Scrum Contract Job Trends in Chester

Scrum
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Chester requiring Scrum skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Scrum 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Chester 1.92% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.44% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £663 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - -
75th Percentile £688 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £420 £365 £450
% change year-on-year +15.07% -18.89% -0.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Chester

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 Chester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 82 64 62
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 78.85% 87.67% 81.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 24 26
10th Percentile £190 £424 £375
25th Percentile £453 £513 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £552 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% +0.42% +46.67%
75th Percentile £650 £611 £586
90th Percentile £751 £723 £638
Cheshire median daily rate £439 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 14
10th Percentile £12.61 £15.05 £17.14
25th Percentile £12.75 £16.00 £17.31
Median hourly rate £19.00 £35.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -45.71% +14.60% +40.22%
75th Percentile £25.15 - £35.02
90th Percentile £61.66 - £40.00
Cheshire median hourly rate £18.87 £35.00 £24.81
% change year-on-year -46.09% +41.10% +54.36%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Scrum relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester.

Scrum job vacancy trend in Chester

Scrum
Daily Rate Trend in Chester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing Scrum

Scrum
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) OneDrive
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Appium
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Delivery Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Delivery Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Exploratory Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Matrix Organization
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) QA Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) UiPath