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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 55 45
Rank change year-on-year +5 -10 -11
Contract jobs citing Scrum 97 78 105
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 4.26% 3.93% 4.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.83% 4.26% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 39 69
10th Percentile £405 £410 £425
25th Percentile £476 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £501 £575
Median % change year-on-year +14.77% -12.87% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £639 £688
90th Percentile £763 £703 £730
London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £33.00
London median hourly rate £61.22 £70.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -12.55% +112.12% -53.68%

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 2,010 1,833 2,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 88.20% 92.44% 89.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,380 1,196 1,643
10th Percentile £362 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £573 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% -7.17%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £763 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 17 24
10th Percentile £18.75 £21.70 £19.23
25th Percentile £20.50 £24.66 £21.93
Median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -20.54%
75th Percentile £42.65 £35.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £58.92 £46.27 £60.58
London median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.33
% change year-on-year +1.43% +15.40% -22.23%

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 26 March 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
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 26 March 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 -1 91 £597 +19.16% 48
West End of London +9 3 £550 +2.80% 2
City of Westminster +4 3 £550 +18.92%
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 15 (15.46%) Confluence
2 5 (5.15%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.06%) Ethereum
3 2 (2.06%) Hyperledger
3 2 (2.06%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.03%) Apache
4 1 (1.03%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (1.03%) CMS
4 1 (1.03%) JBoss
4 1 (1.03%) SAS
4 1 (1.03%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 5 (5.15%) MS Visio
2 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (2.06%) Trello
4 1 (1.03%) Notion
Business Applications
1 5 (5.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.06%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.03%) Actimize
3 1 (1.03%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.03%) R3 Corda
3 1 (1.03%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 20 (20.62%) Azure
2 12 (12.37%) AWS
3 10 (10.31%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (7.22%) GitHub
5 5 (5.15%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (5.15%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.09%) GCP
6 3 (3.09%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (3.09%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 2 (2.06%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.06%) Google Play
7 2 (2.06%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.06%) Serverless
8 1 (1.03%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.03%) AWS CodeBuild
8 1 (1.03%) Azure Stack
8 1 (1.03%) Figma
8 1 (1.03%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.03%) Smartsheet
8 1 (1.03%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.09%) LAN
1 3 (3.09%) Structured Cabling
1 3 (3.09%) WAN
2 2 (2.06%) HTTP
3 1 (1.03%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.12%) Power BI
2 3 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.09%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.09%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.09%) Tableau
3 2 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.06%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.06%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.06%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.03%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.03%) Big Data
4 1 (1.03%) Data Vault
4 1 (1.03%) DB2
4 1 (1.03%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.03%) Metadata
4 1 (1.03%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 35 (36.08%) JIRA
2 18 (18.56%) Git
3 7 (7.22%) JUnit
4 6 (6.19%) Jenkins
5 5 (5.15%) Bitbucket
5 5 (5.15%) Cucumber
6 3 (3.09%) GitLab
6 3 (3.09%) Postman
6 3 (3.09%) Selenium
7 2 (2.06%) Ant
7 2 (2.06%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.06%) Liquibase
7 2 (2.06%) Mockito
7 2 (2.06%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (2.06%) Vite
8 1 (1.03%) Robot Framework
General
1 50 (51.55%) Finance
2 26 (26.80%) Social Skills
3 20 (20.62%) Banking
4 17 (17.53%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (10.31%) Front Office
6 8 (8.25%) Law
7 7 (7.22%) Public Sector
8 5 (5.15%) Investment Banking
9 4 (4.12%) Legal
9 4 (4.12%) Telecoms
10 3 (3.09%) Back Office
10 3 (3.09%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (3.09%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (3.09%) Retail
11 2 (2.06%) Marketing
11 2 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (2.06%) Police
12 1 (1.03%) Financial Institution
12 1 (1.03%) German Language
Job Titles
1 24 (24.74%) Developer
2 20 (20.62%) Senior
3 17 (17.53%) Analyst
4 15 (15.46%) Project Manager
5 13 (13.40%) Java Developer
6 11 (11.34%) Business Analyst
7 9 (9.28%) Senior Manager
8 8 (8.25%) Delivery Manager
8 8 (8.25%) Scrum Master
9 7 (7.22%) Technical Analyst
10 6 (6.19%) Product Manager
11 5 (5.15%) Payments Analyst
12 4 (4.12%) IT Manager
12 4 (4.12%) IT Project Manager
12 4 (4.12%) Senior Developer
12 4 (4.12%) Senior Project Manager
13 3 (3.09%) CRM Manager
13 3 (3.09%) Senior Analyst
13 3 (3.09%) Senior Delivery Manager
13 3 (3.09%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.34%) REST
2 7 (7.22%) .NET
2 7 (7.22%) Spring Boot
3 6 (6.19%) React
3 6 (6.19%) RESTful
4 5 (5.15%) AngularJS
4 5 (5.15%) CSS
4 5 (5.15%) HTML
4 5 (5.15%) Spring
5 4 (4.12%) Kafka
5 4 (4.12%) Web Services
6 3 (3.09%) J2EE
6 3 (3.09%) Jetpack Compose
6 3 (3.09%) Playwright
6 3 (3.09%) ZK
7 2 (2.06%) Android Jetpack
7 2 (2.06%) gRPC
7 2 (2.06%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (2.06%) RxJava
7 2 (2.06%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 18 (18.56%) Product Ownership
2 11 (11.34%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.12%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (3.09%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.09%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.09%) Digital Wallet
4 3 (3.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (2.06%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.06%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.06%) PMI
5 2 (2.06%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.03%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.03%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.03%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.03%) Equities
6 1 (1.03%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.03%) New Media
6 1 (1.03%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.06%) Android
1 2 (2.06%) Apple iOS
1 2 (2.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (86.60%) Agile
2 27 (27.84%) Kanban
3 23 (23.71%) Stakeholder Management
4 21 (21.65%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (20.62%) CI/CD
6 19 (19.59%) DevOps
7 17 (17.53%) Project Delivery
8 16 (16.49%) Test Automation
8 16 (16.49%) User Acceptance Testing
9 14 (14.43%) Project Management
10 13 (13.40%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (13.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 13 (13.40%) User Stories
11 12 (12.37%) Migration
11 12 (12.37%) Sprint Planning
12 11 (11.34%) Waterfall
13 10 (10.31%) Backlog Management
13 10 (10.31%) Microservices
14 9 (9.28%) Business Case
14 9 (9.28%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 22 (22.68%) Java
2 14 (14.43%) SQL
3 9 (9.28%) C#
3 9 (9.28%) TypeScript
4 7 (7.22%) Python
5 6 (6.19%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.09%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.06%) Apex Code
7 2 (2.06%) Go
7 2 (2.06%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.03%) Bash
8 1 (1.03%) PHP
8 1 (1.03%) Swift
Qualifications
1 13 (13.40%) Degree
2 10 (10.31%) Security Cleared
3 9 (9.28%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (5.15%) PMI Certification
5 4 (4.12%) CBAP
6 3 (3.09%) PMP
7 2 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.06%) CFA
7 2 (2.06%) ISEB
8 1 (1.03%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.03%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.03%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.03%) IIBA
8 1 (1.03%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.03%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (16.49%) QA
2 5 (5.15%) GDPR
2 5 (5.15%) PMO
2 5 (5.15%) PSD2
3 4 (4.12%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.12%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.09%) ISO 20022
5 2 (2.06%) ISO 8583
5 2 (2.06%) PCI DSS
5 2 (2.06%) WCAG
6 1 (1.03%) Basel III
6 1 (1.03%) GRC
6 1 (1.03%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (6.19%) Docker
2 1 (1.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (7.22%) Ansible
2 3 (3.09%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.09%) Terraform
3 1 (1.03%) Grafana
3 1 (1.03%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 12 (12.37%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.25%) Oracle
3 6 (6.19%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.12%) Atlassian
4 4 (4.12%) Cisco
4 4 (4.12%) Google
4 4 (4.12%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.09%) Arista
5 3 (3.09%) Databricks
6 2 (2.06%) IBM
6 2 (2.06%) Informatica
6 2 (2.06%) SAP
6 2 (2.06%) UiPath
6 2 (2.06%) Workday
7 1 (1.03%) HP
7 1 (1.03%) Pega
7 1 (1.03%) Planview
7 1 (1.03%) Sitecore
7 1 (1.03%) Splunk
7 1 (1.03%) Sybase