ScrumMaster Project Manager Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Project Manager - Scrum Master
UK > UK excluding London

The median Project Manager - Scrum Master daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 371 366 424
Rank change year-on-year -5 +58 +91
Contract jobs requiring a ScrumMaster Project Manager 4 3 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.026% 0.017% 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.029% 0.018% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 5
10th Percentile £384 - £400
25th Percentile £423 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £413 £500
Median % change year-on-year +21.07% -17.40% -2.44%
75th Percentile £506 £525 £550
90th Percentile £510 £593 £595
UK median daily rate £500 £494 £500
% change year-on-year +1.21% -1.20% -4.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 13,914 16,298 20,343
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.69% 92.25% 94.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,564 9,294 13,581
10th Percentile £210 £220 £225
25th Percentile £360 £375 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £590 £600
90th Percentile £663 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,306 1,339 1,223
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.63 £14.18
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.59 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.08 £43.00 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.69% -2.27% +100.00%
75th Percentile £50.56 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.83 £74.77 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%

ScrumMaster Project Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured ScrumMaster Project Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for ScrumMaster Project Manager in the UK excluding London

ScrumMaster Project Manager
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for ScrumMaster Project Manager job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for ScrumMaster Project Manager job vacancies in the UK excluding London

ScrumMaster Project Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ScrumMaster Project Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ScrumMaster Project Manager in the UK excluding London

ScrumMaster Project Manager
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 ScrumMaster Project Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 September 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 -22 2 £429 +3.87%
South East +16 1 £500 -20.00%
North West -7 1 £358 -13.32%
Midlands -21 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £500 -
West Midlands - 1 - - 1
ScrumMaster Project Manager
UK

ScrumMaster Project Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 28 September 2025, ScrumMaster Project Manager 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 ScrumMaster Project Manager in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Retail
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) QlikView
3 1 (25.00%) BT
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) SAP
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Budget Control
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Project Governance
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Fintech
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Backlog Management
3 1 (25.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 1 (25.00%) Situational Awareness
3 1 (25.00%) Servant Leadership

ScrumMaster Project Manager 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) QlikView
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Backlog Management
3 1 (25.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 1 (25.00%) Budget Control
3 1 (25.00%) Conflict Resolution
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Fintech
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Project Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Servant Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Situational Awareness
3 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) BT
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) SAP