Scrum Contract Job Trends in County Antrim

Scrum
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in County Antrim requiring Scrum skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 20 17
Rank change year-on-year -13 -3 +15
Contract jobs citing Scrum 2 8 11
As % of all contract jobs in County Antrim 0.87% 4.85% 8.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 5.93% 9.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 11
10th Percentile £324 £324 -
25th Percentile £341 £361 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £438 £400
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +9.38% -15.79%
75th Percentile £403 £539 £536
90th Percentile £416 £598 -
Northern Ireland median daily rate £375 £438 £400
% change year-on-year -14.29% +9.38% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £51.11 -
Northern Ireland median hourly rate - £51.11 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
County Antrim

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 County Antrim.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 197 135 118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 86.03% 81.82% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 52 73
10th Percentile £302 £148 £210
25th Percentile £352 £166 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £444 £400
Median % change year-on-year +7.04% +10.94% -15.79%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £536
90th Percentile £638 £586 £620
Northern Ireland median daily rate £463 £431 £400
% change year-on-year +7.25% +7.81% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 21 9
10th Percentile £12.31 £22.50 £11.08
25th Percentile £14.47 - £12.25
Median hourly rate £17.30 £24.18 £13.46
Median % change year-on-year -28.45% +79.64% -3.44%
75th Percentile £25.15 £40.25 £16.00
90th Percentile - £62.50 £18.15
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £17.30 £24.18 £13.46
% change year-on-year -28.45% +79.64% -3.44%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Scrum job vacancy trend in County Antrim

Scrum
Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Scrum.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in County Antrim citing Scrum

Scrum
Contract Job Locations in County Antrim

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the County Antrim region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Belfast -10 2 £375 -14.29% 9
Scrum
Northern Ireland

Scrum
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in County Antrim 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
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Lucidchart
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Project Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Business Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Contract Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) ERP
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce