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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 48 48
Rank change year-on-year +10 0 -15
Contract jobs citing Scrum 105 84 94
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 4.86% 4.02% 3.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.45% 4.38% 4.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 43 62
10th Percentile £402 £450 £463
25th Percentile £456 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £535 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -10.83% -
75th Percentile £675 £652 £698
90th Percentile £775 £795 £775
London median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -3.85%

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 1,926 1,920 2,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 89.08% 91.95% 89.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,318 1,214 1,624
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £436 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £551
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.45% -6.69%
75th Percentile £662 £675 £688
90th Percentile £766 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 21 26
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £17.97
25th Percentile £22.46 £29.07 £20.79
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -20.54%
75th Percentile £42.65 £40.25 £40.00
90th Percentile £55.30 £48.75 £57.63
London median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -5.41% +23.33% -14.89%

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 February 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 26 February 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 +5 100 £550 -3.51% 35
City of Westminster +4 2 £390 -29.09%
West End of London +8 1 £550 +2.80%
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 18 (17.14%) Confluence
2 4 (3.81%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.90%) Ethereum
3 2 (1.90%) Hyperledger
3 2 (1.90%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.95%) Apache
4 1 (0.95%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.95%) CMS
4 1 (0.95%) SAS
4 1 (0.95%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 6 (5.71%) MS Visio
2 5 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (3.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (3.81%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.90%) Trello
5 1 (0.95%) Notion
Business Applications
1 5 (4.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.90%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.95%) Actimize
3 1 (0.95%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.95%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.95%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 18 (17.14%) Azure
2 10 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (8.57%) AWS
4 7 (6.67%) GitHub
5 5 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (3.81%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.90%) GCP
7 2 (1.90%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.90%) Google Play
7 2 (1.90%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 2 (1.90%) Serverless
8 1 (0.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.95%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (0.95%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.95%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (0.95%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.95%) Datadog
8 1 (0.95%) Firebase
8 1 (0.95%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.86%) LAN
1 3 (2.86%) Structured Cabling
1 3 (2.86%) WAN
2 2 (1.90%) HTTP
3 1 (0.95%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.81%) Metadata
2 3 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (2.86%) MongoDB
2 3 (2.86%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.86%) Power BI
2 3 (2.86%) Tableau
3 2 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.90%) DynamoDB
3 2 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.90%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.90%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.95%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.95%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.95%) Big Data
4 1 (0.95%) Data Vault
4 1 (0.95%) DB2
4 1 (0.95%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.95%) PowerCenter
4 1 (0.95%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 36 (34.29%) JIRA
2 19 (18.10%) Git
3 7 (6.67%) Bitbucket
4 6 (5.71%) Cucumber
5 5 (4.76%) Jenkins
5 5 (4.76%) JUnit
6 4 (3.81%) Postman
7 3 (2.86%) GitLab
7 3 (2.86%) Selenium
8 2 (1.90%) Ant
8 2 (1.90%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.90%) Liquibase
8 2 (1.90%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.95%) Mockito
9 1 (0.95%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.95%) Vite
General
1 52 (49.52%) Finance
2 33 (31.43%) Social Skills
3 21 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (19.05%) Banking
5 13 (12.38%) Front Office
6 7 (6.67%) Law
7 6 (5.71%) Public Sector
8 5 (4.76%) Investment Banking
8 5 (4.76%) Legal
8 5 (4.76%) Telecoms
9 4 (3.81%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.86%) Back Office
10 3 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.86%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.86%) Retail
11 2 (1.90%) Marketing
11 2 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (28.57%) Developer
2 22 (20.95%) Senior
3 17 (16.19%) Analyst
4 16 (15.24%) Java Developer
5 14 (13.33%) Project Manager
6 12 (11.43%) Business Analyst
7 10 (9.52%) Scrum Master
8 9 (8.57%) Senior Manager
9 8 (7.62%) Technical Analyst
10 7 (6.67%) Delivery Manager
11 5 (4.76%) Angular Developer
11 5 (4.76%) Payments Analyst
11 5 (4.76%) Product Manager
12 4 (3.81%) IT Manager
12 4 (3.81%) IT Project Manager
12 4 (3.81%) Low Latency Java Developer
12 4 (3.81%) Senior Developer
12 4 (3.81%) Senior Project Manager
12 4 (3.81%) Technical Business Analyst
13 3 (2.86%) CRM Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (13.33%) REST
2 9 (8.57%) Spring Boot
3 8 (7.62%) React
4 7 (6.67%) .NET
4 7 (6.67%) AngularJS
5 5 (4.76%) CSS
5 5 (4.76%) HTML
5 5 (4.76%) RESTful
6 4 (3.81%) Spring
6 4 (3.81%) Web Services
6 4 (3.81%) ZK
7 3 (2.86%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (2.86%) Kafka
7 3 (2.86%) Playwright
7 3 (2.86%) XML
8 2 (1.90%) Android Jetpack
8 2 (1.90%) gRPC
8 2 (1.90%) Lightning Web Components
8 2 (1.90%) RxJava
8 2 (1.90%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 19 (18.10%) Product Ownership
2 10 (9.52%) Onboarding
3 7 (6.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (4.76%) Algorithms
4 5 (4.76%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.81%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 3 (2.86%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.86%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.86%) Digital Wallet
7 2 (1.90%) PMI
7 2 (1.90%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.90%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.95%) CMDB
8 1 (0.95%) Derivative
8 1 (0.95%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.95%) Equities
8 1 (0.95%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.95%) IPTV
8 1 (0.95%) Market Risk
8 1 (0.95%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.90%) Android
1 2 (1.90%) Unix
2 1 (0.95%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.95%) Windows
2 1 (0.95%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (87.62%) Agile
2 35 (33.33%) Kanban
3 26 (24.76%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (21.90%) Stakeholder Management
5 21 (20.00%) DevOps
6 18 (17.14%) CI/CD
6 18 (17.14%) Test Automation
6 18 (17.14%) User Acceptance Testing
7 17 (16.19%) Project Delivery
8 15 (14.29%) User Stories
9 14 (13.33%) Project Management
9 14 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 13 (12.38%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 12 (11.43%) Sprint Planning
11 12 (11.43%) TDD
12 11 (10.48%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (10.48%) Microservices
12 11 (10.48%) Migration
13 10 (9.52%) BDD
13 10 (9.52%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 27 (25.71%) Java
2 19 (18.10%) SQL
3 13 (12.38%) C#
4 10 (9.52%) JavaScript
4 10 (9.52%) TypeScript
5 9 (8.57%) Python
6 2 (1.90%) Apex Code
6 2 (1.90%) Go
6 2 (1.90%) Kotlin
6 2 (1.90%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.90%) VB.NET
7 1 (0.95%) Bash
7 1 (0.95%) Korn
7 1 (0.95%) PHP
7 1 (0.95%) SOQL
7 1 (0.95%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 18 (17.14%) Degree
2 9 (8.57%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (5.71%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.76%) PMI Certification
5 4 (3.81%) CBAP
6 3 (2.86%) PMP
7 2 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.90%) CFA
7 2 (1.90%) IIBA
7 2 (1.90%) ISEB
8 1 (0.95%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.95%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.95%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.95%) MBA
8 1 (0.95%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.95%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.95%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (17.14%) QA
2 5 (4.76%) PMO
2 5 (4.76%) PSD2
3 4 (3.81%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.81%) GDPR
4 3 (2.86%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.90%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.90%) ISO 8583
5 2 (1.90%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.95%) Basel III
6 1 (0.95%) GRC
6 1 (0.95%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.95%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (5.71%) Ansible
2 3 (2.86%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.86%) Terraform
3 1 (0.95%) Grafana
3 1 (0.95%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 13 (12.38%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.48%) Oracle
3 7 (6.67%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.81%) Atlassian
4 4 (3.81%) Cisco
4 4 (3.81%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.86%) Arista
5 3 (2.86%) Databricks
5 3 (2.86%) Google
6 2 (1.90%) IBM
6 2 (1.90%) Informatica
6 2 (1.90%) SAP
6 2 (1.90%) UiPath
6 2 (1.90%) Workday
7 1 (0.95%) HP
7 1 (0.95%) Pega
7 1 (0.95%) Planview
7 1 (0.95%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.95%) Splunk
7 1 (0.95%) Sybase