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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 41 39
Rank change year-on-year -17 -2 -14
Contract jobs citing Scrum 64 101 191
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.64% 4.60% 5.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.91% 5.08% 5.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 76 129
10th Percentile £428 £425 £450
25th Percentile £472 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £631 £559 £650
Median % change year-on-year +12.98% -14.04% +18.18%
75th Percentile £685 £675 £750
90th Percentile £834 £719 £778
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -2.27% -12.00% +13.64%

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 1,637 1,989 3,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.53% 91.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,034 1,408 2,250
10th Percentile £363 £363 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £684 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

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

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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

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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 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in the City of London

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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

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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 2 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
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 6 (9.38%) Confluence
2 5 (7.81%) Apache Spark
3 4 (6.25%) Apache
3 4 (6.25%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.56%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (9.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (7.81%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (4.69%) Trello
4 2 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (1.56%) Chatbot
5 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (1.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) SAP BPC
1 1 (1.56%) SAP CRM
1 1 (1.56%) SAP ERP
1 1 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (26.56%) Azure
2 15 (23.44%) AWS
3 11 (17.19%) Power Platform
4 7 (10.94%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (7.81%) GCP
5 5 (7.81%) SaaS
6 3 (4.69%) GitHub
6 3 (4.69%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (3.13%) Apple Pay
7 2 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (3.13%) Miro
7 2 (3.13%) OpenShift
7 2 (3.13%) Tricentis Tosca
7 2 (3.13%) WhatsApp
8 1 (1.56%) Asana
8 1 (1.56%) IaaS
8 1 (1.56%) PaaS
8 1 (1.56%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 1 (1.56%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.25%) SSH
2 2 (3.13%) Firewall
2 2 (3.13%) Network Security
3 1 (1.56%) BGP
3 1 (1.56%) DHCP
3 1 (1.56%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (17.19%) Power BI
2 5 (7.81%) SQL Server
3 4 (6.25%) Apache Hive
3 4 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (6.25%) Data Mining
3 4 (6.25%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.56%) Big Data
4 1 (1.56%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.56%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.56%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.56%) Looker
4 1 (1.56%) Metadata
4 1 (1.56%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (32.81%) JIRA
2 10 (15.63%) Git
3 4 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 4 (6.25%) RStudio
4 3 (4.69%) LoadRunner
4 3 (4.69%) Postman
4 3 (4.69%) Selenium
5 2 (3.13%) GitLab
5 2 (3.13%) JMeter
5 2 (3.13%) REST Assured
5 2 (3.13%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.56%) Gatling
6 1 (1.56%) JIRA Agile
6 1 (1.56%) JUnit
6 1 (1.56%) ScriptRunner
6 1 (1.56%) Serenity BDD
6 1 (1.56%) Storybook
6 1 (1.56%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.56%) Vite
6 1 (1.56%) webpack
General
1 29 (45.31%) Social Skills
2 11 (17.19%) Finance
3 10 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (12.50%) Banking
5 6 (9.38%) Investment Banking
6 3 (4.69%) Financial Institution
6 3 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.69%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.13%) Back Office
8 1 (1.56%) Advertising
8 1 (1.56%) Automotive
8 1 (1.56%) Billing
8 1 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.56%) Front Office
8 1 (1.56%) Law
8 1 (1.56%) Legal
8 1 (1.56%) Local Government
8 1 (1.56%) Marketing
8 1 (1.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (15.63%) Developer
2 9 (14.06%) Project Manager
3 6 (9.38%) Delivery Manager
3 6 (9.38%) Senior
4 5 (7.81%) Analyst
4 5 (7.81%) Data Engineer
5 4 (6.25%) Android Developer
5 4 (6.25%) Business Analyst
5 4 (6.25%) Consultant
5 4 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (6.25%) Lead
5 4 (6.25%) Product Manager
6 3 (4.69%) Architect
6 3 (4.69%) iOS Developer
6 3 (4.69%) Java Developer
6 3 (4.69%) Risk Consultant
6 3 (4.69%) Senior Consultant
7 2 (3.13%) iOS Android Developer
7 2 (3.13%) QA Engineer
7 2 (3.13%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.38%) YAML
2 5 (7.81%) REST
3 4 (6.25%) .NET
3 4 (6.25%) GraphQL
3 4 (6.25%) JSON
3 4 (6.25%) pydantic
3 4 (6.25%) PySpark
4 3 (4.69%) Jetpack Compose
5 2 (3.13%) Android Jetpack
5 2 (3.13%) Hibernate
5 2 (3.13%) Kafka
5 2 (3.13%) Spring
5 2 (3.13%) Web Services
5 2 (3.13%) ZK
6 1 (1.56%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.56%) CSS
6 1 (1.56%) HTML
6 1 (1.56%) Protocol Buffers
6 1 (1.56%) SwiftUI
6 1 (1.56%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.38%) Product Ownership
2 5 (7.81%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (7.81%) Mobile App
3 4 (6.25%) Data Structures
3 4 (6.25%) Market Risk
3 4 (6.25%) Reference Data
4 3 (4.69%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (4.69%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (3.13%) Derivative
5 2 (3.13%) Learning Management System
6 1 (1.56%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.56%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.56%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 1 (1.56%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (1.56%) NHS
6 1 (1.56%) PMI
6 1 (1.56%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.56%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.50%) Linux
2 4 (6.25%) Android
3 3 (4.69%) Apple iOS
3 3 (4.69%) Windows
4 2 (3.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (93.75%) Agile
2 23 (35.94%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (34.38%) Kanban
4 16 (25.00%) DevOps
5 14 (21.88%) CI/CD
5 14 (21.88%) Project Management
6 12 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (17.19%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 10 (15.63%) Project Delivery
9 9 (14.06%) Analytics
9 9 (14.06%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (12.50%) Roadmaps
10 8 (12.50%) SDLC
11 7 (10.94%) Software Engineering
11 7 (10.94%) Sprint Planning
11 7 (10.94%) Test Automation
12 6 (9.38%) Change Management
12 6 (9.38%) PRINCE2
12 6 (9.38%) Service Delivery
12 6 (9.38%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (23.44%) SQL
2 11 (17.19%) Python
3 10 (15.63%) Java
4 5 (7.81%) C#
4 5 (7.81%) Kotlin
4 5 (7.81%) Scala
5 4 (6.25%) Bash
6 3 (4.69%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.69%) Swift
7 2 (3.13%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.56%) ABAP
8 1 (1.56%) Bicep
8 1 (1.56%) C++
8 1 (1.56%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 10 (15.63%) Degree
2 8 (12.50%) PMI Certification
3 7 (10.94%) PMP
3 7 (10.94%) Security Cleared
4 6 (9.38%) SC Cleared
5 5 (7.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (4.69%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.56%) CBAP
7 1 (1.56%) CCNP
7 1 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.56%) JNCIP
7 1 (1.56%) PgMP
7 1 (1.56%) PhD
7 1 (1.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.50%) QA
2 4 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 4 (6.25%) GDPR
3 3 (4.69%) Basel II
4 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.56%) PMO
4 1 (1.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (6.25%) Docker
2 2 (3.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (7.81%) Kubernetes
2 4 (6.25%) Terraform
3 2 (3.13%) Ansible
4 1 (1.56%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 8 (12.50%) Databricks
2 7 (10.94%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.69%) Oracle
3 3 (4.69%) SAP
4 2 (3.13%) Apple
4 2 (3.13%) Google
4 2 (3.13%) Murex
5 1 (1.56%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.56%) Brio
5 1 (1.56%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.56%) Cisco
5 1 (1.56%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.56%) GoldenSource
5 1 (1.56%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.56%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.56%) Splunk