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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 45 56
Rank change year-on-year +11 +11 -30
Contract jobs citing Scrum 36 5 8
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 4.29% 1.11% 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.34% 1.22% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 5 1
10th Percentile £263 £410 -
25th Percentile £328 £425 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -20.83% -4.00%
75th Percentile £594 £675 £625
90th Percentile £638 £690 -
East of England median daily rate £475 £468 £550
% change year-on-year +1.60% -15.00% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile £62.00 - £56.25
25th Percentile £63.13 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - -7.69%

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 674 409 603
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 80.24% 90.89% 87.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 188 188
10th Percentile £200 £244 £213
25th Percentile £406 £444 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £528 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.30% +32.00% -25.58%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £566
90th Percentile £738 £675 £650
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £425
% change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 123 251
10th Percentile £15.99 £16.93 £21.25
25th Percentile £32.72 £30.06 £38.12
Median hourly rate £64.00 £54.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% +8.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £76.25 £70.00
East of England median hourly rate £47.50 £36.75 £43.00
% change year-on-year +29.25% -14.53% +117.06%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 - 16 £500 - 10
Hatfield +7 7 £275 -57.69%
Watford - 6 £625 -
Welwyn Garden City +3 5 £850 +112.50%
Hemel Hempstead - 1 £550 - 1
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 8 (22.22%) Confluence
2 1 (2.78%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Windchill
2 1 (2.78%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 9 (25.00%) Azure
2 6 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (16.67%) Miro
3 2 (5.56%) Azure AKS
4 1 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.78%) GitHub
4 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.78%) IaaS
4 1 (2.78%) PaaS
4 1 (2.78%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) MySQL
1 2 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (5.56%) Redis
1 2 (5.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (36.11%) JIRA
2 4 (11.11%) GitLab
3 1 (2.78%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.78%) eggPlant
3 1 (2.78%) Git
3 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 9 (25.00%) Retail
3 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (13.89%) Finance
3 5 (13.89%) Manufacturing
3 5 (13.89%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.78%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Law
5 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (19.44%) Senior
2 6 (16.67%) Product Manager
3 5 (13.89%) Product Owner
4 4 (11.11%) Project Manager
4 4 (11.11%) Scrum Master
5 3 (8.33%) Coordinator
5 3 (8.33%) Project Coordinator
5 3 (8.33%) Senior Manager
5 3 (8.33%) Senior Product Manager
6 2 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Python Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (5.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Software Test Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Software Testing Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Test Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Testing Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Junior Scrum Master
7 1 (2.78%) Product Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.11%) REST
2 2 (5.56%) Celery
2 2 (5.56%) Django
2 2 (5.56%) JSP
2 2 (5.56%) JWT
2 2 (5.56%) OAuth
2 2 (5.56%) React
2 2 (5.56%) Terraform
2 2 (5.56%) Vue
2 2 (5.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.78%) Product Ownership
2 5 (13.89%) Life Science
3 4 (11.11%) Robotics
4 3 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (5.56%) Cloud Native
5 2 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (5.56%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.78%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.78%) IoT
6 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (19.44%) Linux
2 2 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (5.56%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.78%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (91.67%) Agile
2 14 (38.89%) Kanban
3 13 (36.11%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 12 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (30.56%) Sprint Planning
6 10 (27.78%) AI
6 10 (27.78%) DevOps
7 9 (25.00%) CI/CD
7 9 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (22.22%) Sprint Review
8 8 (22.22%) Validation
9 7 (19.44%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (19.44%) Roadmaps
9 7 (19.44%) Software Delivery
9 7 (19.44%) Test Automation
10 6 (16.67%) PLM
10 6 (16.67%) Product Backlog
10 6 (16.67%) Sprint Retrospective
11 5 (13.89%) Product Vision
11 5 (13.89%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.33%) Java
1 3 (8.33%) Python
2 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (27.78%) Degree
2 6 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 5 (13.89%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.78%) CSPO
4 1 (2.78%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.78%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.78%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.67%) QA
2 5 (13.89%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 5 (13.89%) GxP
3 2 (5.56%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (8.33%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) Lustre
2 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.56%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (11.11%) IBM
1 4 (11.11%) Oracle
2 2 (5.56%) PTC
2 2 (5.56%) Salesforce
2 2 (5.56%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.78%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.78%) CheckPoint
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.78%) SAP
3 1 (2.78%) VMware