Agile Scrum Master Contract Job Trends 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 £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 January 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 392 341 404
Rank change year-on-year -51 +63 +60
Contract jobs requiring an Agile Scrum Master 14 3 8
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.074% 0.022% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.081% 0.024% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 3 7
10th Percentile £361 - £490
25th Percentile £373 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £356 £550
Median % change year-on-year +33.43% -35.27% +2.33%
75th Percentile £525 £428 £619
90th Percentile £545 £471 £675
UK median daily rate £491 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -10.80% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 17,180 12,549 19,210
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.76% 92.46% 93.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,493 7,407 12,163
10th Percentile £213 £210 £213
25th Percentile £375 £363 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £480 £497
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% -3.32% -0.70%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,762 669 1,757
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.24 £13.06
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £16.30
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.88 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.93% -22.81% +33.33%
75th Percentile £61.18 £64.10 £63.29
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £29.26 £32.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -9.98% -13.33% +7.14%

Agile Scrum Master
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Agile Scrum Master' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Agile Scrum Master job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Agile Scrum Master
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Agile Scrum Master job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Agile Scrum Master job vacancies 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 27 January 2026.

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

Agile Scrum Master
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Agile Scrum Master job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Agile Scrum Master job vacancies 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 27 January 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
Scotland - 4 £373 -
Midlands -51 3 £425 -15.00% 1
North of England -53 3 £513 +43.96% 1
South East - 3 £500 -
West Midlands - 3 £425 - 1
Yorkshire - 2 £550 - 1
North West -30 1 £475 +33.43%
East of England - 1 £625 -
Agile Scrum Master
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 January 2026, Agile Scrum Master contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of 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 14 (100.00%) Agile
1 14 (100.00%) Scrum
2 11 (78.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (64.29%) JIRA
3 9 (64.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (50.00%) Azure
4 7 (50.00%) Coaching
4 7 (50.00%) Kanban
4 7 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 7 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
5 6 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (42.86%) Confluence
5 6 (42.86%) DevOps
5 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (42.86%) Sprint Retrospective
6 5 (35.71%) Agile Coaching
6 5 (35.71%) Collaborative Culture
7 4 (28.57%) Decision-Making
7 4 (28.57%) Servant Leadership
8 3 (21.43%) Backlog Management
8 3 (21.43%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 3 (21.43%) Burndown Charts
8 3 (21.43%) CA Agile Central
8 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
8 3 (21.43%) Conflict Resolution
8 3 (21.43%) Data Quality
8 3 (21.43%) Migration
8 3 (21.43%) Spotify
8 3 (21.43%) Spotify Model
8 3 (21.43%) Workflow

Agile Scrum Master Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (42.86%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) AWS
3 1 (7.14%) Collibra
3 1 (7.14%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Big Data
1 1 (7.14%) Hadoop
1 1 (7.14%) Metadata
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database
1 1 (7.14%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 9 (64.29%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Billing
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Automotive
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) .NET
1 1 (7.14%) ADO
1 1 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Product Ownership
2 2 (14.29%) Virtual Team
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.14%) PMI
3 1 (7.14%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Agile
1 14 (100.00%) Scrum
2 11 (78.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (64.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (50.00%) Coaching
4 7 (50.00%) Kanban
4 7 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 7 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
5 6 (42.86%) DevOps
5 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (42.86%) Sprint Retrospective
6 5 (35.71%) Agile Coaching
6 5 (35.71%) Collaborative Culture
7 4 (28.57%) Decision-Making
7 4 (28.57%) Servant Leadership
8 3 (21.43%) Backlog Management
8 3 (21.43%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 3 (21.43%) Burndown Charts
8 3 (21.43%) Conflict Resolution
8 3 (21.43%) Spotify Model
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) C#
1 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
1 1 (7.14%) PMI Certification
1 1 (7.14%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) Data Quality
2 2 (14.29%) QA
3 1 (7.14%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) CA Agile Central
1 3 (21.43%) Spotify
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) SAP