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 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 39 48
Rank change year-on-year +23 +9 +2
Contract jobs citing Scrum 62 19 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 10.51% 3.47% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.38% 4.00% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 16 9
10th Percentile £357 £315 £425
25th Percentile £384 £371 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £396 £563
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% -29.75% +40.75%
75th Percentile £489 £515 £640
90th Percentile £562 - £700
North West median daily rate £422 £475 £538
% change year-on-year -11.11% -11.63% +7.50%

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 545 475 461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 92.37% 86.84% 89.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 405 325 290
10th Percentile £313 £311 £288
25th Percentile £358 £391 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £488 £522
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -6.52% +15.89%
75th Percentile £537 £576 £588
90th Percentile £643 £638 £651
North West median daily rate £450 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 29 31
10th Percentile £12.82 £13.40 £17.50
25th Percentile £22.07 £17.72 £22.53
Median hourly rate £35.75 £35.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% +14.60% +40.22%
75th Percentile £55.00 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £44.50 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £29.80 £27.00 £29.30
% change year-on-year +10.37% -7.85% +23.63%

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 12 July 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 12 July 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 +16 50 £415 +6.41% 2
Warrington - 2 £431 - 3
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 15 (24.19%) Confluence
2 4 (6.45%) JBoss
2 4 (6.45%) Tomcat
2 4 (6.45%) WebLogic
2 4 (6.45%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.61%) Appian
Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.61%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (16.13%) AWS
2 5 (8.06%) GitHub
3 3 (4.84%) Azure
4 2 (3.23%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.61%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.61%) Serverless
5 1 (1.61%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.45%) Firewall
2 3 (4.84%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.06%) DB2
2 2 (3.23%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.61%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.61%) Oracle Database 10g
3 1 (1.61%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (1.61%) Oracle Database 12c
3 1 (1.61%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 20 (32.26%) JIRA
2 13 (20.97%) Jenkins
3 12 (19.35%) Git
4 9 (14.52%) JUnit
5 8 (12.90%) GitLab
6 6 (9.68%) Cucumber
6 6 (9.68%) Gradle
7 4 (6.45%) Bitbucket
7 4 (6.45%) Xcode
8 3 (4.84%) Selenium
9 2 (3.23%) CA Release Automation
9 2 (3.23%) HP UFT
9 2 (3.23%) IntelliJ
9 2 (3.23%) Maven
9 2 (3.23%) NetBeans
9 2 (3.23%) Subversion
10 1 (1.61%) MSI
10 1 (1.61%) Toad
General
1 14 (22.58%) Finance
2 12 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (19.35%) Banking
2 12 (19.35%) Social Skills
3 1 (1.61%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (1.61%) Legal
3 1 (1.61%) Public Sector
3 1 (1.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (22.58%) Developer
2 12 (19.35%) Scrum Master
3 8 (12.90%) Analyst
3 8 (12.90%) Business Analyst
4 6 (9.68%) Engineering Manager
4 6 (9.68%) Java Developer
5 4 (6.45%) iOS Developer
5 4 (6.45%) Project Manager
6 3 (4.84%) Architect
6 3 (4.84%) Delivery Manager
6 3 (4.84%) ForgeRock Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) Software Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (4.84%) Technical Delivery Manager
6 3 (4.84%) Technical Manager
7 2 (3.23%) Agile Scrum Master
7 2 (3.23%) Java Scrum Master
7 2 (3.23%) Lead
7 2 (3.23%) Senior
7 2 (3.23%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (22.58%) REST
2 12 (19.35%) Spring Boot
3 11 (17.74%) SOAP
4 10 (16.13%) Spring
4 10 (16.13%) Web Services
5 9 (14.52%) Kafka
6 8 (12.90%) CSS
6 8 (12.90%) HTML
7 7 (11.29%) React
8 6 (9.68%) AngularJS
8 6 (9.68%) RAML
8 6 (9.68%) RESTful
9 5 (8.06%) J2EE
9 5 (8.06%) WSDL
10 4 (6.45%) LDAP
10 4 (6.45%) OAuth
11 3 (4.84%) EJB
11 3 (4.84%) JDBC
11 3 (4.84%) JSP
11 3 (4.84%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 17 (27.42%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.45%) Mobile App
2 4 (6.45%) Mobile Banking
2 4 (6.45%) Private Cloud
3 3 (4.84%) Data Structures
3 3 (4.84%) PKI
3 3 (4.84%) Taxonomies
3 3 (4.84%) Virtual Team
4 2 (3.23%) Client/Server
4 2 (3.23%) CMDB
4 2 (3.23%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.23%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.61%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.61%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.61%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.06%) Android
1 5 (8.06%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.61%) Linux
2 1 (1.61%) Unix
2 1 (1.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (96.77%) Agile
2 18 (29.03%) Continuous Improvement
3 17 (27.42%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (25.81%) Microservices
5 14 (22.58%) SDLC
5 14 (22.58%) Sprint Planning
6 13 (20.97%) DevOps
6 13 (20.97%) TDD
7 12 (19.35%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 12 (19.35%) Coaching
8 11 (17.74%) CI/CD
8 11 (17.74%) Process Improvement
8 11 (17.74%) User Acceptance Testing
9 10 (16.13%) Backlog Management
10 9 (14.52%) Continuous Integration
10 9 (14.52%) Decision-Making
10 9 (14.52%) Migration
10 9 (14.52%) Project Management
11 8 (12.90%) Artificial Intelligence
11 8 (12.90%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 36 (58.06%) Java
2 14 (22.58%) JavaScript
3 12 (19.35%) Python
4 11 (17.74%) SQL
5 4 (6.45%) Bash
5 4 (6.45%) C
5 4 (6.45%) C++
5 4 (6.45%) Kotlin
5 4 (6.45%) Objective-C
5 4 (6.45%) Ruby
5 4 (6.45%) Scala
5 4 (6.45%) Swift
6 1 (1.61%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (6.45%) Degree
2 3 (4.84%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.23%) CBAP
3 2 (3.23%) CCNA
3 2 (3.23%) CCNP
3 2 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (3.23%) PMI Certification
3 2 (3.23%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.61%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.61%) CSPO
4 1 (1.61%) PMP
4 1 (1.61%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.29%) QA
2 2 (3.23%) GDPR
3 1 (1.61%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.61%) PSD2
3 1 (1.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (3.23%) Active Directory
1 2 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (11.29%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (6.45%) Ansible
3 3 (4.84%) Progress Chef
4 2 (3.23%) Kubernetes
4 2 (3.23%) Puppet
5 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (20.97%) ServiceNow
2 7 (11.29%) Microsoft
3 6 (9.68%) Oracle
4 4 (6.45%) Fortinet
4 4 (6.45%) Infoblox
5 3 (4.84%) ForgeRock
5 3 (4.84%) Ping Identity
6 2 (3.23%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (1.61%) Okta
7 1 (1.61%) SAP