Scrum Contracts in the North West

Scrum
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 53 42
Rank change year-on-year +1 -11 -8
Contract jobs citing Scrum 92 123 199
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.33% 3.83% 4.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.86% 4.23% 5.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 98 106
10th Percentile £303 £413 £363
25th Percentile £390 £488 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +9.38% +3.23%
75th Percentile £536 £574 £575
90th Percentile £625 £638 £634
England median daily rate £538 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £33.34
25th Percentile - - £35.09
Median hourly rate - - £41.36
75th Percentile - - £44.03
90th Percentile - - £45.38
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year - +46.07% -21.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,385 2,910 3,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.32% 90.57% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,526 2,071 2,633
10th Percentile £306 £313 £230
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £589 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 145 164
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.49 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.28 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +10.64%
75th Percentile £45.44 £48.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in the North West

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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

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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 27 April 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
Manchester -2 56 £500 -2.44% 58
Cheshire +17 29 £390 -29.09% 12
Merseyside +4 5 £455 -13.33% 3
Cumbria - 2 £515 - 2
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 5 (5.43%) Apache
1 5 (5.43%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (5.43%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.17%) Mule
Applications
1 7 (7.61%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.09%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (7.61%) Primavera
2 5 (5.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.09%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 28 (30.43%) AWS
2 17 (18.48%) Azure
3 9 (9.78%) Amazon EC2
3 9 (9.78%) Amazon S3
3 9 (9.78%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (9.78%) Serverless
4 6 (6.52%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (6.52%) Power Platform
5 5 (5.43%) Amazon EMR
5 5 (5.43%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (5.43%) Snowflake
6 4 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.35%) npm
6 4 (4.35%) OCI
6 4 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (4.35%) Yarn
7 3 (3.26%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (3.26%) GitHub
8 2 (2.17%) Miro
8 2 (2.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.70%) PPP
2 5 (5.43%) FTP
3 2 (2.17%) DMZ
3 2 (2.17%) Firewall
3 2 (2.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (6.52%) Relational Database
2 5 (5.43%) Big Data
2 5 (5.43%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (4.35%) Redis
4 3 (3.26%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.17%) Power BI
6 1 (1.09%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.09%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.09%) DataStage
6 1 (1.09%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (16.30%) Git
2 12 (13.04%) JIRA
3 6 (6.52%) JUnit
4 5 (5.43%) GitLab
5 4 (4.35%) Jasmine
5 4 (4.35%) Jenkins
5 4 (4.35%) Karma Test Runner
5 4 (4.35%) Mocha
5 4 (4.35%) webpack
6 2 (2.17%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.17%) Gatling
6 2 (2.17%) Liquibase
6 2 (2.17%) Log4j
6 2 (2.17%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.09%) ERwin
7 1 (1.09%) Visual Studio
General
1 38 (41.30%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.04%) Public Sector
3 9 (9.78%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.70%) Finance
5 6 (6.52%) Legal
5 6 (6.52%) Manufacturing
5 6 (6.52%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (5.43%) Banking
7 4 (4.35%) Law
8 2 (2.17%) Front Office
8 2 (2.17%) Marketing
9 1 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.09%) French Language
9 1 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (32.61%) Developer
2 11 (11.96%) Scrum Master
3 8 (8.70%) Java Developer
3 8 (8.70%) Salesforce Developer
4 6 (6.52%) AWS Developer
4 6 (6.52%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (6.52%) Project Manager
5 5 (5.43%) .NET Developer
5 5 (5.43%) Architect
5 5 (5.43%) Data Engineer
5 5 (5.43%) Development Manager
5 5 (5.43%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 4 (4.35%) Analyst
6 4 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (4.35%) Business Analyst
6 4 (4.35%) Delivery Manager
6 4 (4.35%) React Developer
6 4 (4.35%) Software Development Manager
6 4 (4.35%) Software Manager
6 4 (4.35%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (17.39%) React
2 14 (15.22%) .NET
3 10 (10.87%) Web Services
4 9 (9.78%) REST
5 8 (8.70%) Hibernate
5 8 (8.70%) RESTful
6 6 (6.52%) .NET Framework
6 6 (6.52%) JPA
6 6 (6.52%) JSON
6 6 (6.52%) Kafka
6 6 (6.52%) Spring
6 6 (6.52%) Spring Boot
6 6 (6.52%) XML
7 5 (5.43%) .NET Core
7 5 (5.43%) OAuth
7 5 (5.43%) OAuth2
7 5 (5.43%) OpenID
8 4 (4.35%) AngularJS
9 3 (3.26%) HTML
10 2 (2.17%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.78%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (5.43%) Algorithms
3 4 (4.35%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.09%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.09%) IoT
4 1 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.09%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.09%) PMI
4 1 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.26%) Windows
2 1 (1.09%) Linux
2 1 (1.09%) Unix
2 1 (1.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (89.13%) Agile
2 22 (23.91%) DevOps
3 16 (17.39%) CI/CD
3 16 (17.39%) Kanban
3 16 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (13.04%) Risk Management
4 12 (13.04%) Test Automation
4 12 (13.04%) Unit Testing
5 11 (11.96%) Decision-Making
5 11 (11.96%) Mentoring
5 11 (11.96%) Microservices
5 11 (11.96%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (11.96%) Project Management
5 11 (11.96%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 11 (11.96%) User Stories
6 10 (10.87%) Front End Development
6 10 (10.87%) Sprint Planning
7 9 (9.78%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (9.78%) OOP
7 9 (9.78%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 21 (22.83%) Java
2 20 (21.74%) C#
3 13 (14.13%) SQL
4 12 (13.04%) Python
4 12 (13.04%) TypeScript
5 8 (8.70%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.35%) Bash
7 2 (2.17%) Scala
8 1 (1.09%) X++
Qualifications
1 21 (22.83%) Security Cleared
2 20 (21.74%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.87%) Degree
4 6 (6.52%) DV Cleared
5 4 (4.35%) PMI Certification
6 3 (3.26%) PMP
7 1 (1.09%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.35%) GDPR
1 4 (4.35%) QA
2 1 (1.09%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.09%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (10.87%) Docker
2 1 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (10.87%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.43%) Ansible
2 5 (5.43%) Terraform
3 1 (1.09%) Grafana
3 1 (1.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (15.22%) Salesforce
2 8 (8.70%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.43%) Informatica
3 5 (5.43%) Talend
4 4 (4.35%) Oracle
5 2 (2.17%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.09%) Cisco
6 1 (1.09%) Embarcadero
6 1 (1.09%) Meraki
6 1 (1.09%) PagerDuty
6 1 (1.09%) VMware