Scrum Master Contracts in London

Scrum Master
England > London

The median Scrum Master daily rate in London is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 290 360
Rank change year-on-year -26 +70 -62
Contract jobs requiring a Scrum Master 32 97 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.26% 0.55% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.59% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 72 85
10th Percentile £358 £366 £425
25th Percentile £435 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £533 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.80% -11.25% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £602 £675
90th Percentile £675 £650 £708
England median daily rate £475 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -6.86% -7.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £51.25 £72.50
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - -34.38% +21.90%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £90.13
90th Percentile - - £94.85
England median hourly rate £53.61 £52.50 £85.00
% change year-on-year +2.11% -38.24% +63.86%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 11,530 16,334 24,760
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.31% 93.45% 95.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,871 11,818 17,998
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £428 £443 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 318 281
10th Percentile £20.24 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.07 £22.50
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.64% -21.43% -
75th Percentile £50.50 £46.05 £60.00
90th Percentile £63.88 £65.32 £82.25
England median hourly rate £29.15 £37.18 £44.77
% change year-on-year -21.60% -16.94% +94.63%

Scrum Master
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Scrum Master in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Scrum Master in London

Scrum Master
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Scrum Master in London

Scrum Master
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum Master in London over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum Master in London

Scrum Master
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Scrum Master in London

Scrum Master
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 Master within the London region over the 6 months to 21 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 -4 2 £350 -37.78% 4
West London +11 1 - -
Scrum Master
England

Scrum Master Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 21 May 2025, Scrum Master contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Scrum Master in the job title.

1 32 (100.00%) Scrum
2 25 (78.13%) Agile
3 14 (43.75%) JIRA
3 14 (43.75%) Sprint Planning
4 12 (37.50%) Sprint Retrospective
5 11 (34.38%) Social Skills
6 10 (31.25%) Finance
7 9 (28.13%) Coaching
8 8 (25.00%) Product Ownership
9 7 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (21.88%) Security Cleared
9 7 (21.88%) Project Management
10 6 (18.75%) SC Cleared
10 6 (18.75%) Azure
10 6 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (18.75%) Sprint Review
10 6 (18.75%) Project Delivery
10 6 (18.75%) Backlog Management
10 6 (18.75%) Product Backlog
10 6 (18.75%) Conflict Resolution
11 5 (15.63%) Product Requirements
11 5 (15.63%) Backlog Prioritisation
11 5 (15.63%) Backlog Refinement
11 5 (15.63%) Release Management
11 5 (15.63%) SQL
12 4 (12.50%) Banking
12 4 (12.50%) DevOps
12 4 (12.50%) SFIA
12 4 (12.50%) Databricks
13 3 (9.38%) Mentoring

Scrum Master Skill Set
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 3 (9.38%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) CMS
2 1 (3.13%) Drupal
2 1 (3.13%) JBoss
2 1 (3.13%) Tomcat
2 1 (3.13%) WebLogic
2 1 (3.13%) WebSphere
2 1 (3.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Chatbot
1 1 (3.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (18.75%) Azure
2 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (6.25%) GCP
2 2 (6.25%) Miro
3 1 (3.13%) AWS
3 1 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.13%) DB2
1 1 (3.13%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 14 (43.75%) JIRA
2 2 (6.25%) Git
3 1 (3.13%) Bitbucket
General
1 11 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 10 (31.25%) Finance
3 4 (12.50%) Banking
4 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (6.25%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.13%) German Language
6 1 (3.13%) Marketing
6 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) ADO
1 1 (3.13%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (3.13%) RAML
1 1 (3.13%) REST
1 1 (3.13%) SOAP
1 1 (3.13%) Web Services
1 1 (3.13%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.25%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.13%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.13%) PropTech
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (100.00%) Scrum
2 25 (78.13%) Agile
3 14 (43.75%) Sprint Planning
4 12 (37.50%) Sprint Retrospective
5 9 (28.13%) Coaching
6 7 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (21.88%) Project Management
7 6 (18.75%) Backlog Management
7 6 (18.75%) Conflict Resolution
7 6 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (18.75%) Product Backlog
7 6 (18.75%) Project Delivery
7 6 (18.75%) Sprint Review
8 5 (15.63%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 5 (15.63%) Backlog Refinement
8 5 (15.63%) Product Requirements
8 5 (15.63%) Release Management
9 4 (12.50%) DevOps
9 4 (12.50%) SFIA
10 3 (9.38%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 5 (15.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 6 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (12.50%) Databricks
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.25%) Oracle
3 1 (3.13%) Google
3 1 (3.13%) HubSpot
3 1 (3.13%) SAP