Scrum Contracts in Cardiff

Scrum
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff requiring Scrum skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Scrum over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 9 33
Rank change year-on-year -11 +24 -5
Contract jobs citing Scrum 10 28 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 6.25% 13.21% 3.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.85% 17.39% 4.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 27 9
10th Percentile £166 £381 £202
25th Percentile £235 £494 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £515 £285
Median % change year-on-year -20.52% +80.70% -40.00%
75th Percentile £530 £530 £445
90th Percentile £551 £647 £485
South Wales median daily rate £409 £515 £350
% change year-on-year -20.52% +47.14% -36.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 146 161 297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 91.25% 75.94% 88.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 132 233
10th Percentile £196 £189 £201
25th Percentile £269 £379 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +8.70% -0.54%
75th Percentile £525 £555 £575
90th Percentile £625 £644 £630
South Wales median daily rate £413 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -17.50% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 5
10th Percentile - £13.00 -
25th Percentile £12.21 £14.88 £13.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £18.00 £16.45
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +9.46% -12.29%
75th Percentile £23.75 £35.88 £23.75
90th Percentile £41.75 £46.60 £24.50
South Wales median hourly rate £20.62 £22.68 £18.14
% change year-on-year -9.09% +25.03% -16.12%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in Cardiff

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scrum in Cardiff.

Daily rate trend for Scrum in Cardiff

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in Cardiff

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in Cardiff over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in Cardiff

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scrum in Cardiff.

Hourly rate trend for Scrum in Cardiff

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (10.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
1 1 (10.00%) Selenium
1 1 (10.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (10.00%) tSQLt
General
1 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Delivery Manager
2 3 (30.00%) Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Agile Delivery Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Lead
3 2 (20.00%) Software Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Agile Development Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Automation Test Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Development Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Software Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Power Platform Developer
4 1 (10.00%) QA Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) QA Automation Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) QA Test Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Scrum Master
4 1 (10.00%) Software Development Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) .NET
2 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (20.00%) FHIR
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Core
3 1 (10.00%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (10.00%) Web Services
3 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Clustering
2 1 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) NHS
2 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) Kanban
2 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) Project Governance
2 3 (30.00%) Project Management
2 3 (30.00%) SDLC
3 2 (20.00%) Coaching
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (10.00%) High Availability
4 1 (10.00%) Integration Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (10.00%) Strategic Planning
4 1 (10.00%) Supplier Management
4 1 (10.00%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) HL7
1 1 (10.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (10.00%) RedGate