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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 43 34
Rank change year-on-year -20 -9 +5
Contract jobs citing Scrum 86 100 136
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.29% 5.14% 5.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.81% 5.49% 6.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 58 99
10th Percentile £418 £421 £423
25th Percentile £505 £466 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £638 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.82% +21.43% -12.50%
75th Percentile £694 £725 £638
90th Percentile £750 £838 £723
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 £83.48 £65.00 £32.29
% change year-on-year +28.43% +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 2,258 1,821 2,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 86.41% 93.53% 91.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,526 1,178 1,517
10th Percentile £358 £350 £356
25th Percentile £451 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
London median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - -5.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 30 23
10th Percentile £17.60 £21.51 £20.22
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £22.50
Median hourly rate £26.39 £32.50 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -18.82% +16.86% -20.54%
75th Percentile £54.00 £50.25 £36.50
90th Percentile £64.13 £63.75 £48.57
London median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +10.29% +13.33% -25.93%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -24 77 £575 -9.80% 23
West End of London - 8 £550 - 1
City of Westminster +2 7 £550 +46.67% 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 (20.93%) Confluence
2 3 (3.49%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.33%) Apache
3 2 (2.33%) Ethereum
3 2 (2.33%) Hyperledger
3 2 (2.33%) IIS
3 2 (2.33%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.16%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.16%) CMS
4 1 (1.16%) JBoss
4 1 (1.16%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (3.49%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.16%) Actimize
2 1 (1.16%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.16%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 18 (20.93%) Azure
2 13 (15.12%) AWS
3 10 (11.63%) GitHub
4 6 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (6.98%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (5.81%) GCP
6 4 (4.65%) Power Automate
6 4 (4.65%) Power Platform
6 4 (4.65%) PowerApps
6 4 (4.65%) SaaS
7 3 (3.49%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (3.49%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.49%) Serverless
8 2 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.33%) Azure Functions
8 2 (2.33%) Azure Stack
8 2 (2.33%) dbt
8 2 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (2.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.65%) HTTP
2 2 (2.33%) Internet
2 2 (2.33%) Intranet
2 2 (2.33%) Network Security
3 1 (1.16%) Firewall
3 1 (1.16%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.65%) Metadata
1 4 (4.65%) MongoDB
1 4 (4.65%) NoSQL
1 4 (4.65%) Relational Database
1 4 (4.65%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.49%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.49%) Power BI
3 2 (2.33%) Big Data
3 2 (2.33%) Data Vault
3 2 (2.33%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.33%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.16%) Db2
4 1 (1.16%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.16%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (1.16%) MySQL
4 1 (1.16%) PowerCenter
4 1 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 33 (38.37%) JIRA
2 14 (16.28%) Git
3 11 (12.79%) Jenkins
4 8 (9.30%) JUnit
5 5 (5.81%) GitLab
6 3 (3.49%) Mockito
7 2 (2.33%) Ant
7 2 (2.33%) Artifactory
7 2 (2.33%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.33%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.33%) Liquibase
7 2 (2.33%) Selenium
7 2 (2.33%) TeamCity
7 2 (2.33%) Vite
7 2 (2.33%) Xcode
7 2 (2.33%) Zephyr
8 1 (1.16%) Jasmine
8 1 (1.16%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (1.16%) Postman
8 1 (1.16%) Robot Framework
General
1 37 (43.02%) Finance
2 32 (37.21%) Social Skills
3 24 (27.91%) Banking
4 11 (12.79%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (10.47%) Law
5 9 (10.47%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.65%) Police
7 3 (3.49%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.49%) Legal
7 3 (3.49%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.49%) Marketing
7 3 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.33%) Retail
9 1 (1.16%) Front Office
9 1 (1.16%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.16%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.16%) Military
Job Titles
1 21 (24.42%) Developer
2 14 (16.28%) Analyst
3 12 (13.95%) Senior
4 9 (10.47%) Java Developer
5 7 (8.14%) Project Manager
5 7 (8.14%) Scrum Master
6 6 (6.98%) Business Analyst
6 6 (6.98%) Delivery Manager
6 6 (6.98%) Product Owner
7 4 (4.65%) QA Engineer
7 4 (4.65%) Senior Manager
7 4 (4.65%) Systems Analyst
8 3 (3.49%) Agile Coach
8 3 (3.49%) Architect
8 3 (3.49%) Business Systems Analyst
8 3 (3.49%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.49%) iOS Developer
8 3 (3.49%) Product Manager
8 3 (3.49%) Senior Developer
8 3 (3.49%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (16.28%) REST
2 10 (11.63%) RESTful
3 9 (10.47%) Spring
4 8 (9.30%) Spring Boot
5 6 (6.98%) CSS
5 6 (6.98%) HTML
5 6 (6.98%) Kafka
6 5 (5.81%) AngularJS
6 5 (5.81%) SOAP
6 5 (5.81%) Web Services
7 4 (4.65%) .NET
8 3 (3.49%) Bootstrap
8 3 (3.49%) gRPC
8 3 (3.49%) J2EE
8 3 (3.49%) JSON
8 3 (3.49%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (3.49%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (3.49%) SwiftUI
8 3 (3.49%) UIKit
9 2 (2.33%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 22 (25.58%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.98%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.65%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.49%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.49%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.49%) Mobile Banking
4 3 (3.49%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.33%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.33%) Digital Wallet
5 2 (2.33%) Life Science
5 2 (2.33%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.16%) AS400
6 1 (1.16%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.16%) Freedom of Information Act
6 1 (1.16%) LIMS
6 1 (1.16%) PMI
6 1 (1.16%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.65%) Linux
1 4 (4.65%) Unix
2 3 (3.49%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (94.19%) Agile
2 26 (30.23%) Stakeholder Management
3 23 (26.74%) CI/CD
4 18 (20.93%) Continuous Improvement
5 17 (19.77%) DevOps
6 15 (17.44%) Kanban
7 14 (16.28%) User Stories
8 13 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (15.12%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 12 (13.95%) AI
9 12 (13.95%) Sprint Planning
10 11 (12.79%) Test Automation
11 10 (11.63%) Migration
12 9 (10.47%) Containerisation
12 9 (10.47%) Data Governance
12 9 (10.47%) Decision-Making
12 9 (10.47%) Microservices
12 9 (10.47%) Unit Testing
13 8 (9.30%) Data Lineage
13 8 (9.30%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 16 (18.60%) SQL
2 13 (15.12%) Java
3 10 (11.63%) Python
4 6 (6.98%) C#
4 6 (6.98%) JavaScript
4 6 (6.98%) TypeScript
5 3 (3.49%) PL/SQL
5 3 (3.49%) Swift
6 2 (2.33%) Go
7 1 (1.16%) Apex Code
7 1 (1.16%) Bash
7 1 (1.16%) COBOL
7 1 (1.16%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.16%) RPG
7 1 (1.16%) Scala
7 1 (1.16%) X++
Qualifications
1 12 (13.95%) Security Cleared
2 10 (11.63%) Degree
2 10 (11.63%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.81%) PMI Certification
4 4 (4.65%) PMP
5 3 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.33%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.33%) CSPO
7 1 (1.16%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.16%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.95%) QA
2 5 (5.81%) Accessibility
2 5 (5.81%) GDPR
3 4 (4.65%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.33%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 2 (2.33%) GxP
4 2 (2.33%) ISO 20022
4 2 (2.33%) PMO
4 2 (2.33%) PSD2
4 2 (2.33%) WCAG
5 1 (1.16%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.16%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (12.79%) Docker
2 3 (3.49%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (10.47%) Kubernetes
2 8 (9.30%) Ansible
3 7 (8.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (12.79%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.30%) Oracle
3 5 (5.81%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.65%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.49%) Databricks
5 3 (3.49%) IBM
5 3 (3.49%) Informatica
6 2 (2.33%) Google
6 2 (2.33%) Sitecore
6 2 (2.33%) Workday
7 1 (1.16%) Cisco
7 1 (1.16%) F5
7 1 (1.16%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.16%) LexisNexis
7 1 (1.16%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.16%) OutSystems
7 1 (1.16%) Pega
7 1 (1.16%) Planview
7 1 (1.16%) Sybase
7 1 (1.16%) Vermilion