Scrum
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Scrum skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Scrum over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 40 25
Rank change year-on-year -5 -15 -1
Contract jobs citing Scrum 1,732 2,918 6,662
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.04% 5.20% 7.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.71% 5.79% 8.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,178 1,975 4,418
10th Percentile £375 £406 £411
25th Percentile £426 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £606 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 86 117
10th Percentile £31.94 £42.50 £36.46
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - +44.44% -22.41%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.08 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.25 £85.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% -5.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Scrum is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,749 50,370 79,373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 89.70% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,629 34,859 55,702
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £486
% change year-on-year - +2.87% +9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,511 1,675 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% +44.08% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Scrum as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in the UK

Scrum
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scrum.

Daily rate trend for Scrum in the UK

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in the UK

Scrum
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scrum.

Hourly rate trend for Scrum in the UK

Scrum
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Scrum over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Scrum in the UK

Scrum
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the UK over the 6 months to 29 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -5 1,476 £533 -7.30% 754
London +5 886 £550 -8.33% 270
UK excluding London -22 692 £500 -4.76% 519
Work from Home -10 562 £500 -9.09% 489
South East -16 222 £500 -7.19% 100
North of England +7 153 £500 -9.05% 125
Scotland -11 123 £475 -5.00% 42
Midlands -26 83 £475 -9.52% 119
North West -2 77 £500 -4.76% 87
West Midlands -18 66 £500 -7.41% 85
Yorkshire +11 65 £550 -0.90% 28
South West -56 63 £575 - 82
East of England -47 29 £550 +4.76% 39
Wales +24 20 £503 +16.86% 8
East Midlands -7 17 £398 -6.47% 34
North East +4 11 £525 -32.26% 11
Northern Ireland 0 1 £640 +60.00% 12

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 134 (7.74%) Confluence
2 32 (1.85%) Apache
3 31 (1.79%) CMS
4 20 (1.15%) Apache Spark
5 19 (1.10%) SAS
6 18 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
7 15 (0.87%) SharePoint
8 14 (0.81%) CICS
9 10 (0.58%) IIS
10 8 (0.46%) Drupal
11 7 (0.40%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.29%) Headless CMS
12 5 (0.29%) JBoss
13 3 (0.17%) govService
13 3 (0.17%) WordPress
14 2 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.12%) EPiServer
14 2 (0.12%) Mule
14 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 2 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 34 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
3 14 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.52%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.35%) Trello
7 2 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.12%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.12%) InVision
7 2 (0.12%) Mingle
7 2 (0.12%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.12%) Sketch
8 1 (0.058%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.058%) InDesign
8 1 (0.058%) Marvel
Business Applications
1 26 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.46%) Aladdin
4 7 (0.40%) SimCorp Dimension
5 6 (0.35%) Endur
5 6 (0.35%) SAP PM
6 5 (0.29%) Maximo
6 5 (0.29%) SAP BPC
6 5 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.23%) SAP QM
7 4 (0.23%) Shopify
8 3 (0.17%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.17%) SAP Hybris
9 2 (0.12%) Loan IQ
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.12%) SAP CO
9 2 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.12%) SAP MII
Cloud Services
1 472 (27.25%) Azure
2 248 (14.32%) Azure DevOps
3 228 (13.16%) AWS
4 100 (5.77%) Power Platform
5 89 (5.14%) Serverless
6 79 (4.56%) GitHub
7 75 (4.33%) Entra ID
8 73 (4.21%) GCP
9 60 (3.46%) Amazon S3
10 48 (2.77%) AWS Lambda
11 47 (2.71%) PaaS
11 47 (2.71%) SaaS
12 42 (2.42%) Azure Service Bus
13 41 (2.37%) Dynamics 365
14 33 (1.91%) Amazon EC2
15 28 (1.62%) Azure Data Factory
16 27 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
17 25 (1.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 25 (1.44%) Azure Functions
18 24 (1.39%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 29 (1.67%) DNS
2 26 (1.50%) Firewall
3 25 (1.44%) VPN
4 24 (1.39%) TCP/IP
5 21 (1.21%) SNMP
6 16 (0.92%) Software-Defined Radio
7 15 (0.87%) HTTP
8 13 (0.75%) MPLS
9 12 (0.69%) BGP
10 10 (0.58%) Ethernet VPN
10 10 (0.58%) Radio Access Network
11 9 (0.52%) SSH
12 8 (0.46%) DHCP
12 8 (0.46%) Internet
13 7 (0.40%) RS-485
13 7 (0.40%) SSL
13 7 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
14 6 (0.35%) FTP
14 6 (0.35%) Modbus
14 6 (0.35%) RS-422
Database & Business Intelligence
1 193 (11.14%) SQL Server
2 106 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
3 75 (4.33%) Power BI
4 74 (4.27%) Relational Database
5 63 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
6 49 (2.83%) MySQL
7 44 (2.54%) MongoDB
7 44 (2.54%) NoSQL
8 36 (2.08%) Big Data
9 35 (2.02%) Data Lake
10 31 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
11 29 (1.67%) Tableau
12 27 (1.56%) Redis
13 25 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
14 23 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
15 20 (1.15%) DB2
16 18 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 16 (0.92%) Oracle Database
17 16 (0.92%) RDBMS
18 14 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 337 (19.46%) JIRA
2 243 (14.03%) Git
3 108 (6.24%) Jenkins
4 83 (4.79%) GitLab
5 59 (3.41%) Selenium
6 53 (3.06%) JUnit
6 53 (3.06%) Postman
7 41 (2.37%) SpecFlow
8 40 (2.31%) Robot Framework
9 37 (2.14%) Visual Studio
10 36 (2.08%) Bitbucket
11 23 (1.33%) JMeter
12 22 (1.27%) Cucumber
13 21 (1.21%) Artifactory
14 20 (1.15%) Cypress.io
15 18 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
16 17 (0.98%) Eclipse
16 17 (0.98%) GoogleTest
17 16 (0.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 16 (0.92%) TeamCity
General
1 476 (27.48%) Social Skills
2 284 (16.40%) Finance
3 200 (11.55%) Public Sector
4 180 (10.39%) Analytical Skills
5 118 (6.81%) Banking
6 52 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
7 51 (2.94%) Marketing
8 41 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
8 41 (2.37%) Telecoms
9 40 (2.31%) Front Office
10 37 (2.14%) Retail
11 31 (1.79%) Manufacturing
12 30 (1.73%) Investment Banking
13 28 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 27 (1.56%) Back Office
15 22 (1.27%) Electronics
16 21 (1.21%) Legal
17 19 (1.10%) Local Government
18 18 (1.04%) Billing
19 17 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 395 (22.81%) Developer
2 247 (14.26%) Senior
3 196 (11.32%) Analyst
4 162 (9.35%) Scrum Master
5 157 (9.06%) Project Manager
6 122 (7.04%) Business Analyst
7 106 (6.12%) Lead
8 102 (5.89%) Architect
9 94 (5.43%) Senior Developer
10 83 (4.79%) Java Developer
11 74 (4.27%) Software Engineer
12 66 (3.81%) Software Developer
13 61 (3.52%) Product Owner
14 59 (3.41%) Delivery Manager
15 48 (2.77%) Data Engineer
16 45 (2.60%) Consultant
16 45 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
17 43 (2.48%) Senior Analyst
18 42 (2.42%) DevOps Engineer
19 41 (2.37%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (10.51%) .NET
2 159 (9.18%) XML
3 118 (6.81%) HTML
4 117 (6.76%) React
5 114 (6.58%) REST
6 101 (5.83%) CSS
7 85 (4.91%) AngularJS
8 84 (4.85%) Spring
9 72 (4.16%) .NET Framework
10 71 (4.10%) Web Services
11 63 (3.64%) JSON
12 60 (3.46%) Spring Boot
13 59 (3.41%) .NET Core
14 49 (2.83%) Kafka
15 46 (2.66%) SOAP
16 44 (2.54%) Hibernate
16 44 (2.54%) RESTful
17 42 (2.42%) JPA
18 41 (2.37%) Node.js
19 29 (1.67%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 275 (15.88%) Product Ownership
2 40 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
3 38 (2.19%) Data Structures
4 36 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
4 36 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
4 36 (2.08%) Mobile App
5 31 (1.79%) Algorithms
5 31 (1.79%) Management Information System
6 23 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
7 21 (1.21%) Hedge funds
7 21 (1.21%) Onboarding
8 20 (1.15%) Replication
9 19 (1.10%) Derivative
9 19 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
9 19 (1.10%) Mainframe
10 18 (1.04%) Cloud Native
11 15 (0.87%) IBM Mainframe
12 14 (0.81%) PKI
12 14 (0.81%) Virtual Team
13 13 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 158 (9.12%) Linux
2 79 (4.56%) Windows
3 75 (4.33%) Unix
4 33 (1.91%) Windows Server
5 19 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (1.04%) Android
7 15 (0.87%) Apple iOS
7 15 (0.87%) zOS
8 9 (0.52%) VMS
9 8 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
10 7 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
11 4 (0.23%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.058%) CentOS
13 1 (0.058%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.058%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,543 (89.09%) Agile
2 479 (27.66%) DevOps
3 384 (22.17%) Kanban
4 328 (18.94%) CI/CD
5 250 (14.43%) Project Management
6 249 (14.38%) Problem-Solving
7 226 (13.05%) Software Engineering
8 225 (12.99%) Test Automation
9 189 (10.91%) User Stories
10 175 (10.10%) Stakeholder Management
11 168 (9.70%) SDLC
12 162 (9.35%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 159 (9.18%) Roadmaps
14 146 (8.43%) Project Delivery
15 145 (8.37%) Continuous Integration
16 140 (8.08%) Analytics
17 137 (7.91%) TDD
18 132 (7.62%) Continuous Improvement
18 132 (7.62%) Microservices
18 132 (7.62%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 302 (17.44%) SQL
2 262 (15.13%) Java
3 220 (12.70%) C#
4 215 (12.41%) Python
5 172 (9.93%) PowerShell
6 169 (9.76%) JavaScript
7 93 (5.37%) TypeScript
8 58 (3.35%) C++
9 52 (3.00%) Bicep
10 45 (2.60%) Bash
11 37 (2.14%) C
12 27 (1.56%) PL/SQL
12 27 (1.56%) Shell Script
13 26 (1.50%) Scala
14 25 (1.44%) T-SQL
15 20 (1.15%) Perl
16 17 (0.98%) COBOL
17 16 (0.92%) REXX
18 15 (0.87%) SELCOPY
19 14 (0.81%) CLIST
Qualifications
1 266 (15.36%) Security Cleared
2 204 (11.78%) SC Cleared
3 189 (10.91%) Degree
4 60 (3.46%) DV Cleared
5 56 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 50 (2.89%) PMP
7 49 (2.83%) PMI Certification
8 28 (1.62%) Master's Degree
9 25 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 14 (0.81%) AWS Certification
11 10 (0.58%) CSPO
12 9 (0.52%) CBAP
13 8 (0.46%) Azure Certification
13 8 (0.46%) ISTQB
14 7 (0.40%) APMP
15 5 (0.29%) CCNP
15 5 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
15 5 (0.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 5 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
15 5 (0.29%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (9.06%) QA
2 42 (2.42%) Accessibility
3 34 (1.96%) Data Quality
4 28 (1.62%) PMO
5 10 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
6 9 (0.52%) GDPR
6 9 (0.52%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.40%) RMADS
7 7 (0.40%) WCAG
8 6 (0.35%) P3O
8 6 (0.35%) SLA
9 5 (0.29%) Software Quality Assurance
10 4 (0.23%) GxP
11 3 (0.17%) GRC
11 3 (0.17%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.17%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.17%) JTAG
11 3 (0.17%) NIST
12 2 (0.12%) IFRS
12 2 (0.12%) SEPA
System Software
1 154 (8.89%) Docker
2 96 (5.54%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.98%) Firmware
6 11 (0.64%) vSphere
7 6 (0.35%) VirtualBox
7 6 (0.35%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.29%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.12%) Time Sharing Option
10 1 (0.058%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.058%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.058%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.058%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.058%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.058%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.058%) XenApp
10 1 (0.058%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 124 (7.16%) Kubernetes
2 109 (6.29%) Terraform
3 107 (6.18%) Ansible
4 69 (3.98%) Grafana
5 42 (2.42%) Puppet
6 28 (1.62%) Prometheus
7 21 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (1.10%) Progress Chef
9 17 (0.98%) Kibana
10 12 (0.69%) logstash
11 9 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
11 9 (0.52%) HP ALM
12 8 (0.46%) vRealize
13 6 (0.35%) Argo
13 6 (0.35%) Packer
14 4 (0.23%) Podman
14 4 (0.23%) SCCM
15 3 (0.17%) Netcool
15 3 (0.17%) VxRail
16 2 (0.12%) Istio
Vendors
1 256 (14.78%) Microsoft
2 105 (6.06%) Oracle
3 77 (4.45%) SAP
4 67 (3.87%) Salesforce
5 54 (3.12%) Google
6 52 (3.00%) ServiceNow
7 37 (2.14%) Atlassian
8 36 (2.08%) VMware
9 34 (1.96%) Splunk
10 23 (1.33%) Talend
11 22 (1.27%) IBM
12 18 (1.04%) Databricks
13 16 (0.92%) Denodo
13 16 (0.92%) Syncsort
14 14 (0.81%) Informatica
15 11 (0.64%) Adobe
16 10 (0.58%) Dell
17 9 (0.52%) Cisco
17 9 (0.52%) HP
17 9 (0.52%) Red Hat