Scrum Contracts in the South East

Scrum
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 47 29 27
Rank change year-on-year -18 -2 -3
Contract jobs citing Scrum 225 430 553
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 4.07% 7.38% 7.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.80% 8.25% 7.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 276 374
10th Percentile £385 £406 £400
25th Percentile £425 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £540 £545
Median % change year-on-year -7.31% -0.92% +14.74%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £694 £695
England median daily rate £538 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 27 17
10th Percentile £59.50 - £42.50
25th Percentile £62.50 £42.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £45.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.56% -25.00% +3.45%
75th Percentile £72.50 £56.80 £65.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £67.60 £67.80
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year - +46.07% -21.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,689 5,214 6,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.87% 89.45% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,728 3,619 4,703
10th Percentile £243 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £405 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% +1.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 218 287
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.37 £12.23
25th Percentile £18.20 £23.49 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -13.46%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £48.67
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.85 £62.59
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Scrum in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Scrum in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Scrum in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Scrum in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the South East 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
Thames Valley -37 89 £530 -3.64% 29
Hampshire +2 82 £540 +2.37% 41
Berkshire -31 74 £544 +3.62% 18
Surrey -18 25 £441 -13.05% 7
West Sussex +12 18 £425 -24.58% 9
Buckinghamshire -4 10 £600 - 4
Oxfordshire +2 5 £485 -16.56% 7
East Sussex 0 4 £490 -37.97% 3
Middlesex +3 2 - -
Kent - 2 £575 - 11
Home Counties - 1 - -
Scrum
England

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 25 (11.11%) Confluence
2 12 (5.33%) Apache
3 11 (4.89%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.67%) OpenStack
5 4 (1.78%) CICS
5 4 (1.78%) SAS
6 2 (0.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.89%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.89%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.44%) Drupal
7 1 (0.44%) IIS
7 1 (0.44%) JBoss
7 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.44%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.44%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (1.78%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.44%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 3 (1.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.89%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.89%) VisionPLUS
3 1 (0.44%) Maximo
3 1 (0.44%) SAP MII
3 1 (0.44%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 35 (15.56%) Azure
2 21 (9.33%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (8.44%) AWS
4 14 (6.22%) Serverless
5 12 (5.33%) Power Platform
6 9 (4.00%) PaaS
7 7 (3.11%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (3.11%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (3.11%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (3.11%) Azure Functions
7 7 (3.11%) IaaS
7 7 (3.11%) SaaS
8 6 (2.67%) GitHub
9 5 (2.22%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (1.78%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.33%) Azure AKS
11 3 (1.33%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (1.33%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.78%) SNMP
1 13 (5.78%) Software-Defined Radio
2 11 (4.89%) BGP
2 11 (4.89%) Ethernet VPN
2 11 (4.89%) MPLS
2 11 (4.89%) Radio Access Network
2 11 (4.89%) VPN
3 6 (2.67%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.22%) Firewall
5 2 (0.89%) DNS
5 2 (0.89%) SAN
6 1 (0.44%) 3G
6 1 (0.44%) 4G
6 1 (0.44%) Broadband
6 1 (0.44%) DSL
6 1 (0.44%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.44%) Network Security
6 1 (0.44%) NFC
6 1 (0.44%) PPP
6 1 (0.44%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (16.44%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (9.33%) MongoDB
3 14 (6.22%) Relational Database
4 13 (5.78%) SQL Server
5 12 (5.33%) NoSQL
6 11 (4.89%) Power BI
7 8 (3.56%) MySQL
8 6 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (2.67%) RDBMS
9 5 (2.22%) Geospatial Data
10 4 (1.78%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.78%) Couchbase
10 4 (1.78%) DB2
10 4 (1.78%) GIS
10 4 (1.78%) IDMS
11 2 (0.89%) CouchDB
11 2 (0.89%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.89%) Power Query
12 1 (0.44%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 57 (25.33%) JIRA
2 50 (22.22%) Git
3 35 (15.56%) Robot Framework
4 24 (10.67%) GitLab
5 22 (9.78%) Jenkins
6 21 (9.33%) Bitbucket
7 14 (6.22%) Eclipse
7 14 (6.22%) GoogleTest
7 14 (6.22%) TestRail
8 8 (3.56%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (2.22%) JUnit
10 4 (1.78%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.78%) ClearCase
10 4 (1.78%) ClearQuest
10 4 (1.78%) Rational DOORS
10 4 (1.78%) Selenium
10 4 (1.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (1.33%) Subversion
12 2 (0.89%) Oracle APEX
12 2 (0.89%) Visual Studio
General
1 38 (16.89%) Social Skills
2 24 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (5.78%) Finance
3 13 (5.78%) Public Sector
4 9 (4.00%) Billing
5 8 (3.56%) Telecoms
6 5 (2.22%) Aerospace
6 5 (2.22%) Marketing
7 3 (1.33%) Automotive
7 3 (1.33%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (0.89%) Retail
9 1 (0.44%) Banking
9 1 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 46 (20.44%) Developer
2 33 (14.67%) Software Engineer
3 24 (10.67%) Analyst
3 24 (10.67%) Scrum Master
3 24 (10.67%) Senior
4 15 (6.67%) C++ Software Engineer
4 15 (6.67%) Test Engineer
5 13 (5.78%) Java Developer
6 12 (5.33%) Project Manager
7 11 (4.89%) Architect
7 11 (4.89%) Linux Engineer
7 11 (4.89%) Senior Software Engineer
8 10 (4.44%) Network Engineer
8 10 (4.44%) Product Owner
9 8 (3.56%) Java Engineer
9 8 (3.56%) Java Software Engineer
9 8 (3.56%) Lead
9 8 (3.56%) Senior Manager
10 7 (3.11%) Product Analyst
10 7 (3.11%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (12.00%) REST
2 24 (10.67%) HTML
3 22 (9.78%) CSS
4 21 (9.33%) SOAP
5 12 (5.33%) Spring
5 12 (5.33%) XML
6 11 (4.89%) AngularJS
6 11 (4.89%) Kafka
6 11 (4.89%) NETCONF
6 11 (4.89%) RESTCONF
6 11 (4.89%) RESTful
6 11 (4.89%) Web Services
6 11 (4.89%) YANG
7 9 (4.00%) .NET
8 8 (3.56%) Node.js
8 8 (3.56%) Spring Boot
9 7 (3.11%) React
10 6 (2.67%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (2.22%) ASP.NET MVC
11 5 (2.22%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 40 (17.78%) Product Ownership
2 14 (6.22%) PKI
3 12 (5.33%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (3.56%) Smart Meter
6 7 (3.11%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (2.67%) Client/Server
7 6 (2.67%) Mainframe
7 6 (2.67%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.78%) IBM Mainframe
9 3 (1.33%) Clustering
9 3 (1.33%) Replication
9 3 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.89%) Distributed Applications
10 2 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.89%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.89%) Robotics
10 2 (0.89%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.44%) Tandem
11 1 (0.44%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 60 (26.67%) Linux
2 44 (19.56%) Windows
3 19 (8.44%) Windows Server
4 12 (5.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (4.89%) Unix
6 8 (3.56%) Embedded Linux
7 7 (3.11%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (2.67%) VMS
9 4 (1.78%) zOS
10 1 (0.44%) Android
10 1 (0.44%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (82.22%) Agile
2 65 (28.89%) Kanban
3 53 (23.56%) Software Engineering
4 44 (19.56%) Test Automation
5 36 (16.00%) DevOps
6 35 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
7 34 (15.11%) CI/CD
8 25 (11.11%) OO
8 25 (11.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 24 (10.67%) TDD
10 22 (9.78%) Project Delivery
11 21 (9.33%) UML
12 19 (8.44%) Unit Testing
12 19 (8.44%) Workflow
13 18 (8.00%) Computer Science
13 18 (8.00%) Containerisation
13 18 (8.00%) Mentoring
13 18 (8.00%) Stakeholder Management
13 18 (8.00%) User Stories
14 17 (7.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 52 (23.11%) Python
2 43 (19.11%) Java
3 41 (18.22%) SQL
4 40 (17.78%) JavaScript
5 33 (14.67%) C++
6 23 (10.22%) C#
7 13 (5.78%) Bash
7 13 (5.78%) PowerShell
8 12 (5.33%) C
9 7 (3.11%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.78%) CLIST
10 4 (1.78%) COBOL
10 4 (1.78%) F#
10 4 (1.78%) Go
10 4 (1.78%) Perl
10 4 (1.78%) REXX
10 4 (1.78%) VBScript
11 3 (1.33%) SELCOPY
11 3 (1.33%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.89%) VB
Qualifications
1 69 (30.67%) Security Cleared
2 45 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 22 (9.78%) Degree
4 9 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.67%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.67%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.78%) PMP
7 3 (1.33%) CSPO
7 3 (1.33%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.89%) HNC
8 2 (0.89%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.44%) APMP
9 1 (0.44%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.44%) QA
2 7 (3.11%) RMADS
3 4 (1.78%) GDPR
3 4 (1.78%) PMO
4 3 (1.33%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.44%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (12.44%) Docker
2 16 (7.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (6.67%) Active Directory
4 13 (5.78%) Firmware
5 9 (4.00%) vSphere
6 6 (2.67%) VirtualBox
7 5 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.89%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.89%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.44%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 22 (9.78%) Ansible
2 19 (8.44%) Kubernetes
3 12 (5.33%) Terraform
4 7 (3.11%) vRealize
5 6 (2.67%) Packer
6 4 (1.78%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.89%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 2 (0.89%) SCCM
7 2 (0.89%) VxRail
7 2 (0.89%) WSUS
8 1 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.44%) Kibana
Vendors
1 22 (9.78%) VMware
2 18 (8.00%) Microsoft
3 15 (6.67%) Oracle
4 14 (6.22%) Google
5 13 (5.78%) Atlassian
6 6 (2.67%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.22%) Ab Initio
7 5 (2.22%) Arqiva
7 5 (2.22%) Veritas
8 4 (1.78%) HP
8 4 (1.78%) IBM
8 4 (1.78%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.78%) SAP
8 4 (1.78%) SolarWinds
8 4 (1.78%) Syncsort
9 3 (1.33%) Adobe
9 3 (1.33%) CA Agile Central
9 3 (1.33%) Sparx
10 2 (0.89%) Dell
11 1 (0.44%) EMC