Scrum Contracts in Cheshire

Scrum
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for Scrum skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Scrum over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 45 38
Rank change year-on-year +17 -7 -25
Contract jobs citing Scrum 29 17 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 5.79% 3.15% 3.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.86% 3.46% 3.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 11 11
10th Percentile - £400 £327
25th Percentile £65 £456 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £550 £384
Median % change year-on-year -29.09% +43.23% -14.67%
75th Percentile £464 £602 £525
90th Percentile £515 £700 £631
North West median daily rate £475 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -9.52% +9.38% +3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £32.88
25th Percentile - - £33.05
Median hourly rate - - £33.34
75th Percentile - - £33.62
90th Percentile - - £33.79
North West median hourly rate - - £41.36
% change year-on-year - - -15.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Scrum is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 423 492 457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 84.43% 91.28% 86.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 333 262
10th Percentile £277 £275 £219
25th Percentile £400 £389 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +2.86%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £538
90th Percentile £637 £655 £631
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 24 26
10th Percentile £13.70 £15.97 £10.28
25th Percentile £16.61 £22.97 £15.55
Median hourly rate £26.66 £30.54 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +29.96% -27.06%
75th Percentile £42.31 £35.00 £33.62
90th Percentile £44.13 £38.80 £60.88
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +10.64%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in Cheshire

Scrum
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scrum in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Scrum in Cheshire

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in Cheshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in Cheshire

Scrum
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scrum in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for Scrum in Cheshire

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Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Knutsford - 9 £391 -
Daresbury - 7 £65 -
Macclesfield -14 6 £510 +7.37% 1
Warrington +10 5 £513 +28.13% 4
Scrum
North West

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 5 (17.24%) Apache
1 5 (17.24%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (17.24%) Apache Spark
2 2 (6.90%) Mule
Applications
1 7 (24.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (24.14%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 11 (37.93%) AWS
2 5 (17.24%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (17.24%) Amazon EMR
2 5 (17.24%) Amazon S3
2 5 (17.24%) Amazon SQS
2 5 (17.24%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (17.24%) Serverless
2 5 (17.24%) Snowflake
3 4 (13.79%) Azure
4 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.90%) GitHub
5 1 (3.45%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 7 (24.14%) PPP
2 5 (17.24%) FTP
3 2 (6.90%) DMZ
3 2 (6.90%) Firewall
3 2 (6.90%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 9 (31.03%) JIRA
2 5 (17.24%) Git
3 2 (6.90%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.90%) Liquibase
3 2 (6.90%) Log4j
3 2 (6.90%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (44.83%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.69%) Finance
2 6 (20.69%) Pharmaceutical
3 5 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (17.24%) Banking
3 5 (17.24%) Manufacturing
4 4 (13.79%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.90%) Front Office
6 1 (3.45%) Legal
6 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (31.03%) Scrum Master
2 6 (20.69%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Data Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Applications Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Architect
4 2 (6.90%) AWS Developer
4 2 (6.90%) Developer
4 2 (6.90%) Java Developer
4 2 (6.90%) Project Manager
5 1 (3.45%) Agile Project Manager
5 1 (3.45%) Analyst
5 1 (3.45%) Business Analyst
5 1 (3.45%) CRM Manager
5 1 (3.45%) CRM Project Manager
5 1 (3.45%) Lead
5 1 (3.45%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) ScrumMaster Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) JSON
1 5 (17.24%) XML
2 2 (6.90%) Hibernate
2 2 (6.90%) Kafka
2 2 (6.90%) REST
2 2 (6.90%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (96.55%) Agile
2 12 (41.38%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (34.48%) Decision-Making
3 10 (34.48%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 9 (31.03%) Kanban
4 9 (31.03%) Risk Management
4 9 (31.03%) Sprint Planning
4 9 (31.03%) Sprint Retrospective
4 9 (31.03%) Sprint Review
4 9 (31.03%) User Stories
5 7 (24.14%) Asset Management
5 7 (24.14%) Backlog Management
5 7 (24.14%) CI/CD
5 7 (24.14%) SDLC
6 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (17.24%) Agile Coaching
7 5 (17.24%) Containerisation
7 5 (17.24%) Data Engineering
7 5 (17.24%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (17.24%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (31.03%) Java
2 5 (17.24%) C#
2 5 (17.24%) Python
2 5 (17.24%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (34.48%) Security Cleared
2 9 (31.03%) SC Cleared
3 8 (27.59%) Degree
4 3 (10.34%) PMI Certification
4 3 (10.34%) PMP
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Salesforce
2 5 (17.24%) Informatica
2 5 (17.24%) Talend
3 2 (6.90%) Microsoft