Scrum Contract Job Trends in London

Scrum
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Scrum skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 48 43
Rank change year-on-year -18 -5 +3
Contract jobs citing Scrum 829 702 762
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.10% 5.24% 4.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.61% 5.67% 5.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 539 503 510
10th Percentile £386 £358 £377
25th Percentile £441 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £534
Median % change year-on-year - +3.00% -7.13%
75th Percentile £625 £676 £638
90th Percentile £725 £775 £725
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 4
10th Percentile £50.25 £40.58 £28.36
25th Percentile £52.19 £49.74 £30.89
Median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £32.68
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +98.90% -53.65%
75th Percentile £76.62 £76.88 £43.55
90th Percentile £93.13 £84.00 £62.42
England median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £67.02
% change year-on-year +27.27% -17.93% +3.11%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,982 12,382 14,424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.94% 92.49% 89.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,765 8,174 9,384
10th Percentile £360 £334 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 244 181
10th Percentile £15.97 £18.06 £17.25
25th Percentile £18.81 £25.01 £24.18
Median hourly rate £33.60 £30.25 £36.80
Median % change year-on-year +11.07% -17.80% -7.80%
75th Percentile £60.25 £47.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £80.38 £64.93 £78.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -5.56%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Scrum job vacancy trend in London

Scrum
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Scrum

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in London over the 6 months to 11 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in London

Scrum
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Scrum

Scrum
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Scrum in London over the 6 months to 11 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Scrum in London

Scrum
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the London region over the 6 months to 11 October 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
Central London -31 95 £550 -8.33% 71
South London -8 17 £550 -29.03% 9
West London -17 13 £470 +4.44% 12
East London +6 4 £493 +36.81% 6
North London - 4 £488 - 1
Scrum
England

Scrum
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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
1 118 (14.23%) Confluence
2 27 (3.26%) Apache Spark
3 22 (2.65%) CMS
4 20 (2.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 16 (1.93%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (1.81%) Apache
7 12 (1.45%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.60%) Camunda
8 5 (0.60%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.48%) Anypoint
10 3 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
10 3 (0.36%) IIS
10 3 (0.36%) JBoss
10 3 (0.36%) Mule
10 3 (0.36%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.36%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.24%) Kentico
11 2 (0.24%) SAS
11 2 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.12%) EPiServer
Applications
1 36 (4.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 15 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (1.33%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.60%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.60%) Trello
7 3 (0.36%) Productboard
7 3 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.24%) Notion
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.12%) Simulink
9 1 (0.12%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 14 (1.69%) Adobe Campaign
2 13 (1.57%) Aladdin
2 13 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.97%) Magento
4 5 (0.60%) Fidessa
5 4 (0.48%) HFM
5 4 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.48%) Temenos T24
6 3 (0.36%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (0.24%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (0.24%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.24%) SAP Retail
7 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.12%) Actimize
8 1 (0.12%) SAP CAR
8 1 (0.12%) Siebel CRM
8 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.12%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 273 (32.93%) Azure
2 192 (23.16%) AWS
3 104 (12.55%) Azure DevOps
4 82 (9.89%) GitHub
5 75 (9.05%) Power Platform
6 72 (8.69%) GCP
7 52 (6.27%) GitHub Actions
8 47 (5.67%) Serverless
9 33 (3.98%) Dynamics 365
10 31 (3.74%) AWS Lambda
11 30 (3.62%) Snowflake
12 29 (3.50%) Amazon S3
13 23 (2.77%) Power Automate
14 22 (2.65%) SaaS
15 20 (2.41%) PowerApps
16 19 (2.29%) Azure Data Factory
17 18 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 18 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
18 17 (2.05%) Amazon EC2
19 16 (1.93%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.21%) HTTP
2 4 (0.48%) Network Security
3 3 (0.36%) DNS
3 3 (0.36%) Firewall
3 3 (0.36%) Internet
3 3 (0.36%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.24%) 4G
4 2 (0.24%) 5G
4 2 (0.24%) Broadband
4 2 (0.24%) CTI
4 2 (0.24%) Intranet
4 2 (0.24%) IPv4
4 2 (0.24%) MPLS
4 2 (0.24%) NGFW
4 2 (0.24%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.24%) SSH
4 2 (0.24%) SSL
4 2 (0.24%) VPN
4 2 (0.24%) WAN
5 1 (0.12%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (6.39%) Power BI
2 52 (6.27%) PostgreSQL
3 45 (5.43%) Data Warehouse
4 43 (5.19%) MongoDB
5 42 (5.07%) NoSQL
6 41 (4.95%) SQL Server
7 33 (3.98%) Relational Database
8 26 (3.14%) Data Lake
9 18 (2.17%) Big Data
10 17 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
10 17 (2.05%) MySQL
10 17 (2.05%) Redis
11 15 (1.81%) Metadata
12 12 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
12 12 (1.45%) Oracle Database
13 11 (1.33%) BigQuery
13 11 (1.33%) DynamoDB
13 11 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 9 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
14 9 (1.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 204 (24.61%) JIRA
2 125 (15.08%) Git
3 93 (11.22%) Jenkins
4 53 (6.39%) GitLab
5 34 (4.10%) Selenium
6 24 (2.90%) Postman
7 23 (2.77%) Maven
8 22 (2.65%) JUnit
9 20 (2.41%) Gradle
10 19 (2.29%) Bitbucket
11 17 (2.05%) Cypress.io
12 15 (1.81%) Mockito
12 15 (1.81%) REST Assured
13 13 (1.57%) Visual Studio
14 12 (1.45%) SonarQube
15 10 (1.21%) Zephyr
16 9 (1.09%) JMeter
16 9 (1.09%) Team Foundation Server
17 8 (0.97%) Cucumber
17 8 (0.97%) Subversion
General
1 343 (41.38%) Social Skills
2 335 (40.41%) Finance
3 165 (19.90%) Analytical Skills
4 157 (18.94%) Banking
5 80 (9.65%) Public Sector
6 63 (7.60%) Marketing
7 42 (5.07%) Organisational Skills
8 41 (4.95%) Retail
9 40 (4.83%) Influencing Skills
10 36 (4.34%) Front Office
10 36 (4.34%) Investment Banking
11 20 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
12 15 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (1.33%) Corporate Banking
13 11 (1.33%) Telecoms
14 10 (1.21%) Billing
14 10 (1.21%) Law
14 10 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
15 9 (1.09%) Local Government
16 8 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 169 (20.39%) Developer
2 132 (15.92%) Analyst
3 114 (13.75%) Senior
4 91 (10.98%) Business Analyst
5 84 (10.13%) Lead
6 77 (9.29%) Project Manager
7 59 (7.12%) Scrum Master
8 48 (5.79%) Architect
9 41 (4.95%) Data Engineer
10 40 (4.83%) Delivery Manager
11 36 (4.34%) Java Developer
12 32 (3.86%) Senior Developer
13 27 (3.26%) Product Manager
13 27 (3.26%) Technical Analyst
14 25 (3.02%) Product Owner
15 21 (2.53%) Python Developer
16 20 (2.41%) Full-Stack Developer
17 19 (2.29%) Technical Manager
18 18 (2.17%) Senior Manager
19 17 (2.05%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (15.20%) REST
2 80 (9.65%) RESTful
3 67 (8.08%) .NET
4 60 (7.24%) React
5 58 (7.00%) Spring
6 57 (6.88%) HTML
7 56 (6.76%) CSS
8 55 (6.63%) Kafka
9 54 (6.51%) Terraform
10 53 (6.39%) Spring Boot
11 41 (4.95%) AngularJS
12 37 (4.46%) .NET Framework
13 34 (4.10%) SOAP
14 32 (3.86%) JSON
15 28 (3.38%) Node.js
15 28 (3.38%) Web Services
16 25 (3.02%) Playwright
17 24 (2.90%) OAuth
18 19 (2.29%) HTML5
19 18 (2.17%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 222 (26.78%) Product Ownership
2 70 (8.44%) Cloud Native
3 28 (3.38%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
5 24 (2.90%) Data Structures
6 21 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
6 21 (2.53%) Onboarding
7 18 (2.17%) Fixed Income
7 18 (2.17%) Management Information System
8 17 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
9 16 (1.93%) Analytical Mindset
9 16 (1.93%) Virtual Team
10 13 (1.57%) AI Agents
10 13 (1.57%) Credit Risk
11 12 (1.45%) Mobile App
12 11 (1.33%) CMDB
12 11 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
12 11 (1.33%) Life Science
13 9 (1.09%) Low-Code
13 9 (1.09%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 30 (3.62%) Linux
2 16 (1.93%) Unix
3 8 (0.97%) Android
4 6 (0.72%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.72%) Windows
5 3 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.24%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.24%) VMS
7 1 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 808 (97.47%) Agile
2 292 (35.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 285 (34.38%) DevOps
4 258 (31.12%) CI/CD
5 206 (24.85%) Continuous Improvement
6 195 (23.52%) Problem-Solving
7 188 (22.68%) Kanban
8 163 (19.66%) User Stories
9 154 (18.58%) Sprint Planning
10 150 (18.09%) AI
11 145 (17.49%) Test Automation
12 129 (15.56%) SDLC
13 121 (14.60%) Microservices
14 118 (14.23%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 116 (13.99%) Roadmaps
16 109 (13.15%) Migration
16 109 (13.15%) Project Management
17 106 (12.79%) Acceptance Criteria
18 102 (12.30%) Software Engineering
19 100 (12.06%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 186 (22.44%) SQL
2 142 (17.13%) Python
3 131 (15.80%) Java
4 93 (11.22%) JavaScript
5 69 (8.32%) C#
6 56 (6.76%) TypeScript
7 22 (2.65%) Bash
7 22 (2.65%) PowerShell
7 22 (2.65%) Scala
8 14 (1.69%) Kotlin
9 13 (1.57%) Apex Code
10 10 (1.21%) Bicep
10 10 (1.21%) PL/SQL
11 8 (0.97%) X++
12 7 (0.84%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.60%) C++
13 5 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.48%) Go
14 4 (0.48%) Korn
14 4 (0.48%) R
Qualifications
1 156 (18.82%) Security Cleared
2 129 (15.56%) SC Cleared
3 119 (14.35%) Degree
4 55 (6.63%) PMP
5 49 (5.91%) PMI Certification
6 42 (5.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (2.65%) DV Cleared
8 20 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 16 (1.93%) AWS Certification
10 15 (1.81%) Azure Certification
11 12 (1.45%) CSPO
11 12 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (1.33%) IIBA
13 10 (1.21%) CBAP
14 9 (1.09%) ISTQB
15 7 (0.84%) Master's Degree
16 5 (0.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 4 (0.48%) ACCA
17 4 (0.48%) CISSP
17 4 (0.48%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (18.09%) QA
2 61 (7.36%) Data Quality
3 27 (3.26%) PMO
4 23 (2.77%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.69%) GRC
6 9 (1.09%) GDPR
6 9 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (0.97%) WCAG
8 5 (0.60%) IFRS
8 5 (0.60%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.60%) SLA
9 4 (0.48%) Basel III
9 4 (0.48%) ISO 15022
10 3 (0.36%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 3 (0.36%) GxP
10 3 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.24%) NIST
11 2 (0.24%) SEPA
12 1 (0.12%) NCSC
12 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 103 (12.42%) Docker
2 6 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.60%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.24%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 93 (11.22%) Kubernetes
2 29 (3.50%) Grafana
3 22 (2.65%) Ansible
4 16 (1.93%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.72%) Kibana
5 6 (0.72%) Puppet
6 5 (0.60%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.48%) Argo
8 3 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.24%) Bosun
9 2 (0.24%) Control-M
9 2 (0.24%) Packer
10 1 (0.12%) CloudHub
10 1 (0.12%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 119 (14.35%) Microsoft
2 50 (6.03%) Salesforce
3 48 (5.79%) Oracle
4 36 (4.34%) ServiceNow
5 31 (3.74%) Databricks
6 26 (3.14%) SAP
7 25 (3.02%) Google
8 24 (2.90%) IBM
9 22 (2.65%) Adobe
10 19 (2.29%) Splunk
11 12 (1.45%) MuleSoft
12 10 (1.21%) New Relic
13 9 (1.09%) Atlassian
13 9 (1.09%) Charles River
13 9 (1.09%) UiPath
14 8 (0.97%) Pega
15 7 (0.84%) Planview
16 6 (0.72%) Dynatrace
16 6 (0.72%) Veracode
16 6 (0.72%) Workday