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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 63 66
Rank change year-on-year +3 +3 -25
Contract jobs citing Scrum 69 28 29
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.87% 2.10% 1.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.66% 2.33% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 23 13
10th Percentile £265 £400 £358
25th Percentile £351 £460 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.60% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £581 £644 £550
90th Percentile £638 £695 £576
England median daily rate £505 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -4.55%
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 £67.02
% change year-on-year +27.27% -17.93% +3.11%

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 1,883 1,200 1,214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.39% 89.96% 81.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 780 525 462
10th Percentile £190 £200 £213
25th Percentile £356 £379 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +12.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £552
90th Percentile £694 £686 £638
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 510 329 311
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.38 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.03 £16.06 £15.62
Median hourly rate £47.50 £22.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +111.11% -35.71% +75.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £57.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £75.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.69
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.09% -4.07%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 8 October 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 +2 34 £500 -16.67% 21
Suffolk -8 12 £353 -29.35% 9
Cambridgeshire +2 10 £588 +23.68% 30
Bedfordshire +5 7 £77 -84.38% 6
Essex -13 5 £470 +2.17% 7
Norfolk - 1 £300 - 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 8 (11.59%) Confluence
2 2 (2.90%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.45%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.45%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (4.35%) Windchill
2 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.45%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 25 (36.23%) Azure
2 19 (27.54%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (7.25%) Miro
4 3 (4.35%) SaaS
5 2 (2.90%) AWS
5 2 (2.90%) Azure AKS
5 2 (2.90%) GCP
6 1 (1.45%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.45%) GitHub
6 1 (1.45%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.45%) IaaS
6 1 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.45%) PaaS
6 1 (1.45%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 10 (14.49%) 4G
1 10 (14.49%) 5G
2 8 (11.59%) Broadband
2 8 (11.59%) IPv4
2 8 (11.59%) IPv6
2 8 (11.59%) Wi-Fi
2 8 (11.59%) xDSL
3 7 (10.14%) PPP
3 7 (10.14%) UPnP
4 6 (8.70%) Wireless
5 2 (2.90%) DNS
5 2 (2.90%) HTTP
5 2 (2.90%) SSH
5 2 (2.90%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.45%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.80%) MySQL
1 4 (5.80%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (5.80%) Redis
2 2 (2.90%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.90%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.90%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.45%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (1.45%) GIS
3 1 (1.45%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 27 (39.13%) JIRA
2 17 (24.64%) GitLab
3 15 (21.74%) Git
4 11 (15.94%) Visual Studio
5 7 (10.14%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (4.35%) Jenkins
7 2 (2.90%) Robot Framework
7 2 (2.90%) Selenium
8 1 (1.45%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.45%) eggPlant
General
1 14 (20.29%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.59%) Telecoms
3 7 (10.14%) Retail
4 6 (8.70%) Finance
5 4 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.35%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.35%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.90%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.90%) Law
8 1 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.45%) Legal
8 1 (1.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (11.59%) Test Engineer
2 7 (10.14%) Developer
2 7 (10.14%) Senior
3 6 (8.70%) Product Owner
3 6 (8.70%) Project Manager
3 6 (8.70%) Software Engineer
4 5 (7.25%) .NET Developer
4 5 (7.25%) Broadband Engineer
4 5 (7.25%) C# .NET Developer
4 5 (7.25%) C# Developer
4 5 (7.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (7.25%) Scrum Master
4 5 (7.25%) Software Testing Engineer
4 5 (7.25%) Testing Engineer
5 4 (5.80%) C# WPF Developer
5 4 (5.80%) Lead
5 4 (5.80%) Principal Engineer
5 4 (5.80%) Principal Software Engineer
5 4 (5.80%) WPF Developer
6 3 (4.35%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.94%) .NET
1 11 (15.94%) WPF
2 7 (10.14%) WinForms
3 6 (8.70%) REST
3 6 (8.70%) RESTful
4 4 (5.80%) .NET Core
4 4 (5.80%) .NET Framework
4 4 (5.80%) Entity Framework
4 4 (5.80%) Managed Extensibility Framework
4 4 (5.80%) Silverlight
4 4 (5.80%) Terraform
4 4 (5.80%) WCF
4 4 (5.80%) Web Services
5 3 (4.35%) JSP
5 3 (4.35%) XML
6 2 (2.90%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (2.90%) JWT
6 2 (2.90%) Playwright
6 2 (2.90%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (2.90%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 15 (21.74%) Product Ownership
2 7 (10.14%) Wiki
3 6 (8.70%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.35%) IoT
4 3 (4.35%) Life Science
5 2 (2.90%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.90%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.90%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.90%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.45%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.45%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.45%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.45%) Robotics
6 1 (1.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (30.43%) Linux
2 11 (15.94%) Windows
3 7 (10.14%) VMS
4 2 (2.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.90%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.45%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (88.41%) Agile
2 31 (44.93%) DevOps
3 29 (42.03%) CI/CD
4 24 (34.78%) Test Automation
5 18 (26.09%) Kanban
5 18 (26.09%) Validation
6 14 (20.29%) Computer Science
6 14 (20.29%) Software Engineering
7 13 (18.84%) Software Delivery
7 13 (18.84%) Software Testing
7 13 (18.84%) Sprint Planning
8 12 (17.39%) Continuous Integration
8 12 (17.39%) Integration Testing
9 11 (15.94%) AI
9 11 (15.94%) Containerisation
9 11 (15.94%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (15.94%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (14.49%) Backlog Prioritisation
11 8 (11.59%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 19 (27.54%) Python
2 11 (15.94%) C#
3 6 (8.70%) C++
4 4 (5.80%) Bash
4 4 (5.80%) Java
4 4 (5.80%) XAML
5 3 (4.35%) Shell Script
5 3 (4.35%) SQL
6 1 (1.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (30.43%) Degree
2 15 (21.74%) Security Cleared
3 11 (15.94%) SC Cleared
4 5 (7.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (5.80%) Master's Degree
5 4 (5.80%) PhD
6 3 (4.35%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.45%) CSPO
7 1 (1.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.45%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (26.09%) QA
2 3 (4.35%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 3 (4.35%) GxP
3 2 (2.90%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (18.84%) Docker
2 1 (1.45%) Lustre
2 1 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (5.80%) Ansible
2 3 (4.35%) HP ALM
2 3 (4.35%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.90%) Grafana
3 2 (2.90%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.90%) Puppet
4 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (11.59%) IBM
2 3 (4.35%) HP
2 3 (4.35%) PTC
2 3 (4.35%) ServiceNow
3 2 (2.90%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.90%) Oracle
3 2 (2.90%) Progress
4 1 (1.45%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.45%) ESRI
4 1 (1.45%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.45%) SAP
4 1 (1.45%) VMware