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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 35 36
Rank change year-on-year -12 +1 +8
Contract jobs citing Scrum 25 5 7
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 3.16% 1.60% 1.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.03% 1.78% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 4 7
10th Percentile £360 £271 £406
25th Percentile £470 £358 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £419 £525
Median % change year-on-year +22.99% -20.24% -2.33%
75th Percentile £580 £438 £601
90th Percentile £608 - £636
South East median daily rate £550 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%

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 621 281 296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 78.51% 90.06% 82.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 418 163 208
10th Percentile £346 £215 £246
25th Percentile £450 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £435 £454
Median % change year-on-year +20.69% -4.13% -12.66%
75th Percentile £595 £538 £538
90th Percentile £638 £635 £625
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £511
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.07% -1.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 40 7
10th Percentile - £14.20 £17.31
25th Percentile £12.84 £14.98 £19.98
Median hourly rate £14.05 £15.91 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% -46.97% +82.93%
75th Percentile £17.50 £25.15 £36.37
90th Percentile £43.75 - £37.25
South East median hourly rate £50.24 £21.39 £57.35
% change year-on-year +134.89% -62.70% +6.33%

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 23 September 2026.

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 23 September 2026. 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 -8 24 £515 +22.99% 16
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 1 (4.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (28.00%) Azure
2 6 (24.00%) AWS
3 3 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (12.00%) GCP
3 3 (12.00%) Google App Engine
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Functions
5 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) DocumentDB
2 2 (8.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (36.00%) Git
2 3 (12.00%) GitLab
2 3 (12.00%) NUnit
3 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 9 (36.00%) Public Sector
2 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Finance
5 1 (4.00%) Automotive
5 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) Developer
1 9 (36.00%) Product Manager
2 4 (16.00%) .NET Developer
2 4 (16.00%) Senior
2 4 (16.00%) Senior Manager
2 4 (16.00%) Senior Product Manager
2 4 (16.00%) ServiceNow Developer
3 3 (12.00%) Architect
3 3 (12.00%) ITIL Manager
3 3 (12.00%) ServiceNow Architect
3 3 (12.00%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow Manager
5 1 (4.00%) .NET Software Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) C# Software Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.00%) ITSM Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Scrum Master
5 1 (4.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (56.00%) REST
2 7 (28.00%) .NET
2 7 (28.00%) SOAP
3 6 (24.00%) ASP.NET Web API
3 6 (24.00%) React
4 4 (16.00%) .NET Framework
4 4 (16.00%) ASP.NET
4 4 (16.00%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 4 (16.00%) Entity Framework
4 4 (16.00%) NHibernate
4 4 (16.00%) Terraform
5 3 (12.00%) .NET Core
5 3 (12.00%) Middleware
6 2 (8.00%) OAuth
7 1 (4.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (44.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (12.00%) CMDB
2 3 (12.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (100.00%) Agile
2 13 (52.00%) ITIL
3 11 (44.00%) Service Delivery
4 9 (36.00%) PRINCE2
4 9 (36.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 8 (32.00%) DevOps
6 7 (28.00%) CI/CD
6 7 (28.00%) ITSM
6 7 (28.00%) Service Design
6 7 (28.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (24.00%) CAD
7 6 (24.00%) Roadmaps
7 6 (24.00%) SOLID
7 6 (24.00%) TDD
8 5 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (16.00%) Product Backlog
9 4 (16.00%) Product Roadmap
9 4 (16.00%) Product Strategy
9 4 (16.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 11 (44.00%) JavaScript
2 7 (28.00%) C#
3 6 (24.00%) SQL
3 6 (24.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (56.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (24.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (24.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 4 (16.00%) Oracle
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft