The first table below looks at the demand for Scrum skills in IT jobs advertised for the Somerset region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Scrum over the 3 months to 21 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 Somerset region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Scrum
Rank 29 35 33
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -2
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 37 24 23
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 5.772% 5.298% 4.946%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.327% 6.916% 7.566%
Number of salaries quoted 35 24 23
Average salary £35,000 £33,950 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.09% -9.46%
90% offered a salary of more than £19,500 £31,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £42,500 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +6.25%
All Processes & Methodologies
Somerset
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
505 347 304
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 78.78% 76.60% 65.38%
Number of salaries quoted 462 331 282
Average salary £37,500 £39,160 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.23% +4.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,400 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £62,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Scrum
South West

Scrum
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset Scrum Salary Trend

Scrum
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Scrum across the Somerset region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Somerset Scrum Salary Histogram

Scrum
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the Somerset region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Bridgwater - 23 £29,500 -
Bath +1 10 £44,500 +48.33%
Taunton -1 2 £44,250 +40.47%
Street +3 1 - -
Scrum
South West

Scrum
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 (71.15%) .NET
2 31 (59.62%) TDD
3 28 (53.85%) Agile Software Development
4 26 (50.00%) Degree
5 24 (46.15%) SQL
6 22 (42.31%) CSS
7 21 (40.38%) Web Services
7 21 (40.38%) HTML
8 20 (38.46%) C#
9 19 (36.54%) Java
9 19 (36.54%) Retail
9 19 (36.54%) Mathematics
9 19 (36.54%) Product Management
10 13 (25.00%) Java EE
11 9 (17.31%) ASP.NET
11 9 (17.31%) FitNesse
11 9 (17.31%) WCF
12 8 (15.38%) QA
12 8 (15.38%) Automated Testing
12 8 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
12 8 (15.38%) SQL Server
12 8 (15.38%) JUnit
13 7 (13.46%) IBM
13 7 (13.46%) LINQ
14 6 (11.54%) Software Testing
14 6 (11.54%) Test Automation
14 6 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
14 6 (11.54%) Telerik
14 6 (11.54%) WinForms
14 6 (11.54%) Rational Robot

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 37 (71.15%) .NET
2 22 (42.31%) CSS
3 21 (40.38%) Web Services
3 21 (40.38%) HTML
4 13 (25.00%) Java EE
5 9 (17.31%) ASP.NET
5 9 (17.31%) WCF
6 7 (13.46%) LINQ
7 6 (11.54%) WinForms
8 2 (3.846%) Spring
9 1 (1.923%) NHibernate
9 1 (1.923%) .NET Framework
9 1 (1.923%) WPF
9 1 (1.923%) HTML5
9 1 (1.923%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 1 (1.923%) Twitter Bootstrap
Application Platforms
1 1 (1.923%) CMS
1 1 (1.923%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (1.923%) Amazon S3
1 1 (1.923%) Windows Azure
1 1 (1.923%) Amazon AWS
1 1 (1.923%) nginx
1 1 (1.923%) CloudFront
1 1 (1.923%) Orchard CMS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.923%) Intranet
1 1 (1.923%) Internet
1 1 (1.923%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.846%) MySQL
3 1 (1.923%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 9 (17.31%) FitNesse
2 8 (15.38%) JUnit
3 6 (11.54%) Rational Robot
4 3 (5.769%) Selenium
5 1 (1.923%) Subversion
5 1 (1.923%) NUnit
5 1 (1.923%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.923%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.923%) Moq
General
1 19 (36.54%) Retail
2 3 (5.769%) Back Office
3 2 (3.846%) Games
4 1 (1.923%) Finance
Job Titles
1 29 (55.77%) Developer
2 20 (38.46%) Software Developer
3 19 (36.54%) .NET Developer
3 19 (36.54%) Agile .NET Developer
4 13 (25.00%) .NET Software Developer
4 13 (25.00%) ScrumMaster
4 13 (25.00%) Java Software Developer
4 13 (25.00%) Java Developer
5 9 (17.31%) Senior Developer
6 7 (13.46%) Team Leader
7 6 (11.54%) .NET Team Leader
7 6 (11.54%) Trainee
7 6 (11.54%) Senior .NET Developer
8 5 (9.615%) Graduate
8 5 (9.615%) QA Manager
8 5 (9.615%) Test Manager
8 5 (9.615%) Software Engineer
8 5 (9.615%) Graduate Developer
8 5 (9.615%) Graduate Software Developer
8 5 (9.615%) Trainee Developer
Miscellaneous
1 19 (36.54%) Mathematics
2 5 (9.615%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.923%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.923%) Computer Science
3 1 (1.923%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (1.923%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.923%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (59.62%) TDD
2 28 (53.85%) Agile Software Development
3 19 (36.54%) Product Management
4 8 (15.38%) Automated Testing
4 8 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (11.54%) Software Testing
5 6 (11.54%) Test Automation
5 6 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (7.692%) Project Management
7 3 (5.769%) OOD
7 3 (5.769%) OOP
7 3 (5.769%) PRINCE2
7 3 (5.769%) User Stories
7 3 (5.769%) Investment Management
7 3 (5.769%) Waterfall
8 2 (3.846%) Kanban
8 2 (3.846%) MVC
8 2 (3.846%) OO
9 1 (1.923%) UML
9 1 (1.923%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (46.15%) SQL
2 20 (38.46%) C#
3 19 (36.54%) Java
4 2 (3.846%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.923%) C++
5 1 (1.923%) Delphi
5 1 (1.923%) Perl
Qualifications
1 26 (50.00%) Degree
2 6 (11.54%) ISEB
3 2 (3.846%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.38%) QA
2 3 (5.769%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 7 (13.46%) IBM
2 6 (11.54%) Telerik
3 2 (3.846%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.923%) Oracle
4 1 (1.923%) Twitter
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