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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 77 85
Rank change year-on-year +27 +8 -45
Contract jobs citing Scrum 63 15 28
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.80% 1.36% 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.57% 1.53% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 11 10
10th Percentile £300 £425 £356
25th Percentile £460 £481 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 - £575
90th Percentile £688 - £587
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 10
10th Percentile £63.13 - £52.50
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile £75.00 - £63.75
90th Percentile £77.00 - £65.00
England median hourly rate £70.00 £56.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +23.35% -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 1,767 983 1,626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.67% 89.04% 84.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 891 490 652
10th Percentile £188 £212 £201
25th Percentile £368 £363 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +13.70% -12.05%
75th Percentile £589 £575 £573
90th Percentile £675 £650 £650
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 405 202 608
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.99 £14.17
25th Percentile £16.94 £16.95 £15.62
Median hourly rate £34.87 £31.64 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.21% -20.90% +90.48%
75th Percentile £67.50 £65.94 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £82.50 £70.38
England median hourly rate £46.62 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +85.35% -34.02% +1.65%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 +1 33 £575 -4.17% 11
Bedfordshire - 13 £600 - 1
Cambridgeshire +10 8 £588 +6.82% 9
Essex -14 5 £460 - 2
Suffolk -3 2 £625 +25.00% 2
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 9 (14.29%) CMS
1 9 (14.29%) Sitecore CMS
2 8 (12.70%) Confluence
3 1 (1.59%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.59%) MS Visio
1 1 (1.59%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 20 (31.75%) Azure
2 13 (20.63%) AWS
3 12 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (7.94%) Miro
4 5 (7.94%) SaaS
5 2 (3.17%) Azure AKS
5 2 (3.17%) GCP
5 2 (3.17%) GitHub
5 2 (3.17%) IaaS
5 2 (3.17%) PaaS
6 1 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.59%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.59%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (1.59%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.59%) Datadog
6 1 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.59%) DNS
1 1 (1.59%) Firewall
1 1 (1.59%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 6 (9.52%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.17%) MySQL
4 2 (3.17%) Redis
4 2 (3.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (23.81%) JIRA
2 6 (9.52%) GitLab
3 5 (7.94%) Visual Studio
4 3 (4.76%) Git
4 3 (4.76%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (1.59%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (1.59%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.59%) Hudson
5 1 (1.59%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.59%) JMeter
5 1 (1.59%) Selenium
5 1 (1.59%) Serenity BDD
5 1 (1.59%) Snyk
General
1 23 (36.51%) Social Skills
2 12 (19.05%) Finance
3 9 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (12.70%) Retail
5 4 (6.35%) Manufacturing
5 4 (6.35%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (4.76%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.59%) Law
8 1 (1.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (15.87%) Project Manager
2 9 (14.29%) Senior
3 7 (11.11%) Architect
3 7 (11.11%) Developer
3 7 (11.11%) Lead
4 6 (9.52%) Product Manager
4 6 (9.52%) Scrum Master
4 6 (9.52%) Technical Architect
5 4 (6.35%) Product Owner
5 4 (6.35%) Senior Manager
6 3 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (4.76%) Senior Product Manager
6 3 (4.76%) Software Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) Test Engineer
7 2 (3.17%) .NET Software Engineer
7 2 (3.17%) C# Software Engineer
7 2 (3.17%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (3.17%) Software Development Manager
7 2 (3.17%) Software Development Project Manager
7 2 (3.17%) Software Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (22.22%) .NET
2 11 (17.46%) React
3 9 (14.29%) AngularJS
3 9 (14.29%) Node.js
4 8 (12.70%) ASP.NET
4 8 (12.70%) ASP.NET Core
4 8 (12.70%) CSS
4 8 (12.70%) HTML
4 8 (12.70%) jQuery
4 8 (12.70%) REST
5 5 (7.94%) .NET Core
5 5 (7.94%) WPF
6 4 (6.35%) RESTful
7 3 (4.76%) Web Services
7 3 (4.76%) WinForms
8 2 (3.17%) .NET Framework
8 2 (3.17%) Django
8 2 (3.17%) OAuth
8 2 (3.17%) Silverlight
8 2 (3.17%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 14 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 7 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (6.35%) Life Science
3 4 (6.35%) Robotics
4 3 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.17%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (3.17%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.17%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.17%) Security Posture
5 2 (3.17%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.59%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.59%) IoT
6 1 (1.59%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.59%) PMI
6 1 (1.59%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.29%) Linux
2 5 (7.94%) Windows
3 2 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.17%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.59%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (85.71%) Agile
2 26 (41.27%) DevOps
3 24 (38.10%) CI/CD
4 18 (28.57%) Kanban
5 16 (25.40%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (25.40%) Sprint Planning
5 16 (25.40%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (22.22%) AI
6 14 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (17.46%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 11 (17.46%) Microservices
7 11 (17.46%) Software Delivery
7 11 (17.46%) Test Automation
8 10 (15.87%) Front End Development
8 10 (15.87%) Sprint Review
9 9 (14.29%) Data Governance
10 8 (12.70%) Project Delivery
10 8 (12.70%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 8 (12.70%) Sprint Retrospective
10 8 (12.70%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 14 (22.22%) C#
2 5 (7.94%) Python
3 4 (6.35%) SQL
4 3 (4.76%) Bash
4 3 (4.76%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.17%) C++
5 2 (3.17%) Java
5 2 (3.17%) TypeScript
5 2 (3.17%) XAML
6 1 (1.59%) Groovy
6 1 (1.59%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (19.05%) Degree
2 8 (12.70%) Security Cleared
3 4 (6.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (6.35%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.76%) PMI Certification
5 2 (3.17%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (3.17%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.17%) PhD
5 2 (3.17%) PMP
6 1 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.59%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.29%) QA
2 4 (6.35%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 4 (6.35%) GxP
System Software
1 2 (3.17%) Docker
2 1 (1.59%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.59%) Lustre
2 1 (1.59%) Squid
2 1 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (7.94%) Terraform
2 4 (6.35%) Ansible
3 2 (3.17%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (14.29%) Sitecore
2 6 (9.52%) Oracle
3 4 (6.35%) IBM
4 3 (4.76%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.76%) Progress
4 3 (4.76%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.17%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.17%) VMware
6 1 (1.59%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.59%) Databricks
6 1 (1.59%) New Relic
6 1 (1.59%) PagerDuty
6 1 (1.59%) Splunk
6 1 (1.59%) Trend Micro