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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 69 78
Rank change year-on-year +17 +9 -37
Contract jobs citing Scrum 74 22 22
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 3.06% 1.68% 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.90% 1.88% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 18 10
10th Percentile £264 £358 £407
25th Percentile £351 £460 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £484 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.48% -9.95% -2.27%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £569
90th Percentile £638 £683 £583
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 4
10th Percentile £60.85 - -
25th Percentile £64.06 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile £78.25 - -
90th Percentile £79.00 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% -21.43% +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 1,898 1,170 1,234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.46% 89.52% 81.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 846 505 450
10th Percentile £190 £200 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £552
90th Percentile £697 £686 £638
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 481 315 361
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.38 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.12 £16.28 £15.62
Median hourly rate £48.84 £22.63 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +115.82% -46.75% +114.54%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.39%

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 24 September 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 24 September 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 24 September 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 +7 39 £500 -4.76% 24
Cambridgeshire +1 10 £588 +45.06% 30
Suffolk -8 10 £353 -29.35% 9
Bedfordshire +9 8 £307 -37.68% 4
Essex -12 5 £470 +2.17% 7
Norfolk - 2 £375 - 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 (12.16%) Confluence
2 2 (2.70%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.35%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.35%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (4.05%) Windchill
2 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.35%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 26 (35.14%) Azure
2 20 (27.03%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (8.11%) Miro
4 3 (4.05%) AWS
4 3 (4.05%) SaaS
5 2 (2.70%) Azure AKS
5 2 (2.70%) GCP
6 1 (1.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.35%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.35%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (1.35%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.35%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (1.35%) Datadog
6 1 (1.35%) GitHub
6 1 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.35%) Serverless
6 1 (1.35%) Smartsheet
6 1 (1.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.81%) 4G
1 8 (10.81%) 5G
2 6 (8.11%) Broadband
2 6 (8.11%) IPv4
2 6 (8.11%) IPv6
2 6 (8.11%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (8.11%) xDSL
3 5 (6.76%) PPP
3 5 (6.76%) UPnP
4 4 (5.41%) Wireless
5 3 (4.05%) DNS
6 2 (2.70%) HTTP
6 2 (2.70%) SSH
6 2 (2.70%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.35%) Firewall
7 1 (1.35%) Network Security
7 1 (1.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.41%) MySQL
1 4 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (5.41%) Redis
2 2 (2.70%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.70%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.70%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.35%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (1.35%) GIS
3 1 (1.35%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 27 (36.49%) JIRA
2 15 (20.27%) GitLab
3 14 (18.92%) Git
4 11 (14.86%) Visual Studio
5 7 (9.46%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (4.05%) Jenkins
7 2 (2.70%) Robot Framework
7 2 (2.70%) Selenium
8 1 (1.35%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.35%) eggPlant
General
1 15 (20.27%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.16%) Retail
3 7 (9.46%) Finance
4 6 (8.11%) Telecoms
5 4 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.05%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.05%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.70%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.70%) Law
8 1 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.35%) Legal
8 1 (1.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (12.16%) Senior
2 8 (10.81%) Project Manager
3 7 (9.46%) Developer
3 7 (9.46%) Scrum Master
3 7 (9.46%) Test Engineer
4 6 (8.11%) Software Engineer
5 5 (6.76%) .NET Developer
5 5 (6.76%) C# .NET Developer
5 5 (6.76%) C# Developer
5 5 (6.76%) Lead
5 5 (6.76%) Product Manager
5 5 (6.76%) Product Owner
5 5 (6.76%) Software Testing Engineer
5 5 (6.76%) Testing Engineer
6 4 (5.41%) C# WPF Developer
6 4 (5.41%) Principal Engineer
6 4 (5.41%) Principal Software Engineer
6 4 (5.41%) WPF Developer
7 3 (4.05%) Project Coordinator
7 3 (4.05%) Software Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.86%) .NET
1 11 (14.86%) WPF
2 7 (9.46%) WinForms
3 6 (8.11%) REST
3 6 (8.11%) RESTful
4 4 (5.41%) .NET Core
4 4 (5.41%) .NET Framework
4 4 (5.41%) Entity Framework
4 4 (5.41%) Managed Extensibility Framework
4 4 (5.41%) Silverlight
4 4 (5.41%) Terraform
4 4 (5.41%) WCF
4 4 (5.41%) Web Services
5 3 (4.05%) JSP
5 3 (4.05%) Playwright
5 3 (4.05%) XML
6 2 (2.70%) CSS
6 2 (2.70%) Django
6 2 (2.70%) HTML
6 2 (2.70%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 15 (20.27%) Product Ownership
2 6 (8.11%) Onboarding
3 5 (6.76%) Wiki
4 3 (4.05%) Life Science
4 3 (4.05%) Robotics
5 2 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.70%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.70%) IoT
5 2 (2.70%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.70%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.35%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.35%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.35%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.35%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (25.68%) Linux
2 11 (14.86%) Windows
3 5 (6.76%) VMS
4 2 (2.70%) Android
4 2 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (87.84%) Agile
2 32 (43.24%) DevOps
3 30 (40.54%) CI/CD
4 23 (31.08%) Test Automation
5 20 (27.03%) Kanban
6 18 (24.32%) Validation
7 16 (21.62%) Sprint Planning
8 14 (18.92%) Computer Science
8 14 (18.92%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (18.92%) Software Delivery
8 14 (18.92%) Software Engineering
9 13 (17.57%) AI
9 13 (17.57%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (17.57%) Software Testing
10 12 (16.22%) Backlog Prioritisation
10 12 (16.22%) Integration Testing
10 12 (16.22%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (13.51%) Continuous Integration
12 9 (12.16%) Containerisation
12 9 (12.16%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 17 (22.97%) Python
2 11 (14.86%) C#
3 6 (8.11%) C++
4 5 (6.76%) Bash
5 4 (5.41%) Java
5 4 (5.41%) XAML
6 3 (4.05%) Shell Script
6 3 (4.05%) SQL
7 2 (2.70%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.35%) Groovy
8 1 (1.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (28.38%) Degree
2 15 (20.27%) Security Cleared
3 11 (14.86%) SC Cleared
4 5 (6.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (5.41%) Master's Degree
5 4 (5.41%) PhD
6 3 (4.05%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.35%) CSPO
7 1 (1.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.35%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (22.97%) QA
2 3 (4.05%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 3 (4.05%) GxP
3 2 (2.70%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (14.86%) Docker
2 1 (1.35%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.35%) Lustre
2 1 (1.35%) Squid
2 1 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (5.41%) Ansible
2 3 (4.05%) HP ALM
2 3 (4.05%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.70%) Grafana
3 2 (2.70%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.70%) Puppet
4 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (10.81%) IBM
2 4 (5.41%) ServiceNow
3 3 (4.05%) HP
3 3 (4.05%) Oracle
3 3 (4.05%) PTC
4 2 (2.70%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.70%) Progress
5 1 (1.35%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.35%) ESRI
5 1 (1.35%) PagerDuty
5 1 (1.35%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.35%) SAP
5 1 (1.35%) Trend Micro
5 1 (1.35%) VMware