The first table below looks at the demand for Scrum skills in IT jobs advertised for the Watford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Scrum over the 3 months to 17 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 Watford region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Scrum
Rank 45 41 53
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +12
Permanent jobs citing Scrum 2 22 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 0.694% 6.162% 3.271%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.901% 7.483% 3.966%
Number of salaries quoted 2 22 14
Average salary £40,000 £50,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.00% +11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £36,000 £40,000 £42,500
10% offered a salary of more than £44,000 £57,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £41,500
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +2.40%
All Processes & Methodologies
Watford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
222 294 353
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 77.08% 82.35% 82.48%
Number of salaries quoted 176 192 254
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £30,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
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 Watford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Watford 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 Watford region.

Watford Scrum Salary Trend

Scrum
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford 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 13 (68.42%) TDD
2 10 (52.63%) .NET
2 10 (52.63%) SQL Server
3 8 (42.11%) C#
3 8 (42.11%) Java
4 7 (36.84%) HTML
4 7 (36.84%) E-Commerce
4 7 (36.84%) Agile Software Development
5 6 (31.58%) Linux
5 6 (31.58%) JavaScript
5 6 (31.58%) ASP.NET
5 6 (31.58%) jQuery
6 5 (26.32%) XML
6 5 (26.32%) C++
7 4 (21.05%) C
7 4 (21.05%) DB2
7 4 (21.05%) Oracle
7 4 (21.05%) UNIX
7 4 (21.05%) Windows
7 4 (21.05%) Spring
7 4 (21.05%) Hibernate
7 4 (21.05%) Demandware
8 3 (15.79%) ASP.NET MVC
8 3 (15.79%) Ajax
8 3 (15.79%) MVC
8 3 (15.79%) Project Management
8 3 (15.79%) Retail
8 3 (15.79%) MS Excel
8 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
8 3 (15.79%) Visual Studio

Scrum
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford 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 10 (52.63%) .NET
2 7 (36.84%) HTML
3 6 (31.58%) jQuery
3 6 (31.58%) ASP.NET
4 5 (26.32%) XML
5 4 (21.05%) Hibernate
5 4 (21.05%) Spring
6 3 (15.79%) Ajax
6 3 (15.79%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (10.53%) Java EE
7 2 (10.53%) ASP
8 1 (5.263%) XSL
8 1 (5.263%) WPF
8 1 (5.263%) WF
8 1 (5.263%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 2 (10.53%) IIS
1 2 (10.53%) SAS
1 2 (10.53%) Magento
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.263%) Internet
1 1 (5.263%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (52.63%) SQL Server
2 4 (21.05%) DB2
3 1 (5.263%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (5.263%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Visual Studio
2 2 (10.53%) Visual Studio Team System
2 2 (10.53%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (15.79%) Retail
2 1 (5.263%) Retail Banking
2 1 (5.263%) Finance
2 1 (5.263%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Senior Developer
2 4 (21.05%) .NET Developer
2 4 (21.05%) C# Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Senior C# Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Senior .NET Developer
2 4 (21.05%) C# .NET Developer
3 3 (15.79%) .NET Software Developer
3 3 (15.79%) C# Software Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
3 3 (15.79%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 3 (15.79%) ASP.NET Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Senior Software Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Software Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Test Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Web Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Software Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Client/Server
2 1 (5.263%) Online Banking
2 1 (5.263%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.263%) Mobile Banking
2 1 (5.263%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Linux
2 4 (21.05%) UNIX
2 4 (21.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) TDD
2 7 (36.84%) E-Commerce
2 7 (36.84%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (15.79%) Project Management
3 3 (15.79%) MVC
4 2 (10.53%) Validation
4 2 (10.53%) Extreme Programming
4 2 (10.53%) B2B
4 2 (10.53%) UML
4 2 (10.53%) OOA/OOD
4 2 (10.53%) Pair Programming
4 2 (10.53%) Logistics
4 2 (10.53%) Automated Testing
4 2 (10.53%) Web Development
4 2 (10.53%) Scalability Testing
4 2 (10.53%) Unit Testing
4 2 (10.53%) DSDM
4 2 (10.53%) BDD
5 1 (5.263%) Mobile Application Development
5 1 (5.263%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) Java
1 8 (42.11%) C#
2 6 (31.58%) JavaScript
3 5 (26.32%) C++
4 4 (21.05%) C
5 3 (15.79%) SQL
6 2 (10.53%) T-SQL
6 2 (10.53%) VBScript
6 2 (10.53%) VB
6 2 (10.53%) VB.NET
6 2 (10.53%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Oracle
1 4 (21.05%) Demandware
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.53%) ATG
3 2 (10.53%) hybris
4 1 (5.263%) VocaLink