Scrum Contracts in the City of London

Scrum
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 9 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 36 36
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -15
Contract jobs citing Scrum 102 117 192
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 5.50% 5.43% 5.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.86% 5.94% 5.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 91 125
10th Percentile £426 £425 £428
25th Percentile £477 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +15.91% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £644 £713
90th Percentile £838 £738 £775
Central London median daily rate £625 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +19.05% -12.50% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £86.25 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 - -
75th Percentile £88.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £87.50 £33.00 -
% change year-on-year +165.15% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,741 1,970 3,227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.85% 91.42% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,120 1,359 2,177
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £551 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -1.61% -6.67% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 24
10th Percentile £17.08 £19.21 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £16.33
Median hourly rate £31.00 £26.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.43% -23.93% -19.30%
75th Percentile £56.75 £40.46 £57.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £32.50 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +20.37% -22.86% -18.36%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Scrum as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in the City of London

Scrum
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scrum in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Scrum in the City of London

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in the City of London over the 6 months to 9 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in the City of London

Scrum
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scrum in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Scrum in the City of London

Scrum
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the City of London region over the 6 months to 9 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
London Bridge - 1 - -
Scrum
Central London

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 11 (10.78%) Confluence
2 5 (4.90%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.94%) CMS
3 3 (2.94%) Drupal
4 2 (1.96%) Apache
4 2 (1.96%) Jupyter
4 2 (1.96%) WordPress
5 1 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 11 (10.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.88%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.96%) Trello
4 1 (0.98%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.98%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.92%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.98%) HFM
2 1 (0.98%) Maximo
2 1 (0.98%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.98%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.98%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.98%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.98%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 22 (21.57%) Azure
2 16 (15.69%) AWS
3 15 (14.71%) Power Platform
4 10 (9.80%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (7.84%) SaaS
6 5 (4.90%) GCP
7 4 (3.92%) Figma
7 4 (3.92%) Miro
7 4 (3.92%) Snowflake
8 3 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (2.94%) GitHub
8 3 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.96%) Kong
9 2 (1.96%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.96%) Tricentis Tosca
10 1 (0.98%) Apple Pay
10 1 (0.98%) PaaS
10 1 (0.98%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 1 (0.98%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.96%) Firewall
1 2 (1.96%) SSH
2 1 (0.98%) Network Security
2 1 (0.98%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (14.71%) Power BI
2 8 (7.84%) Data Mining
3 4 (3.92%) Apache Hive
3 4 (3.92%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.92%) Star Schema
3 4 (3.92%) Tableau
4 3 (2.94%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.94%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.96%) Delta Lake
5 2 (1.96%) Spark SQL
6 1 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.98%) Big Data
6 1 (0.98%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.98%) DB2
6 1 (0.98%) Looker
6 1 (0.98%) Metadata
6 1 (0.98%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.98%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 30 (29.41%) JIRA
2 16 (15.69%) Git
3 4 (3.92%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.92%) Postman
3 4 (3.92%) Selenium
4 3 (2.94%) Bitbucket
4 3 (2.94%) LoadRunner
5 2 (1.96%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.96%) GitLab
5 2 (1.96%) JMeter
5 2 (1.96%) REST Assured
5 2 (1.96%) RStudio
5 2 (1.96%) ScriptRunner
5 2 (1.96%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.96%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.98%) Gatling
6 1 (0.98%) git-flow
6 1 (0.98%) JIRA Agile
6 1 (0.98%) Storybook
6 1 (0.98%) webpack
General
1 58 (56.86%) Social Skills
2 42 (41.18%) Finance
3 17 (16.67%) Banking
4 13 (12.75%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (11.76%) Investment Banking
6 10 (9.80%) Front Office
7 5 (4.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (4.90%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (3.92%) Financial Institution
8 4 (3.92%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.94%) Back Office
10 1 (0.98%) Advertising
10 1 (0.98%) Billing
10 1 (0.98%) Law
10 1 (0.98%) Legal
10 1 (0.98%) Marketing
10 1 (0.98%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.98%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (20.59%) Analyst
2 19 (18.63%) Business Analyst
3 16 (15.69%) Consultant
4 15 (14.71%) Developer
5 13 (12.75%) Project Manager
5 13 (12.75%) Senior
6 12 (11.76%) Lead
7 8 (7.84%) Lead Consultant
8 7 (6.86%) Delivery Manager
8 7 (6.86%) Lead Business Analyst
8 7 (6.86%) Risk Consultant
8 7 (6.86%) Senior Consultant
9 6 (5.88%) Business Consultant
10 5 (4.90%) Data Engineer
11 4 (3.92%) Android Developer
11 4 (3.92%) Charles River Consultant
12 3 (2.94%) Business Development Analyst
12 3 (2.94%) Development Analyst
12 3 (2.94%) Development Consultant
12 3 (2.94%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.86%) CSS
1 7 (6.86%) HTML
1 7 (6.86%) REST
2 5 (4.90%) .NET
3 4 (3.92%) PySpark
4 3 (2.94%) Android Jetpack
4 3 (2.94%) Flask
4 3 (2.94%) GraphQL
4 3 (2.94%) Jetpack Compose
4 3 (2.94%) Pandas
4 3 (2.94%) YAML
5 2 (1.96%) .NET Framework
5 2 (1.96%) Hibernate
5 2 (1.96%) JSON
5 2 (1.96%) Kafka
5 2 (1.96%) Middleware
5 2 (1.96%) pydantic
5 2 (1.96%) Spring
5 2 (1.96%) Web Services
5 2 (1.96%) ZK
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.69%) Product Ownership
2 8 (7.84%) Market Risk
3 6 (5.88%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.92%) Derivative
4 4 (3.92%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.94%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (2.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.94%) Reinsurance
5 3 (2.94%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (2.94%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.96%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.96%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.96%) Learning Management System
6 2 (1.96%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.96%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.98%) AS400
7 1 (0.98%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.98%) Interest Rate Derivative
7 1 (0.98%) iSeries
7 1 (0.98%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.84%) Linux
2 4 (3.92%) Android
3 3 (2.94%) Unix
4 2 (1.96%) Windows
5 1 (0.98%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (95.10%) Agile
2 32 (31.37%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (26.47%) Project Management
4 24 (23.53%) Kanban
5 19 (18.63%) DevOps
6 18 (17.65%) Project Delivery
6 18 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
7 17 (16.67%) Data Analysis
8 16 (15.69%) Analytics
8 16 (15.69%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (14.71%) Business Intelligence
9 15 (14.71%) CI/CD
9 15 (14.71%) SDLC
10 14 (13.73%) Asset Management
10 14 (13.73%) Change Management
10 14 (13.73%) Data Modelling
11 12 (11.76%) Business Analysis
11 12 (11.76%) Requirements Gathering
11 12 (11.76%) Software Engineering
11 12 (11.76%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 36 (35.29%) SQL
2 16 (15.69%) Python
3 13 (12.75%) Java
4 10 (9.80%) JavaScript
5 6 (5.88%) C#
6 4 (3.92%) Kotlin
7 3 (2.94%) Scala
8 2 (1.96%) Bash
8 2 (1.96%) C++
8 2 (1.96%) Groovy
9 1 (0.98%) ABAP
9 1 (0.98%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.98%) COBOL
9 1 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.98%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.98%) RPG
9 1 (0.98%) Swift
9 1 (0.98%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 20 (19.61%) Degree
2 11 (10.78%) PMP
3 8 (7.84%) PMI Certification
4 6 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (5.88%) Security Cleared
5 5 (4.90%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.96%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.96%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.98%) CBAP
7 1 (0.98%) CFA
7 1 (0.98%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.98%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (13.73%) QA
2 8 (7.84%) EMIR
2 8 (7.84%) MiFID
3 7 (6.86%) Basel II
4 6 (5.88%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.94%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.94%) WCAG
6 2 (1.96%) GDPR
6 2 (1.96%) PMO
7 1 (0.98%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.98%) SEPA
System Software
1 8 (7.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (6.86%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.94%) Ansible
2 3 (2.94%) Terraform
3 2 (1.96%) Opsgenie
4 1 (0.98%) Argo
4 1 (0.98%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.98%) Istio
Vendors
1 20 (19.61%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.88%) Databricks
2 6 (5.88%) Oracle
3 4 (3.92%) Charles River
3 4 (3.92%) SAP
4 3 (2.94%) Bloomberg
4 3 (2.94%) Cloudera
5 2 (1.96%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.96%) Foundry
5 2 (1.96%) Google
5 2 (1.96%) Palantir
6 1 (0.98%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.98%) Apple
6 1 (0.98%) Avaloq
6 1 (0.98%) GoldenSource
6 1 (0.98%) HP
6 1 (0.98%) Hyperion
6 1 (0.98%) IBM
6 1 (0.98%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.98%) SimCorp