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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 41 34
Rank change year-on-year -23 -7 +6
Contract jobs citing Scrum 84 95 134
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.24% 4.97% 5.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.75% 5.31% 6.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 55 97
10th Percentile £438 £438 £420
25th Percentile £513 £479 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £641 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.23% +22.00% -16.00%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £638
90th Percentile £760 £838 £726
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -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 £72.50 £65.00 £32.29
% change year-on-year +11.54% +101.30% -56.36%

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 2,240 1,788 2,180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 86.49% 93.51% 90.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,507 1,160 1,527
10th Percentile £356 £355 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £794
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 27 23
10th Percentile £17.60 £19.99 £20.22
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.25 £22.50
Median hourly rate £27.00 £29.07 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +4.53% -20.54%
75th Percentile £54.50 £49.75 £31.19
90th Percentile £64.25 £63.75 £41.47
London median hourly rate £37.00 £34.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +8.82% +13.33% -23.90%

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 14 June 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 14 June 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 14 June 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 -18 75 £597 -9.41% 46
West End of London - 8 £550 - 5
City of Westminster -1 7 £550 +18.92% 2
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 (21.43%) Confluence
2 3 (3.57%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.38%) Apache
3 2 (2.38%) Ethereum
3 2 (2.38%) Hyperledger
3 2 (2.38%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.19%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.19%) CMS
4 1 (1.19%) IIS
4 1 (1.19%) JBoss
4 1 (1.19%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (3.57%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.19%) Actimize
2 1 (1.19%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.19%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 15 (17.86%) Azure
2 14 (16.67%) AWS
3 9 (10.71%) GitHub
4 6 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (5.95%) GCP
6 4 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.76%) Power Platform
6 4 (4.76%) SaaS
7 3 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (3.57%) Power Automate
7 3 (3.57%) PowerApps
8 2 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.38%) Azure Stack
8 2 (2.38%) dbt
8 2 (2.38%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.38%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 2 (2.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.76%) HTTP
2 2 (2.38%) Network Security
3 1 (1.19%) Firewall
3 1 (1.19%) Internet
3 1 (1.19%) Intranet
3 1 (1.19%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.76%) Metadata
2 3 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.57%) DynamoDB
2 3 (3.57%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.57%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.57%) Power BI
2 3 (3.57%) Relational Database
2 3 (3.57%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.38%) Big Data
3 2 (2.38%) Data Vault
3 2 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.19%) Db2
4 1 (1.19%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.19%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (1.19%) PowerCenter
4 1 (1.19%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (40.48%) JIRA
2 12 (14.29%) Git
3 10 (11.90%) Jenkins
4 7 (8.33%) JUnit
5 5 (5.95%) GitLab
6 3 (3.57%) Cucumber
6 3 (3.57%) Mockito
7 2 (2.38%) Ant
7 2 (2.38%) Liquibase
8 1 (1.19%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.19%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.19%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.19%) Postman
8 1 (1.19%) Robot Framework
8 1 (1.19%) Selenium
8 1 (1.19%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.19%) Visual Studio
8 1 (1.19%) Vite
8 1 (1.19%) Xcode
8 1 (1.19%) Zephyr
General
1 39 (46.43%) Finance
2 31 (36.90%) Social Skills
3 22 (26.19%) Banking
4 12 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (11.90%) Law
6 9 (10.71%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.76%) Police
8 3 (3.57%) Front Office
8 3 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.57%) Legal
8 3 (3.57%) Marketing
8 3 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.57%) Retail
9 2 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.38%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.38%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.19%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.19%) Military
10 1 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 19 (22.62%) Developer
2 16 (19.05%) Analyst
3 12 (14.29%) Senior
4 9 (10.71%) Java Developer
5 7 (8.33%) Business Analyst
5 7 (8.33%) Delivery Manager
5 7 (8.33%) Project Manager
5 7 (8.33%) Scrum Master
6 5 (5.95%) Product Manager
6 5 (5.95%) Product Owner
6 5 (5.95%) Senior Manager
7 4 (4.76%) Systems Analyst
8 3 (3.57%) Agile Coach
8 3 (3.57%) Business Systems Analyst
8 3 (3.57%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.57%) QA Engineer
8 3 (3.57%) Risk Analyst
8 3 (3.57%) Senior Developer
8 3 (3.57%) ServiceNow Developer
8 3 (3.57%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (14.29%) REST
2 8 (9.52%) RESTful
2 8 (9.52%) Spring
3 7 (8.33%) Spring Boot
4 6 (7.14%) Kafka
5 5 (5.95%) Web Services
6 4 (4.76%) AngularJS
6 4 (4.76%) CSS
6 4 (4.76%) HTML
6 4 (4.76%) SOAP
7 3 (3.57%) J2EE
7 3 (3.57%) JSON
7 3 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (3.57%) Spring Cloud
7 3 (3.57%) ZK
8 2 (2.38%) .NET
8 2 (2.38%) ADO
8 2 (2.38%) PySpark
8 2 (2.38%) Spring Batch
8 2 (2.38%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 21 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.95%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.95%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.57%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.57%) Digital Wallet
3 3 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 3 (3.57%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.38%) AI Agents
4 2 (2.38%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.38%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.38%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.19%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.19%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.19%) Equities
5 1 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.19%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.19%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.19%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.38%) Apple iOS
1 2 (2.38%) Linux
1 2 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (92.86%) Agile
2 28 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 19 (22.62%) CI/CD
4 18 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
5 17 (20.24%) Kanban
6 15 (17.86%) User Stories
7 14 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 13 (15.48%) DevOps
8 13 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
10 11 (13.10%) Migration
11 10 (11.90%) AI
11 10 (11.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 10 (11.90%) Test Automation
12 9 (10.71%) Data Lineage
12 9 (10.71%) Data Modelling
12 9 (10.71%) Sprint Retrospective
12 9 (10.71%) Waterfall
13 8 (9.52%) Microservices
13 8 (9.52%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 15 (17.86%) SQL
2 13 (15.48%) Java
3 9 (10.71%) Python
4 5 (5.95%) JavaScript
5 4 (4.76%) C#
6 3 (3.57%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.38%) Go
7 2 (2.38%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.38%) Swift
8 1 (1.19%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.19%) Bash
8 1 (1.19%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.19%) PHP
8 1 (1.19%) Scala
8 1 (1.19%) X++
Qualifications
1 12 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 10 (11.90%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.14%) Degree
4 5 (5.95%) PMI Certification
5 4 (4.76%) PMP
6 2 (2.38%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.19%) CBAP
7 1 (1.19%) CFA
7 1 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.19%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.90%) QA
2 5 (5.95%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.95%) GDPR
3 4 (4.76%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.57%) ISO 20022
4 3 (3.57%) PSD2
5 2 (2.38%) PMO
5 2 (2.38%) WCAG
6 1 (1.19%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 1 (1.19%) Basel III
6 1 (1.19%) GxP
6 1 (1.19%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (10.71%) Docker
2 2 (2.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (10.71%) Ansible
2 7 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 6 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (10.71%) Oracle
2 8 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.95%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.57%) Databricks
4 3 (3.57%) Informatica
5 2 (2.38%) Google
5 2 (2.38%) IBM
5 2 (2.38%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.38%) Workday
6 1 (1.19%) Cisco
6 1 (1.19%) F5
6 1 (1.19%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.19%) LexisNexis
6 1 (1.19%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.19%) OutSystems
6 1 (1.19%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.19%) Pega
6 1 (1.19%) Planview
6 1 (1.19%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.19%) Vermilion