Scrum Contract Job Trends in Essex

Scrum
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring Scrum skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 15 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Contract jobs citing Scrum 4 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 2.20% 4.11% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.03% 4.41% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £451 - -
25th Percentile £453 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 - -
75th Percentile £458 - -
90th Percentile £459 - -
East of England median daily rate £550 £600 £481
% change year-on-year -8.33% +24.68% -12.02%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 132 68 185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 72.53% 93.15% 80.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 40 98
10th Percentile £300 £227 £216
25th Percentile £325 £314 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -15.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £488 £572
90th Percentile £588 £551 £611
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 8 48
10th Percentile £12.75 £18.68 £10.42
25th Percentile £14.25 £21.19 £15.36
Median hourly rate £16.88 £32.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.08% -40.91% +27.91%
75th Percentile £54.69 £87.50 £80.00
90th Percentile £69.50 £200.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £22.63 £52.75 £38.12
% change year-on-year -57.10% +38.38% +52.48%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Scrum job vacancy trend in Essex

Scrum
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Scrum

Scrum
Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Scrum

Scrum
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the Essex region over the 6 months to 15 April 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
Basildon -5 2 - - 1
Witham - 1 £460 - 1
Scrum
East of England

Scrum
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (25.00%) Hudson
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) JMeter
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
1 1 (25.00%) Serenity BDD
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer in Test
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 2 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 2 (50.00%) Emotional Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) People Management
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
2 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Planning and Forecasting
3 1 (25.00%) SDET
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Progress