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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 42 42
Rank change year-on-year +6 0 +35
Contract jobs citing Scrum 5 6 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 1.58% 1.63% 3.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.74% 1.97% 3.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 23
10th Percentile £271 £406 £458
25th Percentile £358 £420 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -16.25% -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £438 £604 £625
90th Percentile - £638 -
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +3.77%

All Process and 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 287 304 687
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 90.82% 82.83% 92.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 214 524
10th Percentile £213 £234 £319
25th Percentile £350 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £450 £514
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -12.41% +0.74%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £605
90th Percentile £635 £626 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +1.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 7 11
10th Percentile £14.20 £17.31 £13.16
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.98 £13.37
Median hourly rate £15.91 £30.00 £16.40
Median % change year-on-year -46.97% +82.93% +21.48%
75th Percentile £25.15 £36.37 £21.75
90th Percentile - £37.25 £23.00
South East median hourly rate £20.73 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -63.85% +9.24% +64.53%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Job postings citing Scrum as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Job vacancy trend for Scrum 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 +7 5 £419 -26.70% 8
Scrum
South East

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon Bedrock
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (80.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) ChatGPT
1 4 (80.00%) Serverless
2 1 (20.00%) Textract
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (80.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (20.00%) Coordinator
2 1 (20.00%) Project Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Hugging Face
1 4 (80.00%) NumPy
1 4 (80.00%) Pandas
1 4 (80.00%) PyTorch
1 4 (80.00%) scikit-learn
2 3 (60.00%) Prophet
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) A/B Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Actionable Insight
2 4 (80.00%) Data Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Data Privacy
2 4 (80.00%) Data Science
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) LLM
2 4 (80.00%) Machine Learning
2 4 (80.00%) OCR
2 4 (80.00%) Performance Metrics
2 4 (80.00%) Statistical Analysis
2 4 (80.00%) Time Series Forecasting
2 4 (80.00%) Use Case
3 3 (60.00%) ARIMA
3 3 (60.00%) Clean Code
3 3 (60.00%) Decision Tree
3 3 (60.00%) Linear Regression
3 3 (60.00%) Logistic Regression
3 3 (60.00%) Random Forest
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (20.00%) PMP
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Desktop
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Sage