Scrum Contracts with Work from Home Options

Scrum
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 38 21
Rank change year-on-year -9 -17 +5
Contract jobs citing Scrum 583 1,388 3,445
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.86% 5.52% 7.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.39% 6.16% 8.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 424 938 2,287
10th Percentile £360 £406 £406
25th Percentile £425 £463 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% +3.81% +6.06%
75th Percentile £580 £638 £623
90th Percentile £666 £735 £702
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 67 68
10th Percentile £51.25 - -
25th Percentile £52.19 £42.50 £39.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +46.07% -23.28%
75th Percentile £68.75 £74.38 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.25 £85.00 £65.54
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year - +44.44% -20.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,282 22,550 40,272
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.98% 89.75% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,890 15,929 29,247
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 522 532
10th Percentile £15.05 £18.63 £13.75
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £69.31 £55.38
90th Percentile £75.18 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Scrum
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Scrum as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Scrum trend for jobs with a WFH option

Scrum
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Scrum.

Scrum daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Scrum over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Scrum daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Scrum
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Scrum.

Scrum hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Scrum
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Scrum over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Scrum hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 42 (7.20%) Confluence
2 13 (2.23%) CMS
3 10 (1.72%) SAS
4 9 (1.54%) CICS
5 7 (1.20%) SharePoint
6 6 (1.03%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.86%) Apache
8 3 (0.51%) Drupal
8 3 (0.51%) WordPress
9 2 (0.34%) GeoServer
9 2 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
9 2 (0.34%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.17%) EPiServer
10 1 (0.17%) IIS
10 1 (0.17%) Mule
10 1 (0.17%) SharePoint 2013
10 1 (0.17%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 16 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.86%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.17%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.17%) InVision
4 1 (0.17%) Sketch
4 1 (0.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (2.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.86%) Primavera
4 3 (0.51%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.34%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.34%) BusinessWorks
5 2 (0.34%) Endur
5 2 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.34%) SAP Hybris
5 2 (0.34%) SAP PM
5 2 (0.34%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.17%) Magento
6 1 (0.17%) Maximo
6 1 (0.17%) Shopify
6 1 (0.17%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 156 (26.76%) Azure
2 91 (15.61%) AWS
3 83 (14.24%) Azure DevOps
4 37 (6.35%) Serverless
5 28 (4.80%) Power Platform
6 26 (4.46%) GCP
6 26 (4.46%) SaaS
7 22 (3.77%) Amazon S3
8 21 (3.60%) Entra ID
8 21 (3.60%) GitHub
9 16 (2.74%) AWS CloudFormation
9 16 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (2.57%) Dynamics 365
10 15 (2.57%) OpenShift
11 14 (2.40%) Azure Service Bus
12 13 (2.23%) Azure Data Factory
12 13 (2.23%) Azure Functions
12 13 (2.23%) PaaS
13 12 (2.06%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.20%) PPP
1 7 (1.20%) TCP/IP
2 5 (0.86%) DNS
2 5 (0.86%) Firewall
3 4 (0.69%) HTTP
3 4 (0.69%) SNMP
4 3 (0.51%) 5G
5 2 (0.34%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.34%) FTP
5 2 (0.34%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (0.34%) Software-Defined Radio
5 2 (0.34%) VPN
6 1 (0.17%) DHCP
6 1 (0.17%) DMZ
6 1 (0.17%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.17%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.17%) Intranet
6 1 (0.17%) MPLS
6 1 (0.17%) VLAN
6 1 (0.17%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (12.52%) SQL Server
2 30 (5.15%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (3.26%) Power BI
5 16 (2.74%) Data Lake
6 15 (2.57%) Azure SQL Database
7 13 (2.23%) DB2
8 12 (2.06%) MongoDB
8 12 (2.06%) MySQL
8 12 (2.06%) Relational Database
9 11 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (1.54%) IDMS
10 9 (1.54%) Oracle Database
11 8 (1.37%) NoSQL
12 7 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (1.20%) Power Query
13 6 (1.03%) Big Data
13 6 (1.03%) Redis
14 5 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 102 (17.50%) JIRA
2 58 (9.95%) Git
3 34 (5.83%) Jenkins
4 21 (3.60%) GitLab
4 21 (3.60%) Selenium
5 17 (2.92%) JMeter
6 15 (2.57%) Postman
7 14 (2.40%) SpecFlow
7 14 (2.40%) Visual Studio
8 13 (2.23%) Bitbucket
9 12 (2.06%) Cypress.io
10 10 (1.72%) Artifactory
11 7 (1.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 6 (1.03%) Appium
12 6 (1.03%) Cucumber
12 6 (1.03%) JUnit
12 6 (1.03%) WebDriver
13 4 (0.69%) TeamCity
13 4 (0.69%) TestNG
13 4 (0.69%) TestRail
General
1 193 (33.10%) Social Skills
2 111 (19.04%) Finance
3 71 (12.18%) Public Sector
4 53 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 40 (6.86%) Banking
6 28 (4.80%) Marketing
7 26 (4.46%) Influencing Skills
8 17 (2.92%) Retail
9 16 (2.74%) Legal
9 16 (2.74%) Manufacturing
10 13 (2.23%) Front Office
10 13 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (2.23%) Telecoms
11 11 (1.89%) Electronics
12 8 (1.37%) Back Office
12 8 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (1.03%) Law
14 4 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.69%) German Language
15 3 (0.51%) French Language
Job Titles
1 126 (21.61%) Developer
2 88 (15.09%) Senior
3 75 (12.86%) Analyst
4 62 (10.63%) Project Manager
5 59 (10.12%) Scrum Master
6 52 (8.92%) Business Analyst
7 38 (6.52%) Senior Developer
8 30 (5.15%) Lead
9 27 (4.63%) Software Developer
10 24 (4.12%) Architect
11 21 (3.60%) Azure Developer
11 21 (3.60%) Consultant
11 21 (3.60%) Data Engineer
12 19 (3.26%) Delivery Manager
12 19 (3.26%) Java Developer
13 17 (2.92%) Product Owner
13 17 (2.92%) Senior Software Developer
14 16 (2.74%) C# Developer
15 15 (2.57%) DevOps Engineer
16 14 (2.40%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (10.46%) .NET
2 49 (8.40%) XML
3 34 (5.83%) React
4 31 (5.32%) HTML
5 30 (5.15%) CSS
6 29 (4.97%) REST
7 26 (4.46%) AngularJS
8 24 (4.12%) RESTful
8 24 (4.12%) Web Services
9 22 (3.77%) .NET Framework
10 17 (2.92%) OAuth
11 15 (2.57%) AWS CDK
11 15 (2.57%) JSON
12 14 (2.40%) .NET Core
13 13 (2.23%) GraphQL
13 13 (2.23%) Node.js
13 13 (2.23%) Spring
13 13 (2.23%) Spring Boot
14 11 (1.89%) ARM Templates
15 10 (1.72%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 88 (15.09%) Product Ownership
2 10 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (1.72%) IBM Mainframe
2 10 (1.72%) Mainframe
2 10 (1.72%) Mobile App
3 9 (1.54%) Data Structures
4 8 (1.37%) Algorithms
4 8 (1.37%) Over-the-Top Content
4 8 (1.37%) Replication
4 8 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (1.37%) Video\Live Streaming
5 7 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (1.20%) Derivative
5 7 (1.20%) Fixed Income
5 7 (1.20%) Management Information System
6 6 (1.03%) Contactless
6 6 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (1.03%) Public Cloud
6 6 (1.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (6.17%) Linux
2 24 (4.12%) Windows
3 18 (3.09%) Unix
4 9 (1.54%) zOS
5 7 (1.20%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.86%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.51%) Android
8 3 (0.51%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.34%) VMS
9 2 (0.34%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 523 (89.71%) Agile
2 139 (23.84%) DevOps
3 130 (22.30%) Kanban
4 104 (17.84%) CI/CD
5 92 (15.78%) Problem-Solving
6 87 (14.92%) Project Management
7 81 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
8 73 (12.52%) User Stories
9 72 (12.35%) Test Automation
10 67 (11.49%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 61 (10.46%) Software Engineering
12 55 (9.43%) SDLC
13 51 (8.75%) Analytics
14 49 (8.40%) Roadmaps
15 48 (8.23%) Business Analysis
16 46 (7.89%) TDD
17 45 (7.72%) User Experience
18 44 (7.55%) Continuous Integration
18 44 (7.55%) Project Delivery
19 43 (7.38%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 90 (15.44%) SQL
2 74 (12.69%) C#
3 73 (12.52%) Java
4 65 (11.15%) Python
5 59 (10.12%) JavaScript
6 52 (8.92%) PowerShell
7 32 (5.49%) TypeScript
8 21 (3.60%) Bicep
9 13 (2.23%) Bash
10 11 (1.89%) COBOL
10 11 (1.89%) REXX
10 11 (1.89%) Shell Script
11 10 (1.72%) C++
11 10 (1.72%) Scala
11 10 (1.72%) SELCOPY
12 9 (1.54%) CLIST
13 8 (1.37%) PL/SQL
14 7 (1.20%) PHP
15 6 (1.03%) Perl
16 5 (0.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 76 (13.04%) Degree
2 75 (12.86%) Security Cleared
3 62 (10.63%) SC Cleared
4 22 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.60%) PMP
6 19 (3.26%) PMI Certification
7 12 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.20%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.03%) ISEB
10 5 (0.86%) CSPO
10 5 (0.86%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.69%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.51%) APMP
12 3 (0.51%) CBAP
12 3 (0.51%) MBA
12 3 (0.51%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 2 (0.34%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.17%) Numerate Degree
14 1 (0.17%) SAFe Agilist
14 1 (0.17%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (9.09%) QA
2 19 (3.26%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.20%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.20%) PMO
4 6 (1.03%) GDPR
5 5 (0.86%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (0.51%) GxP
6 3 (0.51%) P3O
7 2 (0.34%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 2 (0.34%) PSD2
8 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.17%) HL7
8 1 (0.17%) NIST
8 1 (0.17%) SEPA
8 1 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (5.83%) Docker
2 26 (4.46%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.51%) VirtualBox
5 2 (0.34%) Firmware
5 2 (0.34%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (5.32%) Kubernetes
1 31 (5.32%) Terraform
2 25 (4.29%) Grafana
3 21 (3.60%) Ansible
4 9 (1.54%) Prometheus
4 9 (1.54%) Puppet
5 8 (1.37%) Kibana
6 6 (1.03%) Progress Chef
7 5 (0.86%) logstash
8 4 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.34%) Argo
9 2 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.34%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.34%) TIBCO Hawk
10 1 (0.17%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.17%) PingFederate
10 1 (0.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 98 (16.81%) Microsoft
2 43 (7.38%) Oracle
3 26 (4.46%) SAP
4 23 (3.95%) Salesforce
5 15 (2.57%) Google
5 15 (2.57%) IBM
6 11 (1.89%) Splunk
6 11 (1.89%) Syncsort
7 10 (1.72%) Databricks
8 8 (1.37%) Atlassian
9 7 (1.20%) ServiceNow
10 5 (0.86%) Cadence
11 4 (0.69%) Conga
11 4 (0.69%) Denodo
11 4 (0.69%) DocuSign
11 4 (0.69%) HP
11 4 (0.69%) Informatica
11 4 (0.69%) Red Hat
11 4 (0.69%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 4 (0.69%) Talend