Scrum Contract Job Trends in Central London

Scrum
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Scrum skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 42 35
Rank change year-on-year -23 -7 +3
Contract jobs citing Scrum 89 106 136
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.35% 5.13% 5.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.86% 5.48% 6.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 65 99
10th Percentile £423 £408 £423
25th Percentile £485 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.60% +19.05% -12.50%
75th Percentile £669 £725 £644
90th Percentile £750 £838 £723
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £63.75 - -
25th Percentile £67.50 £86.25 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £87.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +165.15% -
75th Percentile £82.50 £88.75 -
90th Percentile £86.25 - -
London median hourly rate £87.50 £65.00 £32.29
% change year-on-year +34.62% +101.30% -55.92%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,308 1,935 2,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 86.93% 93.61% 91.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,565 1,262 1,520
10th Percentile £356 £350 £363
25th Percentile £453 £432 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £798
London median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.18% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 32 25
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.08 £20.04
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £24.47 £32.50 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -24.72% +16.86% -20.54%
75th Percentile £54.00 £50.75 £41.84
90th Percentile £64.13 £63.75 £71.75
London median hourly rate £36.00 £32.25 £30.16
% change year-on-year +11.63% +6.93% -27.33%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Scrum relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Scrum job vacancy trend in Central London

Scrum
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Scrum.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Scrum

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in Central London over the 6 months to 12 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in Central London

Scrum
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Scrum.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Scrum

Scrum
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Scrum in Central London over the 6 months to 12 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Scrum in Central London

Scrum
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the Central London region over the 6 months to 12 July 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
City of London -20 78 £572 -10.27% 37
West End of London - 9 £550 - 1
City of Westminster +2 8 £550 +46.67% 1
Southwark -1 1 £600 -
Scrum
London

Scrum
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 17 (19.10%) Confluence
2 3 (3.37%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.25%) CMS
3 2 (2.25%) Ethereum
3 2 (2.25%) Hyperledger
3 2 (2.25%) IIS
3 2 (2.25%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.12%) Apache
4 1 (1.12%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.12%) JBoss
4 1 (1.12%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (4.49%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.12%) Actimize
2 1 (1.12%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.12%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 22 (24.72%) Azure
2 16 (17.98%) AWS
3 10 (11.24%) GitHub
4 8 (8.99%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (6.74%) GCP
5 6 (6.74%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (5.62%) SaaS
7 4 (4.49%) Power Automate
7 4 (4.49%) Power Platform
7 4 (4.49%) PowerApps
8 3 (3.37%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (3.37%) Entra ID
8 3 (3.37%) Serverless
9 2 (2.25%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.25%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.25%) Azure Functions
9 2 (2.25%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (2.25%) Azure Stack
9 2 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.25%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.49%) HTTP
2 2 (2.25%) Internet
2 2 (2.25%) Intranet
2 2 (2.25%) Network Security
3 1 (1.12%) Firewall
3 1 (1.12%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.49%) Metadata
1 4 (4.49%) MongoDB
1 4 (4.49%) NoSQL
1 4 (4.49%) Relational Database
1 4 (4.49%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.37%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.37%) Power BI
3 2 (2.25%) Big Data
3 2 (2.25%) Data Vault
3 2 (2.25%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.25%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.12%) Db2
4 1 (1.12%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.12%) MySQL
4 1 (1.12%) PowerCenter
4 1 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 33 (37.08%) JIRA
2 14 (15.73%) Git
3 11 (12.36%) Jenkins
4 8 (8.99%) JUnit
5 5 (5.62%) GitLab
6 3 (3.37%) Mockito
6 3 (3.37%) Selenium
7 2 (2.25%) Ant
7 2 (2.25%) Artifactory
7 2 (2.25%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.25%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.25%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.25%) Liquibase
7 2 (2.25%) Postman
7 2 (2.25%) TeamCity
7 2 (2.25%) Vite
7 2 (2.25%) Xcode
7 2 (2.25%) Zephyr
8 1 (1.12%) Gatling
8 1 (1.12%) REST Assured
General
1 35 (39.33%) Finance
2 34 (38.20%) Social Skills
3 22 (24.72%) Banking
4 12 (13.48%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (10.11%) Public Sector
6 8 (8.99%) Law
7 5 (5.62%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (4.49%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (4.49%) Police
8 4 (4.49%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (3.37%) Legal
9 3 (3.37%) Manufacturing
10 2 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (2.25%) Marketing
10 2 (2.25%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (1.12%) General Ledger
11 1 (1.12%) German Language
11 1 (1.12%) Investment Banking
11 1 (1.12%) Retail
11 1 (1.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (23.60%) Developer
2 13 (14.61%) Analyst
2 13 (14.61%) Senior
3 9 (10.11%) Java Developer
4 8 (8.99%) Project Manager
5 7 (7.87%) Business Analyst
6 6 (6.74%) Delivery Manager
6 6 (6.74%) Product Owner
6 6 (6.74%) Scrum Master
7 5 (5.62%) Architect
7 5 (5.62%) QA Engineer
8 4 (4.49%) Senior Manager
8 4 (4.49%) Systems Analyst
9 3 (3.37%) Business Systems Analyst
9 3 (3.37%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.37%) iOS Developer
9 3 (3.37%) Salesforce Architect
9 3 (3.37%) Senior Developer
9 3 (3.37%) ServiceNow Developer
9 3 (3.37%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (17.98%) REST
2 10 (11.24%) RESTful
3 9 (10.11%) Spring
4 8 (8.99%) Spring Boot
5 7 (7.87%) Kafka
6 6 (6.74%) CSS
6 6 (6.74%) HTML
6 6 (6.74%) SOAP
7 5 (5.62%) .NET
7 5 (5.62%) AngularJS
7 5 (5.62%) Web Services
8 3 (3.37%) ADO
8 3 (3.37%) Bootstrap
8 3 (3.37%) gRPC
8 3 (3.37%) J2EE
8 3 (3.37%) JSON
8 3 (3.37%) Playwright
8 3 (3.37%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (3.37%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (3.37%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 22 (24.72%) Product Ownership
2 7 (7.87%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.49%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.37%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.37%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.37%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.37%) Mobile Banking
4 3 (3.37%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.25%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.25%) Life Science
5 2 (2.25%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.12%) AS400
6 1 (1.12%) CMDB
6 1 (1.12%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.12%) Freedom of Information Act
6 1 (1.12%) LIMS
6 1 (1.12%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.12%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.49%) Linux
1 4 (4.49%) Unix
2 3 (3.37%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (94.38%) Agile
2 27 (30.34%) Stakeholder Management
3 24 (26.97%) CI/CD
4 21 (23.60%) DevOps
5 17 (19.10%) Continuous Improvement
6 16 (17.98%) Kanban
7 14 (15.73%) User Stories
8 13 (14.61%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (14.61%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 13 (14.61%) Sprint Planning
9 12 (13.48%) AI
9 12 (13.48%) Test Automation
10 11 (12.36%) Microservices
10 11 (12.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 9 (10.11%) Containerisation
11 9 (10.11%) Data Governance
11 9 (10.11%) Data Modelling
11 9 (10.11%) Migration
11 9 (10.11%) Sprint Retrospective
11 9 (10.11%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (17.98%) SQL
2 15 (16.85%) Java
3 12 (13.48%) Python
4 8 (8.99%) JavaScript
5 7 (7.87%) C#
6 6 (6.74%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.37%) PL/SQL
7 3 (3.37%) Swift
8 2 (2.25%) Go
9 1 (1.12%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.12%) Bash
9 1 (1.12%) COBOL
9 1 (1.12%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.12%) RPG
9 1 (1.12%) Scala
9 1 (1.12%) X++
Qualifications
1 14 (15.73%) Security Cleared
2 11 (12.36%) Degree
2 11 (12.36%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.74%) PMI Certification
4 5 (5.62%) PMP
5 3 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.25%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.25%) CSPO
7 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.12%) CBAP
7 1 (1.12%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.12%) IIBA
7 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.12%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (16.85%) QA
2 6 (6.74%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.62%) GDPR
4 4 (4.49%) Data Quality
5 3 (3.37%) PMO
6 2 (2.25%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 2 (2.25%) GxP
6 2 (2.25%) WCAG
7 1 (1.12%) GRC
7 1 (1.12%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.12%) ISO 20022
7 1 (1.12%) PSD2
7 1 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (1.12%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (12.36%) Docker
2 3 (3.37%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (10.11%) Kubernetes
2 8 (8.99%) Ansible
3 7 (7.87%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (13.48%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.87%) ServiceNow
3 6 (6.74%) Oracle
4 5 (5.62%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.37%) Databricks
5 3 (3.37%) IBM
5 3 (3.37%) Informatica
6 2 (2.25%) Google
6 2 (2.25%) Sitecore
6 2 (2.25%) Workday
7 1 (1.12%) Cisco
7 1 (1.12%) F5
7 1 (1.12%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.12%) LexisNexis
7 1 (1.12%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.12%) OutSystems
7 1 (1.12%) Pega
7 1 (1.12%) Planview
7 1 (1.12%) Sybase
7 1 (1.12%) Vermilion