Scrum Contract Job Trends in Watford

Scrum
Hertfordshire > Watford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Watford requiring Scrum skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 10 11
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 +5
Contract jobs citing Scrum 3 3 14
As % of all contract jobs in Watford 5.26% 5.00% 9.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.77% 5.77% 10.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 9
10th Percentile - £360 £405
25th Percentile £463 £394 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -22.92% -4.00%
75th Percentile £581 £531 £638
90th Percentile £638 £565 £665
Hertfordshire median daily rate £575 £463 £600
% change year-on-year +24.32% -22.92% +2.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Watford

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 Watford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 52 52 130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Watford 91.23% 86.67% 92.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 39 88
10th Percentile £180 £264 £237
25th Percentile £400 £306 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £434
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -7.78% -21.14%
75th Percentile £575 £528 £625
90th Percentile £628 £590 £736
Hertfordshire median daily rate £525 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £15.21 £13.80 -
25th Percentile £18.14 £13.97 -
Median hourly rate £23.03 £14.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +58.83% - -
75th Percentile £28.94 £16.75 -
90th Percentile £32.49 £17.95 -
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £45.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -30.77% - -

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Scrum relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Watford.

Scrum job vacancy trend in Watford

Scrum
Daily Rate Trend in Watford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing Scrum.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing Scrum

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in Watford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in Watford over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in Watford

Scrum
Hourly Rate Trend in Watford

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing Scrum.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing Scrum

Scrum
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Watford by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) Intrusion Detection
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (66.67%) VLAN
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) IT Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) IT Security Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) CCTV Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior IT Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Environments
2 2 (66.67%) Waterfall
3 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) VMware