The first table below looks at the demand for Scrum skills in IT jobs advertised for the Staffordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Scrum over the 3 months to 22 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 Staffordshire region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Scrum
Rank 40 60 -
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 30 9 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 5.034% 1.536% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.711% 2.195% -
Number of salaries quoted 28 7 0
Average salary £43,000 £50,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.00% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,500 £42,500 £41,500
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +2.40%
All Processes & Methodologies
Staffordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
447 410 382
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 75.00% 69.97% 67.14%
Number of salaries quoted 387 350 307
Average salary £39,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.25% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Scrum
West Midlands

Scrum
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire Scrum Salary Trend

Scrum
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Scrum across the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Cannock +5 24 £42,750 -14.50%
Stoke-on-Trent - 2 £31,000 -
Scrum
West Midlands

Scrum
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 51 (70.83%) .NET
2 50 (69.44%) SQL Server
3 43 (59.72%) MVC
4 41 (56.94%) WCF
5 38 (52.78%) ASP.NET
6 36 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 35 (48.61%) C#
7 35 (48.61%) ASP.NET MVC
8 32 (44.44%) Rhino Mocks
8 32 (44.44%) Kanban
8 32 (44.44%) TDD
8 32 (44.44%) NUnit
8 32 (44.44%) MCTS
8 32 (44.44%) MCP
8 32 (44.44%) MCAD
8 32 (44.44%) MCSD
8 32 (44.44%) Castle Windsor
8 32 (44.44%) Razor View Engine
9 31 (43.06%) Continuous Integration
10 30 (41.67%) Web Application Development
10 30 (41.67%) ASP.NET MVC 4
11 28 (38.89%) Unity DI Container
11 28 (38.89%) Ninject
11 28 (38.89%) Moq
11 28 (38.89%) Dependency Injection
11 28 (38.89%) Inversion of Control
11 28 (38.89%) MSTest
11 28 (38.89%) Spring.NET
12 20 (27.78%) WPF
13 17 (23.61%) Windows

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 51 (70.83%) .NET
2 41 (56.94%) WCF
3 38 (52.78%) ASP.NET
4 35 (48.61%) ASP.NET MVC
5 32 (44.44%) Castle Windsor
5 32 (44.44%) Razor View Engine
6 30 (41.67%) ASP.NET MVC 4
7 28 (38.89%) Unity DI Container
7 28 (38.89%) Ninject
7 28 (38.89%) Spring.NET
8 20 (27.78%) WPF
9 15 (20.83%) WinForms
10 4 (5.556%) CSS
10 4 (5.556%) Lucene
10 4 (5.556%) NHibernate
10 4 (5.556%) LINQ
10 4 (5.556%) HTML5
11 3 (4.167%) Middleware
11 3 (4.167%) Web Services
12 2 (2.778%) XML
Application Platforms
1 4 (5.556%) IIS
2 3 (4.167%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (1.389%) CMS
3 1 (1.389%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.556%) MS Office
2 3 (4.167%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.778%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (69.44%) SQL Server
2 10 (13.89%) SQL Server 2008
2 10 (13.89%) SQL Server 2005
3 4 (5.556%) SQL Server 2000
3 4 (5.556%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (5.556%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (2.778%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (1.389%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.389%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 32 (44.44%) Rhino Mocks
1 32 (44.44%) NUnit
2 28 (38.89%) Moq
2 28 (38.89%) MSTest
3 9 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
4 8 (11.11%) Selenium
5 7 (9.722%) MSBuild
6 4 (5.556%) SilkTest
6 4 (5.556%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.778%) JIRA
8 1 (1.389%) CruiseControl
General
1 11 (15.28%) Finance
2 2 (2.778%) Music
2 2 (2.778%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 45 (62.50%) Developer
2 41 (56.94%) .NET Developer
3 16 (22.22%) Project Manager
4 11 (15.28%) Agile Project Manager
5 8 (11.11%) Technical Project Manager
5 8 (11.11%) Technical Manager
5 8 (11.11%) Software Manager
6 7 (9.722%) Software Project Manager
7 6 (8.333%) Senior Developer
8 5 (6.944%) Senior .NET Developer
9 4 (5.556%) QA Engineer
9 4 (5.556%) ScrumMaster
10 2 (2.778%) Analyst
10 2 (2.778%) Development Team Leader
10 2 (2.778%) Senior Tester
10 2 (2.778%) Team Leader
10 2 (2.778%) Tester
10 2 (2.778%) BizTalk Developer
10 2 (2.778%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 2 (2.778%) Software Development Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 28 (38.89%) Inversion of Control
2 4 (5.556%) PMI
3 3 (4.167%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 17 (23.61%) Windows
2 4 (5.556%) Windows 7
3 1 (1.389%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (59.72%) MVC
2 32 (44.44%) Kanban
2 32 (44.44%) TDD
3 31 (43.06%) Continuous Integration
4 30 (41.67%) Web Application Development
5 28 (38.89%) Dependency Injection
6 17 (23.61%) Business Intelligence
7 16 (22.22%) MVVM
8 12 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
9 11 (15.28%) PRINCE2
10 10 (13.89%) Project Management
11 7 (9.722%) E-Commerce
12 6 (8.333%) Software Engineering
13 4 (5.556%) ITIL
13 4 (5.556%) Service Management
13 4 (5.556%) Software Testing
13 4 (5.556%) Resource Management
13 4 (5.556%) Unit Testing
13 4 (5.556%) Software Architecture
13 4 (5.556%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 35 (48.61%) C#
2 9 (12.50%) VB
3 8 (11.11%) VB.NET
4 5 (6.944%) SQL
5 4 (5.556%) VB6
6 2 (2.778%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.778%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.389%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 36 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 32 (44.44%) MCTS
2 32 (44.44%) MCP
2 32 (44.44%) MCAD
2 32 (44.44%) MCSD
3 9 (12.50%) Degree
4 8 (11.11%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 5 (6.944%) ISEB
6 4 (5.556%) PMI Certification
7 2 (2.778%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.333%) QA
2 2 (2.778%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 15 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.389%) Red Gate
Cannock, West Midlands
Our client can provide you with exposure to: .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), WCF, WPF, MVVM, Prism, continuous integration, dependency injection (Ninject / Spring.net etc),...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Cannock, West Midlands
Our client can provide you with exposure to: .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), WCF, WPF, MVVM, Prism, continuous integration, dependency injection (Ninject / Spring.net etc),...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Cannock, Staffordshire
Our client can provide you with exposure to: .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), WCF, WPF, MVVM, Prism, continuous integration, dependency injection (Ninject / Spring.net etc),...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Cannock, Staffordshire
Permanent Circa £45k Start: ASAP Our client, a reputable household name company who are based across the Uk, require a Senior SSIS / BI Developer. This will be to...
Lorien Resourcing
Salary: £40000 - £46500 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Staffordshire
A software development and consultancy firm based in the West Midlands are currently seeking a new development manager to join their organisation and take the reigns on their...
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: Bonus, Pension, Health and more
Posted: 17 May 2013