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 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 61 74
Rank change year-on-year -5 +13 -37
Contract jobs citing Scrum 46 15 35
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.07% 1.59% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.68% 1.79% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 10 11
10th Percentile £403 £418 £356
25th Percentile £455 £474 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £607 - £563
90th Percentile £675 £610 £575
England median daily rate £510 £500 £536
% change year-on-year +2.00% -6.72% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 13
10th Percentile - - £54.00
25th Percentile - - £60.00
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £66.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% -7.69% -

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 1,715 840 1,637
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 77.18% 89.27% 85.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 854 436 694
10th Percentile £200 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £455
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +9.89% -4.21%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 175 608
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.45 £16.30 £15.39
Median hourly rate £22.63 £40.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.43% - +81.82%
75th Percentile £65.88 £71.25 £62.81
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.05
% change year-on-year +51.53% -16.77% -2.97%

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 4 May 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 4 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
Hertfordshire -10 21 £575 -4.17% 13
Bedfordshire +2 12 £588 +67.86% 5
Cambridgeshire +7 5 - - 9
Essex -7 5 £460 - 6
Suffolk - 2 £575 - 5
Norfolk - 1 £450 -
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 9 (19.57%) CMS
1 9 (19.57%) Sitecore CMS
2 4 (8.70%) Confluence
3 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.17%) Mendix
Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.17%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 14 (30.43%) AWS
2 12 (26.09%) Azure
3 7 (15.22%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (6.52%) Miro
5 2 (4.35%) GCP
5 2 (4.35%) GitHub
5 2 (4.35%) SaaS
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.17%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.17%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (2.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (2.17%) Datadog
6 1 (2.17%) IaaS
6 1 (2.17%) PaaS
6 1 (2.17%) Serverless
6 1 (2.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) DNS
1 1 (2.17%) Firewall
1 1 (2.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (21.74%) NoSQL
2 6 (13.04%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (13.04%) JIRA
2 3 (6.52%) GitLab
3 2 (4.35%) Git
4 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (2.17%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.17%) Hudson
4 1 (2.17%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.17%) JMeter
4 1 (2.17%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (2.17%) Selenium
4 1 (2.17%) Serenity BDD
4 1 (2.17%) Snyk
4 1 (2.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (45.65%) Social Skills
2 12 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (21.74%) Finance
4 4 (8.70%) Retail
5 3 (6.52%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (6.52%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.35%) Banking
6 2 (4.35%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.17%) Automotive
7 1 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (17.39%) Senior
2 7 (15.22%) Developer
3 6 (13.04%) Architect
3 6 (13.04%) Scrum Master
3 6 (13.04%) Technical Architect
4 5 (10.87%) Lead
4 5 (10.87%) Product Manager
4 5 (10.87%) Project Manager
5 4 (8.70%) Analyst
5 4 (8.70%) Business Analyst
5 4 (8.70%) Senior Manager
6 3 (6.52%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (6.52%) Senior Product Manager
7 2 (4.35%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (4.35%) Java Developer
7 2 (4.35%) Product Owner
7 2 (4.35%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.35%) Senior Java Developer
8 1 (2.17%) Project Leader
8 1 (2.17%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (21.74%) .NET
1 10 (21.74%) Node.js
1 10 (21.74%) React
2 9 (19.57%) AngularJS
2 9 (19.57%) CSS
3 8 (17.39%) ASP.NET
3 8 (17.39%) ASP.NET Core
3 8 (17.39%) HTML
3 8 (17.39%) jQuery
4 7 (15.22%) REST
5 3 (6.52%) .NET Core
5 3 (6.52%) Express.js
6 2 (4.35%) NestJS
6 2 (4.35%) RESTful
6 2 (4.35%) Spring
7 1 (2.17%) MERN Stack
7 1 (2.17%) SOAP
7 1 (2.17%) Web Services
7 1 (2.17%) WinForms
7 1 (2.17%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.57%) Product Ownership
2 7 (15.22%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (8.70%) Robotics
4 2 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (4.35%) Life Science
5 1 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.17%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.17%) IoT
5 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.17%) PMI
5 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.35%) Linux
2 1 (2.17%) Android
2 1 (2.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (89.13%) Agile
2 20 (43.48%) DevOps
3 17 (36.96%) CI/CD
4 16 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (26.09%) Kanban
5 12 (26.09%) Sprint Planning
5 12 (26.09%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (21.74%) Microservices
7 8 (17.39%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 8 (17.39%) Data Governance
7 8 (17.39%) Front End Development
7 8 (17.39%) Project Delivery
8 7 (15.22%) AI
8 7 (15.22%) Sprint Review
8 7 (15.22%) Translating Business Requirements
9 6 (13.04%) Mentoring
9 6 (13.04%) Personalization
9 6 (13.04%) Sprint Retrospective
9 6 (13.04%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 10 (21.74%) C#
2 5 (10.87%) JavaScript
3 4 (8.70%) Java
3 4 (8.70%) SQL
4 3 (6.52%) Bash
4 3 (6.52%) Python
5 2 (4.35%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.17%) C++
6 1 (2.17%) Groovy
6 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (21.74%) Degree
2 6 (13.04%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (6.52%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.35%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.17%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.04%) QA
2 3 (6.52%) GxP
3 2 (4.35%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 1 (2.17%) GAMP
System Software
1 1 (2.17%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.17%) Docker
1 1 (2.17%) Squid
Systems Management
1 3 (6.52%) Terraform
2 2 (4.35%) Ansible
2 2 (4.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (19.57%) Sitecore
2 5 (10.87%) Oracle
3 3 (6.52%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.52%) Salesforce
3 3 (6.52%) SAP
4 2 (4.35%) Progress
5 1 (2.17%) CheckPoint
5 1 (2.17%) Databricks
5 1 (2.17%) New Relic
5 1 (2.17%) PagerDuty
5 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.17%) Splunk
5 1 (2.17%) Trend Micro
5 1 (2.17%) VMware