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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 50 52
Rank change year-on-year +14 +2 -29
Contract jobs citing Scrum 111 92 108
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 5.54% 3.95% 3.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.11% 4.29% 4.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 52 70
10th Percentile £403 £450 £444
25th Percentile £445 £496 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +1.32%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £694
90th Percentile £745 £770 £739
London median daily rate £540 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +2.86% -8.70% -1.79%

All Process and 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 1,818 2,147 2,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.76% 92.07% 89.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,272 1,344 1,757
10th Percentile £343 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £466 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £680 £688
90th Percentile £750 £788 £813
London median daily rate £530 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 27 16
10th Percentile £19.94 £18.34 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £28.32 £18.93
Median hourly rate £26.57 £35.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.09% +37.25% -37.04%
75th Percentile £36.00 £52.50 £51.31
90th Percentile £51.25 £112.00 £69.38
London median hourly rate £31.49 £36.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -12.53% +5.88% -12.54%

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 19 December 2025.

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 19 December 2025. 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 +11 103 £550 -4.35% 34
City of Westminster - 1 £230 - 5
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 16 (14.41%) Confluence
2 3 (2.70%) CMS
2 3 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.80%) Drupal
3 2 (1.80%) WordPress
4 1 (0.90%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.90%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.90%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 5 (4.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (4.50%) MS Visio
2 4 (3.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.80%) Trello
4 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.90%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (3.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.80%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.80%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.90%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.90%) HFM
3 1 (0.90%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.90%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (14.41%) Azure
2 10 (9.01%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (6.31%) GitHub
4 5 (4.50%) AWS
4 5 (4.50%) Power Platform
5 4 (3.60%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (3.60%) Figma
5 4 (3.60%) Snowflake
6 3 (2.70%) Miro
7 2 (1.80%) BrowserStack
7 2 (1.80%) GCP
7 2 (1.80%) Google Play
7 2 (1.80%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.80%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (0.90%) Apigee
8 1 (0.90%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.90%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (0.90%) Firebase
8 1 (0.90%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.90%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.70%) LAN
1 3 (2.70%) Structured Cabling
1 3 (2.70%) WAN
2 2 (1.80%) SSL
3 1 (0.90%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.41%) Tableau
2 4 (3.60%) Power BI
3 3 (2.70%) Metadata
3 3 (2.70%) Star Schema
4 2 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.90%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.90%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 33 (29.73%) JIRA
2 21 (18.92%) Git
3 10 (9.01%) Bitbucket
4 6 (5.41%) Cucumber
5 5 (4.50%) Postman
6 3 (2.70%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.70%) GitLab
6 3 (2.70%) Selenium
7 2 (1.80%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.80%) JUnit
7 2 (1.80%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.90%) Mockito
8 1 (0.90%) Vite
General
1 53 (47.75%) Finance
2 36 (32.43%) Social Skills
3 21 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (15.32%) Banking
5 13 (11.71%) Front Office
6 9 (8.11%) Public Sector
7 6 (5.41%) Investment Banking
7 6 (5.41%) Telecoms
8 5 (4.50%) Back Office
8 5 (4.50%) Financial Institution
8 5 (4.50%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (3.60%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.80%) Law
11 2 (1.80%) Legal
12 1 (0.90%) Games
12 1 (0.90%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (31.53%) Developer
2 18 (16.22%) Analyst
2 18 (16.22%) Senior
3 17 (15.32%) Java Developer
4 15 (13.51%) Business Analyst
5 13 (11.71%) Project Manager
6 9 (8.11%) Scrum Master
7 8 (7.21%) Angular Developer
8 7 (6.31%) Product Owner
8 7 (6.31%) Senior Manager
9 6 (5.41%) Delivery Manager
10 5 (4.50%) IT Manager
10 5 (4.50%) IT Project Manager
10 5 (4.50%) Low Latency Java Developer
10 5 (4.50%) Technical Analyst
11 4 (3.60%) Lead
11 4 (3.60%) Technical Business Analyst
11 4 (3.60%) Test Automation Engineer
11 4 (3.60%) Test Engineer
12 3 (2.70%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (15.32%) REST
2 10 (9.01%) AngularJS
2 10 (9.01%) React
3 9 (8.11%) HTML
4 8 (7.21%) Spring Boot
5 7 (6.31%) .NET
5 7 (6.31%) CSS
6 6 (5.41%) Web Services
7 5 (4.50%) SOAP
8 4 (3.60%) jQuery
8 4 (3.60%) RESTful
8 4 (3.60%) XML
8 4 (3.60%) ZK
9 3 (2.70%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (2.70%) Flask
9 3 (2.70%) JSON
9 3 (2.70%) Lightning Web Components
9 3 (2.70%) Pandas
9 3 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (1.80%) Android Jetpack
Miscellaneous
1 22 (19.82%) Product Ownership
2 10 (9.01%) Onboarding
3 8 (7.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (3.60%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.70%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.70%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.70%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.80%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.80%) CMDB
6 2 (1.80%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.80%) PMI
6 2 (1.80%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (1.80%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.90%) Derivative
7 1 (0.90%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.90%) IPTV
7 1 (0.90%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.90%) New Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.70%) Unix
2 2 (1.80%) Android
2 2 (1.80%) Linux
2 2 (1.80%) Windows
3 1 (0.90%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (90.09%) Agile
2 43 (38.74%) Kanban
3 26 (23.42%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (20.72%) DevOps
5 21 (18.92%) Stakeholder Management
6 19 (17.12%) Test Automation
7 18 (16.22%) User Acceptance Testing
7 18 (16.22%) User Stories
8 17 (15.32%) Project Delivery
9 15 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (13.51%) Project Management
10 14 (12.61%) CI/CD
10 14 (12.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 14 (12.61%) TDD
11 13 (11.71%) Backlog Management
11 13 (11.71%) Product Backlog
11 13 (11.71%) Sprint Planning
12 12 (10.81%) Full-Stack Development
12 12 (10.81%) Microservices
12 12 (10.81%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 29 (26.13%) Java
2 17 (15.32%) SQL
3 15 (13.51%) C#
3 15 (13.51%) JavaScript
4 13 (11.71%) Python
5 11 (9.91%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.70%) Apex Code
6 3 (2.70%) VB.NET
7 2 (1.80%) C++
7 2 (1.80%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.80%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.90%) C
8 1 (0.90%) Go
8 1 (0.90%) Korn
8 1 (0.90%) PHP
8 1 (0.90%) SOQL
8 1 (0.90%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 21 (18.92%) Degree
2 12 (10.81%) Security Cleared
3 8 (7.21%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.60%) CBAP
5 4 (3.60%) PMI Certification
6 3 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.80%) CFA
7 2 (1.80%) IIBA
7 2 (1.80%) ISEB
7 2 (1.80%) PMP
8 1 (0.90%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.90%) CSPO
8 1 (0.90%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.90%) MBA
8 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.90%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.90%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.90%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (22.52%) QA
2 4 (3.60%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.60%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.70%) PMO
3 3 (2.70%) WCAG
4 2 (1.80%) Basel III
4 2 (1.80%) ISO 8583
4 2 (1.80%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.80%) PSD2
5 1 (0.90%) GDPR
5 1 (0.90%) GRC
System Software
1 4 (3.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (4.50%) Ansible
2 2 (1.80%) HP ALM
2 2 (1.80%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.90%) Grafana
Vendors
1 16 (14.41%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.11%) Oracle
3 7 (6.31%) ServiceNow
4 5 (4.50%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.60%) Atlassian
5 4 (3.60%) HP
5 4 (3.60%) SAP
5 4 (3.60%) UiPath
6 3 (2.70%) Arista
6 3 (2.70%) Bloomberg
6 3 (2.70%) Cisco
6 3 (2.70%) Cloudera
6 3 (2.70%) Google
6 3 (2.70%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.80%) BMC
7 2 (1.80%) Ivanti
7 2 (1.80%) Remedy
8 1 (0.90%) Hyperion
8 1 (0.90%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.90%) Splunk