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The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Scrum skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Scrum over the 6 months to 22 September 2018 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.
| Scrum UK |
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6 months to
22 Sep 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
Same period 2016 |
| Rank |
15 |
16 |
22 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
+1 |
+6 |
+7 |
| Contract jobs citing Scrum |
8,441 |
7,474 |
7,733 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
8.28% |
7.57% |
7.19% |
| As % of the Processes & Methodologies category |
9.61% |
8.85% |
8.46% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
5,636 |
5,129 |
5,414 |
| UK median daily rate |
£475 |
£470 |
£450 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+1.06% |
+4.44% |
+5.88% |
| 10th Percentile |
£350 |
£338 |
£318 |
| 90th Percentile |
£625 |
£607 |
£594 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£450 |
£425 |
£425 |
| % change year-on-year |
+5.88% |
- |
+6.25% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
66 |
78 |
65 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£49.50 |
£45.00 |
£44.00 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+10.00% |
+2.27% |
+8.96% |
| 10th Percentile |
£35.63 |
£31.50 |
£33.50 |
| 90th Percentile |
£56.88 |
£52.50 |
£59.31 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£49.50 |
£45.00 |
£43.00 |
| % change year-on-year |
+10.00% |
+4.65% |
+6.49% |
Scrum 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.
| All Process and Methodology Skills UK |
| Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills |
87,843 |
84,482 |
91,456 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
86.18% |
85.59% |
85.06% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
58,002 |
55,697 |
60,469 |
| UK median daily rate |
£450 |
£450 |
£425 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
- |
+5.88% |
+5.59% |
| 10th Percentile |
£300 |
£278 |
£263 |
| 90th Percentile |
£638 |
£625 |
£600 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£425 |
£400 |
£400 |
| % change year-on-year |
+6.25% |
- |
+6.67% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
2,428 |
2,091 |
2,390 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£20.50 |
£24.00 |
£22.84 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
-14.58% |
+5.10% |
+3.80% |
| 10th Percentile |
£11.17 |
£11.25 |
£11.25 |
| 90th Percentile |
£50.00 |
£50.00 |
£47.83 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£20.00 |
£23.75 |
£23.50 |
| % change year-on-year |
-15.79% |
+1.06% |
+6.82% |
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Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing Scrum as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised.
Scrum
Contractor Daily Rate Trend
This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Scrum.
Scrum
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram
The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Scrum over the 6 months to 22 September 2018.
Scrum
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend
This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum.
Scrum
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram
The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Scrum over the 6 months to 22 September 2018.
Scrum
Top 17 Contract Locations
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 over the 6 months to 22 September 2018. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.
For the 6 months to 22 September 2018, IT contractor jobs citing Scrum also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity.
The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads with a requirement for Scrum.
| 1 |
7,656 (90.70%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 2 |
2,452 (29.05%) |
Java |
| 3 |
2,317 (27.45%) |
TDD |
| 4 |
2,175 (25.77%) |
Kanban |
| 5 |
1,805 (21.38%) |
JavaScript |
| 6 |
1,630 (19.31%) |
Finance |
| 7 |
1,620 (19.19%) |
Test Automation |
| 8 |
1,606 (19.03%) |
Continuous Integration |
| 9 |
1,535 (18.19%) |
Git (software) |
| 10 |
1,453 (17.21%) |
JIRA |
| 11 |
1,416 (16.78%) |
BDD |
| 12 |
1,414 (16.75%) |
DevOps |
| 13 |
1,380 (16.35%) |
SQL |
| 14 |
1,310 (15.52%) |
Jenkins |
| 15 |
1,271 (15.06%) |
.NET |
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Scrum
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
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