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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Scrum
Rank 29 15 36
Rank change year-on-year
-14 +21
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 7 16 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 3.977% 11.59% 1.554%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.344% 18.39% 2.098%
Number of salaries quoted 7 16 3
Average salary £72,500 £65,000 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.53% +18.18%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £41,500
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +2.40%
All Processes & Methodologies
St Albans
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
131 87 143
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 74.43% 63.04% 74.09%
Number of salaries quoted 70 57 54
Average salary £45,000 £50,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.00% +25.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,667 £26,500 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £55,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Scrum
Hertfordshire

Scrum
Jobs Demand Trend

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

St Albans 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 St Albans region.

St Albans Scrum Salary Trend

Scrum
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans 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 20 (80.00%) .NET
2 19 (76.00%) ASP.NET
3 18 (72.00%) C#
3 18 (72.00%) SQL Server
4 17 (68.00%) TDD
4 17 (68.00%) NUnit
4 17 (68.00%) Enterprise Software
5 16 (64.00%) MVC
6 15 (60.00%) Finance
6 15 (60.00%) OO
6 15 (60.00%) MCP
6 15 (60.00%) MCAD
6 15 (60.00%) MCSD
6 15 (60.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 15 (60.00%) Rhino Mocks
6 15 (60.00%) Cucumber
6 15 (60.00%) BDD
6 15 (60.00%) Castle Windsor
6 15 (60.00%) Scrum-ban
6 15 (60.00%) Web Application Development
6 15 (60.00%) Kanban
6 15 (60.00%) SQL Server 2008
6 15 (60.00%) ASP.NET MVC
6 15 (60.00%) Lucene
6 15 (60.00%) MCTS
6 15 (60.00%) NHibernate
6 15 (60.00%) Selenium
6 15 (60.00%) WCF
6 15 (60.00%) Silverlight
6 15 (60.00%) LINQ

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans 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 20 (80.00%) .NET
2 19 (76.00%) ASP.NET
3 15 (60.00%) Castle Windsor
3 15 (60.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 15 (60.00%) Lucene
3 15 (60.00%) NHibernate
3 15 (60.00%) WCF
3 15 (60.00%) Silverlight
3 15 (60.00%) LINQ
4 6 (24.00%) JSP
5 4 (16.00%) Ajax
5 4 (16.00%) J2EE
6 3 (12.00%) HTML
6 3 (12.00%) CSS
6 3 (12.00%) Grails
7 2 (8.000%) jQuery
7 2 (8.000%) XML
7 2 (8.000%) XSL
8 1 (4.000%) Hibernate
8 1 (4.000%) Servlets
Applications
1 4 (16.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (72.00%) SQL Server
2 15 (60.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (8.000%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 17 (68.00%) NUnit
2 15 (60.00%) Rhino Mocks
2 15 (60.00%) Cucumber
2 15 (60.00%) Selenium
3 2 (8.000%) FitNesse
General
1 15 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (4.000%) French Language
Job Titles
1 18 (72.00%) Developer
2 17 (68.00%) .NET Developer
3 7 (28.00%) Development Manager
4 5 (20.00%) Java Development Manager
5 2 (8.000%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
5 2 (8.000%) VB.NET Developer
5 2 (8.000%) ASP.NET Developer
5 2 (8.000%) Team Leader
5 2 (8.000%) Development Team Leader
6 1 (4.000%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (68.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.000%) N-Tier
2 1 (4.000%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.000%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (68.00%) TDD
2 16 (64.00%) MVC
3 15 (60.00%) OO
3 15 (60.00%) BDD
3 15 (60.00%) Scrum-ban
3 15 (60.00%) Web Application Development
3 15 (60.00%) Kanban
4 2 (8.000%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (4.000%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 18 (72.00%) C#
2 9 (36.00%) SQL
3 6 (24.00%) Java
4 5 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (12.00%) Groovy
6 2 (8.000%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 15 (60.00%) MCP
1 15 (60.00%) MCAD
1 15 (60.00%) MCSD
1 15 (60.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 15 (60.00%) MCTS
2 2 (8.000%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft