Scrum Contracts in Edinburgh

Scrum
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 17 14
Rank change year-on-year -11 -3 +2
Contract jobs citing Scrum 43 135 184
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 5.32% 10.47% 9.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.02% 10.98% 10.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 109 123
10th Percentile £400 £415 £406
25th Percentile £420 £450 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £487 £538 £550
90th Percentile £530 £594 £625
Scotland median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +5.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 714 1,229 1,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 88.26% 95.27% 93.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 877 1,257
10th Percentile £227 £252 £260
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.37% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £563
90th Percentile £675 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £470
% change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 12 18
10th Percentile £15.10 £13.62 £14.89
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.72 £18.31
Median hourly rate £22.87 £21.47 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.55% -41.19% -32.99%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.94 £52.50
90th Percentile - £66.20 £53.92
Scotland median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £33.00
% change year-on-year +9.11% -46.30% -21.43%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Scrum in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Scrum in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 19 (44.19%) AWS
2 15 (34.88%) Amazon S3
2 15 (34.88%) AWS CloudFormation
3 13 (30.23%) Serverless
4 12 (27.91%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (20.93%) OpenShift
6 8 (18.60%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (13.95%) AWS CodePipeline
8 5 (11.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (11.63%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 3 (6.98%) Amazon SageMaker
10 2 (4.65%) AWS CodeBuild
10 2 (4.65%) AWS CodeCommit
10 2 (4.65%) Azure
10 2 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (2.33%) IaaS
11 1 (2.33%) PaaS
11 1 (2.33%) Rekognition
11 1 (2.33%) SaaS
11 1 (2.33%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.33%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (32.56%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (16.28%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (13.95%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (11.63%) MongoDB
5 4 (9.30%) Informix
6 3 (6.98%) InfluxDB
7 2 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (4.65%) Relational Database
8 1 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (2.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 8 (18.60%) JIRA
2 5 (11.63%) GitLab
3 2 (4.65%) Git
3 2 (4.65%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.33%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.33%) Maven
General
1 24 (55.81%) Public Sector
2 20 (46.51%) Social Skills
3 7 (16.28%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (6.98%) Banking
4 3 (6.98%) Finance
5 2 (4.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (20.93%) Lead
2 8 (18.60%) Analyst
2 8 (18.60%) Developer
3 7 (16.28%) Business Analyst
3 7 (16.28%) Data Engineer
4 4 (9.30%) Project Manager
4 4 (9.30%) Senior
5 3 (6.98%) Automation Developer
5 3 (6.98%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Database Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Java Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Scrum Master
7 1 (2.33%) Agile Project Manager
7 1 (2.33%) Designer
7 1 (2.33%) Development Engineer
7 1 (2.33%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.33%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.33%) Lead Project Manager
7 1 (2.33%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (34.88%) AWS CDK
2 5 (11.63%) REST
3 4 (9.30%) Spring
4 2 (4.65%) PostGIS
4 2 (4.65%) React
4 2 (4.65%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.33%) Guice
5 1 (2.33%) Java EE
5 1 (2.33%) JSON
5 1 (2.33%) Middleware
5 1 (2.33%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.33%) Spring Batch
5 1 (2.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Replication
2 4 (9.30%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (6.98%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.65%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.65%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.65%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.33%) Legacy Code
5 1 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.30%) Linux
2 2 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (4.65%) Unix
3 1 (2.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (90.70%) Agile
2 15 (34.88%) Kanban
2 15 (34.88%) Roadmaps
3 14 (32.56%) Coaching
4 11 (25.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (23.26%) Service Design
6 8 (18.60%) CI/CD
6 8 (18.60%) DevOps
6 8 (18.60%) User Research
6 8 (18.60%) User Stories
6 8 (18.60%) Value Proposition
7 7 (16.28%) Epics
7 7 (16.28%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 7 (16.28%) User Experience
8 6 (13.95%) Business Analysis
8 6 (13.95%) Impact Assessments
8 6 (13.95%) Migration
8 6 (13.95%) Release Train
8 6 (13.95%) Story Mapping
8 6 (13.95%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 10 (23.26%) SQL
1 10 (23.26%) TypeScript
2 9 (20.93%) Python
3 6 (13.95%) Java
4 2 (4.65%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.65%) Perl
5 1 (2.33%) Bash
5 1 (2.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 5 (11.63%) Degree
2 3 (6.98%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (6.98%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.95%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (16.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (25.58%) Grafana
2 6 (13.95%) Ansible
3 2 (4.65%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.33%) Kibana
4 1 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (13.95%) Cadence
2 5 (11.63%) Oracle
3 2 (4.65%) Commvault
3 2 (4.65%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.33%) Microsoft