Scrum Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Scrum
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Scrum skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 37 44
Rank change year-on-year -15 +7 -12
Contract jobs citing Scrum 17 8 27
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 2.15% 2.18% 3.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.72% 2.54% 3.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 5
10th Percentile £423 £390 £370
25th Percentile £463 £513 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £413
Median % change year-on-year - +45.45% -31.25%
75th Percentile £638 - £600
90th Percentile £685 - £615
East of England median daily rate £588 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +14.08% -6.36% -6.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 15
10th Percentile - - £55.50
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £75.00 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -0.38%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 626 315 703
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 79.04% 85.83% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 151 302
10th Percentile £269 £306 £251
25th Percentile £413 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £613
90th Percentile £713 £675 £725
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -4.95% +5.21% -2.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 97 255
10th Percentile £16.40 £19.43 -
25th Percentile £18.50 £46.31 £38.12
Median hourly rate £22.66 £65.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.41% +9.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £67.50 £76.25 £66.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £83.00
East of England median hourly rate £22.00 £54.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year -59.26% +41.66% +27.07%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Scrum job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Scrum
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Scrum

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 27 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in Hertfordshire

Scrum
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Scrum

Scrum
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 27 March 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
Stevenage - 8 £538 - 3
Watford -3 3 £613 +75.00% 3
Welwyn Garden City -1 2 £675 -
Hatfield -27 2 £625 +4.17% 2
Letchworth - 1 £375 -
Scrum
East of England

Scrum
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 1 (5.88%) Confluence
1 1 (5.88%) Mendix
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (5.88%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) AWS
2 1 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.88%) IaaS
2 1 (5.88%) PaaS
2 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
1 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Snyk
General
1 11 (64.71%) Social Skills
2 7 (41.18%) Finance
3 5 (29.41%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (11.76%) Manufacturing
6 1 (5.88%) Automotive
6 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
6 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.88%) Retail
6 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Project Manager
2 4 (23.53%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Lead
3 2 (11.76%) Product Owner
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Lead Project Manager
4 1 (5.88%) LIMS Manager
4 1 (5.88%) LIMS Project Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Product Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Project Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Scrum Master
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Product Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Transformation Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) CSS
1 1 (5.88%) REST
1 1 (5.88%) SOAP
1 1 (5.88%) Spring
1 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Life Science
1 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.88%) LIMS
2 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.88%) PMI
2 1 (5.88%) Robotics
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) Agile
2 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (35.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (29.41%) Kanban
3 5 (29.41%) Project Delivery
3 5 (29.41%) Roadmaps
3 5 (29.41%) Sprint Planning
4 3 (17.65%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (17.65%) Sprint Review
4 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (17.65%) User Stories
4 3 (17.65%) Waterfall
5 2 (11.76%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (11.76%) Business Transformation
5 2 (11.76%) Change Control
5 2 (11.76%) Commercial Awareness
5 2 (11.76%) IT Governance
5 2 (11.76%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 2 (11.76%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) Java
2 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.88%) C#
3 1 (5.88%) Python
3 1 (5.88%) SQL
3 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) PMI Certification
3 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.88%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (5.88%) PMP
3 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) 21 CFR Part 11
1 2 (11.76%) GxP
1 2 (11.76%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle
1 3 (17.65%) Salesforce
2 1 (5.88%) CheckPoint
2 1 (5.88%) New Relic
2 1 (5.88%) SAP
2 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.88%) Splunk
2 1 (5.88%) VMware