Scrum Contracts in England

Scrum
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 36 26
Rank change year-on-year -7 -10 0
Contract jobs citing Scrum 1,463 2,659 5,353
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 4.00% 5.41% 7.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.62% 6.00% 8.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,001 1,780 3,613
10th Percentile £375 £410 £413
25th Percentile £430 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £648
90th Percentile £719 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 91 86
10th Percentile £43.95 £42.50 £32.64
25th Percentile £57.50 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year - +46.07% -21.24%
75th Percentile - £76.13 £60.47
90th Percentile £71.80 £86.65 £75.47
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year - +44.44% -20.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,661 44,294 64,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.54% 90.18% 90.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,752 31,074 45,519
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £674 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,232 1,569 1,736
10th Percentile £12.87 £10.73 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in England

Scrum
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Scrum in England

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in England over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in England

Scrum
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Scrum in England

Scrum
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Scrum in England over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Scrum in England

Scrum
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the England region over the 6 months to 7 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
London +2 870 £550 -8.33% 308
South East -19 219 £500 -6.98% 115
North of England 0 153 £500 -4.76% 113
Midlands -20 88 £500 -5.66% 120
North West 0 85 £475 -9.09% 69
West Midlands -25 71 £500 -7.41% 79
South West -59 63 £575 - 87
Yorkshire +10 57 £517 -1.52% 37
East of England -41 35 £538 +1.42% 60
East Midlands +2 17 £419 -1.41% 38
North East +5 11 £525 -32.26% 7
Scrum
UK

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 107 (7.31%) Confluence
2 37 (2.53%) Apache
3 31 (2.12%) CMS
4 20 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (1.37%) Apache Spark
5 13 (0.89%) SAS
6 11 (0.75%) CICS
7 9 (0.62%) Drupal
7 9 (0.62%) IIS
8 8 (0.55%) SharePoint
9 7 (0.48%) OpenStack
10 5 (0.34%) JBoss
11 4 (0.27%) WordPress
12 3 (0.21%) govService
12 3 (0.21%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.14%) GeoServer
13 2 (0.14%) Headless CMS
13 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.14%) Mule
13 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 26 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.48%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.21%) Trello
6 2 (0.14%) Mingle
7 1 (0.068%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.068%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.068%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.068%) InDesign
7 1 (0.068%) InVision
7 1 (0.068%) Marvel
7 1 (0.068%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.068%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 23 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.55%) Aladdin
4 7 (0.48%) SAP PM
5 6 (0.41%) Endur
5 6 (0.41%) SimCorp Dimension
6 5 (0.34%) Primavera
6 5 (0.34%) SAP BPC
7 4 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 3 (0.21%) Maximo
8 3 (0.21%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.21%) SAP Hybris
8 3 (0.21%) SAP QM
9 2 (0.14%) BusinessWorks
9 2 (0.14%) SAP CO
9 2 (0.14%) SAP FI
9 2 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.14%) SAP SD
9 2 (0.14%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 394 (26.93%) Azure
2 218 (14.90%) Azure DevOps
3 178 (12.17%) AWS
4 71 (4.85%) Entra ID
4 71 (4.85%) Power Platform
5 67 (4.58%) Serverless
6 58 (3.96%) GCP
7 49 (3.35%) GitHub
8 40 (2.73%) SaaS
9 39 (2.67%) Azure Service Bus
10 37 (2.53%) PaaS
11 32 (2.19%) Amazon S3
11 32 (2.19%) Azure Data Factory
12 31 (2.12%) Dynamics 365
13 26 (1.78%) Azure Functions
14 25 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
15 22 (1.50%) Amazon EC2
15 22 (1.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 18 (1.23%) IaaS
17 17 (1.16%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 22 (1.50%) DNS
1 22 (1.50%) VPN
2 20 (1.37%) Firewall
3 19 (1.30%) TCP/IP
4 16 (1.09%) MPLS
4 16 (1.09%) SNMP
5 15 (1.03%) BGP
6 14 (0.96%) Software-Defined Radio
7 13 (0.89%) Ethernet VPN
8 12 (0.82%) HTTP
8 12 (0.82%) Radio Access Network
9 8 (0.55%) DHCP
10 7 (0.48%) 5G
10 7 (0.48%) FTP
10 7 (0.48%) Modbus
10 7 (0.48%) PPP
10 7 (0.48%) RS-422
10 7 (0.48%) RS-485
10 7 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (0.34%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (12.51%) SQL Server
2 78 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
3 60 (4.10%) Data Warehouse
3 60 (4.10%) Relational Database
4 53 (3.62%) Power BI
5 45 (3.08%) NoSQL
6 41 (2.80%) Data Lake
7 37 (2.53%) MongoDB
8 36 (2.46%) Big Data
8 36 (2.46%) MySQL
9 29 (1.98%) Azure SQL Database
10 26 (1.78%) Redis
11 21 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
12 20 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 20 (1.37%) Tableau
13 15 (1.03%) DB2
14 13 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
14 13 (0.89%) Geospatial Data
15 12 (0.82%) RDBMS
16 11 (0.75%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 264 (18.05%) JIRA
2 213 (14.56%) Git
3 84 (5.74%) Jenkins
4 64 (4.37%) GitLab
5 53 (3.62%) Selenium
6 46 (3.14%) JUnit
7 41 (2.80%) Robot Framework
8 39 (2.67%) SpecFlow
9 37 (2.53%) Visual Studio
10 34 (2.32%) Bitbucket
11 33 (2.26%) Postman
12 20 (1.37%) JMeter
13 19 (1.30%) Cucumber
13 19 (1.30%) TestRail
14 16 (1.09%) WebDriver
15 15 (1.03%) Cypress.io
15 15 (1.03%) Eclipse
15 15 (1.03%) GoogleTest
15 15 (1.03%) TeamCity
16 14 (0.96%) Artifactory
General
1 403 (27.55%) Social Skills
2 258 (17.63%) Finance
3 159 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
4 146 (9.98%) Public Sector
5 103 (7.04%) Banking
6 45 (3.08%) Marketing
7 44 (3.01%) Presentation Skills
8 39 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
8 39 (2.67%) Retail
8 39 (2.67%) Telecoms
9 37 (2.53%) Front Office
10 27 (1.85%) Manufacturing
11 26 (1.78%) Back Office
12 24 (1.64%) Investment Banking
13 20 (1.37%) Electronics
13 20 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 17 (1.16%) Legal
15 16 (1.09%) Billing
16 15 (1.03%) Local Government
17 14 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 339 (23.17%) Developer
2 214 (14.63%) Senior
3 151 (10.32%) Analyst
4 150 (10.25%) Scrum Master
5 132 (9.02%) Project Manager
6 106 (7.25%) Business Analyst
7 92 (6.29%) Architect
8 82 (5.60%) Senior Developer
9 81 (5.54%) Lead
10 67 (4.58%) Java Developer
11 64 (4.37%) Software Engineer
12 61 (4.17%) Software Developer
13 54 (3.69%) Product Owner
14 48 (3.28%) Delivery Manager
15 42 (2.87%) Solutions Architect
16 39 (2.67%) C# Developer
17 38 (2.60%) Data Engineer
18 36 (2.46%) Senior Software Developer
19 35 (2.39%) Azure Developer
19 35 (2.39%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (11.48%) .NET
2 148 (10.12%) XML
3 107 (7.31%) REST
4 101 (6.90%) React
5 100 (6.84%) HTML
6 85 (5.81%) AngularJS
7 81 (5.54%) CSS
8 70 (4.78%) .NET Framework
9 69 (4.72%) Spring
10 64 (4.37%) Web Services
11 57 (3.90%) .NET Core
12 53 (3.62%) JSON
13 49 (3.35%) Spring Boot
14 42 (2.87%) Hibernate
14 42 (2.87%) Kafka
14 42 (2.87%) SOAP
15 40 (2.73%) JPA
16 37 (2.53%) RESTful
17 29 (1.98%) ASP.NET
18 28 (1.91%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 239 (16.34%) Product Ownership
2 35 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
3 31 (2.12%) Mobile App
4 28 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
5 26 (1.78%) Data Structures
6 25 (1.71%) Algorithms
6 25 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
6 25 (1.71%) Management Information System
7 21 (1.44%) Hedge funds
8 18 (1.23%) Onboarding
9 17 (1.16%) Derivative
9 17 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
10 16 (1.09%) Mainframe
10 16 (1.09%) PKI
11 15 (1.03%) Cloud Native
11 15 (1.03%) Fixed Income
11 15 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
12 13 (0.89%) Virtual Team
13 12 (0.82%) IBM Mainframe
13 12 (0.82%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 134 (9.16%) Linux
2 78 (5.33%) Windows
3 54 (3.69%) Unix
4 33 (2.26%) Windows Server
5 15 (1.03%) Android
5 15 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (0.82%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.82%) zOS
7 9 (0.62%) VMS
8 8 (0.55%) Embedded Linux
8 8 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.34%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.068%) CentOS
10 1 (0.068%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.068%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,313 (89.75%) Agile
2 419 (28.64%) DevOps
3 315 (21.53%) Kanban
4 289 (19.75%) CI/CD
5 211 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
6 200 (13.67%) Project Management
7 195 (13.33%) Software Engineering
8 189 (12.92%) Test Automation
9 156 (10.66%) User Stories
10 146 (9.98%) SDLC
11 141 (9.64%) Stakeholder Management
12 139 (9.50%) Project Delivery
13 138 (9.43%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 130 (8.89%) TDD
15 125 (8.54%) Continuous Integration
16 119 (8.13%) Microservices
17 118 (8.07%) Roadmaps
18 115 (7.86%) Continuous Improvement
19 108 (7.38%) Analytics
20 100 (6.84%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 246 (16.81%) SQL
2 218 (14.90%) Java
3 213 (14.56%) C#
4 186 (12.71%) Python
5 166 (11.35%) PowerShell
6 143 (9.77%) JavaScript
7 68 (4.65%) TypeScript
8 57 (3.90%) C++
9 54 (3.69%) Bicep
10 38 (2.60%) Bash
10 38 (2.60%) C
11 21 (1.44%) Shell Script
12 20 (1.37%) PL/SQL
12 20 (1.37%) Scala
13 19 (1.30%) T-SQL
14 15 (1.03%) Perl
15 14 (0.96%) COBOL
16 13 (0.89%) REXX
17 12 (0.82%) SELCOPY
18 11 (0.75%) CLIST
Qualifications
1 259 (17.70%) Security Cleared
2 194 (13.26%) SC Cleared
3 151 (10.32%) Degree
4 64 (4.37%) DV Cleared
5 49 (3.35%) PMP
6 45 (3.08%) PMI Certification
7 41 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (1.57%) Master's Degree
9 18 (1.23%) AWS Certification
9 18 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (0.48%) CBAP
10 7 (0.48%) CSPO
10 7 (0.48%) ISTQB
11 6 (0.41%) ISEB
12 5 (0.34%) APMP
12 5 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.34%) Azure Certification
12 5 (0.34%) MBA
13 4 (0.27%) Numerate Degree
13 4 (0.27%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (8.68%) QA
2 36 (2.46%) Accessibility
3 28 (1.91%) Data Quality
4 20 (1.37%) PMO
5 9 (0.62%) GDPR
6 7 (0.48%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.48%) RMADS
6 7 (0.48%) WCAG
7 5 (0.34%) NIST
7 5 (0.34%) SLA
7 5 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
8 4 (0.27%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.21%) GRC
9 3 (0.21%) GxP
9 3 (0.21%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.21%) JTAG
10 2 (0.14%) IFRS
10 2 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 1 (0.068%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.068%) SEPA
System Software
1 124 (8.48%) Docker
2 93 (6.36%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.03%) Firmware
5 14 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (0.68%) vSphere
7 6 (0.41%) VirtualBox
8 5 (0.34%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.34%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
10 1 (0.068%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.068%) HDFS
10 1 (0.068%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.068%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.068%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.068%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.068%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.068%) XenApp
10 1 (0.068%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 97 (6.63%) Kubernetes
2 95 (6.49%) Terraform
3 84 (5.74%) Ansible
4 41 (2.80%) Grafana
5 37 (2.53%) Puppet
6 23 (1.57%) Prometheus
7 17 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
8 14 (0.96%) Progress Chef
9 10 (0.68%) Kibana
10 9 (0.62%) logstash
11 7 (0.48%) vRealize
12 6 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
12 6 (0.41%) Packer
13 5 (0.34%) HP ALM
13 5 (0.34%) SCCM
14 3 (0.21%) Netcool
14 3 (0.21%) VxRail
15 2 (0.14%) Istio
15 2 (0.14%) PingFederate
15 2 (0.14%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 220 (15.04%) Microsoft
2 75 (5.13%) Oracle
3 67 (4.58%) SAP
4 60 (4.10%) Salesforce
5 41 (2.80%) ServiceNow
6 39 (2.67%) Google
7 30 (2.05%) VMware
8 25 (1.71%) Splunk
9 23 (1.57%) Talend
10 22 (1.50%) Atlassian
10 22 (1.50%) IBM
11 19 (1.30%) Databricks
12 15 (1.03%) Informatica
13 14 (0.96%) Denodo
14 13 (0.89%) Syncsort
15 10 (0.68%) Dell
16 8 (0.55%) Adobe
16 8 (0.55%) CA Agile Central
16 8 (0.55%) HP
16 8 (0.55%) Red Hat