Scrum Contracts in South Yorkshire

Scrum
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 33 37 53
Rank change year-on-year +4 +16 -24
Contract jobs citing Scrum 15 19 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 4.02% 4.16% 0.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.21% 4.65% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 15 4
10th Percentile £365 £381 -
25th Percentile £406 £406 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £550 £594
Median % change year-on-year -15.59% -7.37% +31.94%
75th Percentile £514 £645 £652
90th Percentile £523 £650 £654
Yorkshire median daily rate £466 £517 £531
% change year-on-year -9.86% -2.68% +6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 356 409 494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.44% 89.50% 93.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 245 322
10th Percentile £219 £316 £300
25th Percentile £385 £411 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £663
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 38
10th Percentile - £10.90 -
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.64 £9.80
Median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 -
90th Percentile £18.47 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in South Yorkshire

Scrum
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Scrum in South Yorkshire

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in South Yorkshire

Scrum
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Scrum in South Yorkshire

Scrum
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
Sheffield -1 12 £463 -21.08% 12
Barnsley +11 1 £400 -5.88%
Scrum
Yorkshire

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (6.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) GitHub
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (13.33%) Azure AKS
2 2 (13.33%) CloudBees
2 2 (13.33%) GCP
2 2 (13.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) DNS
1 4 (26.67%) NAS
1 4 (26.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) BigQuery
2 1 (6.67%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (6.67%) MySQL
2 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.67%) Power BI
2 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (6.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (46.67%) Git
2 6 (40.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (33.33%) GitLab
3 5 (33.33%) JIRA
4 1 (6.67%) Selenium
General
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Banking
3 2 (13.33%) Investment Banking
3 2 (13.33%) Retail
4 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Project Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Business Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) IT Manager
2 2 (13.33%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Automation Specialist
3 1 (6.67%) Chief Technology Officer
3 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Manual Tester
3 1 (6.67%) QA Manual Tester
3 1 (6.67%) QA Tester
3 1 (6.67%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Technical Business Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Virtualisation Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Virtualisation Specialist
3 1 (6.67%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) Middleware
2 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (6.67%) CSS
2 1 (6.67%) CSS3
2 1 (6.67%) HTML
2 1 (6.67%) HTML5
2 1 (6.67%) Node.js
2 1 (6.67%) React
2 1 (6.67%) RESTful
2 1 (6.67%) Spring
2 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (6.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (26.67%) Product Ownership
2 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.67%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Linux
1 4 (26.67%) Windows
1 4 (26.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Agile
2 8 (53.33%) Kanban
2 8 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 5 (33.33%) Migration
3 5 (33.33%) Project Management
4 4 (26.67%) Change Management
4 4 (26.67%) Decision-Making
4 4 (26.67%) DevOps
4 4 (26.67%) Software Delivery
5 3 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (20.00%) Programme Management
5 3 (20.00%) Project Planning
5 3 (20.00%) TDD
6 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
6 2 (13.33%) Problem Management
6 2 (13.33%) Resource Management
6 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Python
2 6 (40.00%) Shell Script
3 4 (26.67%) Java
3 4 (26.67%) PowerShell
4 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (20.00%) Kotlin
5 1 (6.67%) Groovy
5 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.67%) CBAP
3 1 (6.67%) CSPO
3 1 (6.67%) PMI Certification
3 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) PMO
2 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Active Directory
1 4 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (26.67%) VMware NSX
1 4 (26.67%) vSphere
2 3 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Ansible
1 4 (26.67%) vCenter Server
1 4 (26.67%) vRealize
2 2 (13.33%) Grafana
2 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (13.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (6.67%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) VMware
2 2 (13.33%) Google
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Veeam