Scrum Contracts

Scrum
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Scrum skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Scrum over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 45 33
Rank change year-on-year -16 -12 -9
Contract jobs citing Scrum 1,085 1,751 3,362
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.71% 4.02% 5.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.09% 4.65% 6.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 713 1,184 2,246
10th Percentile £357 £375 £408
25th Percentile £413 £430 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +0.20%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £711 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 26 99
10th Percentile £35.36 £42.13 £42.50
25th Percentile £48.99 £53.13 £51.88
Median hourly rate £57.75 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.15% - +44.44%
75th Percentile £69.88 - £75.50
90th Percentile £78.64 £70.00 £85.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -11.54% - +38.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Scrum falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in the UK

Scrum
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Scrum in the UK

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in the UK

Scrum
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scrum.

Hourly rate trend for Scrum in the UK

Scrum
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Scrum over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Scrum in the UK

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 30 April 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
England -19 862 £500 -6.98% 1,173
UK excluding London -4 482 £475 -5.00% 725
London -31 443 £525 -4.55% 525
Work from Home -6 390 £480 -4.10% 818
South East -1 137 £500 - 139
North of England -13 104 £455 -7.85% 237
Midlands +10 81 £464 -7.25% 127
Scotland -11 73 £450 -5.26% 48
North West -11 63 £438 -7.89% 159
South West +36 56 £500 -13.04% 86
West Midlands +2 56 £483 -5.29% 85
Yorkshire -5 34 £466 -8.36% 62
East Midlands +17 25 £450 +5.88% 42
East of England +14 15 £600 +9.09% 58
Wales -12 14 £466 -9.29% 27
North East -5 7 £606 +18.24% 16
Northern Ireland -5 4 £463 -27.73% 13

Scrum
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:

Application Platforms
1 148 (13.64%) Confluence
2 19 (1.75%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.66%) Apache
3 18 (1.66%) CMS
4 14 (1.29%) Apache Spark
4 14 (1.29%) Tomcat
5 11 (1.01%) JBoss
6 8 (0.74%) NetWeaver
6 8 (0.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 7 (0.65%) WebLogic
8 6 (0.55%) Jupyter
8 6 (0.55%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.46%) Drupal
9 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
9 5 (0.46%) WordPress
10 3 (0.28%) Appian
10 3 (0.28%) Oracle Coherence
11 2 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.18%) Umbraco
Applications
1 28 (2.58%) Trello
2 23 (2.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 21 (1.94%) MS Visio
4 20 (1.84%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (0.46%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.28%) Revit
8 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.18%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 13 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.74%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.37%) Primavera
3 4 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.28%) Oracle Applications
4 3 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.28%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.28%) Shopify
5 2 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
5 2 (0.18%) Endur
5 2 (0.18%) Finacle
5 2 (0.18%) Magento
5 2 (0.18%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.18%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.18%) SAP CRM
5 2 (0.18%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.092%) BASE24
6 1 (0.092%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 252 (23.23%) Azure
2 189 (17.42%) AWS
3 118 (10.88%) Azure DevOps
4 62 (5.71%) Power Platform
4 62 (5.71%) Serverless
5 52 (4.79%) GCP
5 52 (4.79%) GitHub
6 47 (4.33%) SaaS
7 31 (2.86%) Amazon S3
7 31 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
8 23 (2.12%) AWS CloudFormation
9 22 (2.03%) IaaS
10 20 (1.84%) Amazon EC2
10 20 (1.84%) PaaS
11 19 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
13 15 (1.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 15 (1.38%) Entra ID
13 15 (1.38%) Microsoft 365
14 14 (1.29%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.49%) HTTP
2 26 (2.40%) Firewall
3 18 (1.66%) DNS
4 12 (1.11%) Software-Defined Radio
4 12 (1.11%) VPN
5 11 (1.01%) SNMP
6 8 (0.74%) DHCP
6 8 (0.74%) HTTPS
6 8 (0.74%) Network Security
6 8 (0.74%) TCP/IP
7 7 (0.65%) SSL
7 7 (0.65%) Wireless
8 6 (0.55%) POP3
8 6 (0.55%) SMTP
8 6 (0.55%) SSH
9 5 (0.46%) BGP
10 4 (0.37%) Internet
10 4 (0.37%) MPLS
10 4 (0.37%) SAN
10 4 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (5.25%) SQL Server
2 56 (5.16%) PostgreSQL
3 46 (4.24%) Power BI
3 46 (4.24%) Relational Database
4 34 (3.13%) NoSQL
5 32 (2.95%) MongoDB
6 24 (2.21%) MySQL
7 20 (1.84%) Big Data
7 20 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
8 19 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
9 12 (1.11%) Data Lake
10 11 (1.01%) DynamoDB
10 11 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
11 10 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
11 10 (0.92%) Tableau
12 9 (0.83%) Oracle Database
13 8 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
13 8 (0.74%) Metadata
14 7 (0.65%) Delta Lake
14 7 (0.65%) Redis
Development Applications
1 296 (27.28%) JIRA
2 162 (14.93%) Git
3 99 (9.12%) Jenkins
4 54 (4.98%) GitLab
5 53 (4.88%) Bitbucket
6 38 (3.50%) Selenium
7 29 (2.67%) Postman
8 27 (2.49%) JUnit
9 25 (2.30%) Cucumber
10 23 (2.12%) Cypress.io
11 22 (2.03%) GoogleTest
12 19 (1.75%) JMeter
12 19 (1.75%) Maven
13 16 (1.47%) Robot Framework
14 15 (1.38%) Visual Studio
15 13 (1.20%) Eclipse
15 13 (1.20%) REST Assured
15 13 (1.20%) SpecFlow
15 13 (1.20%) TestRail
16 12 (1.11%) Subversion
General
1 418 (38.53%) Social Skills
2 218 (20.09%) Finance
3 170 (15.67%) Analytical Skills
4 132 (12.17%) Public Sector
5 94 (8.66%) Banking
6 40 (3.69%) Investment Banking
7 33 (3.04%) Marketing
8 32 (2.95%) Influencing Skills
9 30 (2.76%) Telecoms
10 29 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
11 23 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
12 22 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
13 19 (1.75%) Front Office
13 19 (1.75%) Retail
14 18 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 11 (1.01%) Back Office
15 11 (1.01%) Legal
16 10 (0.92%) Financial Institution
17 9 (0.83%) Billing
18 8 (0.74%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 232 (21.38%) Developer
2 123 (11.34%) Analyst
3 117 (10.78%) Senior
4 107 (9.86%) Project Manager
5 100 (9.22%) Scrum Master
6 96 (8.85%) Business Analyst
7 80 (7.37%) Lead
8 55 (5.07%) Architect
8 55 (5.07%) Delivery Manager
9 52 (4.79%) Software Engineer
10 38 (3.50%) Product Owner
11 33 (3.04%) Data Engineer
11 33 (3.04%) Java Developer
12 31 (2.86%) Senior Developer
13 30 (2.76%) Technical Manager
13 30 (2.76%) Test Engineer
14 27 (2.49%) Solutions Architect
15 24 (2.21%) Product Manager
15 24 (2.21%) Technical Project Manager
16 23 (2.12%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (9.31%) REST
2 83 (7.65%) HTML
3 81 (7.47%) CSS
4 78 (7.19%) .NET
5 68 (6.27%) AngularJS
6 66 (6.08%) React
6 66 (6.08%) RESTful
7 64 (5.90%) Web Services
8 61 (5.62%) SOAP
9 45 (4.15%) Kafka
9 45 (4.15%) Spring
9 45 (4.15%) Spring Boot
10 40 (3.69%) JSON
11 36 (3.32%) Node.js
12 28 (2.58%) ASP.NET
12 28 (2.58%) XML
13 27 (2.49%) ASP.NET Web API
14 25 (2.30%) .NET Core
15 23 (2.12%) .NET Framework
16 22 (2.03%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 202 (18.62%) Product Ownership
2 32 (2.95%) Cloud Native
3 30 (2.76%) Virtual Team
4 28 (2.58%) Algorithms
4 28 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
5 27 (2.49%) Data Structures
5 27 (2.49%) Mobile App
6 26 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
7 22 (2.03%) Management Information System
8 18 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (1.57%) Onboarding
10 14 (1.29%) Data Centre
10 14 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
11 13 (1.20%) CMDB
11 13 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 10 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
12 10 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
12 10 (0.92%) PMI
12 10 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (0.83%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 91 (8.39%) Linux
2 39 (3.59%) Windows
3 22 (2.03%) Android
3 22 (2.03%) Unix
4 15 (1.38%) Apple iOS
5 11 (1.01%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.65%) Embedded Linux
7 6 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.28%) Solaris
8 3 (0.28%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.18%) AIX
9 2 (0.18%) CentOS
9 2 (0.18%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.092%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.092%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.092%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.092%) VMS
10 1 (0.092%) VyOS
10 1 (0.092%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 977 (90.05%) Agile
2 273 (25.16%) DevOps
3 272 (25.07%) Problem-Solving
4 265 (24.42%) Kanban
5 261 (24.06%) CI/CD
6 184 (16.96%) Project Management
7 180 (16.59%) Stakeholder Management
8 149 (13.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 145 (13.36%) Test Automation
10 137 (12.63%) Software Engineering
11 126 (11.61%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 123 (11.34%) User Stories
13 116 (10.69%) Roadmaps
14 114 (10.51%) Sprint Planning
15 113 (10.41%) Microservices
16 108 (9.95%) SDLC
17 106 (9.77%) TDD
18 101 (9.31%) User Experience
19 87 (8.02%) Project Delivery
20 83 (7.65%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 164 (15.12%) Java
2 156 (14.38%) SQL
3 153 (14.10%) JavaScript
4 133 (12.26%) Python
5 92 (8.48%) C#
6 58 (5.35%) TypeScript
7 48 (4.42%) C++
8 31 (2.86%) Scala
9 28 (2.58%) Bash
10 22 (2.03%) PowerShell
11 16 (1.47%) Kotlin
11 16 (1.47%) PHP
12 15 (1.38%) Shell Script
13 13 (1.20%) PL/SQL
14 11 (1.01%) ABAP
15 10 (0.92%) Go
15 10 (0.92%) Groovy
15 10 (0.92%) Ruby
16 9 (0.83%) Bicep
16 9 (0.83%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 160 (14.75%) Degree
2 159 (14.65%) Security Cleared
3 130 (11.98%) SC Cleared
4 55 (5.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 52 (4.79%) PMI Certification
6 47 (4.33%) PMP
7 20 (1.84%) Master's Degree
8 14 (1.29%) AWS Certification
8 14 (1.29%) Azure Certification
9 13 (1.20%) DV Cleared
10 12 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
11 11 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (1.01%) CSPO
12 9 (0.83%) CBAP
12 9 (0.83%) ISTQB
13 8 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (0.74%) CISSP
13 8 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 6 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (0.55%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (10.88%) QA
2 47 (4.33%) Accessibility
3 18 (1.66%) Data Quality
4 13 (1.20%) GDPR
5 9 (0.83%) PMO
6 7 (0.65%) Disclosure Scotland
7 6 (0.55%) WCAG
8 5 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.28%) Basel II
11 2 (0.18%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.18%) GRC
11 2 (0.18%) GxP
11 2 (0.18%) NIST
11 2 (0.18%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.092%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.092%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.092%) IFRS 17
12 1 (0.092%) SOC 2
System Software
1 89 (8.20%) Docker
2 27 (2.49%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.65%) Firmware
4 7 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.46%) Postfix
7 4 (0.37%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.37%) vSphere
8 3 (0.28%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.092%) HDFS
9 1 (0.092%) KVM
Systems Management
1 95 (8.76%) Kubernetes
2 53 (4.88%) Terraform
3 49 (4.52%) Ansible
4 26 (2.40%) Grafana
5 24 (2.21%) Single Sign-On
6 13 (1.20%) Prometheus
7 9 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (0.65%) HP ALM
8 7 (0.65%) Puppet
9 5 (0.46%) Kibana
9 5 (0.46%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.46%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.37%) Amdocs OSS
10 4 (0.37%) Argo
10 4 (0.37%) vRealize
11 3 (0.28%) HP Quality Center
11 3 (0.28%) SCCM
12 2 (0.18%) CA Wily
12 2 (0.18%) HP Data Protector
12 2 (0.18%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 124 (11.43%) Microsoft
2 75 (6.91%) Oracle
3 51 (4.70%) ServiceNow
4 43 (3.96%) Google
5 41 (3.78%) SAP
6 40 (3.69%) Salesforce
7 36 (3.32%) Atlassian
8 25 (2.30%) Databricks
9 17 (1.57%) VMware
10 13 (1.20%) Splunk
11 12 (1.11%) Adobe
12 11 (1.01%) Cisco
13 10 (0.92%) HP
13 10 (0.92%) MuleSoft
14 9 (0.83%) CA Agile Central
14 9 (0.83%) ForgeRock
14 9 (0.83%) IBM
15 8 (0.74%) Zend
16 7 (0.65%) Fortinet
16 7 (0.65%) Ping Identity