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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 69 82
Rank change year-on-year -2 +13 -48
Contract jobs citing Scrum 45 15 29
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.03% 1.54% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.58% 1.70% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 11 9
10th Percentile £446 £425 £355
25th Percentile £460 £481 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +9.09% +3.77%
75th Percentile £610 - £575
90th Percentile £676 - £585
England median daily rate £508 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +1.50% -5.66% -7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 13
10th Percentile - - £54.00
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile £77.00 - £65.00
90th Percentile £78.20 - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £56.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +18.94% -12.69% -

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 1,746 880 1,606
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.86% 90.44% 83.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 885 455 662
10th Percentile £198 £225 £200
25th Percentile £375 £395 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £589 £593 £575
90th Percentile £681 £675 £674
England median daily rate £515 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -1.55% -0.36% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 426 177 611
10th Percentile £14.36 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.12 £16.92 £15.56
Median hourly rate £27.00 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% -6.25% +81.82%
75th Percentile £68.44 £72.50 £63.13
90th Percentile £75.00 £84.40 £75.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.53 £37.50
% change year-on-year +64.77% -23.93% +0.54%

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 June 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 June 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 -6 21 £588 -2.08% 19
Bedfordshire +1 13 £600 +71.43% 3
Cambridgeshire +9 4 - - 10
Essex -12 4 £460 - 2
Suffolk -5 2 £575 +15.00% 5
Norfolk - 1 £450 - 3
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 (20.00%) CMS
1 9 (20.00%) Sitecore CMS
2 4 (8.89%) Confluence
3 1 (2.22%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.22%) MS Visio
1 1 (2.22%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 14 (31.11%) AWS
2 13 (28.89%) Azure
3 8 (17.78%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (6.67%) Miro
5 2 (4.44%) GCP
5 2 (4.44%) GitHub
5 2 (4.44%) SaaS
6 1 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.22%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.22%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (2.22%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (2.22%) Datadog
6 1 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.22%) IaaS
6 1 (2.22%) PaaS
6 1 (2.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) DNS
1 1 (2.22%) Firewall
1 1 (2.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (22.22%) NoSQL
2 6 (13.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (15.56%) JIRA
2 3 (6.67%) GitLab
2 3 (6.67%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (6.67%) Visual Studio
3 2 (4.44%) Git
4 1 (2.22%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (2.22%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.22%) Hudson
4 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.22%) JMeter
4 1 (2.22%) Selenium
4 1 (2.22%) Serenity BDD
4 1 (2.22%) Snyk
General
1 20 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.78%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (17.78%) Finance
3 5 (11.11%) Retail
4 3 (6.67%) Manufacturing
4 3 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (15.56%) Senior
2 6 (13.33%) Architect
2 6 (13.33%) Developer
2 6 (13.33%) Lead
2 6 (13.33%) Technical Architect
3 5 (11.11%) Product Manager
3 5 (11.11%) Project Manager
3 5 (11.11%) Scrum Master
4 4 (8.89%) Senior Manager
5 3 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (6.67%) Product Owner
5 3 (6.67%) Senior Product Manager
5 3 (6.67%) Software Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) .NET Software Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) C# Software Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (4.44%) Java Developer
6 2 (4.44%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (26.67%) .NET
2 10 (22.22%) Node.js
2 10 (22.22%) React
3 9 (20.00%) AngularJS
4 8 (17.78%) ASP.NET
4 8 (17.78%) ASP.NET Core
4 8 (17.78%) CSS
4 8 (17.78%) HTML
4 8 (17.78%) jQuery
5 6 (13.33%) REST
6 3 (6.67%) .NET Core
6 3 (6.67%) Express.js
6 3 (6.67%) WinForms
6 3 (6.67%) WPF
7 2 (4.44%) NestJS
7 2 (4.44%) RESTful
7 2 (4.44%) Spring
8 1 (2.22%) Kafka
8 1 (2.22%) MERN Stack
8 1 (2.22%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 10 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 7 (15.56%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (8.89%) Robotics
4 3 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (6.67%) Life Science
5 1 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.22%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.22%) IoT
5 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.22%) PMI
5 1 (2.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.67%) Windows
2 2 (4.44%) Linux
3 1 (2.22%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (93.33%) Agile
2 20 (44.44%) DevOps
3 19 (42.22%) CI/CD
4 15 (33.33%) Kanban
5 13 (28.89%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (26.67%) Microservices
6 12 (26.67%) Sprint Planning
6 12 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (20.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 9 (20.00%) Data Governance
8 8 (17.78%) Front End Development
9 7 (15.56%) AI
9 7 (15.56%) Project Delivery
9 7 (15.56%) Sprint Review
10 6 (13.33%) Personalization
10 6 (13.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 6 (13.33%) Software Delivery
10 6 (13.33%) Sprint Retrospective
10 6 (13.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 12 (26.67%) C#
2 4 (8.89%) JavaScript
2 4 (8.89%) SQL
3 3 (6.67%) Bash
3 3 (6.67%) Java
3 3 (6.67%) Python
4 2 (4.44%) C++
4 2 (4.44%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.22%) Groovy
5 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (17.78%) Security Cleared
2 7 (15.56%) Degree
3 4 (8.89%) SC Cleared
4 3 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.44%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.22%) CSPO
6 1 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (2.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.56%) QA
2 3 (6.67%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 3 (6.67%) GxP
System Software
1 1 (2.22%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.22%) Docker
1 1 (2.22%) Squid
Systems Management
1 3 (6.67%) Terraform
2 2 (4.44%) Ansible
2 2 (4.44%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (20.00%) Sitecore
2 5 (11.11%) Oracle
3 3 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.67%) Progress
3 3 (6.67%) Salesforce
4 2 (4.44%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.22%) CheckPoint
5 1 (2.22%) Databricks
5 1 (2.22%) New Relic
5 1 (2.22%) PagerDuty
5 1 (2.22%) Splunk
5 1 (2.22%) Trend Micro
5 1 (2.22%) VMware