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

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 63 75
Rank change year-on-year -4 +12 -37
Contract jobs citing Scrum 45 16 35
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.07% 1.69% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.69% 1.91% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 11 11
10th Percentile £396 £425 £375
25th Percentile £453 £463 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +9.09% +2.80%
75th Percentile £610 - £563
90th Percentile £676 - £575
England median daily rate £510 £500 £539
% change year-on-year +2.00% -7.19% -5.48%
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 £65.00 £60.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +7.88% -7.31% -

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 1,674 838 1,641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 76.93% 88.68% 86.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 827 431 711
10th Percentile £200 £231 £208
25th Percentile £375 £406 £339
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year -2.90% +7.53% -2.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 429 179 603
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.12 £17.04 £15.39
Median hourly rate £22.63 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.74% +25.00% +81.82%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £63.13
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £44.00 £30.45 £35.58
% change year-on-year +44.50% -14.41% -5.13%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 22 £575 -4.17% 15
Bedfordshire +1 12 £588 +67.86% 5
Cambridgeshire +8 4 - - 8
Essex -10 4 £455 - 7
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 (20.00%) CMS
1 9 (20.00%) Sitecore CMS
2 4 (8.89%) Confluence
3 1 (2.22%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.22%) Mendix
Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.22%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 13 (28.89%) AWS
2 11 (24.44%) Azure
3 7 (15.56%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (6.67%) Miro
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%) Datadog
6 1 (2.22%) GCP
6 1 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.22%) IaaS
6 1 (2.22%) PaaS
6 1 (2.22%) Serverless
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 2 (4.44%) Git
2 2 (4.44%) GitLab
3 1 (2.22%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (2.22%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.22%) Hudson
3 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.22%) JMeter
3 1 (2.22%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (2.22%) Selenium
3 1 (2.22%) Serenity BDD
3 1 (2.22%) Snyk
3 1 (2.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 12 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (22.22%) Finance
4 4 (8.89%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (8.89%) Retail
5 3 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.44%) Banking
6 2 (4.44%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.22%) Automotive
7 1 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (17.78%) Senior
2 7 (15.56%) Developer
3 6 (13.33%) Architect
3 6 (13.33%) Scrum Master
3 6 (13.33%) Technical Architect
4 5 (11.11%) Product Manager
4 5 (11.11%) Project Manager
5 4 (8.89%) Analyst
5 4 (8.89%) Business Analyst
5 4 (8.89%) Lead
5 4 (8.89%) Senior Manager
6 3 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (6.67%) Senior Product Manager
7 2 (4.44%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (4.44%) Java Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Product Owner
7 2 (4.44%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Senior Java Developer
8 1 (2.22%) Cloud Engineer
8 1 (2.22%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (22.22%) .NET
1 10 (22.22%) Node.js
1 10 (22.22%) React
2 9 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 9 (20.00%) CSS
3 8 (17.78%) ASP.NET
3 8 (17.78%) ASP.NET Core
3 8 (17.78%) HTML
3 8 (17.78%) jQuery
4 7 (15.56%) REST
5 3 (6.67%) .NET Core
5 3 (6.67%) Express.js
6 2 (4.44%) NestJS
6 2 (4.44%) RESTful
6 2 (4.44%) Spring
7 1 (2.22%) MERN Stack
7 1 (2.22%) SOAP
7 1 (2.22%) Web Services
7 1 (2.22%) WinForms
7 1 (2.22%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.78%) Product Ownership
2 7 (15.56%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (8.89%) Robotics
4 2 (4.44%) Life Science
5 1 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.22%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.22%) IoT
5 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.22%) PMI
5 1 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.22%) Android
1 1 (2.22%) Linux
1 1 (2.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (88.89%) Agile
2 19 (42.22%) DevOps
3 16 (35.56%) CI/CD
3 16 (35.56%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (28.89%) Stakeholder Management
5 12 (26.67%) Kanban
6 11 (24.44%) Sprint Planning
7 10 (22.22%) Microservices
8 9 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (17.78%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 8 (17.78%) Data Governance
9 8 (17.78%) Front End Development
9 8 (17.78%) Project Delivery
10 7 (15.56%) Translating Business Requirements
11 6 (13.33%) AI
11 6 (13.33%) Mentoring
11 6 (13.33%) Personalization
11 6 (13.33%) Software Delivery
11 6 (13.33%) Sprint Review
11 6 (13.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 10 (22.22%) C#
2 5 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 4 (8.89%) Java
3 4 (8.89%) SQL
4 2 (4.44%) Bash
4 2 (4.44%) Python
4 2 (4.44%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.22%) C++
5 1 (2.22%) Groovy
5 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (20.00%) Degree
2 6 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.44%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.33%) QA
2 3 (6.67%) GxP
3 2 (4.44%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 1 (2.22%) GAMP
System Software
1 1 (2.22%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.22%) Docker
1 1 (2.22%) Squid
Systems Management
1 2 (4.44%) Terraform
2 1 (2.22%) Ansible
2 1 (2.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (20.00%) Sitecore
2 5 (11.11%) Oracle
3 3 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.67%) Salesforce
3 3 (6.67%) SAP
4 1 (2.22%) CheckPoint
4 1 (2.22%) Databricks
4 1 (2.22%) New Relic
4 1 (2.22%) PagerDuty
4 1 (2.22%) Progress
4 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.22%) Splunk
4 1 (2.22%) Trend Micro
4 1 (2.22%) VMware