Scrum Contracts in London

Scrum
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Scrum skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Scrum over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 38 40
Rank change year-on-year -34 +2 -20
Contract jobs citing Scrum 446 874 1,466
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.55% 4.90% 5.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.86% 5.54% 5.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 604 983
10th Percentile £400 £400 £441
25th Percentile £435 £455 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £728
90th Percentile £750 £763 £800
England median daily rate £500 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -6.98% -6.52% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 15
10th Percentile £65.75 - £48.75
25th Percentile £66.88 £31.71 £60.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £33.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +112.12% -54.48% +62.92%
75th Percentile £74.38 £53.75 £87.50
90th Percentile £76.25 £60.50 £90.00
England median hourly rate £60.25 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -7.31% - +46.07%

All Process and 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 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in London

Scrum
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scrum in London.

Daily rate trend for Scrum in London

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in London

Scrum
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scrum in London.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 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
Central London -19 70 £525 -4.55% 67
West London -7 12 £400 -11.11% 29
South London -18 3 - - 6
East London -3 2 £490 -9.26% 14
Scrum
England

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 46 (10.31%) Confluence
2 13 (2.91%) CMS
3 11 (2.47%) SharePoint
4 9 (2.02%) Apache
4 9 (2.02%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.35%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.90%) JBoss
6 4 (0.90%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.67%) Oracle Coherence
8 2 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.45%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.22%) Drupal
9 1 (0.22%) IIS
9 1 (0.22%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.22%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (3.14%) Microsoft Project
2 13 (2.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (2.24%) Trello
4 8 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (1.57%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.67%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.22%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.22%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 7 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.90%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.67%) Shopify
4 2 (0.45%) Endur
4 2 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.45%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.45%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.22%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.22%) Advent Portfolio Exchange
5 1 (0.22%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.22%) Magento
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.22%) SAP CAR
5 1 (0.22%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.22%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 112 (25.11%) Azure
2 78 (17.49%) AWS
3 52 (11.66%) Azure DevOps
4 31 (6.95%) Power Platform
5 28 (6.28%) GCP
6 26 (5.83%) GitHub
7 24 (5.38%) Serverless
8 22 (4.93%) SaaS
9 15 (3.36%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (2.69%) Azure Service Bus
11 11 (2.47%) Entra ID
12 10 (2.24%) PaaS
13 9 (2.02%) IaaS
13 9 (2.02%) Miro
14 8 (1.79%) Azure Data Factory
14 8 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
15 7 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (1.57%) Azure AKS
15 7 (1.57%) BigCommerce
15 7 (1.57%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.91%) Firewall
2 9 (2.02%) VPN
3 7 (1.57%) DNS
4 6 (1.35%) HTTP
4 6 (1.35%) SSH
5 5 (1.12%) Network Security
6 4 (0.90%) DHCP
6 4 (0.90%) HTTPS
6 4 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (0.90%) Wireless
7 3 (0.67%) BGP
7 3 (0.67%) DOCSIS
7 3 (0.67%) SSL
7 3 (0.67%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.67%) VLAN
8 2 (0.45%) Ethernet VPN
8 2 (0.45%) MPLS
9 1 (0.22%) POP3
9 1 (0.22%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.22%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (5.61%) SQL Server
2 24 (5.38%) Power BI
3 17 (3.81%) Relational Database
4 12 (2.69%) Big Data
4 12 (2.69%) NoSQL
4 12 (2.69%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (2.02%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (2.02%) Data Lake
7 7 (1.57%) Delta Lake
8 6 (1.35%) Apache Hive
8 6 (1.35%) Metadata
9 5 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.12%) Tableau
10 4 (0.90%) Data Mining
10 4 (0.90%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.67%) BusinessObjects
11 3 (0.67%) MS Access
11 3 (0.67%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (0.67%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 119 (26.68%) JIRA
2 68 (15.25%) Git
3 43 (9.64%) Jenkins
4 21 (4.71%) Selenium
5 18 (4.04%) Bitbucket
6 17 (3.81%) GitLab
7 16 (3.59%) Postman
8 13 (2.91%) JMeter
9 11 (2.47%) TeamCity
10 9 (2.02%) Gatling
10 9 (2.02%) REST Assured
11 8 (1.79%) JUnit
11 8 (1.79%) SpecFlow
12 7 (1.57%) Cypress.io
13 6 (1.35%) LoadRunner
13 6 (1.35%) RStudio
14 5 (1.12%) Appium
14 5 (1.12%) Cucumber
14 5 (1.12%) NeoLoad
14 5 (1.12%) SonarQube
General
1 195 (43.72%) Social Skills
2 104 (23.32%) Finance
3 72 (16.14%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (11.21%) Banking
5 37 (8.30%) Public Sector
6 22 (4.93%) Marketing
7 20 (4.48%) Organisational Skills
8 19 (4.26%) Investment Banking
9 17 (3.81%) Front Office
9 17 (3.81%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (2.91%) Retail
11 12 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 9 (2.02%) Back Office
14 8 (1.79%) Financial Institution
15 6 (1.35%) Telecoms
16 5 (1.12%) Legal
17 3 (0.67%) Billing
17 3 (0.67%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 88 (19.73%) Developer
2 62 (13.90%) Project Manager
3 59 (13.23%) Senior
4 53 (11.88%) Analyst
5 45 (10.09%) Business Analyst
6 36 (8.07%) Scrum Master
7 30 (6.73%) Lead
8 26 (5.83%) Delivery Manager
9 24 (5.38%) Technical Manager
10 19 (4.26%) Data Engineer
10 19 (4.26%) Senior Developer
10 19 (4.26%) Technical Project Manager
11 17 (3.81%) Test Engineer
12 16 (3.59%) Software Engineer
12 16 (3.59%) Technical Analyst
13 15 (3.36%) Java Developer
13 15 (3.36%) Product Owner
14 14 (3.14%) Consultant
15 13 (2.91%) Architect
15 13 (2.91%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (8.74%) REST
2 27 (6.05%) .NET
2 27 (6.05%) Kafka
3 24 (5.38%) CSS
3 24 (5.38%) React
4 23 (5.16%) HTML
5 18 (4.04%) RESTful
5 18 (4.04%) SOAP
6 16 (3.59%) ASP.NET
7 15 (3.36%) ASP.NET Web API
7 15 (3.36%) Web Services
8 14 (3.14%) Node.js
9 13 (2.91%) AngularJS
9 13 (2.91%) JSON
9 13 (2.91%) YAML
10 12 (2.69%) OAuth
11 10 (2.24%) .NET Framework
11 10 (2.24%) HTML5
11 10 (2.24%) OpenID
11 10 (2.24%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 65 (14.57%) Product Ownership
2 17 (3.81%) Data Structures
2 17 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (3.59%) Cloud Native
4 12 (2.69%) Mobile App
5 11 (2.47%) Algorithms
6 10 (2.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 9 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (2.02%) Hedge funds
7 9 (2.02%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
8 7 (1.57%) Reference Data
9 6 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.35%) Renewable Energy
9 6 (1.35%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.12%) N-Tier
10 5 (1.12%) Taxonomies
11 4 (0.90%) Derivative
11 4 (0.90%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 26 (5.83%) Linux
2 19 (4.26%) Windows
3 10 (2.24%) Android
4 9 (2.02%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.57%) Unix
6 5 (1.12%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.45%) CentOS
8 1 (0.22%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 411 (92.15%) Agile
2 120 (26.91%) DevOps
3 110 (24.66%) Problem-Solving
4 100 (22.42%) CI/CD
5 99 (22.20%) Kanban
6 92 (20.63%) Project Management
7 76 (17.04%) Stakeholder Management
8 58 (13.00%) Test Automation
9 54 (12.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 49 (10.99%) Project Delivery
11 46 (10.31%) Continuous Improvement
12 44 (9.87%) Sprint Planning
13 43 (9.64%) Analytics
13 43 (9.64%) Microservices
13 43 (9.64%) Software Engineering
14 40 (8.97%) Risk Management
15 38 (8.52%) Mentoring
15 38 (8.52%) User Stories
16 37 (8.30%) Roadmaps
17 36 (8.07%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 80 (17.94%) SQL
2 74 (16.59%) Java
3 57 (12.78%) JavaScript
4 53 (11.88%) Python
5 51 (11.43%) C#
6 30 (6.73%) TypeScript
7 21 (4.71%) C++
8 15 (3.36%) Scala
9 8 (1.79%) Bash
9 8 (1.79%) Bicep
9 8 (1.79%) PL/SQL
10 6 (1.35%) Go
10 6 (1.35%) Kotlin
10 6 (1.35%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.35%) T-SQL
11 5 (1.12%) Apex Code
11 5 (1.12%) C
11 5 (1.12%) PHP
11 5 (1.12%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.12%) Swift
Qualifications
1 65 (14.57%) Security Cleared
2 60 (13.45%) Degree
3 52 (11.66%) SC Cleared
4 26 (5.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 26 (5.83%) PMI Certification
5 25 (5.61%) PMP
6 11 (2.47%) Master's Degree
7 10 (2.24%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.79%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.35%) CSPO
10 5 (1.12%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.12%) MCPD
10 5 (1.12%) MCSD
10 5 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (1.12%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 3 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.67%) CBAP
11 3 (0.67%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.45%) IIBA
12 2 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (13.68%) QA
2 12 (2.69%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.02%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.79%) GDPR
5 5 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.67%) Basel II
6 3 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.67%) PMO
6 3 (0.67%) WCAG
7 2 (0.45%) GRC
8 1 (0.22%) Basel III
8 1 (0.22%) COREP
8 1 (0.22%) IFRS
8 1 (0.22%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.22%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 31 (6.95%) Docker
2 11 (2.47%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 42 (9.42%) Kubernetes
2 30 (6.73%) Terraform
3 11 (2.47%) Ansible
4 10 (2.24%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.67%) Grafana
6 2 (0.45%) Argo
6 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.45%) SCCM
7 1 (0.22%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.22%) Kibana
7 1 (0.22%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.22%) Plesk
7 1 (0.22%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.22%) Puppet
7 1 (0.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 55 (12.33%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.61%) Oracle
3 24 (5.38%) Salesforce
4 19 (4.26%) Databricks
5 16 (3.59%) SAP
6 12 (2.69%) Google
7 8 (1.79%) Adobe
7 8 (1.79%) ServiceNow
8 7 (1.57%) Splunk
9 6 (1.35%) Cisco
9 6 (1.35%) ForgeRock
9 6 (1.35%) IBM
10 5 (1.12%) Planview
11 4 (0.90%) Ping Identity
11 4 (0.90%) Sitecore
12 3 (0.67%) Avaloq
12 3 (0.67%) Murex
12 3 (0.67%) Palo Alto
12 3 (0.67%) VMware
13 2 (0.45%) InterSystems