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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 33 40
Rank change year-on-year +15 +7 -14
Contract jobs citing Scrum 55 31 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 7.17% 4.12% 3.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.35% 5.13% 3.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 26 21
10th Percentile £314 £261 £313
25th Percentile £356 £320 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £371 £420
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% -11.61% -16.00%
75th Percentile £438 £450 £550
90th Percentile £470 £575 £610
England median daily rate £500 £530 £555
% change year-on-year -5.66% -4.50% +0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £37.02 - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% - +3.38%

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 659 604 752
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.92% 80.32% 86.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 449 412 559
10th Percentile £225 £263 £213
25th Percentile £334 £360 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -5.26% +2.98%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £600
90th Percentile £625 £623 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 35 44
10th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £12.18
25th Percentile £16.21 £14.64 £17.10
Median hourly rate £18.87 £20.00 £33.40
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% -40.11% +55.33%
75th Percentile £25.15 £27.45 £53.81
90th Percentile - £50.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +3.61% +56.60%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 +9 41 £358 -7.01% 9
Leicestershire 0 8 £463 -15.91% 10
Lincolnshire +3 2 - - 14
Derbyshire 0 2 £650 +101.86% 9
Nottinghamshire -4 2 £425 +28.30% 8
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 2 (3.64%) Confluence
2 1 (1.82%) JBoss
2 1 (1.82%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.82%) WebLogic
2 1 (1.82%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (3.64%) Oracle BPM
1 2 (3.64%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.82%) SAP BRIM
2 1 (1.82%) SAP CRM
2 1 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (29.09%) Azure
2 10 (18.18%) AWS
3 9 (16.36%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (10.91%) SaaS
5 4 (7.27%) GCP
6 1 (1.82%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.64%) NoSQL
1 2 (3.64%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.82%) DB2
2 1 (1.82%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.82%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (18.18%) Git
2 3 (5.45%) JUnit
3 2 (3.64%) JIRA
3 2 (3.64%) Mockito
3 2 (3.64%) Selenium
3 2 (3.64%) SonarQube
3 2 (3.64%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.82%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.82%) CA Release Automation
4 1 (1.82%) Gradle
4 1 (1.82%) IntelliJ
4 1 (1.82%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.82%) MagicDraw
4 1 (1.82%) Maven
4 1 (1.82%) NetBeans
4 1 (1.82%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (1.82%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.82%) Subversion
4 1 (1.82%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.82%) WebDriver
General
1 23 (41.82%) Finance
2 17 (30.91%) Social Skills
3 11 (20.00%) Banking
4 9 (16.36%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.27%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (5.45%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.64%) Legal
8 1 (1.82%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.82%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 14 (25.45%) Developer
2 12 (21.82%) Analyst
2 12 (21.82%) Business Analyst
3 11 (20.00%) Product Owner
4 8 (14.55%) Android Developer
5 6 (10.91%) Scrum Master
6 5 (9.09%) Lead
7 4 (7.27%) Digital Product Owner
7 4 (7.27%) ETL Analyst
7 4 (7.27%) Java Developer
8 3 (5.45%) Payments Analyst
8 3 (5.45%) Payments Business Analyst
9 2 (3.64%) Delivery Manager
9 2 (3.64%) SQL Developer
10 1 (1.82%) Data Analyst
10 1 (1.82%) Project Officer
10 1 (1.82%) Python Developer
10 1 (1.82%) SAP Consultant
10 1 (1.82%) Senior Java Developer
10 1 (1.82%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.55%) Android Jetpack
1 8 (14.55%) Jetpack Compose
1 8 (14.55%) RESTful
2 6 (10.91%) REST
3 4 (7.27%) Hibernate
3 4 (7.27%) LDAP
3 4 (7.27%) Spring
4 3 (5.45%) FIDO
5 2 (3.64%) J2EE
5 2 (3.64%) JMS
5 2 (3.64%) JSON
5 2 (3.64%) Kafka
5 2 (3.64%) Web Services
5 2 (3.64%) XML
6 1 (1.82%) .NET
6 1 (1.82%) Ajax
6 1 (1.82%) CSS
6 1 (1.82%) jQuery
6 1 (1.82%) Spring MVC
6 1 (1.82%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 15 (27.27%) Product Ownership
2 9 (16.36%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.64%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (3.64%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.82%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.82%) FPGA
4 1 (1.82%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.82%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.82%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.82%) Verilog
4 1 (1.82%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.55%) Android
2 3 (5.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (90.91%) Agile
2 16 (29.09%) Decision-Making
3 15 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 14 (25.45%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (23.64%) Acceptance Criteria
5 13 (23.64%) DevOps
6 12 (21.82%) CI/CD
6 12 (21.82%) SDLC
7 11 (20.00%) Backlog Management
7 11 (20.00%) Kanban
7 11 (20.00%) User Stories
8 10 (18.18%) Test Automation
8 10 (18.18%) Waterfall
9 9 (16.36%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 9 (16.36%) Business Analysis
9 9 (16.36%) Sprint Planning
9 9 (16.36%) Unit Testing
10 8 (14.55%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 8 (14.55%) Sprint Retrospective
10 8 (14.55%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 14 (25.45%) SQL
2 8 (14.55%) Kotlin
3 5 (9.09%) Java
3 5 (9.09%) Python
4 2 (3.64%) C#
4 2 (3.64%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.64%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.82%) ABAP
5 1 (1.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (9.09%) Degree
2 4 (7.27%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.64%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.82%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.36%) QA
2 3 (5.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (5.45%) NIST
2 3 (5.45%) NIST 800
3 1 (1.82%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.82%) PMO
3 1 (1.82%) PSD2
System Software
1 4 (7.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.82%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (5.45%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.82%) Progress Chef
2 1 (1.82%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (21.82%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.09%) Oracle
3 2 (3.64%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.82%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (1.82%) SAP
4 1 (1.82%) Solace
4 1 (1.82%) Teradata
4 1 (1.82%) Xilinx