Scrum Contract Job Trends in Dorset

Scrum
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring Scrum skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 17 35
Rank change year-on-year +4 +18 -13
Contract jobs citing Scrum 6 2 7
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 6.19% 1.75% 2.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.14% 2.02% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £410
25th Percentile £503 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.79%
75th Percentile £508 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £450 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -21.74% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £69.62
75th Percentile - - £69.88
90th Percentile - - £70.34
South West median hourly rate £92.50 £67.02 £69.62
% change year-on-year +38.02% -3.73% +6.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84 99 241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 86.60% 86.84% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 53 141
10th Percentile £200 £311 £176
25th Percentile £290 £450 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £488 £538
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% -9.30% +7.50%
75th Percentile £550 £634 £650
90th Percentile £574 £724 £738
South West median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 6 49
10th Percentile £14.95 £14.41 £18.12
25th Percentile £15.25 £14.71 £46.92
Median hourly rate £15.50 £15.62 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% -72.35% +16.19%
75th Percentile £15.75 £22.79 £65.98
90th Percentile £22.06 £43.84 £69.62
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -62.74% +12.50% -0.83%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Scrum job vacancy trend in Dorset

Scrum
Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Scrum

Scrum
Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Scrum.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing Scrum

Scrum
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 16 October 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
Bournemouth 0 3 £505 - 2
Poole - 1 - -
Scrum
South West

Scrum
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Artifactory
1 2 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) NUnit
2 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Lead
1 4 (66.67%) Technical Leader
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) C++ Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior .NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior C++ Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) OAuth
1 5 (83.33%) OAuth2
2 4 (66.67%) Middleware
2 4 (66.67%) RESTful
2 4 (66.67%) SOAP
2 4 (66.67%) Spring
2 4 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 4 (66.67%) Spring Security
3 3 (50.00%) Web Services
4 2 (33.33%) .NET
4 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
4 2 (33.33%) REST
5 1 (16.67%) .NET Compact Framework
5 1 (16.67%) .NET Core
5 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
5 1 (16.67%) Entity Framework
5 1 (16.67%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Contactless
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Android
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Design Patterns
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
3 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
3 4 (66.67%) MVC
3 4 (66.67%) User Stories
4 2 (33.33%) Android Development
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Microservices
5 1 (16.67%) BDD
5 1 (16.67%) Embedded Software Development
5 1 (16.67%) Kanban
5 1 (16.67%) OOP
5 1 (16.67%) OWASP
5 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) TDD
5 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 1 (16.67%) UML
5 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Workflow
5 1 (16.67%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) C++
3 1 (16.67%) C
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Xamarin