Scrum Contract Job Trends in South London

Scrum
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Scrum skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 17 28
Rank change year-on-year -14 +11 -2
Contract jobs citing Scrum 11 18 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 6.21% 8.91% 5.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.01% 10.06% 6.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 10
10th Percentile - £390 £419
25th Percentile £613 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +77.78% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £875 £725 £625
90th Percentile - £795 £800
London median daily rate £550 £536 £575
% change year-on-year +2.56% -6.74% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
London median hourly rate £65.00 £32.68 £74.00
% change year-on-year +98.90% -55.84% +362.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 157 179 264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 88.70% 88.61% 83.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 122 198
10th Percentile £233 £284 £338
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £634 £567 £600
90th Percentile £736 £760 £675
London median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 17
10th Percentile - - £14.88
25th Percentile - £17.25 £23.46
Median hourly rate £15.84 £19.50 £52.19
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% -62.64% +18.32%
75th Percentile £17.45 £71.88 £55.00
90th Percentile £17.98 £73.75 £66.06
London median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £39.63
% change year-on-year -8.57% -11.67% +7.09%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in South London

Scrum
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Scrum.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Scrum

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in South London over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in South London

Scrum
Hourly Rate Trend in South London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Scrum.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Scrum

Scrum
Contract Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the South London region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
Bromley -12 7 £800 +14.29% 3
Croydon -7 4 - -
Scrum
London

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (27.27%) Amazon S3
1 3 (27.27%) Amazon SQS
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (9.09%) AWS KMS
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
3 1 (9.09%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) NoSQL
1 4 (36.36%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Jenkins
2 5 (45.45%) Git
3 4 (36.36%) JUnit
4 3 (27.27%) Maven
4 3 (27.27%) Mockito
4 3 (27.27%) SonarQube
5 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
5 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (9.09%) Cypress.io
5 1 (9.09%) DbUnit
5 1 (9.09%) GitLab
5 1 (9.09%) JIRA
5 1 (9.09%) jMock
5 1 (9.09%) NUnit
5 1 (9.09%) Postman
5 1 (9.09%) REST Assured
5 1 (9.09%) Subversion
5 1 (9.09%) Xcode
General
1 6 (54.55%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (54.55%) Finance
2 5 (45.45%) Front Office
3 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
3 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Financial Institution
5 1 (9.09%) Banking
5 1 (9.09%) Investment Banking
5 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Python Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Java Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Lead
4 2 (18.18%) Lead Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Lead Java Developer
4 2 (18.18%) QA Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Automation Tester
5 1 (9.09%) iOS Developer
5 1 (9.09%) QA Automation Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) QA Automation Tester
5 1 (9.09%) QA Leader
5 1 (9.09%) QA Test Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Quality Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) React Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) AngularJS
1 4 (36.36%) FIX Protocol
1 4 (36.36%) FpML
1 4 (36.36%) Middleware
1 4 (36.36%) REST
1 4 (36.36%) SOAP
2 3 (27.27%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (27.27%) Bootstrap
2 3 (27.27%) JPA
2 3 (27.27%) Spring
2 3 (27.27%) Spring Boot
2 3 (27.27%) Spring Cloud
3 2 (18.18%) RESTful
3 2 (18.18%) Web Services
4 1 (9.09%) Kafka
4 1 (9.09%) PowerMock
4 1 (9.09%) React
4 1 (9.09%) Spring Batch
4 1 (9.09%) Spring Integration
4 1 (9.09%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Algorithms
1 5 (45.45%) Data Structures
1 5 (45.45%) Derivative
1 5 (45.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (36.36%) Fixed Income
3 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Apple iOS
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Agile
2 7 (63.64%) Kanban
3 6 (54.55%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (54.55%) Design Patterns
3 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
4 5 (45.45%) Computer Science
4 5 (45.45%) Mathematics
5 4 (36.36%) High Availability
5 4 (36.36%) OO
5 4 (36.36%) Physics
6 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
6 3 (27.27%) DevOps
6 3 (27.27%) Microservices
6 3 (27.27%) Risk Management
6 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (27.27%) TDD
7 2 (18.18%) Financial Modelling
7 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
7 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) Java
2 6 (54.55%) Python
3 5 (45.45%) C#
3 5 (45.45%) SQL
4 4 (36.36%) C++
5 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
6 1 (9.09%) Swift
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Grafana
1 3 (27.27%) Prometheus
2 1 (9.09%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Atlassian
1 1 (9.09%) Jaspersoft