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

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 37 35
Rank change year-on-year -24 -2 +7
Contract jobs citing Scrum 90 115 120
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.61% 5.82% 5.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.05% 6.21% 5.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 78 88
10th Percentile £416 £392 £421
25th Percentile £472 £459 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +19.05% -11.58%
75th Percentile £666 £725 £641
90th Percentile £731 £838 £713
London median daily rate £550 £550 £540
% change year-on-year - +1.85% -6.09%
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 2,220 1,852 2,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 89.01% 93.68% 91.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,536 1,228 1,396
10th Percentile £363 £316 £375
25th Percentile £456 £419 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
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 33 22
10th Percentile £17.60 £19.05 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.75 £20.88
Median hourly rate £25.07 £29.07 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.78% +7.67% -1.82%
75th Percentile £42.56 £50.75 £56.50
90th Percentile £63.88 £63.75 £133.00
London median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +10.94% -8.57% -12.50%

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 6 September 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 6 September 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 6 September 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 -29 81 £550 -12.87% 35
West End of London - 8 £550 - 6
City of Westminster -3 7 - - 7
Southwark -3 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 (18.89%) Confluence
2 2 (2.22%) Apache
2 2 (2.22%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.22%) CMS
2 2 (2.22%) IIS
2 2 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (3.33%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 22 (24.44%) Azure
2 18 (20.00%) AWS
3 10 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 9 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (10.00%) GitHub
5 7 (7.78%) Power Automate
6 6 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (6.67%) GCP
6 6 (6.67%) PowerApps
6 6 (6.67%) SaaS
6 6 (6.67%) Serverless
7 5 (5.56%) Azure Functions
7 5 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
7 5 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (5.56%) Snowflake
8 4 (4.44%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.22%) Azure API Management
9 2 (2.22%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.22%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.33%) HTTP
2 2 (2.22%) Internet
2 2 (2.22%) Intranet
3 1 (1.11%) Firewall
3 1 (1.11%) Network Security
3 1 (1.11%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.56%) Power BI
1 5 (5.56%) Relational Database
2 4 (4.44%) MongoDB
2 4 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.44%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.33%) Metadata
3 3 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (2.22%) ClickHouse
4 2 (2.22%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.22%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.11%) Big Data
5 1 (1.11%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.11%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.11%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.11%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (1.11%) MySQL
5 1 (1.11%) Redis
5 1 (1.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (33.33%) JIRA
2 9 (10.00%) Git
3 8 (8.89%) Jenkins
4 6 (6.67%) JUnit
5 5 (5.56%) Mockito
6 4 (4.44%) GitLab
7 3 (3.33%) Selenium
7 3 (3.33%) Visual Studio
8 2 (2.22%) Artifactory
8 2 (2.22%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.22%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.22%) JMeter
8 2 (2.22%) Maven
8 2 (2.22%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.22%) TeamCity
8 2 (2.22%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (2.22%) Vite
8 2 (2.22%) Xcode
8 2 (2.22%) Zephyr
9 1 (1.11%) Appium
General
1 37 (41.11%) Social Skills
2 36 (40.00%) Finance
3 22 (24.44%) Banking
4 19 (21.11%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (13.33%) Public Sector
6 7 (7.78%) Marketing
7 6 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (5.56%) Law
9 4 (4.44%) Police
10 3 (3.33%) Front Office
10 3 (3.33%) Manufacturing
10 3 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (3.33%) Retail
11 2 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (2.22%) Investment Banking
11 2 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (2.22%) Telecoms
12 1 (1.11%) Military
12 1 (1.11%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 23 (25.56%) Developer
2 14 (15.56%) Analyst
2 14 (15.56%) Senior
3 8 (8.89%) Lead
3 8 (8.89%) Project Manager
4 7 (7.78%) Business Analyst
4 7 (7.78%) Java Developer
4 7 (7.78%) Product Owner
5 6 (6.67%) Senior Developer
6 5 (5.56%) Scrum Master
7 4 (4.44%) Architect
7 4 (4.44%) C# Developer
7 4 (4.44%) Data Analyst
7 4 (4.44%) Product Manager
7 4 (4.44%) QA Engineer
8 3 (3.33%) Delivery Manager
8 3 (3.33%) Junior
8 3 (3.33%) Lead Developer
8 3 (3.33%) Senior Java Developer
8 3 (3.33%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (17.78%) REST
2 10 (11.11%) RESTful
3 9 (10.00%) .NET
4 8 (8.89%) SOAP
4 8 (8.89%) Spring
4 8 (8.89%) Spring Boot
5 6 (6.67%) CSS
5 6 (6.67%) HTML
5 6 (6.67%) Kafka
5 6 (6.67%) Terraform
6 5 (5.56%) AngularJS
6 5 (5.56%) Spring Cloud
6 5 (5.56%) Web Services
7 4 (4.44%) .NET Framework
8 3 (3.33%) Ajax
8 3 (3.33%) HTML5 Canvas
8 3 (3.33%) JSON
8 3 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (3.33%) UIKit
8 3 (3.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (27.78%) Product Ownership
2 7 (7.78%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.56%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (4.44%) Virtual Team
5 3 (3.33%) Credit Risk
5 3 (3.33%) Life Science
5 3 (3.33%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.33%) Mobile Banking
6 2 (2.22%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.22%) CMDB
6 2 (2.22%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.11%) AS400
7 1 (1.11%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.11%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.44%) Linux
1 4 (4.44%) Unix
2 3 (3.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (97.78%) Agile
2 34 (37.78%) Stakeholder Management
3 27 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 25 (27.78%) Sprint Planning
5 23 (25.56%) DevOps
5 23 (25.56%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (24.44%) Continuous Improvement
6 22 (24.44%) User Stories
7 18 (20.00%) Kanban
8 14 (15.56%) AI
8 14 (15.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 13 (14.44%) Microservices
9 13 (14.44%) Roadmaps
9 13 (14.44%) Sprint Retrospective
9 13 (14.44%) Test Automation
10 12 (13.33%) Data Governance
11 11 (12.22%) Backlog Refinement
11 11 (12.22%) Product Backlog
11 11 (12.22%) Project Management
11 11 (12.22%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 18 (20.00%) SQL
2 13 (14.44%) Java
3 11 (12.22%) C#
3 11 (12.22%) Python
4 9 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 9 (10.00%) TypeScript
5 4 (4.44%) PL/SQL
6 3 (3.33%) Swift
7 2 (2.22%) Korn
7 2 (2.22%) Scala
8 1 (1.11%) Bicep
8 1 (1.11%) COBOL
8 1 (1.11%) Go
8 1 (1.11%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.11%) RPG
8 1 (1.11%) X++
Qualifications
1 14 (15.56%) Security Cleared
2 11 (12.22%) Degree
3 8 (8.89%) SC Cleared
4 7 (7.78%) PMI Certification
5 6 (6.67%) PMP
6 5 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (3.33%) CSPO
8 2 (2.22%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (1.11%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.11%) CBAP
9 1 (1.11%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.11%) IIBA
9 1 (1.11%) ISTQB
9 1 (1.11%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (17.78%) QA
2 7 (7.78%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.56%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.33%) GRC
4 3 (3.33%) WCAG
5 2 (2.22%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 2 (2.22%) Basel III
5 2 (2.22%) GxP
6 1 (1.11%) GDPR
6 1 (1.11%) IFRS
6 1 (1.11%) IFRS 9
6 1 (1.11%) PMO
6 1 (1.11%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (11.11%) Docker
2 2 (2.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (8.89%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.33%) Ansible
3 2 (2.22%) Grafana
3 2 (2.22%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.11%) Bosun
Vendors
1 16 (17.78%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.56%) ServiceNow
3 3 (3.33%) Oracle
3 3 (3.33%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.22%) Databricks
4 2 (2.22%) New Relic
4 2 (2.22%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.11%) Avaloq
5 1 (1.11%) F5
5 1 (1.11%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.11%) Google
5 1 (1.11%) IBM
5 1 (1.11%) Informatica
5 1 (1.11%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.11%) OutSystems
5 1 (1.11%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.11%) Tenable