Scrum Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Scrum
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Scrum skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 22 16
Rank change year-on-year -12 -6 +17
Contract jobs citing Scrum 2 8 12
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 0.82% 4.30% 8.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 5.44% 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 12
10th Percentile £324 £324 -
25th Percentile £341 £361 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £438 £400
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +9.38% -15.79%
75th Percentile £403 £539 £536
90th Percentile £416 £598 £569
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £51.11 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 210 147 132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 85.71% 79.03% 89.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 56 79
10th Percentile £195 £148 £209
25th Percentile £325 £167 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £431 £400
Median % change year-on-year +7.25% +7.81% -15.79%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £534
90th Percentile £638 £581 £605
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 21 10
10th Percentile £12.31 £22.50 £11.08
25th Percentile £13.91 - £12.49
Median hourly rate £17.30 £24.18 £13.46
Median % change year-on-year -28.45% +79.64% -3.44%
75th Percentile £25.15 £40.25 £15.49
90th Percentile - £62.50 £18.08
UK median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +21.43%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Scrum relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Scrum job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Scrum
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Scrum.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Scrum

Scrum
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 11 December 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
County Antrim -13 2 £375 -14.29% 9
Scrum
UK

Scrum
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Lucidchart
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Project Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Business Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Contract Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) ERP
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce