Scrum Contract Job Trends in Ipswich

Scrum
Suffolk > Ipswich

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Ipswich requiring Scrum skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 14 8
Rank change year-on-year +4 -6 +10
Contract jobs citing Scrum 2 3 10
As % of all contract jobs in Ipswich 3.57% 6.00% 16.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.00% 7.69% 16.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £474 - £308
25th Percentile £510 £363 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £375 £419
Median % change year-on-year +53.33% -10.45% -27.17%
75th Percentile £645 £444 £486
90th Percentile £684 £478 £524
Suffolk median daily rate £575 £375 £419
% change year-on-year +53.33% -10.45% -27.17%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Ipswich

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 Ipswich.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 50 39 59
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Ipswich 89.29% 78.00% 96.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 17 34
10th Percentile £407 £286 £259
25th Percentile £473 £400 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -5.26% -20.83%
75th Percentile £703 £538 £550
90th Percentile £741 £707 £638
Suffolk median daily rate £480 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +6.67% -5.26% -20.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile £16.53 - £16.23
25th Percentile £18.07 - £20.31
Median hourly rate £19.96 £70.00 £27.75
Median % change year-on-year -71.49% +152.25% +73.44%
75th Percentile £23.00 - £35.31
90th Percentile - - £39.48
Suffolk median hourly rate £21.00 £70.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year -70.00% +400.00% -7.41%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

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

Scrum job vacancy trend in Ipswich

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Daily Rate Trend in Ipswich

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Ipswich citing Scrum

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in Ipswich

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in Ipswich over the 6 months to 12 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in Ipswich

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Hourly Rate Trend in Ipswich

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Ipswich citing Scrum

Scrum
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ipswich 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 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Head of AI
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Express.js
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) MERN Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks