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 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 45 50
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 -26
Contract jobs citing Scrum 105 94 100
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 5.20% 4.11% 3.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.76% 4.45% 4.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 52 65
10th Percentile £403 £450 £448
25th Percentile £450 £496 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -9.58% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £694
90th Percentile £763 £724 £765
London median daily rate £543 £525 £555
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.41% -5.53%

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 1,822 2,112 2,362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.24% 92.35% 89.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,266 1,316 1,696
10th Percentile £350 £363 £357
25th Percentile £425 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +0.88% -0.87%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 27 17
10th Percentile £20.18 £18.34 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £23.70 £18.93
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +27.27% -21.43%
75th Percentile £41.75 £43.00 £46.75
90th Percentile £47.50 £112.00 £68.50
London median hourly rate £31.50 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.69% -13.33%

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 1 January 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 1 January 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 98 £550 -4.35% 134
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 (15.24%) Confluence
2 3 (2.86%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.95%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.95%) Apache
3 1 (0.95%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.95%) CMS
3 1 (0.95%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 5 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (4.76%) MS Visio
2 4 (3.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.90%) Trello
5 1 (0.95%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (3.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.90%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.90%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.95%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.95%) HFM
3 1 (0.95%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (14.29%) Azure
2 9 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (6.67%) GitHub
4 5 (4.76%) AWS
4 5 (4.76%) Power Platform
5 4 (3.81%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (2.86%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.90%) BrowserStack
7 2 (1.90%) GCP
7 2 (1.90%) Google Play
7 2 (1.90%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.90%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (0.95%) Apigee
8 1 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.95%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (0.95%) Figma
8 1 (0.95%) Firebase
8 1 (0.95%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.95%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (0.95%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.86%) LAN
1 3 (2.86%) Structured Cabling
1 3 (2.86%) WAN
2 2 (1.90%) SSL
3 1 (0.95%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.76%) Tableau
2 4 (3.81%) Power BI
3 3 (2.86%) Metadata
3 3 (2.86%) Star Schema
4 2 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.95%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.95%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.95%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 30 (28.57%) JIRA
2 20 (19.05%) Git
3 9 (8.57%) Bitbucket
4 6 (5.71%) Cucumber
5 4 (3.81%) Postman
6 3 (2.86%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.86%) GitLab
7 2 (1.90%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.90%) JUnit
7 2 (1.90%) Selenium
7 2 (1.90%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.95%) Mockito
8 1 (0.95%) Vite
General
1 49 (46.67%) Finance
2 34 (32.38%) Social Skills
3 23 (21.90%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (14.29%) Banking
5 13 (12.38%) Front Office
6 9 (8.57%) Public Sector
7 6 (5.71%) Telecoms
8 5 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (4.76%) Investment Banking
9 4 (3.81%) Back Office
9 4 (3.81%) Financial Institution
9 4 (3.81%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.86%) Law
10 3 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.90%) Legal
12 1 (0.95%) Games
12 1 (0.95%) Marketing
12 1 (0.95%) Retail
Job Titles
1 35 (33.33%) Developer
2 18 (17.14%) Java Developer
3 17 (16.19%) Senior
4 16 (15.24%) Analyst
5 14 (13.33%) Business Analyst
6 12 (11.43%) Project Manager
7 10 (9.52%) Scrum Master
8 8 (7.62%) Angular Developer
9 7 (6.67%) Senior Manager
10 6 (5.71%) Delivery Manager
10 6 (5.71%) Technical Analyst
11 5 (4.76%) IT Manager
11 5 (4.76%) IT Project Manager
11 5 (4.76%) Low Latency Java Developer
11 5 (4.76%) Product Manager
12 4 (3.81%) Lead
12 4 (3.81%) Product Owner
12 4 (3.81%) Technical Business Analyst
13 3 (2.86%) Senior Business Analyst
13 3 (2.86%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (17.14%) REST
2 10 (9.52%) AngularJS
2 10 (9.52%) React
3 8 (7.62%) HTML
3 8 (7.62%) Spring Boot
4 7 (6.67%) Web Services
5 6 (5.71%) .NET
5 6 (5.71%) CSS
6 5 (4.76%) SOAP
6 5 (4.76%) ZK
7 4 (3.81%) jQuery
7 4 (3.81%) RESTful
7 4 (3.81%) XML
8 3 (2.86%) FIX Protocol
8 3 (2.86%) JSON
8 3 (2.86%) Lightning Web Components
8 3 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (1.90%) Android Jetpack
9 2 (1.90%) Apache Camel
9 2 (1.90%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 19 (18.10%) Product Ownership
2 9 (8.57%) Onboarding
3 8 (7.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (3.81%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.86%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.86%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (1.90%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.90%) CMDB
6 2 (1.90%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.90%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.90%) PMI
6 2 (1.90%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.90%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.95%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.95%) Digital Wallet
7 1 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.95%) Educational Technology
7 1 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.90%) Android
1 2 (1.90%) Unix
1 2 (1.90%) Windows
2 1 (0.95%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.95%) Linux
2 1 (0.95%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (89.52%) Agile
2 41 (39.05%) Kanban
3 26 (24.76%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (20.00%) DevOps
4 21 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 19 (18.10%) Project Delivery
6 18 (17.14%) Test Automation
6 18 (17.14%) User Acceptance Testing
7 16 (15.24%) User Stories
8 15 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 14 (13.33%) TDD
10 13 (12.38%) BDD
10 13 (12.38%) CI/CD
10 13 (12.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (12.38%) Full-Stack Development
10 13 (12.38%) Project Management
11 12 (11.43%) Backlog Management
11 12 (11.43%) Microservices
11 12 (11.43%) SDLC
11 12 (11.43%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 29 (27.62%) Java
2 16 (15.24%) SQL
3 14 (13.33%) JavaScript
4 13 (12.38%) C#
4 13 (12.38%) Python
5 11 (10.48%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.86%) Apex Code
7 2 (1.90%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.90%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.90%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.95%) C
8 1 (0.95%) C++
8 1 (0.95%) Go
8 1 (0.95%) Korn
8 1 (0.95%) PHP
8 1 (0.95%) SOQL
8 1 (0.95%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 18 (17.14%) Degree
2 12 (11.43%) Security Cleared
3 8 (7.62%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.81%) CBAP
6 3 (2.86%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.90%) CFA
7 2 (1.90%) IIBA
7 2 (1.90%) ISEB
8 1 (0.95%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.95%) CSPO
8 1 (0.95%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.95%) MBA
8 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.95%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.95%) PMP
8 1 (0.95%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.95%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (19.05%) QA
2 3 (2.86%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.86%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.86%) PMO
2 3 (2.86%) PSD2
3 2 (1.90%) Basel III
3 2 (1.90%) ISO 8583
3 2 (1.90%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.90%) WCAG
4 1 (0.95%) GDPR
4 1 (0.95%) GRC
4 1 (0.95%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 3 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (5.71%) Ansible
2 2 (1.90%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.95%) Grafana
3 1 (0.95%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 14 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.48%) Oracle
3 7 (6.67%) ServiceNow
4 5 (4.76%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.81%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.86%) Arista
6 3 (2.86%) Cisco
6 3 (2.86%) Google
6 3 (2.86%) HP
6 3 (2.86%) MuleSoft
6 3 (2.86%) SAP
6 3 (2.86%) UiPath
7 2 (1.90%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.90%) BMC
7 2 (1.90%) Cloudera
7 2 (1.90%) Ivanti
7 2 (1.90%) Remedy
8 1 (0.95%) Hyperion
8 1 (0.95%) Sitecore
8 1 (0.95%) Splunk