ScrumMaster Project Manager Contracts

Project Manager - Scrum Master
UK

The median Project Manager - Scrum Master daily rate in the UK is £413 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 568 695 815
Rank change year-on-year +127 +120 -157
Contract jobs requiring a ScrumMaster Project Manager 14 17 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.028% 0.045%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.030% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 29
10th Percentile - £415 £400
25th Percentile £400 £426 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £475 £530
Median % change year-on-year -13.05% -10.38% +11.58%
75th Percentile £578 £700 £588
90th Percentile £588 £713 £617
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £445 £575
% change year-on-year -7.19% -22.61% +27.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,476 56,906 85,219
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,420 39,710 59,771
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,641 1,614 2,118
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.92 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

ScrumMaster Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured ScrumMaster Project Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ScrumMaster Project Manager in the UK

ScrumMaster Project Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ScrumMaster Project Manager.

Daily rate trend for ScrumMaster Project Manager in the UK

ScrumMaster Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ScrumMaster Project Manager over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ScrumMaster Project Manager in the UK

ScrumMaster Project Manager
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ScrumMaster Project Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 24 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
England +124 14 £413 -24.91%
London +107 12 £475 -24.00%
Work from Home +119 4 £400 -11.11%
UK excluding London +50 2 £413 -7.19%
North of England +40 1 £413 -13.05%
Midlands +37 1 £413 -
North West +19 1 £413 -13.05%
East Midlands - 1 £413 -

ScrumMaster Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, ScrumMaster Project Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring ScrumMaster Project Manager in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Scrum
1 14 (100.00%) Agile
2 7 (50.00%) Banking
3 6 (42.86%) Finance
3 6 (42.86%) SQL
3 6 (42.86%) Python
4 5 (35.71%) Splunk
4 5 (35.71%) DevOps
5 4 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
5 4 (28.57%) Project Delivery
5 4 (28.57%) Product Ownership
6 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (21.43%) PRINCE2
6 3 (21.43%) PMP
7 2 (14.29%) PMI Certification
7 2 (14.29%) Salesforce
7 2 (14.29%) Java
7 2 (14.29%) Project Management
7 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (14.29%) Six Sigma
7 2 (14.29%) Service Management
7 2 (14.29%) Change Management
7 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
7 2 (14.29%) Risk Management
7 2 (14.29%) Degree
7 2 (14.29%) Investment Banking
7 2 (14.29%) SDLC
7 2 (14.29%) Target Operating Model
7 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
7 2 (14.29%) Coaching

ScrumMaster Project Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) 4G
1 1 (7.14%) 5G
1 1 (7.14%) BGP
1 1 (7.14%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 7 (50.00%) Banking
2 6 (42.86%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Investment Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 2 (14.29%) Mobile Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Agile
1 14 (100.00%) Scrum
2 5 (35.71%) DevOps
3 4 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
3 4 (28.57%) Project Delivery
4 3 (21.43%) PRINCE2
4 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (14.29%) Backlog Refinement
5 2 (14.29%) Business Case
5 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (14.29%) Change Management
5 2 (14.29%) Coaching
5 2 (14.29%) Lean Six Sigma
5 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 2 (14.29%) Project Management
5 2 (14.29%) Risk Management
5 2 (14.29%) Service Management
5 2 (14.29%) Six Sigma
5 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Python
1 6 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) PMP
2 2 (14.29%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Splunk
2 2 (14.29%) Salesforce
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco
3 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow