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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 22 April 2018 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
22 Apr 2018 |
Same period 2017 |
Same period 2016 |
| Rank |
18 |
21 |
26 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
+3 |
+5 |
+6 |
| Contract jobs citing Scrum |
7,797 |
6,742 |
6,748 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
7.71% |
7.33% |
6.33% |
| As % of the Processes & Methodologies category |
9.00% |
8.68% |
7.55% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
5,465 |
4,614 |
4,835 |
| UK median daily rate |
£475 |
£450 |
£450 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+5.56% |
- |
+8.43% |
| 10th Percentile |
£340 |
£325 |
£313 |
| 90th Percentile |
£625 |
£600 |
£594 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£445 |
£425 |
£400 |
| % change year-on-year |
+4.71% |
+6.25% |
- |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
48 |
83 |
69 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£50.00 |
£42.00 |
£43.75 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
+19.05% |
-4.00% |
+2.94% |
| 10th Percentile |
£33.88 |
£36.25 |
£32.50 |
| 90th Percentile |
£73.48 |
£52.50 |
£50.50 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£45.00 |
£41.50 |
£43.63 |
| % change year-on-year |
+8.43% |
-4.87% |
+7.72% |
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 |
86,614 |
77,646 |
89,328 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK |
85.63% |
84.39% |
83.73% |
| Number of daily rates quoted |
57,208 |
51,083 |
58,365 |
| UK median daily rate |
£450 |
£438 |
£425 |
| Median daily rate % change year-on-year |
+2.86% |
+2.94% |
+6.25% |
| 10th Percentile |
£298 |
£270 |
£263 |
| 90th Percentile |
£638 |
£620 |
£606 |
| UK excluding London median daily rate |
£420 |
£400 |
£393 |
| % change year-on-year |
+5.00% |
+1.91% |
+4.67% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted |
2,226 |
2,117 |
2,447 |
| UK median hourly rate |
£22.50 |
£25.00 |
£25.00 |
| Median hourly rate % change year-on-year |
-10.00% |
- |
+19.22% |
| 10th Percentile |
£11.22 |
£11.35 |
£11.50 |
| 90th Percentile |
£50.25 |
£51.25 |
£50.00 |
| UK excluding London median hourly rate |
£21.24 |
£25.00 |
£25.50 |
| % change year-on-year |
-15.04% |
-1.96% |
+15.91% |
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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 22 April 2018.
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 22 April 2018.
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 22 April 2018. 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 22 April 2018, 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 |
7,127 (91.41%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 2 |
2,345 (30.08%) |
TDD |
| 3 |
2,313 (29.67%) |
Java |
| 4 |
2,121 (27.20%) |
Kanban |
| 5 |
1,645 (21.10%) |
JavaScript |
| 6 |
1,582 (20.29%) |
Continuous Integration |
| 7 |
1,470 (18.85%) |
Finance |
| 8 |
1,465 (18.79%) |
BDD |
| 9 |
1,452 (18.62%) |
Test Automation |
| 10 |
1,422 (18.24%) |
DevOps |
| 11 |
1,349 (17.30%) |
Git (software) |
| 12 |
1,298 (16.65%) |
JIRA |
| 13 |
1,198 (15.36%) |
C# |
| 14 |
1,193 (15.30%) |
SQL |
| 15 |
1,182 (15.16%) |
Jenkins |
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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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