Scrum Contracts in Cheshire

Scrum
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Scrum skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Scrum over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 29 46
Rank change year-on-year +4 +17 -9
Contract jobs citing Scrum 34 29 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 7.57% 5.75% 3.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.80% 6.82% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 23 11
10th Percentile £356 - £400
25th Percentile £377 £65 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £390 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% -29.09% +40.31%
75th Percentile £492 £464 £602
90th Percentile £581 £515 £700
North West median daily rate £425 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -10.53% -9.52% +9.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 436 425 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 97.10% 84.33% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 285 328
10th Percentile £317 £276 £275
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £575
90th Percentile £638 £635 £660
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 23
10th Percentile £19.00 £13.70 £19.06
25th Percentile £25.94 £16.61 £23.15
Median hourly rate £35.20 £26.66 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +32.03% -12.70% +29.96%
75th Percentile £85.44 £42.31 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £44.13 £39.20
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

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 1 May 2025.

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

Scrum
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 1 May 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
Knutsford +7 24 £402 +2.94% 4
Warrington -6 2 £431 -15.85% 23
Crewe - 1 - - 2
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 8 (23.53%) Confluence
2 3 (8.82%) JBoss
2 3 (8.82%) Tomcat
2 3 (8.82%) WebLogic
2 3 (8.82%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.94%) Appian
Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (5.88%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (14.71%) AWS
2 2 (5.88%) Azure
3 1 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.94%) Entra ID
3 1 (2.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) Firewall
2 3 (8.82%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) DB2
2 2 (5.88%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle Database 10g
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (2.94%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 9 (26.47%) JIRA
2 4 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 4 (11.76%) JUnit
3 3 (8.82%) Bitbucket
3 3 (8.82%) Git
3 3 (8.82%) GitLab
4 2 (5.88%) CA Release Automation
4 2 (5.88%) Gradle
4 2 (5.88%) HP UFT
4 2 (5.88%) IntelliJ
4 2 (5.88%) Maven
4 2 (5.88%) NetBeans
4 2 (5.88%) Selenium
4 2 (5.88%) Subversion
5 1 (2.94%) MSI
5 1 (2.94%) Toad
General
1 7 (20.59%) Finance
1 7 (20.59%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Banking
4 1 (2.94%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (2.94%) Legal
4 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (23.53%) Scrum Master
2 5 (14.71%) Analyst
2 5 (14.71%) Business Analyst
3 4 (11.76%) Developer
4 3 (8.82%) Architect
4 3 (8.82%) ForgeRock Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Project Manager
4 3 (8.82%) Senior
4 3 (8.82%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
4 3 (8.82%) Software Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.88%) Automation Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Java Scrum Master
5 2 (5.88%) Lead
5 2 (5.88%) Senior Automation Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Appian Architect
6 1 (2.94%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (2.94%) AWS Solution Architect
6 1 (2.94%) ScrumMaster Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (20.59%) Spring Boot
2 6 (17.65%) SOAP
3 5 (14.71%) J2EE
3 5 (14.71%) Spring
3 5 (14.71%) Web Services
4 4 (11.76%) Kafka
4 4 (11.76%) RAML
4 4 (11.76%) REST
5 3 (8.82%) AngularJS
5 3 (8.82%) EJB
5 3 (8.82%) JDBC
5 3 (8.82%) JSP
5 3 (8.82%) OAuth
5 3 (8.82%) OAuth2
5 3 (8.82%) OpenID
5 3 (8.82%) Servlets
5 3 (8.82%) WSDL
6 2 (5.88%) Hibernate
6 2 (5.88%) Spring Integration
6 2 (5.88%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 12 (35.29%) Product Ownership
2 3 (8.82%) CMDB
2 3 (8.82%) Data Structures
2 3 (8.82%) PKI
2 3 (8.82%) Private Cloud
2 3 (8.82%) Taxonomies
3 2 (5.88%) Client/Server
3 2 (5.88%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) Android
1 1 (2.94%) Apple iOS
1 1 (2.94%) Linux
1 1 (2.94%) Unix
1 1 (2.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (97.06%) Agile
2 12 (35.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (26.47%) Backlog Management
3 9 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (23.53%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 8 (23.53%) CI/CD
4 8 (23.53%) SDLC
5 7 (20.59%) DevOps
6 6 (17.65%) Budget Control
6 6 (17.65%) Coaching
6 6 (17.65%) Servant Leadership
6 6 (17.65%) Sprint Planning
7 5 (14.71%) API Development
7 5 (14.71%) Conflict Resolution
7 5 (14.71%) Mentoring
7 5 (14.71%) Microservices
7 5 (14.71%) Situational Awareness
7 5 (14.71%) Sprint Review
7 5 (14.71%) Test Automation
7 5 (14.71%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (47.06%) Java
2 7 (20.59%) JavaScript
3 4 (11.76%) Bash
3 4 (11.76%) Python
3 4 (11.76%) SQL
4 1 (2.94%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (5.88%) CCNA
1 2 (5.88%) CCNP
1 2 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (5.88%) Degree
1 2 (5.88%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.94%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.94%) CBAP
2 1 (2.94%) PMI Certification
2 1 (2.94%) PMP
2 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) GDPR
1 1 (2.94%) PSD2
System Software
1 2 (5.88%) Docker
2 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (11.76%) Ansible
1 4 (11.76%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (8.82%) Progress Chef
3 2 (5.88%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.88%) Puppet
4 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (20.59%) ServiceNow
2 4 (11.76%) Fortinet
2 4 (11.76%) Infoblox
2 4 (11.76%) Oracle
3 3 (8.82%) ForgeRock
3 3 (8.82%) Ping Identity
4 2 (5.88%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (5.88%) Microsoft