Scrum
UK

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 9 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 48 29 23
Rank change year-on-year -19 -6 +6
Contract jobs citing Scrum 1,849 5,474 6,571
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.16% 7.12% 7.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.70% 7.90% 8.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,316 3,578 4,433
10th Percentile £400 £413 £400
25th Percentile £463 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £613
90th Percentile £717 £750 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £536 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +2.07% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 122 59
10th Percentile £51.85 £42.50 £19.70
25th Percentile £62.57 £50.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year - +4.84% +19.81%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.75 £67.80
90th Percentile £77.22 £84.88 £78.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year - +4.84% +18.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 39,373 69,310 81,356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.52% 90.15% 90.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,321 47,960 56,913
10th Percentile £310 £338 £319
25th Percentile £425 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £745 £750 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% +8.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,511 1,674 2,001
10th Percentile £14.36 £13.41 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.93 £17.40 £13.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% +62.79% -18.87%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £47.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £72.00 £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.95 £32.25 £18.00
% change year-on-year +36.28% +79.17% -21.74%

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 9 December 2023.

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 9 December 2023.

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 9 December 2023. 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 -23 1,491 £550 - 924
UK excluding London -19 831 £536 +2.07% 608
London -20 812 £575 -1.88% 399
Work from Home -24 724 £550 +1.85% 585
South East -10 242 £550 +2.04% 178
Scotland -14 155 £525 +7.36% 41
South West -18 133 £600 +4.35% 76
North of England -30 128 £485 -7.62% 142
North West -14 72 £475 -5.00% 83
East of England -16 71 £575 -1.88% 55
Midlands -47 71 £475 -9.52% 97
West Midlands -45 57 £475 -10.38% 74
Yorkshire -23 53 £517 -6.00% 43
Wales +2 26 £511 -1.68% 21
East Midlands -18 14 £513 +15.17% 23
Northern Ireland +18 12 £400 -15.79% 7
North East +8 12 £518 -5.91% 16

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
1 212 (11.47%) Confluence
2 46 (2.49%) SharePoint
3 21 (1.14%) Apache Spark
4 18 (0.97%) Apache
5 16 (0.87%) CMS
6 11 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.43%) JBoss
7 8 (0.43%) OpenStack
8 7 (0.38%) Mendix
9 5 (0.27%) Red Hat Fuse
10 4 (0.22%) Apache Solr
10 4 (0.22%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.22%) nginx
11 3 (0.16%) Drupal
11 3 (0.16%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.16%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.16%) MS Project Server
11 3 (0.16%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.16%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 53 (2.87%) Microsoft Office
2 43 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (1.51%) Microsoft Project
4 24 (1.30%) MS Visio
5 22 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.54%) Trello
7 7 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.32%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.11%) InVision
9 2 (0.11%) PlantUML
9 2 (0.11%) Sketch
10 1 (0.054%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.054%) GNU Octave
10 1 (0.054%) InDesign
10 1 (0.054%) Marvel
10 1 (0.054%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 26 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.43%) Primavera
2 8 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 7 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.32%) Endur
4 6 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.27%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
7 3 (0.16%) Aligne
7 3 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.16%) Oracle TCA
7 3 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.16%) SAP EWM
7 3 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
8 2 (0.11%) Magento
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle BPM
8 2 (0.11%) SAP CRM
8 2 (0.11%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 394 (21.31%) Azure
2 319 (17.25%) AWS
3 158 (8.55%) Azure DevOps
4 97 (5.25%) Serverless
5 86 (4.65%) Power Platform
6 84 (4.54%) GitHub
7 63 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
8 60 (3.24%) Amazon S3
9 57 (3.08%) GCP
10 48 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
11 46 (2.49%) Amazon EC2
12 45 (2.43%) PaaS
13 43 (2.33%) Amazon SQS
14 41 (2.22%) SaaS
15 40 (2.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 36 (1.95%) Microsoft 365
17 33 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
18 29 (1.57%) IaaS
19 26 (1.41%) Amazon EKS
20 25 (1.35%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 26 (1.41%) HTTP
2 24 (1.30%) Firewall
3 22 (1.19%) TCP/IP
4 16 (0.87%) Modbus
4 16 (0.87%) RS-422
4 16 (0.87%) RS-485
4 16 (0.87%) VPN
5 14 (0.76%) DNS
5 14 (0.76%) SNMP
6 13 (0.70%) FTP
7 12 (0.65%) Software-Defined Radio
8 11 (0.59%) Network Security
9 10 (0.54%) BGP
9 10 (0.54%) MPLS
10 9 (0.49%) Software-Defined Networking
10 9 (0.49%) VLAN
11 8 (0.43%) HTTPS
11 8 (0.43%) Internet
11 8 (0.43%) PPP
12 7 (0.38%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (5.79%) SQL Server
2 77 (4.16%) PostgreSQL
3 76 (4.11%) Power BI
4 69 (3.73%) Data Warehouse
5 66 (3.57%) NoSQL
6 62 (3.35%) Relational Database
7 56 (3.03%) MySQL
8 52 (2.81%) MongoDB
9 48 (2.60%) Data Lake
10 41 (2.22%) Big Data
10 41 (2.22%) DynamoDB
11 38 (2.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 35 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
13 31 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
14 23 (1.24%) Oracle Database
15 22 (1.19%) Tableau
16 21 (1.14%) RDBMS
17 17 (0.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 14 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
18 14 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 367 (19.85%) JIRA
2 200 (10.82%) Git
3 138 (7.46%) Jenkins
4 67 (3.62%) Selenium
5 61 (3.30%) Bitbucket
6 46 (2.49%) GitLab
7 45 (2.43%) Visual Studio
8 44 (2.38%) Rational DOORS
9 33 (1.78%) Postman
10 32 (1.73%) Cucumber
11 30 (1.62%) JUnit
12 27 (1.46%) Robot Framework
12 27 (1.46%) TeamCity
13 26 (1.41%) Maven
14 24 (1.30%) Cypress.io
15 23 (1.24%) SonarQube
16 21 (1.14%) SpecFlow
17 18 (0.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 18 (0.97%) Eclipse
18 16 (0.87%) GoogleTest
General
1 544 (29.42%) Social Skills
2 353 (19.09%) Finance
3 205 (11.09%) Analytical Skills
4 199 (10.76%) Public Sector
5 147 (7.95%) Banking
6 58 (3.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 54 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
8 50 (2.70%) Marketing
9 44 (2.38%) Telecoms
10 43 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
11 39 (2.11%) Retail
12 32 (1.73%) Manufacturing
13 31 (1.68%) Electronics
14 29 (1.57%) Back Office
14 29 (1.57%) Legal
15 27 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
16 26 (1.41%) Front Office
16 26 (1.41%) Investment Banking
17 25 (1.35%) Law
18 22 (1.19%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 378 (20.44%) Developer
2 226 (12.22%) Senior
3 206 (11.14%) Analyst
4 192 (10.38%) Scrum Master
5 152 (8.22%) Business Analyst
6 149 (8.06%) Project Manager
7 148 (8.00%) Lead
8 117 (6.33%) Delivery Manager
9 89 (4.81%) Software Engineer
10 75 (4.06%) Architect
11 67 (3.62%) Java Developer
12 65 (3.52%) DevOps Engineer
13 64 (3.46%) Product Owner
14 55 (2.97%) Software Developer
15 54 (2.92%) Senior Developer
16 50 (2.70%) Senior Manager
17 47 (2.54%) AWS Developer
18 41 (2.22%) Data Engineer
19 37 (2.00%) Senior Delivery Manager
20 34 (1.84%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (9.19%) .NET
2 111 (6.00%) REST
3 92 (4.98%) HTML
4 76 (4.11%) AngularJS
4 76 (4.11%) React
5 68 (3.68%) CSS
6 59 (3.19%) Node.js
6 59 (3.19%) Web Services
7 58 (3.14%) Spring
8 57 (3.08%) RESTful
9 53 (2.87%) .NET Framework
10 52 (2.81%) JSON
11 48 (2.60%) .NET Core
12 44 (2.38%) SOAP
13 38 (2.06%) AWS CDK
13 38 (2.06%) Kafka
14 36 (1.95%) OAuth
15 34 (1.84%) Middleware
16 32 (1.73%) ASP.NET
17 31 (1.68%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 330 (17.85%) Product Ownership
2 57 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
3 53 (2.87%) Management Information System
4 44 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
5 38 (2.06%) Cloud Native
6 31 (1.68%) Algorithms
7 29 (1.57%) Onboarding
8 28 (1.51%) Data Centre
9 23 (1.24%) Mobile App
10 22 (1.19%) Data Structures
11 20 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
12 19 (1.03%) Public Cloud
13 17 (0.92%) Virtual Team
14 16 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
14 16 (0.87%) Freedom of Information
15 15 (0.81%) Hedge funds
15 15 (0.81%) Low-Code
15 15 (0.81%) Replication
16 13 (0.70%) Distributed Systems
16 13 (0.70%) Freedom of Information Act
Operating Systems
1 166 (8.98%) Linux
2 83 (4.49%) Windows
3 42 (2.27%) Unix
4 24 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (0.92%) Windows Server
6 16 (0.87%) Solaris
7 7 (0.38%) Android
8 6 (0.32%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.32%) Data ONTAP
9 5 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
10 4 (0.22%) CentOS
11 3 (0.16%) AIX
11 3 (0.16%) VMS
12 2 (0.11%) Debian
12 2 (0.11%) FreeRTOS
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.054%) Mesosphere
13 1 (0.054%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,644 (88.91%) Agile
2 450 (24.34%) DevOps
3 382 (20.66%) Kanban
4 288 (15.58%) CI/CD
5 275 (14.87%) Project Management
6 252 (13.63%) Problem-Solving
7 218 (11.79%) Test Automation
8 213 (11.52%) Stakeholder Management
9 199 (10.76%) Software Engineering
10 198 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
11 191 (10.33%) User Stories
12 180 (9.73%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 165 (8.92%) Project Delivery
14 164 (8.87%) Roadmaps
15 155 (8.38%) SDLC
16 140 (7.57%) TDD
17 136 (7.36%) Mentoring
18 134 (7.25%) Business Intelligence
19 130 (7.03%) Coaching
20 122 (6.60%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 288 (15.58%) SQL
2 258 (13.95%) Python
3 249 (13.47%) Java
4 153 (8.27%) JavaScript
5 145 (7.84%) C#
6 99 (5.35%) C++
7 73 (3.95%) PowerShell
8 67 (3.62%) C
9 64 (3.46%) TypeScript
10 34 (1.84%) Shell Script
11 32 (1.73%) Bash
12 30 (1.62%) Perl
12 30 (1.62%) Scala
13 27 (1.46%) T-SQL
14 24 (1.30%) Go
15 23 (1.24%) PL/SQL
16 20 (1.08%) PHP
16 20 (1.08%) Ruby
17 18 (0.97%) Kotlin
18 13 (0.70%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 312 (16.87%) Security Cleared
2 236 (12.76%) SC Cleared
3 201 (10.87%) Degree
4 66 (3.57%) DV Cleared
5 49 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 48 (2.60%) PMP
7 40 (2.16%) PMI Certification
8 28 (1.51%) Master's Degree
9 26 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
10 20 (1.08%) CISSP
11 19 (1.03%) CISM
12 18 (0.97%) AWS Certification
13 15 (0.81%) Azure Certification
14 14 (0.76%) CRISC
15 12 (0.65%) GIAC
16 9 (0.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 8 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
17 8 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
18 6 (0.32%) SAFe Agilist
19 5 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (5.79%) QA
2 45 (2.43%) Accessibility
3 24 (1.30%) Data Quality
4 22 (1.19%) PMO
5 13 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
5 13 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 11 (0.59%) Disclosure Scotland
6 11 (0.59%) WCAG
7 10 (0.54%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.38%) NIST
9 6 (0.32%) GDPR
9 6 (0.32%) HL7
9 6 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 6 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.32%) JTAG
10 5 (0.27%) SLA
11 4 (0.22%) MiFID
12 3 (0.16%) EMIR
12 3 (0.16%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 135 (7.30%) Docker
2 43 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (1.14%) Firmware
5 17 (0.92%) Active Directory
6 9 (0.49%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.38%) Samba
8 4 (0.22%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.22%) vSphere
9 3 (0.16%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 3 (0.16%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 3 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.054%) HDFS
10 1 (0.054%) Postfix
10 1 (0.054%) VirtualBox
10 1 (0.054%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.054%) XenApp
10 1 (0.054%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 116 (6.27%) Terraform
2 108 (5.84%) Kubernetes
3 76 (4.11%) Ansible
4 57 (3.08%) Grafana
5 24 (1.30%) Puppet
6 22 (1.19%) Progress Chef
7 16 (0.87%) Kibana
8 15 (0.81%) Nagios
8 15 (0.81%) Prometheus
9 14 (0.76%) HAProxy
10 12 (0.65%) HP ALM
11 11 (0.59%) Red Hat Satellite
12 10 (0.54%) Argo
13 9 (0.49%) Packer
14 8 (0.43%) PowerCLI
15 5 (0.27%) EMC NetWorker
15 5 (0.27%) Oracle ZFS
15 5 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
16 4 (0.22%) Kubeflow
17 3 (0.16%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 222 (12.01%) Microsoft
2 106 (5.73%) Oracle
3 84 (4.54%) Atlassian
4 69 (3.73%) SAP
5 62 (3.35%) Salesforce
6 50 (2.70%) Google
7 46 (2.49%) VMware
8 38 (2.06%) ServiceNow
9 34 (1.84%) Databricks
10 28 (1.51%) Red Hat
11 21 (1.14%) IBM
12 15 (0.81%) Cadence
13 13 (0.70%) Splunk
14 12 (0.65%) Cisco
14 12 (0.65%) HP
15 10 (0.54%) Informatica
15 10 (0.54%) Sparx
16 9 (0.49%) Mercator
16 9 (0.49%) Palo Alto
17 8 (0.43%) Adobe