Scrum Contracts in South Wales

Scrum
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 14 43
Rank change year-on-year -11 +29 -20
Contract jobs citing Scrum 10 28 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 4.13% 8.36% 2.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.59% 10.45% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 27 11
10th Percentile £166 £381 £203
25th Percentile £235 £494 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £515 £350
Median % change year-on-year -20.52% +47.14% -36.36%
75th Percentile £530 £530 £500
90th Percentile £551 £647 £675
Wales median daily rate £466 £514 £390
% change year-on-year -9.29% +31.73% -29.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 218 268 461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 90.08% 80.00% 88.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 189 351
10th Percentile £185 £160 £190
25th Percentile £284 £356 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -18.25% +5.26% -3.85%
75th Percentile £530 £588 £575
90th Percentile £625 £668 £650
Wales median daily rate £415 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -17.00% +5.26% -2.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 22 23
10th Percentile £15.30 £11.21 £16.37
25th Percentile £19.09 £15.35 £16.98
Median hourly rate £20.62 £22.68 £18.14
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +25.03% -16.12%
75th Percentile £41.25 £52.31 £22.11
90th Percentile £45.00 £87.62 £49.75
Wales median hourly rate £21.01 £22.50 £18.82
% change year-on-year -6.62% +19.59% -16.38%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in South Wales

Scrum
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Scrum in South Wales

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in South Wales over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in South Wales

Scrum
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Scrum in South Wales

Scrum
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 2 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
Cardiff -10 10 £409 -20.52% 24
Scrum
Wales

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (10.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
1 1 (10.00%) Selenium
1 1 (10.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (10.00%) tSQLt
General
1 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Delivery Manager
2 3 (30.00%) Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Agile Delivery Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Lead
3 2 (20.00%) Software Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Agile Development Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Automation Test Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Development Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Software Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Power Platform Developer
4 1 (10.00%) QA Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) QA Automation Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) QA Test Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Scrum Master
4 1 (10.00%) Software Development Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) .NET
2 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (20.00%) FHIR
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Core
3 1 (10.00%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (10.00%) Web Services
3 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Clustering
2 1 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) NHS
2 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (30.00%) Kanban
2 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (30.00%) Project Governance
2 3 (30.00%) Project Management
2 3 (30.00%) SDLC
3 2 (20.00%) Coaching
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (10.00%) API Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (10.00%) High Availability
4 1 (10.00%) Integration Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Software Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (10.00%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) HL7
1 1 (10.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (10.00%) RedGate