Scrum Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Scrum
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Scrum skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 40 44
Rank change year-on-year +13 +4 -6
Contract jobs citing Scrum 233 84 66
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 6.76% 4.75% 3.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.97% 5.40% 4.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 54 45
10th Percentile £413 £327 £353
25th Percentile £450 £428 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% +5.26% -11.21%
75th Percentile £525 £600 £612
90th Percentile £608 £653 £675
England median daily rate £514 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £30.37 - -
25th Percentile £34.98 - -
Median hourly rate £42.65 - £32.28
75th Percentile £51.20 - -
90th Percentile £56.33 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +27.27% -12.00% -3.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,923 1,556 1,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.85% 88.06% 81.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,794 990 1,003
10th Percentile £313 £250 £251
25th Percentile £413 £400 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.80% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £579 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £653 £725
England median daily rate £525 £509 £525
% change year-on-year +3.05% -2.96% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 103 43
10th Percentile £13.45 £12.62 £12.83
25th Percentile £17.64 £15.56 £15.07
Median hourly rate £30.22 £24.34 £21.59
Median % change year-on-year +24.16% +12.74% -21.49%
75th Percentile £53.75 £35.30 £36.25
90th Percentile £70.07 £50.00 £54.50
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Scrum job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Scrum
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Scrum.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Scrum

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 5 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in the West Midlands

Scrum
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Scrum.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Scrum

Scrum
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Scrum in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 5 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Scrum in the West Midlands

Scrum
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 September 2026. 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
Shropshire +6 125 £492 -5.11% 24
Solihull +7 34 £475 -5.00% 5
Coventry -8 27 £425 -30.61% 5
Warwickshire -12 19 £500 +11.11% 4
Birmingham -14 19 £463 -2.63% 29
Staffordshire - 1 £320 - 1
Scrum
England

Scrum
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 58 (24.89%) Confluence
2 21 (9.01%) SAS
3 4 (1.72%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.43%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (2.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.15%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.86%) Trello
5 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (2.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.43%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.43%) Primavera
2 1 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.43%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 90 (38.63%) AWS
2 42 (18.03%) Azure
3 35 (15.02%) Amazon S3
4 33 (14.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 31 (13.30%) GitHub
6 30 (12.88%) Amazon EC2
7 27 (11.59%) Serverless
8 26 (11.16%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (10.73%) AWS Lambda
10 23 (9.87%) Amazon EKS
11 22 (9.44%) Amazon ECS
12 21 (9.01%) GitHub Actions
13 19 (8.15%) Power Platform
14 16 (6.87%) Power Automate
15 14 (6.01%) Dynamics 365
16 13 (5.58%) PowerApps
17 12 (5.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 11 (4.72%) AWS CodePipeline
19 10 (4.29%) AWS CloudFormation
20 9 (3.86%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.43%) Network Security
1 1 (0.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (9.01%) Pentaho
2 17 (7.30%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (5.58%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (4.72%) DynamoDB
5 9 (3.86%) MongoDB
5 9 (3.86%) Relational Database
6 8 (3.43%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (2.15%) Power BI
8 4 (1.72%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.29%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.29%) Apache Iceberg
9 3 (1.29%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (1.29%) Metadata
9 3 (1.29%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.29%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.86%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.86%) ZAP BI
11 1 (0.43%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 78 (33.48%) JIRA
2 55 (23.61%) GitLab
3 52 (22.32%) Git
4 49 (21.03%) Jenkins
5 41 (17.60%) JUnit
6 27 (11.59%) Maven
7 25 (10.73%) Mockito
7 25 (10.73%) SonarQube
8 19 (8.15%) Selenium
9 17 (7.30%) Bitbucket
10 16 (6.87%) Cucumber
11 14 (6.01%) Gatling
12 6 (2.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (2.58%) Bitbucket Server
12 6 (2.58%) DbUnit
12 6 (2.58%) jMock
13 3 (1.29%) Cypress.io
13 3 (1.29%) Postman
13 3 (1.29%) Protractor
13 3 (1.29%) WebDriver
General
1 106 (45.49%) Social Skills
2 74 (31.76%) Public Sector
3 32 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (6.01%) Finance
4 14 (6.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (4.29%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (1.72%) Banking
8 3 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.29%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.86%) Billing
9 2 (0.86%) Law
9 2 (0.86%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.86%) Retail
10 1 (0.43%) Automotive
10 1 (0.43%) Electronics
10 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.43%) Front Office
10 1 (0.43%) Local Government
10 1 (0.43%) Military
Job Titles
1 52 (22.32%) Scrum Master
2 39 (16.74%) Developer
3 35 (15.02%) Senior
4 30 (12.88%) Data Engineer
5 27 (11.59%) Lead
6 22 (9.44%) Java Developer
7 17 (7.30%) Senior Developer
8 16 (6.87%) Analyst
8 16 (6.87%) Quality Engineer
9 14 (6.01%) Business Analyst
10 11 (4.72%) Delivery Manager
10 11 (4.72%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 11 (4.72%) Senior Java Developer
11 10 (4.29%) Java Engineer
12 8 (3.43%) Project Manager
13 6 (2.58%) AWS DevOps
13 6 (2.58%) JIRA Engineer
14 5 (2.15%) Java Scrum Master
14 5 (2.15%) Pega Architect
14 5 (2.15%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (21.89%) Spring
2 41 (17.60%) Spring Boot
3 26 (11.16%) REST
3 26 (11.16%) RESTful
4 24 (10.30%) JPA
4 24 (10.30%) JSON
5 20 (8.58%) SOAP
6 18 (7.73%) Web Services
7 17 (7.30%) Playwright
8 16 (6.87%) ActiveMQ
8 16 (6.87%) AngularJS
8 16 (6.87%) Hibernate
8 16 (6.87%) Terraform
9 15 (6.44%) Spring Cloud
10 13 (5.58%) Gherkin
11 12 (5.15%) OpenAPI
12 11 (4.72%) React
13 10 (4.29%) AWS CDK
14 9 (3.86%) RabbitMQ
15 8 (3.43%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 62 (26.61%) Product Ownership
2 32 (13.73%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.43%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.15%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.72%) Data Fabric
8 3 (1.29%) Culture of Ownership
8 3 (1.29%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.29%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.29%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.86%) BYOD
9 2 (0.86%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.86%) IoT
9 2 (0.86%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.43%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.43%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.43%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.43%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.29%) Linux
2 4 (1.72%) Unix
3 1 (0.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (87.55%) Agile
2 111 (47.64%) CI/CD
3 103 (44.21%) DevOps
4 89 (38.20%) Continuous Improvement
5 81 (34.76%) Test Automation
6 75 (32.19%) Stakeholder Management
7 66 (28.33%) Sprint Planning
8 53 (22.75%) Backlog Refinement
9 52 (22.32%) Microservices
10 49 (21.03%) Problem-Solving
11 44 (18.88%) Kanban
11 44 (18.88%) User Stories
12 42 (18.03%) Containerisation
13 38 (16.31%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 36 (15.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 36 (15.45%) TDD
15 33 (14.16%) ETL
16 32 (13.73%) SFIA
17 31 (13.30%) Sprint Retrospective
17 31 (13.30%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 63 (27.04%) Java
2 48 (20.60%) SQL
3 25 (10.73%) JavaScript
4 12 (5.15%) C#
5 8 (3.43%) TypeScript
6 6 (2.58%) Python
6 6 (2.58%) Shell Script
7 3 (1.29%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.29%) Scala
8 2 (0.86%) Bash
8 2 (0.86%) R
9 1 (0.43%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.43%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 109 (46.78%) Security Cleared
2 102 (43.78%) SC Cleared
3 49 (21.03%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (5.15%) AWS Certification
5 11 (4.72%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (4.72%) SAFe Agilist
6 9 (3.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 9 (3.86%) Degree
7 3 (1.29%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.86%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.86%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.86%) PMP
9 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.43%) CCSP
9 1 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.43%) CISSP
9 1 (0.43%) CSPO
9 1 (0.43%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (16.31%) Accessibility
2 37 (15.88%) QA
3 18 (7.73%) WCAG
4 12 (5.15%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.72%) FATCA
5 4 (1.72%) GDPR
5 4 (1.72%) PMO
6 1 (0.43%) GRC
6 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 65 (27.90%) Docker
2 5 (2.15%) Postfix
3 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 38 (16.31%) Kubernetes
2 25 (10.73%) Grafana
3 15 (6.44%) Prometheus
4 9 (3.86%) Kibana
5 2 (0.86%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.43%) Ansible
6 1 (0.43%) Argo
6 1 (0.43%) Istio
6 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.43%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.43%) Puppet
Vendors
1 32 (13.73%) Oracle
2 23 (9.87%) Microsoft
3 21 (9.01%) Talend
4 13 (5.58%) Atlassian
4 13 (5.58%) Denodo
5 12 (5.15%) Informatica
6 8 (3.43%) Jaspersoft
7 6 (2.58%) Dynatrace
7 6 (2.58%) Pega
8 5 (2.15%) Sage
8 5 (2.15%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.86%) Google
9 2 (0.86%) HP
9 2 (0.86%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.86%) SAP
10 1 (0.43%) Charles River
10 1 (0.43%) Citrix
10 1 (0.43%) Murex
10 1 (0.43%) NetApp
10 1 (0.43%) Remedy