Scrum Contracts in the East Midlands

Scrum
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 49 49
Rank change year-on-year +18 0 -24
Contract jobs citing Scrum 25 17 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 4.66% 2.20% 3.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.41% 2.82% 3.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 14 26
10th Percentile £326 £356 £334
25th Percentile £358 £376 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £419 £425
Median % change year-on-year +7.40% -1.41% -5.56%
75th Percentile £469 £538 £528
90th Percentile £476 £555 £631
England median daily rate £500 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -6.98% -6.52% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 462 603 918
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.19% 78.01% 88.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 404 692
10th Percentile £200 £192 £213
25th Percentile £323 £269 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £419 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.81% -7.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £525 £553 £573
90th Percentile £591 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 57 74
10th Percentile - £11.41 £12.07
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.36 £17.00 £18.56
Median % change year-on-year +7.97% -8.39% +3.10%
75th Percentile £24.54 £26.15 £31.50
90th Percentile £33.15 £45.79 £58.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Scrum as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in the East Midlands

Scrum
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scrum in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Scrum in the East Midlands

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scrum in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Scrum in the East Midlands

Scrum
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Northamptonshire +5 15 £358 -7.25% 8
Nottinghamshire +11 4 £468 - 19
Leicestershire +7 4 £463 -11.90% 18
Derbyshire +7 1 - - 15
Lincolnshire - 1 £500 - 6
Scrum
England

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 4 (16.00%) Confluence
2 2 (8.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 8 (32.00%) Azure
2 6 (24.00%) AWS
2 6 (24.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (12.00%) SaaS
4 2 (8.00%) GCP
5 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (8.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.00%) Big Data
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (4.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Git
2 4 (16.00%) JIRA
3 3 (12.00%) Selenium
4 2 (8.00%) CA Release Automation
4 2 (8.00%) Gradle
4 2 (8.00%) HP UFT
4 2 (8.00%) IntelliJ
4 2 (8.00%) Introscope
4 2 (8.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (8.00%) JUnit
4 2 (8.00%) LoadRunner
4 2 (8.00%) Maven
4 2 (8.00%) NetBeans
4 2 (8.00%) Subversion
5 1 (4.00%) ERwin
5 1 (4.00%) MagicDraw
5 1 (4.00%) Postman
5 1 (4.00%) SpecFlow
5 1 (4.00%) Visual Studio
5 1 (4.00%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (36.00%) Banking
2 7 (28.00%) Finance
3 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Legal
4 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Developer
2 5 (20.00%) Android Developer
3 4 (16.00%) Architect
3 4 (16.00%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (12.00%) AWS Architect
4 3 (12.00%) AWS Solution Architect
4 3 (12.00%) Digital Product Owner
4 3 (12.00%) Product Owner
4 3 (12.00%) Scrum Master
4 3 (12.00%) Test Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Business Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.00%) IT Manager
6 1 (4.00%) IT Project Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Project Manager
6 1 (4.00%) QA Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.00%) Android Jetpack
1 5 (20.00%) Jetpack Compose
2 4 (16.00%) HTML
2 4 (16.00%) J2EE
2 4 (16.00%) RESTful
2 4 (16.00%) Web Services
3 3 (12.00%) .NET
4 2 (8.00%) Ajax
4 2 (8.00%) AngularJS
4 2 (8.00%) Bootstrap
4 2 (8.00%) CSS
4 2 (8.00%) Hibernate
4 2 (8.00%) HTML5
4 2 (8.00%) jQuery
4 2 (8.00%) Kafka
4 2 (8.00%) Node.js
4 2 (8.00%) Spring
4 2 (8.00%) Spring Boot
4 2 (8.00%) Spring Integration
4 2 (8.00%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Mobile App
2 4 (16.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.00%) Data Structures
3 2 (8.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.00%) Android
2 2 (8.00%) AIX
2 2 (8.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (76.00%) Agile
2 9 (36.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (32.00%) Test Automation
4 6 (24.00%) Business Strategy
4 6 (24.00%) DevOps
5 5 (20.00%) Android Development
5 5 (20.00%) Business Analysis
5 5 (20.00%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
5 5 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 5 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 5 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 5 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
5 5 (20.00%) Unit Testing
6 4 (16.00%) BPR
6 4 (16.00%) IT Governance
6 4 (16.00%) Microservices
6 4 (16.00%) Requirements Analysis
6 4 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (16.00%) TDD
6 4 (16.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.00%) Kotlin
2 4 (16.00%) Java
2 4 (16.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (16.00%) Python
2 4 (16.00%) SQL
3 2 (8.00%) C
3 2 (8.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.00%) C#
4 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) CA Wily
1 2 (8.00%) Progress Chef
1 2 (8.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) AppDynamics
2 2 (8.00%) CA Agile Central
2 2 (8.00%) Google
2 2 (8.00%) Oracle
2 2 (8.00%) Splunk
2 2 (8.00%) VMware
3 1 (4.00%) HP
3 1 (4.00%) Salesforce