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 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 48 47
Rank change year-on-year +11 -1 -24
Contract jobs citing Scrum 111 93 107
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 5.47% 4.02% 3.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.05% 4.36% 4.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 53 68
10th Percentile £404 £450 £440
25th Percentile £450 £500 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £650 £694
90th Percentile £749 £765 £741
London median daily rate £540 £525 £555
% change year-on-year +2.86% -5.41% -5.53%

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 1,836 2,133 2,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.40% 92.22% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,280 1,337 1,720
10th Percentile £343 £363 £359
25th Percentile £425 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £777 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 27 17
10th Percentile £20.18 £18.34 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £28.32 £18.93
Median hourly rate £26.50 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.29% +27.27% -34.13%
75th Percentile £38.88 £52.50 £46.75
90th Percentile £46.53 £112.00 £68.50
London median hourly rate £31.49 £36.65 £32.69
% change year-on-year -14.08% +12.11% -14.80%

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 27 December 2025.

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 27 December 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 +9 103 £550 -4.35% 75
City of Westminster +3 1 £230 -58.18%
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 (14.41%) Confluence
2 3 (2.70%) CMS
2 3 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.80%) Drupal
3 2 (1.80%) WordPress
4 1 (0.90%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.90%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.90%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 5 (4.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (4.50%) MS Visio
2 4 (3.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.80%) Trello
4 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.90%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (3.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.80%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.80%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.90%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.90%) HFM
3 1 (0.90%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.90%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (13.51%) Azure
2 9 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (6.31%) GitHub
4 5 (4.50%) AWS
4 5 (4.50%) Power Platform
5 4 (3.60%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (3.60%) Snowflake
6 3 (2.70%) Figma
6 3 (2.70%) Miro
7 2 (1.80%) BrowserStack
7 2 (1.80%) GCP
7 2 (1.80%) Google Play
7 2 (1.80%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.80%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (0.90%) Alation
8 1 (0.90%) Azure AI
8 1 (0.90%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 1 (0.90%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.90%) Cloud Functions
8 1 (0.90%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.70%) LAN
1 3 (2.70%) Structured Cabling
1 3 (2.70%) WAN
2 2 (1.80%) SSL
3 1 (0.90%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.41%) Tableau
2 4 (3.60%) Power BI
3 3 (2.70%) Metadata
3 3 (2.70%) Star Schema
4 2 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.90%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.90%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 34 (30.63%) JIRA
2 21 (18.92%) Git
3 9 (8.11%) Bitbucket
4 6 (5.41%) Cucumber
5 4 (3.60%) Postman
6 3 (2.70%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.70%) GitLab
7 2 (1.80%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.80%) JUnit
7 2 (1.80%) Selenium
7 2 (1.80%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.90%) Mockito
8 1 (0.90%) Vite
General
1 53 (47.75%) Finance
2 36 (32.43%) Social Skills
3 23 (20.72%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (14.41%) Banking
5 13 (11.71%) Front Office
6 9 (8.11%) Public Sector
7 6 (5.41%) Telecoms
8 5 (4.50%) Financial Institution
8 5 (4.50%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (4.50%) Investment Banking
9 4 (3.60%) Back Office
9 4 (3.60%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.70%) Law
10 3 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.80%) Legal
12 1 (0.90%) Games
12 1 (0.90%) Marketing
12 1 (0.90%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (32.43%) Developer
2 18 (16.22%) Java Developer
3 17 (15.32%) Analyst
3 17 (15.32%) Senior
4 14 (12.61%) Business Analyst
5 13 (11.71%) Project Manager
6 9 (8.11%) Scrum Master
7 8 (7.21%) Angular Developer
8 7 (6.31%) Product Owner
8 7 (6.31%) Senior Manager
9 6 (5.41%) Delivery Manager
9 6 (5.41%) Technical Analyst
10 5 (4.50%) IT Manager
10 5 (4.50%) IT Project Manager
10 5 (4.50%) Low Latency Java Developer
10 5 (4.50%) Product Manager
11 4 (3.60%) Lead
11 4 (3.60%) Technical Business Analyst
12 3 (2.70%) Technical Manager
12 3 (2.70%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (16.22%) REST
2 10 (9.01%) AngularJS
2 10 (9.01%) React
3 9 (8.11%) HTML
4 8 (7.21%) Spring Boot
5 7 (6.31%) CSS
5 7 (6.31%) Web Services
6 6 (5.41%) .NET
7 5 (4.50%) SOAP
7 5 (4.50%) ZK
8 4 (3.60%) jQuery
8 4 (3.60%) RESTful
8 4 (3.60%) XML
9 3 (2.70%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (2.70%) Flask
9 3 (2.70%) JSON
9 3 (2.70%) Lightning Web Components
9 3 (2.70%) Pandas
9 3 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (1.80%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 21 (18.92%) Product Ownership
2 9 (8.11%) Onboarding
3 8 (7.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (3.60%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.70%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.70%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.70%) Reinsurance
5 3 (2.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (1.80%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.80%) CMDB
6 2 (1.80%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.80%) PMI
6 2 (1.80%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.90%) Digital Wallet
7 1 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.90%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.70%) Unix
2 2 (1.80%) Android
2 2 (1.80%) Linux
2 2 (1.80%) Windows
3 1 (0.90%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (90.09%) Agile
2 44 (39.64%) Kanban
3 26 (23.42%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (19.82%) DevOps
4 22 (19.82%) Stakeholder Management
5 19 (17.12%) Project Delivery
5 19 (17.12%) User Stories
6 18 (16.22%) Test Automation
6 18 (16.22%) User Acceptance Testing
7 15 (13.51%) Project Management
7 15 (13.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 14 (12.61%) Backlog Management
8 14 (12.61%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (12.61%) Product Backlog
8 14 (12.61%) TDD
9 13 (11.71%) BDD
9 13 (11.71%) CI/CD
9 13 (11.71%) Full-Stack Development
9 13 (11.71%) Roadmaps
9 13 (11.71%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 29 (26.13%) Java
2 18 (16.22%) SQL
3 15 (13.51%) JavaScript
4 14 (12.61%) C#
4 14 (12.61%) Python
5 11 (9.91%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.70%) Apex Code
7 2 (1.80%) C++
7 2 (1.80%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.80%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.80%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.90%) C
8 1 (0.90%) Go
8 1 (0.90%) Korn
8 1 (0.90%) PHP
8 1 (0.90%) SOQL
8 1 (0.90%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 21 (18.92%) Degree
2 12 (10.81%) Security Cleared
3 8 (7.21%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.60%) CBAP
5 4 (3.60%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.80%) CFA
6 2 (1.80%) IIBA
6 2 (1.80%) ISEB
6 2 (1.80%) PMP
7 1 (0.90%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.90%) CSPO
7 1 (0.90%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.90%) MBA
7 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.90%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.90%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.90%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (20.72%) QA
2 4 (3.60%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.70%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.70%) PMO
3 3 (2.70%) PSD2
4 2 (1.80%) Basel III
4 2 (1.80%) ISO 8583
4 2 (1.80%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.80%) WCAG
5 1 (0.90%) GDPR
5 1 (0.90%) GRC
5 1 (0.90%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 4 (3.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (5.41%) Ansible
2 2 (1.80%) HP ALM
2 2 (1.80%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.90%) Grafana
Vendors
1 15 (13.51%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.91%) Oracle
3 7 (6.31%) ServiceNow
4 5 (4.50%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.60%) Atlassian
5 4 (3.60%) HP
5 4 (3.60%) SAP
6 3 (2.70%) Arista
6 3 (2.70%) Bloomberg
6 3 (2.70%) Cisco
6 3 (2.70%) Cloudera
6 3 (2.70%) Google
6 3 (2.70%) MuleSoft
6 3 (2.70%) UiPath
7 2 (1.80%) BMC
7 2 (1.80%) Ivanti
7 2 (1.80%) Remedy
8 1 (0.90%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.90%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.90%) Splunk