Scrum Master Contracts in Scotland

Scrum Master
UK > Scotland

The median Scrum Master daily rate in Scotland is £413, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 122 141
Rank change year-on-year +20 +19 -14
Contract jobs requiring a Scrum Master 14 7 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.86% 0.32% 0.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.92% 0.33% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 9
10th Percentile £353 £168 £415
25th Percentile £381 £329 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% -3.57% +7.36%
75th Percentile £475 £578 £588
90th Percentile - £584 £600
UK median daily rate £450 £523 £550
% change year-on-year -13.88% -5.00% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £68.00 -
UK median hourly rate £53.61 £60.25 £85.00
% change year-on-year -11.02% -29.12% +88.89%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Scotland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 1,529 2,099 2,722
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 94.68% 95.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,281 1,953
10th Percentile £263 £205 £238
25th Percentile £370 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +4.40%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £553
90th Percentile £610 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 114 44
10th Percentile £15.98 £12.50 £12.86
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £16.91
Median hourly rate £20.94 £33.25 £23.18
Median % change year-on-year -37.02% +43.44% -10.53%
75th Percentile £24.66 £60.00 £59.41
90th Percentile £42.58 £66.00 £67.22
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Scrum Master
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Scrum Master in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Scrum Master in Scotland

Scrum Master
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Scrum Master in Scotland

Scrum Master
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Scrum Master in Scotland

Scrum Master
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Scrum Master in Scotland

Scrum Master
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 Master 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 +13 12 £413 -28.26% 2
Edinburgh +5 2 - -
Scrum Master
UK

Scrum Master Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Scrum Master contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Scotland region featuring Scrum Master in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Scrum
2 13 (92.86%) Agile
3 10 (71.43%) Finance
3 10 (71.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (64.29%) Kanban
4 9 (64.29%) IaaS
5 8 (57.14%) Product Ownership
5 8 (57.14%) Service Delivery
6 7 (50.00%) JIRA
6 7 (50.00%) Conflict Resolution
6 7 (50.00%) Virtual Servers
7 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (42.86%) Roadmaps
7 6 (42.86%) Workflow
8 5 (35.71%) Banking
8 5 (35.71%) Backlog Management
8 5 (35.71%) DevOps
9 4 (28.57%) Virtual Team
9 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (28.57%) Investment Banking
9 4 (28.57%) DNS
9 4 (28.57%) Project Management
9 4 (28.57%) Linux
9 4 (28.57%) DHCP
9 4 (28.57%) Investment Management
9 4 (28.57%) Wealth Management
9 4 (28.57%) Waterfall
10 3 (21.43%) Load Balancing
10 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management

Scrum Master Skill Set
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 1 (7.14%) JBoss
1 1 (7.14%) Tomcat
1 1 (7.14%) WebLogic
1 1 (7.14%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) IaaS
2 1 (7.14%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) DHCP
1 4 (28.57%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) DB2
Development Applications
1 7 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
2 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 10 (71.43%) Finance
2 6 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (35.71%) Banking
4 4 (28.57%) Investment Banking
5 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
6 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
6 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) RAML
1 1 (7.14%) REST
1 1 (7.14%) SOAP
1 1 (7.14%) Web Services
1 1 (7.14%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Product Ownership
2 4 (28.57%) Virtual Team
3 1 (7.14%) Credit Risk
3 1 (7.14%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Scrum
2 13 (92.86%) Agile
3 10 (71.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (64.29%) Kanban
5 8 (57.14%) Service Delivery
6 7 (50.00%) Conflict Resolution
7 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (42.86%) Roadmaps
7 6 (42.86%) Workflow
8 5 (35.71%) Backlog Management
8 5 (35.71%) DevOps
9 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (28.57%) Investment Management
9 4 (28.57%) Project Management
9 4 (28.57%) Waterfall
9 4 (28.57%) Wealth Management
10 3 (21.43%) High Availability
10 3 (21.43%) Load Balancing
10 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
11 2 (14.29%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) Virtual Servers
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Avaloq
1 1 (7.14%) Fiserv
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle