Scrum Contract Job Trends in East Sussex

Scrum
South East > East Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East Sussex requiring Scrum skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 20 18
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 -5
Contract jobs citing Scrum 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in East Sussex 2.74% 1.23% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.08% 1.27% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £453 - -
25th Percentile £457 £355 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £360 -
Median % change year-on-year +29.86% - -
75th Percentile £482 £365 -
90th Percentile £488 - -
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Sussex

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 East Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 65 79 66
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex 89.04% 97.53% 91.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 55 45
10th Percentile £160 £300 £278
25th Percentile £450 £403 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +10.53% -20.83%
75th Percentile £628 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £650 £786
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £501
% change year-on-year -0.05% -0.15% +0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 9
10th Percentile £12.52 - £11.00
25th Percentile £12.60 - £15.38
Median hourly rate £15.50 - £25.25
Median % change year-on-year - - -54.09%
75th Percentile £17.75 - £26.88
90th Percentile - - £51.50
South East median hourly rate £25.00 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -44.44% -5.26% +5.56%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in East Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Scrum relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex.

Scrum job vacancy trend in East Sussex

Scrum
Daily Rate Trend in East Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Scrum.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Scrum

Scrum
Hourly Rate Trend in East Sussex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Scrum.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Scrum

Scrum
Contract Job Locations in East Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 17 February 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
Brighton - 1 £450 - 5
Hove - 1 £485 -
Scrum
South East

Scrum
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East Sussex 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 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Product Owner
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Express.js
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) MERN Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Product Backlog
2 1 (50.00%) Product Vision
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Story Mapping
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CSPO
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker