Scrum Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Scrum
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Scrum skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 57 63
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 -36
Contract jobs citing Scrum 47 29 51
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.70% 2.73% 2.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.31% 3.17% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 16 17
10th Percentile £422 £356 £365
25th Percentile £463 £395 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £508 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.30% -7.73% -5.17%
75th Percentile £644 £600 £613
90th Percentile £683 - £618
England median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 19
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £65.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,418 915 1,620
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 81.49% 86.08% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 423 829
10th Percentile £197 £241 £250
25th Percentile £350 £363 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £498
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +0.50% -0.50%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £693 £711
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 445 156 443
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £20.23 £40.00 £31.80
Median % change year-on-year -49.43% +25.79% +42.92%
75th Percentile £60.75 £69.06 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% - -

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Scrum job vacancy trend in the East of England

Scrum
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in the East of England over the 6 months to 7 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in the East of England

Scrum
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Scrum
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 7 February 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
Hertfordshire -8 19 £625 +4.17% 8
Bedfordshire -2 11 £575 +64.29% 7
Cambridgeshire -3 11 £570 +14.00% 13
Essex -1 5 £460 - 3
Suffolk +6 1 £450 +20.00% 7
Scrum
England

Scrum
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 8 (17.02%) CMS
1 8 (17.02%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (2.13%) Confluence
2 1 (2.13%) Mendix
Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (4.26%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 18 (38.30%) Azure
2 10 (21.28%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (19.15%) AWS
4 8 (17.02%) GitHub
5 5 (10.64%) Azure AKS
5 5 (10.64%) Azure Functions
5 5 (10.64%) GitHub Copilot
5 5 (10.64%) PaaS
5 5 (10.64%) Serverless
6 1 (2.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.13%) IaaS
6 1 (2.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.26%) Firewall
1 2 (4.26%) Intrusion Detection
1 2 (4.26%) Network Security
1 2 (4.26%) TCP/IP
1 2 (4.26%) VLAN
1 2 (4.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (19.15%) NoSQL
2 5 (10.64%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.13%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (8.51%) JIRA
2 2 (4.26%) JMeter
2 2 (4.26%) Postman
2 2 (4.26%) Selenium
3 1 (2.13%) Git
3 1 (2.13%) GitLab
3 1 (2.13%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (2.13%) Snyk
3 1 (2.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (34.04%) Social Skills
2 10 (21.28%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (17.02%) Finance
4 3 (6.38%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (4.26%) Banking
5 2 (4.26%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (4.26%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.13%) Automotive
6 1 (2.13%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (21.28%) Lead
2 9 (19.15%) Developer
2 9 (19.15%) Senior
3 5 (10.64%) Architect
3 5 (10.64%) Senior Developer
3 5 (10.64%) Technical Architect
4 4 (8.51%) Analyst
4 4 (8.51%) Business Analyst
4 4 (8.51%) Project Manager
5 3 (6.38%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (6.38%) Scrum Master
6 2 (4.26%) Agile Delivery Lead
6 2 (4.26%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 2 (4.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Data Scientist
6 2 (4.26%) IT Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) IT Security Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Security Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (4.26%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (38.30%) .NET
2 9 (19.15%) Node.js
2 9 (19.15%) React
3 8 (17.02%) AngularJS
3 8 (17.02%) CSS
4 7 (14.89%) ASP.NET
4 7 (14.89%) ASP.NET Core
4 7 (14.89%) HTML
4 7 (14.89%) jQuery
4 7 (14.89%) RESTful
5 6 (12.77%) A2A Protocol
5 6 (12.77%) Model Context Protocol
5 6 (12.77%) PyTorch
5 6 (12.77%) REST
5 6 (12.77%) TensorFlow
6 5 (10.64%) Semantic Kernel
7 3 (6.38%) .NET Core
7 3 (6.38%) Express.js
8 2 (4.26%) Pandas
8 2 (4.26%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 10 (21.28%) Cloud Native
2 6 (12.77%) Algorithms
2 6 (12.77%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (12.77%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.38%) PMI
4 2 (4.26%) CCTV
4 2 (4.26%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (4.26%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.13%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.13%) FMCG
5 1 (2.13%) Life Science
5 1 (2.13%) LIMS
5 1 (2.13%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.26%) Linux
1 2 (4.26%) VMS
2 1 (2.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (91.49%) Agile
2 24 (51.06%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (42.55%) DevOps
4 16 (34.04%) CI/CD
5 13 (27.66%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (25.53%) AI
7 11 (23.40%) LLM
7 11 (23.40%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
7 11 (23.40%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (21.28%) Prompt Engineering
8 10 (21.28%) Test Automation
9 9 (19.15%) Microservices
10 8 (17.02%) Kanban
10 8 (17.02%) Machine Learning
10 8 (17.02%) Sprint Planning
10 8 (17.02%) Validation
11 7 (14.89%) Containerisation
11 7 (14.89%) Data Science
11 7 (14.89%) Front End Development
11 7 (14.89%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (23.40%) C#
2 9 (19.15%) Python
3 4 (8.51%) Java
3 4 (8.51%) JavaScript
3 4 (8.51%) SQL
4 1 (2.13%) C++
4 1 (2.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (17.02%) Degree
2 6 (12.77%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 5 (10.64%) Security Cleared
4 4 (8.51%) PMI Certification
5 3 (6.38%) SC Cleared
6 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (4.26%) PMP
7 1 (2.13%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (19.15%) EU AI Act
2 8 (17.02%) NIST
3 5 (10.64%) QA
4 1 (2.13%) GAMP
4 1 (2.13%) GxP
System Software
1 5 (10.64%) Docker
2 2 (4.26%) Hyper-V
2 2 (4.26%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (4.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (4.26%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (27.66%) Microsoft
2 8 (17.02%) Sitecore
3 5 (10.64%) Foundry
4 3 (6.38%) Oracle
4 3 (6.38%) Progress
4 3 (6.38%) SAP
4 3 (6.38%) VMware
5 2 (4.26%) Databricks
5 2 (4.26%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.13%) Avature
6 1 (2.13%) New Relic
6 1 (2.13%) Splunk