Scrum Contracts in the East Midlands

Scrum
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for Scrum skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Scrum over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 50 21
Rank change year-on-year +5 -29 +18
Contract jobs citing Scrum 18 35 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.33% 3.42% 6.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.98% 3.88% 8.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 27 77
10th Percentile £270 £338 £328
25th Percentile £364 £366 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £485
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% -12.37% +10.86%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £522
90th Percentile £553 £618 £630
England median daily rate £533 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -7.39% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.25
Median hourly rate - - £26.25
75th Percentile - - £33.00
90th Percentile - - £35.70
England median hourly rate £63.75 £65.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -1.92% +44.44% -20.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

Scrum is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 604 901 1,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 78.34% 88.07% 83.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 691 834
10th Percentile £200 £205 £208
25th Percentile £269 £330 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £450 £440
Median % change year-on-year -8.78% +2.27% +12.82%
75th Percentile £563 £575 £520
90th Percentile £625 £700 £609
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 62 79
10th Percentile £11.33 £11.89 £9.71
25th Percentile £12.75 £16.25 £13.62
Median hourly rate £17.00 £20.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - +36.89%
75th Percentile £26.15 £38.25 £29.07
90th Percentile £38.75 £64.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Scrum in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Scrum in the East Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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
Northamptonshire +11 9 £386 -44.86% 5
Leicestershire +1 5 £525 +25.00% 9
Derbyshire -5 2 £506 +19.12% 5
Nottinghamshire +4 1 - - 9
Scrum
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) AWS
1 2 (11.11%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (5.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) JMeter
2 1 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) JUnit
General
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Banking
2 3 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Analyst
1 5 (27.78%) Business Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) Performance Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Performance Test Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Scrum Master
2 3 (16.67%) Test Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Product Owner
3 2 (11.11%) Project Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) Agile Delivery Lead
4 1 (5.56%) Agile Scrum Master
4 1 (5.56%) Banking Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Coordinator
4 1 (5.56%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Lead
4 1 (5.56%) ScrumMaster Project Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
1 1 (5.56%) Kafka
1 1 (5.56%) React
1 1 (5.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.56%) Driving Licence
2 1 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.56%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (88.89%) Agile
2 6 (33.33%) Project Management
3 5 (27.78%) Kanban
4 4 (22.22%) Business Analysis
4 4 (22.22%) DevOps
4 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (22.22%) Waterfall
5 3 (16.67%) Data Design
5 3 (16.67%) Performance Testing
5 3 (16.67%) Software Testing
5 3 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 3 (16.67%) Test Scripting
5 3 (16.67%) User Stories
6 2 (11.11%) Backlog Management
6 2 (11.11%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
6 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (11.11%) PRINCE2
6 2 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
7 1 (5.56%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) ISEB
1 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (16.67%) ISTQB
3 1 (5.56%) APMP
3 1 (5.56%) CBAP
3 1 (5.56%) Degree
3 1 (5.56%) IIBA
3 1 (5.56%) PMI Certification
3 1 (5.56%) PMP
3 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Grafana
1 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) Denodo
1 1 (5.56%) Talend