Scrum-ban Contracts

Scrumban
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Scrum-ban skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Scrum-ban over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 583 716 846
Rank change year-on-year +133 +130 -161
Contract jobs citing Scrum-ban 8 2 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.019% 0.003% 0.009%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.021% 0.004% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile - - £456
25th Percentile £500 - £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £581
Median % change year-on-year - - +37.17%
75th Percentile £600 - £619
90th Percentile - - £659
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Scrum-ban is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,262 53,150 80,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.35% 89.86% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,013 36,862 56,431
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,756 1,916
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Scrum-ban as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Scrum-ban in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scrum-ban.

Daily rate trend for Scrum-ban in the UK

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Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum-ban within the UK over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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
England +112 4 £550 - 1
London +102 3 £550 -
Work from Home - 2 £550 - 1

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) GCP
3 2 (25.00%) SaaS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Tableau
General
1 5 (62.50%) Electronics
2 4 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (37.50%) Finance
4 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Senior
2 4 (50.00%) Scala Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Scala Software Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Senior Scala Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Senior Scala Software Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Software Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Senior Manager
4 2 (25.00%) Agile Delivery Manager
4 2 (25.00%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (25.00%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
4 2 (25.00%) Senior Delivery Manager
5 1 (12.50%) Data Manager
5 1 (12.50%) Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Product Manager
5 1 (12.50%) Scala Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Senior Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) http4s
1 5 (62.50%) Lambda Expressions
2 4 (50.00%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 4 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 4 (50.00%) Video\Live Streaming
2 2 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
1 8 (100.00%) Scrum
2 7 (87.50%) Kanban
3 6 (75.00%) Project Management
4 5 (62.50%) Computer Science
4 5 (62.50%) Functional Programming
4 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (62.50%) Microservices
4 5 (62.50%) OO
4 5 (62.50%) OOP
4 5 (62.50%) Roadmaps
4 5 (62.50%) Sprint Planning
4 5 (62.50%) Sprint Retrospective
5 4 (50.00%) API Integration
5 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (50.00%) E-Commerce
5 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
6 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
7 2 (25.00%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Java
1 5 (62.50%) Scala
2 1 (12.50%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (62.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Terraform
2 4 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Google
2 4 (50.00%) Okta
2 4 (50.00%) Roku
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft