Agile Scrum Master Contracts in the UK excluding London

Agile Scrum Master
UK > UK excluding London

The median Agile Scrum Master daily rate in the UK excluding London is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 390 439 477
Rank change year-on-year +49 +38 -71
Contract jobs requiring an Agile Scrum Master 5 13 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.024% 0.054% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.057% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 34
10th Percentile £511 £415 £414
25th Percentile £528 £454 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +0.96% +12.43%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £588
90th Percentile £705 £626 £611
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £538
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.98% +13.16%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,260 22,774 29,857
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.67% 94.07% 95.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,836 15,954 20,879
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £594 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,214 1,200 1,503
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.06
25th Percentile £15.66 £18.12 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +1.41%

Agile Scrum Master
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Agile Scrum Master in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Agile Scrum Master in the UK excluding London

Agile Scrum Master
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile Scrum Master in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Agile Scrum Master in the UK excluding London

Agile Scrum Master
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile Scrum Master in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile Scrum Master in the UK excluding London

Agile Scrum Master
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile Scrum Master in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Agile Scrum Master in the UK excluding London

Agile Scrum Master
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Scrum Master within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 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
Midlands +38 3 £650 +20.93%
West Midlands +31 2 £750 +39.53%
South West +17 1 £500 +17.37% 1
South East +13 1 £600 -
East Midlands - 1 £550 -
Agile Scrum Master
UK

Agile Scrum Master Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, Agile Scrum Master contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Agile Scrum Master in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Scrum
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (60.00%) Agile Coaching
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Coaching
2 3 (60.00%) JIRA
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (40.00%) SDLC
3 2 (40.00%) Dashboard Development
3 2 (40.00%) Epics
3 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) Confluence
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (40.00%) ADO
4 1 (20.00%) Project Management
4 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 1 (20.00%) Finance
4 1 (20.00%) TDD
4 1 (20.00%) Cadence
4 1 (20.00%) User Stories
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Kanban
4 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Debt
4 1 (20.00%) Community of Practice
4 1 (20.00%) Sprint Retrospective
4 1 (20.00%) Backlog Management

Agile Scrum Master Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (40.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) Agile Coaching
2 3 (60.00%) Coaching
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Dashboard Development
3 2 (40.00%) Epics
3 2 (40.00%) SDLC
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) Backlog Management
4 1 (20.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Community of Practice
4 1 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Product Backlog
4 1 (20.00%) Project Management
4 1 (20.00%) Sprint Retrospective
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Debt
4 1 (20.00%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Cadence