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 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 39 49
Rank change year-on-year +9 +10 -31
Contract jobs citing Scrum 154 62 65
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 6.16% 4.19% 3.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.25% 4.71% 4.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 34 37
10th Percentile £421 £408 £381
25th Percentile £463 £455 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £483 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.16% -8.00% -2.78%
75th Percentile £566 £525 £600
90th Percentile £600 £607 £680
England median daily rate £500 £512 £550
% change year-on-year -2.34% -6.91% -1.61%

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 2,125 1,316 1,607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.00% 88.92% 83.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,380 816 1,054
10th Percentile £275 £210 £263
25th Percentile £402 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £512 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.39% +2.45% -
75th Percentile £581 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 49 108
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.66 £12.70
25th Percentile £16.18 £15.22 £17.22
Median hourly rate £21.46 £21.59 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -0.60% -9.29% +34.46%
75th Percentile £26.03 £33.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £33.40 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -27.23% - -

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 9 February 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
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 9 February 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 +11 88 £515 +7.97% 8
Warwickshire -3 29 £550 +10.00% 9
Birmingham -8 18 £488 +1.77% 5
Coventry -9 8 £613 +28.95% 4
Worcestershire - 6 £475 - 3
Solihull +1 5 £358 - 4
Wolverhampton - 1 - - 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 44 (28.57%) SAS
2 16 (10.39%) Confluence
3 10 (6.49%) WebLogic
4 8 (5.19%) Apache
4 8 (5.19%) JBoss
5 3 (1.95%) Drupal
5 3 (1.95%) PowerFactory
6 1 (0.65%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (3.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.60%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.65%) CANalyzer
4 1 (0.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Maximo
1 1 (0.65%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 30 (19.48%) AWS
2 13 (8.44%) Azure
3 10 (6.49%) OpenShift
4 8 (5.19%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.60%) GCP
6 3 (1.95%) SaaS
7 2 (1.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.30%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.30%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (1.30%) AWS KMS
7 2 (1.30%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.30%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (1.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (1.30%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.30%) Route 53
8 1 (0.65%) iPaaS
8 1 (0.65%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.65%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.95%) Network Security
2 1 (0.65%) Firewall
2 1 (0.65%) SMS
2 1 (0.65%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (15.58%) Pentaho
2 20 (12.99%) Oracle Database
3 17 (11.04%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 15 (9.74%) MongoDB
5 12 (7.79%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (7.14%) Metadata
7 8 (5.19%) Metadata Repository
8 4 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (1.95%) MySQL
9 3 (1.95%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.30%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.30%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.30%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.30%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.30%) SAS Visual Analytics
10 2 (1.30%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.65%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.65%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 58 (37.66%) Git
2 48 (31.17%) JIRA
3 35 (22.73%) Jenkins
4 29 (18.83%) JUnit
5 24 (15.58%) Selenium
6 18 (11.69%) GitLab
7 10 (6.49%) Maven
7 10 (6.49%) Mockito
8 8 (5.19%) Eclipse
8 8 (5.19%) IntelliJ
9 7 (4.55%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (1.30%) DbUnit
11 2 (1.30%) jMock
11 2 (1.30%) REST Assured
11 2 (1.30%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.65%) Gatling
12 1 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 56 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 25 (16.23%) Finance
3 15 (9.74%) Public Sector
4 10 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.84%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (3.25%) Banking
8 4 (2.60%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.95%) Retail
10 2 (1.30%) Aeronautics
10 2 (1.30%) Legal
10 2 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.65%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 24 (15.58%) Scrum Master
2 20 (12.99%) Project Manager
3 18 (11.69%) Developer
4 17 (11.04%) Data Engineer
5 16 (10.39%) Architect
6 11 (7.14%) Data Architect
7 10 (6.49%) Java Developer
8 9 (5.84%) Test Specialist
9 8 (5.19%) SAS Engineer
10 7 (4.55%) Java Engineer
11 6 (3.90%) Senior
11 6 (3.90%) Software Engineer
12 5 (3.25%) Data Manager
12 5 (3.25%) Delivery Manager
12 5 (3.25%) Denodo Engineer
12 5 (3.25%) Product Manager
13 4 (2.60%) Agile Project Manager
13 4 (2.60%) Lead
13 4 (2.60%) Senior Developer
13 4 (2.60%) Test Automation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (14.94%) Spring
2 22 (14.29%) REST
3 15 (9.74%) HTML
3 15 (9.74%) JSON
4 14 (9.09%) Spring Boot
5 11 (7.14%) Hibernate
6 10 (6.49%) JPA
6 10 (6.49%) SOAP
7 9 (5.84%) pytest
8 8 (5.19%) EJB
8 8 (5.19%) HTML5
8 8 (5.19%) J2EE
8 8 (5.19%) J2SE
8 8 (5.19%) Play Framework
8 8 (5.19%) XML
9 7 (4.55%) React
10 6 (3.90%) Gherkin
10 6 (3.90%) JDBC
10 6 (3.90%) Playwright
11 5 (3.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.14%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.25%) CMDB
3 4 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.95%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.30%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.65%) Animation
6 1 (0.65%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.65%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.65%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.65%) FPGA
6 1 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.65%) MicroBlaze
6 1 (0.65%) RISC-V
6 1 (0.65%) SCADA
6 1 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.14%) Linux
2 8 (5.19%) Unix
3 3 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.95%) Windows
4 1 (0.65%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (88.96%) Agile
2 59 (38.31%) DevOps
3 56 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
4 55 (35.71%) CI/CD
5 48 (31.17%) Continuous Improvement
6 42 (27.27%) Analytics
7 41 (26.62%) Data Modelling
8 37 (24.03%) Test Automation
9 35 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
10 34 (22.08%) Data Pipeline
10 34 (22.08%) Project Management
11 32 (20.78%) Business Intelligence
12 29 (18.83%) Deployment Automation
13 26 (16.88%) ETL
14 25 (16.23%) Microservices
15 23 (14.94%) Data Integration
15 23 (14.94%) Data Virtualisation
16 22 (14.29%) Containerisation
17 21 (13.64%) Risk Assessment
18 20 (12.99%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 46 (29.87%) SQL
2 27 (17.53%) Java
3 13 (8.44%) Python
4 9 (5.84%) Scala
5 7 (4.55%) Shell Script
6 6 (3.90%) Perl
7 4 (2.60%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.95%) MATLAB
9 2 (1.30%) C#
9 2 (1.30%) PHP
9 2 (1.30%) Ruby
10 1 (0.65%) Bash
10 1 (0.65%) C
10 1 (0.65%) C++
10 1 (0.65%) Groovy
10 1 (0.65%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.65%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.65%) SystemVerilog
10 1 (0.65%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 64 (41.56%) Security Cleared
2 58 (37.66%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.44%) Degree
4 7 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.25%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.25%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 4 (2.60%) PMI Certification
6 4 (2.60%) PMP
7 3 (1.95%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.95%) CCNA
7 3 (1.95%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.95%) CISM
7 3 (1.95%) CISSP
7 3 (1.95%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.65%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (16.23%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.84%) QA
3 7 (4.55%) WCAG
4 3 (1.95%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.95%) ISO 19650
5 2 (1.30%) PMO
6 1 (0.65%) GDPR
6 1 (0.65%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.65%) NCSC
6 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 49 (31.82%) Docker
2 2 (1.30%) Postfix
3 1 (0.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 51 (33.12%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.19%) Kibana
2 8 (5.19%) Puppet
3 7 (4.55%) Grafana
4 4 (2.60%) Terraform
Vendors
1 40 (25.97%) Oracle
2 24 (15.58%) Denodo
2 24 (15.58%) Talend
3 11 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 8 (5.19%) webMethods
5 5 (3.25%) Atlassian
5 5 (3.25%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.95%) DIgSILENT
6 3 (1.95%) Google
6 3 (1.95%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.95%) Remedy
7 2 (1.30%) Jaspersoft
7 2 (1.30%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.30%) OneLogin
8 1 (0.65%) Actian
8 1 (0.65%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.65%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.65%) IBM
8 1 (0.65%) Okta
8 1 (0.65%) SAP