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 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 37 44
Rank change year-on-year +7 +7 -24
Contract jobs citing Scrum 127 116 134
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.75% 4.98% 4.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.18% 5.42% 4.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 78 85
10th Percentile £405 £450 £414
25th Percentile £458 £478 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £713 £650 £700
90th Percentile £798 £748 £748
London median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £86.25 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 - -
75th Percentile £88.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £65.00 £32.68 £67.00
% change year-on-year +98.90% -51.22% +318.75%

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 1,768 2,139 2,691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.94% 91.92% 89.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,220 1,344 1,887
10th Percentile £327 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £695
90th Percentile £763 £775 £813
London median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.19% -4.35% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 26 17
10th Percentile £17.61 £19.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £22.86 £28.06 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.75 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +27.27% -36.22%
75th Percentile £38.88 £74.38 £46.75
90th Percentile £61.65 £124.75 £59.30
London median hourly rate £31.49 £38.07 £39.92
% change year-on-year -17.28% -4.62% +4.03%

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 30 October 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 30 October 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 +9 120 £575 +1.77% 115
City of Westminster - 1 £230 -
Southwark - 1 - -
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 (12.60%) Confluence
2 3 (2.36%) Drupal
2 3 (2.36%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.57%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.57%) CMS
3 2 (1.57%) WordPress
4 1 (0.79%) Anypoint
Applications
1 11 (8.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.72%) MS Visio
3 5 (3.94%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (3.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.15%) Aladdin
2 2 (1.57%) HFM
2 2 (1.57%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.79%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.79%) Maximo
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.79%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 18 (14.17%) Azure
2 10 (7.87%) Azure DevOps
2 10 (7.87%) Power Platform
3 7 (5.51%) AWS
4 6 (4.72%) GitHub
4 6 (4.72%) SaaS
5 5 (3.94%) Snowflake
6 3 (2.36%) Figma
6 3 (2.36%) Miro
7 2 (1.57%) Azure AI
7 2 (1.57%) BrowserStack
7 2 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.57%) GCP
7 2 (1.57%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (0.79%) Apigee
8 1 (0.79%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.79%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 1 (0.79%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (0.79%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (0.79%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.36%) LAN
1 3 (2.36%) Structured Cabling
1 3 (2.36%) WAN
2 2 (1.57%) SSL
2 2 (1.57%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.09%) Power BI
2 7 (5.51%) Star Schema
3 5 (3.94%) Data Mining
3 5 (3.94%) Tableau
4 3 (2.36%) Metadata
5 2 (1.57%) Apache Hive
5 2 (1.57%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.57%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.57%) Spark SQL
6 1 (0.79%) DB2
6 1 (0.79%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 31 (24.41%) JIRA
2 21 (16.54%) Git
3 9 (7.09%) Bitbucket
4 5 (3.94%) Cucumber
5 4 (3.15%) Postman
6 3 (2.36%) GitLab
6 3 (2.36%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.57%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.57%) Selenium
7 2 (1.57%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.79%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.79%) git-flow
8 1 (0.79%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (0.79%) Zephyr
General
1 63 (49.61%) Social Skills
2 60 (47.24%) Finance
3 20 (15.75%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (15.75%) Banking
4 16 (12.60%) Front Office
5 9 (7.09%) Influencing Skills
5 9 (7.09%) Investment Banking
6 8 (6.30%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (6.30%) Public Sector
7 7 (5.51%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (4.72%) Back Office
8 6 (4.72%) Telecoms
9 4 (3.15%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.79%) Games
11 1 (0.79%) Law
11 1 (0.79%) Legal
11 1 (0.79%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (24.41%) Developer
2 26 (20.47%) Analyst
3 24 (18.90%) Business Analyst
4 17 (13.39%) Senior
5 14 (11.02%) Project Manager
6 13 (10.24%) Consultant
6 13 (10.24%) Java Developer
6 13 (10.24%) Lead
7 8 (6.30%) Lead Consultant
7 8 (6.30%) Scrum Master
8 7 (5.51%) Angular Developer
8 7 (5.51%) Lead Business Analyst
9 6 (4.72%) Business Consultant
9 6 (4.72%) Product Owner
10 5 (3.94%) IT Manager
10 5 (3.94%) IT Project Manager
10 5 (3.94%) Risk Consultant
10 5 (3.94%) Senior Consultant
10 5 (3.94%) Technical Analyst
11 4 (3.15%) Charles River Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (13.39%) REST
2 10 (7.87%) HTML
3 9 (7.09%) AngularJS
4 8 (6.30%) CSS
4 8 (6.30%) React
5 7 (5.51%) .NET
5 7 (5.51%) Spring Boot
6 6 (4.72%) Web Services
7 5 (3.94%) jQuery
7 5 (3.94%) SOAP
8 4 (3.15%) RESTful
8 4 (3.15%) XML
8 4 (3.15%) ZK
9 3 (2.36%) Flask
9 3 (2.36%) JSON
9 3 (2.36%) Lightning Web Components
9 3 (2.36%) Pandas
9 3 (2.36%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (1.57%) Apache Camel
10 2 (1.57%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 26 (20.47%) Product Ownership
2 6 (4.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (3.94%) Market Risk
3 5 (3.94%) Reinsurance
4 4 (3.15%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.15%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.36%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.36%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.36%) Derivative
5 3 (2.36%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.36%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (1.57%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.57%) CMDB
6 2 (1.57%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.57%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.79%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.79%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.94%) Linux
2 3 (2.36%) Unix
2 3 (2.36%) Windows
3 1 (0.79%) Android
3 1 (0.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (94.49%) Agile
2 38 (29.92%) Kanban
3 30 (23.62%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (19.69%) Stakeholder Management
5 24 (18.90%) DevOps
5 24 (18.90%) Project Management
6 23 (18.11%) Project Delivery
7 19 (14.96%) User Acceptance Testing
7 19 (14.96%) User Stories
8 18 (14.17%) Data Analysis
9 17 (13.39%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (13.39%) SDLC
9 17 (13.39%) Test Automation
10 16 (12.60%) Change Management
10 16 (12.60%) Data Modelling
10 16 (12.60%) Requirements Gathering
11 15 (11.81%) Backlog Management
11 15 (11.81%) Product Backlog
12 14 (11.02%) Asset Management
12 14 (11.02%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 37 (29.13%) SQL
2 25 (19.69%) Java
3 17 (13.39%) JavaScript
3 17 (13.39%) Python
4 11 (8.66%) C#
5 8 (6.30%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.36%) Apex Code
7 2 (1.57%) C++
7 2 (1.57%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.57%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.79%) C
8 1 (0.79%) COBOL
8 1 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.79%) Groovy
8 1 (0.79%) Korn
8 1 (0.79%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.79%) RPG
8 1 (0.79%) SOQL
8 1 (0.79%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 26 (20.47%) Degree
2 13 (10.24%) Security Cleared
3 9 (7.09%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.94%) PMP
5 3 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.57%) CBAP
6 2 (1.57%) CFA
6 2 (1.57%) ISEB
7 1 (0.79%) CSPO
7 1 (0.79%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.79%) IIBA
7 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.79%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.79%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.79%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.79%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.79%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (14.17%) QA
2 8 (6.30%) EMIR
2 8 (6.30%) MiFID
3 6 (4.72%) Accessibility
4 5 (3.94%) Basel II
5 4 (3.15%) PMO
5 4 (3.15%) WCAG
6 3 (2.36%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.79%) Basel III
7 1 (0.79%) GDPR
7 1 (0.79%) GRC
7 1 (0.79%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.79%) SEPA
System Software
1 7 (5.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.72%) Ansible
1 6 (4.72%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.79%) Argo
3 1 (0.79%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.79%) Istio
3 1 (0.79%) Opsgenie
3 1 (0.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (18.11%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.87%) Oracle
3 7 (5.51%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.94%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.15%) Charles River
6 3 (2.36%) Arista
6 3 (2.36%) Bloomberg
6 3 (2.36%) Cisco
6 3 (2.36%) Cloudera
6 3 (2.36%) HP
6 3 (2.36%) MuleSoft
6 3 (2.36%) SAP
6 3 (2.36%) UiPath
7 2 (1.57%) BMC
7 2 (1.57%) Hyperion
7 2 (1.57%) IBM
7 2 (1.57%) Ivanti
7 2 (1.57%) Palantir
7 2 (1.57%) Remedy
7 2 (1.57%) Tagetik