Scrum Contracts in the Midlands

Scrum
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Scrum skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Scrum over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 27 16
Rank change year-on-year -23 -11 +8
Contract jobs citing Scrum 91 216 443
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.35% 6.43% 8.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.08% 7.28% 10.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 165 343
10th Percentile £357 £384 £376
25th Percentile £368 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +22.95%
75th Percentile £602 £594 £600
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
England median daily rate £533 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -7.39% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.25
Median hourly rate - - £26.25
75th Percentile - - £33.00
90th Percentile - - £35.70
England median hourly rate £63.75 £65.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -1.92% +44.44% -20.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Scrum is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,231 2,965 4,364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.14% 88.30% 88.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,491 2,075 3,214
10th Percentile £235 £249 £250
25th Percentile £356 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +3.16% +15.15%
75th Percentile £600 £590 £573
90th Percentile £700 £688 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 107 145
10th Percentile £11.06 £11.92 £10.50
25th Percentile £13.71 £14.76 £13.73
Median hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +14.29% +13.09%
75th Percentile £35.00 £31.00 £22.75
90th Percentile £55.00 £56.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.38% +49.28% +6.38%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Scrum in the Midlands

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in the Midlands

Scrum
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Scrum in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 May 2024. 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
West Midlands -23 73 £510 -5.20% 79
East Midlands +4 18 £413 -2.82% 33
Scrum
England

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 9 (9.89%) CICS
1 9 (9.89%) SAS
2 3 (3.30%) CMS
2 3 (3.30%) Drupal
3 2 (2.20%) Confluence
4 1 (1.10%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (2.20%) Trello
2 1 (1.10%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (3.30%) NetSuite
2 2 (2.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.20%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 16 (17.58%) Azure
2 11 (12.09%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (6.59%) AWS
4 5 (5.49%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (4.40%) Boomi
6 3 (3.30%) GCP
6 3 (3.30%) GitHub
7 2 (2.20%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.20%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.20%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 2 (2.20%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 2 (2.20%) Serverless
8 1 (1.10%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (1.10%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.10%) Azure App Service
8 1 (1.10%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (1.10%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.10%) Miro
8 1 (1.10%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.30%) DNS
1 3 (3.30%) SSL
2 2 (2.20%) LAN
2 2 (2.20%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.20%) VPN
2 2 (2.20%) WAN
3 1 (1.10%) FTP
3 1 (1.10%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (15.38%) Amazon Redshift
1 14 (15.38%) MySQL
2 9 (9.89%) DB2
2 9 (9.89%) IDMS
3 2 (2.20%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.20%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.10%) Big Data
4 1 (1.10%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.10%) Flink
4 1 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 31 (34.07%) Git
2 7 (7.69%) JIRA
3 4 (4.40%) Ant
3 4 (4.40%) Artifactory
4 3 (3.30%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.30%) JMeter
4 3 (3.30%) Selenium
4 3 (3.30%) Subversion
5 2 (2.20%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.10%) JUnit
6 1 (1.10%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.10%) TeamCity
General
1 27 (29.67%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.09%) Finance
3 8 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.59%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.40%) Banking
5 4 (4.40%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.20%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.10%) Electronics
8 1 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.10%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 25 (27.47%) Developer
2 11 (12.09%) Analyst
2 11 (12.09%) Business Analyst
3 9 (9.89%) IBM Mainframe Developer
3 9 (9.89%) Mainframe Developer
4 8 (8.79%) Project Manager
4 8 (8.79%) SQL Developer
5 6 (6.59%) Architect
5 6 (6.59%) Scrum Master
5 6 (6.59%) Senior
6 5 (5.49%) Lead
7 4 (4.40%) Infrastructure Manager
7 4 (4.40%) Network Infrastructure Manager
7 4 (4.40%) Network Manager
8 3 (3.30%) Infrastructure Test Manager
8 3 (3.30%) Java Developer
8 3 (3.30%) Performance Engineer
8 3 (3.30%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.30%) Test Engineer
8 3 (3.30%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.49%) HTML
2 4 (4.40%) XML
3 3 (3.30%) ADO
3 3 (3.30%) CSS
3 3 (3.30%) Visualforce
4 2 (2.20%) .NET
4 2 (2.20%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.20%) JSON
4 2 (2.20%) Kafka
4 2 (2.20%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (2.20%) OAuth
4 2 (2.20%) SAML
4 2 (2.20%) Spring
4 2 (2.20%) Web Services
5 1 (1.10%) Ajax
5 1 (1.10%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.10%) React
5 1 (1.10%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.10%) Swagger
5 1 (1.10%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 9 (9.89%) IBM Mainframe
2 9 (9.89%) Mainframe
3 5 (5.49%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.40%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.30%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.30%) Private Cloud
5 3 (3.30%) Taxonomies
6 2 (2.20%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.20%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.10%) CMDB
7 1 (1.10%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.10%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.10%) PMI
7 1 (1.10%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.99%) Unix
2 9 (9.89%) zOS
3 3 (3.30%) Linux
4 2 (2.20%) Windows
5 1 (1.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (93.41%) Agile
2 26 (28.57%) Requirements Gathering
3 21 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
4 19 (20.88%) Continuous Integration
5 18 (19.78%) DevOps
6 17 (18.68%) Configuration Management
6 17 (18.68%) Software Engineering
6 17 (18.68%) Test Strategy
7 16 (17.58%) Analytics
7 16 (17.58%) Project Management
8 15 (16.48%) Dashboard Development
8 15 (16.48%) Data Analytics
8 15 (16.48%) Data Extraction
8 15 (16.48%) ETL
9 13 (14.29%) Software Testing
10 12 (13.19%) Process Improvement
10 12 (13.19%) User Stories
10 12 (13.19%) Waterfall
11 11 (12.09%) CI/CD
11 11 (12.09%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 9 (9.89%) CLIST
1 9 (9.89%) COBOL
1 9 (9.89%) REXX
1 9 (9.89%) SELCOPY
1 9 (9.89%) SQL
2 7 (7.69%) Bash
2 7 (7.69%) Bourne shell
2 7 (7.69%) Korn
2 7 (7.69%) PL/SQL
3 5 (5.49%) Java
3 5 (5.49%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.30%) Apex Code
4 3 (3.30%) Perl
5 2 (2.20%) C#
5 2 (2.20%) Python
5 2 (2.20%) SOQL
6 1 (1.10%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (26.37%) Security Cleared
2 21 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 9 (9.89%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (6.59%) Degree
5 5 (5.49%) PMI Certification
5 5 (5.49%) PMP
6 4 (4.40%) ISEB
7 3 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (3.30%) ISTQB
8 2 (2.20%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.10%) APMG
9 1 (1.10%) APMP
9 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.10%) CBAP
9 1 (1.10%) CCNP
9 1 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.10%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.79%) QA
System Software
1 3 (3.30%) Docker
2 1 (1.10%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (15.38%) Grafana
2 4 (4.40%) Ansible
2 4 (4.40%) Terraform
3 2 (2.20%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.10%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.10%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.10%) Puppet
4 1 (1.10%) Rancher
Vendors
1 14 (15.38%) Denodo
1 14 (15.38%) Talend
2 13 (14.29%) Salesforce
3 11 (12.09%) IBM
4 9 (9.89%) Oracle
4 9 (9.89%) Syncsort
5 5 (5.49%) Microsoft
6 4 (4.40%) SAP
6 4 (4.40%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.20%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.10%) Dell
8 1 (1.10%) Guidewire
8 1 (1.10%) Planview
8 1 (1.10%) Sage
8 1 (1.10%) VMware