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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 46 46
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 -13
Contract jobs citing Scrum 102 82 102
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 4.62% 4.05% 3.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.20% 4.41% 4.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 41 67
10th Percentile £408 £425 £448
25th Percentile £473 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £501 £600
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -16.50% -
75th Percentile £675 £656 £691
90th Percentile £775 £800 £753
London median daily rate £525 £525 £571
% change year-on-year - -8.10% -4.23%

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 1,961 1,859 2,306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 88.77% 91.80% 89.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,347 1,208 1,638
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £446 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £653 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 17 25
10th Percentile £18.75 £21.70 £17.77
25th Percentile £21.37 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -20.54%
75th Percentile £42.65 £41.75 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.00 £74.05 £59.10
London median hourly rate £35.50 £35.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year - +18.33% -16.67%

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 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 12 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 +2 98 £600 +17.24% 56
West End of London +9 1 £550 +2.80% 4
City of Westminster +2 1 £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 (14.71%) Confluence
2 5 (4.90%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.96%) Ethereum
3 2 (1.96%) Hyperledger
3 2 (1.96%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.98%) Apache
4 1 (0.98%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.98%) CMS
4 1 (0.98%) JBoss
4 1 (0.98%) SAS
4 1 (0.98%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 5 (4.90%) MS Visio
2 4 (3.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (3.92%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.96%) Trello
4 1 (0.98%) Notion
Business Applications
1 5 (4.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.96%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.98%) Actimize
3 1 (0.98%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.98%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.98%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 19 (18.63%) Azure
2 10 (9.80%) AWS
2 10 (9.80%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (6.86%) GitHub
4 5 (4.90%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (4.90%) Power Platform
5 4 (3.92%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 2 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (1.96%) Google Play
6 2 (1.96%) Power Automate
6 2 (1.96%) Serverless
7 1 (0.98%) Alation
7 1 (0.98%) AWS CodeBuild
7 1 (0.98%) dbt
7 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.98%) Miro
7 1 (0.98%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.98%) Smartsheet
7 1 (0.98%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.94%) LAN
1 3 (2.94%) Structured Cabling
1 3 (2.94%) WAN
2 2 (1.96%) HTTP
3 1 (0.98%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.92%) Power BI
2 3 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (2.94%) MongoDB
2 3 (2.94%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.94%) Tableau
3 2 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.96%) DynamoDB
3 2 (1.96%) Metadata
3 2 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.96%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.96%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.98%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.98%) Big Data
4 1 (0.98%) Data Vault
4 1 (0.98%) DB2
4 1 (0.98%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.98%) PowerCenter
4 1 (0.98%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 34 (33.33%) JIRA
2 20 (19.61%) Git
3 6 (5.88%) Bitbucket
3 6 (5.88%) Cucumber
3 6 (5.88%) JUnit
4 5 (4.90%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.94%) Postman
5 3 (2.94%) Selenium
6 2 (1.96%) Ant
6 2 (1.96%) GitLab
6 2 (1.96%) Liquibase
6 2 (1.96%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.98%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.98%) Mockito
7 1 (0.98%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.98%) Vite
General
1 54 (52.94%) Finance
2 31 (30.39%) Social Skills
3 20 (19.61%) Banking
4 19 (18.63%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (11.76%) Front Office
6 7 (6.86%) Law
7 5 (4.90%) Investment Banking
7 5 (4.90%) Legal
7 5 (4.90%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.92%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (3.92%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.94%) Back Office
9 3 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.94%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.94%) Retail
10 2 (1.96%) Marketing
11 1 (0.98%) German Language
Job Titles
1 28 (27.45%) Developer
2 20 (19.61%) Senior
3 18 (17.65%) Analyst
4 15 (14.71%) Java Developer
4 15 (14.71%) Project Manager
5 12 (11.76%) Business Analyst
6 9 (8.82%) Senior Manager
7 8 (7.84%) Delivery Manager
7 8 (7.84%) Scrum Master
7 8 (7.84%) Technical Analyst
8 6 (5.88%) Product Manager
9 5 (4.90%) Payments Analyst
10 4 (3.92%) Angular Developer
10 4 (3.92%) IT Manager
10 4 (3.92%) IT Project Manager
10 4 (3.92%) Low Latency Java Developer
10 4 (3.92%) Senior Developer
10 4 (3.92%) Senior Project Manager
10 4 (3.92%) Technical Business Analyst
11 3 (2.94%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (13.73%) REST
2 7 (6.86%) .NET
2 7 (6.86%) React
2 7 (6.86%) Spring Boot
3 6 (5.88%) AngularJS
4 5 (4.90%) CSS
4 5 (4.90%) HTML
4 5 (4.90%) Web Services
5 4 (3.92%) RESTful
5 4 (3.92%) Spring
5 4 (3.92%) ZK
6 3 (2.94%) J2EE
6 3 (2.94%) Jetpack Compose
6 3 (2.94%) Kafka
6 3 (2.94%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (2.94%) Playwright
7 2 (1.96%) Android Jetpack
7 2 (1.96%) SOAP
7 2 (1.96%) WebSphere MQ
7 2 (1.96%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (18.63%) Product Ownership
2 11 (10.78%) Onboarding
3 6 (5.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (3.92%) Algorithms
4 4 (3.92%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.94%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.94%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.94%) Digital Wallet
5 3 (2.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (1.96%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.96%) PMI
6 2 (1.96%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.98%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.98%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.98%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.98%) Equities
7 1 (0.98%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.98%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (0.98%) New Media
7 1 (0.98%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.96%) Android
1 2 (1.96%) Apple iOS
1 2 (1.96%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (87.25%) Agile
2 31 (30.39%) Kanban
3 22 (21.57%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (21.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 19 (18.63%) DevOps
5 18 (17.65%) CI/CD
5 18 (17.65%) Project Delivery
6 17 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
7 16 (15.69%) Test Automation
8 14 (13.73%) Project Management
8 14 (13.73%) User Stories
9 13 (12.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 12 (11.76%) Migration
11 11 (10.78%) Backlog Management
11 11 (10.78%) SDLC
11 11 (10.78%) Sprint Planning
11 11 (10.78%) TDD
11 11 (10.78%) Waterfall
12 10 (9.80%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (9.80%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 25 (24.51%) Java
2 16 (15.69%) SQL
3 11 (10.78%) C#
4 9 (8.82%) TypeScript
5 8 (7.84%) JavaScript
5 8 (7.84%) Python
6 3 (2.94%) Apex Code
6 3 (2.94%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.96%) Go
7 2 (1.96%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.98%) Bash
8 1 (0.98%) PHP
8 1 (0.98%) SOQL
8 1 (0.98%) SOSL
8 1 (0.98%) Swift
Qualifications
1 16 (15.69%) Degree
2 8 (7.84%) Security Cleared
3 7 (6.86%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.90%) PMI Certification
6 4 (3.92%) CBAP
7 3 (2.94%) PMP
8 2 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.96%) CFA
8 2 (1.96%) IIBA
8 2 (1.96%) ISEB
9 1 (0.98%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.98%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.98%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.98%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.98%) MBA
9 1 (0.98%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.98%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (16.67%) QA
2 5 (4.90%) GDPR
2 5 (4.90%) PMO
2 5 (4.90%) PSD2
3 4 (3.92%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.94%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.96%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.96%) ISO 8583
5 2 (1.96%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.98%) Basel III
6 1 (0.98%) GRC
6 1 (0.98%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (3.92%) Docker
2 1 (0.98%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (6.86%) Ansible
2 3 (2.94%) Terraform
3 2 (1.96%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.98%) Grafana
4 1 (0.98%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 12 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.80%) Oracle
3 7 (6.86%) ServiceNow
4 5 (4.90%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.92%) Atlassian
5 4 (3.92%) Cisco
6 3 (2.94%) Arista
6 3 (2.94%) Databricks
6 3 (2.94%) Google
7 2 (1.96%) IBM
7 2 (1.96%) Informatica
7 2 (1.96%) SAP
7 2 (1.96%) UiPath
7 2 (1.96%) Workday
8 1 (0.98%) HP
8 1 (0.98%) Pega
8 1 (0.98%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.98%) Splunk
8 1 (0.98%) Sybase
8 1 (0.98%) Vermilion