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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 43 44
Rank change year-on-year +10 +1 -22
Contract jobs citing Scrum 125 106 126
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 6.38% 4.50% 4.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.85% 4.91% 4.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 67 79
10th Percentile £405 £440 £423
25th Percentile £450 £475 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -1.79% +1.82%
75th Percentile £676 £650 £687
90th Percentile £780 £771 £740
London median daily rate £550 £535 £565
% change year-on-year +2.80% -5.31% -2.59%
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 £60.99 £33.07 £61.00
% change year-on-year +84.43% -45.79% +71.83%

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 1,824 2,161 2,585
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.16% 91.65% 89.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,274 1,353 1,818
10th Percentile £338 £372 £363
25th Percentile £424 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £669 £676 £690
90th Percentile £750 £775 £822
London median daily rate £537 £550 £568
% change year-on-year -2.36% -3.21% -3.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 25 19
10th Percentile £18.15 £19.30 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.82 £31.25 £18.93
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +27.27% -41.33%
75th Percentile £38.97 £78.75 £59.00
90th Percentile £59.55 £127.30 £69.75
London median hourly rate £28.13 £37.50 £36.33
% change year-on-year -25.00% +3.21% -6.54%

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 20 November 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 20 November 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 +10 117 £556 -1.77% 140
Southwark +1 1 - -
City of Westminster - 1 £230 - 4
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 (12.80%) Confluence
2 3 (2.40%) CMS
2 3 (2.40%) Drupal
2 3 (2.40%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.60%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.60%) WordPress
4 1 (0.80%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.80%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.80%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 8 (6.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.80%) MS Visio
3 5 (4.00%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (3.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.60%) Aladdin
1 2 (1.60%) HFM
1 2 (1.60%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (1.60%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.80%) Exchequer
2 1 (0.80%) Maximo
2 1 (0.80%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.80%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 20 (16.00%) Azure
2 12 (9.60%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (5.60%) AWS
3 7 (5.60%) GitHub
4 6 (4.80%) Power Platform
5 4 (3.20%) Figma
5 4 (3.20%) Snowflake
6 3 (2.40%) Miro
6 3 (2.40%) SaaS
7 2 (1.60%) Azure AI
7 2 (1.60%) BrowserStack
7 2 (1.60%) GCP
7 2 (1.60%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (0.80%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.80%) Azure Cognitive Services
8 1 (0.80%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (0.80%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.80%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.80%) Cloud Functions
8 1 (0.80%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.40%) LAN
1 3 (2.40%) Structured Cabling
1 3 (2.40%) WAN
2 2 (1.60%) SSL
2 2 (1.60%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.00%) Power BI
1 5 (4.00%) Star Schema
1 5 (4.00%) Tableau
2 3 (2.40%) Metadata
3 2 (1.60%) Apache Hive
3 2 (1.60%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.60%) Data Mining
3 2 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.60%) Hadoop
3 2 (1.60%) Spark SQL
4 1 (0.80%) DB2
4 1 (0.80%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.80%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 32 (25.60%) JIRA
2 25 (20.00%) Git
3 11 (8.80%) Bitbucket
4 6 (4.80%) Cucumber
5 5 (4.00%) Postman
6 4 (3.20%) GitLab
7 3 (2.40%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.40%) Jenkins
7 3 (2.40%) Selenium
8 2 (1.60%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.80%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.80%) git-flow
9 1 (0.80%) JUnit
9 1 (0.80%) Mockito
9 1 (0.80%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.80%) Vite
9 1 (0.80%) Zephyr
General
1 60 (48.00%) Finance
2 52 (41.60%) Social Skills
3 21 (16.80%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (16.00%) Banking
5 16 (12.80%) Front Office
6 9 (7.20%) Public Sector
7 8 (6.40%) Investment Banking
8 7 (5.60%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (4.80%) Back Office
9 6 (4.80%) Telecoms
10 5 (4.00%) Financial Institution
10 5 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.60%) Legal
13 1 (0.80%) Games
13 1 (0.80%) Law
13 1 (0.80%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (30.40%) Developer
2 23 (18.40%) Analyst
3 21 (16.80%) Business Analyst
4 17 (13.60%) Java Developer
5 16 (12.80%) Senior
6 13 (10.40%) Project Manager
7 9 (7.20%) Lead
7 9 (7.20%) Scrum Master
8 8 (6.40%) Angular Developer
9 6 (4.80%) Consultant
9 6 (4.80%) Product Owner
10 5 (4.00%) IT Manager
10 5 (4.00%) IT Project Manager
10 5 (4.00%) Low Latency Java Developer
10 5 (4.00%) Technical Analyst
11 4 (3.20%) Delivery Manager
11 4 (3.20%) Senior Manager
11 4 (3.20%) Technical Business Analyst
11 4 (3.20%) Test Automation Engineer
11 4 (3.20%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (14.40%) REST
2 12 (9.60%) HTML
3 10 (8.00%) AngularJS
3 10 (8.00%) CSS
3 10 (8.00%) React
4 9 (7.20%) .NET
5 8 (6.40%) Spring Boot
6 6 (4.80%) Web Services
7 5 (4.00%) jQuery
7 5 (4.00%) RESTful
7 5 (4.00%) SOAP
7 5 (4.00%) XML
8 4 (3.20%) ZK
9 3 (2.40%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (2.40%) Flask
9 3 (2.40%) JSON
9 3 (2.40%) Lightning Web Components
9 3 (2.40%) Pandas
9 3 (2.40%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (1.60%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 26 (20.80%) Product Ownership
2 9 (7.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (4.80%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.00%) Mobile App
5 4 (3.20%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.20%) Reinsurance
5 4 (3.20%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.40%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.40%) Derivative
6 3 (2.40%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.40%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (1.60%) CMDB
7 2 (1.60%) Credit Risk
7 2 (1.60%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.60%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.60%) PMI
7 2 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.20%) Linux
1 4 (3.20%) Unix
2 2 (1.60%) Android
2 2 (1.60%) Windows
3 1 (0.80%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (94.40%) Agile
2 43 (34.40%) Kanban
3 29 (23.20%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (20.80%) DevOps
5 21 (16.80%) Stakeholder Management
6 20 (16.00%) Project Delivery
6 20 (16.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 19 (15.20%) Project Management
7 19 (15.20%) User Stories
8 18 (14.40%) Test Automation
9 15 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (12.00%) SDLC
10 14 (11.20%) CI/CD
10 14 (11.20%) Data Modelling
10 14 (11.20%) Requirements Gathering
10 14 (11.20%) TDD
11 13 (10.40%) Backlog Management
11 13 (10.40%) Business Analysis
11 13 (10.40%) Full-Stack Development
11 13 (10.40%) Product Backlog
Programming Languages
1 31 (24.80%) Java
2 29 (23.20%) SQL
3 19 (15.20%) JavaScript
4 17 (13.60%) Python
5 16 (12.80%) C#
6 11 (8.80%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.40%) Apex Code
7 3 (2.40%) VB.NET
8 2 (1.60%) C++
8 2 (1.60%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.60%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.80%) C
9 1 (0.80%) COBOL
9 1 (0.80%) Groovy
9 1 (0.80%) Korn
9 1 (0.80%) RPG
9 1 (0.80%) SOQL
9 1 (0.80%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 26 (20.80%) Degree
2 13 (10.40%) Security Cleared
3 9 (7.20%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.20%) CBAP
6 3 (2.40%) PMI Certification
6 3 (2.40%) PMP
7 2 (1.60%) CFA
7 2 (1.60%) IIBA
7 2 (1.60%) ISEB
8 1 (0.80%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.80%) CSPO
8 1 (0.80%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.80%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.80%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.80%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.80%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (19.20%) QA
2 6 (4.80%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.20%) EMIR
3 4 (3.20%) MiFID
3 4 (3.20%) PMO
3 4 (3.20%) WCAG
4 3 (2.40%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.60%) Basel II
5 2 (1.60%) ISO 8583
5 2 (1.60%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.60%) PSD2
6 1 (0.80%) Basel III
6 1 (0.80%) GDPR
6 1 (0.80%) GRC
6 1 (0.80%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.80%) SEPA
System Software
1 6 (4.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.80%) Ansible
2 5 (4.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.80%) Argo
4 1 (0.80%) Grafana
4 1 (0.80%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.80%) Istio
4 1 (0.80%) Opsgenie
4 1 (0.80%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.80%) Oracle
3 7 (5.60%) ServiceNow
4 5 (4.00%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.20%) UiPath
6 3 (2.40%) Arista
6 3 (2.40%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.40%) Bloomberg
6 3 (2.40%) Cisco
6 3 (2.40%) Cloudera
6 3 (2.40%) HP
6 3 (2.40%) MuleSoft
6 3 (2.40%) SAP
7 2 (1.60%) BMC
7 2 (1.60%) Foundry
7 2 (1.60%) Google
7 2 (1.60%) Hyperion
7 2 (1.60%) IBM
7 2 (1.60%) Ivanti
7 2 (1.60%) Remedy