Scrum Contracts in Edinburgh

Scrum
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 34 30 17
Rank change year-on-year -4 -13 -3
Contract jobs citing Scrum 34 43 138
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 5.44% 5.28% 10.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.72% 5.97% 11.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 31 109
10th Percentile £413 £400 £415
25th Percentile £438 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.54% -8.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £487 £538
90th Percentile £551 £530 £594
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.32 - -
Median hourly rate £27.35 - -
75th Percentile £28.38 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £26.93 £68.00 £66.37
% change year-on-year -60.40% +2.46% +44.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Scrum as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in Edinburgh

Scrum
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scrum in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Scrum in Edinburgh

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in Edinburgh

Scrum
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scrum in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Scrum in Edinburgh

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 1 (2.94%) JBoss
1 1 (2.94%) OpenROAD
1 1 (2.94%) SharePoint
1 1 (2.94%) TPMS
Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (8.82%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 16 (47.06%) AWS
2 13 (38.24%) Amazon S3
2 13 (38.24%) Serverless
3 12 (35.29%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (32.35%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (26.47%) Azure
6 8 (23.53%) OpenShift
7 7 (20.59%) AWS CodePipeline
8 5 (14.71%) PaaS
8 5 (14.71%) SaaS
9 4 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (11.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 4 (11.76%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (8.82%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (8.82%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 3 (8.82%) AWS Fargate
10 3 (8.82%) IaaS
11 2 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (5.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) Firewall
2 1 (2.94%) DNS
2 1 (2.94%) HTTP
2 1 (2.94%) SSL
2 1 (2.94%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (29.41%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (20.59%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (8.82%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (5.88%) InfluxDB
5 2 (5.88%) MongoDB
5 2 (5.88%) OLAP
5 2 (5.88%) Oracle Database
5 2 (5.88%) Power BI
5 2 (5.88%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (2.94%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.94%) GIS
6 1 (2.94%) Metadata
6 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.94%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (17.65%) Git
2 4 (11.76%) Cypress.io
2 4 (11.76%) GitLab
2 4 (11.76%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.88%) Artifactory
4 1 (2.94%) JUnit
4 1 (2.94%) MSTest
4 1 (2.94%) NUnit
4 1 (2.94%) Postman
4 1 (2.94%) Ranorex
4 1 (2.94%) Selenium
General
1 17 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 11 (32.35%) Social Skills
3 7 (20.59%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (11.76%) Finance
5 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Banking
5 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (29.41%) Developer
2 6 (17.65%) Data Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) Analyst
4 4 (11.76%) Business Analyst
5 3 (8.82%) Architect
5 3 (8.82%) AWS Developer
5 3 (8.82%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Java Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Lead
6 2 (5.88%) Scrum Master
6 2 (5.88%) Software Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.94%) Delivery Project Manager
7 1 (2.94%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
7 1 (2.94%) Power BI Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Project Leader
7 1 (2.94%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (35.29%) AWS CDK
2 8 (23.53%) REST
3 6 (17.65%) React
4 5 (14.71%) Spring Boot
5 4 (11.76%) Spring
6 3 (8.82%) Next.js
6 3 (8.82%) Node.js
6 3 (8.82%) PostGIS
7 2 (5.88%) .NET
8 1 (2.94%) .NET Framework
8 1 (2.94%) ASP.NET
8 1 (2.94%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (2.94%) Java SE
8 1 (2.94%) JSON
8 1 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (2.94%) SOAP
8 1 (2.94%) TypeORM
8 1 (2.94%) WebSockets
8 1 (2.94%) XML
8 1 (2.94%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.94%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.94%) Derivative
3 1 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.76%) Linux
2 3 (8.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (5.88%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.94%) Data ONTAP
4 1 (2.94%) Unix
4 1 (2.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (79.41%) Agile
2 15 (44.12%) Kanban
3 11 (32.35%) CI/CD
4 10 (29.41%) DevOps
5 9 (26.47%) Human-Centred Design
5 9 (26.47%) Inclusive Design
6 8 (23.53%) TDD
7 7 (20.59%) Migration
7 7 (20.59%) Test Automation
8 6 (17.65%) Roadmaps
8 6 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (17.65%) User Stories
9 5 (14.71%) Coaching
9 5 (14.71%) Data Transformation
9 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (14.71%) Microservices
9 5 (14.71%) Pair Programming
9 5 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (14.71%) Software Delivery
9 5 (14.71%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 10 (29.41%) Python
2 8 (23.53%) Java
2 8 (23.53%) JavaScript
3 7 (20.59%) SQL
4 6 (17.65%) Bash
5 5 (14.71%) TypeScript
6 3 (8.82%) Groovy
6 3 (8.82%) Shell Script
7 2 (5.88%) C#
7 2 (5.88%) Perl
8 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) Degree
2 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.94%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (2.94%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (20.59%) Disclosure Scotland
2 5 (14.71%) Accessibility
3 2 (5.88%) QA
4 1 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.94%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (14.71%) Docker
2 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.94%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.94%) KVM
2 1 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (17.65%) Grafana
2 5 (14.71%) Ansible
3 4 (11.76%) Kubernetes
4 2 (5.88%) Kibana
5 1 (2.94%) HAProxy
5 1 (2.94%) Nagios
5 1 (2.94%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (20.59%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.82%) Oracle
3 1 (2.94%) Commvault
3 1 (2.94%) Fiserv
3 1 (2.94%) Imperva
3 1 (2.94%) NetApp
3 1 (2.94%) Palo Alto
3 1 (2.94%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.94%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.94%) VMware