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 30 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 61 71
Rank change year-on-year -4 +10 -39
Contract jobs citing Scrum 43 18 39
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.15% 1.84% 2.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.74% 2.11% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 12 11
10th Percentile £413 £356 £375
25th Percentile £461 £420 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £558 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.14% +1.36% -6.26%
75th Percentile £630 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 - £625
England median daily rate £500 £500 £540
% change year-on-year - -7.41% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 15
10th Percentile - - £55.50
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 1,568 855 1,642
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.40% 87.51% 86.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 732 456 788
10th Percentile £198 £250 £235
25th Percentile £356 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% +5.21% -0.52%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £691 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 427 171 532
10th Percentile £14.06 £15.33 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.69 £20.26 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £53.00 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -58.49% +39.03% +48.70%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.13 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £36.71 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +12.95% - -13.33%

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 30 March 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 30 March 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 -11 18 £600 - 8
Bedfordshire +1 11 £600 +71.43% 5
Cambridgeshire +1 7 £593 +19.70% 6
Essex -4 4 £455 - 6
Suffolk - 2 £575 - 4
Norfolk - 1 £450 - 2
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 (20.93%) CMS
1 9 (20.93%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (2.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.33%) Confluence
2 1 (2.33%) Mendix
Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 12 (27.91%) AWS
1 12 (27.91%) Azure
2 5 (11.63%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (11.63%) GitHub
3 4 (9.30%) PaaS
3 4 (9.30%) Serverless
4 3 (6.98%) Azure AKS
4 3 (6.98%) Azure Functions
4 3 (6.98%) GitHub Copilot
5 2 (4.65%) SaaS
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.33%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.33%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (2.33%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.33%) Datadog
6 1 (2.33%) IaaS
6 1 (2.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.33%) DNS
1 1 (2.33%) Firewall
1 1 (2.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (23.26%) NoSQL
2 6 (13.95%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (11.63%) JIRA
2 2 (4.65%) Git
3 1 (2.33%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (2.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.33%) GitLab
3 1 (2.33%) Hudson
3 1 (2.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.33%) JMeter
3 1 (2.33%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (2.33%) Selenium
3 1 (2.33%) Serenity BDD
3 1 (2.33%) Snyk
3 1 (2.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (46.51%) Social Skills
2 12 (27.91%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (20.93%) Finance
4 5 (11.63%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (6.98%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.65%) Banking
6 2 (4.65%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.65%) Retail
7 1 (2.33%) Automotive
7 1 (2.33%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (23.26%) Developer
2 8 (18.60%) Senior
3 6 (13.95%) Architect
3 6 (13.95%) Project Manager
3 6 (13.95%) Technical Architect
4 5 (11.63%) Senior Developer
5 4 (9.30%) Analyst
5 4 (9.30%) Business Analyst
5 4 (9.30%) Lead
6 3 (6.98%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (4.65%) Java Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Product Owner
7 2 (4.65%) Scrum Master
7 2 (4.65%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Senior Manager
7 2 (4.65%) Senior Software Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Software Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (32.56%) .NET
2 10 (23.26%) Node.js
2 10 (23.26%) React
3 9 (20.93%) AngularJS
3 9 (20.93%) CSS
4 8 (18.60%) ASP.NET
4 8 (18.60%) ASP.NET Core
4 8 (18.60%) HTML
4 8 (18.60%) jQuery
5 7 (16.28%) REST
6 5 (11.63%) RESTful
7 4 (9.30%) A2A Protocol
7 4 (9.30%) Model Context Protocol
7 4 (9.30%) PyTorch
7 4 (9.30%) TensorFlow
8 3 (6.98%) .NET Core
8 3 (6.98%) Express.js
8 3 (6.98%) Semantic Kernel
9 2 (4.65%) NestJS
9 2 (4.65%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.28%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (13.95%) Cloud Native
3 4 (9.30%) Algorithms
3 4 (9.30%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.65%) Life Science
5 1 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.33%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.33%) LIMS
5 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.33%) PMI
5 1 (2.33%) Robotics
5 1 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.33%) Android
1 1 (2.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (86.05%) Agile
2 20 (46.51%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (37.21%) DevOps
4 14 (32.56%) CI/CD
5 13 (30.23%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (23.26%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (23.26%) Kanban
6 10 (23.26%) Microservices
7 9 (20.93%) AI
8 8 (18.60%) Data Governance
8 8 (18.60%) Front End Development
8 8 (18.60%) Project Delivery
9 7 (16.28%) LLM
9 7 (16.28%) Sprint Planning
9 7 (16.28%) Test Automation
9 7 (16.28%) Translating Business Requirements
10 6 (13.95%) Personalization
10 6 (13.95%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
10 6 (13.95%) User Stories
10 6 (13.95%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (25.58%) C#
2 6 (13.95%) Python
3 5 (11.63%) Java
3 5 (11.63%) JavaScript
4 4 (9.30%) SQL
5 1 (2.33%) Bash
5 1 (2.33%) C++
5 1 (2.33%) Groovy
5 1 (2.33%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (13.95%) Degree
1 6 (13.95%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 3 (6.98%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.65%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.33%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.63%) EU AI Act
1 5 (11.63%) QA
2 4 (9.30%) NIST
3 3 (6.98%) GxP
4 2 (4.65%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 1 (2.33%) GAMP
System Software
1 1 (2.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.33%) Docker
1 1 (2.33%) Squid
Systems Management
1 1 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (20.93%) Microsoft
1 9 (20.93%) Sitecore
2 4 (9.30%) Oracle
3 3 (6.98%) Foundry
3 3 (6.98%) Salesforce
3 3 (6.98%) SAP
4 1 (2.33%) CheckPoint
4 1 (2.33%) Databricks
4 1 (2.33%) New Relic
4 1 (2.33%) PagerDuty
4 1 (2.33%) Progress
4 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.33%) Splunk
4 1 (2.33%) Trend Micro
4 1 (2.33%) VMware