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 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 45 42
Rank change year-on-year +18 -3 -21
Contract jobs citing Scrum 207 55 70
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 6.69% 4.04% 3.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.05% 4.56% 4.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 31 51
10th Percentile £420 £406 £358
25th Percentile £455 £439 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £483 £510
Median % change year-on-year +1.86% -5.29% -5.56%
75th Percentile £525 £531 £638
90th Percentile £586 £600 £688
England median daily rate £508 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +1.50% -6.98% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £59.50 - -
25th Percentile £59.88 - -
Median hourly rate £61.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.88 - -
90th Percentile £64.70 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £60.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +7.88% -7.31% -

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 2,573 1,205 1,618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.19% 88.47% 84.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,677 800 1,066
10th Percentile £306 £200 £275
25th Percentile £402 £386 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £625
90th Percentile £650 £679 £750
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 57 115
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.62 £11.09
25th Percentile £19.67 £14.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £18.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -20.00% +26.98%
75th Percentile £66.54 £24.22 £41.13
90th Percentile £72.15 £39.14 £57.75
England median hourly rate £44.00 £30.45 £35.00
% change year-on-year +44.50% -13.00% -6.67%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 +17 118 £492 -3.53% 5
Birmingham -15 26 £475 -0.84% 16
Warwickshire -12 25 £563 +12.50% 4
Solihull -1 19 £463 +10.12%
Worcestershire - 9 £475 - 1
Coventry -17 4 £468 -1.58% 1
Staffordshire - 3 £320 - 2
Wolverhampton - 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 52 (25.12%) SAS
2 45 (21.74%) Confluence
3 7 (3.38%) WebLogic
4 3 (1.45%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.97%) Apache
5 2 (0.97%) JBoss
6 1 (0.48%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.48%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.97%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.48%) CANalyzer
5 1 (0.48%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.48%) Maximo
2 1 (0.48%) Primavera
2 1 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 54 (26.09%) AWS
2 24 (11.59%) Amazon S3
3 23 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 22 (10.63%) Azure
5 20 (9.66%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (7.25%) Amazon SQS
7 14 (6.76%) AWS KMS
7 14 (6.76%) Route 53
8 10 (4.83%) Serverless
9 9 (4.35%) Power Platform
10 8 (3.86%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (3.86%) GitHub
11 7 (3.38%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (3.38%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (2.90%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (2.90%) AWS CodePipeline
12 6 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (2.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 5 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (1.93%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.45%) Network Security
2 1 (0.48%) SMS
2 1 (0.48%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (18.36%) Pentaho
2 18 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (8.21%) Amazon RDS
3 17 (8.21%) DynamoDB
4 14 (6.76%) Amazon Aurora
5 13 (6.28%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (3.86%) MongoDB
6 8 (3.86%) Power BI
7 7 (3.38%) Metadata
8 6 (2.90%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (2.90%) BusinessObjects
9 5 (2.42%) Data Lake
9 5 (2.42%) Metadata Repository
10 4 (1.93%) MySQL
10 4 (1.93%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.93%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.93%) SAS Enterprise Guide
11 3 (1.45%) Apache Hive
11 3 (1.45%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.45%) Impala
Development Applications
1 77 (37.20%) JIRA
2 62 (29.95%) Git
3 55 (26.57%) Jenkins
4 35 (16.91%) GitLab
5 25 (12.08%) JUnit
6 17 (8.21%) Maven
6 17 (8.21%) Mockito
7 15 (7.25%) SonarQube
8 12 (5.80%) Bitbucket
9 11 (5.31%) DbUnit
9 11 (5.31%) jMock
10 9 (4.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 9 (4.35%) Bitbucket Server
11 7 (3.38%) Selenium
12 2 (0.97%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.97%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.97%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.97%) REST Assured
13 1 (0.48%) Gatling
13 1 (0.48%) MSI
General
1 59 (28.50%) Social Skills
2 33 (15.94%) Public Sector
3 29 (14.01%) Finance
4 24 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.38%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (3.38%) Telecoms
6 5 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.45%) Banking
7 3 (1.45%) Electronics
8 2 (0.97%) Advertising
8 2 (0.97%) Aeronautics
8 2 (0.97%) Law
8 2 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.97%) Retail
9 1 (0.48%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.48%) Legal
Job Titles
1 50 (24.15%) Data Engineer
2 33 (15.94%) Scrum Master
3 23 (11.11%) Developer
4 22 (10.63%) Project Manager
5 19 (9.18%) Java Developer
6 15 (7.25%) Architect
7 13 (6.28%) Lead
7 13 (6.28%) Senior
8 9 (4.35%) Delivery Manager
8 9 (4.35%) SAS Engineer
9 8 (3.86%) Agile Delivery Manager
9 8 (3.86%) Analyst
9 8 (3.86%) Business Analyst
9 8 (3.86%) Software Engineer
10 7 (3.38%) Data Architect
10 7 (3.38%) Data Manager
11 6 (2.90%) Senior Developer
11 6 (2.90%) Test Automation Specialist
11 6 (2.90%) Test Specialist
12 5 (2.42%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (14.49%) Spring
2 25 (12.08%) REST
2 25 (12.08%) Spring Boot
3 19 (9.18%) SOAP
4 17 (8.21%) Hibernate
4 17 (8.21%) JPA
5 16 (7.73%) Web Services
6 15 (7.25%) AngularJS
7 14 (6.76%) ActiveMQ
7 14 (6.76%) Spring Batch
7 14 (6.76%) Spring Cloud
7 14 (6.76%) Spring Integration
8 11 (5.31%) Node.js
8 11 (5.31%) PowerMock
9 10 (4.83%) RESTful
10 9 (4.35%) Bootstrap
11 6 (2.90%) AWS CDK
12 5 (2.42%) Middleware
13 4 (1.93%) JSON
14 3 (1.45%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 23 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 13 (6.28%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (2.90%) Cloud Native
3 6 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.42%) CMDB
4 5 (2.42%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.42%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.45%) Operational Technology
6 2 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.48%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.48%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.48%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.48%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.48%) FPGA
7 1 (0.48%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.48%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.48%) Verilog
7 1 (0.48%) VHDL
7 1 (0.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (12.56%) Linux
2 8 (3.86%) Unix
3 6 (2.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (2.90%) Windows
4 1 (0.48%) Android
4 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.48%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (84.06%) Agile
2 89 (43.00%) DevOps
3 84 (40.58%) CI/CD
4 63 (30.43%) Continuous Improvement
5 57 (27.54%) Test Automation
6 56 (27.05%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (24.15%) Analytics
8 49 (23.67%) ETL
9 45 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
10 42 (20.29%) Data Modelling
11 41 (19.81%) Business Intelligence
11 41 (19.81%) Kanban
12 38 (18.36%) Project Management
13 36 (17.39%) Data Pipeline
14 34 (16.43%) Data Analytics
15 33 (15.94%) Containerisation
15 33 (15.94%) Data Virtualisation
16 29 (14.01%) Microservices
16 29 (14.01%) Scaled Agile Framework
17 26 (12.56%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 80 (38.65%) SQL
2 34 (16.43%) Java
3 10 (4.83%) Python
4 9 (4.35%) Perl
4 9 (4.35%) Shell Script
5 5 (2.42%) MATLAB
6 4 (1.93%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.45%) HiveQL
7 3 (1.45%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.97%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.97%) Scala
9 1 (0.48%) Bash
9 1 (0.48%) C
9 1 (0.48%) C#
9 1 (0.48%) C++
9 1 (0.48%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.48%) Swift
9 1 (0.48%) SystemVerilog
9 1 (0.48%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.48%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 112 (54.11%) Security Cleared
2 101 (48.79%) SC Cleared
3 17 (8.21%) Degree
4 12 (5.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (4.35%) AWS Certification
6 7 (3.38%) SAFe Agilist
7 6 (2.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (2.42%) CCNA
8 5 (2.42%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (2.42%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.42%) PMI Certification
8 5 (2.42%) PMP
9 4 (1.93%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.45%) CISM
10 3 (1.45%) CISSP
10 3 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.45%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (14.49%) Data Quality
2 14 (6.76%) QA
3 4 (1.93%) FATCA
4 3 (1.45%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 3 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 2 (0.97%) GDPR
5 2 (0.97%) ISO 19650
5 2 (0.97%) WCAG
6 1 (0.48%) GRC
6 1 (0.48%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.48%) PMO
System Software
1 59 (28.50%) Docker
2 10 (4.83%) Postfix
3 3 (1.45%) HDFS
4 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 49 (23.67%) Kubernetes
2 21 (10.14%) Grafana
3 17 (8.21%) Terraform
4 4 (1.93%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.45%) Ansible
5 3 (1.45%) Kibana
6 2 (0.97%) Puppet
7 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 46 (22.22%) Oracle
2 37 (17.87%) Talend
3 29 (14.01%) Denodo
4 22 (10.63%) Atlassian
5 19 (9.18%) Microsoft
6 15 (7.25%) Informatica
7 14 (6.76%) Jaspersoft
8 9 (4.35%) ServiceNow
9 6 (2.90%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.93%) Pega
10 4 (1.93%) Remedy
10 4 (1.93%) Sage
11 3 (1.45%) Dynatrace
12 2 (0.97%) OneLogin
12 2 (0.97%) SAP
12 2 (0.97%) webMethods
13 1 (0.48%) Citrix
13 1 (0.48%) IBM
13 1 (0.48%) NetApp
13 1 (0.48%) VMware