The first table below looks at the demand for Scrum skills in IT jobs advertised for the Slough region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Scrum over the 3 months to 20 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 Slough region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Scrum
Rank 22 37 50
Rank change year-on-year
+15 +13
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 57 31 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Slough 8.273% 4.613% 0.638%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.34% 6.769% 0.804%
Number of salaries quoted 40 31 3
Average salary £53,750 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+34.37% -
90% offered a salary of more than £44,650 £38,500 £38,000
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £62,500 £48,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £40,750
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +4.29%
All Processes & Methodologies
Slough
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
551 458 373
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Slough 79.97% 68.15% 79.36%
Number of salaries quoted 460 343 301
Average salary £50,000 £45,000 £43,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% +2.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £31,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Scrum
Berkshire

Scrum
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Slough 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 Slough region.

Slough Scrum Salary Trend

Scrum
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Scrum across the Slough region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Slough Scrum Salary Histogram

Scrum
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Slough 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 43 (57.33%) E-Commerce
2 31 (41.33%) Agile Software Development
3 28 (37.33%) User Stories
4 27 (36.00%) Telecoms
5 25 (33.33%) TDD
6 23 (30.67%) OOD
6 23 (30.67%) Mobile App
6 23 (30.67%) Mobile Application Development
7 22 (29.33%) Degree
8 21 (28.00%) Business Analysis
8 21 (28.00%) JavaScript
9 18 (24.00%) SQL
9 18 (24.00%) Java
10 17 (22.67%) REST
10 17 (22.67%) SOA
11 16 (21.33%) MySQL
11 16 (21.33%) Linux
11 16 (21.33%) PHP
11 16 (21.33%) Apache
12 15 (20.00%) Cognizant
12 15 (20.00%) Visualisation
12 15 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
12 15 (20.00%) Pair Programming
13 14 (18.67%) Finance
14 13 (17.33%) HTML
15 12 (16.00%) OO
16 11 (14.67%) Python
16 11 (14.67%) ASP.NET
16 11 (14.67%) C#
16 11 (14.67%) C++

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Slough 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 17 (22.67%) REST
2 13 (17.33%) HTML
3 11 (14.67%) .NET
3 11 (14.67%) ASP.NET
3 11 (14.67%) Ajax
4 10 (13.33%) CSS
5 8 (10.67%) Velocity
6 4 (5.333%) LAMP
7 3 (4.000%) JSON
8 2 (2.667%) Silverlight
8 2 (2.667%) jQuery
8 2 (2.667%) JSP
8 2 (2.667%) Servlets
8 2 (2.667%) J2EE
8 2 (2.667%) XML
8 2 (2.667%) XSLT
8 2 (2.667%) XHTML
9 1 (1.333%) Web Services
9 1 (1.333%) Zend Framework
Application Platforms
1 16 (21.33%) Apache
2 4 (5.333%) MS Exchange
2 4 (5.333%) Exchange Server 2007
2 4 (5.333%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (1.333%) IIS
3 1 (1.333%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (10.67%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.333%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.667%) TCP/IP
2 4 (5.333%) LDAP
3 1 (1.333%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (21.33%) MySQL
2 10 (13.33%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.667%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.333%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (1.333%) OLAP
4 1 (1.333%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.333%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.333%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 7 (9.333%) Subversion
2 5 (6.667%) Selenium
3 2 (2.667%) Visual Studio
General
1 27 (36.00%) Telecoms
2 14 (18.67%) Finance
3 4 (5.333%) Retail
4 3 (4.000%) Marketing
4 3 (4.000%) Advertising
4 3 (4.000%) Banking
5 1 (1.333%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 26 (34.67%) Analyst
2 21 (28.00%) Business Analyst
3 20 (26.67%) Developer
4 18 (24.00%) Agile Business Analyst
5 9 (12.00%) .NET Developer
6 8 (10.67%) Java Developer
6 8 (10.67%) ScrumMaster
7 6 (8.000%) Telecoms Business Analyst
8 5 (6.667%) QA Analyst
9 4 (5.333%) Administrator
9 4 (5.333%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 4 (5.333%) Linux Administrator
9 4 (5.333%) Software Developer
9 4 (5.333%) Systems Administrator
10 2 (2.667%) Software Engineer
10 2 (2.667%) Test Engineer
10 2 (2.667%) Software Test Engineer
10 2 (2.667%) Head of Development
11 1 (1.333%) Linux Engineer
11 1 (1.333%) Java Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 23 (30.67%) Mobile App
2 15 (20.00%) Visualisation
3 9 (12.00%) Wiki
4 7 (9.333%) FMCG
4 7 (9.333%) Open Source
5 6 (8.000%) Computer Science
6 3 (4.000%) Social Media
7 1 (1.333%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.333%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 16 (21.33%) Linux
2 2 (2.667%) SUSE
2 2 (2.667%) CentOS
3 1 (1.333%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.333%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (57.33%) E-Commerce
2 31 (41.33%) Agile Software Development
3 28 (37.33%) User Stories
4 25 (33.33%) TDD
5 23 (30.67%) OOD
5 23 (30.67%) Mobile Application Development
6 21 (28.00%) Business Analysis
7 17 (22.67%) SOA
8 15 (20.00%) Pair Programming
8 15 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
9 12 (16.00%) OO
10 11 (14.67%) Change Control
10 11 (14.67%) Data Protection
11 10 (13.33%) OOP
12 8 (10.67%) Unit Testing
12 8 (10.67%) Automated Testing
13 7 (9.333%) Project Management
14 5 (6.667%) Code Coverage
14 5 (6.667%) Configuration Management
14 5 (6.667%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (28.00%) JavaScript
2 18 (24.00%) Java
2 18 (24.00%) SQL
3 16 (21.33%) PHP
4 11 (14.67%) Perl
4 11 (14.67%) C#
4 11 (14.67%) C++
4 11 (14.67%) Python
4 11 (14.67%) Ruby
4 11 (14.67%) PHP5
5 1 (1.333%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (29.33%) Degree
2 5 (6.667%) ISEB
3 2 (2.667%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.333%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.67%) QA
System Software
1 4 (5.333%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.333%) Nagios
Vendors
1 15 (20.00%) Cognizant
2 9 (12.00%) Amdocs
3 5 (6.667%) Red Hat
3 5 (6.667%) Cisco
3 5 (6.667%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.000%) Oracle
5 2 (2.667%) Zend
6 1 (1.333%) SAP
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Posted: 13 May 2013