Agile Scrum Master Contracts in the Midlands

Agile Scrum Master
England > Midlands

The median Agile Scrum Master daily rate in the Midlands is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 134 162 193
Rank change year-on-year +28 +31 -46
Contract jobs requiring an Agile Scrum Master 3 3 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.11% 0.087% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.092% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 8
10th Percentile £559 £514 £500
25th Percentile £591 £516 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £538 £520
Median % change year-on-year +20.93% +3.37% +38.67%
75th Percentile £703 £566 £534
90th Percentile £731 £571 £579
England median daily rate £550 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +10.53%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,524 3,265 4,866
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.98% 94.64% 95.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,703 2,296 3,558
10th Percentile £213 £223 £205
25th Percentile £326 £363 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £455
Median % change year-on-year - +4.40% +13.75%
75th Percentile £588 £576 £550
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 128 179
10th Percentile £11.84 £12.35 £10.50
25th Percentile £14.27 £15.21 £13.74
Median hourly rate £19.59 £20.00 £17.11
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +16.92% +12.61%
75th Percentile £35.00 £28.88 £22.00
90th Percentile £54.60 £61.50 £32.10
England median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%

Agile Scrum Master
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile Scrum Master in the Midlands

Agile Scrum Master
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile Scrum Master in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Agile Scrum Master in the Midlands

Agile Scrum Master
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile Scrum Master in the Midlands over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile Scrum Master in the Midlands

Agile Scrum Master
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Scrum Master within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
West Midlands +30 2 £750 +39.53%
East Midlands - 1 £550 -
Agile Scrum Master
England

Agile Scrum Master Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Agile 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 Midlands region featuring Agile Scrum Master in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) Dashboard Development
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 2 (66.67%) ADO
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Confluence
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) Cadence
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Kanban
3 1 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (33.33%) Agile Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Burndown Charts
3 1 (33.33%) Epics
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Debt
3 1 (33.33%) Community of Practice
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (33.33%) Backlog Management

Agile Scrum Master Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Coaching
2 2 (66.67%) Dashboard Development
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Agile Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Backlog Management
3 1 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 1 (33.33%) Burndown Charts
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Community of Practice
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Epics
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Debt
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cadence