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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Scrum
Rank 31 62 37
Rank change year-on-year
+31 -25
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 68 30 53
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Wales 6.596% 3.064% 5.748%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.497% 4.255% 7.507%
Number of salaries quoted 58 28 50
Average salary £38,750 £33,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.42% -26.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,100 £25,500 £34,650
10% offered a salary of more than £46,300 £50,800 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £41,500
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +2.40%
All Processes & Methodologies
South Wales
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
716 705 706
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Wales 69.45% 72.01% 76.57%
Number of salaries quoted 642 638 665
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -2.77%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £26,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Scrum
Wales

Scrum
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Wales 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 South Wales region.

South Wales Scrum Salary Trend

Scrum
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Scrum across the South Wales region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

South Wales 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 South Wales region over the 3 months to 23 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
Cardiff +10 53 £38,750 +29.16%
Bridgend - 4 £32,500 -
Newport -4 2 £40,000 +40.35%
Monmouthshire - 1 £55,000 -
Torfaen - 1 - -
Scrum
Wales

Scrum
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the South Wales 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 77 (49.68%) .NET
2 75 (48.39%) C#
3 54 (34.84%) Microsoft
4 52 (33.55%) .NET Framework
5 51 (32.90%) Java
6 50 (32.26%) SQL Server
6 50 (32.26%) ASP.NET
7 45 (29.03%) OO
8 39 (25.16%) Web Development
9 38 (24.52%) XML
10 37 (23.87%) Agile Software Development
11 35 (22.58%) Visual Studio
11 35 (22.58%) HTML
12 34 (21.94%) MS Excel
13 32 (20.65%) WCF
14 31 (20.00%) jQuery
14 31 (20.00%) Finance
15 29 (18.71%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
16 28 (18.06%) Degree
17 27 (17.42%) Oracle
18 26 (16.77%) SQL
18 26 (16.77%) MVC
19 25 (16.13%) Apache
19 25 (16.13%) Team Foundation Server
20 24 (15.48%) Web Services
20 24 (15.48%) JavaScript
21 23 (14.84%) Linux
21 23 (14.84%) Continuous Improvement
21 23 (14.84%) JSON
21 23 (14.84%) TDD

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the South Wales 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 77 (49.68%) .NET
2 52 (33.55%) .NET Framework
3 50 (32.26%) ASP.NET
4 38 (24.52%) XML
5 35 (22.58%) HTML
6 32 (20.65%) WCF
7 31 (20.00%) jQuery
8 29 (18.71%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 24 (15.48%) Web Services
10 23 (14.84%) JSON
10 23 (14.84%) Spring
11 19 (12.26%) Hibernate
11 19 (12.26%) CSS
11 19 (12.26%) ASP.NET MVC
12 18 (11.61%) SOAP
13 17 (10.97%) ASP.NET MVC 3
14 15 (9.677%) Razor View Engine
15 12 (7.742%) Castle Windsor
16 11 (7.097%) Struts
16 11 (7.097%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 25 (16.13%) Apache
2 19 (12.26%) Tuxedo
3 17 (10.97%) SharePoint
4 14 (9.032%) CMS
5 13 (8.387%) Sitecore CMS
6 11 (7.097%) BizTalk Server
7 10 (6.452%) SharePoint Server
8 4 (2.581%) Umbraco
8 4 (2.581%) Tomcat
8 4 (2.581%) WebLogic
9 3 (1.935%) FileNet
9 3 (1.935%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.645%) Joomla!
10 1 (0.645%) WordPress
Applications
1 34 (21.94%) MS Excel
2 3 (1.935%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 13 (8.387%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.581%) Staffware
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.581%) Internet
2 3 (1.935%) 2G
2 3 (1.935%) 3G
2 3 (1.935%) 4G
3 1 (0.645%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (32.26%) SQL Server
2 21 (13.55%) MongoDB
3 9 (5.806%) Oracle 8/8i
4 5 (3.226%) SQL Server 2000
4 5 (3.226%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (3.226%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (3.226%) SQL Server 2008
5 4 (2.581%) TOAD
6 3 (1.935%) SQL Server 2012
7 2 (1.290%) MySQL
8 1 (0.645%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.645%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.645%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (0.645%) SQL Server 2005
8 1 (0.645%) SQLite
8 1 (0.645%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 35 (22.58%) Visual Studio
2 25 (16.13%) Team Foundation Server
3 18 (11.61%) Subversion
4 17 (10.97%) Jenkins
5 14 (9.032%) Ant
6 13 (8.387%) Maven
7 11 (7.097%) JUnit
7 11 (7.097%) ReSharper
8 9 (5.806%) Concordion
9 7 (4.516%) Git (software)
10 6 (3.871%) Selenium
11 5 (3.226%) Eclipse
12 4 (2.581%) Visual Studio Team System
13 3 (1.935%) JIRA
13 3 (1.935%) WebDriver
14 2 (1.290%) Hudson
15 1 (0.645%) Xcode
15 1 (0.645%) VSS/SourceSafe
15 1 (0.645%) CruiseControl
15 1 (0.645%) NUnit
General
1 31 (20.00%) Finance
2 10 (6.452%) Banking
2 10 (6.452%) Retail
3 6 (3.871%) Financial Institution
4 3 (1.935%) Legal
5 2 (1.290%) Marketing
6 1 (0.645%) Advertising
6 1 (0.645%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.645%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 105 (67.74%) Developer
2 34 (21.94%) .NET Developer
3 26 (16.77%) Web Developer
4 24 (15.48%) Lead Developer
5 23 (14.84%) Java Developer
6 20 (12.90%) Systems Developer
6 20 (12.90%) Project Manager
7 17 (10.97%) Senior Developer
8 15 (9.677%) Lead .NET Developer
9 8 (5.161%) Software Manager
9 8 (5.161%) Development Manager
9 8 (5.161%) Analyst
10 7 (4.516%) Software Engineer
11 6 (3.871%) Senior Systems Developer
11 6 (3.871%) Senior Web Developer
12 5 (3.226%) Software Project Manager
12 5 (3.226%) Senior Java Developer
12 5 (3.226%) ASP.NET Developer
12 5 (3.226%) Perl Developer
12 5 (3.226%) C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.90%) Computer Science
2 11 (7.097%) N-Tier
3 10 (6.452%) Mobile Banking
4 8 (5.161%) iPhone
5 7 (4.516%) Blackberry
6 6 (3.871%) Open Source
7 5 (3.226%) VHDL
8 4 (2.581%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.935%) Handset
9 3 (1.935%) iPad
10 2 (1.290%) New Media
10 2 (1.290%) Interactive TV
10 2 (1.290%) BBC
10 2 (1.290%) Tandem
11 1 (0.645%) W3C
11 1 (0.645%) Animation
11 1 (0.645%) Flash Lite
11 1 (0.645%) Java Card
Operating Systems
1 23 (14.84%) Linux
2 12 (7.742%) Windows
3 11 (7.097%) Android
4 7 (4.516%) Apple iOS
5 4 (2.581%) UNIX
6 1 (0.645%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (29.03%) OO
2 39 (25.16%) Web Development
3 37 (23.87%) Agile Software Development
4 26 (16.77%) MVC
5 23 (14.84%) Continuous Improvement
5 23 (14.84%) TDD
6 22 (14.19%) Software Engineering
7 21 (13.55%) Continuous Integration
8 20 (12.90%) Project Management
9 15 (9.677%) Unit Testing
10 14 (9.032%) CRM
10 14 (9.032%) UML
11 12 (7.742%) Content Management
11 12 (7.742%) PRINCE2
12 9 (5.806%) Kanban
13 8 (5.161%) Refactoring
14 5 (3.226%) E-Commerce
15 4 (2.581%) BDD
15 4 (2.581%) System Testing
15 4 (2.581%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 75 (48.39%) C#
2 51 (32.90%) Java
3 26 (16.77%) SQL
4 24 (15.48%) JavaScript
5 20 (12.90%) Perl
6 11 (7.097%) C++
7 9 (5.806%) C
8 6 (3.871%) Objective-C
9 4 (2.581%) PL/SQL
9 4 (2.581%) ActionScript
9 4 (2.581%) VB.NET
10 3 (1.935%) PHP
11 1 (0.645%) VB
11 1 (0.645%) XPath
11 1 (0.645%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 28 (18.06%) Degree
2 11 (7.097%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (3.226%) PMP
3 5 (3.226%) PMI Certification
4 2 (1.290%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.290%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.290%) ISEB
5 1 (0.645%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (0.645%) MCP
5 1 (0.645%) MCAD
5 1 (0.645%) MCSD
5 1 (0.645%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.290%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (1.935%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 54 (34.84%) Microsoft
2 27 (17.42%) Oracle
3 16 (10.32%) Sitecore
4 9 (5.806%) IBM
5 4 (2.581%) BEA
6 3 (1.935%) ILOG
6 3 (1.935%) Adobe
7 1 (0.645%) Google
7 1 (0.645%) Zend
7 1 (0.645%) Twitter
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
Key technical skills: *.Net C# *WCF *Entity Framework *ASP.Net *Agile/Scrum experience As Lead Developer you must have the ability to forge strong working relationships with colleagues,...
CPS Group UK
Salary: excellent benefits and competitive salary
Posted: 21 May 2013
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
The Lead Developer will be responsible for mentoring and supporting a small team of developers, and will also be expected to take a hands-on approach on development...
networx
Salary: £42,000 depending on skills
Posted: 21 May 2013
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
Experience as C# developer within a Microsoft.Net environment... Experience of web development on the .Net platform, ideally with exposure to the Microsoft MVC framework, JQuery and XML.
Confused.com
Posted: 21 May 2013
Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan
Software Engineer Technical Skills: *Objective C/C++ programming on Windows Platforms *JAVA or .NET *Scrum/Agile Software Development *Embedded programming - C/VHDL The role of Software Engineer offers...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + Pension & Bonus
Posted: 21 May 2013
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
Java, JUnit or Test NG, MVC Framework (Struts/Spring/Webflow), Web Services (Rest or SOAP), Fuse ESB, JPA/Hibernate, JMS, Build tools (Ant / Ivy / Maven), Agile methods (SCRUM)
Epsilium Recruitment
Salary: From £45,000 to £55,000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Cardiff, South Glamorgan, Wales
Business Analyst Opus is looking for a Business Analyst to join a well branded organisation in the Cardiff area- If you are a Business Analyst looking to develop...
OPUS
Salary: GBP30000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Cardiff, South Glamorgan, Wales
There is an exciting new opportunity for a Senior Test analyst to join a successful software house based in Cardiff-This role will be ideal for someone who...
OPUS
Salary: GBP30000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
Cardiff, South Glamorgan, Wales
Digital Project ManagerDigital Agency, Agile, Scrum, SharePoint, UmbracoDo you love all things digital and have a passion for web?If you are ticking the boxes then this role...
OPUS
Salary: GBP33000 to GBP36000 per annum
Posted: 27 April 2013
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
You will have a background in Project Management and Systems or Software Implementations / Integrations. Previous experience and qualifications with Prince 2 or Agile / Scrum would be an advantage.
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013