Scrum Master Contracts in England

Scrum Master
UK > England

The median Scrum Master daily rate in England is £520 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 397 411 290
Rank change year-on-year +14 -121 +52
Contract jobs requiring a Scrum Master 153 252 661
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.42% 0.51% 0.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.54% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 160 468
10th Percentile £373 £415 £413
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £597 £638 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 11
10th Percentile - £70.00 £31.50
25th Percentile £51.25 £72.50 £38.68
Median hourly rate £52.50 £85.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.24% +88.89% -35.71%
75th Percentile £53.75 £87.50 £67.19
90th Percentile - £90.00 £85.75
UK median hourly rate £60.25 £85.00 £41.36
% change year-on-year -29.12% +105.54% -31.86%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,080 46,338 66,904
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,599 32,894 47,614
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £740
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,444 1,371 1,856
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.96 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +95.65% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.30 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.88
UK median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%

Scrum Master
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Scrum Master in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Scrum Master in England

Scrum Master
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Scrum Master in England

Scrum Master
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum Master in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum Master in England

Scrum Master
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Scrum Master in England

Scrum Master
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 Master within the England region over the 6 months to 10 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 +61 101 £540 -10.00% 4
South East +9 20 £475 -6.86% 1
North of England +32 13 £400 -28.57% 2
North West +30 11 £396 -26.42% 1
Midlands +10 6 £550 +22.22% 2
South West +11 4 £485 +8.13% 4
East Midlands +23 3 £413 -7.19%
West Midlands +1 3 £650 +44.44% 2
Yorkshire +10 2 £475 -15.18% 1
East of England -4 2 £444 -21.11% 2
Scrum Master
UK

Scrum Master Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Scrum Master contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Scrum Master in the job title.

1 153 (100.00%) Scrum
2 123 (80.39%) Agile
3 48 (31.37%) Finance
4 42 (27.45%) Product Ownership
5 39 (25.49%) DevOps
6 37 (24.18%) Sprint Planning
7 35 (22.88%) Social Skills
8 34 (22.22%) Sprint Retrospective
8 34 (22.22%) Coaching
9 32 (20.92%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 32 (20.92%) Sprint Review
10 31 (20.26%) Banking
10 31 (20.26%) Kanban
11 30 (19.61%) Continuous Improvement
12 28 (18.30%) Project Management
13 27 (17.65%) Azure
14 24 (15.69%) JIRA
15 23 (15.03%) Problem-Solving
16 21 (13.73%) Project Delivery
16 21 (13.73%) SDLC
17 20 (13.07%) Stakeholder Management
18 18 (11.76%) Decision-Making
19 17 (11.11%) Conflict Resolution
19 17 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
20 16 (10.46%) Mentoring
20 16 (10.46%) User Stories
20 16 (10.46%) Product Backlog
20 16 (10.46%) Agile Coaching
20 16 (10.46%) PMP
20 16 (10.46%) PRINCE2

Scrum Master Skill Set
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 9 (5.88%) Confluence
2 1 (0.65%) Apache
2 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (1.96%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.31%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.65%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.65%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 27 (17.65%) Azure
2 17 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (4.58%) AWS
4 4 (2.61%) GCP
5 3 (1.96%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.65%) Azure Functions
7 1 (0.65%) IaaS
7 1 (0.65%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.65%) Miro
7 1 (0.65%) Serverless
7 1 (0.65%) Smartsheet
7 1 (0.65%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.65%) 4G
1 1 (0.65%) 5G
1 1 (0.65%) BGP
1 1 (0.65%) DSL
1 1 (0.65%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.96%) Power BI
2 1 (0.65%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (15.69%) JIRA
2 1 (0.65%) Jenkins
General
1 48 (31.37%) Finance
2 35 (22.88%) Social Skills
3 31 (20.26%) Banking
4 8 (5.23%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.23%) Front Office
4 8 (5.23%) Retail
5 7 (4.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (4.58%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.27%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.61%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.96%) Billing
8 3 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.31%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.31%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.31%) Games
10 1 (0.65%) Back Office
10 1 (0.65%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.65%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.96%) ADO
2 1 (0.65%) .NET
2 1 (0.65%) .NET Framework
2 1 (0.65%) ASP.NET
2 1 (0.65%) HTML
2 1 (0.65%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 42 (27.45%) Product Ownership
2 9 (5.88%) Mobile Banking
3 4 (2.61%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.31%) Credit Risk
5 2 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.31%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.31%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.65%) Derivative
6 1 (0.65%) Equities
6 1 (0.65%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.65%) IoT
6 1 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.65%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.65%) Android
1 1 (0.65%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (100.00%) Scrum
2 123 (80.39%) Agile
3 39 (25.49%) DevOps
4 37 (24.18%) Sprint Planning
5 34 (22.22%) Coaching
5 34 (22.22%) Sprint Retrospective
6 32 (20.92%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 32 (20.92%) Sprint Review
7 31 (20.26%) Kanban
8 30 (19.61%) Continuous Improvement
9 28 (18.30%) Project Management
10 23 (15.03%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (13.73%) Project Delivery
11 21 (13.73%) SDLC
12 20 (13.07%) Stakeholder Management
13 18 (11.76%) Decision-Making
14 17 (11.11%) Conflict Resolution
15 16 (10.46%) Agile Coaching
15 16 (10.46%) Mentoring
15 16 (10.46%) Product Backlog
Programming Languages
1 15 (9.80%) Java
2 12 (7.84%) Python
3 9 (5.88%) SQL
4 5 (3.27%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.65%) C#
Qualifications
1 16 (10.46%) PMP
2 15 (9.80%) PMI Certification
3 14 (9.15%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.15%) Security Cleared
4 13 (8.50%) Degree
5 3 (1.96%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.31%) MBA
7 1 (0.65%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.65%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.31%) PMO
1 2 (1.31%) QA
2 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.65%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.65%) GAAP
System Software
1 1 (0.65%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.65%) Docker
1 1 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 12 (7.84%) Salesforce
2 7 (4.58%) ServiceNow
3 6 (3.92%) Splunk
4 2 (1.31%) Automation Anywhere
4 2 (1.31%) Blue Prism
4 2 (1.31%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.31%) UiPath
5 1 (0.65%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.65%) Cisco
5 1 (0.65%) Planview
5 1 (0.65%) SAP