Scrum Contracts in the North of England

Scrum
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 56 33
Rank change year-on-year +2 -23 -5
Contract jobs citing Scrum 153 212 424
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.26% 3.71% 5.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.80% 4.09% 6.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 157 277
10th Percentile £368 £413 £400
25th Percentile £413 £488 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £559 £600 £550
90th Percentile £635 £688 £638
England median daily rate £536 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.78% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 8
10th Percentile - - £27.30
25th Percentile £69.50 - £31.52
Median hourly rate £72.00 £70.00 £37.63
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +86.03% +3.86%
75th Percentile £74.50 £75.00 £44.03
90th Percentile - £78.00 £44.84
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year - +46.07% -21.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,023 5,182 6,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.72% 90.78% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,447 3,599 4,626
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.21%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 363 202 253
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.86 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.15 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.21% +57.57% +0.87%
75th Percentile £45.00 £46.51 £31.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £52.40
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Scrum in the North of England

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Scrum in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 8 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
North West +2 85 £475 -9.09% 66
Yorkshire +11 57 £517 -1.52% 35
North East +6 11 £525 -32.26% 7
Scrum
England

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 12 (7.84%) Confluence
2 5 (3.27%) Apache
2 5 (3.27%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.27%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.31%) Mule
4 1 (0.65%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.31%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (4.58%) SAP PM
1 7 (4.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (3.92%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (3.27%) Primavera
4 1 (0.65%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 41 (26.80%) AWS
2 35 (22.88%) Azure
3 12 (7.84%) GitHub
4 10 (6.54%) Serverless
5 9 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (5.88%) Amazon S3
5 9 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (5.88%) Power Platform
6 8 (5.23%) GCP
6 8 (5.23%) SaaS
7 6 (3.92%) Apigee
7 6 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (3.92%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (3.92%) Kong
7 6 (3.92%) PaaS
8 5 (3.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (3.27%) Amazon EMR
8 5 (3.27%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (3.27%) IaaS
8 5 (3.27%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.58%) Firewall
2 6 (3.92%) DNS
2 6 (3.92%) HTTP
2 6 (3.92%) PPP
2 6 (3.92%) TCP/IP
2 6 (3.92%) VPN
3 5 (3.27%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.84%) PostgreSQL
1 12 (7.84%) Relational Database
2 6 (3.92%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (3.27%) Big Data
3 5 (3.27%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (3.27%) Power BI
4 4 (2.61%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (2.61%) Redis
4 4 (2.61%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.65%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.65%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.65%) DataStage
5 1 (0.65%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.65%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.65%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (0.65%) Sisense
5 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 32 (20.92%) Git
2 26 (16.99%) JIRA
3 16 (10.46%) GitLab
3 16 (10.46%) Jenkins
3 16 (10.46%) JUnit
4 6 (3.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 6 (3.92%) CircleCI
4 6 (3.92%) Travis CI
5 5 (3.27%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (2.61%) Jasmine
6 4 (2.61%) Karma Test Runner
6 4 (2.61%) Mocha
6 4 (2.61%) webpack
7 3 (1.96%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.96%) Postman
7 3 (1.96%) Selenium
8 2 (1.31%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.31%) Log4j
8 2 (1.31%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.31%) TeamCity
General
1 55 (35.95%) Social Skills
2 18 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 16 (10.46%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (10.46%) Finance
4 6 (3.92%) Legal
4 6 (3.92%) Pharmaceutical
5 5 (3.27%) Banking
5 5 (3.27%) Manufacturing
5 5 (3.27%) Marketing
6 4 (2.61%) Law
7 3 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.31%) Billing
8 2 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.31%) Front Office
8 2 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.65%) Retail
9 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 46 (30.07%) Developer
2 18 (11.76%) Analyst
2 18 (11.76%) Java Developer
3 15 (9.80%) Business Analyst
4 13 (8.50%) Scrum Master
5 12 (7.84%) Project Manager
6 10 (6.54%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (5.23%) Senior
8 7 (4.58%) Architect
8 7 (4.58%) Salesforce Developer
9 6 (3.92%) Delivery Manager
9 6 (3.92%) Lead
9 6 (3.92%) SAP Analyst
9 6 (3.92%) SAP Business Analyst
10 5 (3.27%) .NET Developer
10 5 (3.27%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (3.27%) Data Engineer
10 5 (3.27%) Development Manager
10 5 (3.27%) ServiceNow Developer
10 5 (3.27%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (14.38%) React
2 18 (11.76%) REST
3 15 (9.80%) Hibernate
3 15 (9.80%) JSON
4 14 (9.15%) .NET
4 14 (9.15%) Spring
4 14 (9.15%) Spring Boot
5 13 (8.50%) Web Services
6 12 (7.84%) JPA
6 12 (7.84%) XML
7 8 (5.23%) HTML
7 8 (5.23%) YAML
8 7 (4.58%) AngularJS
8 7 (4.58%) CSS
8 7 (4.58%) OAuth
8 7 (4.58%) RESTful
9 6 (3.92%) .NET Framework
9 6 (3.92%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (3.92%) Kafka
9 6 (3.92%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.50%) Product Ownership
2 10 (6.54%) Data Structures
3 9 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (3.27%) Algorithms
4 5 (3.27%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.61%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.61%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.96%) CMDB
6 3 (1.96%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.31%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.65%) IoT
8 1 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.65%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.65%) PMI
8 1 (0.65%) Replication
8 1 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.92%) Linux
2 4 (2.61%) Unix
3 3 (1.96%) Windows
4 2 (1.31%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.65%) Android
5 1 (0.65%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (92.81%) Agile
2 54 (35.29%) DevOps
3 36 (23.53%) Kanban
4 32 (20.92%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (20.26%) CI/CD
6 28 (18.30%) User Stories
7 27 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
8 26 (16.99%) Test Automation
9 22 (14.38%) Unit Testing
10 21 (13.73%) Project Management
11 18 (11.76%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 18 (11.76%) SDLC
11 18 (11.76%) Waterfall
12 17 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (11.11%) Microservices
13 16 (10.46%) Containerisation
14 15 (9.80%) Mentoring
15 14 (9.15%) Digital Transformation Programme
15 14 (9.15%) Front End Development
15 14 (9.15%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 40 (26.14%) Java
2 22 (14.38%) Python
3 20 (13.07%) C#
4 17 (11.11%) TypeScript
5 16 (10.46%) JavaScript
6 13 (8.50%) SQL
7 10 (6.54%) Bash
8 9 (5.88%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.31%) Scala
10 1 (0.65%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.65%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.65%) Swift
Qualifications
1 30 (19.61%) Security Cleared
2 29 (18.95%) SC Cleared
3 16 (10.46%) Degree
4 12 (7.84%) DV Cleared
5 6 (3.92%) PMI Certification
6 4 (2.61%) CBAP
6 4 (2.61%) PMP
7 3 (1.96%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.65%) CAPM
8 1 (0.65%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (15.03%) QA
2 4 (2.61%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.61%) GDPR
3 3 (1.96%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.31%) WCAG
5 1 (0.65%) GRC
System Software
1 26 (16.99%) Docker
2 2 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.65%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 26 (16.99%) Kubernetes
2 16 (10.46%) Ansible
2 16 (10.46%) Terraform
3 11 (7.19%) Prometheus
4 10 (6.54%) Grafana
5 7 (4.58%) Progress Chef
5 7 (4.58%) Puppet
6 6 (3.92%) Docker Swarm
6 6 (3.92%) Kibana
6 6 (3.92%) logstash
7 4 (2.61%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.65%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 16 (10.46%) Salesforce
2 10 (6.54%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.23%) SAP
4 7 (4.58%) Oracle
4 7 (4.58%) Splunk
5 6 (3.92%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.27%) Informatica
6 5 (3.27%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 5 (3.27%) Talend
7 4 (2.61%) Google
7 4 (2.61%) PagerDuty
8 2 (1.31%) VMware
9 1 (0.65%) Ariba
9 1 (0.65%) Cisco
9 1 (0.65%) Databricks
9 1 (0.65%) Embarcadero
9 1 (0.65%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.65%) Meraki
9 1 (0.65%) Workday
9 1 (0.65%) Zscaler