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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 39 33
Rank change year-on-year -25 -6 +6
Contract jobs citing Scrum 90 109 137
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.45% 5.28% 5.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.95% 5.63% 6.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 69 101
10th Percentile £425 £395 £413
25th Percentile £489 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £625 £538
Median % change year-on-year -9.04% +16.28% -10.42%
75th Percentile £673 £725 £650
90th Percentile £750 £838 £719
London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
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 £69.75 £65.00 £32.29
% change year-on-year +7.31% +101.30% -55.92%

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 2,281 1,936 2,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 87.56% 93.75% 91.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,545 1,262 1,461
10th Percentile £363 £338 £363
25th Percentile £456 £425 £463
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 £790
London median daily rate £548 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -0.45% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 33 20
10th Percentile £17.60 £22.15 £20.05
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £21.63
Median hourly rate £23.16 £31.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.29% +3.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £54.50 £50.75 £65.63
90th Percentile £64.25 £63.75 £137.50
London median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £34.63
% change year-on-year +19.03% -13.36% -20.27%

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 July 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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -25 80 £572 -8.48% 27
West End of London - 8 £550 -
City of Westminster -3 7 - - 1
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 16 (17.78%) Confluence
2 2 (2.22%) CMS
2 2 (2.22%) IIS
2 2 (2.22%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.22%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.11%) Apache
3 1 (1.11%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.11%) Ethereum
3 1 (1.11%) Hyperledger
3 1 (1.11%) JBoss
3 1 (1.11%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (4.44%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.11%) Actimize
2 1 (1.11%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.11%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 22 (24.44%) Azure
2 18 (20.00%) AWS
3 12 (13.33%) GitHub
4 7 (7.78%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (6.67%) GCP
6 5 (5.56%) Power Platform
6 5 (5.56%) SaaS
7 4 (4.44%) Power Automate
7 4 (4.44%) PowerApps
8 3 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (3.33%) Entra ID
8 3 (3.33%) Serverless
9 2 (2.22%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.22%) Azure Functions
9 2 (2.22%) Azure Stack
9 2 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.22%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.44%) HTTP
2 2 (2.22%) Internet
2 2 (2.22%) Intranet
2 2 (2.22%) Network Security
3 1 (1.11%) Firewall
3 1 (1.11%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.44%) Metadata
1 4 (4.44%) MongoDB
1 4 (4.44%) Power BI
1 4 (4.44%) Relational Database
2 3 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.33%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.33%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.22%) Big Data
3 2 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.22%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.22%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.11%) Db2
4 1 (1.11%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (1.11%) MySQL
4 1 (1.11%) PowerCenter
4 1 (1.11%) Redis
4 1 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 30 (33.33%) JIRA
2 12 (13.33%) Git
3 11 (12.22%) Jenkins
4 7 (7.78%) JUnit
5 5 (5.56%) GitLab
6 3 (3.33%) Mockito
6 3 (3.33%) Selenium
7 2 (2.22%) Ant
7 2 (2.22%) Artifactory
7 2 (2.22%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.22%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.22%) Liquibase
7 2 (2.22%) Postman
7 2 (2.22%) TeamCity
7 2 (2.22%) Vite
7 2 (2.22%) Xcode
7 2 (2.22%) Zephyr
8 1 (1.11%) Gatling
8 1 (1.11%) Jasmine
8 1 (1.11%) REST Assured
General
1 37 (41.11%) Finance
2 33 (36.67%) Social Skills
3 23 (25.56%) Banking
4 15 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (11.11%) Public Sector
6 8 (8.89%) Law
7 6 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (4.44%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (4.44%) Police
8 4 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (3.33%) Manufacturing
9 3 (3.33%) Marketing
10 2 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (2.22%) Legal
10 2 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (2.22%) Telecoms
11 1 (1.11%) Back Office
11 1 (1.11%) Military
11 1 (1.11%) Retail
11 1 (1.11%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (21.11%) Developer
2 15 (16.67%) Analyst
3 14 (15.56%) Senior
4 9 (10.00%) Project Manager
5 8 (8.89%) Business Analyst
5 8 (8.89%) Java Developer
6 6 (6.67%) Product Owner
7 5 (5.56%) Architect
7 5 (5.56%) Delivery Manager
7 5 (5.56%) QA Engineer
7 5 (5.56%) Senior Manager
8 4 (4.44%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) Product Manager
8 4 (4.44%) Scrum Master
8 4 (4.44%) Systems Analyst
9 3 (3.33%) Agile Coach
9 3 (3.33%) Agile Delivery Manager
9 3 (3.33%) iOS Developer
9 3 (3.33%) Salesforce Architect
9 3 (3.33%) Salesforce Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.67%) REST
2 10 (11.11%) RESTful
3 9 (10.00%) Spring
4 8 (8.89%) Spring Boot
5 7 (7.78%) CSS
5 7 (7.78%) HTML
5 7 (7.78%) Kafka
6 6 (6.67%) SOAP
7 5 (5.56%) .NET
7 5 (5.56%) Web Services
8 4 (4.44%) AngularJS
9 3 (3.33%) ADO
9 3 (3.33%) Ajax
9 3 (3.33%) Bootstrap
9 3 (3.33%) JSON
9 3 (3.33%) Playwright
9 3 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (3.33%) Spring Cloud
9 3 (3.33%) UIKit
9 3 (3.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (27.78%) Product Ownership
2 8 (8.89%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.56%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.33%) AI Agents
5 3 (3.33%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.33%) Mobile Banking
5 3 (3.33%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.22%) CMDB
6 2 (2.22%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.22%) Life Science
6 2 (2.22%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.11%) AS400
7 1 (1.11%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.11%) Freedom of Information Act
7 1 (1.11%) LIMS
7 1 (1.11%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.11%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.44%) Linux
1 4 (4.44%) Unix
2 3 (3.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (94.44%) Agile
2 32 (35.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 25 (27.78%) CI/CD
4 22 (24.44%) DevOps
5 17 (18.89%) Continuous Improvement
5 17 (18.89%) User Stories
6 16 (17.78%) Kanban
6 16 (17.78%) Sprint Planning
7 15 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (15.56%) AI
9 13 (14.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 12 (13.33%) Test Automation
11 11 (12.22%) Data Governance
11 11 (12.22%) Microservices
12 10 (11.11%) Containerisation
12 10 (11.11%) Roadmaps
12 10 (11.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 10 (11.11%) Sprint Retrospective
13 9 (10.00%) Acceptance Criteria
13 9 (10.00%) Data Lineage
Programming Languages
1 15 (16.67%) SQL
2 14 (15.56%) Java
3 10 (11.11%) Python
4 7 (7.78%) C#
4 7 (7.78%) JavaScript
5 5 (5.56%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.33%) PL/SQL
6 3 (3.33%) Swift
7 2 (2.22%) Go
8 1 (1.11%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.11%) Bash
8 1 (1.11%) Bicep
8 1 (1.11%) COBOL
8 1 (1.11%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.11%) RPG
8 1 (1.11%) Scala
8 1 (1.11%) X++
Qualifications
1 15 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 11 (12.22%) SC Cleared
3 10 (11.11%) Degree
4 6 (6.67%) PMI Certification
5 5 (5.56%) PMP
6 3 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.22%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.22%) CSPO
7 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.11%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.11%) CBAP
8 1 (1.11%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.11%) IIBA
8 1 (1.11%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (16.67%) QA
2 6 (6.67%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.56%) GDPR
4 3 (3.33%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.22%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 2 (2.22%) GRC
5 2 (2.22%) GxP
5 2 (2.22%) PMO
5 2 (2.22%) WCAG
6 1 (1.11%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.11%) ISO 20022
6 1 (1.11%) PSD2
6 1 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.11%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (13.33%) Docker
2 3 (3.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 9 (10.00%) Terraform
3 7 (7.78%) Ansible
4 1 (1.11%) Bosun
Vendors
1 14 (15.56%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.67%) ServiceNow
3 5 (5.56%) Salesforce
4 4 (4.44%) Oracle
5 3 (3.33%) IBM
6 2 (2.22%) Databricks
6 2 (2.22%) Google
6 2 (2.22%) Informatica
6 2 (2.22%) Sitecore
7 1 (1.11%) Cisco
7 1 (1.11%) F5
7 1 (1.11%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.11%) LexisNexis
7 1 (1.11%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.11%) New Relic
7 1 (1.11%) OutSystems
7 1 (1.11%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.11%) Pega
7 1 (1.11%) Sybase
7 1 (1.11%) Vermilion