Scrum Contracts in the West Midlands

Scrum
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 21 17
Rank change year-on-year -25 -4 +2
Contract jobs citing Scrum 71 193 335
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.72% 8.28% 9.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.43% 9.35% 10.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 148 253
10th Percentile £358 £413 £401
25th Percentile £365 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £535
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +0.93% +25.88%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £688 £666
England median daily rate £536 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.78% +4.55% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,602 2,065 3,185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.96% 88.63% 90.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,058 1,415 2,341
10th Percentile £276 £263 £275
25th Percentile £371 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +14.71%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 47 65
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.30 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.50 £19.00 £16.83
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% +12.93% +0.03%
75th Percentile £40.25 £27.94 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.75 £50.00 £21.40
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 West Midlands

Job postings citing Scrum as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scrum in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Scrum in the West Midlands

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scrum in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Scrum in the West Midlands

Scrum
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 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
Shropshire -2 29 £358 -33.58% 2
Birmingham +13 25 £525 -4.55% 23
Warwickshire -2 15 £675 +12.50% 32
Coventry -16 1 - - 8
Scrum
England

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 9 (12.68%) CICS
1 9 (12.68%) SAS
2 3 (4.23%) CMS
2 3 (4.23%) Drupal
3 2 (2.82%) Confluence
4 1 (1.41%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (2.82%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (4.23%) NetSuite
2 2 (2.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.82%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 13 (18.31%) Azure
2 10 (14.08%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (7.04%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (5.63%) Boomi
5 3 (4.23%) AWS
5 3 (4.23%) GCP
6 2 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.82%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.82%) GitHub
6 2 (2.82%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 2 (2.82%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 2 (2.82%) Serverless
7 1 (1.41%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (1.41%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.41%) Azure App Service
7 1 (1.41%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.41%) Miro
7 1 (1.41%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.41%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.41%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.23%) DNS
1 3 (4.23%) SSL
2 2 (2.82%) LAN
2 2 (2.82%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.82%) VPN
2 2 (2.82%) WAN
3 1 (1.41%) FTP
3 1 (1.41%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (16.90%) Amazon Redshift
1 12 (16.90%) MySQL
2 9 (12.68%) DB2
2 9 (12.68%) IDMS
3 2 (2.82%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.41%) Big Data
4 1 (1.41%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.41%) Flink
4 1 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 29 (40.85%) Git
2 7 (9.86%) JIRA
3 4 (5.63%) Ant
4 3 (4.23%) Artifactory
4 3 (4.23%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.23%) Selenium
4 3 (4.23%) Subversion
5 2 (2.82%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 22 (30.99%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (9.86%) Finance
3 5 (7.04%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.63%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.41%) Banking
6 1 (1.41%) Electronics
6 1 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.41%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.41%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 23 (32.39%) Developer
2 9 (12.68%) IBM Mainframe Developer
2 9 (12.68%) Mainframe Developer
3 8 (11.27%) SQL Developer
4 6 (8.45%) Analyst
4 6 (8.45%) Architect
4 6 (8.45%) Business Analyst
4 6 (8.45%) Project Manager
5 4 (5.63%) Infrastructure Manager
5 4 (5.63%) Lead
5 4 (5.63%) Network Infrastructure Manager
5 4 (5.63%) Network Manager
5 4 (5.63%) Senior
6 3 (4.23%) Infrastructure Test Manager
6 3 (4.23%) Salesforce Architect
6 3 (4.23%) Salesforce Solution Architect
6 3 (4.23%) Scrum Master
6 3 (4.23%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (4.23%) Test Manager
7 2 (2.82%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.04%) HTML
2 4 (5.63%) XML
3 3 (4.23%) ADO
3 3 (4.23%) CSS
3 3 (4.23%) Visualforce
4 2 (2.82%) .NET
4 2 (2.82%) JSON
4 2 (2.82%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (2.82%) OAuth
4 2 (2.82%) SAML
4 2 (2.82%) Spring
4 2 (2.82%) Web Services
5 1 (1.41%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.41%) Ajax
5 1 (1.41%) Guice
5 1 (1.41%) JDBC
5 1 (1.41%) ODBC
5 1 (1.41%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.41%) SOAP
5 1 (1.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.68%) IBM Mainframe
1 9 (12.68%) Mainframe
1 9 (12.68%) Product Ownership
2 5 (7.04%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.63%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.23%) Mobile App
4 3 (4.23%) Private Cloud
4 3 (4.23%) Taxonomies
5 2 (2.82%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.82%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.41%) CMDB
6 1 (1.41%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.41%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 10 (14.08%) Unix
2 9 (12.68%) zOS
3 2 (2.82%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (94.37%) Agile
2 23 (32.39%) Requirements Gathering
3 17 (23.94%) Continuous Integration
3 17 (23.94%) Stakeholder Management
4 16 (22.54%) Test Strategy
5 15 (21.13%) Configuration Management
5 15 (21.13%) Software Engineering
6 14 (19.72%) Analytics
7 13 (18.31%) Dashboard Development
7 13 (18.31%) Data Analytics
7 13 (18.31%) Data Extraction
7 13 (18.31%) DevOps
7 13 (18.31%) ETL
8 11 (15.49%) Process Improvement
9 10 (14.08%) Project Management
10 9 (12.68%) Roadmaps
10 9 (12.68%) Software Testing
10 9 (12.68%) User Stories
11 8 (11.27%) CI/CD
11 8 (11.27%) Product Backlog
Programming Languages
1 9 (12.68%) CLIST
1 9 (12.68%) COBOL
1 9 (12.68%) REXX
1 9 (12.68%) SELCOPY
1 9 (12.68%) SQL
2 7 (9.86%) Bash
2 7 (9.86%) Bourne shell
2 7 (9.86%) Korn
2 7 (9.86%) PL/SQL
3 5 (7.04%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.23%) Apex Code
4 3 (4.23%) Java
4 3 (4.23%) Perl
5 2 (2.82%) C#
5 2 (2.82%) Python
5 2 (2.82%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 19 (26.76%) SC Cleared
1 19 (26.76%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.45%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (7.04%) Degree
4 4 (5.63%) PMI Certification
4 4 (5.63%) PMP
5 3 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.82%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.41%) APMG
7 1 (1.41%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.41%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.41%) CCNA
7 1 (1.41%) CCNP
7 1 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.27%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.41%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (16.90%) Grafana
2 3 (4.23%) Ansible
3 2 (2.82%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (2.82%) Terraform
4 1 (1.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (18.31%) Salesforce
2 12 (16.90%) Denodo
2 12 (16.90%) Talend
3 11 (15.49%) IBM
4 9 (12.68%) Oracle
4 9 (12.68%) Syncsort
5 4 (5.63%) Microsoft
5 4 (5.63%) SAP
5 4 (5.63%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.82%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.41%) Dell
7 1 (1.41%) Planview
7 1 (1.41%) Sage