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 24 June 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
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 404 431 417
Rank change year-on-year +27 -14 -130
Contract jobs requiring a Scrum Master 88 120 220
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.35% 0.32% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.35% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 89 148
10th Percentile £357 £387 £400
25th Percentile £395 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £581 £588 £638
90th Percentile £650 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £441 £488 £550
% change year-on-year -9.54% -11.36% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 9
10th Percentile - - £68.00
25th Percentile £49.63 - £72.50
Median hourly rate £53.61 - £80.00
75th Percentile £57.59 - £87.50
90th Percentile - - £91.60
UK median hourly rate £53.61 £68.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year -21.16% -15.00% +85.28%

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 23,106 34,702 44,471
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.22% 92.89% 94.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,171 22,647 31,568
10th Percentile £293 £291 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,050 2,652 1,333
10th Percentile £13.99 £12.86 £14.27
25th Percentile £18.11 £16.58 £19.51
Median hourly rate £28.75 £39.55 £43.63
Median % change year-on-year -27.31% -9.35% +78.37%
75th Percentile £58.66 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.44 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.36 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -27.03% -12.79% +72.00%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +40 50 £550 - 25
North of England +27 15 £387 -3.25% 7
North West +11 13 £387 -1.02% 1
Midlands +11 10 £363 -34.68% 2
South East +35 7 £494 -1.20% 8
East Midlands +9 7 £363 -12.23%
South West +37 3 £575 +22.34% 2
West Midlands +3 3 £394 -29.69% 2
East of England +21 1 £260 -41.41% 1
Yorkshire -1 1 - - 6
North East - 1 - -
Scrum Master
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 June 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 88 (100.00%) Scrum
2 75 (85.23%) Agile
3 42 (47.73%) Product Ownership
4 41 (46.59%) Sprint Planning
5 36 (40.91%) Sprint Retrospective
6 29 (32.95%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 29 (32.95%) Social Skills
7 28 (31.82%) Backlog Management
8 27 (30.68%) Finance
9 26 (29.55%) Continuous Improvement
10 24 (27.27%) Coaching
10 24 (27.27%) JIRA
11 21 (23.86%) Conflict Resolution
12 19 (21.59%) Sprint Review
13 18 (20.45%) Security Cleared
14 16 (18.18%) Product Backlog
14 16 (18.18%) Servant Leadership
15 13 (14.77%) SDLC
15 13 (14.77%) Stakeholder Management
16 12 (13.64%) Project Management
16 12 (13.64%) Backlog Refinement
16 12 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
17 11 (12.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
17 11 (12.50%) Java
17 11 (12.50%) SQL
17 11 (12.50%) Banking
17 11 (12.50%) Confluence
17 11 (12.50%) Budget Control
17 11 (12.50%) Kanban
18 10 (11.36%) Azure

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 11 (12.50%) Confluence
2 6 (6.82%) JBoss
2 6 (6.82%) Tomcat
2 6 (6.82%) WebLogic
2 6 (6.82%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.27%) WordPress
4 1 (1.14%) CMS
4 1 (1.14%) Drupal
4 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Trello
2 1 (1.14%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (11.36%) AWS
1 10 (11.36%) Azure
2 5 (5.68%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (2.27%) GCP
3 2 (2.27%) Oracle CX
4 1 (1.14%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.14%) GitHub
4 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (1.14%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.41%) Broadband
2 1 (1.14%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.82%) DB2
2 1 (1.14%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.14%) Data Mart
2 1 (1.14%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 24 (27.27%) JIRA
2 7 (7.95%) Bitbucket
2 7 (7.95%) Git
3 1 (1.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 29 (32.95%) Social Skills
2 27 (30.68%) Finance
3 11 (12.50%) Banking
4 4 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.41%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.41%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.27%) Automotive
6 2 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.27%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.27%) Retail
7 1 (1.14%) Front Office
7 1 (1.14%) German Language
7 1 (1.14%) Marketing
7 1 (1.14%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.82%) RAML
1 6 (6.82%) REST
1 6 (6.82%) SOAP
1 6 (6.82%) Web Services
1 6 (6.82%) WSDL
2 4 (4.55%) EJB
2 4 (4.55%) J2EE
2 4 (4.55%) JSP
2 4 (4.55%) Servlets
2 4 (4.55%) Spring
2 4 (4.55%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.14%) OLE
3 1 (1.14%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 42 (47.73%) Product Ownership
2 8 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (6.82%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.27%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.14%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.14%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.14%) PMI
5 1 (1.14%) PropTech
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (100.00%) Scrum
2 75 (85.23%) Agile
3 41 (46.59%) Sprint Planning
4 36 (40.91%) Sprint Retrospective
5 29 (32.95%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 28 (31.82%) Backlog Management
7 26 (29.55%) Continuous Improvement
8 24 (27.27%) Coaching
9 21 (23.86%) Conflict Resolution
10 19 (21.59%) Sprint Review
11 16 (18.18%) Product Backlog
11 16 (18.18%) Servant Leadership
12 13 (14.77%) SDLC
12 13 (14.77%) Stakeholder Management
13 12 (13.64%) Backlog Refinement
13 12 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (13.64%) Project Management
14 11 (12.50%) Budget Control
14 11 (12.50%) Kanban
14 11 (12.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 11 (12.50%) Java
1 11 (12.50%) SQL
2 5 (5.68%) JavaScript
3 2 (2.27%) C#
4 1 (1.14%) PHP
Qualifications
1 18 (20.45%) Security Cleared
2 10 (11.36%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.09%) DV Cleared
4 4 (4.55%) Degree
5 2 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.14%) CSPO
6 1 (1.14%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.14%) MBA
6 1 (1.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.55%) QA
2 1 (1.14%) Automotive SPICE
2 1 (1.14%) ISO 26262
2 1 (1.14%) ITGC
System Software
1 2 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 9 (10.23%) Microsoft
1 9 (10.23%) Oracle
2 4 (4.55%) Databricks
3 2 (2.27%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.14%) Genesys
4 1 (1.14%) Google
4 1 (1.14%) HubSpot
4 1 (1.14%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.14%) SAP