Scrum Contracts in Northern Ireland

Scrum
UK > Northern Ireland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 24 28 27
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 -
Contract jobs citing Scrum 1 5 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 0.68% 2.49% 1.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 3.25% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - - £340
25th Percentile £635 - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -20.00% -
75th Percentile £645 - £525
90th Percentile - - £540
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 112 154 172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 75.68% 76.62% 81.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 81 89
10th Percentile £210 £171 £145
25th Percentile £331 £300 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £438
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -8.57% +6.71%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £500
90th Percentile £660 £623 £550
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 12 11
10th Percentile - £13.30 £10.22
25th Percentile £12.25 £13.87 £10.26
Median hourly rate £13.94 £15.50 £15.74
Median % change year-on-year -10.06% -1.52% +12.43%
75th Percentile £23.54 £17.00 £21.00
90th Percentile £31.88 £18.33 -
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in Northern Ireland

Scrum
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Daily rate trend for Scrum in Northern Ireland

Scrum
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 25 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
County Londonderry - 1 £640 -
Scrum
UK

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Product Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Community of Practice
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Product Backlog
1 1 (100.00%) Product Management
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft