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 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 45 46
Rank change year-on-year +18 +1 -8
Contract jobs citing Scrum 245 88 68
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 7.00% 4.83% 3.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.25% 5.47% 4.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 60 44
10th Percentile £413 £331 £352
25th Percentile £450 £430 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £520 £600 £612
90th Percentile £608 £633 £669
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -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 £69.50 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +26.36% -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 2,971 1,610 1,561
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.91% 88.36% 81.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,824 1,039 1,015
10th Percentile £313 £235 £252
25th Percentile £413 £396 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £519
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -3.66% +3.80%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £625
90th Percentile £672 £663 £725
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 103 41
10th Percentile £13.45 £12.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.57 £16.07 £15.13
Median hourly rate £29.60 £24.34 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.61% +8.18% -18.18%
75th Percentile £53.75 £35.30 £35.00
90th Percentile £68.49 £50.00 £55.25
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +8 132 £490 -6.67% 14
Solihull +8 39 £475 -5.00% 3
Coventry -3 27 £425 -28.42% 4
Birmingham -7 19 £463 -2.63% 25
Warwickshire -17 18 £500 +11.11% 3
Staffordshire - 1 £320 - 2
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 66 (26.94%) Confluence
2 20 (8.16%) SAS
3 3 (1.22%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.41%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (2.04%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.82%) Trello
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.41%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.41%) Primavera
2 1 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.41%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 95 (38.78%) AWS
2 41 (16.73%) Azure
3 37 (15.10%) Amazon S3
4 35 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 33 (13.47%) GitHub
6 32 (13.06%) Amazon EC2
7 29 (11.84%) Serverless
8 27 (11.02%) AWS Lambda
9 26 (10.61%) Azure DevOps
10 25 (10.20%) Amazon EKS
11 24 (9.80%) Amazon ECS
12 23 (9.39%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (6.94%) Power Platform
14 16 (6.53%) Power Automate
15 14 (5.71%) Dynamics 365
16 13 (5.31%) PowerApps
17 12 (4.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 11 (4.49%) AWS CodePipeline
19 10 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
20 9 (3.67%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.82%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.57%) Pentaho
2 20 (8.16%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (5.31%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (4.90%) Relational Database
5 11 (4.49%) DynamoDB
6 9 (3.67%) MongoDB
7 8 (3.27%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (1.63%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.63%) Power BI
9 3 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.22%) Apache Iceberg
9 3 (1.22%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (1.22%) Metadata
9 3 (1.22%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.22%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.82%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.82%) ZAP BI
11 1 (0.41%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 86 (35.10%) JIRA
2 56 (22.86%) GitLab
3 55 (22.45%) Git
4 54 (22.04%) Jenkins
5 45 (18.37%) JUnit
6 31 (12.65%) Maven
7 28 (11.43%) Mockito
8 27 (11.02%) SonarQube
9 19 (7.76%) Selenium
10 17 (6.94%) Bitbucket
11 16 (6.53%) Cucumber
12 14 (5.71%) Gatling
13 6 (2.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (2.45%) Bitbucket Server
13 6 (2.45%) DbUnit
13 6 (2.45%) jMock
14 3 (1.22%) Cypress.io
14 3 (1.22%) Postman
14 3 (1.22%) Protractor
14 3 (1.22%) WebDriver
General
1 113 (46.12%) Social Skills
2 77 (31.43%) Public Sector
3 34 (13.88%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (6.94%) Finance
5 14 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (4.90%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.63%) Banking
9 3 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.22%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.82%) Billing
10 2 (0.82%) Retail
10 2 (0.82%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.41%) Automotive
11 1 (0.41%) Electronics
11 1 (0.41%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.41%) Front Office
11 1 (0.41%) Law
11 1 (0.41%) Local Government
11 1 (0.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 56 (22.86%) Scrum Master
2 42 (17.14%) Developer
3 36 (14.69%) Senior
4 30 (12.24%) Data Engineer
5 28 (11.43%) Lead
6 25 (10.20%) Java Developer
7 18 (7.35%) Senior Developer
8 16 (6.53%) Analyst
8 16 (6.53%) Quality Engineer
9 14 (5.71%) Business Analyst
9 14 (5.71%) Delivery Manager
10 12 (4.90%) Senior Java Developer
11 11 (4.49%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 11 (4.49%) Java Engineer
12 9 (3.67%) Project Manager
13 8 (3.27%) Product Manager
14 7 (2.86%) Java Scrum Master
15 6 (2.45%) AWS DevOps
15 6 (2.45%) JIRA Engineer
15 6 (2.45%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (23.67%) Spring
2 48 (19.59%) Spring Boot
3 31 (12.65%) RESTful
4 29 (11.84%) REST
5 28 (11.43%) JPA
6 24 (9.80%) JSON
7 22 (8.98%) SOAP
8 20 (8.16%) Web Services
9 19 (7.76%) AngularJS
9 19 (7.76%) Hibernate
10 18 (7.35%) ActiveMQ
11 17 (6.94%) Playwright
11 17 (6.94%) Spring Cloud
12 16 (6.53%) Terraform
13 13 (5.31%) Gherkin
13 13 (5.31%) OpenAPI
14 11 (4.49%) React
15 10 (4.08%) AWS CDK
16 9 (3.67%) RabbitMQ
17 8 (3.27%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 67 (27.35%) Product Ownership
2 36 (14.69%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (3.27%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.04%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.63%) Data Fabric
8 3 (1.22%) Culture of Ownership
8 3 (1.22%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.22%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.22%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.82%) BYOD
9 2 (0.82%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.82%) IoT
9 2 (0.82%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.82%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.41%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.41%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.41%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.08%) Linux
2 4 (1.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (87.76%) Agile
2 116 (47.35%) CI/CD
3 106 (43.27%) DevOps
4 93 (37.96%) Continuous Improvement
5 86 (35.10%) Test Automation
6 76 (31.02%) Stakeholder Management
7 73 (29.80%) Sprint Planning
8 58 (23.67%) Backlog Refinement
9 57 (23.27%) Microservices
9 57 (23.27%) Problem-Solving
10 47 (19.18%) Containerisation
10 47 (19.18%) Kanban
11 45 (18.37%) User Stories
12 41 (16.73%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 39 (15.92%) TDD
14 35 (14.29%) Sprint Retrospective
14 35 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 33 (13.47%) ETL
15 33 (13.47%) Technical Leadership
16 32 (13.06%) SFIA
Programming Languages
1 70 (28.57%) Java
2 47 (19.18%) SQL
3 25 (10.20%) JavaScript
4 12 (4.90%) C#
5 11 (4.49%) TypeScript
6 6 (2.45%) Python
6 6 (2.45%) Shell Script
7 3 (1.22%) Scala
8 2 (0.82%) Bash
8 2 (0.82%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.82%) R
9 1 (0.41%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.41%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 112 (45.71%) Security Cleared
2 104 (42.45%) SC Cleared
3 57 (23.27%) BPSS Clearance
4 14 (5.71%) AWS Certification
5 11 (4.49%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (4.49%) SAFe Agilist
6 10 (4.08%) Degree
7 9 (3.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (1.22%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.82%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.82%) CCSP
9 2 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.82%) CISSP
9 2 (0.82%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.82%) PMP
10 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.41%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (15.92%) QA
2 38 (15.51%) Accessibility
3 18 (7.35%) WCAG
4 11 (4.49%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.63%) FATCA
5 4 (1.63%) GDPR
5 4 (1.63%) PMO
6 1 (0.41%) GRC
6 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.41%) SLA
System Software
1 70 (28.57%) Docker
2 5 (2.04%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 38 (15.51%) Kubernetes
2 27 (11.02%) Grafana
3 17 (6.94%) Prometheus
4 10 (4.08%) Kibana
5 2 (0.82%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.41%) Ansible
6 1 (0.41%) Argo
6 1 (0.41%) Istio
6 1 (0.41%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.41%) Puppet
Vendors
1 32 (13.06%) Oracle
2 21 (8.57%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.57%) Talend
3 13 (5.31%) Atlassian
3 13 (5.31%) Denodo
4 12 (4.90%) Informatica
5 8 (3.27%) Jaspersoft
6 7 (2.86%) Dynatrace
7 5 (2.04%) Pega
7 5 (2.04%) Sage
7 5 (2.04%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.82%) Google
8 2 (0.82%) HP
8 2 (0.82%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.82%) SAP
9 1 (0.41%) Charles River
9 1 (0.41%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.41%) Murex
9 1 (0.41%) Remedy
9 1 (0.41%) Splunk