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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 60 39
Rank change year-on-year +6 -21 -1
Contract jobs citing Scrum 90 71 116
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.69% 3.55% 4.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.31% 3.82% 5.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 37 80
10th Percentile £404 £408 £425
25th Percentile £503 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £676 £656 £675
90th Percentile £783 £800 £719
London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £33.00
London median hourly rate £63.50 £70.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -9.29% +112.12% -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 2,089 1,858 2,217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 85.65% 92.90% 90.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,421 1,204 1,569
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £764 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 24 27
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £19.52
25th Percentile £19.71 £22.75 £22.25
Median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -20.54%
75th Percentile £42.65 £43.97 £36.50
90th Percentile £59.40 £50.75 £56.15
London median hourly rate £35.50 £34.50 £28.50
% change year-on-year +2.90% +21.05% -25.25%

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 29 April 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 29 April 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 +3 84 £600 - 37
City of Westminster +3 4 £550 +18.92%
West End of London - 4 £550 -
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 14 (15.56%) Confluence
2 3 (3.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.22%) Apache
3 2 (2.22%) Ethereum
3 2 (2.22%) Hyperledger
3 2 (2.22%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.11%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.11%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (1.11%) CMS
4 1 (1.11%) JBoss
4 1 (1.11%) SAS
4 1 (1.11%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (2.22%) MS Visio
1 2 (2.22%) Trello
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.11%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (4.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.22%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.11%) Actimize
3 1 (1.11%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.11%) R3 Corda
3 1 (1.11%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 18 (20.00%) Azure
2 13 (14.44%) AWS
3 7 (7.78%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (7.78%) GitHub
4 5 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (5.56%) Power Platform
5 4 (4.44%) GCP
5 4 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (4.44%) Power Automate
6 3 (3.33%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.22%) Azure Stack
7 2 (2.22%) dbt
7 2 (2.22%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.22%) Google Play
7 2 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.22%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 2 (2.22%) Serverless
8 1 (1.11%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.22%) HTTP
2 1 (1.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.44%) Metadata
1 4 (4.44%) Power BI
2 3 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.33%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.33%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.22%) Big Data
3 2 (2.22%) Data Vault
3 2 (2.22%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.22%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.22%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.11%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.11%) DB2
4 1 (1.11%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.11%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (1.11%) PowerCenter
4 1 (1.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (35.56%) JIRA
2 15 (16.67%) Git
3 8 (8.89%) JUnit
4 7 (7.78%) Jenkins
5 4 (4.44%) Cucumber
5 4 (4.44%) GitLab
6 3 (3.33%) Mockito
7 2 (2.22%) Ant
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%) Selenium
7 2 (2.22%) Vite
8 1 (1.11%) Robot Framework
8 1 (1.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 49 (54.44%) Finance
2 26 (28.89%) Social Skills
3 20 (22.22%) Banking
4 16 (17.78%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (10.00%) Law
6 7 (7.78%) Front Office
6 7 (7.78%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.44%) Investment Banking
7 4 (4.44%) Legal
7 4 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.33%) Police
8 3 (3.33%) Retail
9 2 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.22%) Marketing
10 1 (1.11%) Back Office
10 1 (1.11%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.11%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.11%) German Language
10 1 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 22 (24.44%) Developer
2 18 (20.00%) Senior
3 17 (18.89%) Analyst
4 12 (13.33%) Java Developer
5 10 (11.11%) Senior Manager
6 9 (10.00%) Business Analyst
6 9 (10.00%) Delivery Manager
6 9 (10.00%) Project Manager
7 7 (7.78%) Product Manager
8 6 (6.67%) Scrum Master
9 5 (5.56%) Payments Analyst
10 4 (4.44%) Senior Project Manager
10 4 (4.44%) Technical Analyst
11 3 (3.33%) CRM Manager
11 3 (3.33%) Data Analyst
11 3 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
11 3 (3.33%) Low Latency Java Developer
11 3 (3.33%) Senior Delivery Manager
11 3 (3.33%) Senior Developer
11 3 (3.33%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.11%) REST
2 8 (8.89%) RESTful
3 7 (7.78%) Spring
3 7 (7.78%) Spring Boot
4 5 (5.56%) Kafka
5 4 (4.44%) CSS
5 4 (4.44%) HTML
5 4 (4.44%) Web Services
6 3 (3.33%) .NET
6 3 (3.33%) AngularJS
6 3 (3.33%) J2EE
6 3 (3.33%) Jetpack Compose
6 3 (3.33%) React
6 3 (3.33%) ZK
7 2 (2.22%) Android Jetpack
7 2 (2.22%) gRPC
7 2 (2.22%) Playwright
7 2 (2.22%) PySpark
7 2 (2.22%) RxJava
7 2 (2.22%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 20 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 10 (11.11%) Onboarding
3 6 (6.67%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (3.33%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.33%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.33%) Digital Wallet
5 3 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.33%) PMI
5 3 (3.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (2.22%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.22%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.22%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.11%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.11%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.11%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (1.11%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.22%) Android
1 2 (2.22%) Apple iOS
1 2 (2.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (90.00%) Agile
2 24 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 20 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 20 (22.22%) Kanban
4 17 (18.89%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (16.67%) DevOps
5 15 (16.67%) User Stories
6 13 (14.44%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (14.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 13 (14.44%) Test Automation
7 11 (12.22%) Migration
8 10 (11.11%) Business Case
8 10 (11.11%) Data Modelling
8 10 (11.11%) Project Delivery
8 10 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
8 10 (11.11%) Waterfall
9 9 (10.00%) AI
9 9 (10.00%) Data Lineage
9 9 (10.00%) Microservices
9 9 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (21.11%) Java
2 12 (13.33%) SQL
3 8 (8.89%) C#
4 7 (7.78%) Python
5 6 (6.67%) TypeScript
6 5 (5.56%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.33%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.22%) Go
9 1 (1.11%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.11%) Bash
9 1 (1.11%) PHP
9 1 (1.11%) Scala
9 1 (1.11%) Swift
9 1 (1.11%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.11%) X++
Qualifications
1 10 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.89%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.78%) Degree
4 6 (6.67%) PMI Certification
5 3 (3.33%) CBAP
5 3 (3.33%) PMP
6 2 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.11%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.11%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.11%) CFA
7 1 (1.11%) IIBA
7 1 (1.11%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.11%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (17.78%) QA
2 5 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.56%) GDPR
2 5 (5.56%) PSD2
3 3 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.33%) ISO 20022
4 2 (2.22%) ISO 8583
4 2 (2.22%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.22%) PMO
4 2 (2.22%) WCAG
5 1 (1.11%) Basel III
5 1 (1.11%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (7.78%) Docker
2 2 (2.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (8.89%) Ansible
2 5 (5.56%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.44%) Terraform
4 1 (1.11%) Grafana
4 1 (1.11%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 10 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.89%) Oracle
3 4 (4.44%) Databricks
3 4 (4.44%) Google
4 3 (3.33%) Atlassian
4 3 (3.33%) Informatica
4 3 (3.33%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.22%) IBM
5 2 (2.22%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.22%) Workday
6 1 (1.11%) Cisco
6 1 (1.11%) HP
6 1 (1.11%) LexisNexis
6 1 (1.11%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.11%) OutSystems
6 1 (1.11%) Pega
6 1 (1.11%) Planview
6 1 (1.11%) SAP
6 1 (1.11%) Sybase
6 1 (1.11%) UiPath