Scrum Master Contracts in England

Scrum Master
UK > England

The median Scrum Master daily rate in England is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2024.

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

6 months to
19 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 423 419 290
Rank change year-on-year -4 -129 +68
Contract jobs requiring a Scrum Master 127 226 671
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.34% 0.48% 0.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.51% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 150 475
10th Percentile £373 £400 £413
25th Percentile £419 £450 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £603
90th Percentile £650 £688 £672
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 10
10th Percentile - £68.00 £31.50
25th Percentile - £72.50 £38.68
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £51.88
Median % change year-on-year - +54.22% -26.87%
75th Percentile - £87.50 £85.00
90th Percentile - £91.60 £85.75
UK median hourly rate £68.00 £80.00 £41.36
% change year-on-year -15.00% +93.45% -40.92%

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 34,808 44,443 66,953
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.49% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,757 31,614 47,944
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,654 1,321 1,753
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.80
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.90
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

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 19 June 2024.

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 19 June 2024. 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 +30 72 £550 -6.38% 5
South East +5 19 £500 -1.96% 2
North of England +16 13 £400 -29.52% 4
North West +20 10 £391 -32.00% 2
Midlands 0 7 £560 +24.44% 1
South West +2 4 £470 -4.57% 3
West Midlands +1 4 £605 +34.44% 1
Yorkshire +8 3 £475 -15.18% 2
East Midlands +7 3 £413 -17.40%
East of England -11 3 £444 -15.48% 1
Scrum Master
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 June 2024, 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.

1 127 (100.00%) Scrum
2 100 (78.74%) Agile
3 37 (29.13%) Social Skills
4 34 (26.77%) Finance
5 33 (25.98%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 31 (24.41%) Kanban
7 29 (22.83%) Coaching
8 28 (22.05%) Sprint Planning
9 27 (21.26%) DevOps
9 27 (21.26%) Banking
10 26 (20.47%) Product Ownership
11 25 (19.69%) Sprint Retrospective
12 24 (18.90%) Sprint Review
13 23 (18.11%) Project Management
13 23 (18.11%) JIRA
14 22 (17.32%) Problem-Solving
15 21 (16.54%) Azure
15 21 (16.54%) Continuous Improvement
16 19 (14.96%) Project Delivery
17 18 (14.17%) Stakeholder Management
18 17 (13.39%) Decision-Making
18 17 (13.39%) Mentoring
19 16 (12.60%) SDLC
19 16 (12.60%) Agile Coaching
20 15 (11.81%) Security Cleared
20 15 (11.81%) SC Cleared
21 14 (11.02%) Azure DevOps
22 13 (10.24%) User Stories
22 13 (10.24%) Java
23 12 (9.45%) PRINCE2

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 9 (7.09%) Confluence
2 1 (0.79%) Apache
2 1 (0.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.36%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (2.36%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.57%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.79%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 21 (16.54%) Azure
2 14 (11.02%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (4.72%) AWS
4 2 (1.57%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.79%) Azure Functions
5 1 (0.79%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (0.79%) IaaS
5 1 (0.79%) Miro
5 1 (0.79%) Serverless
5 1 (0.79%) Slack
5 1 (0.79%) Smartsheet
5 1 (0.79%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.79%) DSL
1 1 (0.79%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.57%) Power BI
1 2 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (0.79%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (0.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (18.11%) JIRA
2 1 (0.79%) Jenkins
General
1 37 (29.13%) Social Skills
2 34 (26.77%) Finance
3 27 (21.26%) Banking
4 9 (7.09%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.51%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.51%) Front Office
6 6 (4.72%) Retail
7 5 (3.94%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.36%) Billing
8 3 (2.36%) Games
8 3 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.36%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.36%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.57%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.57%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.79%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.79%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.79%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.57%) ADO
2 1 (0.79%) HTML
2 1 (0.79%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 26 (20.47%) Product Ownership
2 6 (4.72%) Mobile Banking
3 3 (2.36%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.57%) Credit Risk
5 1 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.79%) Derivative
5 1 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.79%) Equities
5 1 (0.79%) Fixed Income
5 1 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.79%) IoT
5 1 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.79%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.79%) Android
1 1 (0.79%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (100.00%) Scrum
2 100 (78.74%) Agile
3 33 (25.98%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 31 (24.41%) Kanban
5 29 (22.83%) Coaching
6 28 (22.05%) Sprint Planning
7 27 (21.26%) DevOps
8 25 (19.69%) Sprint Retrospective
9 24 (18.90%) Sprint Review
10 23 (18.11%) Project Management
11 22 (17.32%) Problem-Solving
12 21 (16.54%) Continuous Improvement
13 19 (14.96%) Project Delivery
14 18 (14.17%) Stakeholder Management
15 17 (13.39%) Decision-Making
15 17 (13.39%) Mentoring
16 16 (12.60%) Agile Coaching
16 16 (12.60%) SDLC
17 13 (10.24%) User Stories
18 12 (9.45%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 13 (10.24%) Java
2 10 (7.87%) Python
3 8 (6.30%) SQL
4 5 (3.94%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.79%) C#
Qualifications
1 15 (11.81%) SC Cleared
1 15 (11.81%) Security Cleared
2 12 (9.45%) PMI Certification
2 12 (9.45%) PMP
3 11 (8.66%) Degree
4 3 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.79%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.57%) PMO
1 2 (1.57%) QA
2 1 (0.79%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.79%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.79%) GAAP
System Software
1 1 (0.79%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.79%) Docker
1 1 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 10 (7.87%) Salesforce
2 7 (5.51%) ServiceNow
3 4 (3.15%) Splunk
4 2 (1.57%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.57%) Automation Anywhere
4 2 (1.57%) Blue Prism
4 2 (1.57%) UiPath
5 1 (0.79%) Planview
5 1 (0.79%) SAP