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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 21 January 2019 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
21 Jan 2019 |
Same period 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
| Rank |
18 |
18 |
17 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
0 |
-1 |
+11 |
| Contract jobs citing Scrum |
7,781 |
7,430 |
7,450 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
7.87% |
7.52% |
7.76% |
| As % of the Processes & Methodologies category |
9.05% |
8.76% |
9.11% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
5,101 |
5,220 |
5,094 |
| UK median daily rate |
£480 |
£475 |
£450 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+1.05% |
+5.56% |
+5.88% |
| 10th Percentile |
£360 |
£340 |
£320 |
| 90th Percentile |
£638 |
£613 |
£588 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£450 |
£438 |
£425 |
| % change year-on-year |
+2.86% |
+2.94% |
+6.25% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
58 |
57 |
80 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£45.38 |
£45.00 |
£43.00 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+0.83% |
+4.65% |
-2.27% |
| 10th Percentile |
£29.50 |
£32.10 |
£36.25 |
| 90th Percentile |
£51.83 |
£55.50 |
£57.50 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£45.00 |
£45.00 |
£42.00 |
| % change year-on-year |
- |
+7.14% |
-4.00% |
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 |
85,951 |
84,789 |
81,787 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
86.98% |
85.86% |
85.15% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
56,761 |
56,693 |
54,034 |
| UK median daily rate |
£475 |
£450 |
£425 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+5.56% |
+5.88% |
+1.19% |
| 10th Percentile |
£300 |
£281 |
£263 |
| 90th Percentile |
£650 |
£638 |
£613 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£425 |
£408 |
£400 |
| % change year-on-year |
+4.29% |
+1.88% |
+3.23% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
2,167 |
2,007 |
2,375 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£23.49 |
£23.08 |
£23.28 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+1.80% |
-0.86% |
+1.20% |
| 10th Percentile |
£11.31 |
£11.25 |
£11.06 |
| 90th Percentile |
£50.00 |
£49.75 |
£48.75 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£22.37 |
£24.00 |
£22.50 |
| % change year-on-year |
-6.81% |
+6.67% |
-10.00% |
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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 21 January 2019.
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 21 January 2019.
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 21 January 2019. 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 21 January 2019, 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 |
7,100 (91.25%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 2 |
2,171 (27.90%) |
Java |
| 3 |
1,982 (25.47%) |
Kanban |
| 4 |
1,886 (24.24%) |
TDD |
| 5 |
1,650 (21.21%) |
Test Automation |
| 6 |
1,596 (20.51%) |
Continuous Integration |
| 7 |
1,588 (20.41%) |
JavaScript |
| 8 |
1,505 (19.34%) |
JIRA |
| 9 |
1,494 (19.20%) |
Finance |
| 9 |
1,494 (19.20%) |
DevOps |
| 10 |
1,439 (18.49%) |
Git (software) |
| 11 |
1,388 (17.84%) |
Jenkins |
| 12 |
1,297 (16.67%) |
SQL |
| 13 |
1,271 (16.33%) |
BDD |
| 14 |
1,118 (14.37%) |
.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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