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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 29 39
Rank change year-on-year -11 +10 -2
Contract jobs citing Scrum 32 6 10
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 3.76% 2.73% 2.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.85% 2.88% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 6 9
10th Percentile £350 £256 £411
25th Percentile £481 £305 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £448 £475
Median % change year-on-year +19.98% -5.68% -20.83%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £599 £663 £625
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%

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 660 208 394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 77.46% 94.55% 82.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 469 143 272
10th Percentile £315 £225 £251
25th Percentile £425 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £469
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +1.20% -1.18%
75th Percentile £595 £581 £575
90th Percentile £638 £642 £650
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.80% -0.05% -1.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 26 29
10th Percentile £15.05 - £15.85
25th Percentile £15.15 £14.20 £18.00
Median hourly rate £16.35 £14.73 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.04% -41.10% +81.82%
75th Percentile £18.32 £24.50 £28.75
90th Percentile £24.06 £62.50 £48.75
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £26.34 £47.50
% change year-on-year +99.35% -44.56% -5.00%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -12 30 £538 +67.45% 11
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 (6.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 10 (31.25%) Azure
2 8 (25.00%) AWS
2 8 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (18.75%) GCP
3 6 (18.75%) Google App Engine
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (3.13%) Azure AKS
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.13%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) DocumentDB
2 2 (6.25%) Metadata
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.13%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (34.38%) Git
2 6 (18.75%) GitLab
3 4 (12.50%) JIRA
3 4 (12.50%) NUnit
4 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.13%) JUnit
4 1 (3.13%) Maven
4 1 (3.13%) Mockito
General
1 8 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.63%) Finance
3 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Law
5 1 (3.13%) Automotive
5 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.13%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 13 (40.63%) Developer
2 8 (25.00%) ServiceNow Developer
3 5 (15.63%) Architect
3 5 (15.63%) Product Owner
4 4 (12.50%) .NET Developer
5 3 (9.38%) ServiceNow Architect
5 3 (9.38%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Business Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Data Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Product Manager
7 1 (3.13%) .NET Software Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Data Scientist
7 1 (3.13%) Delivery Manager
7 1 (3.13%) Java Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Lead Product Manager
7 1 (3.13%) Project Manager
7 1 (3.13%) Senior
7 1 (3.13%) Senior Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (53.13%) REST
2 12 (37.50%) SOAP
3 6 (18.75%) React
4 5 (15.63%) .NET
4 5 (15.63%) ASP.NET Web API
4 5 (15.63%) OAuth
5 4 (12.50%) .NET Framework
5 4 (12.50%) ASP.NET
5 4 (12.50%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 3 (9.38%) Entity Framework
6 3 (9.38%) Middleware
6 3 (9.38%) NHibernate
7 2 (6.25%) Flutter
7 2 (6.25%) JSON
7 2 (6.25%) XML
8 1 (3.13%) ActiveMQ
8 1 (3.13%) Hibernate
8 1 (3.13%) JPA
8 1 (3.13%) vLLM
8 1 (3.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.88%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.38%) CMDB
3 1 (3.13%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (90.63%) Agile
2 13 (40.63%) DevOps
3 11 (34.38%) ITSM
4 10 (31.25%) Data Modelling
4 10 (31.25%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (28.13%) CAD
6 8 (25.00%) ITIL
6 8 (25.00%) User Experience
7 7 (21.88%) CI/CD
7 7 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (18.75%) Service Delivery
8 6 (18.75%) TDD
9 5 (15.63%) Kanban
9 5 (15.63%) Mentoring
9 5 (15.63%) Service Management
9 5 (15.63%) SOLID
9 5 (15.63%) UX Design
9 5 (15.63%) Workflow
9 5 (15.63%) Workflow Development
10 4 (12.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (46.88%) JavaScript
2 5 (15.63%) C#
2 5 (15.63%) SQL
3 4 (12.50%) TypeScript
4 2 (6.25%) Kotlin
5 1 (3.13%) Java
Qualifications
1 14 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 9 (28.13%) SC Cleared
3 8 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (6.25%) CSPO
5 1 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.13%) Degree
5 1 (3.13%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.88%) QA
System Software
1 6 (18.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 4 (12.50%) Terraform
3 1 (3.13%) Grafana
3 1 (3.13%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.13%) Rancher
Vendors
1 11 (34.38%) ServiceNow
2 4 (12.50%) Oracle
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft