Scrum Contracts in the UK excluding London

Scrum
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 55 32
Rank change year-on-year -3 -23 -9
Contract jobs citing Scrum 504 692 1,345
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.94% 3.42% 5.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.35% 4.06% 6.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 351 466 935
10th Percentile £350 £363 £400
25th Percentile £403 £419 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.20% -4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £600
90th Percentile £625 £648 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +0.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 26 72
10th Percentile £44.51 £56.25 £42.50
25th Percentile £48.99 £60.00 £52.19
Median hourly rate £56.75 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.69% - +24.68%
75th Percentile £65.88 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.55 £74.13 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -11.54% - +44.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,596 17,041 20,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.69% 84.15% 89.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,235 10,189 14,096
10th Percentile £231 £250 £259
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,063 1,256
10th Percentile £14.16 £12.35 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.34 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.73
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.81% +0.76% +40.19%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Scrum as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in the UK excluding London

Scrum
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Scrum in the UK excluding London

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in the UK excluding London

Scrum
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Scrum in the UK excluding London

Scrum
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Scrum in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Scrum in the UK excluding London

Scrum
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 Scrum within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -1 127 £438 -12.50% 357
South East -2 120 £500 - 388
Midlands +16 100 £450 -5.26% 160
North West +12 81 £425 -13.92% 220
Scotland -12 74 £450 -5.26% 64
West Midlands +7 65 £475 -5.00% 91
South West +21 50 £535 -6.96% 148
Yorkshire -14 36 £464 -15.59% 108
East Midlands +23 35 £391 -3.52% 62
Wales +1 18 £460 -8.56% 45
East of England +12 15 £600 +9.09% 98
North East +3 10 £544 +3.57% 30
Northern Ireland -5 2 £625 -2.34% 31
Scrum
UK

Scrum
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 84 (16.67%) Confluence
2 10 (1.98%) Tomcat
3 8 (1.59%) JBoss
3 8 (1.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 7 (1.39%) NetWeaver
4 7 (1.39%) WebLogic
5 6 (1.19%) Apache
5 6 (1.19%) WebSphere
6 4 (0.79%) CMS
6 4 (0.79%) Drupal
6 4 (0.79%) Oracle Workflow
6 4 (0.79%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.79%) WordPress
7 2 (0.40%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.40%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.20%) Appian
8 1 (0.20%) Liferay
8 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.39%) MS Visio
3 6 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.79%) Trello
5 3 (0.60%) Revit
6 2 (0.40%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.20%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.60%) Primavera
3 2 (0.40%) Finacle
3 2 (0.40%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.40%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.40%) SAP CRM
3 2 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.40%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.20%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.20%) BASE24
4 1 (0.20%) Maximo
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.20%) SAP BRIM
4 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 95 (18.85%) AWS
2 82 (16.27%) Azure
3 37 (7.34%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (5.95%) Amazon S3
4 30 (5.95%) Serverless
5 24 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
6 23 (4.56%) Power Platform
7 20 (3.97%) Amazon EC2
7 20 (3.97%) GitHub
8 19 (3.77%) SaaS
9 16 (3.17%) GCP
10 15 (2.98%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (2.58%) IaaS
12 11 (2.18%) Amazon SQS
13 10 (1.98%) OpenShift
13 10 (1.98%) Route 53
14 9 (1.79%) AWS CodePipeline
15 8 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 8 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
15 8 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.57%) HTTP
2 12 (2.38%) Firewall
3 11 (2.18%) DNS
4 9 (1.79%) Software-Defined Radio
5 8 (1.59%) SNMP
6 6 (1.19%) 5G
6 6 (1.19%) DHCP
7 5 (0.99%) HTTPS
8 4 (0.79%) Internet
8 4 (0.79%) NAS
8 4 (0.79%) SAN
8 4 (0.79%) SSL
9 3 (0.60%) Broadband
9 3 (0.60%) Network Security
9 3 (0.60%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.60%) Wireless
10 2 (0.40%) BGP
10 2 (0.40%) EIGRP
10 2 (0.40%) OSPF
10 2 (0.40%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (8.53%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (4.37%) SQL Server
3 21 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
4 20 (3.97%) MongoDB
5 17 (3.37%) NoSQL
5 17 (3.37%) Relational Database
6 16 (3.17%) Power BI
7 15 (2.98%) MySQL
8 11 (2.18%) Amazon Aurora
9 10 (1.98%) DynamoDB
10 9 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (1.59%) DB2
12 6 (1.19%) Oracle Database
13 5 (0.99%) Redis
13 5 (0.99%) Tableau
14 4 (0.79%) Apache Cassandra
14 4 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (0.79%) GIS
14 4 (0.79%) RDBMS
14 4 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 145 (28.77%) JIRA
2 86 (17.06%) Git
3 57 (11.31%) Jenkins
4 30 (5.95%) GitLab
5 25 (4.96%) Bitbucket
6 24 (4.76%) JUnit
7 19 (3.77%) GoogleTest
7 19 (3.77%) Maven
8 18 (3.57%) Selenium
9 14 (2.78%) Mockito
9 14 (2.78%) Robot Framework
10 12 (2.38%) Cypress.io
11 11 (2.18%) Eclipse
11 11 (2.18%) SonarQube
11 11 (2.18%) Subversion
11 11 (2.18%) TestRail
12 10 (1.98%) Postman
13 9 (1.79%) Gradle
13 9 (1.79%) Visual Studio
14 8 (1.59%) Cucumber
General
1 172 (34.13%) Social Skills
2 111 (22.02%) Finance
3 81 (16.07%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (11.90%) Public Sector
5 41 (8.13%) Banking
6 21 (4.17%) Telecoms
7 15 (2.98%) Influencing Skills
8 12 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.79%) Investment Banking
11 8 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.59%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.59%) Marketing
12 6 (1.19%) Billing
12 6 (1.19%) Legal
13 5 (0.99%) Retail
14 4 (0.79%) Electronics
15 3 (0.60%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.60%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 105 (20.83%) Developer
2 51 (10.12%) Scrum Master
3 47 (9.33%) Analyst
4 44 (8.73%) Project Manager
5 42 (8.33%) Senior
6 39 (7.74%) Business Analyst
7 38 (7.54%) Lead
8 34 (6.75%) Architect
9 28 (5.56%) Java Developer
10 26 (5.16%) Software Engineer
11 22 (4.37%) Delivery Manager
12 19 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
13 18 (3.57%) Product Owner
14 14 (2.78%) Test Engineer
15 12 (2.38%) Embedded Engineer
15 12 (2.38%) IT Manager
15 12 (2.38%) IT Project Manager
16 11 (2.18%) AWS Engineer
16 11 (2.18%) Full-Stack Developer
16 11 (2.18%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (13.10%) REST
2 51 (10.12%) Web Services
3 48 (9.52%) HTML
4 44 (8.73%) SOAP
5 42 (8.33%) CSS
6 41 (8.13%) Spring
7 40 (7.94%) AngularJS
7 40 (7.94%) Spring Boot
8 33 (6.55%) RESTful
9 31 (6.15%) React
10 30 (5.95%) .NET
11 22 (4.37%) Kafka
12 21 (4.17%) Hibernate
13 19 (3.77%) Node.js
13 19 (3.77%) XML
14 18 (3.57%) Middleware
15 17 (3.37%) AWS CDK
16 16 (3.17%) Ajax
16 16 (3.17%) JSON
17 14 (2.78%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 103 (20.44%) Product Ownership
2 20 (3.97%) Virtual Team
3 17 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
4 16 (3.17%) Cloud Native
4 16 (3.17%) Mobile App
5 12 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (1.59%) SCADA
8 7 (1.39%) CMDB
8 7 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.19%) Data Centre
9 6 (1.19%) Data Structures
9 6 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
9 6 (1.19%) Private Cloud
10 5 (0.99%) Credit Risk
10 5 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (0.99%) PKI
11 4 (0.79%) Derivative
11 4 (0.79%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 50 (9.92%) Linux
2 16 (3.17%) Windows
3 15 (2.98%) Android
3 15 (2.98%) Unix
4 9 (1.79%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.99%) Embedded Linux
5 5 (0.99%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.40%) AIX
7 2 (0.40%) Solaris
7 2 (0.40%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.20%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.20%) VMS
8 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 447 (88.69%) Agile
2 129 (25.60%) Problem-Solving
3 126 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 120 (23.81%) DevOps
5 113 (22.42%) Kanban
6 85 (16.87%) Continuous Improvement
7 79 (15.67%) Project Management
8 77 (15.28%) Stakeholder Management
9 67 (13.29%) Microservices
9 67 (13.29%) Test Automation
10 65 (12.90%) SDLC
11 59 (11.71%) TDD
12 57 (11.31%) User Stories
13 56 (11.11%) Software Engineering
14 52 (10.32%) Decision-Making
15 51 (10.12%) Coaching
15 51 (10.12%) Roadmaps
16 49 (9.72%) Scaled Agile Framework
17 45 (8.93%) Migration
18 43 (8.53%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 101 (20.04%) Java
2 82 (16.27%) JavaScript
3 79 (15.67%) SQL
4 50 (9.92%) Python
5 23 (4.56%) C++
6 22 (4.37%) C#
7 19 (3.77%) TypeScript
8 13 (2.58%) Bash
8 13 (2.58%) PowerShell
9 12 (2.38%) Kotlin
10 11 (2.18%) Shell Script
11 9 (1.79%) PHP
12 8 (1.59%) ABAP
13 7 (1.39%) Objective-C
13 7 (1.39%) Swift
14 5 (0.99%) C
14 5 (0.99%) Go
14 5 (0.99%) Groovy
14 5 (0.99%) Rust
15 4 (0.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 76 (15.08%) Security Cleared
2 61 (12.10%) SC Cleared
3 56 (11.11%) Degree
4 21 (4.17%) PMI Certification
4 21 (4.17%) PMP
5 19 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.59%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.19%) CISSP
8 6 (1.19%) CSPO
8 6 (1.19%) ISTQB
9 5 (0.99%) CBAP
10 4 (0.79%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.79%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (0.79%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.60%) ISEB
11 3 (0.60%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.40%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (9.33%) QA
2 12 (2.38%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.19%) PMO
4 5 (0.99%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (0.79%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.60%) WCAG
7 2 (0.40%) GDPR
7 2 (0.40%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.40%) HL7
7 2 (0.40%) NIST
7 2 (0.40%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.40%) SLA
8 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.20%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.20%) PSD2
8 1 (0.20%) SEPA
8 1 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 48 (9.52%) Docker
2 12 (2.38%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.39%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.99%) Firmware
6 5 (0.99%) Postfix
7 4 (0.79%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.79%) vSphere
8 3 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.40%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.20%) KVM
Systems Management
1 31 (6.15%) Kubernetes
2 19 (3.77%) Grafana
3 16 (3.17%) Ansible
4 13 (2.58%) Terraform
5 11 (2.18%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.59%) HP ALM
6 8 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.19%) Amdocs OSS
8 5 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.99%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.79%) Puppet
9 4 (0.79%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.79%) vRealize
10 3 (0.60%) Nagios
11 2 (0.40%) CA Wily
11 2 (0.40%) HP Data Protector
11 2 (0.40%) Kibana
11 2 (0.40%) NetBackup
12 1 (0.20%) Packer
12 1 (0.20%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 63 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 43 (8.53%) Oracle
3 31 (6.15%) ServiceNow
4 29 (5.75%) Atlassian
5 25 (4.96%) Google
6 21 (4.17%) SAP
7 11 (2.18%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.18%) VMware
8 10 (1.98%) HP
9 8 (1.59%) CA Agile Central
9 8 (1.59%) Zend
10 6 (1.19%) Amdocs
10 6 (1.19%) Ciena
10 6 (1.19%) Ericsson
10 6 (1.19%) Intel
10 6 (1.19%) Jaspersoft
10 6 (1.19%) NetCracker
10 6 (1.19%) Nokia
11 5 (0.99%) MuleSoft
11 5 (0.99%) Splunk