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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 71 38
Rank change year-on-year -1 -33 -18
Contract jobs citing Scrum 20 23 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.54% 1.49% 4.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.72% 1.83% 5.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 10 45
10th Percentile £433 £407 £350
25th Percentile £460 £481 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.28% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £575 £569 £625
90th Percentile £685 £583 £725
England median daily rate £500 £525 £563
% change year-on-year -4.76% -6.67% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 19
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -0.76%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £69.60
England median hourly rate £55.00 £67.02 £65.00
% change year-on-year -17.93% +3.11% -

All Process and 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 1,166 1,259 1,647
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.55% 81.75% 87.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 502 460 893
10th Percentile £200 £200 £225
25th Percentile £400 £306 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £550 £631
90th Percentile £684 £638 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 314 382 369
10th Percentile £14.38 £14.59 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.25 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £24.39 £40.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.03% +100.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £61.69 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.95 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +53.98%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Scrum as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Scrum 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 20 September 2025.

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 20 September 2025. 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 9 £525 -8.70% 10
Cambridgeshire -4 6 £550 +2.33% 23
Essex - 3 £460 - 5
Suffolk +6 1 £500 - 4
Bedfordshire -7 1 £493 - 10
Scrum
England

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) Confluence
1 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (5.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) Azure
2 6 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (15.00%) GitHub
4 1 (5.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Functions
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (5.00%) PaaS
4 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Firewall
1 2 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 2 (10.00%) Network Security
1 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (10.00%) VLAN
1 2 (10.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
1 1 (5.00%) JMeter
1 1 (5.00%) Postman
1 1 (5.00%) Selenium
1 1 (5.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Manufacturing
3 2 (10.00%) Aerospace
3 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Lead
2 5 (25.00%) Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Scrum Master
4 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (10.00%) IFS Developer
4 2 (10.00%) IT Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) IT Security Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 2 (10.00%) Security Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) Technical Leader
5 1 (5.00%) Agile Delivery Lead
5 1 (5.00%) Agile Scrum Master
5 1 (5.00%) CCTV Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Python Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior IT Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Project Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) .NET
2 2 (10.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (10.00%) CSS
2 2 (10.00%) HTML
3 1 (5.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (5.00%) Entity Framework
3 1 (5.00%) Express.js
3 1 (5.00%) HTML5
3 1 (5.00%) jQuery
3 1 (5.00%) NgRx
3 1 (5.00%) Node.js
3 1 (5.00%) PyTorch
3 1 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (5.00%) React
3 1 (5.00%) RESTful
3 1 (5.00%) RxJS
3 1 (5.00%) Semantic Kernel
3 1 (5.00%) TensorFlow
3 1 (5.00%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.00%) CCTV
2 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (10.00%) PMI
3 1 (5.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (5.00%) Life Science
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
1 2 (10.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (90.00%) Agile
2 7 (35.00%) DevOps
2 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (35.00%) Sprint Planning
3 6 (30.00%) Sprint Retrospective
4 5 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (25.00%) Sprint Review
5 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (15.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (15.00%) Capacity Management
6 3 (15.00%) Data Science
6 3 (15.00%) ERP
6 3 (15.00%) Kanban
6 3 (15.00%) Planning and Forecasting
6 3 (15.00%) Project Management
6 3 (15.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 3 (15.00%) SDLC
6 3 (15.00%) Test Automation
6 3 (15.00%) User Experience
6 3 (15.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) Python
1 4 (20.00%) SQL
2 3 (15.00%) C#
3 2 (10.00%) PL/SQL
4 1 (5.00%) Java
4 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
1 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) PMI Certification
3 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.00%) MCP
3 1 (5.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) EU AI Act
1 2 (10.00%) NIST
1 2 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
2 2 (10.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) IFS
2 3 (15.00%) Progress
3 2 (10.00%) Databricks
3 2 (10.00%) VMware
4 1 (5.00%) Foundry
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle