Scrum Contracts in Manchester

Scrum
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 44 47
Rank change year-on-year -18 +3 -12
Contract jobs citing Scrum 18 53 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.02% 3.74% 3.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.27% 4.30% 4.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 44 61
10th Percentile £394 £413 £413
25th Percentile £412 £450 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £522 £575 £588
90th Percentile £548 £643 £650
North West median daily rate £425 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -15.00% -4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £73.00 - -
25th Percentile £73.75 £69.50 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £72.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -
75th Percentile £78.13 £74.50 -
90th Percentile £78.50 - -
North West median hourly rate £75.00 £72.00 -
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 794 1,233 1,644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.21% 86.89% 90.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 551 843 1,202
10th Percentile £300 £325 £318
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% - -
75th Percentile £575 £598 £600
90th Percentile £675 £694 £675
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 75 50
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.44 £16.53
25th Percentile £24.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +130.77% -25.71% +93.21%
75th Percentile £73.75 £60.63 £47.50
90th Percentile £85.35 £73.70 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £32.00 £24.19 £35.03
% change year-on-year +32.29% -30.94% +52.12%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in Manchester

Scrum
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Scrum in Manchester

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in Manchester over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in Manchester

Scrum
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Scrum in Manchester

Scrum
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 19 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
Bolton -6 3 - - 12
Stockport -5 2 - - 5
Salford - 1 £300 - 6
Scrum
North West

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 5 (27.78%) Confluence
2 1 (5.56%) Liferay
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) Azure
2 4 (22.22%) AWS
2 4 (22.22%) Serverless
3 3 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (11.11%) GitHub
4 2 (11.11%) Power Automate
4 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 2 (11.11%) PowerApps
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.56%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
2 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.56%) InfluxDB
3 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) JIRA
2 2 (11.11%) Subversion
2 2 (11.11%) Visual Studio
3 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Finance
3 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Aerospace
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Developer
2 3 (16.67%) IT Manager
2 3 (16.67%) IT Project Manager
2 3 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Dynamics 365 Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Java Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Senior
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Software Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Software Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) User Researcher
4 1 (5.56%) Agile Delivery Lead
4 1 (5.56%) C++ Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Digital Delivery Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (5.56%) IT Technical Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Java Software Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Lead
4 1 (5.56%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) RESTful
2 2 (11.11%) .NET
2 2 (11.11%) AngularJS
2 2 (11.11%) AWS CDK
2 2 (11.11%) Node.js
2 2 (11.11%) Spring
2 2 (11.11%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.56%) HTML
3 1 (5.56%) Java EE
3 1 (5.56%) NestJS
3 1 (5.56%) Next.js
3 1 (5.56%) React
3 1 (5.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (11.11%) Virtual Team
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (5.56%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) Agile
2 7 (38.89%) Microservices
3 4 (22.22%) Kanban
3 4 (22.22%) Project Management
4 3 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 3 (16.67%) Coaching
4 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (16.67%) DevOps
4 3 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (16.67%) Generative AI
4 3 (16.67%) LLM
4 3 (16.67%) Machine Learning
4 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (11.11%) Containerisation
5 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (11.11%) Project Delivery
5 2 (11.11%) SDLC
5 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
5 2 (11.11%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) SQL
2 3 (16.67%) Java
2 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.11%) C#
3 2 (11.11%) C++
3 2 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) DBS Check
2 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Grafana
1 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (5.56%) IBM
3 1 (5.56%) Ping Identity