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

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 22 42
Rank change year-on-year -3 +20 -18
Contract jobs citing Scrum 16 20 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 5.44% 5.46% 2.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.11% 7.09% 3.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 19 13
10th Percentile £208 £375 £204
25th Percentile £317 £444 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £503 £430
Median % change year-on-year -6.37% +16.86% -21.82%
75th Percentile £530 £523 £488
90th Percentile £629 £524 £645
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £31.25
Median hourly rate £29.25 - £32.50
75th Percentile - - £33.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £57.13 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -12.12% - +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 262 282 532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 89.12% 77.05% 87.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 189 409
10th Percentile £185 £160 £188
25th Percentile £291 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -19.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £494 £563 £583
90th Percentile £625 £678 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 28 26
10th Percentile £15.40 £11.57 £14.63
25th Percentile £20.12 £13.71 £16.98
Median hourly rate £22.50 £19.82 £18.14
Median % change year-on-year +13.52% +9.26% -23.62%
75th Percentile £41.25 £51.75 £22.93
90th Percentile £45.00 £86.54 £49.38
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £35.65
% change year-on-year -22.81% +1.75% +38.82%

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 17 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 17 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 -7 10 £506 -0.44% 30
Dyfed - 2 £460 -
West Wales - 1 £475 - 3
North Wales - 1 £325 - 1
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 3 (18.75%) Confluence
2 2 (12.50%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (6.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
3 2 (12.50%) AWS
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (12.50%) PowerApps
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.25%) SaaS
4 1 (6.25%) Serverless
4 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (6.25%) Power BI
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Selenium
2 1 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (6.25%) SpecFlow
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (6.25%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (6.25%) tSQLt
General
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (6.25%) Marketing
3 1 (6.25%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Delivery Manager
1 6 (37.50%) Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Agile Delivery Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Integration Developer
3 2 (12.50%) SAP Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Software Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Automation Test Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Financial Services Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Java Software Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Lead
4 1 (6.25%) Power Apps Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Power Platform Developer
4 1 (6.25%) QA Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) QA Automation Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) React Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Scrum Master
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Java Software Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior React Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) .NET
2 3 (18.75%) ASP.NET Web API
2 3 (18.75%) XML
3 2 (12.50%) EDI
3 2 (12.50%) HTML5 Canvas
3 2 (12.50%) IDoc
3 2 (12.50%) JDBC
3 2 (12.50%) JMS
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (12.50%) Middleware
3 2 (12.50%) REST
3 2 (12.50%) SAP PI
3 2 (12.50%) SOAP
3 2 (12.50%) XSLT
4 1 (6.25%) FHIR
4 1 (6.25%) React
4 1 (6.25%) React Native
4 1 (6.25%) Spring
4 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
4 1 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (12.50%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (12.50%) Virtual Team
3 1 (6.25%) Clustering
3 1 (6.25%) NHS
3 1 (6.25%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) Agile
2 6 (37.50%) SDLC
3 4 (25.00%) DevOps
4 3 (18.75%) Kanban
4 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
4 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (18.75%) Project Governance
4 3 (18.75%) Project Management
5 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (12.50%) Coaching
5 2 (12.50%) CRM
5 2 (12.50%) Data Security
5 2 (12.50%) MVC
5 2 (12.50%) Performance Testing
5 2 (12.50%) Risk Management
5 2 (12.50%) System Integration Testing
5 2 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (6.25%) Business Analytics
6 1 (6.25%) Functional Testing
6 1 (6.25%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) Java
1 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
1 3 (18.75%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) ABAP
2 2 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.25%) T-SQL
3 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
3 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) HL7
1 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) Atlassian
3 2 (12.50%) SAP
4 1 (6.25%) HP
4 1 (6.25%) RedGate
4 1 (6.25%) Sparx