Scrum Master Contracts in the UK excluding London

Scrum Master
UK > UK excluding London

The median Scrum Master daily rate in the UK excluding London is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 287 344 334
Rank change year-on-year +57 -10 -93
Contract jobs requiring a Scrum Master 49 55 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.38% 0.26% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.29% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 46 72
10th Percentile £358 £381 £415
25th Percentile £401 £413 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £513
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -4.88% -0.49%
75th Percentile £500 £600 £600
90th Percentile £588 £650 £637
UK median daily rate £450 £523 £550
% change year-on-year -13.88% -5.00% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 12
10th Percentile - - £70.75
25th Percentile £49.63 - £83.13
Median hourly rate £53.61 £68.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.16% -20.00% +105.54%
75th Percentile £57.59 - -
90th Percentile - - £89.50
UK median hourly rate £53.61 £60.25 £85.00
% change year-on-year -11.02% -29.12% +88.89%

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 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Scrum Master
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Scrum Master in the UK excluding London

Scrum Master
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Scrum Master in the UK excluding London

Scrum Master
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum Master in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum Master in the UK excluding London

Scrum Master
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Scrum Master in the UK excluding London

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 Scrum Master within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Scotland +20 14 £413 -18.52% 2
North of England +18 11 £392 -2.00% 3
South East +32 10 £480 -16.52% 3
North West +16 10 £392 -0.88% 2
South West +50 7 £575 - 1
Midlands +21 6 £463 -22.92% 6
West Midlands +13 3 £475 -26.92% 6
East Midlands +10 3 £450 +8.96%
Wales +1 1 £645 +84.29% 1
North East - 1 - - 2
Scrum Master
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Scrum Master in the job title.

1 49 (100.00%) Scrum
2 42 (85.71%) Agile
3 24 (48.98%) Product Ownership
4 22 (44.90%) Finance
5 21 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
6 19 (38.78%) JIRA
7 18 (36.73%) Backlog Management
8 16 (32.65%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 16 (32.65%) Kanban
9 14 (28.57%) Conflict Resolution
9 14 (28.57%) Coaching
10 11 (22.45%) Social Skills
10 11 (22.45%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (20.41%) Sprint Planning
12 9 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (18.37%) Roadmaps
12 9 (18.37%) IaaS
12 9 (18.37%) Confluence
13 8 (16.33%) Budget Control
13 8 (16.33%) Service Delivery
13 8 (16.33%) Analytical Skills
13 8 (16.33%) SDLC
13 8 (16.33%) Servant Leadership
13 8 (16.33%) DevOps
13 8 (16.33%) Sprint Retrospective
14 7 (14.29%) Situational Awareness
14 7 (14.29%) Virtual Servers
14 7 (14.29%) AWS
14 7 (14.29%) Waterfall
14 7 (14.29%) Java

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 9 (18.37%) Confluence
2 5 (10.20%) JBoss
2 5 (10.20%) Tomcat
2 5 (10.20%) WebLogic
2 5 (10.20%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.04%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (18.37%) IaaS
2 7 (14.29%) AWS
3 3 (6.12%) Azure
3 3 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.08%) Azure Machine Learning
4 2 (4.08%) Oracle CX
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.16%) DHCP
1 4 (8.16%) DNS
2 3 (6.12%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.20%) DB2
Development Applications
1 19 (38.78%) JIRA
2 5 (10.20%) Bitbucket
2 5 (10.20%) Git
General
1 22 (44.90%) Finance
2 11 (22.45%) Social Skills
3 8 (16.33%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (14.29%) Banking
5 4 (8.16%) Investment Banking
5 4 (8.16%) Telecoms
6 3 (6.12%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.04%) Automotive
8 1 (2.04%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.04%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.20%) RAML
1 5 (10.20%) REST
1 5 (10.20%) SOAP
1 5 (10.20%) Web Services
1 5 (10.20%) WSDL
2 4 (8.16%) EJB
2 4 (8.16%) J2EE
2 4 (8.16%) JSP
2 4 (8.16%) Servlets
2 4 (8.16%) Spring
2 4 (8.16%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 24 (48.98%) Product Ownership
2 5 (10.20%) Private Cloud
3 4 (8.16%) Virtual Team
4 2 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.04%) Credit Risk
5 1 (2.04%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.16%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (100.00%) Scrum
2 42 (85.71%) Agile
3 21 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 18 (36.73%) Backlog Management
5 16 (32.65%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 16 (32.65%) Kanban
6 14 (28.57%) Coaching
6 14 (28.57%) Conflict Resolution
7 11 (22.45%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (20.41%) Sprint Planning
9 9 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (18.37%) Roadmaps
10 8 (16.33%) Budget Control
10 8 (16.33%) DevOps
10 8 (16.33%) SDLC
10 8 (16.33%) Servant Leadership
10 8 (16.33%) Service Delivery
10 8 (16.33%) Sprint Retrospective
11 7 (14.29%) Waterfall
11 7 (14.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (14.29%) Java
2 5 (10.20%) SQL
3 4 (8.16%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.08%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (8.16%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.12%) Degree
2 3 (6.12%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.08%) QA
2 1 (2.04%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.04%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (14.29%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (4.08%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 7 (14.29%) Oracle
2 6 (12.24%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.08%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.04%) Avaloq
4 1 (2.04%) Fiserv
4 1 (2.04%) Genesys
4 1 (2.04%) Salesforce