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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 32 42
Rank change year-on-year -3 +10 -23
Contract jobs citing Scrum 118 125 157
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 6.05% 5.39% 4.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.44% 5.85% 5.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 92 102
10th Percentile £403 £425 £414
25th Percentile £458 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £525 £594
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -11.58% +9.95%
75th Percentile £725 £641 £713
90th Percentile £838 £724 £775
London median daily rate £550 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +2.33% -6.52% -2.54%
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 £65.00 £32.68 £74.00
% change year-on-year +98.90% -55.84% +362.50%

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 1,831 2,137 2,888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.85% 92.11% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,229 1,382 2,004
10th Percentile £319 £375 £357
25th Percentile £419 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £773 £787 £813
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 27 17
10th Percentile £18.96 £17.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.50 £22.56 £16.61
Median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +34.62% -38.82%
75th Percentile £50.75 £42.00 £42.32
90th Percentile £63.75 £110.50 £59.30
London median hourly rate £31.75 £35.00 £39.42
% change year-on-year -9.29% -11.21% +8.00%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Scrum as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Scrum 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +2 111 £625 +13.64% 100
Southwark - 1 - -
City of Westminster - 1 £230 - 1
Scrum
London

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (12.71%) Confluence
2 4 (3.39%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.54%) Drupal
4 2 (1.69%) Apache
4 2 (1.69%) CMS
4 2 (1.69%) Jupyter
4 2 (1.69%) WordPress
5 1 (0.85%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (8.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.69%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.85%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.39%) Aladdin
2 2 (1.69%) HFM
2 2 (1.69%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.85%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.85%) Maximo
3 1 (0.85%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.85%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.85%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 19 (16.10%) Azure
2 13 (11.02%) Power Platform
3 10 (8.47%) AWS
4 8 (6.78%) SaaS
5 7 (5.93%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (4.24%) GCP
7 4 (3.39%) Figma
7 4 (3.39%) GitHub
7 4 (3.39%) Snowflake
8 3 (2.54%) Miro
9 2 (1.69%) Azure AI
9 2 (1.69%) BrowserStack
9 2 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.85%) Apigee
10 1 (0.85%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (0.85%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.85%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.85%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.85%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.69%) SSH
1 2 (1.69%) SSL
1 2 (1.69%) tcpdump
2 1 (0.85%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.02%) Power BI
2 8 (6.78%) Data Mining
3 6 (5.08%) Star Schema
4 4 (3.39%) Apache Hive
5 3 (2.54%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.54%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.54%) Tableau
6 2 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.69%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.69%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.69%) Metadata
6 2 (1.69%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.85%) Big Data
7 1 (0.85%) DB2
7 1 (0.85%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 31 (26.27%) JIRA
2 21 (17.80%) Git
3 6 (5.08%) Bitbucket
4 4 (3.39%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.39%) Postman
5 3 (2.54%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.54%) GitLab
6 2 (1.69%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.69%) RStudio
6 2 (1.69%) Selenium
7 1 (0.85%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.85%) git-flow
7 1 (0.85%) JMeter
7 1 (0.85%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.85%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.85%) ScriptRunner
7 1 (0.85%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.85%) Vite
7 1 (0.85%) webpack
7 1 (0.85%) Zephyr
General
1 65 (55.08%) Social Skills
2 50 (42.37%) Finance
3 20 (16.95%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (16.10%) Banking
5 12 (10.17%) Front Office
6 10 (8.47%) Investment Banking
7 7 (5.93%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (5.93%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (5.93%) Public Sector
8 6 (5.08%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (3.39%) Back Office
9 4 (3.39%) Financial Institution
9 4 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.69%) Legal
10 2 (1.69%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.85%) Billing
11 1 (0.85%) Games
11 1 (0.85%) Law
11 1 (0.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (22.03%) Developer
2 20 (16.95%) Analyst
3 19 (16.10%) Business Analyst
4 17 (14.41%) Senior
5 16 (13.56%) Consultant
6 11 (9.32%) Java Developer
6 11 (9.32%) Lead
7 10 (8.47%) Project Manager
8 8 (6.78%) Lead Consultant
9 7 (5.93%) Lead Business Analyst
9 7 (5.93%) Risk Consultant
9 7 (5.93%) Senior Consultant
10 6 (5.08%) Business Consultant
10 6 (5.08%) Product Owner
10 6 (5.08%) Scrum Master
11 5 (4.24%) Delivery Manager
12 4 (3.39%) Angular Developer
12 4 (3.39%) Charles River Consultant
12 4 (3.39%) Data Engineer
12 4 (3.39%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.86%) REST
2 9 (7.63%) HTML
3 7 (5.93%) CSS
4 6 (5.08%) AngularJS
4 6 (5.08%) Web Services
5 5 (4.24%) jQuery
5 5 (4.24%) JSON
6 4 (3.39%) PySpark
6 4 (3.39%) React
6 4 (3.39%) RESTful
6 4 (3.39%) SOAP
6 4 (3.39%) Spring Boot
6 4 (3.39%) XML
6 4 (3.39%) ZK
7 3 (2.54%) .NET
7 3 (2.54%) Flask
7 3 (2.54%) Kafka
7 3 (2.54%) Pandas
7 3 (2.54%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (2.54%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 22 (18.64%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.78%) Market Risk
3 6 (5.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (4.24%) Reinsurance
5 4 (3.39%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (3.39%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (3.39%) Mobile App
5 4 (3.39%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.54%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (1.69%) Credit Risk
7 2 (1.69%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.69%) Derivative
7 2 (1.69%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.69%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.69%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.85%) CMDB
8 1 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.85%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.93%) Linux
2 3 (2.54%) Unix
2 3 (2.54%) Windows
3 1 (0.85%) Android
3 1 (0.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (96.61%) Agile
2 36 (30.51%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (26.27%) Kanban
4 25 (21.19%) Stakeholder Management
5 21 (17.80%) Project Management
6 20 (16.95%) DevOps
7 18 (15.25%) Continuous Improvement
7 18 (15.25%) Project Delivery
8 16 (13.56%) Data Analysis
8 16 (13.56%) SDLC
8 16 (13.56%) User Stories
9 15 (12.71%) Data Modelling
10 14 (11.86%) Analytics
11 13 (11.02%) Requirements Gathering
11 13 (11.02%) Roadmaps
11 13 (11.02%) Test Automation
12 12 (10.17%) Asset Management
12 12 (10.17%) Business Intelligence
12 12 (10.17%) Change Management
12 12 (10.17%) Product Backlog
Programming Languages
1 38 (32.20%) SQL
2 21 (17.80%) Java
3 18 (15.25%) Python
4 16 (13.56%) JavaScript
5 10 (8.47%) C#
6 4 (3.39%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.54%) Scala
8 2 (1.69%) Bash
8 2 (1.69%) C++
8 2 (1.69%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.85%) ABAP
9 1 (0.85%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.85%) C
9 1 (0.85%) COBOL
9 1 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.85%) Groovy
9 1 (0.85%) Korn
9 1 (0.85%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.85%) RPG
9 1 (0.85%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 17 (14.41%) Degree
2 13 (11.02%) Security Cleared
3 9 (7.63%) PMP
3 9 (7.63%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.08%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.85%) CFA
6 1 (0.85%) CSPO
6 1 (0.85%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.85%) PhD
6 1 (0.85%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.85%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (15.25%) QA
2 8 (6.78%) EMIR
2 8 (6.78%) MiFID
3 7 (5.93%) Accessibility
3 7 (5.93%) Basel II
4 5 (4.24%) WCAG
5 3 (2.54%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.69%) GDPR
7 1 (0.85%) Basel III
7 1 (0.85%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.85%) PMO
7 1 (0.85%) SEPA
System Software
1 8 (6.78%) Docker
2 1 (0.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (6.78%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.08%) Ansible
3 2 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.85%) Argo
4 1 (0.85%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.85%) Istio
4 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.85%) Opsgenie
4 1 (0.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (18.64%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.47%) Oracle
3 5 (4.24%) Databricks
4 4 (3.39%) Charles River
5 3 (2.54%) Bloomberg
5 3 (2.54%) Cloudera
5 3 (2.54%) HP
5 3 (2.54%) MuleSoft
5 3 (2.54%) SAP
5 3 (2.54%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.69%) BMC
6 2 (1.69%) Foundry
6 2 (1.69%) Hyperion
6 2 (1.69%) IBM
6 2 (1.69%) Ivanti
6 2 (1.69%) Palantir
6 2 (1.69%) Remedy
6 2 (1.69%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.69%) Tagetik
6 2 (1.69%) UiPath