Scrum Contracts in the South West

Scrum
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Scrum skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Scrum over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 34 24
Rank change year-on-year -58 -10 +5
Contract jobs citing Scrum 62 207 266
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.96% 5.69% 7.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 6.35% 8.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 146 180
10th Percentile £399 £400 £400
25th Percentile £497 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £523
Median % change year-on-year - +10.05% +4.69%
75th Percentile £620 £650 £600
90th Percentile £749 £719 £671
England median daily rate £538 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 24 5
10th Percentile - £61.25 £45.70
25th Percentile - £64.63 £50.77
Median hourly rate - £67.84 £63.60
Median % change year-on-year - +6.66% +15.64%
75th Percentile - £85.00 -
90th Percentile - £86.16 £76.89
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year - +46.07% -21.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Scrum is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,623 3,261 3,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.82% 89.56% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,685 2,401 2,333
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +7.53%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £589
90th Percentile £700 £719 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 341 196
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £26.75 £17.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £48.00 £61.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.95% +26.16% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.40 £70.54
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in the South West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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
Gloucestershire -12 17 £550 -2.22% 26
Bristol -34 14 £585 -6.40% 26
Wiltshire -38 13 £625 +19.05% 3
Somerset +1 9 £575 -11.54% 6
Devon -9 3 £590 +2.61% 7
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 6 (9.68%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 9 (14.52%) Azure
2 5 (8.06%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (3.23%) AWS
3 2 (3.23%) PaaS
3 2 (3.23%) SaaS
4 1 (1.61%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.61%) GitHub
4 1 (1.61%) IaaS
4 1 (1.61%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.61%) npm
4 1 (1.61%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (1.61%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.23%) Tactical Data Link
2 1 (1.61%) DNS
2 1 (1.61%) NetScaler
2 1 (1.61%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (1.61%) VSAN
2 1 (1.61%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.84%) MySQL
1 3 (4.84%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.23%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.61%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.61%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (19.35%) JIRA
2 10 (16.13%) Git
3 5 (8.06%) Visual Studio
4 4 (6.45%) NUnit
4 4 (6.45%) Postman
5 3 (4.84%) Cypress.io
6 2 (3.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (3.23%) Bitbucket
6 2 (3.23%) Jenkins
6 2 (3.23%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (1.61%) Babel
7 1 (1.61%) ESLint
7 1 (1.61%) GitLab
7 1 (1.61%) MSI
7 1 (1.61%) Selenium
7 1 (1.61%) Vite
7 1 (1.61%) webpack
General
1 14 (22.58%) Finance
1 14 (22.58%) Social Skills
2 9 (14.52%) Public Sector
3 8 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.68%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (6.45%) Electronics
5 4 (6.45%) Manufacturing
5 4 (6.45%) Marketing
5 4 (6.45%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.61%) Banking
6 1 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (25.81%) Project Manager
2 9 (14.52%) Senior
3 6 (9.68%) Developer
4 5 (8.06%) Junior
4 5 (8.06%) Junior Project Manager
5 4 (6.45%) Analyst
5 4 (6.45%) Architect
5 4 (6.45%) Digital Project Manager
5 4 (6.45%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
5 4 (6.45%) Senior Test Engineer
5 4 (6.45%) Software Developer
5 4 (6.45%) Test Automation Engineer
5 4 (6.45%) Test Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) Administrator
6 3 (4.84%) Lead
6 3 (4.84%) Salesforce Administrator
6 3 (4.84%) Scrum Master
6 3 (4.84%) Senior Manager
6 3 (4.84%) Transformation Manager
7 2 (3.23%) Senior Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.68%) .NET
2 4 (6.45%) AngularJS
3 3 (4.84%) GraphQL
3 3 (4.84%) Playwright
4 2 (3.23%) .NET Core
4 2 (3.23%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (3.23%) React
4 2 (3.23%) Vue
5 1 (1.61%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.61%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (1.61%) Jest
5 1 (1.61%) JSON
5 1 (1.61%) Kafka
5 1 (1.61%) Middleware
5 1 (1.61%) Node.js
5 1 (1.61%) Parceljs
5 1 (1.61%) pytest
5 1 (1.61%) XML
5 1 (1.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.29%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.23%) Data Centre
2 2 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (3.23%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.61%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.61%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.13%) Linux
2 7 (11.29%) Windows
3 3 (4.84%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.61%) CentOS
4 1 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.61%) Windows 7
4 1 (1.61%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (93.55%) Agile
2 14 (22.58%) DevOps
2 14 (22.58%) Project Management
3 12 (19.35%) PRINCE2
4 11 (17.74%) Test Automation
5 10 (16.13%) Kanban
5 10 (16.13%) Project Delivery
5 10 (16.13%) Software Engineering
5 10 (16.13%) Waterfall
6 8 (12.90%) CI/CD
6 8 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (12.90%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (11.29%) Customer Requirements
7 7 (11.29%) Programme Management
7 7 (11.29%) TDD
8 6 (9.68%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 6 (9.68%) Task Automation
8 6 (9.68%) User Stories
9 5 (8.06%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (8.06%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 13 (20.97%) SQL
2 12 (19.35%) Python
3 7 (11.29%) C
3 7 (11.29%) C++
3 7 (11.29%) Java
4 6 (9.68%) PowerShell
5 5 (8.06%) C#
6 4 (6.45%) JavaScript
6 4 (6.45%) TypeScript
7 3 (4.84%) PL/SQL
8 2 (3.23%) Bash
8 2 (3.23%) Bicep
9 1 (1.61%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 33 (53.23%) Security Cleared
2 20 (32.26%) DV Cleared
3 15 (24.19%) SC Cleared
4 6 (9.68%) Degree
5 2 (3.23%) APMP
5 2 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.23%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (3.23%) PMP
6 1 (1.61%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.61%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.68%) QA
2 4 (6.45%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.23%) JTAG
3 2 (3.23%) PMO
3 2 (3.23%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (1.61%) SLA
4 1 (1.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (6.45%) Docker
2 2 (3.23%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.23%) Hyper-V
2 2 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.23%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.61%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (1.61%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.61%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.61%) XenApp
3 1 (1.61%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 4 (6.45%) Ansible
2 3 (4.84%) Terraform
3 2 (3.23%) PowerCLI
3 2 (3.23%) Puppet
3 2 (3.23%) SCCM
4 1 (1.61%) Dell DRAC
4 1 (1.61%) Grafana
4 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.61%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (8.06%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.45%) Atlassian
2 4 (6.45%) Salesforce
2 4 (6.45%) SAP
2 4 (6.45%) VMware
3 1 (1.61%) CA
3 1 (1.61%) Citrix
3 1 (1.61%) Dell
3 1 (1.61%) HP
3 1 (1.61%) Ivanti
3 1 (1.61%) Oracle
3 1 (1.61%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.61%) ServiceNow