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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 46 38
Rank change year-on-year -11 -8 -13
Contract jobs citing Scrum 1,128 1,730 3,054
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.86% 4.07% 5.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.24% 4.72% 5.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 750 1,178 2,058
10th Percentile £356 £375 £406
25th Percentile £413 £430 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +0.46%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £650
90th Percentile £692 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 33 93
10th Percentile £44.51 £31.97 £42.50
25th Percentile £48.99 £52.50 £52.50
Median hourly rate £57.13 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.12% - +44.44%
75th Percentile £65.88 £68.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £78.37 £70.00 £86.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.75 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -12.69% - +21.50%

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 26,597 36,644 51,414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 91.01% 86.11% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,043 23,629 35,622
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £409 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% +3.77%
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% - +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,109 2,441 1,693
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.00 £15.99
Median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%

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 20 May 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 20 May 2025.

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 20 May 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 -17 898 £500 -6.10% 1,863
UK excluding London -3 500 £475 -5.00% 1,320
London -30 467 £530 -3.64% 847
Work from Home -5 408 £477 -4.70% 1,310
South East -3 123 £500 - 374
North of England -7 120 £448 -10.54% 384
Midlands +16 100 £450 -5.26% 166
North West +7 77 £425 -15.00% 235
Scotland -19 73 £450 -5.26% 73
West Midlands +2 67 £475 -5.00% 98
South West +30 52 £519 -9.78% 158
Yorkshire -8 34 £464 -15.59% 112
East Midlands +26 33 £410 +1.17% 60
Wales -2 16 £471 -6.37% 40
East of England +11 15 £600 +9.09% 106
North East -6 9 £563 +7.14% 38
Northern Ireland -2 3 £625 -2.34% 29

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
1 163 (14.45%) Confluence
2 20 (1.77%) Apache
3 19 (1.68%) CMS
4 16 (1.42%) SharePoint
5 15 (1.33%) Apache Spark
5 15 (1.33%) Tomcat
6 12 (1.06%) JBoss
7 8 (0.71%) Jupyter
7 8 (0.71%) NetWeaver
7 8 (0.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 8 (0.71%) WebLogic
8 7 (0.62%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.53%) WordPress
10 5 (0.44%) Drupal
10 5 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.27%) Oracle Coherence
12 2 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.18%) Umbraco
Applications
1 31 (2.75%) Trello
2 30 (2.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (1.68%) Microsoft Project
4 18 (1.60%) MS Visio
5 17 (1.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
7 5 (0.44%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.27%) Revit
9 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.18%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 13 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.35%) Primavera
4 4 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.35%) Shopify
5 3 (0.27%) Oracle Applications
5 3 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.27%) SAP CRM
5 3 (0.27%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.18%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.18%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.18%) Endur
6 2 (0.18%) Finacle
6 2 (0.18%) Magento
6 2 (0.18%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle BPM
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.18%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.18%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 254 (22.52%) Azure
2 218 (19.33%) AWS
3 123 (10.90%) Azure DevOps
4 67 (5.94%) Serverless
5 61 (5.41%) Power Platform
6 60 (5.32%) GCP
6 60 (5.32%) GitHub
7 50 (4.43%) SaaS
8 37 (3.28%) Amazon S3
9 32 (2.84%) AWS Lambda
10 26 (2.30%) AWS CloudFormation
10 26 (2.30%) GitHub Actions
11 25 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
12 22 (1.95%) IaaS
13 19 (1.68%) Entra ID
14 18 (1.60%) PaaS
15 17 (1.51%) Azure Service Bus
16 16 (1.42%) Cloud Computing
17 14 (1.24%) Microsoft 365
17 14 (1.24%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 30 (2.66%) Firewall
1 30 (2.66%) HTTP
2 18 (1.60%) DNS
3 13 (1.15%) VPN
4 10 (0.89%) SNMP
5 9 (0.80%) HTTPS
5 9 (0.80%) Software-Defined Radio
6 8 (0.71%) SSL
7 7 (0.62%) DHCP
8 6 (0.53%) 5G
8 6 (0.53%) BGP
8 6 (0.53%) Network Security
8 6 (0.53%) POP3
8 6 (0.53%) SMTP
8 6 (0.53%) SSH
8 6 (0.53%) Wireless
9 5 (0.44%) TCP/IP
10 4 (0.35%) Internet
10 4 (0.35%) OSPF
10 4 (0.35%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (5.94%) PostgreSQL
2 59 (5.23%) SQL Server
3 45 (3.99%) Power BI
3 45 (3.99%) Relational Database
4 36 (3.19%) NoSQL
5 32 (2.84%) MongoDB
6 23 (2.04%) MySQL
7 21 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
8 18 (1.60%) Big Data
8 18 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (1.33%) Data Lake
10 12 (1.06%) DynamoDB
11 11 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
11 11 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
11 11 (0.98%) Redis
12 9 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (0.80%) Data Mining
12 9 (0.80%) DB2
12 9 (0.80%) Delta Lake
12 9 (0.80%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 318 (28.19%) JIRA
2 169 (14.98%) Git
3 101 (8.95%) Jenkins
4 51 (4.52%) GitLab
5 47 (4.17%) Bitbucket
6 40 (3.55%) Selenium
7 33 (2.93%) JUnit
8 30 (2.66%) Postman
9 26 (2.30%) Cucumber
10 24 (2.13%) Cypress.io
10 24 (2.13%) Maven
11 19 (1.68%) GoogleTest
11 19 (1.68%) JMeter
12 16 (1.42%) Visual Studio
13 15 (1.33%) Robot Framework
13 15 (1.33%) SonarQube
13 15 (1.33%) SpecFlow
14 14 (1.24%) Mockito
14 14 (1.24%) Subversion
14 14 (1.24%) TeamCity
General
1 443 (39.27%) Social Skills
2 248 (21.99%) Finance
3 171 (15.16%) Analytical Skills
4 127 (11.26%) Public Sector
5 114 (10.11%) Banking
6 46 (4.08%) Investment Banking
7 34 (3.01%) Marketing
8 32 (2.84%) Influencing Skills
9 31 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
10 29 (2.57%) Telecoms
11 26 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
12 25 (2.22%) Front Office
13 23 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
13 23 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 20 (1.77%) Retail
15 13 (1.15%) Back Office
16 12 (1.06%) Legal
17 11 (0.98%) Billing
18 10 (0.89%) Manufacturing
19 9 (0.80%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 243 (21.54%) Developer
2 126 (11.17%) Analyst
3 120 (10.64%) Senior
4 117 (10.37%) Project Manager
5 107 (9.49%) Business Analyst
6 101 (8.95%) Scrum Master
7 82 (7.27%) Lead
8 60 (5.32%) Architect
8 60 (5.32%) Delivery Manager
9 49 (4.34%) Software Engineer
10 42 (3.72%) Java Developer
11 37 (3.28%) Technical Manager
12 35 (3.10%) Product Owner
13 34 (3.01%) Senior Developer
14 31 (2.75%) Consultant
14 31 (2.75%) Data Engineer
15 29 (2.57%) Solutions Architect
16 27 (2.39%) .NET Developer
16 27 (2.39%) Technical Project Manager
16 27 (2.39%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (10.02%) REST
2 91 (8.07%) HTML
3 86 (7.62%) CSS
4 79 (7.00%) .NET
5 74 (6.56%) AngularJS
6 72 (6.38%) RESTful
7 71 (6.29%) React
8 69 (6.12%) Web Services
9 64 (5.67%) SOAP
10 59 (5.23%) Spring
11 54 (4.79%) Kafka
11 54 (4.79%) Spring Boot
12 40 (3.55%) JSON
13 39 (3.46%) Node.js
14 34 (3.01%) ASP.NET
15 32 (2.84%) XML
16 31 (2.75%) .NET Core
17 29 (2.57%) ASP.NET Web API
18 26 (2.30%) .NET Framework
19 24 (2.13%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 209 (18.53%) Product Ownership
2 39 (3.46%) Cloud Native
3 36 (3.19%) Virtual Team
4 30 (2.66%) Distributed Systems
5 29 (2.57%) Algorithms
6 28 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
7 27 (2.39%) Data Structures
7 27 (2.39%) Mobile App
8 18 (1.60%) Management Information System
9 17 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (1.51%) Onboarding
10 16 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
11 15 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 14 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.15%) CMDB
13 13 (1.15%) Data Centre
14 10 (0.89%) Derivative
14 10 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
14 10 (0.89%) Linux Command Line
14 10 (0.89%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 80 (7.09%) Linux
2 38 (3.37%) Windows
3 27 (2.39%) Android
4 22 (1.95%) Unix
5 19 (1.68%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.89%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
7 5 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.27%) Solaris
8 3 (0.27%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.18%) AIX
9 2 (0.18%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.089%) CentOS
10 1 (0.089%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.089%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.089%) VMS
10 1 (0.089%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,025 (90.87%) Agile
2 302 (26.77%) DevOps
3 277 (24.56%) Kanban
4 275 (24.38%) CI/CD
5 269 (23.85%) Problem-Solving
6 202 (17.91%) Project Management
7 192 (17.02%) Stakeholder Management
8 167 (14.80%) Continuous Improvement
9 144 (12.77%) Test Automation
10 131 (11.61%) Software Engineering
11 127 (11.26%) Microservices
12 126 (11.17%) SDLC
12 126 (11.17%) Sprint Planning
13 124 (10.99%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 122 (10.82%) User Stories
15 120 (10.64%) TDD
16 111 (9.84%) Roadmaps
17 97 (8.60%) User Experience
18 94 (8.33%) Project Delivery
19 92 (8.16%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 185 (16.40%) Java
2 175 (15.51%) SQL
3 165 (14.63%) JavaScript
4 129 (11.44%) Python
5 98 (8.69%) C#
6 70 (6.21%) TypeScript
7 40 (3.55%) C++
8 31 (2.75%) Scala
9 26 (2.30%) Bash
9 26 (2.30%) PowerShell
10 17 (1.51%) Kotlin
11 15 (1.33%) PHP
12 14 (1.24%) Bicep
12 14 (1.24%) Shell Script
13 12 (1.06%) ABAP
13 12 (1.06%) Go
13 12 (1.06%) Groovy
13 12 (1.06%) PL/SQL
14 10 (0.89%) Ruby
15 9 (0.80%) Swift
Qualifications
1 157 (13.92%) Security Cleared
2 154 (13.65%) Degree
3 126 (11.17%) SC Cleared
4 57 (5.05%) PMI Certification
5 55 (4.88%) PMP
6 52 (4.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 21 (1.86%) Master's Degree
8 14 (1.24%) Azure Certification
9 13 (1.15%) DV Cleared
9 13 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (0.98%) AWS Certification
11 11 (0.98%) CSPO
12 9 (0.80%) CBAP
12 9 (0.80%) ISTQB
13 8 (0.71%) CISSP
13 8 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 6 (0.53%) CCNP
14 6 (0.53%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (10.55%) QA
2 48 (4.26%) Accessibility
3 16 (1.42%) Data Quality
4 11 (0.98%) GDPR
4 11 (0.98%) PMO
5 8 (0.71%) Basel II
5 8 (0.71%) WCAG
6 5 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
6 5 (0.44%) EMIR
6 5 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.35%) MiFID
8 3 (0.27%) Basel III
8 3 (0.27%) COREP
8 3 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.18%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.18%) GRC
9 2 (0.18%) NIST
9 2 (0.18%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.18%) SLA
9 2 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 103 (9.13%) Docker
2 28 (2.48%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
5 6 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.44%) Firmware
6 5 (0.44%) Postfix
7 4 (0.35%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.35%) vSphere
8 3 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.089%) KVM
Systems Management
1 100 (8.87%) Kubernetes
2 54 (4.79%) Terraform
3 51 (4.52%) Ansible
4 24 (2.13%) Grafana
4 24 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
5 14 (1.24%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.80%) HP ALM
6 9 (0.80%) Puppet
7 8 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.53%) Amdocs OSS
9 5 (0.44%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.35%) Kibana
10 4 (0.35%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.35%) vRealize
11 3 (0.27%) Argo
11 3 (0.27%) HP Quality Center
11 3 (0.27%) Nagios
11 3 (0.27%) SCCM
12 2 (0.18%) CA Wily
12 2 (0.18%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 131 (11.61%) Microsoft
2 74 (6.56%) Oracle
3 50 (4.43%) ServiceNow
4 45 (3.99%) Google
5 44 (3.90%) Salesforce
6 42 (3.72%) SAP
7 31 (2.75%) Atlassian
7 31 (2.75%) Databricks
8 14 (1.24%) VMware
9 13 (1.15%) Adobe
9 13 (1.15%) Splunk
10 12 (1.06%) HP
11 11 (0.98%) CA Agile Central
11 11 (0.98%) Cisco
12 10 (0.89%) MuleSoft
13 9 (0.80%) ForgeRock
14 8 (0.71%) Ping Identity
14 8 (0.71%) Zend
15 7 (0.62%) Fortinet
15 7 (0.62%) IBM