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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 44 54
Rank change year-on-year +15 +10 -40
Contract jobs citing Scrum 136 72 60
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 6.24% 3.96% 3.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.06% 4.70% 3.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 43 41
10th Percentile £413 £358 £363
25th Percentile £456 £394 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £490 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.10% +3.16% -11.67%
75th Percentile £575 £581 £588
90th Percentile £629 £612 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £32.28 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £66.01 £65.00
% change year-on-year -16.68% +1.55% -

All Process and 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 1,925 1,533 1,605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.34% 84.23% 85.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,220 952 1,088
10th Percentile £263 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £517 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.29% +3.40% -
75th Percentile £588 £612 £600
90th Percentile £675 £713 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 52 53
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.70 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £16.07 £17.72
Median hourly rate £20.50 £21.80 £24.60
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -11.40% +38.98%
75th Percentile £30.00 £34.06 £50.00
90th Percentile £40.46 £52.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.85%

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 3 December 2025.

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 3 December 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
Shropshire -4 74 £519 +43.03% 6
Warwickshire -5 23 £550 +10.00% 5
Birmingham -4 15 £475 +5.56% 12
Coventry -3 13 £616 +26.41% 2
Worcestershire -10 6 £588 +17.50% 2
Solihull - 2 £345 - 1
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 46 (33.82%) SAS
2 10 (7.35%) WebLogic
3 8 (5.88%) Apache
3 8 (5.88%) JBoss
4 7 (5.15%) Confluence
5 3 (2.21%) Drupal
5 3 (2.21%) PowerFactory
6 1 (0.74%) CMS
6 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.74%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.74%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.74%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.74%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 7 (5.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.74%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.74%) Moqups
4 1 (0.74%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.74%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (2.94%) SAP HR
1 4 (2.94%) SAP PM
2 1 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 24 (17.65%) AWS
2 16 (11.76%) Azure
3 9 (6.62%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (6.62%) OpenShift
4 8 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (3.68%) GCP
6 4 (2.94%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 3 (2.21%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.47%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.47%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.47%) GitHub
9 1 (0.74%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.74%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.74%) Asana
9 1 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.74%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.74%) Route 53
9 1 (0.74%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.74%) Firewall
1 1 (0.74%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (24.26%) Pentaho
2 17 (12.50%) Oracle Database
3 14 (10.29%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 13 (9.56%) MongoDB
5 6 (4.41%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (3.68%) Metadata
7 4 (2.94%) Metadata Repository
7 4 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (2.21%) MySQL
9 2 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.47%) Power BI
9 2 (1.47%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.47%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 2 (1.47%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.74%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.74%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.74%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.74%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 63 (46.32%) Git
2 54 (39.71%) JIRA
3 43 (31.62%) Jenkins
4 25 (18.38%) JUnit
4 25 (18.38%) Selenium
5 16 (11.76%) GitLab
6 8 (5.88%) Cucumber
6 8 (5.88%) Eclipse
6 8 (5.88%) IntelliJ
6 8 (5.88%) Maven
7 7 (5.15%) Mockito
8 2 (1.47%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.47%) TestPartner
8 2 (1.47%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.74%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (0.74%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.74%) Gatling
9 1 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.74%) webpack
General
1 53 (38.97%) Social Skills
2 18 (13.24%) Public Sector
3 13 (9.56%) Finance
4 9 (6.62%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (5.15%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.15%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (5.15%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (3.68%) Banking
7 4 (2.94%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.21%) Legal
9 2 (1.47%) Aeronautics
10 1 (0.74%) Advertising
10 1 (0.74%) Marketing
10 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (12.50%) Scrum Master
2 16 (11.76%) Data Engineer
2 16 (11.76%) Developer
3 12 (8.82%) Project Manager
4 10 (7.35%) Architect
5 8 (5.88%) Java Developer
5 8 (5.88%) Test Specialist
6 6 (4.41%) Analyst
6 6 (4.41%) SAS Engineer
7 5 (3.68%) Data Architect
7 5 (3.68%) Java Engineer
7 5 (3.68%) Senior
7 5 (3.68%) Software Engineer
8 4 (2.94%) Agile Project Manager
8 4 (2.94%) Delivery Manager
8 4 (2.94%) Integration Engineer
8 4 (2.94%) Lead
8 4 (2.94%) Salesforce Architect
8 4 (2.94%) Salesforce Technical Architect
8 4 (2.94%) ScrumMaster Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (14.71%) REST
2 18 (13.24%) Spring
3 17 (12.50%) JSON
4 16 (11.76%) HTML
5 10 (7.35%) Hibernate
5 10 (7.35%) SOAP
5 10 (7.35%) Spring Boot
6 9 (6.62%) HTML5
7 8 (5.88%) EJB
7 8 (5.88%) J2EE
7 8 (5.88%) J2SE
7 8 (5.88%) Play Framework
7 8 (5.88%) pytest
7 8 (5.88%) XML
8 7 (5.15%) JPA
9 6 (4.41%) .NET
9 6 (4.41%) Gherkin
9 6 (4.41%) Playwright
9 6 (4.41%) React
9 6 (4.41%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.76%) Product Ownership
2 4 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.21%) Client/Server
3 3 (2.21%) SCADA
4 2 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.74%) Animation
5 1 (0.74%) CMDB
5 1 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.74%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.74%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.74%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.74%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.74%) PDA
5 1 (0.74%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.88%) Linux
1 8 (5.88%) Unix
2 4 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.21%) Windows
3 3 (2.21%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.74%) Android
4 1 (0.74%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (91.91%) Agile
2 71 (52.21%) DevOps
3 64 (47.06%) Problem-Solving
4 56 (41.18%) CI/CD
5 55 (40.44%) Continuous Improvement
6 49 (36.03%) Analytics
7 47 (34.56%) Data Modelling
8 42 (30.88%) Test Automation
9 40 (29.41%) Data Pipeline
10 37 (27.21%) ETL
11 36 (26.47%) Deployment Automation
12 35 (25.74%) Business Intelligence
13 32 (23.53%) Data Virtualisation
14 30 (22.06%) Data Integration
15 29 (21.32%) Data Analytics
16 28 (20.59%) Stakeholder Management
17 25 (18.38%) Business Analytics
18 23 (16.91%) Sprint Planning
19 19 (13.97%) Microservices
19 19 (13.97%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 50 (36.76%) SQL
2 23 (16.91%) Java
3 14 (10.29%) Python
4 10 (7.35%) Scala
5 5 (3.68%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.94%) Apex Code
6 4 (2.94%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.94%) Shell Script
7 3 (2.21%) Bash
7 3 (2.21%) C#
7 3 (2.21%) VBScript
8 2 (1.47%) PHP
8 2 (1.47%) Ruby
9 1 (0.74%) C
9 1 (0.74%) Go
9 1 (0.74%) Groovy
9 1 (0.74%) Korn
9 1 (0.74%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.74%) Perl
9 1 (0.74%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 62 (45.59%) Security Cleared
2 53 (38.97%) SC Cleared
3 15 (11.03%) Degree
4 5 (3.68%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 4 (2.94%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.21%) PMI Certification
6 3 (2.21%) PMP
7 2 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.74%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.74%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (23.53%) Data Quality
2 10 (7.35%) QA
3 7 (5.15%) WCAG
4 5 (3.68%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.21%) ISO 19650
5 3 (2.21%) PMO
6 1 (0.74%) GDPR
6 1 (0.74%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.74%) NCSC
6 1 (0.74%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 56 (41.18%) Docker
2 1 (0.74%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.74%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 53 (38.97%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.62%) Puppet
3 7 (5.15%) Grafana
4 6 (4.41%) Kibana
5 2 (1.47%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.47%) Terraform
6 1 (0.74%) Ansible
6 1 (0.74%) Podman
6 1 (0.74%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 49 (36.03%) Oracle
2 33 (24.26%) Denodo
2 33 (24.26%) Talend
3 10 (7.35%) Microsoft
4 9 (6.62%) webMethods
5 6 (4.41%) Salesforce
6 5 (3.68%) VMware
7 4 (2.94%) SAP
8 3 (2.21%) DIgSILENT
8 3 (2.21%) Google
8 3 (2.21%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.47%) ArcSight
9 2 (1.47%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.47%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.74%) Adobe
10 1 (0.74%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.74%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.74%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.74%) Splunk
10 1 (0.74%) Trillium