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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 23 19
Rank change year-on-year -25 -4 -2
Contract jobs citing Scrum 22 55 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.43% 6.35% 9.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.59% 7.55% 10.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 35 84
10th Percentile £400 £413 £425
25th Percentile £444 £420 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £470 £484
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -2.84% -2.27%
75th Percentile £497 £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 613 728 1,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.63% 84.06% 93.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 418 777
10th Percentile £218 £213 £243
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.43% -2.11% -2.06%
75th Percentile £535 £550 £538
90th Percentile £600 £650 £613
Scotland median daily rate £463 £453 £475
% change year-on-year +2.10% -4.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 31 6
10th Percentile £17.23 £13.25 £17.21
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.38 £21.36
Median hourly rate £22.00 £24.18 £32.09
Median % change year-on-year -9.02% -24.64% +23.40%
75th Percentile £29.86 £60.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £60.50 - £58.13
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £20.57 £16.25
% change year-on-year -2.77% +26.62% -56.60%

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 24 June 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 (4.55%) Confluence
1 1 (4.55%) JBoss
1 1 (4.55%) OpenROAD
1 1 (4.55%) TPMS
Cloud Services
1 8 (36.36%) AWS
1 8 (36.36%) Azure
2 6 (27.27%) Amazon S3
2 6 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (22.73%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (22.73%) Serverless
4 4 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (9.09%) IaaS
5 2 (9.09%) PaaS
5 2 (9.09%) SaaS
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (4.55%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (4.55%) OCI
6 1 (4.55%) OpenShift
6 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.55%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (13.64%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (9.09%) MongoDB
3 2 (9.09%) Oracle Database
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (4.55%) DynamoDB
4 1 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (4.55%) InfluxDB
4 1 (4.55%) Metadata
4 1 (4.55%) Power BI
4 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.55%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Cypress.io
1 4 (18.18%) Git
2 2 (9.09%) Postman
2 2 (9.09%) Selenium
3 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.55%) GitLab
3 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.55%) JIRA
3 1 (4.55%) JUnit
3 1 (4.55%) MSTest
3 1 (4.55%) NUnit
3 1 (4.55%) Ranorex
3 1 (4.55%) Rational Rhapsody
3 1 (4.55%) SpecFlow
General
1 9 (40.91%) Public Sector
2 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Finance
4 3 (13.64%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Developer
2 3 (13.64%) Scrum Master
3 2 (9.09%) Architect
3 2 (9.09%) Java Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Lead
3 2 (9.09%) Software Developer
3 2 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.55%) .NET Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Agile Delivery Lead
4 1 (4.55%) Analyst
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Delivery Project Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Java Developer
4 1 (4.55%) Project Leader
4 1 (4.55%) Project Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Software Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) AWS CDK
1 5 (22.73%) React
1 5 (22.73%) REST
1 5 (22.73%) Spring Boot
2 4 (18.18%) Spring
3 3 (13.64%) .NET
3 3 (13.64%) Next.js
3 3 (13.64%) Node.js
4 2 (9.09%) YAML
5 1 (4.55%) .NET Framework
5 1 (4.55%) AngularJS
5 1 (4.55%) ASP.NET
5 1 (4.55%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (4.55%) Gherkin
5 1 (4.55%) Java SE
5 1 (4.55%) JSON
5 1 (4.55%) SOAP
5 1 (4.55%) TypeORM
5 1 (4.55%) WebSockets
5 1 (4.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.55%) Derivative
3 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Data ONTAP
2 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Unix
2 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (81.82%) Agile
2 7 (31.82%) DevOps
2 7 (31.82%) Kanban
3 5 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (22.73%) Human-Centred Design
3 5 (22.73%) Inclusive Design
3 5 (22.73%) Microservices
3 5 (22.73%) Pair Programming
3 5 (22.73%) Roadmaps
4 4 (18.18%) Architecture Roadmap
4 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (18.18%) TDD
5 3 (13.64%) CI/CD
5 3 (13.64%) Project Delivery
5 3 (13.64%) Project Management
5 3 (13.64%) Software Delivery
5 3 (13.64%) User Stories
6 2 (9.09%) Data Protection
6 2 (9.09%) Test Automation
6 2 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) Java
2 7 (31.82%) JavaScript
3 5 (22.73%) TypeScript
4 4 (18.18%) SQL
5 3 (13.64%) C#
5 3 (13.64%) Python
5 3 (13.64%) Shell Script
6 2 (9.09%) Bash
6 2 (9.09%) Perl
7 1 (4.55%) C
7 1 (4.55%) C++
7 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 2 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 2 (9.09%) QA
3 1 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (4.55%) MISRA
3 1 (4.55%) MISRA C
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
1 1 (4.55%) KVM
1 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Ansible
1 1 (4.55%) Grafana
1 1 (4.55%) HAProxy
1 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.55%) Nagios
1 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) Oracle
3 1 (4.55%) Commvault
3 1 (4.55%) Fiserv
3 1 (4.55%) IBM
3 1 (4.55%) NetApp
3 1 (4.55%) Palo Alto
3 1 (4.55%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow