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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Scrum
Rank 35 50 84
Rank change year-on-year
+15 +34
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 300 236 152
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 5.719% 4.264% 2.519%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.591% 5.654% 3.675%
Number of salaries quoted 265 204 135
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £30,000 £29,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £46,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £41,500
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +2.40%
All Processes & Methodologies
South West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
3952 4174 4136
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 75.33% 75.41% 68.54%
Number of salaries quoted 3460 3551 3494
Average salary £37,500 £38,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.59% +2.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £25,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Scrum
England

Scrum
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 West region.

South West Scrum Salary Trend

Scrum
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Scrum across the South West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

South West 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 West region over the 3 months to 24 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
Bristol +9 164 £40,000 -
Gloucestershire -5 36 £36,500 -8.75%
Somerset +7 34 £33,500 -1.32%
Dorset +11 32 £47,500 +4.39%
Wiltshire -8 21 £37,500 -3.22%
Devon 0 6 £36,000 -10.00%
Cornwall - 1 £30,000 -
Scrum
England

Scrum
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West 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.

1 294 (52.78%) C#
2 292 (52.42%) .NET
3 247 (44.34%) Agile Software Development
4 212 (38.06%) SQL
5 180 (32.32%) SQL Server
6 171 (30.70%) ASP.NET
7 146 (26.21%) TDD
8 124 (22.26%) MVC
8 124 (22.26%) WCF
9 121 (21.72%) Degree
10 112 (20.11%) CSS
11 111 (19.93%) HTML
12 108 (19.39%) Finance
13 105 (18.85%) JavaScript
14 103 (18.49%) Java
15 102 (18.31%) OO
16 99 (17.77%) Web Services
17 87 (15.62%) Kanban
18 86 (15.44%) Microsoft
19 78 (14.00%) Project Management
20 77 (13.82%) C++
21 76 (13.64%) XML
22 74 (13.29%) Windows
23 73 (13.11%) E-Commerce
24 69 (12.39%) ASP.NET MVC
25 67 (12.03%) QA
26 65 (11.67%) SOA
27 64 (11.49%) .NET Framework
28 60 (10.77%) NUnit
29 57 (10.23%) Computer Science

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West 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
1 292 (52.42%) .NET
2 171 (30.70%) ASP.NET
3 124 (22.26%) WCF
4 112 (20.11%) CSS
5 111 (19.93%) HTML
6 99 (17.77%) Web Services
7 76 (13.64%) XML
8 69 (12.39%) ASP.NET MVC
9 64 (11.49%) .NET Framework
10 48 (8.618%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 47 (8.438%) Ajax
12 44 (7.899%) jQuery
12 44 (7.899%) NHibernate
13 39 (7.002%) Razor View Engine
13 39 (7.002%) ASP.NET MVC 4
14 35 (6.284%) LINQ
14 35 (6.284%) WPF
15 33 (5.925%) JSON
16 29 (5.206%) HTML5
17 28 (5.027%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 22 (3.950%) IIS
2 21 (3.770%) SharePoint
3 15 (2.693%) SharePoint 2010
4 11 (1.975%) CMS
5 10 (1.795%) Windows Azure
6 5 (0.898%) SharePoint Server
7 4 (0.718%) Confluence
7 4 (0.718%) Drupal
7 4 (0.718%) WordPress
8 3 (0.539%) SAS
8 3 (0.539%) Joomla!
8 3 (0.539%) Mule
8 3 (0.539%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.359%) Umbraco
9 2 (0.359%) GlassFish
9 2 (0.359%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.359%) Apache
9 2 (0.359%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.180%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.180%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 35 (6.284%) MS Excel
2 16 (2.873%) MS Office
3 6 (1.077%) MS Project
4 4 (0.718%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.539%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.539%) S-PLUS
6 2 (0.359%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 6 (1.077%) Oracle EBS R12
2 5 (0.898%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.718%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.718%) Oracle 11i
4 3 (0.539%) Summit
4 3 (0.539%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 2 (0.359%) Google Analytics
5 2 (0.359%) Oracle iRecruitment
5 2 (0.359%) Oracle HRMS
6 1 (0.180%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.180%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.180%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.180%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 34 (6.104%) Internet
2 16 (2.873%) TCP/IP
3 15 (2.693%) DVB
4 13 (2.334%) DLNA
5 7 (1.257%) SMS
6 4 (0.718%) HTTP
7 2 (0.359%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.359%) IPv4
7 2 (0.359%) IPv6
8 1 (0.180%) VPN
8 1 (0.180%) LAN
8 1 (0.180%) WAN
8 1 (0.180%) LDAP
8 1 (0.180%) SAN
8 1 (0.180%) Intranet
8 1 (0.180%) Extranet
8 1 (0.180%) Firewall
8 1 (0.180%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (32.32%) SQL Server
2 42 (7.540%) SQL Server 2008
3 30 (5.386%) MySQL
3 30 (5.386%) SQL Server 2012
4 18 (3.232%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (1.975%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 8 (1.436%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (1.257%) SQL Server 2005
8 6 (1.077%) Oracle 8/8i
9 5 (0.898%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 5 (0.898%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (0.539%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.539%) MarkLogic
11 2 (0.359%) Oracle 10g
11 2 (0.359%) Oracle Discoverer
12 1 (0.180%) DB2
12 1 (0.180%) OLAP
12 1 (0.180%) Informix
12 1 (0.180%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.180%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 60 (10.77%) NUnit
2 41 (7.361%) Rhino Mocks
3 39 (7.002%) Moq
4 37 (6.643%) Visual Studio
5 23 (4.129%) JUnit
6 22 (3.950%) Selenium
7 18 (3.232%) QuickTest Pro
8 15 (2.693%) Subversion
8 15 (2.693%) MSTest
9 14 (2.513%) Team Foundation Server
10 9 (1.616%) FitNesse
11 7 (1.257%) JIRA
12 6 (1.077%) Rational Robot
12 6 (1.077%) VSS/SourceSafe
13 5 (0.898%) Cucumber
13 5 (0.898%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
14 4 (0.718%) Git (software)
15 2 (0.359%) Jenkins
15 2 (0.359%) JBehave
15 2 (0.359%) Mockito
General
1 108 (19.39%) Finance
2 43 (7.720%) Retail
3 42 (7.540%) Legal
4 40 (7.181%) Marketing
5 29 (5.206%) Electronics
6 20 (3.591%) Telecoms
7 16 (2.873%) Games
8 11 (1.975%) Law
9 9 (1.616%) Music
9 9 (1.616%) Music Industry
10 7 (1.257%) Back Office
10 7 (1.257%) Banking
11 5 (0.898%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.718%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.718%) Advertising
13 2 (0.359%) Multimedia
13 2 (0.359%) Retail Banking
13 2 (0.359%) Military
14 1 (0.180%) Automotive
14 1 (0.180%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 309 (55.48%) Developer
2 128 (22.98%) .NET Developer
3 87 (15.62%) Software Developer
4 70 (12.57%) Senior Developer
5 51 (9.156%) Project Manager
6 48 (8.618%) Analyst
7 46 (8.259%) Software Engineer
8 32 (5.745%) ScrumMaster
9 30 (5.386%) Java Developer
10 26 (4.668%) Senior .NET Developer
10 26 (4.668%) Senior Software Developer
11 24 (4.309%) QA Engineer
12 23 (4.129%) Architect
13 22 (3.950%) Senior QA Engineer
14 20 (3.591%) Graduate
14 20 (3.591%) Agile .NET Developer
14 20 (3.591%) .NET Software Developer
15 19 (3.411%) Software Manager
16 17 (3.052%) Agile Project Manager
16 17 (3.052%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 57 (10.23%) Computer Science
2 33 (5.925%) DTV
3 28 (5.027%) Mathematics
4 22 (3.950%) N-Tier
5 19 (3.411%) Enterprise Software
6 17 (3.052%) Cloud Computing
6 17 (3.052%) Management Information System
7 16 (2.873%) Digital Media
8 13 (2.334%) MPEG
8 13 (2.334%) iDTV
8 13 (2.334%) SCORM
8 13 (2.334%) 3D Graphics
8 13 (2.334%) iPhone
8 13 (2.334%) Video on Demand
9 9 (1.616%) Client/Server
10 7 (1.257%) Handset
10 7 (1.257%) Open Source
10 7 (1.257%) Inversion of Control
11 5 (0.898%) iPad
12 4 (0.718%) IPTV
Operating Systems
1 74 (13.29%) Windows
2 38 (6.822%) Linux
3 15 (2.693%) Android
4 13 (2.334%) Apple iOS
5 10 (1.795%) UNIX
6 8 (1.436%) Embedded Linux
7 4 (0.718%) Windows 7
7 4 (0.718%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.180%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.180%) Windows Phone
8 1 (0.180%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (44.34%) Agile Software Development
2 146 (26.21%) TDD
3 124 (22.26%) MVC
4 102 (18.31%) OO
5 87 (15.62%) Kanban
6 78 (14.00%) Project Management
7 73 (13.11%) E-Commerce
8 65 (11.67%) SOA
9 55 (9.874%) Continuous Integration
10 53 (9.515%) Software Engineering
11 52 (9.336%) UML
12 47 (8.438%) BDD
13 40 (7.181%) Web Application Development
14 38 (6.822%) PRINCE2
15 33 (5.925%) Test Scripting
16 30 (5.386%) Test Automation
17 29 (5.206%) Automated Testing
18 27 (4.847%) Web Development
19 24 (4.309%) Software Testing
20 23 (4.129%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 294 (52.78%) C#
2 212 (38.06%) SQL
3 105 (18.85%) JavaScript
4 103 (18.49%) Java
5 77 (13.82%) C++
6 35 (6.284%) T-SQL
7 34 (6.104%) VB.NET
8 26 (4.668%) C
9 23 (4.129%) Perl
9 23 (4.129%) PHP
10 21 (3.770%) VBA
10 21 (3.770%) VBScript
10 21 (3.770%) VB
11 19 (3.411%) Python
12 18 (3.232%) Ruby
13 15 (2.693%) Bash shell
14 7 (1.257%) VC++
15 5 (0.898%) Delphi
16 4 (0.718%) VB6
16 4 (0.718%) XAML
Qualifications
1 121 (21.72%) Degree
2 41 (7.361%) MCP
2 41 (7.361%) Microsoft Certification
3 40 (7.181%) MCTS
3 40 (7.181%) MCAD
3 40 (7.181%) MCSD
4 37 (6.643%) Security Cleared
5 22 (3.950%) ISEB
6 18 (3.232%) SC Cleared
7 15 (2.693%) ISTQB
8 8 (1.436%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.898%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 2 (0.359%) ISEB Practitioner
10 2 (0.359%) Sun Certification
11 1 (0.180%) HND
11 1 (0.180%) PMP
11 1 (0.180%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.180%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (12.03%) QA
2 12 (2.154%) ISO 9001
3 7 (1.257%) JTAG
4 5 (0.898%) TickIT
5 2 (0.359%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 1 (0.180%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.180%) Oracle RAC
1 1 (0.180%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.180%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 86 (15.44%) Microsoft
2 42 (7.540%) Oracle
3 17 (3.052%) HP
4 7 (1.257%) JBoss
4 7 (1.257%) Symbian
4 7 (1.257%) IBM
4 7 (1.257%) Facebook
5 6 (1.077%) Twitter
5 6 (1.077%) Telerik
5 6 (1.077%) Google
6 5 (0.898%) Zend
7 4 (0.718%) Hyperion
7 4 (0.718%) Salesforce.com
7 4 (0.718%) Siebel
7 4 (0.718%) SAP
8 3 (0.539%) Intergraph
8 3 (0.539%) Red Gate
9 2 (0.359%) Progress
9 2 (0.359%) Sybase
10 1 (0.180%) BEA
Cribbs Causeway, Bristol, South West
Utilising the Agile Scrum approach, you will be delivering a wide range of functionality every 4 weeks into our core insurance system... Working with technologies such as C#, ...
Brightside Group
Salary: Up to £50,000
Posted: 24 May 2013
Gloucester, South West
You will work in an Agile Scrum environment as part of a fast paced and dynamic team.Experience requiredIt is essential that you have proven experience with ASP...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £32000.00 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013
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They appreciate this is hard to find and therefore willing to flex if someone is more experienced in one as the team are mixed, however the opportunity to...
NFP Group Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus Health Pension
Posted: 16 May 2013
Bristol, South West
Net / MVC Developer - C# or VB.Net, Web and Winforms, Agile - GAIN FINANCE - Greenfield projects - Bristol.Net Developers (Winforms, C# or VB.Net) required by leading finance organisation...
NFP Group Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus Health Pension
Posted: 24 May 2013
Chippenham, Wiltshire
We are actively seeking strong candidates with PHP 5, Javascript, TDD & Agile experience or a desire to learn fast... MySQL 5. Javascript... JQuery. LAMP installation and management. ASP...
Mayden House Ltd
Salary: Up to £37,000 per annum depending on experience plus great benefits
Posted: 30 April 2013
Bristol, South West
You should have experience with a number of programming languages such as C#, SQL and ASP.Net.You must have an advanced understanding of SharePoint 2010 and proven...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £35000.00 - £45000.00 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Stroud, Gloucestershire
C#/Asp.Net Developer - 2 positions Open... The role also entails a small amount of Web Development in which technologies such as Asp.Net MVC will be utilised.
North Point Recruitment
Salary: £26000 - £36000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Our client can provide you with industry recognised training in: .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), WCF, SQL Server 2012, Agile (Scrum, Kanban), TDD (NUnit, RhinoMocks,...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Cirencester, South West
Our client can provide you with industry recognised training in: .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), WCF, SQL Server 2012, Agile (Scrum, Kanban), TDD (NUnit, RhinoMocks,...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Swindon, Wiltshire
Our client can provide you with exposure to: .NET 4.5, WCF, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), HTML5, SQL Server 2012, Agile (Scrum, Kanban), TDD (NUnit, RhinoMocks, Moq),...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £40000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Swindon, South West
Our client can provide you with exposure to: .NET 4.5, WCF, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), HTML5, SQL Server 2012, Agile (Scrum, Kanban), TDD (NUnit, RhinoMocks, Moq),...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £40000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Bournemouth, Dorset
Our client will provide you with training into: .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), WCF, SQL Server 2012, Agile (Scrum, Kanban), TDD (NUnit, RhinoMocks, Moq), BDD...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £40000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Bournemouth, South West
Our client will provide you with training into: .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), WCF, SQL Server 2012, Agile (Scrum, Kanban), TDD (NUnit, RhinoMocks, Moq), BDD...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £40000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
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Senior Software Developer - API Team, C#, MS SQL Server, T-SQL, £38-42,000 plus great benefits, Bristol City Centre. Key Skills:- Significant experience developing web API's.-...
XIST4 Recruitment
Salary: £38-42,000 + Great Benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
Bridgwater, Somerset
Java. net Test driven development. degree. web services. SQL. HTML. CSS. Agile scrum team environment... Technologies used will include TDD, Java, JEE, .NET, Web Services, SQL, HTML & CSS.
Emponics Ltd
Salary: £24000 - £35000 per annum + bens
Posted: 21 May 2013
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
C#/Asp.Net Developer - 2 positions Open... The role also entails a small amount of Web Development in which technologies such as Asp.Net MVC will be utilised.
North Point Recruitment
Salary: £26000 - £36000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
C#/Asp.Net Developer - 2 positions Open... The role also entails a small amount of Web Development in which technologies such as Asp.Net MVC will be utilised.
North Point Recruitment
Salary: £26000 - £36000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
C#/Asp.Net Developer - 2 positions Open... The role also entails a small amount of Web Development in which technologies such as Asp.Net MVC will be utilised.
North Point Recruitment
Salary: £26000 - £36000 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
Cribbs Causeway, Bristol, South West
About the Role: - We use the Microsoft technology stack, and in particular C# and .Net 4.0 with Visual Studio tooling... - Understanding technologies such as C#, .Net, WCF,...
Brightside Group
Posted: 24 May 2013
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As a Web Development Team member you will be: Producing HTML / CSS code that adheres to an established coding standard and matches technical requirements. Producing and maintaining entry...
Pro-Direct Sport Ltd
Salary: From £16,000 to £23,500 per annum dependent on meeting role criteria
Posted: 9 May 2013
Bristol, Chippenham, Gloucester, Bath, Swindon,...
Knowledge of OO Design (OOD) and Service Orientated Architectures (SOA)... - Experience using XAML / Expression... This successful C# Software Developer ( Programmer, Software Engineer, .NET, UI, Silverlight, WPF, SQL Server )...
XIST4 Recruitment
Salary: £35-42,000 + Bens
Posted: 13 May 2013
Bournemouth, Dorset
Experience of MVC and Entity Framework is preferred... Net, C# and SQL; requirements analysis and specification; planning and performing Unit testing & System testing; problem solving (on 2nd and...
The Richmond Group
Salary: From £40,000 to £47,500 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Bristol, Avon
The skills/ experience required for the role are as follows; You will be a University graduate with a BSc Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Physics or Similar...
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £20000 - £35000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013
Bridgwater, Somerset
Java. JUnit. net Test driven development. degree. web services. SQL. HTML. CSS. Agile scrum team environment... Technologies used will include TDD, Java, JEE, .NET, Web Services, SQL, HTML &...
Emponics Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + bonus + bens
Posted: 24 May 2013
Swindon, South West
.NET Developer, VB.NET, VB, dot NET, Desktop, Winforms, Windows Forms, Server Side, .NET 4.5, WPF, MVVM, Prism, continuous integration, dependency injection, Ninject / Spring.net, , IoC, Unity /...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013