Scrum Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Scrum
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Scrum skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 58 44
Rank change year-on-year -1 -14 -2
Contract jobs citing Scrum 14 11 22
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.94% 1.59% 2.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.17% 1.83% 3.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 17
10th Percentile £407 £394 £378
25th Percentile £413 £414 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £520 £478 £488
90th Percentile £615 £484 £538
West Midlands median daily rate £519 £495 £475
% change year-on-year +4.75% +4.21% -10.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Scrum falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 644 601 620
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 89.44% 87.10% 84.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 404 406
10th Percentile £221 £197 £286
25th Percentile £370 £381 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £638 £600
90th Percentile £638 £738 £694
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 16 18
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.70 £13.03
25th Percentile £13.75 £21.63 £14.78
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.23 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.57% -49.63% +233.33%
75th Percentile £20.38 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £25.00 £56.25 £67.88
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £23.60 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.04% +2.61% +29.80%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Scrum relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Scrum job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Scrum
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Scrum.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Scrum

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in Birmingham over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in Birmingham

Scrum
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) CMS
2 1 (7.14%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (7.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (7.14%) Moqups
2 1 (7.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (7.14%) Asana
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (7.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
1 1 (7.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
1 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Git
1 3 (21.43%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Visual Studio
2 1 (7.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (14.29%) Finance
1 2 (14.29%) Legal
1 2 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Banking
2 1 (7.14%) Marketing
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Project Manager
1 3 (21.43%) Scrum Master
2 2 (14.29%) Delivery Project Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Product Owner
3 1 (7.14%) Agile Delivery Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Agile Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Agile Scrum Master
3 1 (7.14%) Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Designer
3 1 (7.14%) DevOps Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Financial Services Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Master Data Manager
3 1 (7.14%) ScrumMaster Project Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Tester
3 1 (7.14%) UI/UX Designer
3 1 (7.14%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (7.14%) .NET Core
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (7.14%) Blazor
2 1 (7.14%) CSS
2 1 (7.14%) CSS3
2 1 (7.14%) HTML
2 1 (7.14%) HTML5
2 1 (7.14%) jQuery
2 1 (7.14%) Middleware
2 1 (7.14%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Android
1 1 (7.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) Agile
2 7 (50.00%) DevOps
3 6 (42.86%) Analytics
3 6 (42.86%) Migration
4 5 (35.71%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 5 (35.71%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (35.71%) Data Migration
4 5 (35.71%) Decision-Making
4 5 (35.71%) Sprint Planning
5 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 4 (28.57%) Product Backlog
6 3 (21.43%) Backlog Management
6 3 (21.43%) Kanban
6 3 (21.43%) Sprint Retrospective
6 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (14.29%) Creative Thinking
7 2 (14.29%) IT Strategy
7 2 (14.29%) Matrix Organization
7 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (14.29%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) Bash
2 1 (7.14%) C#
2 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) PMI Certification
2 2 (14.29%) PMP
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.14%) NCSC
2 1 (7.14%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Adobe
2 1 (7.14%) Sitecore
2 1 (7.14%) VMware