Scrum Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Scrum
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Scrum skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 43 44
Rank change year-on-year +8 +1 +10
Contract jobs citing Scrum 15 11 14
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 3.38% 3.08% 2.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.00% 3.55% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 7
10th Percentile £356 £412 £454
25th Percentile £411 £475 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £573 £625 -
90th Percentile £586 £639 £610
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.64% -0.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 375 310 486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 84.46% 86.83% 90.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 223 363
10th Percentile £223 £235 £279
25th Percentile £356 £406 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £610
90th Percentile £638 £650 £742
South East median daily rate £500 £511 £518
% change year-on-year -2.06% -1.45% +1.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 6 17
10th Percentile - £15.35 £17.95
25th Percentile £15.91 £22.03 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.14% +50.00% +54.84%
75th Percentile £29.61 £49.81 £30.00
90th Percentile £32.81 £55.63 -
South East median hourly rate £22.50 £47.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year -52.38% -14.10% +37.50%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Scrum job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Scrum
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Scrum

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in Buckinghamshire

Scrum
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Scrum

Scrum
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 31 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Milton Keynes +11 13 £425 -15.00% 16
Aylesbury - 1 - -
Scrum
South East

Scrum
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 2 (13.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Azure
2 5 (33.33%) AWS
2 5 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (26.67%) Amazon Bedrock
3 4 (26.67%) Amazon S3
3 4 (26.67%) Amazon SageMaker
3 4 (26.67%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (26.67%) AWS Step Functions
3 4 (26.67%) ChatGPT
3 4 (26.67%) Serverless
4 1 (6.67%) Textract
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (26.67%) Big Data
2 1 (6.67%) Metadata
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (46.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Health Technology
3 1 (6.67%) Law
3 1 (6.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Data Scientist
2 3 (20.00%) Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Product Owner
3 2 (13.33%) Product Manager
4 1 (6.67%) C# Application Developer
4 1 (6.67%) C# Web Application Developer
4 1 (6.67%) C# Web Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Delivery Director
4 1 (6.67%) Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Lead Product Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Business Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Applications Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior C# Application Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior C# Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Web Applications Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) Hugging Face
1 4 (26.67%) NumPy
1 4 (26.67%) Pandas
1 4 (26.67%) PyTorch
1 4 (26.67%) scikit-learn
2 3 (20.00%) Prophet
3 2 (13.33%) React
4 1 (6.67%) .NET
4 1 (6.67%) .NET Framework
4 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
4 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET
4 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (6.67%) CSS
4 1 (6.67%) CSS3
4 1 (6.67%) Entity Framework
4 1 (6.67%) Flutter
4 1 (6.67%) HTML
4 1 (6.67%) JSON
4 1 (6.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Agile
2 6 (40.00%) DevOps
3 5 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
4 4 (26.67%) A/B Testing
4 4 (26.67%) Actionable Insight
4 4 (26.67%) Data Engineering
4 4 (26.67%) Data Privacy
4 4 (26.67%) Data Science
4 4 (26.67%) Kanban
4 4 (26.67%) LLM
4 4 (26.67%) Machine Learning
4 4 (26.67%) OCR
4 4 (26.67%) Statistical Analysis
4 4 (26.67%) Time Series Forecasting
4 4 (26.67%) Use Case
5 3 (20.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 3 (20.00%) Backlog Refinement
5 3 (20.00%) Clean Code
5 3 (20.00%) Product Vision
5 3 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) Python
1 4 (26.67%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) C#
2 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.67%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) CSPO
4 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) GDPR
2 3 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Sage
2 1 (6.67%) Salesforce