Scrum Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Scrum
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Scrum skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 46 60
Rank change year-on-year -9 +14 -27
Contract jobs citing Scrum 26 16 16
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 2.05% 2.81% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.62% 3.04% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 13 13
10th Percentile £419 - £414
25th Percentile £425 £413 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £580
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -13.79% -7.57%
75th Percentile £509 £573 £590
90th Percentile £588 £685 £633
South West median daily rate £475 £519 £575
% change year-on-year -8.43% -9.78% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
South West median hourly rate £65.00 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 993 526 875
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 78.37% 92.44% 83.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 488 298 481
10th Percentile £325 £235 £250
25th Percentile £413 £363 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £573 £600
90th Percentile £650 £655 £681
South West median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 82 194
10th Percentile £19.33 £18.51 £40.00
25th Percentile £56.13 £31.25 £45.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £66.13
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% -2.46% +7.52%
75th Percentile £67.75 £68.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £69.88 £80.00
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £60.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Scrum job vacancy trend in Bristol

Scrum
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Scrum

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in Bristol over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in Bristol

Scrum
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Scrum.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Scrum

Scrum
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.85%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.85%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Teamcenter
2 1 (3.85%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (11.54%) GCP
1 3 (11.54%) Power Platform
2 2 (7.69%) Asana
3 1 (3.85%) Azure
3 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.85%) Cloud Composer
3 1 (3.85%) GitHub
3 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (3.85%) SaaS
3 1 (3.85%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.69%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) Looker
1 3 (11.54%) Power BI
2 1 (3.85%) Big Data
2 1 (3.85%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 5 (19.23%) JIRA
2 1 (3.85%) Git
2 1 (3.85%) GitLab
2 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.85%) JIRA Agile
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (3.85%) REST Assured
2 1 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Finance
3 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
3 3 (11.54%) Telecoms
4 2 (7.69%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Billing
5 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (38.46%) Scrum Master
2 7 (26.92%) Developer
3 6 (23.08%) Lead
4 4 (15.38%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (7.69%) Project Manager
6 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared Project Manager
6 2 (7.69%) ServiceNow Manager
6 2 (7.69%) ServiceNow Project Manager
7 1 (3.85%) Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Business Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Data Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Java Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Java Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Product Delivery Manager
7 1 (3.85%) Product Manager
7 1 (3.85%) Product Owner
7 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) .NET
1 2 (7.69%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (3.85%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.85%) CSS
2 1 (3.85%) HTML
2 1 (3.85%) Jest
2 1 (3.85%) Kafka
2 1 (3.85%) LangChain
2 1 (3.85%) Ollama
2 1 (3.85%) Playwright
2 1 (3.85%) PySpark
2 1 (3.85%) REST
2 1 (3.85%) scikit-learn
2 1 (3.85%) Spring
2 1 (3.85%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.85%) CMDB
2 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.85%) Synthetic Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (73.08%) Agile
2 6 (23.08%) Analytics
3 5 (19.23%) AI
3 5 (19.23%) Data Engineering
3 5 (19.23%) Kanban
3 5 (19.23%) Project Delivery
3 5 (19.23%) Project Management
3 5 (19.23%) Sprint Planning
3 5 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (19.23%) Test Automation
4 4 (15.38%) Backlog Management
4 4 (15.38%) Change Control
4 4 (15.38%) ITSM
4 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (15.38%) Service Management
4 4 (15.38%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (15.38%) Workflow
5 3 (11.54%) Computer Science
5 3 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (11.54%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.69%) Java
1 2 (7.69%) SQL
2 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.85%) PL/SQL
2 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 13 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (11.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (11.54%) Degree
4 2 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (7.69%) PMI Certification
4 2 (7.69%) PMP
5 1 (3.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (15.38%) QA
2 2 (7.69%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Ansible
1 1 (3.85%) Grafana
1 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
1 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) Blue Prism
2 3 (11.54%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.85%) Google
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle
3 1 (3.85%) Remedy