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 23 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 36 34
Rank change year-on-year -28 -2 +10
Contract jobs citing Scrum 92 118 122
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.62% 5.83% 5.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.09% 6.21% 5.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 77 92
10th Percentile £416 £404 £413
25th Percentile £475 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +19.05% -10.64%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £638
90th Percentile £750 £838 £712
London median daily rate £550 £550 £543
% change year-on-year - +1.38% -5.65%
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 £64.75 £65.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -0.38% +96.97% -54.48%

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 2,248 1,901 2,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 88.47% 93.88% 91.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,547 1,258 1,422
10th Percentile £363 £319 £375
25th Percentile £456 £423 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.36%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
London median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 34 20
10th Percentile £17.60 £19.14 £15.80
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.98 £20.43
Median hourly rate £24.65 £28.79 £26.78
Median % change year-on-year -14.38% +7.49% -23.49%
75th Percentile £50.12 £49.22 £65.63
90th Percentile £66.00 £63.75 £137.50
London median hourly rate £35.50 £30.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year +18.33% -15.49% -11.25%

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 23 August 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 23 August 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 23 August 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 -27 83 £550 -12.00% 45
West End of London - 8 £550 -
City of Westminster -3 7 - - 1
Southwark -4 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 14 (15.22%) Confluence
2 3 (3.26%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.17%) CMS
3 2 (2.17%) IIS
4 1 (1.09%) Apache
4 1 (1.09%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.09%) JBoss
4 1 (1.09%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (3.26%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.09%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 22 (23.91%) Azure
2 15 (16.30%) AWS
3 10 (10.87%) GitHub
3 10 (10.87%) Power Platform
4 8 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (7.61%) Power Automate
5 7 (7.61%) PowerApps
6 6 (6.52%) SaaS
7 5 (5.43%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (5.43%) GCP
7 5 (5.43%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (5.43%) Serverless
8 4 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (4.35%) Azure Functions
8 4 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (4.35%) Snowflake
9 3 (3.26%) Entra ID
10 2 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (2.17%) Azure Stack
10 2 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.26%) HTTP
2 2 (2.17%) Internet
2 2 (2.17%) Intranet
2 2 (2.17%) Network Security
3 1 (1.09%) Firewall
3 1 (1.09%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.52%) Power BI
2 4 (4.35%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.26%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.26%) Metadata
3 3 (3.26%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.26%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (2.17%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.17%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.09%) Big Data
5 1 (1.09%) ClickHouse
5 1 (1.09%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.09%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.09%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (1.09%) MySQL
5 1 (1.09%) Redis
5 1 (1.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (29.35%) JIRA
2 10 (10.87%) Git
3 7 (7.61%) Jenkins
4 5 (5.43%) JUnit
5 4 (4.35%) GitLab
6 3 (3.26%) Mockito
6 3 (3.26%) Selenium
6 3 (3.26%) Visual Studio
7 2 (2.17%) Artifactory
7 2 (2.17%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.17%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.17%) JMeter
7 2 (2.17%) TeamCity
7 2 (2.17%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (2.17%) Vite
7 2 (2.17%) Xcode
7 2 (2.17%) Zephyr
8 1 (1.09%) Appium
8 1 (1.09%) Jasmine
8 1 (1.09%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 41 (44.57%) Finance
2 38 (41.30%) Social Skills
3 23 (25.00%) Banking
4 18 (19.57%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (9.78%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.52%) Marketing
6 6 (6.52%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (5.43%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (5.43%) Law
7 5 (5.43%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (4.35%) Police
9 3 (3.26%) Manufacturing
9 3 (3.26%) Retail
10 2 (2.17%) Front Office
10 2 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (2.17%) Investment Banking
10 2 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (2.17%) Telecoms
11 1 (1.09%) Back Office
11 1 (1.09%) Legal
Job Titles
1 21 (22.83%) Developer
2 16 (17.39%) Analyst
3 10 (10.87%) Senior
4 9 (9.78%) Business Analyst
4 9 (9.78%) Project Manager
5 7 (7.61%) Java Developer
5 7 (7.61%) Product Owner
6 5 (5.43%) Product Manager
6 5 (5.43%) Scrum Master
7 4 (4.35%) Architect
7 4 (4.35%) Data Analyst
7 4 (4.35%) Lead
7 4 (4.35%) QA Engineer
8 3 (3.26%) Business Systems Analyst
8 3 (3.26%) C# Developer
8 3 (3.26%) Delivery Manager
8 3 (3.26%) Junior
8 3 (3.26%) Senior Manager
8 3 (3.26%) Systems Analyst
8 3 (3.26%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (17.39%) REST
2 8 (8.70%) RESTful
3 7 (7.61%) .NET
3 7 (7.61%) Spring
4 6 (6.52%) CSS
4 6 (6.52%) HTML
4 6 (6.52%) SOAP
4 6 (6.52%) Spring Boot
4 6 (6.52%) Terraform
5 5 (5.43%) Kafka
5 5 (5.43%) Web Services
6 4 (4.35%) .NET Framework
7 3 (3.26%) Ajax
7 3 (3.26%) AngularJS
7 3 (3.26%) Bootstrap
7 3 (3.26%) HTML5 Canvas
7 3 (3.26%) JSON
7 3 (3.26%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (3.26%) UIKit
7 3 (3.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (30.43%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.43%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.43%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.35%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.35%) Virtual Team
4 3 (3.26%) AI Agents
4 3 (3.26%) Credit Risk
4 3 (3.26%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.26%) Mobile Banking
5 2 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.17%) CMDB
5 2 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.17%) Life Science
5 2 (2.17%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.09%) AS400
6 1 (1.09%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.09%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.35%) Linux
1 4 (4.35%) Unix
2 3 (3.26%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (97.83%) Agile
2 37 (40.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 25 (27.17%) CI/CD
4 22 (23.91%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (23.91%) Sprint Planning
5 21 (22.83%) DevOps
5 21 (22.83%) User Stories
6 19 (20.65%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (16.30%) Kanban
8 14 (15.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 13 (14.13%) AI
9 13 (14.13%) Roadmaps
9 13 (14.13%) Sprint Retrospective
10 11 (11.96%) Backlog Management
10 11 (11.96%) Data Governance
10 11 (11.96%) Data Modelling
10 11 (11.96%) Microservices
10 11 (11.96%) Product Backlog
10 11 (11.96%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 11 (11.96%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (19.57%) SQL
2 13 (14.13%) Java
3 11 (11.96%) Python
4 9 (9.78%) C#
4 9 (9.78%) JavaScript
5 7 (7.61%) TypeScript
6 4 (4.35%) PL/SQL
7 3 (3.26%) Swift
8 2 (2.17%) Korn
8 2 (2.17%) Scala
9 1 (1.09%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.09%) Bicep
9 1 (1.09%) COBOL
9 1 (1.09%) Go
9 1 (1.09%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.09%) RPG
9 1 (1.09%) X++
Qualifications
1 15 (16.30%) Security Cleared
2 11 (11.96%) Degree
3 9 (9.78%) SC Cleared
4 8 (8.70%) PMI Certification
5 7 (7.61%) PMP
6 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (3.26%) CSPO
8 2 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.09%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (1.09%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.09%) CBAP
9 1 (1.09%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.09%) IIBA
9 1 (1.09%) ISTQB
9 1 (1.09%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (17.39%) QA
2 6 (6.52%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.35%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.26%) GRC
5 2 (2.17%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 2 (2.17%) Basel III
5 2 (2.17%) GDPR
5 2 (2.17%) GxP
5 2 (2.17%) PMO
5 2 (2.17%) WCAG
6 1 (1.09%) IFRS
6 1 (1.09%) IFRS 9
6 1 (1.09%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (8.70%) Docker
2 3 (3.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (8.70%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.43%) Ansible
3 1 (1.09%) Bosun
Vendors
1 16 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.43%) Salesforce
2 5 (5.43%) ServiceNow
3 4 (4.35%) Oracle
4 2 (2.17%) Databricks
4 2 (2.17%) Google
4 2 (2.17%) New Relic
4 2 (2.17%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.09%) Avaloq
5 1 (1.09%) Cisco
5 1 (1.09%) F5
5 1 (1.09%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.09%) IBM
5 1 (1.09%) Informatica
5 1 (1.09%) LexisNexis
5 1 (1.09%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.09%) OutSystems
5 1 (1.09%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.09%) Pega
5 1 (1.09%) Vermilion