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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 48 61
Rank change year-on-year -30 +13 -33
Contract jobs citing Scrum 14 22 17
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 1.03% 3.03% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 3.28% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 19 13
10th Percentile £425 £319 £414
25th Percentile £444 £355 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £590
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -27.97% -1.67%
75th Percentile £556 £524 -
90th Percentile £585 £595 £636
South West median daily rate £490 £463 £590
% change year-on-year +5.95% -21.61% -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 1,046 670 764
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 76.69% 92.41% 82.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 536 340 410
10th Percentile £325 £253 £292
25th Percentile £430 £375 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.86% -6.97% -6.54%
75th Percentile £600 £593 £597
90th Percentile £675 £746 £701
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 140 141
10th Percentile £21.27 £12.82 £50.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £18.87 £65.00
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 £70.38 £77.50
South West median hourly rate £62.00 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +146.52% -62.74% +3.85%

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 20 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 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
1 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (7.14%) ResourceLink
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
1 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Composer
2 1 (7.14%) GCP
2 1 (7.14%) GitHub
2 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
2 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
2 1 (7.14%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Big Data
1 1 (7.14%) BigQuery
1 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
1 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) Git
3 1 (7.14%) GitLab
3 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.14%) JIRA Agile
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (7.14%) REST Assured
3 1 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Billing
2 1 (7.14%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Military
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Scrum Master
3 2 (14.29%) Product Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Product Owner
4 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Digital Product Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (7.14%) GCP Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) GCP DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) GCP DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Java Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle Forms Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Product Delivery Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Software Developer
4 1 (7.14%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) .NET
1 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
1 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (7.14%) CSS
1 1 (7.14%) HTML
1 1 (7.14%) Jest
1 1 (7.14%) Kafka
1 1 (7.14%) NestJS
1 1 (7.14%) OAuth
1 1 (7.14%) OAuth2
1 1 (7.14%) OpenID
1 1 (7.14%) Playwright
1 1 (7.14%) PySpark
1 1 (7.14%) React
1 1 (7.14%) REST
1 1 (7.14%) Spring
1 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Low-Code
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) Agile
2 4 (28.57%) AI
2 4 (28.57%) DevOps
2 4 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (21.43%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 3 (21.43%) Change Control
3 3 (21.43%) Generative AI
3 3 (21.43%) Kanban
3 3 (21.43%) Product Backlog
3 3 (21.43%) Sprint Planning
3 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
3 3 (21.43%) User Experience
3 3 (21.43%) Workflow
4 2 (14.29%) Backlog Management
4 2 (14.29%) Business Case
4 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (14.29%) Product Management
4 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
4 2 (14.29%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Java
1 2 (14.29%) SQL
1 2 (14.29%) TypeScript
2 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.14%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.14%) QA
1 1 (7.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Ansible
1 1 (7.14%) Grafana
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Blue Prism
2 1 (7.14%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
2 1 (7.14%) Remedy
2 1 (7.14%) Salesforce