Scrum Contracts in Scotland

Scrum
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 49 37 20
Rank change year-on-year -12 -17 -5
Contract jobs citing Scrum 73 115 263
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 4.49% 5.19% 9.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.81% 5.86% 9.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 76 197
10th Percentile £381 £400 £412
25th Percentile £413 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £488 £514 £550
90th Percentile £538 £578 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +0.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £25.36 - £51.46
25th Percentile £25.52 - £57.05
Median hourly rate £26.93 £68.00 £66.37
Median % change year-on-year -60.40% +2.46% +44.05%
75th Percentile £28.22 - £75.68
90th Percentile £28.32 - £81.27
UK median hourly rate £57.75 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -11.15% - +44.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in Scotland

Scrum
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Scrum in Scotland

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in Scotland

Scrum
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scrum in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Scrum in Scotland

Scrum
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the Scotland 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
Glasgow +5 35 £438 -7.89% 26
Edinburgh -4 34 £463 +0.54% 26
Scrum
UK

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 4 (5.48%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.11%) JBoss
3 2 (2.74%) OpenROAD
4 1 (1.37%) Confluence
4 1 (1.37%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (1.37%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.37%) TPMS
4 1 (1.37%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.37%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (6.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (5.48%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 25 (34.25%) AWS
2 18 (24.66%) Azure
3 16 (21.92%) Amazon S3
4 15 (20.55%) Serverless
5 14 (19.18%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (17.81%) AWS CloudFormation
7 12 (16.44%) IaaS
8 9 (12.33%) AWS CodePipeline
8 9 (12.33%) OpenShift
9 6 (8.22%) PaaS
9 6 (8.22%) SaaS
10 5 (6.85%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (6.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 5 (6.85%) AWS Step Functions
10 5 (6.85%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (6.85%) Power Platform
11 4 (5.48%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (5.48%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 4 (5.48%) AWS Fargate
11 4 (5.48%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.85%) DNS
2 4 (5.48%) DHCP
3 3 (4.11%) Firewall
4 1 (1.37%) HTTP
4 1 (1.37%) Intranet
4 1 (1.37%) SSL
4 1 (1.37%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (16.44%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (10.96%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (6.85%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (5.48%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (5.48%) Power BI
5 3 (4.11%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.11%) OLAP
5 3 (4.11%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.74%) InfluxDB
6 2 (2.74%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.74%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.74%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.37%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.37%) DB2
7 1 (1.37%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.37%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.37%) KDB
7 1 (1.37%) Kdb+
7 1 (1.37%) Metadata
7 1 (1.37%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 12 (16.44%) Git
2 11 (15.07%) JIRA
3 6 (8.22%) GitLab
4 5 (6.85%) Jenkins
5 4 (5.48%) Cypress.io
6 3 (4.11%) Xcode
7 2 (2.74%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.37%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.37%) JUnit
8 1 (1.37%) MSTest
8 1 (1.37%) NUnit
8 1 (1.37%) Postman
8 1 (1.37%) Ranorex
8 1 (1.37%) Selenium
General
1 26 (35.62%) Social Skills
2 25 (34.25%) Finance
2 25 (34.25%) Public Sector
3 20 (27.40%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (16.44%) Banking
5 7 (9.59%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (6.85%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.74%) Back Office
7 2 (2.74%) Front Office
7 2 (2.74%) Private Banking
8 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.37%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.37%) Marketing
8 1 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 16 (21.92%) Developer
2 14 (19.18%) Scrum Master
3 8 (10.96%) Data Engineer
4 7 (9.59%) Analyst
5 6 (8.22%) Business Analyst
6 5 (6.85%) Architect
6 5 (6.85%) Project Manager
7 4 (5.48%) AWS Developer
7 4 (5.48%) Lead
7 4 (5.48%) Software Developer
7 4 (5.48%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.11%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Mobile Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Release Manager
9 2 (2.74%) Agile Project Manager
9 2 (2.74%) Java Engineer
9 2 (2.74%) Technical Manager
9 2 (2.74%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (19.18%) AWS CDK
2 12 (16.44%) REST
3 9 (12.33%) React
4 6 (8.22%) Spring
4 6 (8.22%) Spring Boot
5 3 (4.11%) .NET
5 3 (4.11%) Next.js
5 3 (4.11%) Node.js
5 3 (4.11%) PostGIS
5 3 (4.11%) SwiftUI
5 3 (4.11%) UIKit
6 2 (2.74%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.74%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.74%) ASP.NET
6 2 (2.74%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (2.74%) ASP.NET MVC 5
6 2 (2.74%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (2.74%) Blazor
6 2 (2.74%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (2.74%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.33%) Product Ownership
2 7 (9.59%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.59%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (9.59%) Virtual Team
3 4 (5.48%) Credit Risk
4 3 (4.11%) Derivative
4 3 (4.11%) iPad
4 3 (4.11%) iPhone
4 3 (4.11%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.74%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.74%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.74%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.37%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.37%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.37%) Robotics
6 1 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (16.44%) Linux
2 5 (6.85%) Windows
3 3 (4.11%) Android
3 3 (4.11%) Apple iOS
3 3 (4.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.74%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.37%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (1.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (86.30%) Agile
2 31 (42.47%) Kanban
3 26 (35.62%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (27.40%) CI/CD
5 19 (26.03%) DevOps
6 17 (23.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (20.55%) Project Management
8 12 (16.44%) Roadmaps
8 12 (16.44%) TDD
8 12 (16.44%) Test Automation
9 11 (15.07%) Migration
10 10 (13.70%) Human-Centred Design
10 10 (13.70%) Inclusive Design
10 10 (13.70%) Waterfall
11 9 (12.33%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (12.33%) Service Delivery
12 8 (10.96%) Coaching
12 8 (10.96%) Software Engineering
12 8 (10.96%) Stakeholder Management
12 8 (10.96%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 17 (23.29%) Python
2 13 (17.81%) Java
3 11 (15.07%) JavaScript
3 11 (15.07%) SQL
4 7 (9.59%) Bash
4 7 (9.59%) TypeScript
5 4 (5.48%) C#
5 4 (5.48%) Groovy
5 4 (5.48%) Shell Script
6 3 (4.11%) Objective-C
6 3 (4.11%) PowerShell
6 3 (4.11%) Swift
7 2 (2.74%) C++
7 2 (2.74%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (19.18%) Degree
2 3 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (4.11%) PMI Certification
2 3 (4.11%) PMP
3 2 (2.74%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.74%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.74%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (1.37%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.37%) CBAP
4 1 (1.37%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.59%) Disclosure Scotland
2 6 (8.22%) QA
3 5 (6.85%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.74%) GDPR
5 1 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.37%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (9.59%) Docker
1 7 (9.59%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (2.74%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.37%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.37%) KVM
3 1 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (9.59%) Kubernetes
2 6 (8.22%) Grafana
3 5 (6.85%) Ansible
4 2 (2.74%) Kibana
5 1 (1.37%) HAProxy
5 1 (1.37%) Nagios
5 1 (1.37%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (1.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (19.18%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.85%) Oracle
3 4 (5.48%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.11%) Avaloq
5 2 (2.74%) Imperva
5 2 (2.74%) Pega
5 2 (2.74%) Temenos
6 1 (1.37%) Blue Prism
6 1 (1.37%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (1.37%) Commvault
6 1 (1.37%) Fiserv
6 1 (1.37%) Google
6 1 (1.37%) NetApp
6 1 (1.37%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.37%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.37%) Sybase
6 1 (1.37%) VMware