Scrum Contracts in the Midlands

Scrum
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 39 48 28
Rank change year-on-year +9 -20 -11
Contract jobs citing Scrum 80 90 245
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.18% 3.26% 7.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.77% 3.97% 8.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 67 185
10th Percentile £356 £357 £393
25th Percentile £410 £365 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% -7.06% +3.07%
75th Percentile £509 £609 £575
90th Percentile £571 £688 £688
England median daily rate £500 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -6.98% -6.52% +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
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 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

Scrum
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 1 May 2025.

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

Scrum
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 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
West Midlands 0 55 £483 -3.40% 119
East Midlands +18 25 £450 +7.40% 66
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 (11.25%) Confluence
2 2 (2.50%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Revit
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.25%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 25 (31.25%) AWS
2 19 (23.75%) Azure
3 9 (11.25%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (10.00%) Amazon S3
5 7 (8.75%) Amazon SQS
6 6 (7.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (7.50%) AWS KMS
6 6 (7.50%) Route 53
7 5 (6.25%) GCP
8 4 (5.00%) SaaS
9 3 (3.75%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.25%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.25%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.25%) Datadog
10 1 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.25%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.25%) Serverless
10 1 (1.25%) SonarCloud
10 1 (1.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.50%) HTTP
2 1 (1.25%) Converged Networks
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 7 (8.75%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (8.75%) DynamoDB
4 6 (7.50%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (6.25%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.75%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.75%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.75%) RDBMS
7 2 (2.50%) Big Data
7 2 (2.50%) IDMS
7 2 (2.50%) Power BI
8 1 (1.25%) DataStage
8 1 (1.25%) DB2
8 1 (1.25%) GIS
8 1 (1.25%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.25%) QualityStage
Development Applications
1 17 (21.25%) JIRA
2 12 (15.00%) Git
2 12 (15.00%) Jenkins
3 11 (13.75%) JUnit
4 8 (10.00%) Maven
5 7 (8.75%) Mockito
6 5 (6.25%) Selenium
7 4 (5.00%) SonarQube
8 3 (3.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (3.75%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (3.75%) Cucumber
8 3 (3.75%) Cypress.io
8 3 (3.75%) DbUnit
8 3 (3.75%) jMock
8 3 (3.75%) Postman
9 2 (2.50%) Bitbucket
9 2 (2.50%) Gradle
9 2 (2.50%) Introscope
9 2 (2.50%) NetBeans
9 2 (2.50%) Subversion
General
1 14 (17.50%) Finance
1 14 (17.50%) Social Skills
2 11 (13.75%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (11.25%) Banking
4 7 (8.75%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.75%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.50%) General Ledger
7 2 (2.50%) Legal
7 2 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.25%) Automotive
8 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.25%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 20 (25.00%) Developer
2 12 (15.00%) Java Developer
3 11 (13.75%) Architect
4 10 (12.50%) Lead
5 9 (11.25%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (8.75%) Tester
7 6 (7.50%) Project Manager
7 6 (7.50%) Scrum Master
7 6 (7.50%) Senior
8 5 (6.25%) Android Developer
8 5 (6.25%) Product Manager
8 5 (6.25%) Product Owner
9 3 (3.75%) Analyst
9 3 (3.75%) AWS Architect
9 3 (3.75%) Digital Product Owner
9 3 (3.75%) IT Manager
9 3 (3.75%) IT Project Manager
9 3 (3.75%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 3 (3.75%) Senior Developer
9 3 (3.75%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (16.25%) Web Services
2 12 (15.00%) Spring
2 12 (15.00%) Spring Boot
3 11 (13.75%) Hibernate
4 10 (12.50%) .NET
5 9 (11.25%) REST
5 9 (11.25%) RESTful
6 8 (10.00%) AngularJS
7 7 (8.75%) Bootstrap
7 7 (8.75%) HTML
7 7 (8.75%) SOAP
7 7 (8.75%) Spring Integration
8 6 (7.50%) ActiveMQ
8 6 (7.50%) JPA
9 5 (6.25%) Android Jetpack
9 5 (6.25%) Jetpack Compose
9 5 (6.25%) jQuery
9 5 (6.25%) Middleware
9 5 (6.25%) Spring Batch
10 4 (5.00%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.75%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.25%) Mobile App
2 5 (6.25%) SCADA
3 4 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.75%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.50%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.50%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.25%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.25%) NHS
6 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.25%) PMI
6 1 (1.25%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.25%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.25%) Android
1 5 (6.25%) Linux
2 4 (5.00%) Unix
3 2 (2.50%) AIX
3 2 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (88.75%) Agile
2 22 (27.50%) Microservices
3 20 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 18 (22.50%) DevOps
5 15 (18.75%) Test Automation
6 14 (17.50%) TDD
7 13 (16.25%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (15.00%) Kanban
8 12 (15.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 12 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (15.00%) User Stories
9 11 (13.75%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (11.25%) Decision-Making
10 9 (11.25%) Product Management
10 9 (11.25%) SDLC
11 8 (10.00%) Business Strategy
11 8 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
11 8 (10.00%) Risk Management
11 8 (10.00%) Roadmaps
11 8 (10.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 16 (20.00%) Java
1 16 (20.00%) SQL
2 11 (13.75%) JavaScript
3 9 (11.25%) Python
4 5 (6.25%) C#
4 5 (6.25%) Kotlin
5 3 (3.75%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.50%) C
6 2 (2.50%) COBOL
7 1 (1.25%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (12.50%) Degree
2 9 (11.25%) Security Cleared
3 8 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.00%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.50%) ISEB
5 2 (2.50%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.50%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 2 (2.50%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.50%) PMP
6 1 (1.25%) APMP
6 1 (1.25%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.25%) CISSP
6 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.25%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (1.25%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.75%) QA
2 2 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.25%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.25%) SLA
3 1 (1.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (16.25%) Docker
2 4 (5.00%) Postfix
3 1 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (7.50%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.25%) Grafana
2 5 (6.25%) HP ALM
3 4 (5.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.50%) CA Wily
4 2 (2.50%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.50%) Puppet
4 2 (2.50%) Terraform
5 1 (1.25%) Ansible
5 1 (1.25%) Argo
Vendors
1 10 (12.50%) Oracle
2 9 (11.25%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.50%) HP
4 5 (6.25%) Jaspersoft
4 5 (6.25%) MuleSoft
5 4 (5.00%) Atlassian
5 4 (5.00%) Splunk
6 3 (3.75%) Autodesk
6 3 (3.75%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.50%) AppDynamics
7 2 (2.50%) Bloomberg
7 2 (2.50%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (2.50%) Google
7 2 (2.50%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.50%) VMware
8 1 (1.25%) Databricks
8 1 (1.25%) IBM
8 1 (1.25%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.25%) SAP
8 1 (1.25%) Siemens