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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 52 28
Rank change year-on-year +6 -24 -18
Contract jobs citing Scrum 9 7 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 1.97% 1.15% 6.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.14% 1.34% 7.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 19
10th Percentile £450 - £350
25th Percentile £463 £563 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -8.00% +6.66%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £725
90th Percentile £680 - £888
East of England median daily rate £493 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -8.28% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 19
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -0.76%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £69.60
East of England median hourly rate - £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -0.76%

All Process and 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 420 523 670
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 91.90% 85.88% 87.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 158 366
10th Percentile £244 £240 £260
25th Percentile £425 £306 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +32.75% -27.27% +8.06%
75th Percentile £575 £559 £675
90th Percentile £688 £629 £769
East of England median daily rate £500 £442 £500
% change year-on-year +13.12% -11.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 188 147
10th Percentile £16.52 £15.52 £17.77
25th Percentile £23.38 £40.00 £49.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -23.08% +16.07%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £74.13 £69.13 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £25.15 £39.06 £19.81
% change year-on-year -35.61% +97.17% -3.37%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Job postings citing Scrum as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Scrum 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 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 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
Watford +4 2 £475 -17.39% 2
Stevenage +1 2 £550 - 9
Hatfield - 2 £650 -
Welwyn Garden City - 1 £400 -
Scrum
East of England

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 1 (11.11%) Confluence
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
1 4 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Firewall
1 2 (22.22%) Intrusion Detection
1 2 (22.22%) Network Security
1 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
1 2 (22.22%) VLAN
1 2 (22.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (22.22%) IT Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) IT Security Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Security Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Technical Leader
3 1 (11.11%) Agile Delivery Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Agile Scrum Master
3 1 (11.11%) CCTV Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Python Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Product Owner
3 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Python Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Scrum Master
3 1 (11.11%) Senior IT Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) ADO
2 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
2 1 (11.11%) CSS
2 1 (11.11%) HTML
2 1 (11.11%) Node.js
2 1 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (11.11%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (22.22%) CCTV
2 2 (22.22%) PMI
3 1 (11.11%) Life Science
3 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
1 2 (22.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
4 3 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
4 3 (33.33%) Waterfall
5 2 (22.22%) Backlog Management
5 2 (22.22%) Backlog Refinement
5 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
5 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (22.22%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (22.22%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Kanban
5 2 (22.22%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (22.22%) Project Management
5 2 (22.22%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (22.22%) Virtual Environments
5 2 (22.22%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) C#
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) PMI Certification
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (11.11%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
1 2 (22.22%) Hyper-V
1 2 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Databricks
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 2 (22.22%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle