Scrum Contract Job Trends in Suffolk

Scrum
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Suffolk requiring Scrum skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 23 9
Rank change year-on-year +4 -14 +12
Contract jobs citing Scrum 2 3 10
As % of all contract jobs in Suffolk 2.08% 3.00% 11.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.78% 3.66% 12.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £474 - £308
25th Percentile £510 £363 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £375 £419
Median % change year-on-year +53.33% -10.45% -27.17%
75th Percentile £645 £444 £486
90th Percentile £684 £478 £524
East of England median daily rate £575 £508 £550
% change year-on-year +13.30% -7.73% -6.14%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72 82 77
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 75.00% 82.00% 85.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 33 49
10th Percentile £220 £213 £197
25th Percentile £325 £250 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -5.26% -20.83%
75th Percentile £666 £538 £550
90th Percentile £713 £691 £669
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £498
% change year-on-year -4.95% +0.45% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 5
10th Percentile £14.63 £47.63 -
25th Percentile £18.07 £51.25 £11.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £70.00 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.00% +400.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £24.38 - £42.25
90th Percentile £24.61 - £64.40
East of England median hourly rate £20.23 £40.00 £30.48
% change year-on-year -49.43% +31.26% +35.44%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Scrum relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk.

Scrum job vacancy trend in Suffolk

Scrum
Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing Scrum.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing Scrum

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in Suffolk

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in Suffolk over the 6 months to 12 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in Suffolk

Scrum
Hourly Rate Trend in Suffolk

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing Scrum.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing Scrum

Scrum
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the Suffolk region over the 6 months to 12 February 2026. 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
Ipswich +4 2 £575 +53.33% 3
Scrum
East of England

Scrum
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Suffolk by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Head of AI
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Express.js
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) MERN Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks