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 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 60 53
Rank change year-on-year -5 -7 -23
Contract jobs citing Scrum 34 22 60
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.14% 2.02% 3.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.53% 2.38% 4.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 11 18
10th Percentile £401 £350 £347
25th Percentile £458 £363 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £475 £563
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% -15.56% -4.01%
75th Percentile £644 £524 £613
90th Percentile £675 £588 £629
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 21
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £65.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% -

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 1,345 925 1,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 84.48% 85.02% 86.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 588 409 767
10th Percentile £195 £242 £236
25th Percentile £350 £338 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £580 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £694 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 425 170 367
10th Percentile £14.00 - £14.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.62 £14.50
Median hourly rate £20.09 £37.50 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.43% +53.06% +1.91%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -17.65% +21.43%

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 16 January 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 16 January 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 -6 14 £600 +29.73% 23
Cambridgeshire -6 11 £570 +14.00% 15
Essex +3 5 £460 - 11
Bedfordshire -4 3 £449 +28.29% 14
Suffolk +4 1 £450 +20.00% 16
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 1 (2.94%) Mendix
Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.94%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 15 (44.12%) Azure
2 9 (26.47%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (20.59%) GitHub
4 5 (14.71%) Azure AKS
4 5 (14.71%) Azure Functions
4 5 (14.71%) GitHub Copilot
4 5 (14.71%) Serverless
5 4 (11.76%) PaaS
6 1 (2.94%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) Firewall
1 2 (5.88%) Intrusion Detection
1 2 (5.88%) Network Security
1 2 (5.88%) TCP/IP
1 2 (5.88%) VLAN
1 2 (5.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
1 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.94%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) JIRA
2 2 (5.88%) JMeter
2 2 (5.88%) Postman
2 2 (5.88%) Selenium
3 1 (2.94%) Git
3 1 (2.94%) GitLab
3 1 (2.94%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (2.94%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.76%) Finance
4 3 (8.82%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (5.88%) Banking
5 2 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Automotive
6 1 (2.94%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (23.53%) Lead
2 7 (20.59%) Senior
3 5 (14.71%) Developer
4 4 (11.76%) Analyst
4 4 (11.76%) Business Analyst
4 4 (11.76%) Senior Developer
5 3 (8.82%) Scrum Master
6 2 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Data Scientist
6 2 (5.88%) IT Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) IT Security Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Project Manager
6 2 (5.88%) Security Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Software Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Software Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Technical Leader
7 1 (2.94%) Migration Manager
7 1 (2.94%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (29.41%) .NET
2 6 (17.65%) PyTorch
2 6 (17.65%) TensorFlow
3 5 (14.71%) RESTful
3 5 (14.71%) Semantic Kernel
4 2 (5.88%) Pandas
4 2 (5.88%) scikit-learn
5 1 (2.94%) ADO
5 1 (2.94%) CSS
5 1 (2.94%) Express.js
5 1 (2.94%) Kafka
5 1 (2.94%) MERN Stack
5 1 (2.94%) Node.js
5 1 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.94%) React
5 1 (2.94%) REST
5 1 (2.94%) SOAP
5 1 (2.94%) Spring
5 1 (2.94%) WinForms
5 1 (2.94%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (29.41%) Cloud Native
2 6 (17.65%) Algorithms
2 6 (17.65%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.88%) CCTV
3 2 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (5.88%) PMI
4 1 (2.94%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.94%) FMCG
4 1 (2.94%) Life Science
4 1 (2.94%) LIMS
4 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.88%) Linux
1 2 (5.88%) VMS
2 1 (2.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (91.18%) Agile
2 18 (52.94%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (38.24%) Continuous Improvement
4 11 (32.35%) AI
4 11 (32.35%) DevOps
4 11 (32.35%) LLM
4 11 (32.35%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 10 (29.41%) Prompt Engineering
5 10 (29.41%) Test Automation
6 8 (23.53%) Machine Learning
6 8 (23.53%) Validation
7 7 (20.59%) CI/CD
7 7 (20.59%) Containerisation
7 7 (20.59%) Data Science
7 7 (20.59%) Software Engineering
7 7 (20.59%) Sprint Planning
8 6 (17.65%) Data Privacy
8 6 (17.65%) Deep Learning
8 6 (17.65%) Sprint Retrospective
8 6 (17.65%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 9 (26.47%) Python
2 3 (8.82%) C#
2 3 (8.82%) Java
3 2 (5.88%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.94%) C++
4 1 (2.94%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (17.65%) Degree
1 6 (17.65%) MCP
2 3 (8.82%) SC Cleared
2 3 (8.82%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.88%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.94%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (26.47%) EU AI Act
2 8 (23.53%) NIST
3 4 (11.76%) QA
4 1 (2.94%) GAMP
4 1 (2.94%) GxP
System Software
1 5 (14.71%) Docker
2 2 (5.88%) Hyper-V
2 2 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (32.35%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.71%) Foundry
3 3 (8.82%) Progress
3 3 (8.82%) SAP
4 2 (5.88%) Databricks
4 2 (5.88%) VMware
5 1 (2.94%) Avature
5 1 (2.94%) Oracle