Scrum Contracts in the Thames Valley

Scrum
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 25 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 46 30
Rank change year-on-year -12 -16 +18
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Scrum 63 82 177
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.81% 3.64% 6.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.16% 4.30% 7.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 56 123
10th Percentile £412 £406 £425
25th Percentile £500 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £705 £700
South East median daily rate £511 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.67% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £54.08 - -
25th Percentile £58.69 - -
Median hourly rate £66.75 - -
75th Percentile £73.63 - -
90th Percentile £77.45 - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £61.25
% change year-on-year -21.43% +14.29% +2.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,513 1,906 2,520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 91.48% 84.64% 90.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 902 1,084 1,704
10th Percentile £300 £269 £300
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.44% +4.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £520 £518
% change year-on-year -3.85% +0.31% +3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 102 86
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.70 £16.33
25th Percentile £15.12 £23.37 £24.63
Median hourly rate £24.58 £57.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.26% +15.00% +150.00%
75th Percentile £46.30 £67.38 £66.00
90th Percentile £77.75 £85.61 £74.90
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -58.15% +14.70% +80.31%

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

Scrum
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Scrum.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Scrum

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 25 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in the Thames Valley

Scrum
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Scrum.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Scrum

Scrum
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Scrum in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 25 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Scrum in the Thames Valley

Scrum
DemandTrendContract 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 25 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +3 53 £525 -8.30% 67
Buckinghamshire +4 6 £425 -15.00% 13
Oxfordshire -8 4 £475 +55.74% 30
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 6 (9.52%) Confluence
2 5 (7.94%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.59%) Appian
3 1 (1.59%) Camunda
3 1 (1.59%) Oracle Service Bus
3 1 (1.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.59%) Smallworld
Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.76%) SAP PM
2 2 (3.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (3.17%) SAP HR
3 1 (1.59%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (1.59%) Maximo
3 1 (1.59%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.59%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 19 (30.16%) Azure
2 16 (25.40%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (14.29%) AWS
4 7 (11.11%) SaaS
4 7 (11.11%) Serverless
5 6 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (9.52%) Power Platform
6 5 (7.94%) Amazon S3
6 5 (7.94%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (7.94%) Miro
6 5 (7.94%) Oracle CX
7 4 (6.35%) Amazon Bedrock
7 4 (6.35%) Amazon SageMaker
7 4 (6.35%) AWS Step Functions
7 4 (6.35%) ChatGPT
8 2 (3.17%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (3.17%) GitHub
8 2 (3.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.59%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.17%) Network Security
2 1 (1.59%) BGP
2 1 (1.59%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (1.59%) GPON
2 1 (1.59%) HTTP
2 1 (1.59%) MPLS
2 1 (1.59%) SSL
2 1 (1.59%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.52%) Power BI
2 4 (6.35%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (6.35%) Big Data
2 4 (6.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (3.17%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.59%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.59%) Data Mart
4 1 (1.59%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.59%) GIS
4 1 (1.59%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.59%) MySQL
4 1 (1.59%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (23.81%) JIRA
2 4 (6.35%) Git
3 3 (4.76%) Cucumber
4 2 (3.17%) GitLab
4 2 (3.17%) SonarQube
4 2 (3.17%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.59%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (1.59%) DbUnit
5 1 (1.59%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.59%) jMock
5 1 (1.59%) JUnit
5 1 (1.59%) Maven
5 1 (1.59%) Mockito
5 1 (1.59%) Robot Framework
5 1 (1.59%) Selenium
5 1 (1.59%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.59%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (25.40%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (7.94%) Telecoms
4 4 (6.35%) Marketing
5 2 (3.17%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.17%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.17%) Retail
6 1 (1.59%) Finance
6 1 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.59%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (14.29%) Analyst
1 9 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 7 (11.11%) Developer
2 7 (11.11%) Senior
3 6 (9.52%) Architect
3 6 (9.52%) Lead
4 5 (7.94%) Product Owner
5 4 (6.35%) Data Scientist
5 4 (6.35%) Delivery Manager
5 4 (6.35%) Project Manager
5 4 (6.35%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (4.76%) IT Manager
6 3 (4.76%) IT Programme Manager
6 3 (4.76%) Programme Manager
6 3 (4.76%) Salesforce Architect
6 3 (4.76%) Salesforce Developer
6 3 (4.76%) Salesforce Solution Architect
6 3 (4.76%) Scrum Master
6 3 (4.76%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (4.76%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (14.29%) SOAP
2 8 (12.70%) Web Services
3 7 (11.11%) REST
4 6 (9.52%) Lightning Web Components
4 6 (9.52%) Visualforce
5 4 (6.35%) CSS
5 4 (6.35%) HTML
5 4 (6.35%) Hugging Face
5 4 (6.35%) JSON
5 4 (6.35%) NumPy
5 4 (6.35%) Pandas
5 4 (6.35%) PyTorch
5 4 (6.35%) scikit-learn
6 3 (4.76%) Prophet
6 3 (4.76%) XML
7 2 (3.17%) NETCONF
7 2 (3.17%) Playwright
7 2 (3.17%) SAP PI
7 2 (3.17%) YANG
8 1 (1.59%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.70%) Product Ownership
2 5 (7.94%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (7.94%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (7.94%) Onboarding
3 4 (6.35%) Life Science
4 2 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.17%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.59%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.59%) CMDB
5 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.59%) IoT
5 1 (1.59%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.59%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.17%) Linux
2 1 (1.59%) CentOS
2 1 (1.59%) Unix
2 1 (1.59%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (90.48%) Agile
2 22 (34.92%) DevOps
3 14 (22.22%) Roadmaps
4 13 (20.63%) Data Modelling
5 11 (17.46%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (17.46%) Waterfall
6 10 (15.87%) Migration
7 9 (14.29%) CI/CD
7 9 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 8 (12.70%) ITIL
8 8 (12.70%) Use Case
9 7 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (11.11%) Kanban
9 7 (11.11%) Matrix Organization
9 7 (11.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 7 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
9 7 (11.11%) User Stories
10 6 (9.52%) Machine Learning
10 6 (9.52%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 13 (20.63%) SQL
2 9 (14.29%) Python
3 6 (9.52%) Apex Code
4 5 (7.94%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.76%) C#
5 3 (4.76%) Java
6 1 (1.59%) Magik
6 1 (1.59%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (6.35%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.17%) Degree
2 2 (3.17%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.59%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.59%) PMP
3 1 (1.59%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.35%) GDPR
1 4 (6.35%) QA
2 2 (3.17%) GRC
2 2 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.17%) NIST
2 2 (3.17%) NIST 800
2 2 (3.17%) RMADS
3 1 (1.59%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (7.94%) Docker
2 1 (1.59%) Postfix
2 1 (1.59%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (1.59%) Ansible
1 1 (1.59%) Grafana
1 1 (1.59%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.59%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (19.05%) Oracle
2 9 (14.29%) Salesforce
3 6 (9.52%) ServiceNow
4 5 (7.94%) SAP
5 3 (4.76%) Microsoft
5 3 (4.76%) Sage
6 2 (3.17%) Cisco
6 2 (3.17%) HubSpot
6 2 (3.17%) Snow
7 1 (1.59%) Adobe
7 1 (1.59%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.59%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (1.59%) Genesys
7 1 (1.59%) Jaspersoft
7 1 (1.59%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.59%) Sparx
7 1 (1.59%) Veracode