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 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 42 40
Rank change year-on-year -10 -2 -16
Contract jobs citing Scrum 1,338 1,795 2,845
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.34% 4.16% 5.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.78% 4.88% 5.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 904 1,222 1,929
10th Percentile £340 £363 £406
25th Percentile £406 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £700 £688 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £455 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -9.05% -4.76% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 37 80
10th Percentile £44.51 £32.05 £42.50
25th Percentile £49.63 £52.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £56.75 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.69% - +36.84%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £71.81
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.05 £85.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% +7.69% +28.03%

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 27,997 36,800 49,961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.87% 85.25% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,653 23,447 34,408
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,376 2,552 1,712
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.74 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%
75th Percentile £53.78 £61.30 £64.72
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +66.67%

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 1 July 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 1 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Scrum in the UK

Scrum
Top 16 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 1 July 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 -12 1,098 £500 -4.76% 4,863
UK excluding London +4 589 £455 -9.05% 3,061
London -16 587 £550 - 2,207
Work from Home -3 467 £475 -5.00% 2,831
North of England +8 163 £440 -12.09% 757
South East -2 138 £500 - 810
Midlands +23 124 £425 - 412
North West +31 107 £423 -11.05% 478
Scotland -11 84 £450 -5.26% 224
West Midlands +4 72 £475 - 243
East Midlands +27 52 £375 -3.10% 169
South West +19 49 £503 -12.61% 378
Yorkshire -24 45 £483 -8.10% 235
Wales +10 20 £466 -7.26% 105
East of England +8 13 £575 +4.55% 336
North East -4 11 £563 +9.70% 45

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
1 182 (13.60%) Confluence
2 25 (1.87%) Apache
3 21 (1.57%) CMS
4 19 (1.42%) Apache Spark
5 18 (1.35%) SharePoint
6 17 (1.27%) Tomcat
6 17 (1.27%) WebSphere
7 15 (1.12%) JBoss
8 12 (0.90%) WebLogic
9 8 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 8 (0.60%) WordPress
10 7 (0.52%) NetWeaver
11 6 (0.45%) Drupal
11 6 (0.45%) Jupyter
12 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
13 4 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
13 4 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
14 3 (0.22%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.22%) IIS
14 3 (0.22%) Mule
Applications
1 39 (2.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (2.17%) Trello
3 22 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (1.64%) Microsoft Project
4 18 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (1.20%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.30%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.22%) Revit
8 1 (0.075%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.075%) Sketch
8 1 (0.075%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 17 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.37%) Endur
3 5 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.37%) Primavera
4 4 (0.30%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.30%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.22%) Oracle Applications
5 3 (0.22%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.22%) SAP CRM
5 3 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
6 2 (0.15%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.15%) Finacle
6 2 (0.15%) Magento
6 2 (0.15%) Maximo
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle BPM
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 321 (23.99%) Azure
2 265 (19.81%) AWS
3 150 (11.21%) Azure DevOps
4 92 (6.88%) GitHub
5 78 (5.83%) GCP
6 71 (5.31%) Power Platform
6 71 (5.31%) Serverless
7 68 (5.08%) SaaS
8 43 (3.21%) GitHub Actions
9 41 (3.06%) Amazon S3
10 31 (2.32%) Amazon EC2
11 29 (2.17%) IaaS
12 28 (2.09%) AWS CloudFormation
12 28 (2.09%) AWS Lambda
12 28 (2.09%) Azure Service Bus
13 21 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
13 21 (1.57%) PaaS
14 20 (1.49%) Entra ID
15 18 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
15 18 (1.35%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.79%) HTTP
2 23 (1.72%) Firewall
3 15 (1.12%) DNS
4 12 (0.90%) SSL
4 12 (0.90%) VPN
5 10 (0.75%) HTTPS
6 8 (0.60%) SAN
7 7 (0.52%) TCP/IP
8 6 (0.45%) 5G
8 6 (0.45%) DHCP
8 6 (0.45%) SNMP
8 6 (0.45%) Software-Defined Radio
9 4 (0.30%) BGP
9 4 (0.30%) Internet
9 4 (0.30%) NAS
9 4 (0.30%) NetScaler
9 4 (0.30%) Network Security
9 4 (0.30%) SSH
9 4 (0.30%) Wireless
10 3 (0.22%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (5.61%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (4.63%) SQL Server
3 48 (3.59%) Power BI
4 46 (3.44%) NoSQL
5 38 (2.84%) Relational Database
6 37 (2.77%) MongoDB
7 25 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
8 23 (1.72%) MySQL
9 22 (1.64%) Big Data
10 20 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
10 20 (1.49%) Data Lake
11 19 (1.42%) DynamoDB
12 18 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
13 14 (1.05%) DB2
13 14 (1.05%) Redis
14 12 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
15 11 (0.82%) Data Mining
15 11 (0.82%) Hadoop
15 11 (0.82%) Tableau
16 10 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 360 (26.91%) JIRA
2 207 (15.47%) Git
3 133 (9.94%) Jenkins
4 61 (4.56%) GitLab
5 52 (3.89%) Bitbucket
6 51 (3.81%) Selenium
7 48 (3.59%) JUnit
8 39 (2.91%) Postman
9 38 (2.84%) Cucumber
10 30 (2.24%) Maven
11 28 (2.09%) SonarQube
12 23 (1.72%) Cypress.io
13 20 (1.49%) SpecFlow
14 18 (1.35%) JMeter
15 17 (1.27%) Subversion
15 17 (1.27%) Visual Studio
16 16 (1.20%) Mockito
17 15 (1.12%) GoogleTest
18 14 (1.05%) REST Assured
18 14 (1.05%) TeamCity
General
1 527 (39.39%) Social Skills
2 321 (23.99%) Finance
3 208 (15.55%) Analytical Skills
4 145 (10.84%) Banking
5 125 (9.34%) Public Sector
6 49 (3.66%) Investment Banking
7 44 (3.29%) Front Office
8 37 (2.77%) Presentation Skills
9 34 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
10 32 (2.39%) Marketing
11 29 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 26 (1.94%) Telecoms
13 25 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
13 25 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
14 23 (1.72%) Retail
15 14 (1.05%) Back Office
15 14 (1.05%) Financial Institution
16 13 (0.97%) Legal
17 11 (0.82%) Manufacturing
18 10 (0.75%) Billing
Job Titles
1 299 (22.35%) Developer
2 162 (12.11%) Analyst
3 135 (10.09%) Senior
4 132 (9.87%) Business Analyst
5 124 (9.27%) Scrum Master
6 119 (8.89%) Project Manager
7 107 (8.00%) Lead
8 83 (6.20%) Architect
9 58 (4.33%) Delivery Manager
10 56 (4.19%) Java Developer
11 49 (3.66%) Software Engineer
12 46 (3.44%) Senior Developer
13 44 (3.29%) Consultant
13 44 (3.29%) Product Owner
14 39 (2.91%) Solutions Architect
15 37 (2.77%) Technical Manager
16 31 (2.32%) Data Engineer
16 31 (2.32%) Test Engineer
17 30 (2.24%) .NET Developer
17 30 (2.24%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (11.96%) REST
2 104 (7.77%) .NET
3 101 (7.55%) HTML
4 99 (7.40%) RESTful
4 99 (7.40%) SOAP
5 96 (7.17%) AngularJS
6 95 (7.10%) CSS
7 87 (6.50%) Web Services
8 83 (6.20%) Kafka
9 81 (6.05%) Spring
10 79 (5.90%) React
11 72 (5.38%) Spring Boot
12 43 (3.21%) Node.js
13 40 (2.99%) Middleware
14 39 (2.91%) .NET Core
15 38 (2.84%) JSON
16 37 (2.77%) XML
17 36 (2.69%) ASP.NET
18 32 (2.39%) OAuth
19 30 (2.24%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 252 (18.83%) Product Ownership
2 55 (4.11%) Cloud Native
3 44 (3.29%) Distributed Systems
4 43 (3.21%) Virtual Team
5 38 (2.84%) Mobile App
6 36 (2.69%) Algorithms
7 31 (2.32%) Data Structures
7 31 (2.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 28 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
9 23 (1.72%) Onboarding
10 21 (1.57%) Derivative
11 20 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
12 18 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
12 18 (1.35%) Management Information System
13 16 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
13 16 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
13 16 (1.20%) Private Cloud
14 15 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
15 14 (1.05%) Fixed Income
15 14 (1.05%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 85 (6.35%) Linux
2 40 (2.99%) Windows
3 36 (2.69%) Android
4 24 (1.79%) Unix
5 23 (1.72%) Apple iOS
6 16 (1.20%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (0.30%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.22%) Solaris
10 2 (0.15%) CentOS
10 2 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.075%) AIX
11 1 (0.075%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.075%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.075%) VMS
11 1 (0.075%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.075%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,230 (91.93%) Agile
2 352 (26.31%) DevOps
3 329 (24.59%) Problem-Solving
4 321 (23.99%) CI/CD
5 304 (22.72%) Kanban
6 219 (16.37%) Stakeholder Management
7 218 (16.29%) Project Management
8 208 (15.55%) Continuous Improvement
9 174 (13.00%) Microservices
10 171 (12.78%) SDLC
11 170 (12.71%) Test Automation
12 165 (12.33%) Sprint Planning
13 156 (11.66%) TDD
14 154 (11.51%) Software Engineering
15 140 (10.46%) Scaled Agile Framework
16 135 (10.09%) User Stories
17 131 (9.79%) Roadmaps
18 123 (9.19%) Risk Management
19 111 (8.30%) Migration
20 108 (8.07%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 257 (19.21%) Java
2 239 (17.86%) SQL
3 194 (14.50%) JavaScript
4 163 (12.18%) Python
5 124 (9.27%) C#
6 79 (5.90%) TypeScript
7 48 (3.59%) C++
8 38 (2.84%) Scala
9 33 (2.47%) PowerShell
10 26 (1.94%) Bash
10 26 (1.94%) Kotlin
11 25 (1.87%) Go
12 15 (1.12%) Bicep
12 15 (1.12%) Groovy
12 15 (1.12%) PL/SQL
12 15 (1.12%) Ruby
12 15 (1.12%) Shell Script
13 13 (0.97%) Swift
14 11 (0.82%) ABAP
14 11 (0.82%) PHP
Qualifications
1 185 (13.83%) Security Cleared
2 164 (12.26%) Degree
3 135 (10.09%) SC Cleared
4 63 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 61 (4.56%) PMI Certification
5 61 (4.56%) PMP
6 32 (2.39%) DV Cleared
7 25 (1.87%) Master's Degree
8 24 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
9 16 (1.20%) Azure Certification
10 15 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (0.97%) AWS Certification
12 12 (0.90%) CBAP
13 9 (0.67%) CSPO
13 9 (0.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 7 (0.52%) CISSP
14 7 (0.52%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
15 6 (0.45%) SAFe Agilist
16 5 (0.37%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (11.06%) QA
2 49 (3.66%) Accessibility
3 22 (1.64%) Data Quality
4 12 (0.90%) GDPR
4 12 (0.90%) PMO
4 12 (0.90%) WCAG
5 10 (0.75%) Basel II
5 10 (0.75%) EMIR
5 10 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (0.67%) NIST
7 8 (0.60%) MiFID
8 7 (0.52%) NIST 800
9 6 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
10 4 (0.30%) GRC
10 4 (0.30%) RMADS
11 3 (0.22%) Basel III
11 3 (0.22%) COREP
11 3 (0.22%) SLA
12 2 (0.15%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 127 (9.49%) Docker
2 33 (2.47%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.67%) Postfix
5 7 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (0.37%) Firmware
7 4 (0.30%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.30%) vSphere
7 4 (0.30%) XenDesktop
8 3 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.075%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.075%) KVM
Systems Management
1 127 (9.49%) Kubernetes
2 84 (6.28%) Terraform
3 60 (4.48%) Ansible
4 32 (2.39%) Single Sign-On
5 29 (2.17%) Grafana
6 28 (2.09%) Prometheus
7 14 (1.05%) Puppet
8 11 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
9 10 (0.75%) HP ALM
10 7 (0.52%) SCCM
11 6 (0.45%) Amdocs OSS
12 5 (0.37%) Packer
12 5 (0.37%) Progress Chef
13 4 (0.30%) Argo
13 4 (0.30%) vCenter Server
13 4 (0.30%) vRealize
14 3 (0.22%) HP Quality Center
14 3 (0.22%) Nagios
15 2 (0.15%) HP Data Protector
15 2 (0.15%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 164 (12.26%) Microsoft
2 93 (6.95%) Oracle
3 72 (5.38%) ServiceNow
4 42 (3.14%) Google
4 42 (3.14%) SAP
5 39 (2.91%) Salesforce
6 34 (2.54%) Atlassian
7 31 (2.32%) Databricks
8 21 (1.57%) HP
9 18 (1.35%) Splunk
9 18 (1.35%) VMware
10 16 (1.20%) IBM
10 16 (1.20%) MuleSoft
11 13 (0.97%) CA Agile Central
12 10 (0.75%) Jaspersoft
13 9 (0.67%) Adobe
13 9 (0.67%) Cisco
13 9 (0.67%) Citrix
13 9 (0.67%) Foundry
13 9 (0.67%) Palantir