Scrum Contracts in Northamptonshire

Scrum
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire 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 11 16 34
Rank change year-on-year +5 +18 -18
Contract jobs citing Scrum 15 9 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 10.27% 4.59% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.19% 5.14% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 8 1
10th Percentile £311 £313 -
25th Percentile £356 £356 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £386 £700
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% -44.86% +49.73%
75th Percentile £441 £408 -
90th Percentile £450 £430 -
East Midlands median daily rate £450 £419 £425
% change year-on-year +7.40% -1.41% -5.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 134 175 215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 91.78% 89.29% 89.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 127 163
10th Percentile £269 £292 £191
25th Percentile £356 £356 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £445 £375
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% +18.67% -17.58%
75th Percentile £475 £538 £500
90th Percentile £537 £620 £572
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £419 £450
% change year-on-year +6.81% -7.00% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 18 16
10th Percentile £16.88 £10.90 £16.12
25th Percentile £21.56 £14.00 £18.13
Median hourly rate £32.25 £24.50 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.63% -40.96% +50.91%
75th Percentile £45.06 £51.30 £51.50
90th Percentile £51.03 £53.30 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.36 £17.00 £18.56
% change year-on-year +7.97% -8.39% +3.10%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Job postings citing Scrum as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in Northamptonshire

Scrum
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scrum in Northamptonshire.

Daily rate trend for Scrum in Northamptonshire

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in Northamptonshire

Scrum
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the Northamptonshire 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
Northampton +3 15 £358 -7.01% 18
Scrum
East Midlands

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 3 (20.00%) Confluence
2 2 (13.33%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) SaaS
3 2 (13.33%) Azure
3 2 (13.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) MongoDB
1 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.67%) Big Data
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) JIRA
2 2 (13.33%) CA Release Automation
2 2 (13.33%) Gradle
2 2 (13.33%) HP UFT
2 2 (13.33%) IntelliJ
2 2 (13.33%) Introscope
2 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) JUnit
2 2 (13.33%) LoadRunner
2 2 (13.33%) Maven
2 2 (13.33%) NetBeans
2 2 (13.33%) Selenium
2 2 (13.33%) Subversion
General
1 7 (46.67%) Banking
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Architect
1 3 (20.00%) Digital Product Owner
1 3 (20.00%) Product Owner
1 3 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (13.33%) AWS Architect
2 2 (13.33%) AWS Solution Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Java Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Scrum Master
2 2 (13.33%) Test Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Business Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) HTML
1 4 (26.67%) J2EE
1 4 (26.67%) Web Services
2 2 (13.33%) .NET
2 2 (13.33%) Ajax
2 2 (13.33%) AngularJS
2 2 (13.33%) Bootstrap
2 2 (13.33%) CSS
2 2 (13.33%) Hibernate
2 2 (13.33%) HTML5
2 2 (13.33%) jQuery
2 2 (13.33%) Kafka
2 2 (13.33%) Node.js
2 2 (13.33%) Spring
2 2 (13.33%) Spring Boot
2 2 (13.33%) Spring Integration
2 2 (13.33%) Spring MVC
3 1 (6.67%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (13.33%) Data Structures
2 2 (13.33%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) AIX
1 2 (13.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Agile
2 5 (33.33%) Business Analysis
2 5 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 4 (26.67%) Acceptance Criteria
3 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (26.67%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
3 4 (26.67%) Decision-Making
3 4 (26.67%) Strategic Thinking
4 3 (20.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 3 (20.00%) BPR
4 3 (20.00%) Business Process Modelling
4 3 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (20.00%) IT Governance
4 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (20.00%) Product Management
4 3 (20.00%) Requirements Analysis
4 3 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (20.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) Java
2 3 (20.00%) Python
3 2 (13.33%) C
3 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (13.33%) SQL
3 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) CA Wily
1 2 (13.33%) Progress Chef
1 2 (13.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) AppDynamics
1 2 (13.33%) CA Agile Central
1 2 (13.33%) Google
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (13.33%) Splunk
1 2 (13.33%) VMware
2 1 (6.67%) HP
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) Salesforce