Scrum Master Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Scrum Master
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Scrum Master daily rate in Glasgow is £379, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 67 67
Rank change year-on-year -15 0 +13
Contract jobs requiring a Scrum Master 11 15 3
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.06% 1.85% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.13% 1.94% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 2
10th Percentile £349 £317 £484
25th Percentile £358 £358 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £379 £393 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% -25.19% +26.51%
75th Percentile £429 £433 £559
90th Percentile £459 £475 £576
Scotland median daily rate £379 £383 £475
% change year-on-year -0.92% -19.47% -6.40%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Glasgow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Glasgow. 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 Glasgow with a recognized job title 974 772 715
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.65% 95.07% 93.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 550 491 510
10th Percentile £290 £287 £230
25th Percentile £358 £363 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.69%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £569
90th Percentile £675 £610 £638
Scotland median daily rate £460 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +2.22% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 17 29
10th Percentile £13.67 - £12.20
25th Percentile £17.85 £16.84 £16.70
Median hourly rate £40.32 £19.83 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +103.33% -51.56% +182.34%
75th Percentile £60.91 £26.21 £53.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £57.50 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £19.83 £18.13
% change year-on-year +76.50% +9.38% +2.31%

Scrum Master
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Scrum Master' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Scrum Master job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Scrum Master
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Scrum Master job vacancies in Glasgow.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Scrum Master job vacancies in Glasgow

Scrum Master
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum Master in Glasgow over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum Master in Glasgow

Scrum Master
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Scrum Master job vacancies in Glasgow.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Scrum Master job vacancies in Glasgow

Scrum Master Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 18 July 2026, Scrum Master contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Glasgow region featuring Scrum Master in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Agile
1 11 (100.00%) Scrum
2 9 (81.82%) Confluence
2 9 (81.82%) Continuous Improvement
2 9 (81.82%) JIRA
3 8 (72.73%) Burndown Charts
3 8 (72.73%) DevOps
3 8 (72.73%) Kanban
3 8 (72.73%) Servant Leadership
3 8 (72.73%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (63.64%) Azure
4 7 (63.64%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (63.64%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 7 (63.64%) Capacity Planning
4 7 (63.64%) Coaching
4 7 (63.64%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 6 (54.55%) Agile Coaching
5 6 (54.55%) Data Governance
5 6 (54.55%) Data Quality
6 5 (45.45%) Acceptance Criteria
6 5 (45.45%) Change Management
6 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
6 5 (45.45%) Collibra
6 5 (45.45%) Data Architecture
6 5 (45.45%) Data Ingestion
6 5 (45.45%) Data Lineage
6 5 (45.45%) Data Modelling
6 5 (45.45%) Data Transformation
6 5 (45.45%) Decision-Making
6 5 (45.45%) ETL

Scrum Master Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 9 (81.82%) Confluence
2 4 (36.36%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Azure
1 7 (63.64%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (45.45%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) Metadata
2 4 (36.36%) Big Data
2 4 (36.36%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 9 (81.82%) JIRA
2 4 (36.36%) Git
General
1 7 (63.64%) Banking
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 9 (81.82%) Product Ownership
2 5 (45.45%) Cloud Native
2 5 (45.45%) Reference Data
2 5 (45.45%) Virtual Team
3 4 (36.36%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Agile
1 11 (100.00%) Scrum
2 9 (81.82%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (72.73%) Burndown Charts
3 8 (72.73%) DevOps
3 8 (72.73%) Kanban
3 8 (72.73%) Servant Leadership
3 8 (72.73%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (63.64%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 7 (63.64%) Capacity Planning
4 7 (63.64%) Coaching
4 7 (63.64%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 6 (54.55%) Agile Coaching
5 6 (54.55%) Data Governance
6 5 (45.45%) Acceptance Criteria
6 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
6 5 (45.45%) Data Ingestion
6 5 (45.45%) Decision-Making
6 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (45.45%) Sprint Backlog
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) Data Quality
2 5 (45.45%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft