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 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 61 53
Rank change year-on-year +10 -8 -10
Contract jobs citing Scrum 19 10 21
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 2.91% 1.42% 2.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.19% 1.70% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 4 18
10th Percentile £359 £394 £413
25th Percentile £441 £414 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -9.09%
75th Percentile £500 £520 £488
90th Percentile £575 £602 £541
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £490 £475
% change year-on-year +5.10% +3.16% -11.42%

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 596 588 635
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 91.41% 83.76% 82.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 384 417
10th Percentile £250 £196 £283
25th Percentile £380 £370 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% +2.56% -0.41%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £613
90th Percentile £649 £746 £725
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -3.66% +3.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 10 22
10th Percentile £12.62 £19.65 £14.64
25th Percentile £13.25 £21.44 £25.31
Median hourly rate £18.87 £38.06 £30.52
Median % change year-on-year -50.42% +24.71% +64.97%
75th Percentile £25.00 £54.56 £67.50
90th Percentile £29.30 £57.53 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.34 £26.13 £27.50
% change year-on-year -6.83% -5.00% +55.19%

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 30 October 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 1 (5.26%) CMS
1 1 (5.26%) Confluence
1 1 (5.26%) OpenStack
1 1 (5.26%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (5.26%) Moqups
1 1 (5.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) Amazon S3
1 7 (36.84%) AWS
2 6 (31.58%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (31.58%) Amazon SQS
3 5 (26.32%) AWS KMS
3 5 (26.32%) Azure
3 5 (26.32%) Route 53
4 4 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (15.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (10.53%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (10.53%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (5.26%) Asana
7 1 (5.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
7 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
7 1 (5.26%) PowerApps
7 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Firewall
1 1 (5.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (36.84%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (31.58%) Amazon Aurora
2 6 (31.58%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (31.58%) DynamoDB
3 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (47.37%) Git
2 7 (36.84%) Jenkins
3 6 (31.58%) Maven
4 5 (26.32%) JUnit
4 5 (26.32%) SonarQube
5 3 (15.79%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (15.79%) DbUnit
5 3 (15.79%) jMock
5 3 (15.79%) Mockito
6 2 (10.53%) JIRA
7 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio
7 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (31.58%) Public Sector
2 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Legal
4 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Marketing
4 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Developer
2 7 (36.84%) Java Developer
3 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Scrum Master
4 2 (10.53%) AWS Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Lead
4 2 (10.53%) Lead Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Lead Java Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Product Owner
5 1 (5.26%) Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Applications Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Delivery Project Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Manual Tester
5 1 (5.26%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Tester
5 1 (5.26%) UI Designer
5 1 (5.26%) Web Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Web Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (36.84%) REST
1 7 (36.84%) Spring
1 7 (36.84%) Spring Boot
1 7 (36.84%) Web Services
2 6 (31.58%) ActiveMQ
2 6 (31.58%) SOAP
3 5 (26.32%) Hibernate
3 5 (26.32%) JPA
3 5 (26.32%) RESTful
3 5 (26.32%) Spring Batch
3 5 (26.32%) Spring Integration
4 3 (15.79%) .NET
4 3 (15.79%) AngularJS
4 3 (15.79%) Bootstrap
4 3 (15.79%) PowerMock
4 3 (15.79%) Spring Cloud
5 1 (5.26%) .NET Core
5 1 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (5.26%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (21.05%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Linux
2 1 (5.26%) Android
2 1 (5.26%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (94.74%) Agile
2 10 (52.63%) DevOps
3 7 (36.84%) Microservices
3 7 (36.84%) TDD
4 5 (26.32%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (26.32%) Kanban
5 4 (21.05%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 4 (21.05%) BDD
5 4 (21.05%) CI/CD
5 4 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (21.05%) Sprint Planning
5 4 (21.05%) Sprint Retrospective
6 3 (15.79%) Analytics
6 3 (15.79%) Containerisation
6 3 (15.79%) Data Migration
6 3 (15.79%) Decision-Making
6 3 (15.79%) Migration
6 3 (15.79%) Open Source
6 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (15.79%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) Java
2 6 (31.58%) SQL
3 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.53%) C#
5 1 (5.26%) Bash
5 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
1 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) Degree
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.26%) PMI Certification
3 1 (5.26%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.26%) NCSC
2 1 (5.26%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (36.84%) Docker
2 3 (15.79%) Postfix
3 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Grafana
1 3 (15.79%) Prometheus
2 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) Atlassian
2 3 (15.79%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (5.26%) Adobe
3 1 (5.26%) Sitecore
3 1 (5.26%) VMware