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 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 44 54
Rank change year-on-year +3 +10 -26
Contract jobs citing Scrum 106 86 92
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 5.17% 4.10% 3.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.81% 4.44% 3.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 45 57
10th Percentile £402 £450 £446
25th Percentile £450 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £523 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.13% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £675
90th Percentile £788 £790 £775
London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.03%

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 1,824 1,936 2,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 89.02% 92.23% 89.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,263 1,195 1,677
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £437 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £560
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +2.68% -4.27%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 20 27
10th Percentile £19.86 £20.93 £18.16
25th Percentile £23.15 £24.55 £21.36
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -17.60%
75th Percentile £41.85 £36.31 £40.00
90th Percentile £46.53 £50.58 £65.00
London median hourly rate £34.50 £35.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -2.83% +18.33% -18.06%

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 3 February 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 3 February 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 99 £550 +4.76% 55
City of Westminster +4 2 £390 -29.09%
West End of London +11 1 £550 +2.80%
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 (13.21%) Confluence
2 4 (3.77%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.89%) Ethereum
3 2 (1.89%) Hyperledger
4 1 (0.94%) Apache
4 1 (0.94%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.94%) CMS
4 1 (0.94%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 5 (4.72%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (4.72%) MS Visio
2 4 (3.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (3.77%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.89%) Trello
4 1 (0.94%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (3.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.89%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.94%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.94%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.94%) HFM
3 1 (0.94%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.94%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 18 (16.98%) Azure
2 11 (10.38%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (5.66%) AWS
4 5 (4.72%) GitHub
4 5 (4.72%) Power Platform
5 4 (3.77%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (2.83%) GCP
7 2 (1.89%) Google Play
7 2 (1.89%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.89%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (0.94%) Alation
8 1 (0.94%) Azure AI
8 1 (0.94%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 1 (0.94%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.94%) Cloud Functions
8 1 (0.94%) Cloud Run
8 1 (0.94%) dbt
8 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.94%) Miro
8 1 (0.94%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.83%) LAN
1 3 (2.83%) Structured Cabling
1 3 (2.83%) WAN
2 2 (1.89%) HTTP
3 1 (0.94%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.77%) Power BI
2 3 (2.83%) Metadata
2 3 (2.83%) MongoDB
2 3 (2.83%) Star Schema
2 3 (2.83%) Tableau
3 2 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.89%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.94%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.94%) Data Vault
4 1 (0.94%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.94%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.94%) PowerCenter
4 1 (0.94%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 31 (29.25%) JIRA
2 19 (17.92%) Git
3 7 (6.60%) Bitbucket
3 7 (6.60%) Cucumber
4 4 (3.77%) JUnit
5 3 (2.83%) Postman
6 2 (1.89%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.89%) GitLab
6 2 (1.89%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.89%) Selenium
6 2 (1.89%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.94%) Mockito
7 1 (0.94%) Vite
General
1 51 (48.11%) Finance
2 36 (33.96%) Social Skills
3 23 (21.70%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (18.87%) Banking
5 14 (13.21%) Front Office
6 9 (8.49%) Public Sector
7 6 (5.66%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (4.72%) Investment Banking
8 5 (4.72%) Law
8 5 (4.72%) Telecoms
9 4 (3.77%) Financial Institution
9 4 (3.77%) Legal
9 4 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.83%) Back Office
10 3 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.83%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (2.83%) Retail
11 2 (1.89%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 34 (32.08%) Developer
2 18 (16.98%) Java Developer
3 17 (16.04%) Analyst
3 17 (16.04%) Senior
4 13 (12.26%) Business Analyst
5 12 (11.32%) Project Manager
5 12 (11.32%) Scrum Master
6 8 (7.55%) Technical Analyst
7 7 (6.60%) Delivery Manager
7 7 (6.60%) Senior Manager
8 6 (5.66%) Angular Developer
9 5 (4.72%) IT Manager
9 5 (4.72%) IT Project Manager
9 5 (4.72%) Low Latency Java Developer
9 5 (4.72%) Payments Analyst
9 5 (4.72%) Product Manager
10 4 (3.77%) Lead
10 4 (3.77%) Technical Business Analyst
11 3 (2.83%) Agile Delivery Manager
11 3 (2.83%) Senior Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (16.04%) REST
2 8 (7.55%) AngularJS
2 8 (7.55%) React
2 8 (7.55%) Spring Boot
3 6 (5.66%) .NET
3 6 (5.66%) RESTful
3 6 (5.66%) Web Services
3 6 (5.66%) ZK
4 4 (3.77%) CSS
4 4 (3.77%) HTML
4 4 (3.77%) Spring
4 4 (3.77%) XML
5 3 (2.83%) FIX Protocol
5 3 (2.83%) Kafka
5 3 (2.83%) SOAP
6 2 (1.89%) J2EE
6 2 (1.89%) Node.js
6 2 (1.89%) RxJava
6 2 (1.89%) Spring Batch
6 2 (1.89%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 20 (18.87%) Product Ownership
2 9 (8.49%) Onboarding
3 8 (7.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (3.77%) Algorithms
4 4 (3.77%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (2.83%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.83%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.83%) Digital Wallet
6 2 (1.89%) CMDB
6 2 (1.89%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.89%) PMI
6 2 (1.89%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.89%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.94%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.94%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.94%) Equities
7 1 (0.94%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.94%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.94%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.89%) Android
1 2 (1.89%) Unix
2 1 (0.94%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.94%) Linux
2 1 (0.94%) Windows
2 1 (0.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (90.57%) Agile
2 39 (36.79%) Kanban
3 27 (25.47%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (20.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 20 (18.87%) Project Delivery
6 19 (17.92%) User Acceptance Testing
7 18 (16.98%) DevOps
8 17 (16.04%) Test Automation
9 16 (15.09%) User Stories
10 14 (13.21%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 14 (13.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 13 (12.26%) CI/CD
11 13 (12.26%) Continuous Improvement
11 13 (12.26%) TDD
12 12 (11.32%) BDD
12 12 (11.32%) Project Management
12 12 (11.32%) SDLC
12 12 (11.32%) Sprint Planning
13 11 (10.38%) Backlog Management
13 11 (10.38%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 30 (28.30%) Java
2 18 (16.98%) SQL
3 12 (11.32%) C#
3 12 (11.32%) Python
4 11 (10.38%) TypeScript
5 10 (9.43%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.89%) Apex Code
6 2 (1.89%) Kotlin
6 2 (1.89%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.89%) VB.NET
7 1 (0.94%) Go
7 1 (0.94%) Korn
7 1 (0.94%) PHP
7 1 (0.94%) SOQL
7 1 (0.94%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 20 (18.87%) Degree
2 10 (9.43%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (5.66%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.77%) CBAP
4 4 (3.77%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.89%) CFA
5 2 (1.89%) IIBA
5 2 (1.89%) ISEB
5 2 (1.89%) PMP
6 1 (0.94%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.94%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.94%) MBA
6 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.94%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.94%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.94%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (16.04%) QA
2 5 (4.72%) PSD2
3 4 (3.77%) PMO
4 3 (2.83%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.83%) GDPR
4 3 (2.83%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.89%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.89%) Basel III
5 2 (1.89%) ISO 8583
5 2 (1.89%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.94%) GRC
6 1 (0.94%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.94%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (0.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (6.60%) Ansible
2 2 (1.89%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.94%) Grafana
3 1 (0.94%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 14 (13.21%) Microsoft
1 14 (13.21%) Oracle
2 7 (6.60%) ServiceNow
3 4 (3.77%) Atlassian
3 4 (3.77%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.83%) Arista
4 3 (2.83%) Cisco
4 3 (2.83%) Google
4 3 (2.83%) UiPath
5 2 (1.89%) Databricks
5 2 (1.89%) Informatica
5 2 (1.89%) SAP
5 2 (1.89%) Workday
6 1 (0.94%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.94%) HP
6 1 (0.94%) IBM
6 1 (0.94%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.94%) Planview
6 1 (0.94%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.94%) Splunk