Scrum Contract Job Trends in England

Scrum
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Scrum skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 49 41
Rank change year-on-year -12 -8 +3
Contract jobs citing Scrum 1,694 1,267 1,432
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.70% 4.59% 4.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.36% 5.05% 5.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,100 889 989
10th Percentile £389 £350 £360
25th Percentile £439 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -5.66% -3.85%
75th Percentile £598 £638 £622
90th Percentile £681 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £502 £500 £523
% change year-on-year +0.40% -4.31% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 40 30
10th Percentile £52.50 £46.08 £32.29
25th Percentile £61.06 £50.00 £53.03
Median hourly rate £69.75 £55.00 £66.01
Median % change year-on-year +26.82% -16.68% +1.55%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.52 £70.00
90th Percentile £84.80 £75.25 £73.83
UK median hourly rate £69.75 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +26.82% -15.38% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 38,860 25,068 28,450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.96% 90.79% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,105 15,945 18,530
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £627 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,559 1,442 1,597
10th Percentile £14.28 £14.20 £14.15
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.87 £18.16
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +5.94%
75th Percentile £68.55 £50.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +67.00% -38.57% +0.86%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Scrum job vacancy trend in England

Scrum
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Scrum.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Scrum

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in England over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in England

Scrum
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Scrum.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Scrum

Scrum
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Scrum in England over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Scrum in England

Scrum
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the England region over the 6 months to 18 August 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
London -19 807 £550 - 184
Midlands -4 266 £473 +5.00% 64
North of England -35 242 £500 +11.11% 110
West Midlands +14 237 £475 -5.00% 54
South East -23 216 £525 +1.55% 112
North West -53 93 £550 +30.18% 51
North East +12 86 £450 -17.24% 33
South West -8 81 £490 +8.89% 53
Yorkshire -49 66 £500 +2.56% 28
East of England +21 59 £475 +1.60% 30
East Midlands -35 28 £425 +17.24% 9
Scrum
UK

Scrum
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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
1 252 (14.88%) Confluence
2 50 (2.95%) Apache Spark
3 49 (2.89%) SAS
4 33 (1.95%) SharePoint
5 28 (1.65%) CMS
6 22 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
7 19 (1.12%) Apache
8 13 (0.77%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 6 (0.35%) JBoss
9 6 (0.35%) OpenStack
10 5 (0.30%) WebSphere
11 4 (0.24%) Anypoint
11 4 (0.24%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.18%) Camunda
12 3 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
12 3 (0.18%) Mule
13 2 (0.12%) IIS
14 1 (0.059%) Microsoft Exchange
14 1 (0.059%) NetWeaver
14 1 (0.059%) Tomcat
Applications
1 42 (2.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (1.95%) Microsoft Project
3 24 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
5 16 (0.94%) Trello
6 14 (0.83%) MS Visio
7 6 (0.35%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.12%) Notion
9 2 (0.12%) Windchill
10 1 (0.059%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 17 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.77%) Aladdin
3 12 (0.71%) Adobe Campaign
4 9 (0.53%) Temenos T24
5 8 (0.47%) Magento
6 7 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
6 7 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
7 6 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
7 6 (0.35%) Workday HCM
8 5 (0.30%) Fidessa
9 4 (0.24%) HFM
9 4 (0.24%) SAP BPC
10 3 (0.18%) Actimize
10 3 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
10 3 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 2 (0.12%) SAP ERP
11 2 (0.12%) SAP Retail
11 2 (0.12%) Shopify
11 2 (0.12%) Teamcenter
11 2 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 499 (29.46%) Azure
2 396 (23.38%) AWS
3 215 (12.69%) Azure DevOps
4 154 (9.09%) GCP
5 117 (6.91%) Power Platform
6 110 (6.49%) GitHub
7 93 (5.49%) Serverless
8 73 (4.31%) GitHub Actions
9 68 (4.01%) Amazon S3
10 55 (3.25%) AWS Lambda
11 52 (3.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 50 (2.95%) OpenShift
13 48 (2.83%) Dynamics 365
14 43 (2.54%) Amazon EC2
15 42 (2.48%) Power Automate
15 42 (2.48%) PowerApps
16 41 (2.42%) Snowflake
17 39 (2.30%) Amazon ECS
17 39 (2.30%) Amazon EKS
17 39 (2.30%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 27 (1.59%) Firewall
2 26 (1.53%) Network Security
3 13 (0.77%) HTTP
4 6 (0.35%) DNS
4 6 (0.35%) NGFW
5 5 (0.30%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.24%) HTTPS
6 4 (0.24%) MPLS
6 4 (0.24%) MQTT
6 4 (0.24%) VPN
7 3 (0.18%) Broadband
7 3 (0.18%) Internet
7 3 (0.18%) Intranet
7 3 (0.18%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.18%) SSL
7 3 (0.18%) WAN
8 2 (0.12%) CTI
8 2 (0.12%) FTP
8 2 (0.12%) IPv4
8 2 (0.12%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (5.02%) Power BI
2 79 (4.66%) PostgreSQL
3 61 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
4 59 (3.48%) NoSQL
5 49 (2.89%) Relational Database
6 42 (2.48%) MongoDB
7 41 (2.42%) SQL Server
8 40 (2.36%) Big Data
8 40 (2.36%) Pentaho
9 32 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
10 30 (1.77%) Data Lake
11 25 (1.48%) DynamoDB
12 21 (1.24%) Metadata
13 20 (1.18%) MySQL
14 19 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
15 17 (1.00%) Amazon Aurora
15 17 (1.00%) Hadoop
15 17 (1.00%) Redis
16 15 (0.89%) BigQuery
17 14 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 422 (24.91%) JIRA
2 234 (13.81%) Git
3 183 (10.80%) Jenkins
4 135 (7.97%) GitLab
5 68 (4.01%) SonarQube
6 52 (3.07%) JUnit
7 48 (2.83%) Selenium
8 46 (2.72%) Postman
9 42 (2.48%) Bitbucket
10 33 (1.95%) Maven
11 30 (1.77%) Cucumber
12 28 (1.65%) Mockito
13 23 (1.36%) REST Assured
14 21 (1.24%) Visual Studio
15 18 (1.06%) Gradle
16 15 (0.89%) Cypress.io
16 15 (0.89%) Gatling
17 14 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 13 (0.77%) JMeter
18 13 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 639 (37.72%) Social Skills
2 447 (26.39%) Finance
3 261 (15.41%) Public Sector
4 241 (14.23%) Analytical Skills
5 171 (10.09%) Banking
6 84 (4.96%) Retail
7 78 (4.60%) Marketing
8 61 (3.60%) Organisational Skills
9 54 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
10 48 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 35 (2.07%) Front Office
12 32 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
13 30 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
14 27 (1.59%) Telecoms
15 26 (1.53%) Investment Banking
16 24 (1.42%) Aerospace
17 21 (1.24%) Manufacturing
18 20 (1.18%) Law
19 16 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
20 15 (0.89%) Billing
Job Titles
1 311 (18.36%) Developer
2 204 (12.04%) Senior
3 200 (11.81%) Analyst
4 170 (10.04%) Scrum Master
5 168 (9.92%) Lead
6 151 (8.91%) Project Manager
7 136 (8.03%) Business Analyst
8 109 (6.43%) Data Engineer
9 101 (5.96%) Delivery Manager
10 98 (5.79%) Architect
11 84 (4.96%) Java Developer
12 55 (3.25%) Senior Developer
13 53 (3.13%) Product Manager
14 50 (2.95%) Product Owner
15 49 (2.89%) Senior Manager
16 43 (2.54%) Software Engineer
17 40 (2.36%) Technical Analyst
18 39 (2.30%) Solutions Architect
19 32 (1.89%) Agile Delivery Manager
20 29 (1.71%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 203 (11.98%) REST
2 124 (7.32%) RESTful
3 104 (6.14%) Spring
4 101 (5.96%) AngularJS
5 95 (5.61%) .NET
6 91 (5.37%) Spring Boot
7 83 (4.90%) React
8 75 (4.43%) SOAP
9 65 (3.84%) Kafka
10 61 (3.60%) JSON
11 58 (3.42%) HTML
12 56 (3.31%) CSS
13 44 (2.60%) Node.js
14 43 (2.54%) Web Services
15 42 (2.48%) .NET Framework
16 41 (2.42%) Playwright
17 38 (2.24%) Middleware
17 38 (2.24%) OAuth
18 37 (2.18%) Quarkus
18 37 (2.18%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 422 (24.91%) Product Ownership
2 142 (8.38%) Cloud Native
3 51 (3.01%) Distributed Systems
4 46 (2.72%) Onboarding
5 39 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
6 35 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
7 32 (1.89%) Mobile App
8 31 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
9 29 (1.71%) Management Information System
9 29 (1.71%) Security Posture
10 28 (1.65%) Virtual Team
11 27 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
11 27 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
12 26 (1.53%) Data Structures
13 23 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
14 21 (1.24%) NHS
15 19 (1.12%) CMDB
15 19 (1.12%) Credit Risk
16 17 (1.00%) Fixed Income
16 17 (1.00%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 80 (4.72%) Linux
2 33 (1.95%) Windows
3 21 (1.24%) Unix
4 19 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (0.77%) Android
6 11 (0.65%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.30%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.12%) VMS
9 1 (0.059%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.059%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.059%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,575 (92.98%) Agile
2 601 (35.48%) DevOps
3 534 (31.52%) CI/CD
4 486 (28.69%) Stakeholder Management
5 406 (23.97%) Kanban
6 399 (23.55%) Continuous Improvement
7 346 (20.43%) Problem-Solving
8 342 (20.19%) Sprint Planning
9 326 (19.24%) Test Automation
10 250 (14.76%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 247 (14.58%) User Stories
12 222 (13.11%) AI
13 219 (12.93%) SDLC
14 212 (12.51%) Microservices
15 209 (12.34%) Analytics
16 204 (12.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 200 (11.81%) Roadmaps
18 191 (11.28%) Software Engineering
19 182 (10.74%) Project Management
20 168 (9.92%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 317 (18.71%) SQL
2 287 (16.94%) Java
3 216 (12.75%) Python
4 145 (8.56%) JavaScript
5 100 (5.90%) C#
6 59 (3.48%) TypeScript
7 43 (2.54%) PowerShell
8 40 (2.36%) Bash
9 30 (1.77%) Apex Code
10 25 (1.48%) Scala
11 17 (1.00%) Bicep
11 17 (1.00%) PL/SQL
12 15 (0.89%) C++
13 14 (0.83%) Kotlin
13 14 (0.83%) Shell Script
14 12 (0.71%) X++
15 8 (0.47%) SOQL
15 8 (0.47%) Swift
16 7 (0.41%) R
17 6 (0.35%) Go
Qualifications
1 503 (29.69%) Security Cleared
2 410 (24.20%) SC Cleared
3 200 (11.81%) Degree
4 84 (4.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 77 (4.55%) DV Cleared
6 72 (4.25%) PMI Certification
6 72 (4.25%) PMP
7 51 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 48 (2.83%) AWS Certification
9 37 (2.18%) Azure Certification
10 31 (1.83%) CISSP
11 28 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
12 19 (1.12%) CSPO
13 17 (1.00%) SAFe Agilist
14 15 (0.89%) ISTQB
15 13 (0.77%) Master's Degree
16 10 (0.59%) IIBA
16 10 (0.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 9 (0.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 8 (0.47%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 264 (15.58%) QA
2 89 (5.25%) Data Quality
3 79 (4.66%) Accessibility
4 57 (3.36%) PMO
5 33 (1.95%) WCAG
6 30 (1.77%) GDPR
7 24 (1.42%) GRC
8 21 (1.24%) NIST
9 11 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 10 (0.59%) GxP
10 10 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 9 (0.53%) SLA
12 8 (0.47%) 21 CFR Part 11
13 5 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (0.30%) FATCA
13 5 (0.30%) IFRS
13 5 (0.30%) NCSC
14 4 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 4 (0.24%) PCI DSS
14 4 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 219 (12.93%) Docker
2 14 (0.83%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.47%) Postfix
4 6 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.18%) HDFS
5 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.059%) Lustre
7 1 (0.059%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.059%) Sendmail
7 1 (0.059%) Squid
7 1 (0.059%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 237 (13.99%) Kubernetes
2 133 (7.85%) Terraform
3 49 (2.89%) Ansible
3 49 (2.89%) Grafana
4 42 (2.48%) Argo
5 26 (1.53%) Prometheus
6 22 (1.30%) Progress Chef
7 14 (0.83%) Puppet
8 7 (0.41%) Kibana
9 4 (0.24%) Kustomize
9 4 (0.24%) Podman
9 4 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.18%) CASB
10 3 (0.18%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.18%) Rancher
11 2 (0.12%) Consul
11 2 (0.12%) Control-M
11 2 (0.12%) RSA Archer
11 2 (0.12%) SCCM
Vendors
1 190 (11.22%) Microsoft
2 106 (6.26%) Oracle
3 86 (5.08%) ServiceNow
4 82 (4.84%) Salesforce
5 57 (3.36%) Google
6 52 (3.07%) Red Hat
7 44 (2.60%) SAP
8 41 (2.42%) Talend
9 40 (2.36%) Atlassian
10 37 (2.18%) Databricks
11 32 (1.89%) IBM
12 27 (1.59%) Denodo
13 26 (1.53%) Informatica
14 25 (1.48%) Splunk
15 21 (1.24%) MuleSoft
16 19 (1.12%) Adobe
16 19 (1.12%) Dynatrace
17 12 (0.71%) Jaspersoft
18 11 (0.65%) Pega
18 11 (0.65%) Workday