Scrum Contracts in the South West

Scrum
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 56 94 34
Rank change year-on-year +38 -60 -10
Contract jobs citing Scrum 57 63 210
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.40% 1.97% 5.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.76% 2.37% 6.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 49 148
10th Percentile £401 £399 £400
25th Percentile £422 £500 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.96% - +10.05%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £650
90th Percentile £715 £745 £717
England median daily rate £500 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -6.98% -6.52% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 24
10th Percentile - - £61.25
25th Percentile - - £64.63
Median hourly rate - - £67.84
75th Percentile - - £85.00
90th Percentile - - £86.16
England median hourly rate £60.25 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -7.31% - +46.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in the South West

Scrum
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Scrum in the South West

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in the South West

Scrum
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Scrum in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Wiltshire +34 15 £575 -8.00% 20
Bristol +19 15 £463 -21.61% 29
Gloucestershire +13 13 £588 +6.82% 47
Devon +17 6 £500 -15.25% 18
Dorset - 4 £475 - 10
Somerset -5 1 £610 +6.09% 12
Scrum
England

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 13 (22.81%) Confluence
2 1 (1.75%) Apache
2 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.75%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 10 (17.54%) Azure
2 5 (8.77%) AWS
3 4 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (7.02%) Azure Machine Learning
4 2 (3.51%) Figma
4 2 (3.51%) GitHub
5 1 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.75%) Google Analytics
5 1 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.75%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.02%) 5G
2 1 (1.75%) ATM
2 1 (1.75%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.26%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (1.75%) Flink
2 1 (1.75%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.75%) MySQL
2 1 (1.75%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (26.32%) JIRA
2 3 (5.26%) Git
3 2 (3.51%) NUnit
3 2 (3.51%) Postman
3 2 (3.51%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (1.75%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.75%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.75%) GitLab
4 1 (1.75%) Selenium
4 1 (1.75%) Storybook
4 1 (1.75%) VersaTest
4 1 (1.75%) Vite
4 1 (1.75%) webpack
4 1 (1.75%) Zephyr
General
1 32 (56.14%) Social Skills
2 16 (28.07%) Finance
3 15 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (14.04%) Public Sector
4 8 (14.04%) Telecoms
5 4 (7.02%) Billing
5 4 (7.02%) Electronics
5 4 (7.02%) Manufacturing
5 4 (7.02%) Marketing
5 4 (7.02%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.75%) Military
7 1 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (15.79%) Senior
2 8 (14.04%) Project Manager
3 7 (12.28%) Developer
3 7 (12.28%) Scrum Master
4 6 (10.53%) Analyst
5 5 (8.77%) Delivery Manager
5 5 (8.77%) Lead
6 4 (7.02%) Administrator
6 4 (7.02%) OSS Project Manager
6 4 (7.02%) ServiceNow Administrator
6 4 (7.02%) Telecoms Manager
6 4 (7.02%) Telecoms Project Manager
6 4 (7.02%) Test Analyst
7 3 (5.26%) Architect
7 3 (5.26%) Product Lead
7 3 (5.26%) Software Engineer
8 2 (3.51%) Business Analyst
8 2 (3.51%) IT Manager
8 2 (3.51%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (19.30%) AngularJS
2 10 (17.54%) CSS
3 9 (15.79%) HTML
4 5 (8.77%) .NET
4 5 (8.77%) React
5 4 (7.02%) Ajax
5 4 (7.02%) LDAP
5 4 (7.02%) RESTful
5 4 (7.02%) Web Services
6 3 (5.26%) jQuery
6 3 (5.26%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (5.26%) Vue
7 2 (3.51%) .NET Framework
7 2 (3.51%) Node.js
7 2 (3.51%) Playwright
7 2 (3.51%) REST
8 1 (1.75%) .NET Core
8 1 (1.75%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (1.75%) Redux
8 1 (1.75%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.79%) Product Ownership
2 4 (7.02%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.26%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.51%) EPoS
4 2 (3.51%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.75%) CESG
5 1 (1.75%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.75%) EMV
5 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.75%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.75%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.75%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.02%) Windows
2 2 (3.51%) Linux
3 1 (1.75%) VMS
3 1 (1.75%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.75%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.75%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (1.75%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (84.21%) Agile
2 20 (35.09%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (22.81%) Continuous Improvement
3 13 (22.81%) Project Management
4 12 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (19.30%) CI/CD
5 11 (19.30%) Software Engineering
6 10 (17.54%) Service Management
7 9 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 8 (14.04%) DevOps
8 8 (14.04%) Kanban
8 8 (14.04%) PRINCE2
8 8 (14.04%) Roadmaps
8 8 (14.04%) Waterfall
9 7 (12.28%) Coaching
9 7 (12.28%) ITSM
9 7 (12.28%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 6 (10.53%) Machine Learning
10 6 (10.53%) User Experience
10 6 (10.53%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 11 (19.30%) JavaScript
2 7 (12.28%) Python
3 4 (7.02%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.51%) SQL
4 2 (3.51%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.75%) Bash
5 1 (1.75%) COBOL
5 1 (1.75%) Java
5 1 (1.75%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 18 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 14 (24.56%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.53%) DV Cleared
4 5 (8.77%) PMI Certification
4 5 (8.77%) PMP
5 4 (7.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.51%) Degree
6 2 (3.51%) ISEB
6 2 (3.51%) ISTQB
6 2 (3.51%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.75%) APMP
7 1 (1.75%) CISSP
7 1 (1.75%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (17.54%) QA
2 4 (7.02%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.51%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (1.75%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.75%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.75%) JSP 440
4 1 (1.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (5.26%) Docker
1 3 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.51%) Hyper-V
2 2 (3.51%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (7.02%) Amdocs OSS
1 4 (7.02%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (5.26%) Terraform
3 2 (3.51%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (3.51%) PowerCLI
4 1 (1.75%) Ansible
4 1 (1.75%) Grafana
4 1 (1.75%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.75%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (14.04%) ServiceNow
2 5 (8.77%) Atlassian
3 4 (7.02%) Amdocs
3 4 (7.02%) Ciena
3 4 (7.02%) Ericsson
3 4 (7.02%) NetCracker
3 4 (7.02%) Nokia
3 4 (7.02%) SAP
4 3 (5.26%) Oracle
4 3 (5.26%) VMware
5 2 (3.51%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.75%) Adobe
6 1 (1.75%) Google
6 1 (1.75%) Hotjar
6 1 (1.75%) HP