Scrum Contracts in the North West

Scrum
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 57 52 55
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 -17
Contract jobs citing Scrum 64 91 123
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.25% 3.30% 3.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.60% 3.83% 4.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 73 98
10th Percentile £356 £302 £413
25th Percentile £391 £390 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -9.52% +9.95%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £574
90th Percentile £597 £625 £638
England median daily rate £500 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -6.98% -6.52% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £73.00 - -
25th Percentile £73.75 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £78.13 - -
90th Percentile £78.50 - -
England median hourly rate £60.25 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -7.31% - +46.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in the North West

Scrum
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Scrum in the North West

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in the North West

Scrum
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Scrum in the North West

Scrum
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Cheshire +4 34 £402 +3.08% 33
Manchester -21 15 £425 -15.00% 142
Lancashire - 6 £475 - 48
Merseyside +2 3 £600 +31.87% 11
Cumbria 0 1 - - 3
Scrum
England

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 13 (20.31%) Confluence
2 6 (9.38%) Tomcat
3 5 (7.81%) NetWeaver
4 4 (6.25%) JBoss
4 4 (6.25%) WebLogic
4 4 (6.25%) WebSphere
5 2 (3.13%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (1.56%) Appian
6 1 (1.56%) Liferay
Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (3.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (3.13%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (1.56%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (14.06%) AWS
1 9 (14.06%) Azure
2 5 (7.81%) Serverless
3 4 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (4.69%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (3.13%) Power Automate
5 2 (3.13%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.13%) PowerApps
5 2 (3.13%) SaaS
6 1 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.56%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.56%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.56%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (1.56%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.56%) GitHub
6 1 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.25%) Firewall
1 4 (6.25%) HTTP
2 3 (4.69%) HTTPS
3 2 (3.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.25%) DB2
1 4 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.69%) Oracle Database
2 3 (4.69%) Oracle Database 10g
2 3 (4.69%) Oracle Database 11g
3 2 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (3.13%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.13%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (3.13%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.13%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.56%) InfluxDB
4 1 (1.56%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.56%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (1.56%) SQLite
4 1 (1.56%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 17 (26.56%) JIRA
2 5 (7.81%) Git
3 4 (6.25%) Bitbucket
3 4 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 4 (6.25%) JUnit
3 4 (6.25%) Subversion
4 3 (4.69%) GitLab
5 2 (3.13%) CA Release Automation
5 2 (3.13%) Gradle
5 2 (3.13%) HP UFT
5 2 (3.13%) IntelliJ
5 2 (3.13%) Maven
5 2 (3.13%) NetBeans
5 2 (3.13%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (3.13%) Selenium
5 2 (3.13%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.56%) MSI
6 1 (1.56%) Toad
General
1 17 (26.56%) Social Skills
2 12 (18.75%) Finance
3 6 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (9.38%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.25%) Banking
5 1 (1.56%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.56%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.56%) Legal
5 1 (1.56%) Military
5 1 (1.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (28.13%) Developer
2 10 (15.63%) Scrum Master
3 7 (10.94%) Analyst
3 7 (10.94%) Business Analyst
3 7 (10.94%) Project Manager
4 5 (7.81%) Integration Developer
4 5 (7.81%) IT Manager
4 5 (7.81%) IT Project Manager
4 5 (7.81%) SAP Developer
4 5 (7.81%) Senior
5 4 (6.25%) Delivery Manager
5 4 (6.25%) Software Engineer
6 3 (4.69%) Architect
6 3 (4.69%) ForgeRock Engineer
6 3 (4.69%) Java Developer
6 3 (4.69%) Lead
6 3 (4.69%) Oracle Developer
6 3 (4.69%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
6 3 (4.69%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.13%) Agile Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (18.75%) SOAP
2 10 (15.63%) REST
2 10 (15.63%) Spring Boot
3 8 (12.50%) Spring
4 7 (10.94%) JDBC
4 7 (10.94%) Middleware
5 6 (9.38%) J2EE
5 6 (9.38%) Web Services
6 5 (7.81%) AngularJS
6 5 (7.81%) IDoc
6 5 (7.81%) RAML
6 5 (7.81%) SAP PI
7 4 (6.25%) EDI
7 4 (6.25%) EJB
7 4 (6.25%) JSP
7 4 (6.25%) Kafka
7 4 (6.25%) Servlets
7 4 (6.25%) WSDL
7 4 (6.25%) XML
7 4 (6.25%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 16 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 7 (10.94%) Virtual Team
3 4 (6.25%) Legacy Applications
3 4 (6.25%) Private Cloud
4 3 (4.69%) CMDB
4 3 (4.69%) Data Structures
4 3 (4.69%) PKI
4 3 (4.69%) Taxonomies
5 2 (3.13%) Client/Server
5 2 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.13%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.56%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.56%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.56%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.69%) Linux
1 3 (4.69%) Unix
2 2 (3.13%) Solaris
3 1 (1.56%) Android
3 1 (1.56%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (92.19%) Agile
2 15 (23.44%) Continuous Improvement
2 15 (23.44%) SDLC
3 14 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (17.19%) Backlog Management
4 11 (17.19%) CI/CD
4 11 (17.19%) DevOps
4 11 (17.19%) Microservices
5 10 (15.63%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 10 (15.63%) Coaching
5 10 (15.63%) Kanban
6 9 (14.06%) User Acceptance Testing
7 7 (10.94%) Budget Control
7 7 (10.94%) Project Management
7 7 (10.94%) Servant Leadership
7 7 (10.94%) Sprint Planning
7 7 (10.94%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (9.38%) Conflict Resolution
8 6 (9.38%) Situational Awareness
8 6 (9.38%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 26 (40.63%) Java
2 11 (17.19%) SQL
3 10 (15.63%) JavaScript
4 5 (7.81%) ABAP
5 4 (6.25%) Bash
5 4 (6.25%) Python
6 3 (4.69%) PL/SQL
7 2 (3.13%) C#
7 2 (3.13%) C++
7 2 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 10 (15.63%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (6.25%) Degree
4 2 (3.13%) CCNA
4 2 (3.13%) CCNP
4 2 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.56%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.56%) CBAP
5 1 (1.56%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.56%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.56%) GDPR
1 1 (1.56%) PSD2
System Software
1 4 (6.25%) Docker
2 1 (1.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (6.25%) Ansible
1 4 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (4.69%) Progress Chef
3 2 (3.13%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.13%) Puppet
4 1 (1.56%) Grafana
4 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (14.06%) Oracle
2 7 (10.94%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.94%) ServiceNow
3 5 (7.81%) SAP
4 4 (6.25%) Fortinet
4 4 (6.25%) Infoblox
5 3 (4.69%) ForgeRock
5 3 (4.69%) Ping Identity
6 2 (3.13%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (1.56%) IBM