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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 52 30
Rank change year-on-year +16 -22 -13
Contract jobs citing Scrum 100 86 193
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.05% 3.19% 5.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.72% 3.90% 6.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 65 146
10th Percentile £336 £357 £375
25th Percentile £375 £360 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £488 £575 £600
90th Percentile £568 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £533 £575
% change year-on-year -6.10% -7.39% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £37.02 - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -11.54% - +44.44%

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 1,747 2,205 2,872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.28% 81.91% 88.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,151 1,487 2,014
10th Percentile £200 £235 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £468 £498
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% -6.03% +4.74%
75th Percentile £558 £596 £595
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 169 102
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.06 £12.05
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.91 £14.64
Median hourly rate £18.75 £18.00 £22.34
Median % change year-on-year +4.18% -19.41% +27.41%
75th Percentile £25.11 £33.25 £38.96
90th Percentile £48.20 £55.00 £57.25
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.77
% change year-on-year -21.23% -0.73% +47.08%

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 22 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

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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 22 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 +7 65 £475 -5.00% 93
East Midlands +23 35 £391 -3.52% 62
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 10 (10.00%) Confluence
2 3 (3.00%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.00%) JBoss
3 1 (1.00%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.00%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.00%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (3.00%) Revit
2 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.00%) Primavera
2 1 (1.00%) SAP BRIM
2 1 (1.00%) SAP CRM
2 1 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 33 (33.00%) AWS
2 23 (23.00%) Azure
3 12 (12.00%) Amazon S3
4 11 (11.00%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
5 10 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (9.00%) GCP
7 6 (6.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (6.00%) AWS KMS
7 6 (6.00%) Power Platform
7 6 (6.00%) Route 53
8 4 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (4.00%) SaaS
9 2 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.00%) Serverless
10 1 (1.00%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (1.00%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (1.00%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.00%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.00%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.00%) Firewall
1 4 (4.00%) HTTP
2 2 (2.00%) BGP
2 2 (2.00%) DHCP
2 2 (2.00%) DNS
2 2 (2.00%) EIGRP
2 2 (2.00%) IPsec
2 2 (2.00%) Network Security
2 2 (2.00%) OSPF
2 2 (2.00%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (2.00%) SSL
2 2 (2.00%) TACACS
2 2 (2.00%) VLAN
2 2 (2.00%) VPN
2 2 (2.00%) Wireless
3 1 (1.00%) Converged Networks
3 1 (1.00%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.00%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (9.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (8.00%) DynamoDB
5 5 (5.00%) Power BI
5 5 (5.00%) SQL Server
6 4 (4.00%) MongoDB
6 4 (4.00%) NoSQL
6 4 (4.00%) Relational Database
7 3 (3.00%) RDBMS
8 2 (2.00%) Big Data
8 2 (2.00%) DB2
9 1 (1.00%) DataStage
9 1 (1.00%) GIS
9 1 (1.00%) IDMS
9 1 (1.00%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.00%) QualityStage
Development Applications
1 22 (22.00%) JIRA
2 16 (16.00%) Git
2 16 (16.00%) Jenkins
3 15 (15.00%) JUnit
4 11 (11.00%) Maven
4 11 (11.00%) Mockito
5 8 (8.00%) SonarQube
6 5 (5.00%) Selenium
7 3 (3.00%) Bitbucket Server
7 3 (3.00%) DbUnit
7 3 (3.00%) jMock
8 2 (2.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (2.00%) HP UFT
8 2 (2.00%) IntelliJ
8 2 (2.00%) Introscope
8 2 (2.00%) JMeter
8 2 (2.00%) LoadRunner
8 2 (2.00%) NetBeans
8 2 (2.00%) Subversion
8 2 (2.00%) TeamCity
General
1 23 (23.00%) Finance
2 19 (19.00%) Social Skills
3 16 (16.00%) Public Sector
4 12 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (11.00%) Banking
6 5 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.00%) Legal
8 3 (3.00%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.00%) Automotive
9 2 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.00%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.00%) Marketing
10 1 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.00%) Publishing
10 1 (1.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (28.00%) Developer
2 19 (19.00%) Java Developer
3 10 (10.00%) Architect
3 10 (10.00%) Lead
3 10 (10.00%) Product Owner
4 9 (9.00%) Scrum Master
5 8 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
5 8 (8.00%) Tester
6 6 (6.00%) Android Developer
6 6 (6.00%) Project Manager
6 6 (6.00%) Senior
7 5 (5.00%) Analyst
7 5 (5.00%) Product Manager
8 4 (4.00%) Lead Developer
8 4 (4.00%) Lead Java Developer
8 4 (4.00%) Senior Developer
9 3 (3.00%) AWS Architect
9 3 (3.00%) Digital Product Owner
9 3 (3.00%) IT Project Manager
9 3 (3.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (19.00%) Spring
2 17 (17.00%) REST
3 16 (16.00%) Spring Boot
3 16 (16.00%) Web Services
4 14 (14.00%) Hibernate
5 11 (11.00%) SOAP
6 9 (9.00%) ActiveMQ
6 9 (9.00%) AngularJS
6 9 (9.00%) Bootstrap
6 9 (9.00%) RESTful
7 8 (8.00%) JPA
8 7 (7.00%) .NET
8 7 (7.00%) HTML
8 7 (7.00%) Spring Integration
9 6 (6.00%) Android Jetpack
9 6 (6.00%) Jetpack Compose
9 6 (6.00%) Spring Cloud
10 5 (5.00%) J2EE
10 5 (5.00%) Kafka
10 5 (5.00%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 22 (22.00%) Product Ownership
2 8 (8.00%) SCADA
3 6 (6.00%) Mobile App
4 5 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.00%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.00%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.00%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.00%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.00%) NHS
7 1 (1.00%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.00%) PMI
7 1 (1.00%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.00%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.00%) Android
2 5 (5.00%) Unix
3 3 (3.00%) Linux
4 2 (2.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (89.00%) Agile
2 25 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 24 (24.00%) DevOps
4 22 (22.00%) Microservices
5 19 (19.00%) TDD
6 15 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 14 (14.00%) SDLC
7 14 (14.00%) User Stories
8 13 (13.00%) Decision-Making
8 13 (13.00%) Product Management
8 13 (13.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 13 (13.00%) Test Automation
9 12 (12.00%) Change Management
9 12 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (12.00%) Kanban
9 12 (12.00%) Project Management
10 11 (11.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
11 10 (10.00%) Product Backlog
11 10 (10.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 24 (24.00%) Java
2 19 (19.00%) SQL
3 11 (11.00%) JavaScript
4 6 (6.00%) Kotlin
4 6 (6.00%) Python
5 4 (4.00%) C#
6 3 (3.00%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.00%) C
8 1 (1.00%) ABAP
8 1 (1.00%) COBOL
8 1 (1.00%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (17.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (14.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.00%) Degree
4 2 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.00%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.00%) PMP
5 1 (1.00%) APMP
5 1 (1.00%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.00%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.00%) CISSP
5 1 (1.00%) ISEB
5 1 (1.00%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (1.00%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.00%) QA
2 2 (2.00%) PMO
2 2 (2.00%) SLA
3 1 (1.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.00%) Automotive SPICE
3 1 (1.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.00%) ISO 26262
3 1 (1.00%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (16.00%) Docker
2 4 (4.00%) Postfix
3 2 (2.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (7.00%) Grafana
1 7 (7.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.00%) HP ALM
2 6 (6.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.00%) CA Wily
3 2 (2.00%) Nagios
3 2 (2.00%) Progress Chef
3 2 (2.00%) Puppet
3 2 (2.00%) Terraform
4 1 (1.00%) Ansible
4 1 (1.00%) Argo
Vendors
1 13 (13.00%) Oracle
2 12 (12.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.00%) HP
4 6 (6.00%) Salesforce
5 5 (5.00%) Atlassian
5 5 (5.00%) Jaspersoft
5 5 (5.00%) MuleSoft
6 4 (4.00%) Cisco
6 4 (4.00%) Google
6 4 (4.00%) Splunk
7 3 (3.00%) Autodesk
7 3 (3.00%) SAP
7 3 (3.00%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.00%) AppDynamics
8 2 (2.00%) Arista
8 2 (2.00%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (2.00%) Juniper
8 2 (2.00%) SolarWinds
8 2 (2.00%) VMware
9 1 (1.00%) Teradata