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 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 21 18
Rank change year-on-year -12 -3 -3
Contract jobs citing Scrum 97 216 319
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 5.18% 8.78% 9.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.99% 9.55% 10.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 157 236
10th Percentile £380 £414 £410
25th Percentile £413 £463 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £501 £504
Median % change year-on-year -6.94% -0.74% +7.86%
75th Percentile £513 £569 £563
90th Percentile £546 £688 £613
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
Median hourly rate - £47.73 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year - +27.52% -
UK median hourly rate £67.02 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.11% - +15.04%

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 1,619 2,261 3,148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 86.39% 91.95% 93.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 983 1,465 2,227
10th Percentile £207 £250 £263
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £563
90th Percentile £675 £638 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 59 56
10th Percentile £12.30 £12.13 £12.52
25th Percentile £14.28 £13.71 £14.91
Median hourly rate £19.94 £19.18 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.95% -10.79% +30.30%
75th Percentile £24.18 £58.89 £41.29
90th Percentile £45.23 £74.60 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £42.50 £28.90
% change year-on-year +1.18% +47.06% +34.42%

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 20 September 2024.

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 20 September 2024. 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
Edinburgh -7 58 £455 -5.21% 11
Glasgow -2 28 £463 -11.90% 10
Lanarkshire +1 2 - - 3
West Lothian +1 1 £63 -86.84%
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 5 (5.15%) Confluence
2 4 (4.12%) Camunda
3 2 (2.06%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.03%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (3.09%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.03%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (2.06%) CA PPM
2 1 (1.03%) Maximo
2 1 (1.03%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 48 (49.48%) AWS
2 32 (32.99%) Amazon S3
2 32 (32.99%) Serverless
3 29 (29.90%) AWS CloudFormation
4 26 (26.80%) AWS Lambda
5 22 (22.68%) Amazon EC2
6 20 (20.62%) Azure
6 20 (20.62%) OpenShift
7 17 (17.53%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 14 (14.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (10.31%) AWS CodeBuild
9 10 (10.31%) AWS CodePipeline
10 8 (8.25%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (8.25%) GCP
11 7 (7.22%) PaaS
12 6 (6.19%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 5 (5.15%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (5.15%) AWS CodeCommit
13 5 (5.15%) AWS CodeDeploy
13 5 (5.15%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.12%) Firewall
2 3 (3.09%) HTTP
3 1 (1.03%) DNS
3 1 (1.03%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (1.03%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (24.74%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (14.43%) MongoDB
3 13 (13.40%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (12.37%) Informix
5 10 (10.31%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (10.31%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (9.28%) InfluxDB
7 4 (4.12%) Relational Database
8 3 (3.09%) NoSQL
9 2 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (2.06%) Power BI
9 2 (2.06%) SQL Server
10 1 (1.03%) Metadata
10 1 (1.03%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 23 (23.71%) JIRA
2 17 (17.53%) Git
3 13 (13.40%) Jenkins
4 6 (6.19%) Artifactory
4 6 (6.19%) TeamCity
5 5 (5.15%) GitLab
6 4 (4.12%) Bitbucket
6 4 (4.12%) Maven
7 3 (3.09%) Ant
7 3 (3.09%) CircleCI
7 3 (3.09%) Cypress.io
7 3 (3.09%) Eclipse
7 3 (3.09%) IntelliJ
7 3 (3.09%) JUnit
General
1 36 (37.11%) Public Sector
2 33 (34.02%) Social Skills
3 15 (15.46%) Finance
4 8 (8.25%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.25%) Banking
4 8 (8.25%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.06%) Retail Banking
6 1 (1.03%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 27 (27.84%) Developer
2 14 (14.43%) Analyst
3 12 (12.37%) Business Analyst
4 10 (10.31%) Java Developer
5 9 (9.28%) Database Engineer
6 8 (8.25%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (7.22%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (7.22%) Senior
8 6 (6.19%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (6.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (6.19%) Scrum Master
9 5 (5.15%) Automation Developer
9 5 (5.15%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 5 (5.15%) Product Owner
9 5 (5.15%) Project Manager
9 5 (5.15%) Technical Analyst
10 4 (4.12%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 4 (4.12%) Data Engineer
10 4 (4.12%) Lead
10 4 (4.12%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (29.90%) AWS CDK
2 17 (17.53%) Spring
3 14 (14.43%) Spring Boot
4 9 (9.28%) Kafka
5 8 (8.25%) React
6 6 (6.19%) Web Services
7 5 (5.15%) CSS
7 5 (5.15%) RESTful
7 5 (5.15%) SpaCy
8 4 (4.12%) Middleware
8 4 (4.12%) Node.js
8 4 (4.12%) REST
9 3 (3.09%) AngularJS
9 3 (3.09%) CSS3
9 3 (3.09%) Guice
9 3 (3.09%) HTML
9 3 (3.09%) HTML5
9 3 (3.09%) jBPM
9 3 (3.09%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (3.09%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.37%) Product Ownership
1 12 (12.37%) Replication
2 8 (8.25%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.19%) Data Structures
4 5 (5.15%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (4.12%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (3.09%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.09%) FMCG
6 3 (3.09%) Private Cloud
6 3 (3.09%) Robotics
7 2 (2.06%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.06%) Mainframe
7 2 (2.06%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (2.06%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.03%) Legacy Code
8 1 (1.03%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 13 (13.40%) Linux
2 9 (9.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (7.22%) Ubuntu
4 5 (5.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (88.66%) Agile
2 44 (45.36%) Kanban
3 33 (34.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (26.80%) CI/CD
5 21 (21.65%) DevOps
6 18 (18.56%) Roadmaps
7 16 (16.49%) Containerisation
7 16 (16.49%) Migration
8 14 (14.43%) Microservices
9 13 (13.40%) Disaster Recovery
10 12 (12.37%) Coaching
10 12 (12.37%) Community of Practice
10 12 (12.37%) High Availability
10 12 (12.37%) Project Management
10 12 (12.37%) Stakeholder Management
10 12 (12.37%) User Experience
11 9 (9.28%) Software Delivery
11 9 (9.28%) Unit Testing
11 9 (9.28%) User Stories
12 8 (8.25%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 23 (23.71%) TypeScript
2 21 (21.65%) SQL
3 18 (18.56%) Java
4 17 (17.53%) Python
5 12 (12.37%) JavaScript
6 10 (10.31%) Bash
7 6 (6.19%) Groovy
8 4 (4.12%) Perl
9 2 (2.06%) C#
9 2 (2.06%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.06%) Rust
9 2 (2.06%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.03%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.03%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (9.28%) Degree
2 5 (5.15%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.12%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.09%) OCP
4 3 (3.09%) Oracle Certification
4 3 (3.09%) Six Sigma Black Belt
5 2 (2.06%) CTC Cleared
5 2 (2.06%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 2 (2.06%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.22%) Accessibility
1 7 (7.22%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (2.06%) QA
3 1 (1.03%) GDPR
3 1 (1.03%) P3O
3 1 (1.03%) PMO
System Software
1 16 (16.49%) Docker
2 3 (3.09%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (26.80%) Grafana
2 25 (25.77%) Ansible
3 24 (24.74%) Kubernetes
4 7 (7.22%) Progress Chef
4 7 (7.22%) Puppet
5 5 (5.15%) Kibana
6 2 (2.06%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.03%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (1.03%) Terraform
7 1 (1.03%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 14 (14.43%) Oracle
2 6 (6.19%) Red Hat
3 5 (5.15%) Commvault
4 3 (3.09%) Cadence
4 3 (3.09%) Imperva
4 3 (3.09%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.09%) Splunk
4 3 (3.09%) TIBCO
5 2 (2.06%) CA
5 2 (2.06%) SAP
6 1 (1.03%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.03%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.03%) Snow