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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 33 24
Rank change year-on-year -12 -9 0
Contract jobs citing Scrum 1,744 3,366 6,740
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.03% 5.63% 7.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.67% 6.26% 8.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,181 2,250 4,502
10th Percentile £375 £409 £410
25th Percentile £429 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £713 £751 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £510
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% +9.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 99 98
10th Percentile £42.13 £42.50 £32.69
25th Percentile £53.13 £51.88 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - +44.44% -19.28%
75th Percentile - £75.50 £61.93
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.33 £74.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £47.00
% change year-on-year - +38.30% -14.55%

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 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
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% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 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 -11 1,475 £538 -6.52% 772
London +2 871 £550 -8.33% 290
UK excluding London -23 711 £500 -4.76% 514
Work from Home -10 584 £500 -8.26% 493
South East -18 225 £501 -7.31% 112
North of England -1 158 £494 -8.14% 118
Scotland -17 115 £475 -5.00% 33
North West +1 92 £475 -9.52% 74
Midlands -26 88 £500 -7.06% 103
West Midlands -21 70 £510 -5.56% 66
South West -58 62 £575 - 81
Yorkshire -6 54 £509 -4.28% 35
East of England -39 34 £550 +3.77% 52
Wales +28 31 £514 +46.79% 14
East Midlands +1 18 £425 - 37
North East +8 12 £513 -33.84% 9
Northern Ireland +3 1 £640 +60.00% 9

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
1 131 (7.51%) Confluence
2 35 (2.01%) Apache
3 32 (1.83%) CMS
4 22 (1.26%) Apache Spark
5 21 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
6 17 (0.97%) SAS
7 16 (0.92%) SharePoint
8 14 (0.80%) CICS
9 11 (0.63%) Drupal
10 9 (0.52%) OpenStack
11 8 (0.46%) IIS
12 5 (0.29%) JBoss
12 5 (0.29%) WordPress
13 4 (0.23%) Tomcat
14 3 (0.17%) EPiServer
14 3 (0.17%) govService
15 2 (0.11%) GeoServer
15 2 (0.11%) Headless CMS
15 2 (0.11%) Mule
15 2 (0.11%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 48 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
3 14 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
4 10 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.46%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.29%) Trello
7 3 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.11%) InVision
8 2 (0.11%) Mingle
8 2 (0.11%) Sketch
9 1 (0.057%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.057%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.057%) InDesign
9 1 (0.057%) Marvel
9 1 (0.057%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 24 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.40%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.40%) Primavera
3 7 (0.40%) SAP PM
4 6 (0.34%) Endur
5 5 (0.29%) SAP BPC
5 5 (0.29%) SimCorp Dimension
5 5 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.23%) Maximo
6 4 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.23%) SAP Hybris
6 4 (0.23%) SAP QM
7 3 (0.17%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.17%) Shopify
8 2 (0.11%) HFM
8 2 (0.11%) Loan IQ
8 2 (0.11%) SAP MII
8 2 (0.11%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 467 (26.78%) Azure
2 258 (14.79%) AWS
3 243 (13.93%) Azure DevOps
4 97 (5.56%) Serverless
5 84 (4.82%) Power Platform
6 82 (4.70%) GitHub
7 74 (4.24%) GCP
8 64 (3.67%) Entra ID
9 60 (3.44%) Amazon S3
10 50 (2.87%) AWS Lambda
11 44 (2.52%) PaaS
12 41 (2.35%) SaaS
13 38 (2.18%) Amazon EC2
14 36 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
15 35 (2.01%) Azure Service Bus
16 34 (1.95%) Azure Data Factory
17 27 (1.55%) AWS CloudFormation
17 27 (1.55%) Azure Functions
18 25 (1.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 25 (1.43%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 28 (1.61%) VPN
2 25 (1.43%) Firewall
3 24 (1.38%) DNS
4 19 (1.09%) TCP/IP
5 18 (1.03%) BGP
6 16 (0.92%) MPLS
6 16 (0.92%) SNMP
7 13 (0.75%) Ethernet VPN
7 13 (0.75%) Software-Defined Radio
8 12 (0.69%) HTTP
8 12 (0.69%) Radio Access Network
9 10 (0.57%) PPP
10 9 (0.52%) DHCP
10 9 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (0.46%) Modbus
11 8 (0.46%) Network Security
11 8 (0.46%) RS-422
11 8 (0.46%) RS-485
12 7 (0.40%) 5G
12 7 (0.40%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 191 (10.95%) SQL Server
2 111 (6.36%) PostgreSQL
3 71 (4.07%) Data Warehouse
4 70 (4.01%) Relational Database
5 63 (3.61%) Power BI
6 48 (2.75%) NoSQL
7 47 (2.69%) MongoDB
8 46 (2.64%) MySQL
9 44 (2.52%) Data Lake
10 40 (2.29%) Big Data
11 32 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
12 29 (1.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 27 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
14 21 (1.20%) Redis
15 20 (1.15%) DB2
15 20 (1.15%) Tableau
16 19 (1.09%) Oracle Database
17 18 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
18 15 (0.86%) RDBMS
19 14 (0.80%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 325 (18.64%) JIRA
2 231 (13.25%) Git
3 103 (5.91%) Jenkins
4 79 (4.53%) GitLab
5 53 (3.04%) Selenium
6 44 (2.52%) JUnit
7 40 (2.29%) Robot Framework
8 39 (2.24%) SpecFlow
8 39 (2.24%) Visual Studio
9 38 (2.18%) Postman
10 36 (2.06%) Bitbucket
11 23 (1.32%) Cucumber
12 19 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
13 18 (1.03%) Artifactory
13 18 (1.03%) Cypress.io
13 18 (1.03%) JMeter
14 17 (0.97%) TestRail
15 16 (0.92%) TeamCity
15 16 (0.92%) WebDriver
16 15 (0.86%) Maven
General
1 494 (28.33%) Social Skills
2 275 (15.77%) Finance
3 208 (11.93%) Public Sector
4 192 (11.01%) Analytical Skills
5 108 (6.19%) Banking
6 49 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
6 49 (2.81%) Marketing
7 47 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
8 43 (2.47%) Telecoms
9 40 (2.29%) Retail
10 38 (2.18%) Front Office
10 38 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 31 (1.78%) Manufacturing
12 27 (1.55%) Electronics
13 26 (1.49%) Investment Banking
14 24 (1.38%) Back Office
15 18 (1.03%) Billing
15 18 (1.03%) Legal
16 15 (0.86%) Law
17 14 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 386 (22.13%) Developer
2 249 (14.28%) Senior
3 187 (10.72%) Analyst
4 173 (9.92%) Scrum Master
5 167 (9.58%) Project Manager
6 129 (7.40%) Business Analyst
7 113 (6.48%) Lead
8 98 (5.62%) Architect
9 89 (5.10%) Java Developer
10 84 (4.82%) Senior Developer
11 71 (4.07%) Software Engineer
12 64 (3.67%) Delivery Manager
13 62 (3.56%) Software Developer
14 59 (3.38%) Product Owner
15 53 (3.04%) Data Engineer
16 47 (2.69%) Consultant
17 45 (2.58%) Solutions Architect
18 44 (2.52%) Senior Manager
19 41 (2.35%) C# Developer
20 38 (2.18%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (9.98%) .NET
2 142 (8.14%) XML
3 127 (7.28%) REST
4 107 (6.14%) React
5 104 (5.96%) HTML
6 86 (4.93%) AngularJS
7 85 (4.87%) CSS
7 85 (4.87%) Spring
8 71 (4.07%) Web Services
9 70 (4.01%) .NET Framework
10 61 (3.50%) Spring Boot
11 57 (3.27%) JSON
12 52 (2.98%) .NET Core
13 50 (2.87%) RESTful
14 48 (2.75%) Kafka
14 48 (2.75%) SOAP
15 43 (2.47%) Hibernate
16 40 (2.29%) JPA
16 40 (2.29%) Node.js
17 24 (1.38%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 275 (15.77%) Product Ownership
2 40 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
3 39 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
4 33 (1.89%) Mobile App
5 32 (1.83%) Management Information System
6 30 (1.72%) Data Structures
7 25 (1.43%) Algorithms
7 25 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
7 25 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
8 22 (1.26%) Cloud Native
8 22 (1.26%) Replication
9 21 (1.20%) Hedge funds
10 19 (1.09%) Mainframe
10 19 (1.09%) Onboarding
11 17 (0.97%) Derivative
12 16 (0.92%) PKI
13 15 (0.86%) Fixed Income
13 15 (0.86%) IBM Mainframe
13 15 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
14 14 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 146 (8.37%) Linux
2 85 (4.87%) Windows
3 67 (3.84%) Unix
4 33 (1.89%) Windows Server
5 19 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 16 (0.92%) Android
7 15 (0.86%) zOS
8 12 (0.69%) Apple iOS
9 9 (0.52%) VMS
10 8 (0.46%) Embedded Linux
10 8 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.29%) Windows 10
12 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.057%) CentOS
13 1 (0.057%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.057%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,554 (89.11%) Agile
2 479 (27.47%) DevOps
3 381 (21.85%) Kanban
4 321 (18.41%) CI/CD
5 264 (15.14%) Problem-Solving
6 250 (14.33%) Project Management
7 207 (11.87%) Software Engineering
8 204 (11.70%) Test Automation
9 187 (10.72%) User Stories
10 180 (10.32%) SDLC
11 168 (9.63%) Stakeholder Management
12 163 (9.35%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 162 (9.29%) Project Delivery
14 160 (9.17%) Roadmaps
15 152 (8.72%) Continuous Improvement
16 145 (8.31%) Microservices
17 134 (7.68%) TDD
18 133 (7.63%) Continuous Integration
19 122 (7.00%) Analytics
20 121 (6.94%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 289 (16.57%) SQL
2 255 (14.62%) Java
3 220 (12.61%) C#
4 215 (12.33%) Python
5 161 (9.23%) JavaScript
6 160 (9.17%) PowerShell
7 81 (4.64%) TypeScript
8 55 (3.15%) C++
9 46 (2.64%) Bicep
10 43 (2.47%) Bash
11 39 (2.24%) C
12 29 (1.66%) PL/SQL
13 27 (1.55%) Scala
13 27 (1.55%) Shell Script
13 27 (1.55%) T-SQL
14 18 (1.03%) Perl
14 18 (1.03%) PHP
15 17 (0.97%) COBOL
16 16 (0.92%) REXX
17 15 (0.86%) SELCOPY
Qualifications
1 299 (17.14%) Security Cleared
2 228 (13.07%) SC Cleared
3 205 (11.75%) Degree
4 69 (3.96%) DV Cleared
5 55 (3.15%) PMP
6 54 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 51 (2.92%) PMI Certification
8 25 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (1.38%) Master's Degree
10 18 (1.03%) AWS Certification
11 10 (0.57%) CSPO
12 9 (0.52%) Azure Certification
12 9 (0.52%) CBAP
13 7 (0.40%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.34%) ISEB
14 6 (0.34%) MBA
15 5 (0.29%) APMP
15 5 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 5 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
16 4 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (8.14%) QA
2 43 (2.47%) Accessibility
3 28 (1.61%) Data Quality
4 24 (1.38%) PMO
5 11 (0.63%) GDPR
6 9 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
7 8 (0.46%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.46%) WCAG
8 7 (0.40%) RMADS
9 6 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 6 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.34%) SLA
10 5 (0.29%) NIST
10 5 (0.29%) Software Quality Assurance
11 4 (0.23%) GxP
11 4 (0.23%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.17%) GRC
12 3 (0.17%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.17%) JTAG
12 3 (0.17%) P3O
System Software
1 150 (8.60%) Docker
2 86 (4.93%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (0.80%) Firmware
6 11 (0.63%) vSphere
7 6 (0.34%) VirtualBox
7 6 (0.34%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.29%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.057%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.057%) HDFS
11 1 (0.057%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.057%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.057%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.057%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.057%) XenApp
11 1 (0.057%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 123 (7.05%) Terraform
2 115 (6.59%) Kubernetes
3 103 (5.91%) Ansible
4 60 (3.44%) Grafana
5 40 (2.29%) Puppet
6 25 (1.43%) Prometheus
7 19 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (0.86%) Kibana
8 15 (0.86%) Progress Chef
9 12 (0.69%) Argo
10 9 (0.52%) HP ALM
10 9 (0.52%) logstash
11 7 (0.40%) vRealize
12 6 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
12 6 (0.34%) Packer
12 6 (0.34%) SCCM
13 3 (0.17%) Netcool
13 3 (0.17%) VxRail
14 2 (0.11%) Istio
14 2 (0.11%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 257 (14.74%) Microsoft
2 100 (5.73%) Oracle
3 77 (4.42%) SAP
4 72 (4.13%) Salesforce
5 51 (2.92%) Google
6 41 (2.35%) Atlassian
7 38 (2.18%) ServiceNow
8 33 (1.89%) VMware
9 27 (1.55%) Splunk
10 25 (1.43%) IBM
11 22 (1.26%) Databricks
12 20 (1.15%) Talend
13 16 (0.92%) Informatica
13 16 (0.92%) Syncsort
14 12 (0.69%) Adobe
14 12 (0.69%) Red Hat
15 11 (0.63%) Denodo
16 10 (0.57%) Cisco
16 10 (0.57%) Dell
16 10 (0.57%) HP