Scrum Master Contracts in England

Scrum Master
UK > England

The median Scrum Master daily rate in England is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 413 391 401
Rank change year-on-year -22 +10 -108
Contract jobs requiring a Scrum Master 72 151 266
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.30% 0.41% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.44% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 115 168
10th Percentile £358 £380 £414
25th Percentile £402 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £644
90th Percentile £642 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £450 £523 £550
% change year-on-year -13.88% -5.00% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 15
10th Percentile - - £71.00
25th Percentile £49.63 £51.25 £75.00
Median hourly rate £53.61 £52.50 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -38.24% +88.89%
75th Percentile £57.59 £53.75 £86.25
90th Percentile - - £89.00
UK median hourly rate £53.61 £60.25 £85.00
% change year-on-year -11.02% -29.12% +88.89%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Scrum Master
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Scrum Master in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Scrum Master in England

Scrum Master
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Scrum Master in England

Scrum Master
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Scrum Master in England

Scrum Master
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Scrum Master in England

Scrum Master
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 Master within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 -23 36 £475 -13.64% 11
North of England +18 11 £392 -2.00% 3
South East +32 10 £480 -16.52% 3
North West +16 10 £392 -0.88% 2
South West +50 7 £575 - 1
Midlands +21 6 £463 -22.92% 6
West Midlands +13 3 £475 -26.92% 6
East Midlands +10 3 £450 +8.96%
North East - 1 - - 2
Scrum Master
UK

Scrum Master Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Scrum Master contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Scrum Master in the job title.

1 72 (100.00%) Scrum
2 58 (80.56%) Agile
3 29 (40.28%) JIRA
4 27 (37.50%) Product Ownership
5 25 (34.72%) Sprint Planning
6 21 (29.17%) Social Skills
6 21 (29.17%) Finance
6 21 (29.17%) Coaching
6 21 (29.17%) Sprint Retrospective
7 20 (27.78%) Backlog Management
8 18 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (23.61%) Backlog Prioritisation
10 15 (20.83%) Conflict Resolution
10 15 (20.83%) Security Cleared
11 14 (19.44%) Confluence
11 14 (19.44%) Stakeholder Management
12 13 (18.06%) SC Cleared
12 13 (18.06%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 12 (16.67%) Product Backlog
14 11 (15.28%) Sprint Review
14 11 (15.28%) Kanban
15 10 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
15 10 (13.89%) Azure
16 9 (12.50%) DevOps
16 9 (12.50%) SDLC
16 9 (12.50%) SQL
16 9 (12.50%) Servant Leadership
17 8 (11.11%) Public Sector
17 8 (11.11%) Project Delivery
17 8 (11.11%) Oracle

Scrum Master Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 14 (19.44%) Confluence
2 5 (6.94%) JBoss
2 5 (6.94%) Tomcat
2 5 (6.94%) WebLogic
2 5 (6.94%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.39%) CMS
3 1 (1.39%) Drupal
3 1 (1.39%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (13.89%) Azure
2 7 (9.72%) AWS
3 6 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (4.17%) Miro
5 2 (2.78%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (2.78%) GCP
5 2 (2.78%) Oracle CX
6 1 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.39%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.17%) Broadband
2 1 (1.39%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.94%) DB2
2 1 (1.39%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 29 (40.28%) JIRA
2 6 (8.33%) Git
3 5 (6.94%) Bitbucket
General
1 21 (29.17%) Finance
1 21 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 6 (8.33%) Banking
4 4 (5.56%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.78%) Automotive
5 2 (2.78%) Investment Banking
5 2 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.39%) German Language
6 1 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.39%) Law
6 1 (1.39%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.39%) Marketing
6 1 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.94%) RAML
1 5 (6.94%) REST
1 5 (6.94%) SOAP
1 5 (6.94%) Web Services
1 5 (6.94%) WSDL
2 4 (5.56%) EJB
2 4 (5.56%) J2EE
2 4 (5.56%) JSP
2 4 (5.56%) Servlets
2 4 (5.56%) Spring
2 4 (5.56%) Spring Boot
3 3 (4.17%) ADO
4 1 (1.39%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 27 (37.50%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.94%) Private Cloud
3 2 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.78%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.39%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.39%) FMCG
4 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.39%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.39%) PropTech
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (100.00%) Scrum
2 58 (80.56%) Agile
3 25 (34.72%) Sprint Planning
4 21 (29.17%) Coaching
4 21 (29.17%) Sprint Retrospective
5 20 (27.78%) Backlog Management
6 18 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 17 (23.61%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 15 (20.83%) Conflict Resolution
9 14 (19.44%) Stakeholder Management
10 13 (18.06%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 12 (16.67%) Product Backlog
12 11 (15.28%) Kanban
12 11 (15.28%) Sprint Review
13 10 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
14 9 (12.50%) DevOps
14 9 (12.50%) SDLC
14 9 (12.50%) Servant Leadership
15 8 (11.11%) Budget Control
15 8 (11.11%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (12.50%) SQL
2 7 (9.72%) Java
3 4 (5.56%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.78%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 13 (18.06%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.17%) Degree
4 1 (1.39%) CSPO
4 1 (1.39%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.56%) QA
2 1 (1.39%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.39%) GRC
2 1 (1.39%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 8 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 8 (11.11%) Oracle
2 4 (5.56%) Databricks
3 3 (4.17%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.39%) Genesys
4 1 (1.39%) Google
4 1 (1.39%) HubSpot
4 1 (1.39%) Salesforce