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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 54 44
Rank change year-on-year 0 -10 -11
Contract jobs citing Scrum 93 77 103
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 4.03% 3.91% 4.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.59% 4.23% 4.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 36 68
10th Percentile £404 £406 £425
25th Percentile £500 £463 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +18.80% -13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £688
90th Percentile £768 £690 £736
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 £61.22 £70.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -12.55% +112.12% -53.68%

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 2,024 1,820 2,287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 87.62% 92.34% 89.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,388 1,197 1,621
10th Percentile £357 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -7.17%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £681
90th Percentile £775 £763 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 17 25
10th Percentile £18.75 £21.70 £19.33
25th Percentile £21.91 £24.66 £22.50
Median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -20.54%
75th Percentile £42.65 £35.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £58.92 £46.27 £59.10
London median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.16
% change year-on-year +1.43% +16.05% -22.67%

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 April 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 April 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 87 £600 +19.76% 48
City of Westminster +2 3 £550 +18.92%
West End of London - 3 £550 - 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 14 (15.05%) Confluence
2 4 (4.30%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.15%) Ethereum
3 2 (2.15%) Hyperledger
3 2 (2.15%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.08%) Apache
4 1 (1.08%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (1.08%) CMS
4 1 (1.08%) JBoss
4 1 (1.08%) SAS
4 1 (1.08%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (3.23%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.15%) Trello
3 1 (1.08%) Notion
Business Applications
1 5 (5.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.15%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.08%) Actimize
3 1 (1.08%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.08%) R3 Corda
3 1 (1.08%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 18 (19.35%) Azure
2 11 (11.83%) AWS
3 9 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (7.53%) GitHub
5 5 (5.38%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (5.38%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.23%) GCP
6 3 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (3.23%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 2 (2.15%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.15%) Google Play
7 2 (2.15%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.15%) Serverless
8 1 (1.08%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (1.08%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (1.08%) Azure Stack
8 1 (1.08%) Figma
8 1 (1.08%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.08%) Smartsheet
8 1 (1.08%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.15%) HTTP
1 2 (2.15%) LAN
1 2 (2.15%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (2.15%) WAN
2 1 (1.08%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.30%) Power BI
2 3 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.23%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.23%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.23%) Tableau
3 2 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.15%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.15%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.15%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.08%) Big Data
4 1 (1.08%) Data Vault
4 1 (1.08%) DB2
4 1 (1.08%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.08%) Metadata
4 1 (1.08%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 33 (35.48%) JIRA
2 18 (19.35%) Git
3 7 (7.53%) JUnit
4 6 (6.45%) Jenkins
5 5 (5.38%) Bitbucket
5 5 (5.38%) Cucumber
6 3 (3.23%) GitLab
6 3 (3.23%) Postman
6 3 (3.23%) Selenium
7 2 (2.15%) Ant
7 2 (2.15%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.15%) Liquibase
7 2 (2.15%) Mockito
7 2 (2.15%) Vite
8 1 (1.08%) Robot Framework
8 1 (1.08%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 48 (51.61%) Finance
2 25 (26.88%) Social Skills
3 20 (21.51%) Banking
4 16 (17.20%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (10.75%) Front Office
6 8 (8.60%) Law
7 7 (7.53%) Public Sector
8 5 (5.38%) Investment Banking
9 4 (4.30%) Legal
10 3 (3.23%) Back Office
10 3 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (3.23%) Retail
10 3 (3.23%) Telecoms
11 2 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (2.15%) Marketing
11 2 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (2.15%) Police
12 1 (1.08%) Financial Institution
12 1 (1.08%) German Language
Job Titles
1 23 (24.73%) Developer
2 19 (20.43%) Senior
3 15 (16.13%) Analyst
4 14 (15.05%) Project Manager
5 13 (13.98%) Java Developer
6 10 (10.75%) Business Analyst
7 9 (9.68%) Senior Manager
8 8 (8.60%) Delivery Manager
8 8 (8.60%) Scrum Master
9 6 (6.45%) Product Manager
10 5 (5.38%) Payments Analyst
10 5 (5.38%) Technical Analyst
11 4 (4.30%) Senior Project Manager
12 3 (3.23%) Angular Developer
12 3 (3.23%) IT Manager
12 3 (3.23%) IT Project Manager
12 3 (3.23%) Low Latency Java Developer
12 3 (3.23%) Senior Analyst
12 3 (3.23%) Senior Delivery Manager
12 3 (3.23%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.83%) REST
2 7 (7.53%) Spring Boot
3 6 (6.45%) RESTful
4 5 (5.38%) .NET
4 5 (5.38%) AngularJS
4 5 (5.38%) React
4 5 (5.38%) Spring
5 4 (4.30%) CSS
5 4 (4.30%) HTML
5 4 (4.30%) Kafka
5 4 (4.30%) Web Services
6 3 (3.23%) J2EE
6 3 (3.23%) Jetpack Compose
6 3 (3.23%) ZK
7 2 (2.15%) Android Jetpack
7 2 (2.15%) gRPC
7 2 (2.15%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (2.15%) Playwright
7 2 (2.15%) RxJava
7 2 (2.15%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 17 (18.28%) Product Ownership
2 10 (10.75%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.30%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (3.23%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.23%) Digital Wallet
4 3 (3.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (2.15%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.15%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.15%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.15%) PMI
5 2 (2.15%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.08%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.08%) Equities
6 1 (1.08%) Freedom of Information Act
6 1 (1.08%) IPTV
6 1 (1.08%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.08%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.15%) Android
1 2 (2.15%) Apple iOS
1 2 (2.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (87.10%) Agile
2 26 (27.96%) Kanban
3 23 (24.73%) Stakeholder Management
4 20 (21.51%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (20.43%) CI/CD
6 17 (18.28%) DevOps
7 15 (16.13%) Project Delivery
7 15 (16.13%) Test Automation
8 13 (13.98%) User Acceptance Testing
9 12 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (12.90%) Project Management
9 12 (12.90%) Sprint Planning
9 12 (12.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 12 (12.90%) User Stories
10 11 (11.83%) Migration
11 10 (10.75%) Microservices
11 10 (10.75%) Waterfall
12 9 (9.68%) Business Case
12 9 (9.68%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 9 (9.68%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 21 (22.58%) Java
2 13 (13.98%) SQL
3 8 (8.60%) C#
3 8 (8.60%) TypeScript
4 6 (6.45%) Python
5 5 (5.38%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.23%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.15%) Apex Code
7 2 (2.15%) Go
7 2 (2.15%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.08%) Bash
8 1 (1.08%) PHP
8 1 (1.08%) Swift
Qualifications
1 10 (10.75%) Degree
1 10 (10.75%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.68%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.38%) PMI Certification
4 4 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.23%) CBAP
5 3 (3.23%) PMP
6 2 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.15%) CFA
7 1 (1.08%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.08%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.08%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.08%) IIBA
7 1 (1.08%) ISEB
7 1 (1.08%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.08%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (17.20%) QA
2 5 (5.38%) PSD2
3 4 (4.30%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.30%) GDPR
3 4 (4.30%) PMO
4 3 (3.23%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.23%) ISO 20022
5 2 (2.15%) ISO 8583
5 2 (2.15%) PCI DSS
5 2 (2.15%) WCAG
6 1 (1.08%) Basel III
6 1 (1.08%) GRC
6 1 (1.08%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (6.45%) Docker
2 1 (1.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (7.53%) Ansible
2 3 (3.23%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.23%) Terraform
3 1 (1.08%) Grafana
3 1 (1.08%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 11 (11.83%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.60%) Oracle
3 5 (5.38%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.30%) Google
4 4 (4.30%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.23%) Atlassian
5 3 (3.23%) Cisco
5 3 (3.23%) Databricks
6 2 (2.15%) Arista
6 2 (2.15%) IBM
6 2 (2.15%) Informatica
6 2 (2.15%) SAP
6 2 (2.15%) UiPath
6 2 (2.15%) Workday
7 1 (1.08%) HP
7 1 (1.08%) LexisNexis
7 1 (1.08%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.08%) OutSystems
7 1 (1.08%) Planview
7 1 (1.08%) Sybase