Scrum Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Scrum
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Scrum skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 27 45
Rank change year-on-year -20 +18 +5
Contract jobs citing Scrum 41 28 18
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 3.70% 5.02% 2.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.69% 5.82% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 23 15
10th Percentile £308 £332 £270
25th Percentile £340 £358 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £441 £413
Median % change year-on-year -5.05% +6.78% -2.82%
75th Percentile £465 £469 £538
90th Percentile £500 £485 £553
England median daily rate £512 £500 £533
% change year-on-year +2.35% -6.10% -7.39%

All Process & 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 875 481 604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 79.04% 86.20% 78.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 477 323 408
10th Percentile £200 £208 £200
25th Percentile £381 £326 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £440 £411
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% +7.06% -8.78%
75th Percentile £543 £525 £563
90th Percentile £615 £600 £625
England median daily rate £511 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 32 56
10th Percentile £13.53 £13.81 £11.33
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.21 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.94 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.62% +11.38% -15.00%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.78 £26.15
90th Percentile £30.55 £33.55 £38.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.07 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.68% -20.36% -2.67%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Scrum job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Scrum
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Scrum.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Scrum

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in the East Midlands

Scrum
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Scrum.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Scrum

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 11 May 2026. 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 -9 24 £347 -3.07% 10
Nottinghamshire -15 10 £439 -9.59% 5
Lincolnshire -10 3 £460 -8.00%
Leicestershire -10 1 £500 +8.11% 4
Scrum
England

Scrum
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 19 (46.34%) Confluence
2 1 (2.44%) Apache
2 1 (2.44%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (24.39%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (9.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (26.83%) Power Platform
2 7 (17.07%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
3 5 (12.20%) Azure
4 4 (9.76%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (9.76%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 3 (7.32%) AWS
6 2 (4.88%) Serverless
7 1 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.44%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.44%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.44%) Azure Storage
7 1 (2.44%) GitHub
7 1 (2.44%) Google Workspace
7 1 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.44%) OCI
7 1 (2.44%) Smartsheet
7 1 (2.44%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (24.39%) Power BI
2 1 (2.44%) Aerospike
2 1 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (2.44%) Big Data
2 1 (2.44%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.44%) Flink
2 1 (2.44%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (51.22%) JIRA
2 4 (9.76%) Git
3 1 (2.44%) GitLab
3 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.44%) JUnit
General
1 17 (41.46%) Banking
1 17 (41.46%) Finance
2 11 (26.83%) Social Skills
3 10 (24.39%) Retail Banking
4 7 (17.07%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (17.07%) Corporate Banking
4 7 (17.07%) Retail
5 5 (12.20%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (9.76%) Marketing
6 4 (9.76%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.44%) Law
Job Titles
1 12 (29.27%) Project Manager
2 8 (19.51%) Analyst
2 8 (19.51%) Business Analyst
3 5 (12.20%) Banking Project Manager
3 5 (12.20%) Senior
4 4 (9.76%) Developer
4 4 (9.76%) Salesforce Analyst
4 4 (9.76%) Salesforce Business Analyst
4 4 (9.76%) Salesforce Trainer
4 4 (9.76%) Trainer
5 3 (7.32%) Agile Coach
5 3 (7.32%) Consultant
5 3 (7.32%) JIRA Specialist
5 3 (7.32%) Junior
5 3 (7.32%) Junior Project Manager
5 3 (7.32%) Lead
5 3 (7.32%) Salesforce Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Senior Consultant
6 2 (4.88%) Senior Developer
7 1 (2.44%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.76%) REST
1 4 (9.76%) VML
2 3 (7.32%) Kafka
2 3 (7.32%) Lightning Web Components
2 3 (7.32%) Node.js
2 3 (7.32%) PySpark
2 3 (7.32%) SOAP
3 1 (2.44%) Express.js
3 1 (2.44%) HTML
3 1 (2.44%) Jest
3 1 (2.44%) MERN Stack
3 1 (2.44%) pytest
3 1 (2.44%) React
3 1 (2.44%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 22 (53.66%) Product Ownership
2 9 (21.95%) PMI
3 4 (9.76%) e-Learning
3 4 (9.76%) Learning Management System
4 2 (4.88%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.88%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.88%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (80.49%) Agile
2 22 (53.66%) Stakeholder Management
3 16 (39.02%) Change Management
3 16 (39.02%) Continuous Improvement
4 14 (34.15%) Kanban
4 14 (34.15%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (34.15%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 13 (31.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 10 (24.39%) Business Intelligence
6 10 (24.39%) DevOps
6 10 (24.39%) Process Improvement
6 10 (24.39%) Project Management
6 10 (24.39%) User Stories
7 8 (19.51%) Acceptance Criteria
7 8 (19.51%) Regulatory Change
7 8 (19.51%) Sprint Planning
8 7 (17.07%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
8 7 (17.07%) Coaching
8 7 (17.07%) Mentoring
8 7 (17.07%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.76%) SQL
2 3 (7.32%) Apex Code
2 3 (7.32%) Python
2 3 (7.32%) SOQL
2 3 (7.32%) SOSL
3 2 (4.88%) Java
3 2 (4.88%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.44%) Bicep
4 1 (2.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (29.27%) Degree
2 10 (24.39%) PMI Certification
2 10 (24.39%) PMP
3 8 (19.51%) Master's Degree
4 7 (17.07%) MBA
4 7 (17.07%) SAFe Agilist
5 5 (12.20%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (9.76%) CSPO
7 2 (4.88%) SC Cleared
7 2 (4.88%) Security Cleared
8 1 (2.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (26.83%) QA
2 7 (17.07%) Basel III
System Software
1 1 (2.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (17.07%) Salesforce
2 5 (12.20%) Google
3 4 (9.76%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.88%) Spotify
5 1 (2.44%) Databricks