Scrum Contract Job Trends in Swindon

Scrum
Wiltshire > Swindon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Swindon requiring Scrum skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 14 17
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 +12
Contract jobs citing Scrum 3 2 7
As % of all contract jobs in Swindon 3.33% 2.90% 5.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.17% 3.33% 6.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £344 - £420
25th Percentile £372 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -26.09% +31.43%
75th Percentile £497 £438 £600
90th Percentile £521 - £623
Wiltshire median daily rate £525 £625 £613
% change year-on-year -16.00% +2.04% +17.79%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Swindon

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 Swindon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72 60 108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon 80.00% 86.96% 80.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 40 66
10th Percentile £320 £207 £167
25th Percentile £379 £422 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £638 £588
90th Percentile £599 £738 £634
Wiltshire median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 10
10th Percentile £30.51 - £12.00
25th Percentile £38.55 - £14.36
Median hourly rate £53.83 - £15.43
Median % change year-on-year - - -75.51%
75th Percentile £70.98 - £17.25
90th Percentile £80.14 - £30.25
Wiltshire median hourly rate £21.64 £60.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year -63.94% +263.64% -74.81%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

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

Scrum job vacancy trend in Swindon

Scrum
Daily Rate Trend in Swindon

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Swindon citing Scrum

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in Swindon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in Swindon over the 6 months to 4 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in Swindon

Scrum
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swindon 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 (33.33%) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Ant
1 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (33.33%) IntelliJ
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Maven
1 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Agile Delivery Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Scrum Master
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Operational Technology
1 1 (33.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Kanban
3 1 (33.33%) Backlog Management
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Key Management
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Workflow
3 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Thales