Scrum Contracts in Scotland

Scrum
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 21 16
Rank change year-on-year -13 -5 0
Contract jobs citing Scrum 122 251 296
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 5.63% 9.16% 8.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.37% 9.91% 9.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 185 211
10th Percentile £400 £409 £406
25th Percentile £429 £435 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £520 £553 £539
90th Percentile £575 £600 £588
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 6
10th Percentile - £51.46 £37.43
25th Percentile - £57.05 £38.65
Median hourly rate £68.00 £66.37 £44.07
Median % change year-on-year +2.46% +50.59% -27.39%
75th Percentile - £75.68 £47.99
90th Percentile - £81.27 £49.39
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year - +44.44% -20.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,914 2,534 3,209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.37% 92.45% 93.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,167 1,803 2,272
10th Percentile £225 £260 £250
25th Percentile £375 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 55 51
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.78 £18.90
Median hourly rate £19.50 £16.50 £39.99
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -58.74% -0.03%
75th Percentile £48.00 £50.74 £49.76
90th Percentile £61.10 £67.13 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in Scotland

Scrum
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Scrum in Scotland

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in Scotland over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in Scotland

Scrum
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Scrum in Scotland

Scrum
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 14 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
Edinburgh -10 49 £464 -5.89% 11
Glasgow -9 35 £475 - 17
South Lanarkshire - 12 £550 -
West Lothian -3 6 £575 -6.12%
Lanarkshire - 3 - - 6
Perthshire +1 1 - -
Aberdeenshire - 1 - - 1
Scrum
UK

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 13 (10.66%) Confluence
2 4 (3.28%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.64%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.82%) EPiServer
Applications
1 1 (0.82%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 41 (33.61%) AWS
2 26 (21.31%) Amazon S3
3 24 (19.67%) Serverless
4 23 (18.85%) AWS Lambda
5 22 (18.03%) AWS CloudFormation
6 21 (17.21%) Azure
7 14 (11.48%) OpenShift
8 12 (9.84%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (9.02%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (6.56%) AWS CodePipeline
11 7 (5.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (5.74%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 7 (5.74%) Amazon SageMaker
12 6 (4.92%) Power Platform
13 5 (4.10%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (4.10%) GCP
14 4 (3.28%) Power Automate
14 4 (3.28%) Rekognition
14 4 (3.28%) Textract
15 3 (2.46%) AWS CodeCommit
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.64%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (20.49%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (11.48%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (8.20%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (5.74%) MongoDB
5 6 (4.92%) Informix
5 6 (4.92%) Oracle Database
5 6 (4.92%) Relational Database
6 5 (4.10%) InfluxDB
7 3 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.46%) Power BI
8 2 (1.64%) DB2
8 2 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 37 (30.33%) JIRA
2 9 (7.38%) GitLab
3 4 (3.28%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.28%) Maven
4 3 (2.46%) webpack
5 2 (1.64%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.64%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.64%) Git
General
1 49 (40.16%) Public Sector
2 32 (26.23%) Social Skills
3 10 (8.20%) Finance
4 9 (7.38%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (6.56%) Banking
6 7 (5.74%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.64%) Law
7 2 (1.64%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.82%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.82%) Legal
8 1 (0.82%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (19.67%) Developer
1 24 (19.67%) Senior
2 22 (18.03%) Lead
3 19 (15.57%) Analyst
4 14 (11.48%) Delivery Manager
4 14 (11.48%) Senior Delivery Manager
4 14 (11.48%) Senior Manager
5 13 (10.66%) Business Analyst
6 12 (9.84%) Java Developer
7 9 (7.38%) Data Engineer
8 8 (6.56%) Scrum Master
9 7 (5.74%) Project Manager
10 5 (4.10%) Backend Developer
10 5 (4.10%) Technical Analyst
11 4 (3.28%) Automation Developer
11 4 (3.28%) Consultant
11 4 (3.28%) Database Engineer
11 4 (3.28%) Product Owner
11 4 (3.28%) Software Engineer
11 4 (3.28%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (18.85%) AWS CDK
2 13 (10.66%) Spring
3 12 (9.84%) REST
4 8 (6.56%) React
4 8 (6.56%) Spring Boot
5 7 (5.74%) Kafka
6 6 (4.92%) CSS
6 6 (4.92%) HTML
7 5 (4.10%) Web Services
8 4 (3.28%) Spring Batch
9 3 (2.46%) GraphQL
9 3 (2.46%) Node.js
9 3 (2.46%) OAuth
9 3 (2.46%) PostGIS
9 3 (2.46%) RESTful
10 2 (1.64%) ADO
10 2 (1.64%) Java EE
10 2 (1.64%) JSON
10 2 (1.64%) RabbitMQ
11 1 (0.82%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.66%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.56%) Data Structures
2 8 (6.56%) Replication
3 6 (4.92%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (4.10%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.10%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.64%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.64%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.82%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.56%) Linux
2 5 (4.10%) Unix
3 4 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.64%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.82%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (90.98%) Agile
2 29 (23.77%) Kanban
3 27 (22.13%) Roadmaps
4 25 (20.49%) Coaching
5 21 (17.21%) Project Management
6 20 (16.39%) DevOps
7 18 (14.75%) CI/CD
7 18 (14.75%) Infrastructure as Code
8 16 (13.11%) Software Delivery
8 16 (13.11%) User Experience
8 16 (13.11%) User Stories
9 15 (12.30%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 14 (11.48%) Service Design
11 13 (10.66%) Migration
11 13 (10.66%) PRINCE2
12 12 (9.84%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (9.84%) Problem-Solving
13 11 (9.02%) Epics
13 11 (9.02%) Microservices
14 10 (8.20%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (18.85%) Java
2 22 (18.03%) SQL
3 19 (15.57%) TypeScript
4 18 (14.75%) Python
5 8 (6.56%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.28%) Perl
7 3 (2.46%) Kotlin
7 3 (2.46%) Scala
8 2 (1.64%) Bash
8 2 (1.64%) Groovy
8 2 (1.64%) Rust
8 2 (1.64%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.82%) C
9 1 (0.82%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (9.02%) Degree
1 11 (9.02%) SC Cleared
1 11 (9.02%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.82%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.38%) Disclosure Scotland
2 6 (4.92%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.28%) PMO
4 3 (2.46%) QA
5 2 (1.64%) P3O
System Software
1 18 (14.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (17.21%) Grafana
2 12 (9.84%) Kubernetes
3 9 (7.38%) Ansible
4 3 (2.46%) Kibana
5 2 (1.64%) Terraform
6 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.82%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.82%) SCCM
6 1 (0.82%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 11 (9.02%) Oracle
2 6 (4.92%) Cadence
3 4 (3.28%) Commvault
3 4 (3.28%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.28%) Splunk
4 3 (2.46%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.64%) Greenplum
6 1 (0.82%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.82%) Optimizely