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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 74 72
Rank change year-on-year +16 -2 -31
Contract jobs citing Scrum 64 18 25
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.77% 1.39% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.54% 1.56% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 16 9
10th Percentile £270 £428 £385
25th Percentile £422 £460 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £497 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.83% -5.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £589 £591 £550
90th Percentile £638 £688 £577
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 6
10th Percentile £60.81 - £56.25
25th Percentile £61.14 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile £76.20 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +27.27% -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 1,809 1,157 1,238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.38% 89.48% 81.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 849 502 446
10th Percentile £190 £200 £213
25th Percentile £389 £376 £307
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £442
Median % change year-on-year - +13.12% -11.60%
75th Percentile £594 £575 £550
90th Percentile £675 £675 £638
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.95% -2.87% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 428 302 398
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.80 £14.52
25th Percentile £16.25 £16.42 £15.62
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% +92.43%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £69.13
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +12 39 £500 -9.09% 15
Cambridgeshire +2 8 £588 +6.82% 7
Essex -13 7 £460 - 1
Suffolk -6 5 £425 -15.00% 9
Bedfordshire +8 3 £538 +9.03% 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 (14.06%) Confluence
2 2 (3.13%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.56%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.56%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Windchill
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.56%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 19 (29.69%) Azure
2 13 (20.31%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (9.38%) Miro
4 4 (6.25%) AWS
4 4 (6.25%) SaaS
5 2 (3.13%) Azure AKS
5 2 (3.13%) GCP
5 2 (3.13%) GitHub
6 1 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.56%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (1.56%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.56%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (1.56%) Datadog
6 1 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.56%) IaaS
6 1 (1.56%) Serverless
6 1 (1.56%) Smartsheet
6 1 (1.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.69%) 4G
1 3 (4.69%) 5G
1 3 (4.69%) DNS
2 2 (3.13%) HTTP
2 2 (3.13%) SSH
2 2 (3.13%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.56%) Broadband
3 1 (1.56%) Firewall
3 1 (1.56%) IPv4
3 1 (1.56%) IPv6
3 1 (1.56%) Network Security
3 1 (1.56%) PPP
3 1 (1.56%) SSL
3 1 (1.56%) UPnP
3 1 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.56%) Wireless
3 1 (1.56%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.25%) MySQL
1 4 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (6.25%) Redis
2 2 (3.13%) MongoDB
2 2 (3.13%) NoSQL
2 2 (3.13%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.56%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (1.56%) GIS
3 1 (1.56%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 23 (35.94%) JIRA
2 10 (15.63%) GitLab
3 7 (10.94%) Git
4 4 (6.25%) Jenkins
4 4 (6.25%) Visual Studio
5 3 (4.69%) Selenium
6 2 (3.13%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (1.56%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.56%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (1.56%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.56%) eggPlant
7 1 (1.56%) Hudson
7 1 (1.56%) JMeter
7 1 (1.56%) Serenity BDD
General
1 15 (23.44%) Social Skills
2 9 (14.06%) Finance
2 9 (14.06%) Retail
3 5 (7.81%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.25%) Manufacturing
4 4 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (4.69%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.13%) Aerospace
6 2 (3.13%) Law
6 2 (3.13%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (14.06%) Project Manager
2 8 (12.50%) Senior
3 7 (10.94%) Scrum Master
4 6 (9.38%) Lead
5 5 (7.81%) Developer
5 5 (7.81%) Product Manager
5 5 (7.81%) Software Testing Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Testing Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Product Owner
6 4 (6.25%) Test Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Coordinator
7 3 (4.69%) Project Coordinator
7 3 (4.69%) Python Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Software Test Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) .NET Developer
8 2 (3.13%) Architect
8 2 (3.13%) C# Developer
8 2 (3.13%) Development Project Manager
8 2 (3.13%) Software Development Manager
8 2 (3.13%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.38%) REST
2 4 (6.25%) .NET
2 4 (6.25%) RESTful
2 4 (6.25%) Terraform
2 4 (6.25%) WPF
3 3 (4.69%) Playwright
3 3 (4.69%) Web Services
4 2 (3.13%) .NET Core
4 2 (3.13%) .NET Framework
4 2 (3.13%) Django
4 2 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (3.13%) Entity Framework
4 2 (3.13%) FastAPI
4 2 (3.13%) JWT
4 2 (3.13%) OAuth
4 2 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (3.13%) Silverlight
4 2 (3.13%) Vue
4 2 (3.13%) WCF
4 2 (3.13%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 15 (23.44%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.25%) Life Science
3 3 (4.69%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (4.69%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (4.69%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.69%) Robotics
4 2 (3.13%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.13%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.13%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.56%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.56%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.56%) IoT
5 1 (1.56%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.56%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.56%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.56%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 14 (21.88%) Linux
2 4 (6.25%) Windows
3 2 (3.13%) Android
3 2 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.13%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (87.50%) Agile
2 23 (35.94%) CI/CD
2 23 (35.94%) DevOps
3 17 (26.56%) Sprint Planning
4 16 (25.00%) Kanban
5 15 (23.44%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (23.44%) Test Automation
6 13 (20.31%) AI
6 13 (20.31%) Software Delivery
6 13 (20.31%) Validation
7 12 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (17.19%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 11 (17.19%) Computer Science
8 11 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (17.19%) Sprint Review
9 9 (14.06%) Software Testing
9 9 (14.06%) Sprint Retrospective
10 8 (12.50%) Data Analysis
10 8 (12.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 8 (12.50%) Test Assurance
Programming Languages
1 12 (18.75%) Python
2 5 (7.81%) Bash
3 4 (6.25%) C#
3 4 (6.25%) Java
3 4 (6.25%) SQL
4 3 (4.69%) Shell Script
5 2 (3.13%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.13%) XAML
6 1 (1.56%) C++
6 1 (1.56%) Groovy
6 1 (1.56%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (28.13%) Degree
2 14 (21.88%) Security Cleared
3 10 (15.63%) SC Cleared
4 5 (7.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.69%) ISTQB
6 2 (3.13%) Master's Degree
6 2 (3.13%) PhD
7 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.56%) CSPO
7 1 (1.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.56%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (20.31%) QA
2 4 (6.25%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 4 (6.25%) GxP
3 2 (3.13%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (9.38%) Docker
2 1 (1.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.56%) Lustre
2 1 (1.56%) Squid
2 1 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (6.25%) Ansible
2 3 (4.69%) HP ALM
2 3 (4.69%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.13%) Grafana
3 2 (3.13%) Prometheus
3 2 (3.13%) Puppet
4 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (12.50%) IBM
2 4 (6.25%) Oracle
3 3 (4.69%) HP
3 3 (4.69%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.69%) Progress
3 3 (4.69%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.13%) PTC
4 2 (3.13%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.56%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.56%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.56%) ESRI
5 1 (1.56%) PagerDuty
5 1 (1.56%) SAP
5 1 (1.56%) Trend Micro
5 1 (1.56%) VMware