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 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 42 39
Rank change year-on-year +11 -3 -1
Contract jobs citing Scrum 240 87 72
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 6.88% 5.08% 3.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.08% 5.75% 4.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 55 56
10th Percentile £413 £328 £358
25th Percentile £447 £441 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.80% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £515 £600 £615
90th Percentile £578 £650 £688
England median daily rate £515 £500 £528
% change year-on-year +3.00% -5.21% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £31.91 - -
25th Percentile £38.81 - -
Median hourly rate £51.08 - £32.28
75th Percentile £61.13 - -
90th Percentile £63.60 - -
England median hourly rate £69.50 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +26.36% -15.38% -

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 2,972 1,514 1,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.23% 88.43% 81.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,884 961 1,038
10th Percentile £313 £235 £274
25th Percentile £406 £380 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £669 £650 £725
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 106 60
10th Percentile £13.45 £12.62 £13.16
25th Percentile £19.34 £14.81 £14.93
Median hourly rate £30.73 £24.34 £24.31
Median % change year-on-year +26.25% +0.11% -9.95%
75th Percentile £53.75 £35.45 £39.06
90th Percentile £70.59 £50.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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 15 August 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 +6 132 £492 -5.11% 30
Solihull +3 33 £463 +0.54% 2
Coventry -10 22 £425 -28.87% 5
Warwickshire -11 20 £500 +11.11% 3
Birmingham -20 20 £463 -2.63% 25
Worcestershire -2 3 - - 2
Staffordshire - 2 £320 - 4
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 63 (26.25%) Confluence
2 41 (17.08%) SAS
3 6 (2.50%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.83%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.42%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (2.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.67%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.42%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.42%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.42%) Primavera
2 1 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.42%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 76 (31.67%) AWS
2 41 (17.08%) Azure
3 40 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 37 (15.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 34 (14.17%) Amazon EC2
6 27 (11.25%) Serverless
7 25 (10.42%) GitHub
8 24 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
8 24 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (9.58%) Amazon EKS
10 22 (9.17%) Amazon ECS
10 22 (9.17%) Power Platform
11 20 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
12 15 (6.25%) Power Automate
13 14 (5.83%) Route 53
14 13 (5.42%) AWS KMS
14 13 (5.42%) Dynamics 365
15 12 (5.00%) PowerApps
15 12 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.42%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (15.83%) Pentaho
2 20 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (7.50%) Amazon RDS
4 16 (6.67%) DynamoDB
5 13 (5.42%) Amazon Aurora
6 9 (3.75%) Power BI
7 6 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (2.50%) BusinessObjects
7 6 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (2.50%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.67%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.67%) Metadata
8 4 (1.67%) Oracle Database
8 4 (1.67%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.25%) Apache Hive
9 3 (1.25%) Apache Iceberg
9 3 (1.25%) Impala
9 3 (1.25%) MySQL
9 3 (1.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 89 (37.08%) JIRA
2 67 (27.92%) Jenkins
3 58 (24.17%) Git
4 52 (21.67%) GitLab
5 28 (11.67%) JUnit
6 22 (9.17%) Bitbucket
7 19 (7.92%) SonarQube
8 18 (7.50%) Maven
8 18 (7.50%) Mockito
9 12 (5.00%) Selenium
10 10 (4.17%) Bitbucket Server
10 10 (4.17%) DbUnit
10 10 (4.17%) jMock
11 9 (3.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 8 (3.33%) Cucumber
12 8 (3.33%) Gatling
13 3 (1.25%) Cypress.io
13 3 (1.25%) Postman
13 3 (1.25%) Protractor
13 3 (1.25%) WebDriver
General
1 90 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 71 (29.58%) Public Sector
3 31 (12.92%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (6.25%) Finance
5 13 (5.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.67%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.83%) Advertising
10 2 (0.83%) Billing
10 2 (0.83%) Electronics
10 2 (0.83%) Law
10 2 (0.83%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.42%) Automotive
11 1 (0.42%) Banking
11 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.42%) Front Office
11 1 (0.42%) Local Government
11 1 (0.42%) Retail
Job Titles
1 52 (21.67%) Data Engineer
2 50 (20.83%) Scrum Master
3 36 (15.00%) Developer
4 29 (12.08%) Senior
5 24 (10.00%) Lead
6 20 (8.33%) Java Developer
7 17 (7.08%) Analyst
8 15 (6.25%) Business Analyst
9 13 (5.42%) Senior Developer
10 11 (4.58%) Delivery Manager
11 10 (4.17%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 10 (4.17%) Quality Engineer
12 8 (3.33%) JIRA Engineer
12 8 (3.33%) Senior Java Developer
13 7 (2.92%) Project Manager
14 6 (2.50%) AWS DevOps
14 6 (2.50%) SAS Engineer
15 5 (2.08%) Architect
15 5 (2.08%) Product Owner
15 5 (2.08%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (14.58%) Spring
2 31 (12.92%) Spring Boot
3 23 (9.58%) REST
4 22 (9.17%) RESTful
5 20 (8.33%) JSON
6 18 (7.50%) JPA
6 18 (7.50%) SOAP
6 18 (7.50%) Web Services
7 15 (6.25%) ActiveMQ
7 15 (6.25%) AngularJS
7 15 (6.25%) Hibernate
8 14 (5.83%) Spring Cloud
9 13 (5.42%) Spring Batch
9 13 (5.42%) Spring Integration
10 10 (4.17%) AWS CDK
10 10 (4.17%) Bootstrap
10 10 (4.17%) Node.js
10 10 (4.17%) PowerMock
11 8 (3.33%) Playwright
11 8 (3.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 57 (23.75%) Product Ownership
2 21 (8.75%) Cloud Native
3 14 (5.83%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.67%) Data Fabric
5 4 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.67%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.25%) Taxonomies
7 2 (0.83%) BYOD
7 2 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.83%) Legacy Code
7 2 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.83%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.42%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.42%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.42%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.42%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.42%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.42%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.42%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.08%) Linux
2 7 (2.92%) Unix
3 3 (1.25%) Windows
4 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (85.83%) Agile
2 121 (50.42%) DevOps
3 120 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 92 (38.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 83 (34.58%) Test Automation
6 64 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 57 (23.75%) Problem-Solving
7 57 (23.75%) Sprint Planning
8 56 (23.33%) ETL
9 48 (20.00%) Kanban
10 46 (19.17%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 44 (18.33%) Analytics
12 43 (17.92%) Backlog Refinement
13 42 (17.50%) Containerisation
14 39 (16.25%) Microservices
15 37 (15.42%) Business Intelligence
15 37 (15.42%) Data Modelling
16 36 (15.00%) Data Pipeline
16 36 (15.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 36 (15.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 73 (30.42%) SQL
2 47 (19.58%) Java
3 20 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 10 (4.17%) C#
5 9 (3.75%) Python
6 4 (1.67%) PL/SQL
6 4 (1.67%) Shell Script
7 3 (1.25%) HiveQL
7 3 (1.25%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.25%) Scala
8 2 (0.83%) Bash
8 2 (0.83%) MATLAB
8 2 (0.83%) R
8 2 (0.83%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.42%) Perl
9 1 (0.42%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 136 (56.67%) Security Cleared
2 126 (52.50%) SC Cleared
3 32 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 14 (5.83%) AWS Certification
5 11 (4.58%) SAFe Agilist
6 10 (4.17%) Degree
6 10 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (3.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (1.25%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.25%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.25%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (1.25%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.25%) PMP
9 2 (0.83%) CCNA
9 2 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.42%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (11.25%) QA
2 26 (10.83%) Accessibility
3 24 (10.00%) Data Quality
4 10 (4.17%) WCAG
5 4 (1.67%) FATCA
5 4 (1.67%) GDPR
6 3 (1.25%) PMO
7 2 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 2 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 1 (0.42%) GRC
8 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.42%) SLA
System Software
1 74 (30.83%) Docker
2 8 (3.33%) Postfix
3 3 (1.25%) HDFS
4 1 (0.42%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.42%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 47 (19.58%) Kubernetes
2 22 (9.17%) Grafana
3 18 (7.50%) Terraform
4 7 (2.92%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.67%) Ansible
6 3 (1.25%) Kibana
7 2 (0.83%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.42%) Argo
8 1 (0.42%) Istio
8 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.42%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.42%) Puppet
Vendors
1 44 (18.33%) Oracle
2 38 (15.83%) Talend
3 26 (10.83%) Denodo
3 26 (10.83%) Microsoft
4 24 (10.00%) Atlassian
5 19 (7.92%) Informatica
6 13 (5.42%) Jaspersoft
7 5 (2.08%) Sage
8 4 (1.67%) Pega
8 4 (1.67%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.25%) Dynatrace
10 2 (0.83%) Google
10 2 (0.83%) HP
10 2 (0.83%) Remedy
10 2 (0.83%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.83%) SAP
11 1 (0.42%) Charles River
11 1 (0.42%) Murex
11 1 (0.42%) NetApp
11 1 (0.42%) Red Hat