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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 81 79
Rank change year-on-year +31 -2 -41
Contract jobs citing Scrum 59 9 25
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.70% 0.72% 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.42% 0.82% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 7 10
10th Percentile £271 £344 £389
25th Percentile £450 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.16% -13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £601 £538 £575
90th Percentile £658 £740 £587
England median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 7
10th Percentile £62.75 - £52.50
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile £77.40 - -
England median hourly rate £69.50 £55.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +26.36% -8.33% -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 1,723 1,103 1,381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.71% 88.31% 83.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 848 519 541
10th Percentile £190 £200 £198
25th Percentile £384 £375 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £595 £575 £553
90th Percentile £688 £650 £650
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 390 258 514
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.99 £14.48
25th Percentile £16.28 £18.04 £15.62
Median hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +90.48%
75th Percentile £69.69 £66.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £82.22 £70.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -39.40% -2.35%

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 July 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Scrum in the East of England over the 6 months to 30 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Scrum in the East of England

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 July 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 +17 35 £500 +11.11% 9
Cambridgeshire +11 8 £588 +6.82% 12
Essex -11 6 £460 - 2
Bedfordshire - 5 £600 - 6
Suffolk -9 3 £625 +25.00% 1
Norfolk - 2 £375 - 1
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 (13.56%) Confluence
2 3 (5.08%) CMS
3 2 (3.39%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (1.69%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.69%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 19 (32.20%) Azure
2 11 (18.64%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (11.86%) AWS
4 6 (10.17%) Miro
5 4 (6.78%) SaaS
6 2 (3.39%) Azure AKS
6 2 (3.39%) GCP
7 1 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.69%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (1.69%) AWS Control Tower
7 1 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.69%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (1.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.69%) Datadog
7 1 (1.69%) IaaS
7 1 (1.69%) PaaS
7 1 (1.69%) Serverless
7 1 (1.69%) Smartsheet
7 1 (1.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.69%) DNS
1 1 (1.69%) Firewall
1 1 (1.69%) Network Security
1 1 (1.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.08%) NoSQL
1 3 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.39%) MySQL
2 2 (3.39%) Redis
2 2 (3.39%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (27.12%) JIRA
2 6 (10.17%) GitLab
3 4 (6.78%) Visual Studio
4 3 (5.08%) Git
5 2 (3.39%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (1.69%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (1.69%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.69%) Hudson
6 1 (1.69%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.69%) JMeter
6 1 (1.69%) Selenium
6 1 (1.69%) Serenity BDD
6 1 (1.69%) Snyk
General
1 19 (32.20%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.64%) Finance
3 9 (15.25%) Retail
4 7 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (8.47%) Manufacturing
5 5 (8.47%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (3.39%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.69%) Law
7 1 (1.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (16.95%) Project Manager
2 8 (13.56%) Senior
3 6 (10.17%) Lead
3 6 (10.17%) Product Manager
3 6 (10.17%) Scrum Master
4 5 (8.47%) Product Owner
5 4 (6.78%) Architect
5 4 (6.78%) Developer
6 3 (5.08%) Coordinator
6 3 (5.08%) Project Coordinator
6 3 (5.08%) Senior Manager
6 3 (5.08%) Senior Product Manager
6 3 (5.08%) Test Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) .NET Developer
7 2 (3.39%) C# Developer
7 2 (3.39%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (3.39%) Development Manager
7 2 (3.39%) Software Development Project Manager
7 2 (3.39%) Software Project Manager
7 2 (3.39%) Software Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.17%) .NET
2 4 (6.78%) React
2 4 (6.78%) REST
2 4 (6.78%) WPF
3 3 (5.08%) Web Services
4 2 (3.39%) .NET Framework
4 2 (3.39%) ASP.NET
4 2 (3.39%) CSS
4 2 (3.39%) Django
4 2 (3.39%) Entity Framework
4 2 (3.39%) HTML
4 2 (3.39%) jQuery
4 2 (3.39%) Managed Extensibility Framework
4 2 (3.39%) Node.js
4 2 (3.39%) OAuth
4 2 (3.39%) RESTful
4 2 (3.39%) Silverlight
4 2 (3.39%) Vue
4 2 (3.39%) WCF
4 2 (3.39%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 16 (27.12%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.47%) Life Science
3 4 (6.78%) Robotics
4 3 (5.08%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (5.08%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (5.08%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.39%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.39%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.39%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.69%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.69%) IoT
6 1 (1.69%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.69%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.69%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.95%) Linux
2 4 (6.78%) Windows
3 2 (3.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.39%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.69%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (84.75%) Agile
2 18 (30.51%) DevOps
3 17 (28.81%) Kanban
3 17 (28.81%) Sprint Planning
4 16 (27.12%) CI/CD
5 15 (25.42%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (23.73%) AI
6 14 (23.73%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (22.03%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 12 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (18.64%) Sprint Review
10 10 (16.95%) Software Delivery
10 10 (16.95%) Test Automation
11 9 (15.25%) Sprint Retrospective
12 8 (13.56%) Project Delivery
12 8 (13.56%) Roadmaps
12 8 (13.56%) Validation
13 7 (11.86%) Generative AI
13 7 (11.86%) Project Management
13 7 (11.86%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.17%) C#
2 5 (8.47%) Python
3 3 (5.08%) Bash
4 2 (3.39%) Java
4 2 (3.39%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.39%) SQL
4 2 (3.39%) TypeScript
4 2 (3.39%) XAML
5 1 (1.69%) C++
5 1 (1.69%) Groovy
5 1 (1.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (20.34%) Degree
2 7 (11.86%) Security Cleared
3 5 (8.47%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.39%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.39%) PhD
6 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.69%) CSPO
6 1 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.69%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.69%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.25%) QA
2 5 (8.47%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 5 (8.47%) GxP
3 2 (3.39%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (3.39%) Docker
2 1 (1.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.69%) Lustre
2 1 (1.69%) Squid
2 1 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (8.47%) Terraform
2 4 (6.78%) Ansible
3 2 (3.39%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.39%) Puppet
4 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (10.17%) Oracle
2 5 (8.47%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.78%) IBM
3 4 (6.78%) Salesforce
4 3 (5.08%) Progress
4 3 (5.08%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.39%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.69%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.69%) Databricks
6 1 (1.69%) New Relic
6 1 (1.69%) PagerDuty
6 1 (1.69%) SAP
6 1 (1.69%) Splunk
6 1 (1.69%) Trend Micro
6 1 (1.69%) VMware