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

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 19 32
Rank change year-on-year +6 +13 -17
Contract jobs citing Scrum 39 14 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 13.13% 5.24% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.78% 5.93% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 14 1
10th Percentile £311 £355 -
25th Percentile £355 £357 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £386 £700
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% -44.86% +40.00%
75th Percentile £388 £433 -
90th Percentile £430 £463 -
East Midlands median daily rate £375 £371 £423
% change year-on-year +1.01% -12.13% -15.50%

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 283 236 196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 95.29% 88.39% 88.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 183 144
10th Percentile £268 £355 £213
25th Percentile £344 £375 £329
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £445 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.61% -1.11% -3.23%
75th Percentile £448 £558 £545
90th Percentile £525 £619 £602
East Midlands median daily rate £410 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -8.79% -5.37% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 15
10th Percentile £17.57 £37.25 £25.90
25th Percentile - £40.62 £42.77
Median hourly rate £21.39 £48.48 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.87% -4.95% +45.71%
75th Percentile - £55.36 £51.50
90th Percentile £38.20 £58.14 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £18.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year +4.83% -59.78% +108.14%

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 27 July 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 27 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
Northampton +10 38 £359 -6.14% 5
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 (7.69%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) JBoss
2 1 (2.56%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.56%) WebLogic
2 1 (2.56%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 12 (30.77%) AWS
2 7 (17.95%) Azure
3 6 (15.38%) SaaS
4 4 (10.26%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.56%) DB2
2 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (10.26%) JUnit
2 3 (7.69%) JIRA
3 2 (5.13%) CA Release Automation
3 2 (5.13%) Gradle
3 2 (5.13%) HP UFT
3 2 (5.13%) IntelliJ
3 2 (5.13%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.13%) Maven
3 2 (5.13%) Mockito
3 2 (5.13%) NetBeans
3 2 (5.13%) Selenium
3 2 (5.13%) SonarQube
3 2 (5.13%) Subversion
3 2 (5.13%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.56%) Git
General
1 16 (41.03%) Finance
2 13 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 11 (28.21%) Banking
4 7 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (10.26%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.56%) Legal
7 1 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (25.64%) Product Owner
2 8 (20.51%) Analyst
2 8 (20.51%) Business Analyst
3 7 (17.95%) Scrum Master
4 6 (15.38%) Developer
4 6 (15.38%) Digital Product Owner
5 5 (12.82%) Java Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Architect
6 3 (7.69%) Lead
6 3 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.13%) AWS Architect
7 2 (5.13%) AWS Solution Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Delivery Manager
8 1 (2.56%) Change Manager
8 1 (2.56%) Cloud Architect
8 1 (2.56%) Cloud Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.56%) Payments Business Analyst
8 1 (2.56%) Senior Developer
8 1 (2.56%) Senior Java Developer
8 1 (2.56%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.38%) REST
2 5 (12.82%) Hibernate
2 5 (12.82%) Spring
3 4 (10.26%) LDAP
4 3 (7.69%) FIDO
4 3 (7.69%) J2EE
4 3 (7.69%) Kafka
4 3 (7.69%) Web Services
5 2 (5.13%) Ajax
5 2 (5.13%) AngularJS
5 2 (5.13%) Bootstrap
5 2 (5.13%) CSS
5 2 (5.13%) HTML
5 2 (5.13%) HTML5
5 2 (5.13%) JMS
5 2 (5.13%) jQuery
5 2 (5.13%) Node.js
5 2 (5.13%) Spring Boot
5 2 (5.13%) Spring Integration
5 2 (5.13%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 14 (35.90%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.13%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.13%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (5.13%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.56%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (87.18%) Agile
2 17 (43.59%) Decision-Making
3 13 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (25.64%) Backlog Management
4 10 (25.64%) Business Strategy
5 9 (23.08%) Risk Management
5 9 (23.08%) SDLC
6 8 (20.51%) Acceptance Criteria
6 8 (20.51%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (17.95%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 7 (17.95%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (17.95%) Digital Identity
7 7 (17.95%) Identity Access Management
7 7 (17.95%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 7 (17.95%) Requirements Gathering
7 7 (17.95%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 7 (17.95%) Sprint Planning
7 7 (17.95%) User Stories
8 6 (15.38%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 10 (25.64%) SQL
2 6 (15.38%) Java
3 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.13%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.56%) C#
4 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (15.38%) Degree
2 3 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.13%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (20.51%) QA
2 3 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (7.69%) NIST
2 3 (7.69%) NIST 800
System Software
1 4 (10.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (5.13%) Progress Chef
2 2 (5.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.26%) Oracle
3 2 (5.13%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (2.56%) Solace
4 1 (2.56%) Teradata