Scrum Contracts in Wales

Scrum
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 15 43
Rank change year-on-year -14 +28 -18
Contract jobs citing Scrum 14 31 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 4.78% 7.85% 2.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.49% 9.97% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 30 12
10th Percentile £176 £381 £203
25th Percentile £303 £489 £233
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £514 £390
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% +31.73% -29.09%
75th Percentile £530 £530 £497
90th Percentile £536 £646 £660
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +0.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £31.25
Median hourly rate £29.25 - £32.50
75th Percentile - - £33.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £57.75 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -11.15% - +44.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 255 311 549
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 87.03% 78.73% 86.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 212 421
10th Percentile £185 £168 £183
25th Percentile £285 £356 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +5.26% -2.48%
75th Percentile £525 £571 £573
90th Percentile £625 £667 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 31 28
10th Percentile £15.60 £11.75 £14.78
25th Percentile £20.12 £14.78 £16.98
Median hourly rate £21.01 £22.50 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year -6.62% +19.59% -16.38%
75th Percentile £35.25 £51.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £45.00 £86.00 £49.13
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Scrum as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in Wales

Scrum
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scrum in Wales.

Daily rate trend for Scrum in Wales

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in Wales over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in Wales

Scrum
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scrum in Wales.

Hourly rate trend for Scrum in Wales

Scrum
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the Wales region over the 6 months to 1 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
South Wales -11 10 £409 -20.52% 36
Dyfed - 2 £460 -
West Wales - 1 £475 - 2
Scrum
UK

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 2 (14.29%) Confluence
1 2 (14.29%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) Power Platform
3 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (14.29%) PowerApps
4 1 (7.14%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Power BI
1 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Selenium
2 1 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (7.14%) SpecFlow
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (7.14%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (7.14%) tSQLt
General
1 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.14%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Delivery Manager
1 6 (42.86%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Agile Delivery Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Integration Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Lead
3 2 (14.29%) SAP Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Software Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Applications Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Automation Test Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Development Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Power Apps Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Power Platform Developer
4 1 (7.14%) QA Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) QA Automation Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) QA Test Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Scrum Master
4 1 (7.14%) Software Development Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) .NET
2 3 (21.43%) ASP.NET Web API
2 3 (21.43%) XML
3 2 (14.29%) EDI
3 2 (14.29%) FHIR
3 2 (14.29%) HTML5 Canvas
3 2 (14.29%) IDoc
3 2 (14.29%) JDBC
3 2 (14.29%) JMS
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (14.29%) Middleware
3 2 (14.29%) REST
3 2 (14.29%) SAP PI
3 2 (14.29%) SOAP
3 2 (14.29%) XSLT
4 1 (7.14%) .NET Core
4 1 (7.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Product Ownership
2 2 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (14.29%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (14.29%) Virtual Team
3 1 (7.14%) Clustering
3 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.14%) NHS
3 1 (7.14%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Unix
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (35.71%) SDLC
3 3 (21.43%) DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) Kanban
3 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (21.43%) Project Governance
3 3 (21.43%) Project Management
4 2 (14.29%) Coaching
4 2 (14.29%) CRM
4 2 (14.29%) Data Security
4 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 2 (14.29%) MVC
4 2 (14.29%) Performance Testing
4 2 (14.29%) Risk Management
4 2 (14.29%) System Integration Testing
4 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
4 2 (14.29%) Unit Testing
4 2 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (7.14%) SOLID
5 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) ABAP
1 2 (14.29%) C#
1 2 (14.29%) Java
1 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
1 2 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) HL7
1 1 (7.14%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) Atlassian
3 2 (14.29%) SAP
4 1 (7.14%) RedGate