Scrum Contracts in the North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Scrum skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Scrum over the 3 months to 27 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Scrum England / North West
Location	3 months to 27 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	26	31	34
Rank change year-on-year	+5	+3
Contract jobs citing Scrum	189	187	155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West	6.42%	4.93%	4.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	7.94%	6.00%	5.42%
Number of daily rates quoted	136	129	94
Median daily rate	£425	£425	£419
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-	+1.49%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£350	£315	£325
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£505	£525	£556
UK excluding London median daily rate	£425	£425	£380
% change year-on-year	-	+11.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted	4	4	7
Median hourly rate	£40.00	£41.75	£42.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-4.19%	-1.76%
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£45.00	£43.00	£36.89
% change year-on-year	+4.65%	+16.57%

Scrum is in the process and methodology skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process and methodology skills.

Contract Process & Methodology Skills North West
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for process and methodology skills	2381	3115	2862
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West	80.85%	82.06%	78.67%
Number of daily rates quoted	1410	1960	1689
Median daily rate	£410	£415	£385
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-1.20%	+7.79%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£300	£300	£275
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£550	£575	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£415	£400	£385
% change year-on-year	+3.75%	+3.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted	99	78	122
Median hourly rate	£40.00	£28.50	£34.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+40.35%	-16.17%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£13.00	£12.58	£14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£55.00	£53.00	£56.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£34.00	£28.50	£30.00
% change year-on-year	+19.29%	-5.00%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in the North West citing Scrum as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Processes & Methodologies category.

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in the North West

Scrum
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Scrum in the North West.

Contractor daily rate trend for Scrum in the North West

Scrum
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Scrum in the North West over the 3 months to 27 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Scrum in the North West

Scrum
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum in the North West.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Scrum in the North West

Scrum
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Scrum in the North West over the 3 months to 27 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for Scrum in the North West

Scrum
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the North West region over the 3 months to 27 June 2017. 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	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
Manchester	-1	78	£390	-8.23%	76
Merseyside	+26	53	£440	+39.13%	5
Cheshire	+14	41	£450	+4.65%	19
Lancashire	+6	3	£535	-2.72%	3
Cumbria	-	1	-	-	2
Scrum England

Scrum
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in the North West

For the 6 months to 27 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Scrum also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the North West region with a requirement for Scrum.

1	346 (93.51%)	Agile Software Development
2	162 (43.78%)	JavaScript
3	145 (39.19%)	HTML
4	129 (34.86%)	Java
5	112 (30.27%)	TDD
6	110 (29.73%)	CSS
7	95 (25.68%)	Kanban
7	95 (25.68%)	Git (software)
8	80 (21.62%)	.NET
9	78 (21.08%)	BDD
9	78 (21.08%)	Jenkins
10	71 (19.19%)	C#
10	71 (19.19%)	MVC
11	70 (18.92%)	HTML5
12	68 (18.38%)	JIRA

13	64 (17.30%)	Linux
14	63 (17.03%)	SQL
14	63 (17.03%)	Continuous Integration
14	63 (17.03%)	MongoDB
15	60 (16.22%)	jQuery
16	59 (15.95%)	Spring
17	58 (15.68%)	Oracle
17	58 (15.68%)	DevOps
18	57 (15.41%)	Finance
19	56 (15.14%)	SQL Server
20	51 (13.78%)	MySQL
20	51 (13.78%)	Test Automation
21	47 (12.70%)	AngularJS
22	44 (11.89%)	Web Services
23	43 (11.62%)	Node.js

Scrum
Co-occurring IT Skills in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	23 (6.22%)	Confluence
2	18 (4.86%)	Umbraco
3	13 (3.51%)	CMS
4	8 (2.16%)	SharePoint
5	7 (1.89%)	Apache
6	6 (1.62%)	nginx
7	4 (1.08%)	Elasticsearch
8	3 (0.81%)	ColdFusion
8	3 (0.81%)	EPiServer
8	3 (0.81%)	Tomcat
9	2 (0.54%)	WebLogic
9	2 (0.54%)	WebSphere
9	2 (0.54%)	WebSphere Application Server
10	1 (0.27%)	Adobe Experience Manager
10	1 (0.27%)	BizTalk Server
10	1 (0.27%)	IIS
10	1 (0.27%)	NServiceBus
10	1 (0.27%)	SAS
10	1 (0.27%)	Sitecore CMS

Applications
1	10 (2.70%)	Adobe Illustrator
2	5 (1.35%)	Microsoft Project
3	3 (0.81%)	Photoshop
4	2 (0.54%)	Mingle
5	1 (0.27%)	Microsoft Excel
5	1 (0.27%)	Microsoft Office
5	1 (0.27%)	MS Visio

Business Applications
1	10 (2.70%)	Dynamics CRM
2	5 (1.35%)	Magento
3	2 (0.54%)	SAP CRM
3	2 (0.54%)	SAP Oil and Gas

Cloud Services
1	24 (6.49%)	Amazon AWS
2	8 (2.16%)	GitHub
2	8 (2.16%)	Microsoft Azure
3	6 (1.62%)	Amazon EC2
3	6 (1.62%)	Force.com
4	5 (1.35%)	PaaS
4	5 (1.35%)	Slack
5	4 (1.08%)	AWS Elastic Beanstalk
5	4 (1.08%)	Dynamics 365
5	4 (1.08%)	Trello
6	3 (0.81%)	AWS CloudFormation
6	3 (0.81%)	AWS Lambda
6	3 (0.81%)	SaaS
7	2 (0.54%)	Amazon CloudSearch
7	2 (0.54%)	Amazon S3
7	2 (0.54%)	BrowserStack
7	2 (0.54%)	Virtual Private Cloud
8	1 (0.27%)	Amazon SQS
8	1 (0.27%)	Cloud Computing
8	1 (0.27%)	IaaS

Communications & Networking
1	11 (2.97%)	HTTP
2	8 (2.16%)	Internet
3	5 (1.35%)	AMQP
4	3 (0.81%)	LDAP
4	3 (0.81%)	VPN
5	2 (0.54%)	Kerberos
5	2 (0.54%)	Network Security
5	2 (0.54%)	SSH
5	2 (0.54%)	SSL
6	1 (0.27%)	Firewall
6	1 (0.27%)	LAN
6	1 (0.27%)	WAN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	63 (17.03%)	MongoDB
2	56 (15.14%)	SQL Server
3	51 (13.78%)	MySQL
4	33 (8.92%)	NoSQL
5	23 (6.22%)	Oracle Database
5	23 (6.22%)	Relational Database
6	14 (3.78%)	Big Data
7	12 (3.24%)	PostgreSQL
8	11 (2.97%)	SQL Server 2008
8	11 (2.97%)	SQL Server 2014
9	9 (2.43%)	Apache Cassandra
10	6 (1.62%)	Hadoop
10	6 (1.62%)	Redis
11	5 (1.35%)	RDBMS
12	4 (1.08%)	Oracle Database 11g
12	4 (1.08%)	Oracle Reports
13	3 (0.81%)	Data Warehouse
13	3 (0.81%)	JasperReports
14	2 (0.54%)	Data Mining
14	2 (0.54%)	DB2

Development Applications
1	95 (25.68%)	Git (software)
2	78 (21.08%)	Jenkins
3	68 (18.38%)	JIRA
4	24 (6.49%)	Selenium
5	23 (6.22%)	Team Foundation Server
6	19 (5.14%)	JUnit
7	15 (4.05%)	Gradle
7	15 (4.05%)	Mocha
8	14 (3.78%)	gulp
9	13 (3.51%)	IntelliJ
9	13 (3.51%)	NUnit
9	13 (3.51%)	SonarQube
10	11 (2.97%)	Maven
10	11 (2.97%)	Visual Studio
11	10 (2.70%)	Cucumber
12	9 (2.43%)	Eclipse
12	9 (2.43%)	Subversion
13	8 (2.16%)	Hudson
14	7 (1.89%)	Atlassian Bamboo
14	7 (1.89%)	WebDriver

General
1	57 (15.41%)	Finance
2	36 (9.73%)	Banking
3	15 (4.05%)	Marketing
4	8 (2.16%)	Games
5	6 (1.62%)	Retail
6	4 (1.08%)	Advertising
6	4 (1.08%)	Law
6	4 (1.08%)	Retail Banking
7	3 (0.81%)	Investment Banking
7	3 (0.81%)	Local Government
8	2 (0.54%)	Electronics
8	2 (0.54%)	General Ledger
8	2 (0.54%)	Legal
8	2 (0.54%)	Manufacturing
8	2 (0.54%)	Pharmaceutical
8	2 (0.54%)	Telecoms
9	1 (0.27%)	Billing

Job Titles
1	204 (55.14%)	Developer
2	63 (17.03%)	Java Developer
3	38 (10.27%)	Senior Developer
4	34 (9.19%)	Analyst
5	32 (8.65%)	Scrum Master
6	30 (8.11%)	.NET Developer
7	22 (5.95%)	Architect
7	22 (5.95%)	Business Analyst
8	19 (5.14%)	Agile Developer
8	19 (5.14%)	Senior Java Developer
9	16 (4.32%)	C# Developer
9	16 (4.32%)	Project Manager
10	13 (3.51%)	Agile Java Developer
10	13 (3.51%)	JavaScript Developer
10	13 (3.51%)	Node.js Developer
11	11 (2.97%)	Java Engineer
11	11 (2.97%)	Umbraco Developer
12	10 (2.70%)	C# .NET Developer
12	10 (2.70%)	Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12	10 (2.70%)	Software Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	145 (39.19%)	HTML
2	110 (29.73%)	CSS
3	80 (21.62%)	.NET
4	70 (18.92%)	HTML5
5	60 (16.22%)	jQuery
6	59 (15.95%)	Spring
7	47 (12.70%)	AngularJS
8	44 (11.89%)	Web Services
9	43 (11.62%)	Node.js
10	42 (11.35%)	ASP.NET
10	42 (11.35%)	RESTful
11	38 (10.27%)	XML
12	37 (10.00%)	J2EE
12	37 (10.00%)	React
12	37 (10.00%)	REST
13	33 (8.92%)	ASP.NET Web API
14	32 (8.65%)	CSS3
15	31 (8.38%)	SOAP
16	28 (7.57%)	Spring Boot
17	25 (6.76%)	ASP.NET MVC

Miscellaneous
1	36 (9.73%)	Greenfield Project
2	28 (7.57%)	User Experience
3	23 (6.22%)	Analytical Skills
4	18 (4.86%)	Mobile App
5	9 (2.43%)	Computer Science
6	7 (1.89%)	Management Information System
7	6 (1.62%)	Video on Demand
8	5 (1.35%)	Clustering
8	5 (1.35%)	Interactive TV
9	4 (1.08%)	Client/Server
9	4 (1.08%)	Data Structures
9	4 (1.08%)	FMCG
10	3 (0.81%)	Internet of Things
10	3 (0.81%)	iPad
10	3 (0.81%)	Linux Command Line
10	3 (0.81%)	MHEG
10	3 (0.81%)	Public Cloud
10	3 (0.81%)	Web 2.0
11	2 (0.54%)	Life Science
11	2 (0.54%)	New Media

Operating Systems
1	64 (17.30%)	Linux
2	21 (5.68%)	Android
2	21 (5.68%)	Apple iOS
3	14 (3.78%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4	11 (2.97%)	Windows
5	8 (2.16%)	Unix
6	3 (0.81%)	Mac OS X
6	3 (0.81%)	Windows 7
6	3 (0.81%)	Windows 8
7	1 (0.27%)	Windows 10
7	1 (0.27%)	Windows Phone
7	1 (0.27%)	Windows Server

Processes & Methodologies
1	346 (93.51%)	Agile Software Development
2	112 (30.27%)	TDD
3	95 (25.68%)	Kanban
4	78 (21.08%)	BDD
5	71 (19.19%)	MVC
6	63 (17.03%)	Continuous Integration
7	58 (15.68%)	DevOps
8	51 (13.78%)	Test Automation
9	42 (11.35%)	Microservices
10	41 (11.08%)	Continuous Delivery
10	41 (11.08%)	OO
11	39 (10.54%)	Coaching
12	38 (10.27%)	Software Engineering
13	33 (8.92%)	Open Source
14	31 (8.38%)	Web Development
15	30 (8.11%)	Data Modelling
15	30 (8.11%)	Project Management
16	26 (7.03%)	Front End Development
16	26 (7.03%)	Unit Testing
17	23 (6.22%)	Waterfall

Programming Languages
1	162 (43.78%)	JavaScript
2	129 (34.86%)	Java
3	71 (19.19%)	C#
4	63 (17.03%)	SQL
5	25 (6.76%)	Python
6	13 (3.51%)	TypeScript
7	9 (2.43%)	Apple Swift
7	9 (2.43%)	C++
7	9 (2.43%)	Ruby
8	8 (2.16%)	ES6
8	8 (2.16%)	Scala
8	8 (2.16%)	Shell Script
9	7 (1.89%)	Bash Shell
9	7 (1.89%)	Groovy
9	7 (1.89%)	PHP
10	6 (1.62%)	C
10	6 (1.62%)	Objective-C
11	5 (1.35%)	ECMAScript
12	3 (0.81%)	Perl
12	3 (0.81%)	T-SQL

Qualifications
1	11 (2.97%)	Degree
2	8 (2.16%)	ISEB
2	8 (2.16%)	Security Cleared
3	6 (1.62%)	SC Cleared
4	4 (1.08%)	DV Cleared
4	4 (1.08%)	OCPJP
5	2 (0.54%)	CISSP
5	2 (0.54%)	PMI Certification
5	2 (0.54%)	PMP
6	1 (0.27%)	APMG
6	1 (0.27%)	CESG Certified Professional
6	1 (0.27%)	CISM
6	1 (0.27%)	CLAS
6	1 (0.27%)	ISTQB
6	1 (0.27%)	ISTQB Foundation Certification
6	1 (0.27%)	MCPD
6	1 (0.27%)	Microsoft Certification
6	1 (0.27%)	PhD
6	1 (0.27%)	PRINCE2 Practitioner
6	1 (0.27%)	SSCP

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	21 (5.68%)	QA
2	2 (0.54%)	ISO/IEC 20000
2	2 (0.54%)	PCI DSS
3	1 (0.27%)	GDPR
3	1 (0.27%)	ISO/IEC 27001
3	1 (0.27%)	PMBOK

System Software
1	11 (2.97%)	Docker
2	5 (1.35%)	Xen
3	4 (1.08%)	VMware Infrastructure
4	2 (0.54%)	Active Directory
4	2 (0.54%)	OpenSSH
5	1 (0.27%)	Virtual Machines

Systems Management
1	13 (3.51%)	Puppet
2	11 (2.97%)	Opscode Chef
3	9 (2.43%)	Ansible
4	8 (2.16%)	Kubernetes
5	5 (1.35%)	Rancher
6	4 (1.08%)	Kibana
7	3 (0.81%)	Nagios
8	2 (0.54%)	Graphite
8	2 (0.54%)	logstash
8	2 (0.54%)	Nmap
8	2 (0.54%)	Terraform
9	1 (0.27%)	AirWatch
9	1 (0.27%)	Capistrano
9	1 (0.27%)	Wonderware InTouch

Vendors
1	58 (15.68%)	Oracle
2	18 (4.86%)	Microsoft
3	9 (2.43%)	Red Hat
3	9 (2.43%)	SAP
4	8 (2.16%)	VMware
4	8 (2.16%)	Xamarin
5	7 (1.89%)	Salesforce.com
6	6 (1.62%)	Pega
7	5 (1.35%)	ServiceNow
8	4 (1.08%)	Apple
8	4 (1.08%)	Atlassian
8	4 (1.08%)	Zend
9	3 (0.81%)	HP
9	3 (0.81%)	IDERA
9	3 (0.81%)	OpenTV
9	3 (0.81%)	Perforce
9	3 (0.81%)	Siebel
9	3 (0.81%)	Sitecore
9	3 (0.81%)	Splunk
10	2 (0.54%)	AppDynamics