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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 33 24
Rank change year-on-year -12 -9 +1
Contract jobs citing Scrum 1,746 3,280 6,789
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.05% 5.55% 7.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.68% 6.18% 8.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,180 2,196 4,536
10th Percentile £375 £406 £410
25th Percentile £425 £468 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £547
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.59% +9.35%
75th Percentile £623 £650 £638
90th Percentile £703 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 98 98
10th Percentile £45.78 £42.50 £33.56
25th Percentile £54.38 £52.50 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - +44.44% -20.35%
75th Percentile - £75.75 £61.09
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.50 £70.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £45.93
% change year-on-year - +41.52% -18.71%

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 37,268 53,074 80,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.35% 89.85% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,016 36,805 56,451
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,749 1,911
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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 5 May 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 -9 1,477 £536 -6.78% 780
London 0 876 £550 -8.33% 282
UK excluding London -24 711 £500 -4.76% 538
Work from Home -10 584 £500 -8.26% 451
South East -19 223 £500 -6.98% 109
North of England +6 157 £494 -5.95% 115
Scotland -13 116 £475 -5.00% 41
North West +7 90 £475 -9.09% 69
Midlands -20 89 £488 -9.30% 111
West Midlands -25 72 £500 -7.41% 71
South West -54 63 £575 - 86
Yorkshire 0 55 £517 -1.52% 38
East of England -35 35 £550 +4.76% 60
Wales +27 30 £513 +31.41% 14
East Midlands +1 17 £419 -1.41% 38
North East +6 12 £513 -33.84% 8
Northern Ireland +2 1 £640 +60.00% 10

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
1 133 (7.62%) Confluence
2 37 (2.12%) Apache
3 32 (1.83%) CMS
4 24 (1.37%) Apache Spark
5 21 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
6 17 (0.97%) SAS
7 14 (0.80%) CICS
8 13 (0.74%) SharePoint
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 3 (0.17%) govService
13 3 (0.17%) Tomcat
14 2 (0.11%) GeoServer
14 2 (0.11%) Headless CMS
14 2 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
14 2 (0.11%) ThingWorx
14 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 47 (2.69%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
3 13 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (0.52%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.29%) Trello
6 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.11%) InVision
6 2 (0.11%) Mingle
6 2 (0.11%) Sketch
7 1 (0.057%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.057%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.057%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.057%) InDesign
7 1 (0.057%) Marvel
7 1 (0.057%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 24 (1.37%) 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%) SAP QM
5 5 (0.29%) SimCorp Dimension
5 5 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.23%) Maximo
7 3 (0.17%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.17%) SAP Hybris
7 3 (0.17%) Shopify
8 2 (0.11%) Loan IQ
8 2 (0.11%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.11%) SAP MII
Cloud Services
1 464 (26.58%) Azure
2 245 (14.03%) AWS
3 244 (13.97%) Azure DevOps
4 95 (5.44%) Serverless
5 85 (4.87%) Power Platform
6 78 (4.47%) GitHub
7 70 (4.01%) Entra ID
7 70 (4.01%) GCP
8 60 (3.44%) Amazon S3
9 50 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
10 42 (2.41%) PaaS
10 42 (2.41%) SaaS
11 41 (2.35%) Azure Service Bus
12 37 (2.12%) Amazon EC2
12 37 (2.12%) Dynamics 365
13 36 (2.06%) Azure Data Factory
14 27 (1.55%) AWS CloudFormation
15 26 (1.49%) Azure Functions
16 24 (1.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 24 (1.37%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 26 (1.49%) VPN
2 23 (1.32%) DNS
2 23 (1.32%) Firewall
3 19 (1.09%) TCP/IP
4 18 (1.03%) BGP
5 17 (0.97%) SNMP
6 16 (0.92%) MPLS
7 14 (0.80%) Software-Defined Radio
8 13 (0.74%) Ethernet VPN
9 12 (0.69%) HTTP
9 12 (0.69%) Radio Access Network
10 10 (0.57%) PPP
11 9 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (0.46%) DHCP
12 8 (0.46%) Modbus
12 8 (0.46%) Network Security
12 8 (0.46%) RS-422
12 8 (0.46%) RS-485
13 7 (0.40%) 5G
13 7 (0.40%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 197 (11.28%) SQL Server
2 111 (6.36%) PostgreSQL
3 72 (4.12%) Data Warehouse
3 72 (4.12%) Relational Database
4 64 (3.67%) Power BI
5 49 (2.81%) MySQL
6 47 (2.69%) NoSQL
7 46 (2.63%) Data Lake
8 45 (2.58%) MongoDB
9 39 (2.23%) Big Data
10 34 (1.95%) Azure SQL Database
11 28 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 27 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
12 27 (1.55%) Redis
13 22 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
13 22 (1.26%) Tableau
14 20 (1.15%) DB2
15 18 (1.03%) Oracle Database
16 15 (0.86%) RDBMS
17 14 (0.80%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 330 (18.90%) JIRA
2 234 (13.40%) Git
3 102 (5.84%) Jenkins
4 79 (4.52%) GitLab
5 53 (3.04%) Selenium
6 46 (2.63%) JUnit
7 41 (2.35%) Robot Framework
8 40 (2.29%) SpecFlow
9 38 (2.18%) Visual Studio
10 37 (2.12%) Bitbucket
10 37 (2.12%) Postman
11 22 (1.26%) Cucumber
12 19 (1.09%) JMeter
12 19 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
13 18 (1.03%) Artifactory
13 18 (1.03%) Cypress.io
13 18 (1.03%) TestRail
14 16 (0.92%) WebDriver
15 15 (0.86%) GoogleTest
15 15 (0.86%) TeamCity
General
1 491 (28.12%) Social Skills
2 278 (15.92%) Finance
3 206 (11.80%) Public Sector
4 187 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
5 108 (6.19%) Banking
6 51 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
7 49 (2.81%) Marketing
8 46 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
9 43 (2.46%) Telecoms
10 42 (2.41%) Retail
11 37 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 36 (2.06%) Front Office
13 31 (1.78%) Manufacturing
14 27 (1.55%) Electronics
15 25 (1.43%) Back Office
15 25 (1.43%) Investment Banking
16 19 (1.09%) Billing
17 18 (1.03%) Legal
18 15 (0.86%) Law
18 15 (0.86%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 388 (22.22%) Developer
2 252 (14.43%) Senior
3 190 (10.88%) Analyst
4 169 (9.68%) Scrum Master
5 166 (9.51%) Project Manager
6 132 (7.56%) Business Analyst
7 110 (6.30%) Lead
8 100 (5.73%) Architect
9 91 (5.21%) Senior Developer
10 85 (4.87%) Java Developer
11 73 (4.18%) Software Engineer
12 66 (3.78%) Software Developer
13 63 (3.61%) Delivery Manager
14 60 (3.44%) Product Owner
15 55 (3.15%) Data Engineer
16 47 (2.69%) Consultant
17 46 (2.63%) Solutions Architect
18 43 (2.46%) C# Developer
18 43 (2.46%) Senior Manager
19 38 (2.18%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (10.31%) .NET
2 151 (8.65%) XML
3 126 (7.22%) REST
4 111 (6.36%) HTML
4 111 (6.36%) React
5 93 (5.33%) CSS
6 86 (4.93%) AngularJS
7 83 (4.75%) Spring
8 73 (4.18%) Web Services
9 72 (4.12%) .NET Framework
10 60 (3.44%) Spring Boot
11 57 (3.26%) .NET Core
11 57 (3.26%) JSON
12 50 (2.86%) RESTful
13 46 (2.63%) SOAP
14 45 (2.58%) Kafka
15 42 (2.41%) Hibernate
16 40 (2.29%) JPA
17 39 (2.23%) Node.js
18 28 (1.60%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 282 (16.15%) Product Ownership
2 42 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
3 39 (2.23%) Distributed Systems
4 32 (1.83%) Data Structures
4 32 (1.83%) Management Information System
5 31 (1.78%) Mobile App
6 28 (1.60%) Algorithms
7 26 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
8 23 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
9 22 (1.26%) Replication
10 21 (1.20%) Cloud Native
10 21 (1.20%) Hedge funds
11 19 (1.09%) Mainframe
11 19 (1.09%) Onboarding
12 17 (0.97%) Derivative
13 16 (0.92%) PKI
14 15 (0.86%) Fixed Income
14 15 (0.86%) IBM Mainframe
14 15 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
15 14 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 147 (8.42%) Linux
2 82 (4.70%) 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 1,562 (89.46%) Agile
2 474 (27.15%) DevOps
3 381 (21.82%) Kanban
4 322 (18.44%) CI/CD
5 259 (14.83%) Problem-Solving
6 252 (14.43%) Project Management
7 215 (12.31%) Software Engineering
8 208 (11.91%) Test Automation
9 188 (10.77%) User Stories
10 180 (10.31%) SDLC
11 166 (9.51%) Stakeholder Management
12 165 (9.45%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 160 (9.16%) Roadmaps
14 155 (8.88%) Project Delivery
15 144 (8.25%) Continuous Improvement
16 139 (7.96%) Microservices
17 137 (7.85%) TDD
18 135 (7.73%) Continuous Integration
19 125 (7.16%) Analytics
20 124 (7.10%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 290 (16.61%) SQL
2 254 (14.55%) Java
3 227 (13.00%) C#
4 217 (12.43%) Python
5 170 (9.74%) PowerShell
6 165 (9.45%) JavaScript
7 87 (4.98%) TypeScript
8 57 (3.26%) C++
9 53 (3.04%) Bicep
10 43 (2.46%) Bash
11 40 (2.29%) C
12 30 (1.72%) Scala
13 27 (1.55%) Shell Script
13 27 (1.55%) T-SQL
14 26 (1.49%) PL/SQL
15 19 (1.09%) Perl
16 18 (1.03%) PHP
17 17 (0.97%) COBOL
18 16 (0.92%) REXX
19 15 (0.86%) SELCOPY
Qualifications
1 300 (17.18%) Security Cleared
2 231 (13.23%) SC Cleared
3 209 (11.97%) Degree
4 67 (3.84%) DV Cleared
5 58 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 55 (3.15%) PMP
7 51 (2.92%) PMI Certification
8 26 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (1.37%) Master's Degree
10 18 (1.03%) AWS Certification
11 11 (0.63%) 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
1 146 (8.36%) QA
2 43 (2.46%) Accessibility
3 31 (1.78%) Data Quality
4 24 (1.37%) PMO
5 11 (0.63%) GDPR
6 9 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
7 8 (0.46%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.40%) RMADS
8 7 (0.40%) WCAG
9 6 (0.34%) SLA
10 5 (0.29%) GxP
10 5 (0.29%) NIST
10 5 (0.29%) Software Quality Assurance
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
13 2 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 12207
13 2 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 151 (8.65%) Docker
2 92 (5.27%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (0.86%) Firmware
6 11 (0.63%) vSphere
7 6 (0.34%) VirtualBox
7 6 (0.34%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.29%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.11%) Time Sharing Option
10 1 (0.057%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.057%) HDFS
10 1 (0.057%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.057%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.057%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.057%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.057%) XenApp
10 1 (0.057%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 117 (6.70%) Terraform
2 115 (6.59%) Kubernetes
3 102 (5.84%) Ansible
4 63 (3.61%) Grafana
5 39 (2.23%) Puppet
6 25 (1.43%) Prometheus
7 21 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (0.86%) Kibana
9 14 (0.80%) Progress Chef
10 12 (0.69%) Argo
11 9 (0.52%) HP ALM
11 9 (0.52%) logstash
12 7 (0.40%) vRealize
13 6 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
13 6 (0.34%) Packer
13 6 (0.34%) SCCM
14 3 (0.17%) Netcool
14 3 (0.17%) VxRail
15 2 (0.11%) PingFederate
15 2 (0.11%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 258 (14.78%) Microsoft
2 99 (5.67%) Oracle
3 78 (4.47%) SAP
4 69 (3.95%) Salesforce
5 49 (2.81%) Google
6 43 (2.46%) Atlassian
7 39 (2.23%) ServiceNow
8 33 (1.89%) VMware
9 27 (1.55%) Splunk
10 25 (1.43%) IBM
11 24 (1.37%) Databricks
11 24 (1.37%) Talend
12 16 (0.92%) Informatica
12 16 (0.92%) Syncsort
13 15 (0.86%) Denodo
14 11 (0.63%) Red Hat
15 10 (0.57%) Adobe
15 10 (0.57%) Cisco
15 10 (0.57%) Dell
15 10 (0.57%) HP