Scrum Contracts in the East of England

Scrum
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Scrum skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Scrum over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 79 36
Rank change year-on-year +12 -43 -3
Contract jobs citing Scrum 15 33 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.60% 1.73% 4.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 2.01% 5.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 54
10th Percentile £418 £373 £427
25th Percentile £474 £396 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +3.77% +2.91%
75th Percentile - £569 £625
90th Percentile £610 £580 £648
England median daily rate £500 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -6.98% -6.52% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 21
10th Percentile - £53.25 -
25th Percentile - £60.00 -
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - - £65.75
90th Percentile - - £85.00
England median hourly rate £60.25 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -7.31% - +46.07%

All Process and 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 837 1,644 1,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.23% 86.12% 87.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 703 1,064
10th Percentile £225 £207 £200
25th Percentile £400 £339 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 607 340
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £14.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Scrum as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in the East of England

Scrum
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scrum in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Scrum in the East of England

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in the East of England

Scrum
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scrum in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 2025. 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 +16 8 £600 +45.45% 28
Cambridgeshire +9 3 £608 +10.45% 43
Essex - 3 - - 24
Bedfordshire -2 1 £350 -11.39% 11
Scrum
England

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (26.67%) Confluence
1 4 (26.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Chatbot
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (6.67%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) Azure
1 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
1 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Network Security
1 1 (6.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
1 1 (6.67%) Power BI
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) JIRA
2 3 (20.00%) TestRail
3 1 (6.67%) GitLab
3 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.67%) Selenium
3 1 (6.67%) WebDriver
General
1 10 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Telecoms
4 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Architect
1 4 (26.67%) Functional Architect
1 4 (26.67%) Oracle Architect
1 4 (26.67%) QA Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Senior
2 2 (13.33%) Senior QA Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Python Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Java Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Product Owner
3 1 (6.67%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
3 1 (6.67%) Python Developer
3 1 (6.67%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) SAP Manager
3 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) .NET
1 2 (13.33%) CSS
1 2 (13.33%) Node.js
1 2 (13.33%) React
2 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET
2 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (6.67%) HTML
2 1 (6.67%) RESTful
2 1 (6.67%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Agile
2 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (33.33%) Release Management
2 5 (33.33%) Requirements Workshops
2 5 (33.33%) User Stories
3 4 (26.67%) SDLC
3 4 (26.67%) SOA
4 3 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 3 (20.00%) Manual Testing
4 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (20.00%) Test Strategy
5 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
5 2 (13.33%) DevOps
5 2 (13.33%) Integration Testing
5 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
5 2 (13.33%) Workshop Facilitation
6 1 (6.67%) Kanban
6 1 (6.67%) Test Management
6 1 (6.67%) Test Scripting
6 1 (6.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) SQL
2 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.67%) C#
3 1 (6.67%) Java
3 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (6.67%) CISSP
2 1 (6.67%) CSPO
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) ISTQB
2 1 (6.67%) PMI Certification
2 1 (6.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) HP ALM
1 1 (6.67%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
1 4 (26.67%) Oracle
2 3 (20.00%) SAP
3 1 (6.67%) Ariba
3 1 (6.67%) HP
3 1 (6.67%) Micro Focus
3 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow