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 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 70 57
Rank change year-on-year +36 -13 -17
Contract jobs citing Scrum 111 69 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 5.16% 2.60% 3.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.88% 3.07% 4.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 51 90
10th Percentile £357 £373 £413
25th Percentile £389 £396 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £424 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.79% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £492 £525 £588
90th Percentile £611 £550 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £563
% change year-on-year -4.76% -6.67% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £73.00 - -
25th Percentile £73.75 £69.50 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £72.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -
75th Percentile £78.13 £74.50 -
90th Percentile £78.50 - -
England median hourly rate £55.88 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -14.04% - +15.56%

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 1,888 2,244 2,731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 87.81% 84.52% 89.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,237 1,380 1,884
10th Percentile £279 £300 £305
25th Percentile £375 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +1.01%
75th Percentile £570 £582 £588
90th Percentile £670 £675 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 240 158
10th Percentile £13.43 £10.95 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.50 £17.94
Median hourly rate £29.01 £27.00 £29.30
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% -7.85% +19.20%
75th Percentile £59.93 £47.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.38 £68.76 £56.73
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £41.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% -8.14% +59.62%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 +23 62 £420 +6.19% 11
Manchester +8 35 £418 -14.36% 85
Lancashire - 6 £475 - 66
Merseyside +2 3 £600 +33.70% 11
Cumbria +5 1 - - 1
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 23 (20.72%) Confluence
2 8 (7.21%) WebSphere
3 7 (6.31%) Tomcat
4 5 (4.50%) JBoss
4 5 (4.50%) WebLogic
5 4 (3.60%) NetWeaver
6 2 (1.80%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.90%) Appian
7 1 (0.90%) Liferay
Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.90%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.90%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.80%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.80%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (1.80%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (0.90%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (14.41%) AWS
1 16 (14.41%) Azure
2 7 (6.31%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (6.31%) GitHub
3 5 (4.50%) SaaS
3 5 (4.50%) Serverless
4 4 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (2.70%) GCP
5 3 (2.70%) IaaS
5 3 (2.70%) PaaS
5 3 (2.70%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.70%) PowerApps
6 2 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.80%) Entra ID
6 2 (1.80%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.90%) AWS CodeBuild
7 1 (0.90%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.60%) Firewall
2 3 (2.70%) HTTP
2 3 (2.70%) HTTPS
2 3 (2.70%) SAN
3 2 (1.80%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.41%) DB2
2 4 (3.60%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.70%) Oracle Database
3 3 (2.70%) Oracle Database 10g
3 3 (2.70%) Oracle Database 11g
4 2 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.80%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.80%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (1.80%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.80%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.90%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.90%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.90%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (0.90%) SQLite
5 1 (0.90%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 33 (29.73%) JIRA
2 16 (14.41%) Git
3 15 (13.51%) Jenkins
4 11 (9.91%) JUnit
5 10 (9.01%) GitLab
6 7 (6.31%) Bitbucket
7 6 (5.41%) Cucumber
7 6 (5.41%) Gradle
8 4 (3.60%) Subversion
8 4 (3.60%) Xcode
9 3 (2.70%) Selenium
10 2 (1.80%) Android Studio
10 2 (1.80%) CA Release Automation
10 2 (1.80%) HP UFT
10 2 (1.80%) IntelliJ
10 2 (1.80%) Maven
10 2 (1.80%) NetBeans
10 2 (1.80%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (1.80%) Rational DOORS
10 2 (1.80%) Visual Studio
General
1 27 (24.32%) Finance
1 27 (24.32%) Social Skills
2 19 (17.12%) Banking
3 13 (11.71%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.41%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.70%) Back Office
6 1 (0.90%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.90%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.90%) Legal
6 1 (0.90%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (27.03%) Developer
2 15 (13.51%) Scrum Master
3 11 (9.91%) Analyst
3 11 (9.91%) Business Analyst
4 9 (8.11%) Lead
5 8 (7.21%) Java Developer
5 8 (7.21%) Project Manager
6 7 (6.31%) Engineering Manager
6 7 (6.31%) Software Engineer
7 6 (5.41%) Architect
7 6 (5.41%) Delivery Manager
7 6 (5.41%) Senior
8 4 (3.60%) Integration Developer
8 4 (3.60%) iOS Developer
8 4 (3.60%) IT Manager
8 4 (3.60%) IT Project Manager
8 4 (3.60%) SAP Developer
8 4 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (3.60%) Technical Manager
9 3 (2.70%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (17.12%) REST
2 16 (14.41%) SOAP
3 15 (13.51%) Spring Boot
4 13 (11.71%) Spring
5 12 (10.81%) Web Services
6 11 (9.91%) RESTful
7 9 (8.11%) HTML
7 9 (8.11%) Kafka
7 9 (8.11%) Middleware
8 8 (7.21%) AngularJS
8 8 (7.21%) CSS
8 8 (7.21%) React
9 7 (6.31%) RAML
10 6 (5.41%) J2EE
10 6 (5.41%) JDBC
10 6 (5.41%) WSDL
11 4 (3.60%) EJB
11 4 (3.60%) JSP
11 4 (3.60%) LDAP
11 4 (3.60%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 24 (21.62%) Product Ownership
2 9 (8.11%) Virtual Team
3 8 (7.21%) Private Cloud
4 7 (6.31%) Mobile App
5 6 (5.41%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (3.60%) Mobile Banking
7 3 (2.70%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.70%) PKI
7 3 (2.70%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.80%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.80%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.80%) CMDB
8 2 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.80%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.80%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.90%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.90%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.21%) Android
1 8 (7.21%) Linux
2 6 (5.41%) Unix
3 5 (4.50%) Apple iOS
4 4 (3.60%) Windows
5 3 (2.70%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.80%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (95.50%) Agile
2 29 (26.13%) Continuous Improvement
3 27 (24.32%) Microservices
4 23 (20.72%) DevOps
4 23 (20.72%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (19.82%) SDLC
5 22 (19.82%) Sprint Planning
6 20 (18.02%) Project Management
7 18 (16.22%) Coaching
8 17 (15.32%) CI/CD
9 16 (14.41%) Sprint Retrospective
10 15 (13.51%) TDD
11 14 (12.61%) Backlog Prioritisation
11 14 (12.61%) Kanban
11 14 (12.61%) User Acceptance Testing
12 13 (11.71%) Backlog Management
13 12 (10.81%) Artificial Intelligence
13 12 (10.81%) Decision-Making
13 12 (10.81%) Process Improvement
14 11 (9.91%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 50 (45.05%) Java
2 21 (18.92%) SQL
3 19 (17.12%) JavaScript
4 14 (12.61%) Python
5 8 (7.21%) C++
6 7 (6.31%) Kotlin
7 6 (5.41%) Bash
8 4 (3.60%) ABAP
8 4 (3.60%) C
8 4 (3.60%) Objective-C
8 4 (3.60%) Ruby
8 4 (3.60%) Scala
8 4 (3.60%) Swift
9 3 (2.70%) C#
9 3 (2.70%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (10.81%) Security Cleared
2 10 (9.01%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (5.41%) Degree
4 5 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.80%) CBAP
5 2 (1.80%) CCNA
5 2 (1.80%) CCNP
5 2 (1.80%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.80%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.90%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.90%) CSPO
6 1 (0.90%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.90%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.71%) QA
2 2 (1.80%) GDPR
3 1 (0.90%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.90%) PSD2
3 1 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (5.41%) Docker
2 3 (2.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (6.31%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (5.41%) Ansible
3 4 (3.60%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.70%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.80%) Podman
5 2 (1.80%) Puppet
5 2 (1.80%) SELinux
6 1 (0.90%) Grafana
6 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.90%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (12.61%) Microsoft
1 14 (12.61%) Oracle
2 13 (11.71%) ServiceNow
3 5 (4.50%) SAP
4 4 (3.60%) Fortinet
4 4 (3.60%) IBM
4 4 (3.60%) Infoblox
4 4 (3.60%) Ping Identity
5 3 (2.70%) Citrix
5 3 (2.70%) F5
5 3 (2.70%) ForgeRock
5 3 (2.70%) HP
5 3 (2.70%) VMware
6 2 (1.80%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.90%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.90%) Okta