Scrum Contracts in the Midlands

Scrum
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 54 28 17
Rank change year-on-year -26 -11 +7
Contract jobs citing Scrum 88 246 445
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.23% 7.15% 8.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.93% 8.09% 9.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 187 346
10th Percentile £358 £395 £373
25th Percentile £374 £425 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £522
Median % change year-on-year -7.06% +3.07% +22.82%
75th Percentile £617 £575 £588
90th Percentile £688 £674 £653
England median daily rate £538 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.25
Median hourly rate - - £26.25
75th Percentile - - £33.00
90th Percentile - - £35.70
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year - +46.07% -21.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,242 3,040 4,470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.18% 88.37% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,493 2,119 3,305
10th Percentile £238 £250 £246
25th Percentile £356 £370 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +4.21% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £566
90th Percentile £700 £675 £653
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 119 154
10th Percentile £11.07 £11.96 £10.15
25th Percentile £13.81 £15.05 £13.51
Median hourly rate £19.00 £17.72 £17.49
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% +1.32% +9.31%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.81 £22.08
90th Percentile £55.00 £55.50 £33.60
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Scrum in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Scrum in the Midlands

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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 Scrum within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 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 -21 70 £510 -5.56% 65
East Midlands +1 18 £425 - 37
Scrum
England

Scrum
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 9 (10.23%) CICS
1 9 (10.23%) SAS
2 3 (3.41%) CMS
2 3 (3.41%) Confluence
2 3 (3.41%) Drupal
3 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (2.27%) Trello
2 1 (1.14%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.41%) NetSuite
2 2 (2.27%) Maximo
3 1 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (18.18%) Azure
2 9 (10.23%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (7.95%) AWS
4 4 (4.55%) Boomi
4 4 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (3.41%) GCP
5 3 (3.41%) GitHub
5 3 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.27%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.27%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 2 (2.27%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 2 (2.27%) Serverless
7 1 (1.14%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (1.14%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.14%) Azure App Service
7 1 (1.14%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (1.14%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.14%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.41%) DNS
1 3 (3.41%) SSL
2 2 (2.27%) LAN
2 2 (2.27%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.27%) VPN
2 2 (2.27%) WAN
3 1 (1.14%) FTP
3 1 (1.14%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.36%) Amazon Redshift
1 10 (11.36%) MySQL
2 9 (10.23%) DB2
2 9 (10.23%) IDMS
3 2 (2.27%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.27%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.14%) Big Data
4 1 (1.14%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.14%) Flink
4 1 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 27 (30.68%) Git
2 8 (9.09%) JIRA
3 4 (4.55%) Ant
4 3 (3.41%) Artifactory
4 3 (3.41%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.41%) JMeter
4 3 (3.41%) Selenium
4 3 (3.41%) Subversion
5 2 (2.27%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.27%) JUnit
6 1 (1.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.14%) Cucumber
General
1 26 (29.55%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.64%) Finance
3 8 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.95%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.55%) Banking
5 4 (4.55%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.27%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.14%) Electronics
8 1 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.14%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 25 (28.41%) Developer
2 11 (12.50%) Analyst
2 11 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 9 (10.23%) IBM Mainframe Developer
3 9 (10.23%) Mainframe Developer
4 8 (9.09%) Project Manager
4 8 (9.09%) SQL Developer
5 7 (7.95%) Scrum Master
5 7 (7.95%) Senior
6 6 (6.82%) Architect
7 4 (4.55%) Infrastructure Manager
7 4 (4.55%) Lead
7 4 (4.55%) Network Infrastructure Manager
7 4 (4.55%) Network Manager
7 4 (4.55%) Test Engineer
8 3 (3.41%) Agile Scrum Master
8 3 (3.41%) Product Owner
8 3 (3.41%) Salesforce Architect
8 3 (3.41%) Salesforce Solution Architect
8 3 (3.41%) Senior Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.68%) XML
2 4 (4.55%) ADO
2 4 (4.55%) HTML
3 3 (3.41%) .NET
3 3 (3.41%) Visualforce
4 2 (2.27%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.27%) CSS
4 2 (2.27%) JSON
4 2 (2.27%) Kafka
4 2 (2.27%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (2.27%) OAuth
4 2 (2.27%) SAML
4 2 (2.27%) SOAP
4 2 (2.27%) Spring
4 2 (2.27%) Web Services
5 1 (1.14%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.14%) React
5 1 (1.14%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.14%) Swagger
5 1 (1.14%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.05%) Product Ownership
2 9 (10.23%) IBM Mainframe
2 9 (10.23%) Mainframe
3 5 (5.68%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.55%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.41%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.41%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.41%) Private Cloud
5 3 (3.41%) Taxonomies
6 2 (2.27%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.27%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.14%) CMDB
7 1 (1.14%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.14%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.14%) PMI
7 1 (1.14%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.36%) Unix
2 9 (10.23%) zOS
3 3 (3.41%) Linux
4 1 (1.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (93.18%) Agile
2 22 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 22 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 17 (19.32%) DevOps
4 16 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
5 15 (17.05%) Project Management
6 14 (15.91%) Test Strategy
6 14 (15.91%) Waterfall
7 13 (14.77%) Configuration Management
7 13 (14.77%) Software Engineering
8 12 (13.64%) Analytics
8 12 (13.64%) Dashboard Development
8 12 (13.64%) Software Testing
8 12 (13.64%) User Stories
9 11 (12.50%) CI/CD
9 11 (12.50%) Data Analytics
9 11 (12.50%) Data Extraction
9 11 (12.50%) ETL
9 11 (12.50%) Kanban
10 10 (11.36%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 10 (11.36%) SQL
2 9 (10.23%) CLIST
2 9 (10.23%) COBOL
2 9 (10.23%) REXX
2 9 (10.23%) SELCOPY
3 8 (9.09%) PL/SQL
4 7 (7.95%) Bash
4 7 (7.95%) Bourne shell
4 7 (7.95%) Korn
5 6 (6.82%) Java
6 4 (4.55%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.41%) Apex Code
7 3 (3.41%) C#
7 3 (3.41%) Perl
7 3 (3.41%) Python
8 2 (2.27%) SOQL
9 1 (1.14%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.14%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 21 (23.86%) Security Cleared
2 18 (20.45%) SC Cleared
3 9 (10.23%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (6.82%) Degree
5 5 (5.68%) PMI Certification
5 5 (5.68%) PMP
6 4 (4.55%) ISEB
7 3 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (3.41%) ISTQB
8 2 (2.27%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.14%) APMG
9 1 (1.14%) APMP
9 1 (1.14%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.14%) CBAP
9 1 (1.14%) CCNA
9 1 (1.14%) CCNP
9 1 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.14%) IIBA
9 1 (1.14%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.27%) Docker
2 1 (1.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (11.36%) Grafana
2 3 (3.41%) Ansible
2 3 (3.41%) Terraform
3 2 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (14.77%) Salesforce
2 11 (12.50%) IBM
3 10 (11.36%) Denodo
3 10 (11.36%) Talend
4 9 (10.23%) Oracle
4 9 (10.23%) Syncsort
5 4 (4.55%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.55%) SAP
5 4 (4.55%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.27%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.14%) Cadence
7 1 (1.14%) Dell
7 1 (1.14%) Planview
7 1 (1.14%) Sage
7 1 (1.14%) UiPath