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 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 27 18
Rank change year-on-year -18 -9 -2
Contract jobs citing Scrum 23 56 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.50% 6.41% 9.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.68% 7.55% 10.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 36 85
10th Percentile £396 £413 £425
25th Percentile £428 £420 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £467 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% -4.26% -0.91%
75th Percentile £496 £494 £538
90th Percentile £538 £550 £594
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £70.00 £68.00 £47.73
% change year-on-year +2.94% +42.47% +18.69%

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 625 742 1,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.13% 84.99% 93.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 326 418 784
10th Percentile £224 £213 £230
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £454 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -4.47% -0.84%
75th Percentile £534 £550 £538
90th Percentile £600 £650 £600
Scotland median daily rate £463 £453 £475
% change year-on-year +2.21% -4.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 33 6
10th Percentile £17.00 £13.22 £17.21
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £21.36
Median hourly rate £19.37 £19.17 £32.09
Median % change year-on-year +1.02% -40.25% +42.92%
75th Percentile £28.38 £60.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £62.00 - £58.13
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £21.64 £15.25
% change year-on-year -7.58% +41.95% -57.90%

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 7 July 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 (4.35%) Confluence
1 1 (4.35%) JBoss
1 1 (4.35%) OpenROAD
1 1 (4.35%) TPMS
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) AWS
1 8 (34.78%) Azure
2 6 (26.09%) Amazon S3
2 6 (26.09%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (21.74%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (21.74%) Serverless
4 4 (17.39%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (8.70%) IaaS
5 2 (8.70%) PaaS
5 2 (8.70%) SaaS
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (4.35%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (4.35%) OCI
6 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
6 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.35%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (13.04%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (8.70%) MongoDB
3 2 (8.70%) Oracle Database
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (4.35%) DynamoDB
4 1 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (4.35%) InfluxDB
4 1 (4.35%) Metadata
4 1 (4.35%) Power BI
4 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.35%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Cypress.io
1 4 (17.39%) Git
2 2 (8.70%) JIRA
2 2 (8.70%) Postman
2 2 (8.70%) Selenium
3 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.35%) GitLab
3 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.35%) JUnit
3 1 (4.35%) MSTest
3 1 (4.35%) NUnit
3 1 (4.35%) Ranorex
3 1 (4.35%) Rational Rhapsody
3 1 (4.35%) SpecFlow
General
1 9 (39.13%) Public Sector
2 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Finance
4 3 (13.04%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Developer
2 3 (13.04%) Scrum Master
3 2 (8.70%) Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Java Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Lead
3 2 (8.70%) Project Manager
3 2 (8.70%) Software Developer
3 2 (8.70%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Agile Delivery Lead
4 1 (4.35%) Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Delivery Project Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (4.35%) IT Manager
4 1 (4.35%) Java Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Project Leader
4 1 (4.35%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Software Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) AWS CDK
1 5 (21.74%) React
1 5 (21.74%) REST
1 5 (21.74%) Spring Boot
2 4 (17.39%) Spring
3 3 (13.04%) .NET
3 3 (13.04%) Next.js
3 3 (13.04%) Node.js
4 2 (8.70%) YAML
5 1 (4.35%) .NET Framework
5 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
5 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET
5 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (4.35%) Gherkin
5 1 (4.35%) Java SE
5 1 (4.35%) JSON
5 1 (4.35%) SOAP
5 1 (4.35%) WebSockets
5 1 (4.35%) WireMock
5 1 (4.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (8.70%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (8.70%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.35%) Derivative
3 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Data ONTAP
2 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Unix
2 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (82.61%) Agile
2 7 (30.43%) DevOps
2 7 (30.43%) Kanban
3 5 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (21.74%) Human-Centred Design
3 5 (21.74%) Inclusive Design
3 5 (21.74%) Microservices
3 5 (21.74%) Pair Programming
3 5 (21.74%) Roadmaps
4 4 (17.39%) Architecture Roadmap
4 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (17.39%) Project Management
4 4 (17.39%) TDD
5 3 (13.04%) CI/CD
5 3 (13.04%) Project Delivery
5 3 (13.04%) Software Delivery
5 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (13.04%) User Stories
6 2 (8.70%) Integration Testing
6 2 (8.70%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) Java
2 7 (30.43%) JavaScript
3 5 (21.74%) TypeScript
4 4 (17.39%) SQL
5 3 (13.04%) C#
5 3 (13.04%) Python
5 3 (13.04%) Shell Script
6 2 (8.70%) Bash
6 2 (8.70%) Perl
7 1 (4.35%) C
7 1 (4.35%) C++
7 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (8.70%) Accessibility
2 2 (8.70%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.70%) QA
3 1 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (4.35%) MISRA
3 1 (4.35%) MISRA C
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.35%) Docker
1 1 (4.35%) KVM
1 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Ansible
1 1 (4.35%) Grafana
1 1 (4.35%) HAProxy
1 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.35%) Nagios
1 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.04%) Oracle
3 1 (4.35%) Commvault
3 1 (4.35%) Fiserv
3 1 (4.35%) IBM
3 1 (4.35%) NetApp
3 1 (4.35%) Palo Alto
3 1 (4.35%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow