Scrum Contracts in the North of England

Scrum
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 67 53 50
Rank change year-on-year -14 -3 -18
Contract jobs citing Scrum 105 159 232
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.19% 3.33% 3.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.54% 3.89% 4.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 121 167
10th Percentile £360 £363 £413
25th Percentile £400 £403 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -9.15% -6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £545 £550 £600
90th Percentile £608 £645 £680
England median daily rate £500 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -6.98% -6.52% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 3
10th Percentile £63.35 - -
25th Percentile £73.75 - -
Median hourly rate £77.50 - £70.00
75th Percentile £99.32 - £75.00
90th Percentile £102.00 - £78.00
England median hourly rate £60.25 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -7.31% - +46.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scrum in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Scrum in the North of England

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in the North of England

Scrum
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scrum in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Scrum in the North of England

Scrum
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Scrum in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Scrum in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the North of England 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
North West -5 64 £425 -10.53% 205
Yorkshire -15 33 £466 -9.86% 93
North East -4 8 £606 +18.24% 27
Scrum
England

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 20 (19.05%) Confluence
2 6 (5.71%) Tomcat
3 5 (4.76%) NetWeaver
4 4 (3.81%) JBoss
4 4 (3.81%) WebLogic
4 4 (3.81%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.90%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.95%) Apache
6 1 (0.95%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.95%) Appian
6 1 (0.95%) Liferay
6 1 (0.95%) nginx
6 1 (0.95%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (4.76%) MS Visio
2 4 (3.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.90%) Trello
4 1 (0.95%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.90%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (1.90%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.95%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.95%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (13.33%) Azure
2 10 (9.52%) AWS
3 7 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (6.67%) GitHub
3 7 (6.67%) Power Platform
4 5 (4.76%) Serverless
5 4 (3.81%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (3.81%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (2.86%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 3 (2.86%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 2 (1.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (1.90%) Azure AKS
7 2 (1.90%) CloudBees
7 2 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.90%) GCP
7 2 (1.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (1.90%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.90%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.81%) DNS
1 4 (3.81%) Firewall
1 4 (3.81%) HTTP
1 4 (3.81%) NAS
1 4 (3.81%) SAN
2 3 (2.86%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.90%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.95%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (4.76%) Power BI
1 5 (4.76%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.81%) DB2
2 4 (3.81%) MySQL
2 4 (3.81%) Tableau
3 3 (2.86%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.86%) Oracle Database
3 3 (2.86%) Oracle Database 10g
3 3 (2.86%) Oracle Database 11g
3 3 (2.86%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.90%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.90%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.90%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.95%) GIS
5 1 (0.95%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.95%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (0.95%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 31 (29.52%) JIRA
2 12 (11.43%) Git
3 11 (10.48%) Jenkins
4 9 (8.57%) GitLab
5 4 (3.81%) Bitbucket
5 4 (3.81%) JUnit
5 4 (3.81%) Subversion
6 3 (2.86%) Selenium
7 2 (1.90%) CA Release Automation
7 2 (1.90%) Gradle
7 2 (1.90%) HP UFT
7 2 (1.90%) IntelliJ
7 2 (1.90%) Maven
7 2 (1.90%) NetBeans
7 2 (1.90%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (1.90%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.95%) MSI
8 1 (0.95%) Postman
8 1 (0.95%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.95%) Toad
General
1 35 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 19 (18.10%) Finance
3 13 (12.38%) Public Sector
4 12 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.67%) Banking
6 4 (3.81%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.86%) Retail
8 2 (1.90%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.95%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.95%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.95%) Legal
9 1 (0.95%) Military
9 1 (0.95%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (23.81%) Developer
2 17 (16.19%) Analyst
2 17 (16.19%) Business Analyst
3 12 (11.43%) Project Manager
4 11 (10.48%) Scrum Master
5 7 (6.67%) IT Manager
5 7 (6.67%) IT Project Manager
5 7 (6.67%) Lead
6 6 (5.71%) Delivery Manager
7 5 (4.76%) Integration Developer
7 5 (4.76%) SAP Developer
7 5 (4.76%) Senior
7 5 (4.76%) Software Engineer
8 4 (3.81%) Architect
8 4 (3.81%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (2.86%) Java Developer
9 3 (2.86%) Lead Developer
9 3 (2.86%) Oracle Developer
9 3 (2.86%) Technical Analyst
9 3 (2.86%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.38%) SOAP
2 12 (11.43%) REST
3 11 (10.48%) Middleware
3 11 (10.48%) Spring Boot
4 9 (8.57%) AngularJS
4 9 (8.57%) Spring
5 7 (6.67%) JDBC
5 7 (6.67%) React
6 6 (5.71%) .NET
6 6 (5.71%) J2EE
6 6 (5.71%) Web Services
7 5 (4.76%) IDoc
7 5 (4.76%) RAML
7 5 (4.76%) SAP PI
8 4 (3.81%) JSP
8 4 (3.81%) Kafka
8 4 (3.81%) RESTful
8 4 (3.81%) Vue
8 4 (3.81%) XML
8 4 (3.81%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 26 (24.76%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.67%) Virtual Team
3 4 (3.81%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (3.81%) Legacy Applications
3 4 (3.81%) Private Cloud
4 3 (2.86%) CMDB
4 3 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.86%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.86%) PKI
4 3 (2.86%) Taxonomies
5 2 (1.90%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.90%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.90%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.90%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.95%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.95%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.67%) Linux
2 5 (4.76%) Windows
3 4 (3.81%) Android
3 4 (3.81%) Apple iOS
3 4 (3.81%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.86%) Unix
5 2 (1.90%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (91.43%) Agile
2 34 (32.38%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (27.62%) Kanban
4 27 (25.71%) Continuous Improvement
5 24 (22.86%) CI/CD
6 20 (19.05%) DevOps
7 18 (17.14%) SDLC
8 17 (16.19%) Stakeholder Management
9 15 (14.29%) Business Analysis
9 15 (14.29%) Decision-Making
9 15 (14.29%) Project Management
10 14 (13.33%) Backlog Management
11 13 (12.38%) Backlog Prioritisation
11 13 (12.38%) Coaching
11 13 (12.38%) Microservices
12 12 (11.43%) TDD
13 11 (10.48%) Sprint Planning
13 11 (10.48%) User Stories
14 10 (9.52%) Conflict Resolution
14 10 (9.52%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 30 (28.57%) Java
2 13 (12.38%) JavaScript
2 13 (12.38%) SQL
3 11 (10.48%) Python
4 6 (5.71%) Shell Script
5 5 (4.76%) ABAP
6 4 (3.81%) Bash
6 4 (3.81%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.86%) Apex Code
7 3 (2.86%) C#
7 3 (2.86%) Kotlin
7 3 (2.86%) PHP
7 3 (2.86%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.90%) C++
8 2 (1.90%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.95%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 14 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 10 (9.52%) Degree
2 10 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.81%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (3.81%) CBAP
3 4 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.86%) CSPO
5 2 (1.90%) CCNA
5 2 (1.90%) CCNP
5 2 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.90%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.95%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.95%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.95%) PMP
6 1 (0.95%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.86%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.90%) PMO
2 2 (1.90%) QA
3 1 (0.95%) GDPR
3 1 (0.95%) PSD2
3 1 (0.95%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.76%) Docker
3 4 (3.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.81%) VMware NSX
3 4 (3.81%) vSphere
4 3 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (7.62%) Ansible
2 5 (4.76%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.81%) Grafana
3 4 (3.81%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (3.81%) vCenter Server
3 4 (3.81%) vRealize
4 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.86%) Progress Chef
4 3 (2.86%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.90%) HP Data Protector
5 2 (1.90%) NetBackup
5 2 (1.90%) Puppet
5 2 (1.90%) Terraform
6 1 (0.95%) Kibana
6 1 (0.95%) logstash
6 1 (0.95%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.95%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 11 (10.48%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.52%) Oracle
3 7 (6.67%) ServiceNow
4 6 (5.71%) SAP
5 4 (3.81%) Fortinet
5 4 (3.81%) Infoblox
5 4 (3.81%) VMware
6 3 (2.86%) ForgeRock
6 3 (2.86%) Ping Identity
6 3 (2.86%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.90%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.90%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.90%) Dell
7 2 (1.90%) Google
7 2 (1.90%) Veritas
8 1 (0.95%) Databricks
8 1 (0.95%) ESRI
8 1 (0.95%) IBM
8 1 (0.95%) Veeam
8 1 (0.95%) Workday