Scrum Contracts in the City of London

Scrum
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 38 22
Rank change year-on-year +2 -16 +8
Contract jobs citing Scrum 109 183 318
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 5.06% 5.18% 7.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.58% 5.67% 8.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 124 225
10th Percentile £425 £450 £425
25th Percentile £463 £513 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £653 £750 £638
90th Percentile £719 £775 £738
Central London median daily rate £538 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -14.00% +13.64% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,952 3,230 3,912
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.58% 91.50% 91.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,373 2,183 2,969
10th Percentile £356 £356 £387
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £731 £688
90th Percentile £813 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 24 44
10th Percentile £19.95 £15.33 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.03 £21.00
Median hourly rate £25.63 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.79% -12.50% +122.53%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £52.63
90th Percentile £41.65 £88.30 £64.78
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Scrum as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scrum in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Scrum in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in the City of London over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scrum in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Scrum in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 7 (6.42%) Confluence
2 4 (3.67%) Apache
3 3 (2.75%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.75%) CMS
3 3 (2.75%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.83%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.92%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.92%) IIS
5 1 (0.92%) JBoss
5 1 (0.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 6 (5.50%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.92%) BusinessWorks
1 1 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.92%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.92%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 45 (41.28%) Azure
2 29 (26.61%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (7.34%) AWS
4 7 (6.42%) SaaS
5 6 (5.50%) Entra ID
6 5 (4.59%) GCP
6 5 (4.59%) GitHub
7 4 (3.67%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (3.67%) Azure Pipelines
7 4 (3.67%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (3.67%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (2.75%) Power Platform
8 3 (2.75%) Serverless
9 2 (1.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (1.83%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.83%) Azure Functions
9 2 (1.83%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (0.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.92%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.92%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.75%) DNS
1 3 (2.75%) Firewall
2 2 (1.83%) DHCP
2 2 (1.83%) Internet
3 1 (0.92%) FTP
3 1 (0.92%) Intranet
3 1 (0.92%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.92%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.92%) VLAN
3 1 (0.92%) VoIP
3 1 (0.92%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (18.35%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.67%) Apache Cassandra
2 4 (3.67%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (3.67%) Redis
3 3 (2.75%) MySQL
3 3 (2.75%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.75%) Power BI
4 2 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.83%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.83%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.92%) Big Data
5 1 (0.92%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.92%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.92%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.92%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.92%) Parquet
5 1 (0.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (18.35%) JIRA
2 9 (8.26%) Git
3 6 (5.50%) Selenium
4 5 (4.59%) SpecFlow
4 5 (4.59%) Visual Studio
5 4 (3.67%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.67%) JUnit
6 3 (2.75%) GitLab
6 3 (2.75%) TeamCity
6 3 (2.75%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (1.83%) Android Studio
7 2 (1.83%) JMeter
7 2 (1.83%) Mockito
7 2 (1.83%) Postman
7 2 (1.83%) ScalaTest
7 2 (1.83%) Subversion
7 2 (1.83%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.92%) Bugzilla
8 1 (0.92%) ERwin
8 1 (0.92%) Mercurial
General
1 33 (30.28%) Social Skills
2 26 (23.85%) Finance
3 13 (11.93%) Public Sector
4 12 (11.01%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (6.42%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.59%) Marketing
7 4 (3.67%) Law
8 3 (2.75%) Automotive
8 3 (2.75%) Back Office
8 3 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.83%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.83%) Front Office
10 1 (0.92%) Arabic Language
10 1 (0.92%) French Language
10 1 (0.92%) German Language
10 1 (0.92%) Japanese Language
10 1 (0.92%) Korean Language
10 1 (0.92%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (19.27%) Developer
2 20 (18.35%) Senior
3 14 (12.84%) Analyst
4 13 (11.93%) Scrum Master
5 10 (9.17%) Product Owner
6 8 (7.34%) Business Analyst
6 8 (7.34%) Lead
7 7 (6.42%) Project Manager
7 7 (6.42%) Senior Product Owner
8 5 (4.59%) Test Analyst
9 4 (3.67%) Agile Coach
9 4 (3.67%) Backend Developer
9 4 (3.67%) Consultant
9 4 (3.67%) Delivery Manager
9 4 (3.67%) Programme Manager
9 4 (3.67%) Senior Developer
10 3 (2.75%) Full Stack Developer
10 3 (2.75%) Product Manager
10 3 (2.75%) ServiceNow Developer
10 3 (2.75%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.01%) .NET
2 9 (8.26%) .NET Core
2 9 (8.26%) HTML
2 9 (8.26%) XML
3 7 (6.42%) AngularJS
4 6 (5.50%) CSS
4 6 (5.50%) REST
5 5 (4.59%) React
6 4 (3.67%) ARM Templates
6 4 (3.67%) Web Services
7 3 (2.75%) ASP.NET
7 3 (2.75%) JSON
8 2 (1.83%) .NET Framework
8 2 (1.83%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (1.83%) Kafka
8 2 (1.83%) Playwright
8 2 (1.83%) Spring
8 2 (1.83%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 1 (0.92%) Apache Avro
9 1 (0.92%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 23 (21.10%) Product Ownership
2 2 (1.83%) Acoustics
2 2 (1.83%) Cloud Native
2 2 (1.83%) Contactless
2 2 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (1.83%) Mobile App
2 2 (1.83%) Onboarding
2 2 (1.83%) Reinsurance
2 2 (1.83%) Web 2.0
3 1 (0.92%) CBDC
3 1 (0.92%) Digital Currency
3 1 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (0.92%) Hedge funds
3 1 (0.92%) IVR
3 1 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (0.92%) Management Information System
3 1 (0.92%) PDA
3 1 (0.92%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.42%) Windows
2 5 (4.59%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.83%) Android
4 1 (0.92%) Linux
4 1 (0.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (92.66%) Agile
2 38 (34.86%) DevOps
3 23 (21.10%) CI/CD
3 23 (21.10%) Kanban
4 22 (20.18%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 18 (16.51%) Project Management
6 16 (14.68%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (11.01%) Analytics
7 12 (11.01%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (10.09%) Mentoring
8 11 (10.09%) Test Automation
9 10 (9.17%) Decision-Making
9 10 (9.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 10 (9.17%) TDD
9 10 (9.17%) User Stories
10 9 (8.26%) Change Management
10 9 (8.26%) Continuous Integration
10 9 (8.26%) Microservices
11 8 (7.34%) Data Modelling
11 8 (7.34%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (12.84%) SQL
2 13 (11.93%) C#
2 13 (11.93%) PowerShell
3 10 (9.17%) Java
4 9 (8.26%) JavaScript
5 6 (5.50%) Bicep
5 6 (5.50%) Python
6 3 (2.75%) Scala
6 3 (2.75%) T-SQL
6 3 (2.75%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.83%) Go
8 1 (0.92%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.92%) C
8 1 (0.92%) C++
8 1 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.92%) Ruby
8 1 (0.92%) Rust
8 1 (0.92%) SOQL
8 1 (0.92%) XPath
Qualifications
1 9 (8.26%) Degree
2 5 (4.59%) PMI Certification
2 5 (4.59%) PMP
3 4 (3.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.67%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.92%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.92%) CISM
4 1 (0.92%) CISSP
4 1 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.92%) CRISC
4 1 (0.92%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.92%) MBA
4 1 (0.92%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.34%) QA
2 7 (6.42%) PMO
3 4 (3.67%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.75%) WCAG
5 2 (1.83%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.92%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.92%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.92%) NIST
6 1 (0.92%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (9.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (4.59%) Ansible
1 5 (4.59%) Terraform
2 3 (2.75%) Progress Chef
2 3 (2.75%) Puppet
3 2 (1.83%) Grafana
3 2 (1.83%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.92%) Kibana
4 1 (0.92%) logstash
4 1 (0.92%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.92%) Rancher
4 1 (0.92%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 25 (22.94%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.42%) Salesforce
2 7 (6.42%) ServiceNow
3 5 (4.59%) Oracle
3 5 (4.59%) SAP
4 1 (0.92%) Adobe
4 1 (0.92%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.92%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (0.92%) Embarcadero
4 1 (0.92%) Genesys
4 1 (0.92%) Google
4 1 (0.92%) Guidewire
4 1 (0.92%) IBM
4 1 (0.92%) New Relic
4 1 (0.92%) PagerDuty
4 1 (0.92%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (0.92%) Splunk
4 1 (0.92%) TIBCO
4 1 (0.92%) VMware
4 1 (0.92%) Zoho