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 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 38 36
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 +21
Contract jobs citing Scrum 19 10 17
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 3.35% 3.52% 3.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.21% 3.83% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 9 10
10th Percentile £381 £317 £413
25th Percentile £513 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% +6.98% -14.00%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £600
90th Percentile £604 £641 £625
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%

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 451 261 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 79.40% 91.90% 85.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 192 343
10th Percentile £229 £201 £275
25th Percentile £363 £396 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% +5.32% -1.04%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £640 £650 £658
South East median daily rate £500 £503 £500
% change year-on-year -0.50% +0.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 8 35
10th Percentile £15.91 £15.85 £15.91
25th Percentile £16.35 £18.40 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.32 £38.25 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.10% +59.38% +45.45%
75th Percentile £29.61 £60.00 £30.00
90th Percentile £34.08 £67.50 £48.75
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -44.11% - -

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 1 March 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 1 March 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 0 17 £565 +51.47% 17
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 (10.53%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) Azure
2 4 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (15.79%) AWS
3 3 (15.79%) GCP
3 3 (15.79%) Google App Engine
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (5.26%) Azure AKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Metadata
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.26%) DynamoDB
2 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Git
2 3 (15.79%) GitLab
2 3 (15.79%) JIRA
3 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.26%) JUnit
3 1 (5.26%) Maven
3 1 (5.26%) Mockito
General
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Finance
2 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.53%) Law
4 1 (5.26%) Health Technology
4 1 (5.26%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Product Owner
2 4 (21.05%) ServiceNow Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) Business Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Data Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Product Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Senior
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.26%) C# Application Developer
5 1 (5.26%) C# Developer
5 1 (5.26%) C# Web Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Lead
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Applications Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior C# Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Web Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Web Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) REST
1 5 (26.32%) SOAP
2 3 (15.79%) OAuth
2 3 (15.79%) React
3 2 (10.53%) Flutter
3 2 (10.53%) JSON
3 2 (10.53%) XML
4 1 (5.26%) .NET
4 1 (5.26%) AngularJS
4 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET
4 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (5.26%) CSS
4 1 (5.26%) CSS3
4 1 (5.26%) Entity Framework
4 1 (5.26%) HTML
4 1 (5.26%) HTML5
4 1 (5.26%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.26%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (5.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (84.21%) Agile
2 8 (42.11%) Data Modelling
3 6 (31.58%) DevOps
4 5 (26.32%) Kanban
4 5 (26.32%) User Experience
5 4 (21.05%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 4 (21.05%) Backlog Refinement
5 4 (21.05%) ITIL
5 4 (21.05%) ITSM
5 4 (21.05%) Roadmaps
5 4 (21.05%) Sprint Planning
5 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (21.05%) User Stories
6 3 (15.79%) CI/CD
6 3 (15.79%) Product Vision
6 3 (15.79%) Service Delivery
6 3 (15.79%) Service Management
6 3 (15.79%) UX Design
6 3 (15.79%) Workflow
6 3 (15.79%) Workflow Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) JavaScript
2 2 (10.53%) Kotlin
3 1 (5.26%) C#
3 1 (5.26%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (47.37%) Security Cleared
2 5 (26.32%) DV Cleared
2 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Grafana
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
1 1 (5.26%) Rancher
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.26%) Salesforce