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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 38 49
Rank change year-on-year +10 +11 -27
Contract jobs citing Scrum 203 62 68
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 6.69% 4.56% 3.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.02% 5.15% 4.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 36 49
10th Percentile £417 £408 £358
25th Percentile £455 £446 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £480 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -8.57% -2.78%
75th Percentile £537 £528 £650
90th Percentile £588 £600 £688
England median daily rate £500 £500 £544
% change year-on-year +0.05% -8.09% -4.56%
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 £65.50 £60.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.71% -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 2,530 1,204 1,603
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.42% 88.53% 83.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,658 800 1,064
10th Percentile £305 £200 £275
25th Percentile £402 £392 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.85% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £613
90th Percentile £650 £688 £736
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 57 114
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.62 £11.08
25th Percentile £17.09 £14.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £27.24 £18.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.33% -20.00% +26.98%
75th Percentile £60.37 £28.18 £41.44
90th Percentile £70.98 £35.90 £58.00
England median hourly rate £41.94 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.55% -9.60% -9.09%

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 21 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 21 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 +10 117 £492 +0.41% 5
Birmingham -15 27 £475 -0.84% 7
Warwickshire -9 25 £563 +12.50% 5
Solihull -1 17 £463 +10.12% 1
Worcestershire - 9 £475 - 2
Coventry -24 3 £468 -1.58% 2
Staffordshire - 3 £320 - 4
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 51 (25.12%) SAS
2 41 (20.20%) Confluence
3 9 (4.43%) WebLogic
4 4 (1.97%) Apache
4 4 (1.97%) JBoss
5 3 (1.48%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.49%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.49%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (2.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.99%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.49%) CANalyzer
5 1 (0.49%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.49%) Maximo
2 1 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 52 (25.62%) AWS
2 21 (10.34%) Azure
3 19 (9.36%) Amazon S3
4 18 (8.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 18 (8.87%) Amazon EC2
5 15 (7.39%) Amazon SQS
6 14 (6.90%) AWS KMS
6 14 (6.90%) Route 53
7 6 (2.96%) GitHub
7 6 (2.96%) Power Platform
7 6 (2.96%) Serverless
8 5 (2.46%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (2.46%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.97%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (1.97%) AWS CodePipeline
9 4 (1.97%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.97%) OpenShift
9 4 (1.97%) SaaS
9 4 (1.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.48%) Network Security
2 1 (0.49%) SMS
2 1 (0.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (16.75%) Pentaho
2 18 (8.87%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (6.90%) Amazon Aurora
3 14 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (6.90%) DynamoDB
4 10 (4.93%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (4.93%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.45%) Metadata
6 5 (2.46%) Metadata Repository
6 5 (2.46%) Oracle Database
6 5 (2.46%) Power BI
6 5 (2.46%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 4 (1.97%) MySQL
7 4 (1.97%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.48%) Apache Hive
8 3 (1.48%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (1.48%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.48%) Impala
9 2 (0.99%) Looker
Development Applications
1 75 (36.95%) JIRA
2 68 (33.50%) Git
3 55 (27.09%) Jenkins
4 29 (14.29%) GitLab
4 29 (14.29%) JUnit
5 19 (9.36%) Maven
5 19 (9.36%) Mockito
6 15 (7.39%) SonarQube
7 11 (5.42%) DbUnit
7 11 (5.42%) jMock
7 11 (5.42%) Selenium
8 10 (4.93%) Bitbucket
9 9 (4.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 9 (4.43%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (1.97%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.97%) Eclipse
10 4 (1.97%) IntelliJ
11 2 (0.99%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.49%) Gatling
12 1 (0.49%) MSI
General
1 61 (30.05%) Social Skills
2 31 (15.27%) Public Sector
3 29 (14.29%) Finance
4 24 (11.82%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (3.45%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.48%) Banking
6 3 (1.48%) Electronics
7 2 (0.99%) Advertising
7 2 (0.99%) Aeronautics
7 2 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (0.99%) Retail
8 1 (0.49%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.49%) Law
8 1 (0.49%) Legal
Job Titles
1 47 (23.15%) Data Engineer
2 32 (15.76%) Scrum Master
3 24 (11.82%) Developer
4 21 (10.34%) Project Manager
5 20 (9.85%) Java Developer
6 14 (6.90%) Architect
7 12 (5.91%) Lead
7 12 (5.91%) Senior
8 9 (4.43%) Delivery Manager
8 9 (4.43%) SAS Engineer
9 8 (3.94%) Agile Delivery Manager
9 8 (3.94%) Analyst
9 8 (3.94%) Business Analyst
10 7 (3.45%) Data Architect
10 7 (3.45%) Data Manager
10 7 (3.45%) Software Engineer
11 6 (2.96%) Java Engineer
11 6 (2.96%) Senior Developer
11 6 (2.96%) Test Automation Specialist
11 6 (2.96%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (16.75%) Spring
2 27 (13.30%) Spring Boot
3 26 (12.81%) REST
4 20 (9.85%) SOAP
5 19 (9.36%) Hibernate
5 19 (9.36%) JPA
6 16 (7.88%) Web Services
7 15 (7.39%) AngularJS
8 14 (6.90%) ActiveMQ
8 14 (6.90%) Spring Batch
8 14 (6.90%) Spring Cloud
8 14 (6.90%) Spring Integration
9 11 (5.42%) Node.js
9 11 (5.42%) PowerMock
10 10 (4.93%) RESTful
11 9 (4.43%) Bootstrap
12 8 (3.94%) JSON
13 7 (3.45%) HTML
14 5 (2.46%) Middleware
15 4 (1.97%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.84%) Product Ownership
2 13 (6.40%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.46%) CMDB
4 5 (2.46%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.46%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.48%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.48%) Operational Technology
6 2 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.49%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.49%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.49%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.49%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.49%) FPGA
7 1 (0.49%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.49%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.49%) Verilog
7 1 (0.49%) VHDL
7 1 (0.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (12.81%) Linux
2 10 (4.93%) Unix
3 6 (2.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (2.96%) Windows
4 1 (0.49%) Android
4 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.49%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (85.22%) Agile
2 87 (42.86%) DevOps
3 82 (40.39%) CI/CD
4 66 (32.51%) Continuous Improvement
5 60 (29.56%) Problem-Solving
6 54 (26.60%) Test Automation
7 49 (24.14%) Analytics
8 45 (22.17%) ETL
9 43 (21.18%) Data Modelling
9 43 (21.18%) Stakeholder Management
10 41 (20.20%) Kanban
11 40 (19.70%) Business Intelligence
12 38 (18.72%) Project Management
13 35 (17.24%) Data Pipeline
14 33 (16.26%) Data Analytics
14 33 (16.26%) Microservices
15 32 (15.76%) Data Virtualisation
16 31 (15.27%) Containerisation
17 30 (14.78%) Deployment Automation
18 28 (13.79%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 78 (38.42%) SQL
2 38 (18.72%) Java
3 9 (4.43%) Perl
3 9 (4.43%) Shell Script
4 7 (3.45%) Python
5 5 (2.46%) MATLAB
6 4 (1.97%) PL/SQL
6 4 (1.97%) Scala
7 3 (1.48%) HiveQL
7 3 (1.48%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.99%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.49%) Bash
9 1 (0.49%) C
9 1 (0.49%) C#
9 1 (0.49%) C++
9 1 (0.49%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.49%) Swift
9 1 (0.49%) SystemVerilog
9 1 (0.49%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.49%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 108 (53.20%) Security Cleared
2 97 (47.78%) SC Cleared
3 17 (8.37%) Degree
4 11 (5.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (4.43%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.46%) CCNA
6 5 (2.46%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (2.46%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.46%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.46%) PMP
6 5 (2.46%) SAFe Agilist
7 4 (1.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (1.97%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.48%) CISM
8 3 (1.48%) CISSP
8 3 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.48%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (15.76%) Data Quality
2 14 (6.90%) QA
3 4 (1.97%) WCAG
4 3 (1.48%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 3 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 2 (0.99%) GDPR
5 2 (0.99%) ISO 19650
6 1 (0.49%) FATCA
6 1 (0.49%) GRC
6 1 (0.49%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.49%) PMO
System Software
1 61 (30.05%) Docker
2 10 (4.93%) Postfix
3 3 (1.48%) HDFS
4 1 (0.49%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.49%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 53 (26.11%) Kubernetes
2 20 (9.85%) Grafana
3 12 (5.91%) Terraform
4 5 (2.46%) Kibana
5 4 (1.97%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.97%) Puppet
6 3 (1.48%) Ansible
7 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 42 (20.69%) Oracle
2 36 (17.73%) Talend
3 28 (13.79%) Denodo
4 22 (10.84%) Atlassian
5 19 (9.36%) Microsoft
6 14 (6.90%) Jaspersoft
7 9 (4.43%) Informatica
7 9 (4.43%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.96%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.97%) Remedy
9 4 (1.97%) webMethods
10 3 (1.48%) Pega
11 2 (0.99%) OneLogin
11 2 (0.99%) SAP
12 1 (0.49%) Actian
12 1 (0.49%) CA Agile Central
12 1 (0.49%) CyberArk
12 1 (0.49%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.49%) Okta
12 1 (0.49%) Workday