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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 62 26
Rank change year-on-year +16 -36 -6
Contract jobs citing Scrum 21 17 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 2.88% 1.85% 5.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.12% 2.23% 6.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 13 42
10th Percentile £318 £414 £426
25th Percentile £345 £530 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £590 £590
Median % change year-on-year -27.97% - +7.27%
75th Percentile £528 - £675
90th Percentile £599 £636 £735
South West median daily rate £450 £590 £600
% change year-on-year -23.73% -1.67% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £65.00
25th Percentile - - £65.13
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
75th Percentile - - £82.32
90th Percentile - - £84.79
South West median hourly rate - £67.02 £69.62
% change year-on-year - -3.73% +6.29%

All Process and 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 674 761 914
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 92.33% 82.72% 86.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 341 408 623
10th Percentile £256 £284 £308
25th Percentile £375 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £590 £599 £650
90th Percentile £738 £701 £725
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 141 111
10th Percentile £12.82 £50.00 £20.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £65.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £32.50 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.57% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £75.63
90th Percentile £71.13 £77.50 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £64.57
% change year-on-year -62.74% +4.53% +11.05%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Job postings citing Scrum as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for Scrum 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 18 September 2025.

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 and Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Adobe XD
1 1 (4.76%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 12 (57.14%) Azure
2 5 (23.81%) Power Automate
3 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.76%) AWS
4 1 (4.76%) Figma
4 1 (4.76%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (28.57%) 5G
2 5 (23.81%) HTTP
3 4 (19.05%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Git
1 5 (23.81%) JIRA
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle Forms
General
1 13 (61.90%) Social Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Billing
2 6 (28.57%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.76%) Finance
3 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Developer
2 7 (33.33%) Project Manager
3 6 (28.57%) OSS Project Manager
3 6 (28.57%) Telecoms Manager
3 6 (28.57%) Telecoms Project Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Senior
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Citrix Specialist
5 1 (4.76%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Designer
5 1 (4.76%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Desktop Specialist
5 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (4.76%) Product Owner
5 1 (4.76%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
5 1 (4.76%) Security Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Security Project Manager
5 1 (4.76%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) AngularJS
1 5 (23.81%) JMS
1 5 (23.81%) React
1 5 (23.81%) SOAP
1 5 (23.81%) XML
1 5 (23.81%) XSD
2 1 (4.76%) CSS
2 1 (4.76%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.76%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Windows
2 3 (14.29%) Windows Server
2 3 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (9.52%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (95.24%) Agile
2 7 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 7 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 7 (33.33%) Project Management
2 7 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 7 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 7 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (28.57%) CRM
3 6 (28.57%) Fault Management
3 6 (28.57%) Network Management
3 6 (28.57%) Test Automation
3 6 (28.57%) Waterfall
4 5 (23.81%) OO
4 5 (23.81%) OOP
4 5 (23.81%) Roadmaps
5 3 (14.29%) Technical Debt
6 2 (9.52%) Backlog Refinement
6 2 (9.52%) Business Case
6 2 (9.52%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) SQL
2 4 (19.05%) JavaScript
2 4 (19.05%) PowerShell
3 2 (9.52%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 7 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 6 (28.57%) PMI Certification
3 6 (28.57%) PMP
4 2 (9.52%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) QA
2 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Virtual Desktop
1 4 (19.05%) XenDesktop
2 3 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 3 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) Amdocs OSS
2 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (19.05%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Amdocs
1 6 (28.57%) Blue Prism
1 6 (28.57%) Ciena
1 6 (28.57%) Ericsson
1 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 6 (28.57%) NetCracker
1 6 (28.57%) Nokia
2 5 (23.81%) ServiceNow
3 4 (19.05%) Citrix
4 3 (14.29%) Ivanti
5 2 (9.52%) Oracle
5 2 (9.52%) VMware
6 1 (4.76%) Adobe
6 1 (4.76%) Google
6 1 (4.76%) Hotjar