Java Scrum Master Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Java Scrum Master
UK > UK excluding London

The median Java Scrum Master daily rate in the UK excluding London is £588, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 466 369 -
Rank change year-on-year -97 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Java Scrum Master 3 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.011% 0.013% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% 0.015% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £581 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £402 -
Median % change year-on-year +46.14% - -
75th Percentile £594 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £588 £402 -
% change year-on-year +46.14% - -

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 25,127 13,778 17,041
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.18% 90.38% 92.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,243 8,467 10,446
10th Percentile £306 £215 £219
25th Percentile £410 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £650 £680
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,953 1,204 1,801
10th Percentile £14.88 £13.40 £13.86
25th Percentile £21.00 £16.50 £18.27
Median hourly rate £44.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +76.94% -41.51% +10.19%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%

Java Scrum Master
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Java Scrum Master job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Java Scrum Master
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Java 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 Java Scrum Master within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 August 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
Midlands - 3 £588 - 3
West Midlands - 3 £588 - 3
Java Scrum Master
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 August 2026, Java 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 Java Scrum Master in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (66.67%) Backlog Refinement
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Clean Code
2 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Design Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices

Java 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) RESTful
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Backlog Refinement
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Clean Code
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Secure Coding
2 2 (66.67%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes