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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 54 36
Rank change year-on-year -3 -18 +8
Contract jobs citing Scrum 84 77 125
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.43% 3.91% 5.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.02% 4.20% 5.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 41 88
10th Percentile £450 £425 £425
25th Percentile £513 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £625 £538
Median % change year-on-year -6.48% +16.28% -14.00%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £652
90th Percentile £756 £838 £719
London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £33.00
London median hourly rate £64.75 £65.00 £32.36
% change year-on-year -0.38% +100.90% -55.37%

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 2,092 1,835 2,172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 85.35% 93.15% 90.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,420 1,181 1,542
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £558 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% +1.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 25 23
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £20.22
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.75 £22.75
Median hourly rate £27.00 £29.07 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +4.53% -20.54%
75th Percentile £47.41 £43.75 £28.59
90th Percentile £59.72 £50.75 £40.00
London median hourly rate £35.71 £34.00 £27.84
% change year-on-year +5.03% +22.13% -28.62%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -10 78 £600 -5.88% 48
West End of London - 5 £550 - 3
City of Westminster 0 4 £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 15 (17.86%) 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%) JBoss
4 1 (1.19%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.38%) MS Visio
1 2 (2.38%) Trello
2 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.19%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (4.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.19%) Actimize
2 1 (1.19%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.19%) R3 Corda
2 1 (1.19%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 16 (19.05%) Azure
2 14 (16.67%) AWS
3 8 (9.52%) GitHub
4 5 (5.95%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (5.95%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (5.95%) Power Platform
5 4 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (4.76%) GCP
5 4 (4.76%) Power Automate
6 3 (3.57%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.38%) Azure Stack
7 2 (2.38%) dbt
7 2 (2.38%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.38%) Google Play
7 2 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.38%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 2 (2.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.38%) HTTP
1 2 (2.38%) Network Security
2 1 (1.19%) Firewall
2 1 (1.19%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.76%) Metadata
1 4 (4.76%) Power BI
2 3 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.57%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.38%) Big Data
3 2 (2.38%) Data Vault
3 2 (2.38%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.38%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.38%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.38%) SQL Server
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%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 36 (42.86%) JIRA
2 12 (14.29%) Git
3 8 (9.52%) Jenkins
3 8 (9.52%) JUnit
4 4 (4.76%) GitLab
5 3 (3.57%) Cucumber
5 3 (3.57%) Mockito
6 2 (2.38%) Ant
6 2 (2.38%) Liquibase
7 1 (1.19%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.19%) Postman
7 1 (1.19%) Robot Framework
7 1 (1.19%) Selenium
7 1 (1.19%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.19%) Vite
General
1 43 (51.19%) Finance
2 27 (32.14%) Social Skills
3 19 (22.62%) Banking
4 13 (15.48%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (10.71%) Law
6 8 (9.52%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.57%) Front Office
8 3 (3.57%) Legal
8 3 (3.57%) Marketing
8 3 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.57%) Police
8 3 (3.57%) Retail
9 2 (2.38%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.19%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.19%) German Language
10 1 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.19%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 18 (21.43%) Senior
2 17 (20.24%) Analyst
3 16 (19.05%) Developer
4 10 (11.90%) Delivery Manager
4 10 (11.90%) Senior Manager
5 9 (10.71%) Project Manager
6 8 (9.52%) Business Analyst
6 8 (9.52%) Java Developer
7 6 (7.14%) Product Manager
7 6 (7.14%) Scrum Master
8 5 (5.95%) Product Owner
9 4 (4.76%) Agile Delivery Manager
9 4 (4.76%) Senior Project Manager
9 4 (4.76%) Technical Analyst
10 3 (3.57%) CRM Manager
10 3 (3.57%) Data Analyst
10 3 (3.57%) Payments Analyst
10 3 (3.57%) Risk Analyst
10 3 (3.57%) Senior Developer
10 3 (3.57%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.71%) REST
2 8 (9.52%) RESTful
3 7 (8.33%) Spring
4 6 (7.14%) Spring Boot
5 5 (5.95%) Kafka
6 4 (4.76%) Web Services
7 3 (3.57%) J2EE
7 3 (3.57%) Jetpack Compose
7 3 (3.57%) ZK
8 2 (2.38%) Android Jetpack
8 2 (2.38%) AngularJS
8 2 (2.38%) CSS
8 2 (2.38%) gRPC
8 2 (2.38%) HTML
8 2 (2.38%) PySpark
8 2 (2.38%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (2.38%) RxJava
8 2 (2.38%) Spring Batch
8 2 (2.38%) Spring Cloud
8 2 (2.38%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 19 (22.62%) Product Ownership
2 8 (9.52%) Onboarding
3 6 (7.14%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.57%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.57%) Digital Wallet
4 3 (3.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (2.38%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.38%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.38%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.19%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.19%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.19%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.19%) Freedom of Information Act
6 1 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.19%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.19%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.19%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (1.19%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.38%) Android
1 2 (2.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (89.29%) Agile
2 27 (32.14%) Stakeholder Management
3 18 (21.43%) CI/CD
4 15 (17.86%) User Stories
5 14 (16.67%) Kanban
6 13 (15.48%) Continuous Improvement
6 13 (15.48%) DevOps
7 12 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
8 11 (13.10%) Migration
8 11 (13.10%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 11 (13.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 10 (11.90%) Business Case
9 10 (11.90%) Data Modelling
9 10 (11.90%) Test Automation
9 10 (11.90%) Waterfall
10 9 (10.71%) Backlog Management
10 9 (10.71%) Project Delivery
10 9 (10.71%) Roadmaps
10 9 (10.71%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 13 (15.48%) Java
2 12 (14.29%) SQL
3 7 (8.33%) Python
4 3 (3.57%) C#
4 3 (3.57%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.57%) Kotlin
4 3 (3.57%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.38%) Go
6 1 (1.19%) Apex Code
6 1 (1.19%) Bash
6 1 (1.19%) PHP
6 1 (1.19%) Scala
6 1 (1.19%) Swift
6 1 (1.19%) X++
Qualifications
1 12 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 10 (11.90%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.95%) Degree
3 5 (5.95%) PMI Certification
4 4 (4.76%) PMP
5 2 (2.38%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.19%) CBAP
6 1 (1.19%) CFA
6 1 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.19%) IIBA
6 1 (1.19%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.19%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.90%) QA
2 5 (5.95%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.95%) GDPR
3 3 (3.57%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.57%) ISO 20022
3 3 (3.57%) PSD2
4 2 (2.38%) PMO
4 2 (2.38%) WCAG
5 1 (1.19%) Basel III
5 1 (1.19%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (8.33%) Docker
2 2 (2.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (9.52%) Ansible
2 5 (5.95%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.95%) Terraform
3 1 (1.19%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 8 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.33%) Oracle
3 4 (4.76%) Google
4 3 (3.57%) Databricks
4 3 (3.57%) Informatica
4 3 (3.57%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.38%) Atlassian
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%) HP
6 1 (1.19%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.19%) Pega
6 1 (1.19%) Planview
6 1 (1.19%) SAP
6 1 (1.19%) Sybase
6 1 (1.19%) Vermilion