Scrum Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

Scrum
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Scrum skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 40 28
Rank change year-on-year +25 -12 -8
Contract jobs citing Scrum 4 8 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheltenham 4.94% 3.14% 3.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.35% 3.79% 4.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 7
10th Percentile £575 £561 £575
25th Percentile £611 £578 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £695 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year +11.20% -3.85% +4.84%
75th Percentile £743 £681 £663
90th Percentile £759 £715 £675
Gloucestershire median daily rate £500 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -14.89% -2.08% +11.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 63 211 145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 77.78% 82.75% 79.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 96 90
10th Percentile £421 £391 £352
25th Percentile £545 £519 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% -2.08% +14.29%
75th Percentile £733 £671 £700
90th Percentile £763 £722 £740
Gloucestershire median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 12 8
10th Percentile - £42.38 £24.08
25th Percentile - £68.81 £28.69
Median hourly rate £36.00 £71.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.30% +47.92% +239.82%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £90.00
90th Percentile - - £91.35
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £36.00 £37.52 £76.50
% change year-on-year -4.04% -50.96% +135.38%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in Cheltenham

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Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Scrum.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Scrum

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cheltenham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 29 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in Cheltenham

Scrum
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheltenham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Scrum.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Scrum

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 1 (25.00%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Flink
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Backend Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Manager
2 1 (25.00%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Python Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (25.00%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (25.00%) Vue
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (25.00%) Data Science
2 1 (25.00%) Epics
2 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Planning and Forecasting
2 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (25.00%) SDLC
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Technology Transformation
2 1 (25.00%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) APMP
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus