Scrum Contracts in the Thames Valley

Scrum
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 23 35
Rank change year-on-year -30 +12 -6
Contract jobs citing Scrum 94 227 174
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.46% 7.67% 4.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.95% 8.32% 5.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 153 116
10th Percentile £365 £413 £400
25th Percentile £431 £453 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £550 £529
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +3.91% +17.62%
75th Percentile £605 £638 £626
90th Percentile £634 £700 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -7.41% -1.82% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
South East median hourly rate £66.25 £45.00 £61.08
% change year-on-year +47.22% -26.32% +8.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,381 2,727 3,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.57% 92.10% 88.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,335 1,893 2,096
10th Percentile £213 £320 £225
25th Percentile £363 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 62 86
10th Percentile £15.55 £18.60 £10.77
25th Percentile £20.00 £24.86 £12.10
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £69.05 £25.55
90th Percentile £85.57 £79.19 £66.88
South East median hourly rate £46.87 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -6.26% +122.22% -11.76%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Scrum as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scrum in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Scrum in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scrum in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Scrum in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 23 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
Berkshire -36 78 £535 +1.90% 18
Buckinghamshire -1 10 £600 - 6
Oxfordshire +7 6 £418 -28.17% 6
Scrum
South East

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 11 (11.70%) Apache
1 11 (11.70%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (7.45%) OpenStack
3 3 (3.19%) Confluence
4 2 (2.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (2.13%) JBoss
4 2 (2.13%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (1.06%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.06%) Drupal
Applications
1 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.06%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.06%) SAP MII
1 1 (1.06%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 26 (27.66%) Azure
2 16 (17.02%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (14.89%) Serverless
4 10 (10.64%) AWS
4 10 (10.64%) PaaS
5 8 (8.51%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (8.51%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (7.45%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (7.45%) Power Platform
7 6 (6.38%) Azure Functions
7 6 (6.38%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (5.32%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (4.26%) Azure AKS
10 3 (3.19%) PowerApps
11 2 (2.13%) Amazon S3
11 2 (2.13%) Azure API Management
11 2 (2.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (2.13%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (2.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (11.70%) BGP
1 11 (11.70%) Ethernet VPN
1 11 (11.70%) MPLS
1 11 (11.70%) Radio Access Network
1 11 (11.70%) VPN
2 1 (1.06%) 3G
2 1 (1.06%) 4G
2 1 (1.06%) 5G
2 1 (1.06%) Broadband
2 1 (1.06%) DSL
2 1 (1.06%) Internet
2 1 (1.06%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (20.21%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (12.77%) NoSQL
3 11 (11.70%) MongoDB
4 10 (10.64%) Relational Database
5 7 (7.45%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (7.45%) Power BI
5 7 (7.45%) SQL Server
6 4 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.13%) Power Query
8 1 (1.06%) Apache Hive
8 1 (1.06%) Apache Zeppelin
8 1 (1.06%) Big Data
8 1 (1.06%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.06%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.06%) MySQL
8 1 (1.06%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 26 (27.66%) JIRA
2 14 (14.89%) Robot Framework
3 13 (13.83%) Git
4 11 (11.70%) GitLab
4 11 (11.70%) TestRail
5 9 (9.57%) Jenkins
6 6 (6.38%) JUnit
7 3 (3.19%) Selenium
7 3 (3.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (2.13%) Postman
9 1 (1.06%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.06%) JMeter
9 1 (1.06%) Maven
9 1 (1.06%) Mockito
9 1 (1.06%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.06%) SpecFlow
General
1 19 (20.21%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (18.09%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.57%) Billing
3 9 (9.57%) Finance
4 8 (8.51%) Telecoms
5 5 (5.32%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.19%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.19%) Marketing
7 2 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.06%) Automotive
8 1 (1.06%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (24.47%) Developer
2 14 (14.89%) Analyst
3 11 (11.70%) Scrum Master
4 10 (10.64%) Network Engineer
4 10 (10.64%) Test Engineer
5 8 (8.51%) Java Developer
6 6 (6.38%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (6.38%) C# Developer
6 6 (6.38%) Full Stack Developer
6 6 (6.38%) Full Stack Java Developer
6 6 (6.38%) Product Owner
7 5 (5.32%) Lead
7 5 (5.32%) Senior
8 4 (4.26%) Azure Data Engineer
8 4 (4.26%) Data Engineer
8 4 (4.26%) Delivery Manager
8 4 (4.26%) Product Analyst
8 4 (4.26%) Project Manager
9 3 (3.19%) Business Analyst
9 3 (3.19%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (21.28%) REST
2 17 (18.09%) SOAP
3 11 (11.70%) NETCONF
3 11 (11.70%) RESTCONF
3 11 (11.70%) YANG
4 9 (9.57%) Spring Boot
5 8 (8.51%) Spring
5 8 (8.51%) Web Services
6 7 (7.45%) Elastic Stack
6 7 (7.45%) Node.js
7 5 (5.32%) AngularJS
7 5 (5.32%) HTML
7 5 (5.32%) RESTful
8 4 (4.26%) .NET
8 4 (4.26%) J2EE
8 4 (4.26%) Kafka
8 4 (4.26%) XML
9 3 (3.19%) Apache Camel
9 3 (3.19%) ASP.NET
10 2 (2.13%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 31 (32.98%) Product Ownership
2 8 (8.51%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (7.45%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (4.26%) Smart Meter
5 3 (3.19%) Client/Server
6 2 (2.13%) IoT
6 2 (2.13%) Mainframe
6 2 (2.13%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.13%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.13%) Robotics
6 2 (2.13%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.06%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.06%) iPad
7 1 (1.06%) Raspberry Pi
7 1 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 12 (12.77%) Linux
1 12 (12.77%) Windows
2 8 (8.51%) Windows Server
3 4 (4.26%) Unix
4 3 (3.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.06%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (81.91%) Agile
2 28 (29.79%) DevOps
3 25 (26.60%) Test Automation
4 22 (23.40%) Kanban
4 22 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (20.21%) CI/CD
6 17 (18.09%) Workflow
7 14 (14.89%) User Stories
8 13 (13.83%) Integration Testing
8 13 (13.83%) Performance Testing
8 13 (13.83%) Unit Testing
9 12 (12.77%) Containerisation
9 12 (12.77%) TDD
10 11 (11.70%) Microservices
10 11 (11.70%) Project Delivery
10 11 (11.70%) Regression Testing
10 11 (11.70%) Security Testing
10 11 (11.70%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (9.57%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (9.57%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (27.66%) SQL
2 16 (17.02%) Python
3 14 (14.89%) Java
4 11 (11.70%) C#
4 11 (11.70%) JavaScript
5 4 (4.26%) T-SQL
6 3 (3.19%) F#
6 3 (3.19%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.19%) VBScript
7 2 (2.13%) PHP
8 1 (1.06%) R
8 1 (1.06%) Scala
8 1 (1.06%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (13.83%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.64%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.38%) Degree
4 4 (4.26%) PMP
5 3 (3.19%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.13%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.06%) APMP
7 1 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.06%) CSPO
7 1 (1.06%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.06%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.64%) QA
2 4 (4.26%) GDPR
3 3 (3.19%) PMO
4 2 (2.13%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.06%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (22.34%) Docker
2 3 (3.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (11.70%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.38%) Ansible
3 2 (2.13%) SCCM
3 2 (2.13%) WSUS
4 1 (1.06%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (15.96%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.26%) Ab Initio
3 3 (3.19%) Salesforce
3 3 (3.19%) VMware
4 2 (2.13%) Adobe
5 1 (1.06%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.06%) Databricks
5 1 (1.06%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.06%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.06%) SAP
5 1 (1.06%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.06%) Splunk