Scrum Contracts in Sheffield

Scrum
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 38 37 52
Rank change year-on-year -1 +15 -24
Contract jobs citing Scrum 12 18 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 3.76% 4.75% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.93% 5.13% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 14 4
10th Percentile £365 £380 -
25th Percentile £394 £418 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £586 £594
Median % change year-on-year -21.08% -1.31% +31.94%
75th Percentile £484 £645 £652
90th Percentile £520 £650 £654
South Yorkshire median daily rate £464 £550 £594
% change year-on-year -15.59% -7.37% +31.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 305 351 434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.61% 92.61% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 203 302
10th Percentile £232 £375 £364
25th Percentile £388 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £551
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.30% +10.25%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £675
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 3
10th Percentile - £10.90 £11.05
25th Percentile £18.10 £11.33 £11.13
Median hourly rate £18.21 £22.00 £11.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +91.30% -28.13%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 £25.88
90th Percentile £18.47 - £34.35
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
% change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in Sheffield

Scrum
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Scrum in Sheffield

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

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

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in Sheffield

Scrum
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Hourly rate trend for Scrum in Sheffield

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) GitHub
2 2 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (16.67%) Azure AKS
2 2 (16.67%) CloudBees
2 2 (16.67%) GCP
2 2 (16.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) DNS
1 4 (33.33%) NAS
1 4 (33.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) BigQuery
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (8.33%) MySQL
2 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) Git
2 6 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (41.67%) GitLab
4 2 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Investment Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Retail
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 2 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) IT Manager
2 2 (16.67%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Automation Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Chief Technology Officer
3 1 (8.33%) Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Virtualisation Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Virtualisation Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) Middleware
2 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
2 1 (8.33%) CSS
2 1 (8.33%) CSS3
2 1 (8.33%) HTML
2 1 (8.33%) HTML5
2 1 (8.33%) Node.js
2 1 (8.33%) React
2 1 (8.33%) RESTful
2 1 (8.33%) Spring
2 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (8.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
1 4 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Agile
2 7 (58.33%) Kanban
2 7 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
4 4 (33.33%) DevOps
4 4 (33.33%) Migration
4 4 (33.33%) Software Delivery
5 3 (25.00%) Change Management
5 3 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 3 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (25.00%) Programme Management
5 3 (25.00%) Project Management
5 3 (25.00%) TDD
6 2 (16.67%) Architectural Design
6 2 (16.67%) Backlog Management
6 2 (16.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
6 2 (16.67%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Python
2 6 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
4 3 (25.00%) Java
4 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (25.00%) Kotlin
5 1 (8.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 4 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (33.33%) VMware NSX
1 4 (33.33%) vSphere
2 3 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Ansible
1 4 (33.33%) vCenter Server
1 4 (33.33%) vRealize
2 2 (16.67%) Grafana
2 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (8.33%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) VMware
2 2 (16.67%) Google
3 1 (8.33%) Veeam