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 £446, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 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
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 287 337 324
Rank change year-on-year +50 -13 -85
Contract jobs requiring a Scrum Master 53 54 121
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.41% 0.27% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.29% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 46 72
10th Percentile £358 £373 £413
25th Percentile £380 £403 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £450 £505
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% -10.89% -1.46%
75th Percentile £496 £575 £578
90th Percentile £588 £625 £643
UK median daily rate £441 £488 £550
% change year-on-year -9.64% -11.36% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - £66.00
25th Percentile £49.63 - £77.50
Median hourly rate £53.61 £68.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.16% -20.00% +105.54%
75th Percentile £57.59 - £87.50
90th Percentile - - £90.00
UK median hourly rate £53.61 £60.25 £85.00
% change year-on-year -11.02% -29.12% +105.54%

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 11,891 18,751 21,824
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.90% 92.48% 94.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,557 11,466 15,208
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.23% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 856 2,268 1,112
10th Percentile £13.84 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.21 £15.74 £18.07
Median hourly rate £26.75 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.13% -5.88% +112.50%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.83 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.29% -18.89% +87.50%

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 20 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 20 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 +16 14 £387 -3.25% 11
Scotland +12 14 £413 -13.16% 1
North West +17 13 £387 -2.15% 9
South East +32 9 £494 +4.00% 4
Midlands +18 9 £446 -19.00% 4
South West +44 6 £575 +18.56% 2
East Midlands +12 5 £441 +6.78% 1
West Midlands +5 4 £475 -26.92% 3
Wales +2 1 £645 +84.29% 2
North East - 1 - - 3
Scrum Master
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 53 (100.00%) Scrum
2 45 (84.91%) Agile
3 28 (52.83%) Product Ownership
4 25 (47.17%) Finance
4 25 (47.17%) Continuous Improvement
5 21 (39.62%) Backlog Management
6 20 (37.74%) JIRA
7 18 (33.96%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 16 (30.19%) Conflict Resolution
8 16 (30.19%) Kanban
8 16 (30.19%) Coaching
9 14 (26.42%) Sprint Planning
10 13 (24.53%) Stakeholder Management
11 12 (22.64%) Sprint Retrospective
12 11 (20.75%) Confluence
12 11 (20.75%) Social Skills
13 10 (18.87%) Servant Leadership
13 10 (18.87%) Roadmaps
13 10 (18.87%) AWS
13 10 (18.87%) Banking
14 9 (16.98%) Java
14 9 (16.98%) Budget Control
14 9 (16.98%) IaaS
14 9 (16.98%) SDLC
14 9 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
15 8 (15.09%) Sprint Review
15 8 (15.09%) Product Backlog
15 8 (15.09%) Analytical Skills
15 8 (15.09%) DevOps
15 8 (15.09%) Oracle

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 11 (20.75%) Confluence
2 6 (11.32%) JBoss
2 6 (11.32%) Tomcat
2 6 (11.32%) WebLogic
2 6 (11.32%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.89%) MS Visio
1 1 (1.89%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 10 (18.87%) AWS
2 9 (16.98%) IaaS
3 3 (5.66%) Azure
3 3 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.77%) Oracle CX
5 1 (1.89%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.55%) DHCP
1 4 (7.55%) DNS
2 3 (5.66%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.32%) DB2
2 1 (1.89%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 20 (37.74%) JIRA
2 6 (11.32%) Bitbucket
2 6 (11.32%) Git
General
1 25 (47.17%) Finance
2 11 (20.75%) Social Skills
3 10 (18.87%) Banking
4 8 (15.09%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.55%) Investment Banking
5 4 (7.55%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.77%) Automotive
6 2 (3.77%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.89%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.89%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.32%) RAML
1 6 (11.32%) REST
1 6 (11.32%) SOAP
1 6 (11.32%) Web Services
1 6 (11.32%) WSDL
2 4 (7.55%) EJB
2 4 (7.55%) J2EE
2 4 (7.55%) JSP
2 4 (7.55%) Servlets
2 4 (7.55%) Spring
2 4 (7.55%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 28 (52.83%) Product Ownership
2 6 (11.32%) Private Cloud
3 4 (7.55%) Virtual Team
4 2 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.89%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.89%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (100.00%) Scrum
2 45 (84.91%) Agile
3 25 (47.17%) Continuous Improvement
4 21 (39.62%) Backlog Management
5 18 (33.96%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 16 (30.19%) Coaching
6 16 (30.19%) Conflict Resolution
6 16 (30.19%) Kanban
7 14 (26.42%) Sprint Planning
8 13 (24.53%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (22.64%) Sprint Retrospective
10 10 (18.87%) Roadmaps
10 10 (18.87%) Servant Leadership
11 9 (16.98%) Budget Control
11 9 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (16.98%) SDLC
12 8 (15.09%) DevOps
12 8 (15.09%) Service Delivery
12 8 (15.09%) Situational Awareness
12 8 (15.09%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 9 (16.98%) Java
2 7 (13.21%) SQL
3 4 (7.55%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.89%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (5.66%) Degree
1 3 (5.66%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.77%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.77%) QA
2 1 (1.89%) Automotive SPICE
2 1 (1.89%) ISO 26262
2 1 (1.89%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (13.21%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (3.77%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 8 (15.09%) Oracle
2 6 (11.32%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.77%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.89%) Avaloq
4 1 (1.89%) Fiserv
4 1 (1.89%) Genesys
4 1 (1.89%) Salesforce