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 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 45 60
Rank change year-on-year -28 +15 -29
Contract jobs citing Scrum 13 22 16
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.96% 2.99% 1.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 3.23% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 19 12
10th Percentile £425 £319 £407
25th Percentile £444 £355 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £590
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -27.97% -1.67%
75th Percentile £556 £548 £600
90th Percentile £585 £635 £637
South West median daily rate £490 £450 £590
% change year-on-year +8.89% -23.73% -1.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
South West median hourly rate £62.50 - £67.02
% change year-on-year - - -3.73%

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 1,041 682 737
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 76.94% 92.54% 82.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 532 344 384
10th Percentile £325 £251 £300
25th Percentile £450 £379 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £590
90th Percentile £675 £734 £717
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 151 138
10th Percentile £21.26 £12.82 £48.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £18.87 £64.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £32.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -53.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £72.54 £70.00 £77.50
South West median hourly rate £62.00 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +146.52% -62.74% +8.00%

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 27 September 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 (7.69%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (7.69%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) AWS
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
1 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
2 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
1 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) JIRA
2 2 (15.38%) Git
3 1 (7.69%) JIRA Agile
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (7.69%) REST Assured
3 1 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Billing
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Military
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Scrum Master
3 2 (15.38%) Product Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Product Owner
4 1 (7.69%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Digital Product Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle Forms Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Product Delivery Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Software Developer
4 1 (7.69%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) .NET
1 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
1 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (7.69%) CSS
1 1 (7.69%) HTML
1 1 (7.69%) Jest
1 1 (7.69%) NestJS
1 1 (7.69%) OAuth
1 1 (7.69%) OAuth2
1 1 (7.69%) OpenID
1 1 (7.69%) Playwright
1 1 (7.69%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Low-Code
2 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Agile
2 4 (30.77%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (23.08%) AI
3 3 (23.08%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 3 (23.08%) Change Control
3 3 (23.08%) DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) Generative AI
3 3 (23.08%) Kanban
3 3 (23.08%) Product Backlog
3 3 (23.08%) Sprint Planning
3 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
3 3 (23.08%) User Experience
3 3 (23.08%) Workflow
4 2 (15.38%) Backlog Management
4 2 (15.38%) Business Case
4 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (15.38%) Product Roadmap
4 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
4 2 (15.38%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
2 1 (7.69%) Java
2 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.69%) PL/SQL
2 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (61.54%) Security Cleared
2 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.69%) QA
1 1 (7.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Blue Prism
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
2 1 (7.69%) Remedy
2 1 (7.69%) Salesforce