1 (11.11%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (44.44%) TDD
1 4 (44.44%) Software Engineering
2 3 (33.33%) CAD
2 3 (33.33%) Resource Management
3 1 (11.11%) Game Development
3 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) C++
2 4 (44.44%) C#
3 3 (33.33%) Assembly Language
4 1 (11.11%) Lua
4 1 (11.11%) Python
4 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 1 (11.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Degree
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 4 (44.44%) Perforce
3 2 (22.22%) Twitter