Scrum Contracts in Central London

Scrum
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Scrum skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Scrum over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 41 36
Rank change year-on-year -19 -5 -9
Contract jobs citing Scrum 70 116 204
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 3.51% 4.74% 5.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.77% 5.24% 5.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 80 139
10th Percentile £408 £425 £450
25th Percentile £463 £463 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -12.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £664 £675 £750
90th Percentile £800 £719 £775
London median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £33.00 -
London median hourly rate £70.00 £33.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year +112.12% -54.48% +62.92%

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 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Scrum as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in Central London

Scrum
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scrum in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Scrum in Central London

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in Central London

Scrum
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scrum in Central London.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 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 -17 63 £625 +11.86% 44
City of Westminster -3 2 £463 -
Southwark - 1 - -
Scrum
London

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (8.57%) Confluence
2 5 (7.14%) Apache Spark
3 4 (5.71%) Apache
3 4 (5.71%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.43%) CMS
4 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (8.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (7.14%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (4.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (4.29%) Trello
4 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (1.43%) Chatbot
5 1 (1.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.43%) SAP BPC
2 1 (1.43%) SAP CRM
2 1 (1.43%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (25.71%) Azure
2 15 (21.43%) AWS
3 10 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 7 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (7.14%) GCP
6 4 (5.71%) SaaS
7 3 (4.29%) GitHub
7 3 (4.29%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.86%) Apple Pay
8 2 (2.86%) BigCommerce
8 2 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.86%) IBM Blueworks
8 2 (2.86%) Miro
8 2 (2.86%) OpenShift
8 2 (2.86%) Tricentis Tosca
8 2 (2.86%) WhatsApp
9 1 (1.43%) IaaS
9 1 (1.43%) PaaS
9 1 (1.43%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.71%) SSH
2 2 (2.86%) Firewall
2 2 (2.86%) Network Security
3 1 (1.43%) BGP
3 1 (1.43%) DHCP
3 1 (1.43%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.29%) Power BI
2 5 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 4 (5.71%) Apache Hive
3 4 (5.71%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (5.71%) Delta Lake
4 3 (4.29%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.43%) Big Data
5 1 (1.43%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.43%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.43%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.43%) Looker
5 1 (1.43%) Metadata
5 1 (1.43%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (31.43%) JIRA
2 10 (14.29%) Git
3 4 (5.71%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.71%) RStudio
4 3 (4.29%) LoadRunner
4 3 (4.29%) Postman
4 3 (4.29%) Selenium
5 2 (2.86%) GitLab
5 2 (2.86%) JMeter
5 2 (2.86%) REST Assured
5 2 (2.86%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.43%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.43%) Gatling
6 1 (1.43%) JIRA Agile
6 1 (1.43%) ScriptRunner
6 1 (1.43%) Serenity BDD
6 1 (1.43%) Storybook
6 1 (1.43%) Vite
6 1 (1.43%) webpack
6 1 (1.43%) Zephyr
General
1 31 (44.29%) Social Skills
2 14 (20.00%) Finance
3 11 (15.71%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (11.43%) Banking
5 5 (7.14%) Investment Banking
6 3 (4.29%) Financial Institution
6 3 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.29%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.86%) Back Office
7 2 (2.86%) Legal
7 2 (2.86%) Retail
8 1 (1.43%) Advertising
8 1 (1.43%) Automotive
8 1 (1.43%) Billing
8 1 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.43%) Front Office
8 1 (1.43%) Law
8 1 (1.43%) Local Government
8 1 (1.43%) Marketing
8 1 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (15.71%) Developer
1 11 (15.71%) Project Manager
2 7 (10.00%) Senior
3 6 (8.57%) Analyst
3 6 (8.57%) Delivery Manager
4 5 (7.14%) Business Analyst
4 5 (7.14%) Data Engineer
5 4 (5.71%) Android Developer
5 4 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (5.71%) Lead
5 4 (5.71%) Product Manager
6 3 (4.29%) Architect
6 3 (4.29%) Consultant
6 3 (4.29%) iOS Developer
6 3 (4.29%) Java Developer
7 2 (2.86%) Programme Manager
7 2 (2.86%) Senior Consultant
7 2 (2.86%) Senior Manager
7 2 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.86%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.57%) YAML
2 5 (7.14%) REST
3 4 (5.71%) .NET
3 4 (5.71%) GraphQL
3 4 (5.71%) JSON
3 4 (5.71%) pydantic
3 4 (5.71%) PySpark
4 3 (4.29%) Jetpack Compose
5 2 (2.86%) Android Jetpack
5 2 (2.86%) Hibernate
5 2 (2.86%) Kafka
5 2 (2.86%) Spring
5 2 (2.86%) Web Services
5 2 (2.86%) ZK
6 1 (1.43%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.43%) CSS
6 1 (1.43%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (1.43%) HTML
6 1 (1.43%) Protocol Buffers
6 1 (1.43%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.57%) Product Ownership
2 5 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (7.14%) Mobile App
3 4 (5.71%) Data Structures
3 4 (5.71%) Reference Data
4 3 (4.29%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (4.29%) Market Risk
4 3 (4.29%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (2.86%) Derivative
5 2 (2.86%) Hedge funds
5 2 (2.86%) Learning Management System
6 1 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.43%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.43%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.43%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 1 (1.43%) NHS
6 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.43%) PMI
6 1 (1.43%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.43%) Linux
2 5 (7.14%) Android
3 3 (4.29%) Apple iOS
3 3 (4.29%) Windows
4 2 (2.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (94.29%) Agile
2 25 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (32.86%) Kanban
4 18 (25.71%) DevOps
4 18 (25.71%) Project Management
5 14 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 12 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (17.14%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 11 (15.71%) Project Delivery
8 9 (12.86%) Roadmaps
9 8 (11.43%) Analytics
9 8 (11.43%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (10.00%) PRINCE2
10 7 (10.00%) SDLC
10 7 (10.00%) Software Engineering
10 7 (10.00%) Sprint Planning
10 7 (10.00%) Test Automation
11 6 (8.57%) Data Pipeline
11 6 (8.57%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 14 (20.00%) SQL
2 11 (15.71%) Python
3 10 (14.29%) Java
4 6 (8.57%) C#
5 5 (7.14%) Kotlin
5 5 (7.14%) Scala
6 4 (5.71%) Bash
7 3 (4.29%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.29%) Swift
8 2 (2.86%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.43%) ABAP
9 1 (1.43%) Bicep
9 1 (1.43%) C++
9 1 (1.43%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 10 (14.29%) Degree
1 10 (14.29%) PMI Certification
2 9 (12.86%) PMP
3 7 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 6 (8.57%) SC Cleared
5 5 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (4.29%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.43%) CAPM
7 1 (1.43%) CBAP
7 1 (1.43%) CCNP
7 1 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.43%) JNCIP
7 1 (1.43%) PgMP
7 1 (1.43%) PhD
7 1 (1.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.43%) QA
2 4 (5.71%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.71%) GDPR
3 2 (2.86%) Basel II
4 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.43%) PMO
4 1 (1.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (5.71%) Docker
2 3 (4.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.71%) Terraform
3 2 (2.86%) Ansible
4 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.43%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 9 (12.86%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.43%) Databricks
3 5 (7.14%) Oracle
4 3 (4.29%) SAP
5 2 (2.86%) Apple
5 2 (2.86%) Google
5 2 (2.86%) IBM
5 2 (2.86%) Murex
6 1 (1.43%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.43%) Brio
6 1 (1.43%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.43%) Cisco
6 1 (1.43%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.43%) GoldenSource
6 1 (1.43%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.43%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.43%) Splunk
6 1 (1.43%) Xamarin