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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 14 29
Rank change year-on-year -3 +15 -9
Contract jobs citing Scrum 12 18 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 7.23% 8.70% 4.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.84% 11.69% 4.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 17 9
10th Percentile £168 £369 £202
25th Percentile £215 £485 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £509 £285
Median % change year-on-year -19.50% +78.42% -42.13%
75th Percentile £532 £523 £469
90th Percentile £655 £526 £485
South Wales median daily rate £409 £509 £358
% change year-on-year -19.50% +42.24% -35.00%

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 153 154 259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 92.17% 74.40% 88.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 126 200
10th Percentile £191 £143 £190
25th Percentile £300 £370 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £488 £553 £586
90th Percentile £650 £629 £639
South Wales median daily rate £400 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -18.37% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 5
10th Percentile - £12.87 -
25th Percentile £12.21 £14.54 £13.00
Median hourly rate £13.08 £18.57 £16.45
Median % change year-on-year -29.56% +12.92% -15.12%
75th Percentile £23.75 £21.67 £23.75
90th Percentile - - £24.50
South Wales median hourly rate £22.50 £20.24 £18.14
% change year-on-year +11.19% +11.55% -15.11%

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

Scrum
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 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in Cardiff

Scrum
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 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (16.67%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (8.33%) PowerApps
4 1 (8.33%) Serverless
4 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (16.67%) Power BI
3 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (8.33%) JIRA
3 1 (8.33%) Postman
3 1 (8.33%) Selenium
3 1 (8.33%) SoapUI
3 1 (8.33%) SpecFlow
3 1 (8.33%) tSQLt
General
1 3 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Delivery Manager
2 4 (33.33%) Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Agile Delivery Manager
3 2 (16.67%) SQL Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Agile Development Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Automation Test Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Development Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Power Platform Developer
4 1 (8.33%) QA Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) QA Automation Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) QA Test Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Scrum Master
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior SQL Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Test Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) T-SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) .NET
1 3 (25.00%) Web Services
1 3 (25.00%) XML
2 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (16.67%) FHIR
3 1 (8.33%) .NET Core
3 1 (8.33%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (8.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (16.67%) Clustering
2 2 (16.67%) NHS
2 2 (16.67%) Replication
3 1 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Agile
2 3 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (25.00%) DevOps
2 3 (25.00%) Kanban
2 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (25.00%) Project Governance
2 3 (25.00%) Project Management
2 3 (25.00%) SDLC
3 2 (16.67%) API Testing
3 2 (16.67%) Coaching
3 2 (16.67%) High Availability
3 2 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
4 1 (8.33%) CRM
4 1 (8.33%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (8.33%) Information Security
4 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (8.33%) Test Automation
4 1 (8.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (8.33%) C#
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) HL7
2 1 (8.33%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) Atlassian
3 2 (16.67%) RedGate