Scrum Contracts in the West Midlands

Scrum
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Scrum skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Scrum over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 48 30
Rank change year-on-year +11 -18 -15
Contract jobs citing Scrum 77 72 140
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.99% 3.49% 6.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.62% 4.31% 7.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 56 107
10th Percentile £328 £354 £385
25th Percentile £425 £358 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% -1.22%
75th Percentile £500 £625 £600
90th Percentile £600 £688 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £32.28 -
England median hourly rate £56.75 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -12.69% - +30.00%

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 1,371 1,671 1,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.80% 81.08% 87.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 867 1,116 1,360
10th Percentile £206 £273 £263
25th Percentile £363 £374 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +0.60%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £618
90th Percentile £673 £728 £713
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 111 48
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.06 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.78 £14.06 £15.38
Median hourly rate £22.50 £19.95 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.78% -20.20% +44.93%
75th Percentile £32.82 £37.50 £30.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £56.25 £49.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +46.03%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Scrum as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in the West Midlands

Scrum
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scrum in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Scrum in the West Midlands

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in the West Midlands

Scrum
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scrum in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend 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 5 July 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
Birmingham +15 27 £479 -12.91% 66
Warwickshire +8 23 £450 -30.77% 22
Solihull - 13 £420 - 1
Shropshire -18 7 £500 +39.66% 23
Coventry - 5 £398 - 25
Scrum
England

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.90%) Confluence
2 1 (1.30%) CMS
2 1 (1.30%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.30%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.30%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (1.30%) Tuxedo
2 1 (1.30%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (5.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.90%) Revit
3 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.30%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (3.90%) SAP HR
1 3 (3.90%) SAP PM
2 2 (2.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.30%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 25 (32.47%) AWS
2 15 (19.48%) Amazon S3
3 14 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
4 13 (16.88%) Amazon SQS
5 12 (15.58%) Azure
6 9 (11.69%) AWS KMS
6 9 (11.69%) Route 53
7 7 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (6.49%) GCP
8 5 (6.49%) Power Platform
9 4 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (5.19%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 2 (2.60%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (2.60%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (2.60%) GitHub
10 2 (2.60%) PowerApps
10 2 (2.60%) Serverless
11 1 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (1.30%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.19%) Firewall
2 2 (2.60%) BGP
2 2 (2.60%) DHCP
2 2 (2.60%) DNS
2 2 (2.60%) EIGRP
2 2 (2.60%) HTTP
2 2 (2.60%) IPsec
2 2 (2.60%) Network Security
2 2 (2.60%) OSPF
2 2 (2.60%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (2.60%) SSL
2 2 (2.60%) TACACS
2 2 (2.60%) VLAN
2 2 (2.60%) VPN
2 2 (2.60%) Wireless
3 1 (1.30%) Converged Networks
3 1 (1.30%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (20.78%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (19.48%) Amazon Aurora
3 13 (16.88%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (14.29%) DynamoDB
5 3 (3.90%) Power BI
5 3 (3.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.30%) Big Data
6 1 (1.30%) DataStage
6 1 (1.30%) DB2
6 1 (1.30%) GIS
6 1 (1.30%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.30%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.30%) QualityStage
6 1 (1.30%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (28.57%) JIRA
2 17 (22.08%) Jenkins
3 15 (19.48%) Maven
4 14 (18.18%) Git
4 14 (18.18%) JUnit
5 12 (15.58%) SonarQube
6 10 (12.99%) Mockito
7 7 (9.09%) Bitbucket Server
7 7 (9.09%) DbUnit
7 7 (9.09%) jMock
8 3 (3.90%) Cucumber
8 3 (3.90%) Selenium
9 2 (2.60%) Cypress.io
9 2 (2.60%) JMeter
9 2 (2.60%) Postman
9 2 (2.60%) TestPartner
10 1 (1.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (1.30%) Axure RP
10 1 (1.30%) Snyk
10 1 (1.30%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (24.68%) Public Sector
2 17 (22.08%) Social Skills
3 12 (15.58%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (14.29%) Finance
5 9 (11.69%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (6.49%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (5.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.60%) Automotive
8 2 (2.60%) Legal
8 2 (2.60%) Marketing
9 1 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.30%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (27.27%) Developer
2 17 (22.08%) Java Developer
3 9 (11.69%) Lead
3 9 (11.69%) Tester
4 8 (10.39%) Analyst
4 8 (10.39%) Architect
5 6 (7.79%) Lead Developer
5 6 (7.79%) Lead Java Developer
5 6 (7.79%) Product Owner
5 6 (7.79%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 6 (7.79%) Test Analyst
6 5 (6.49%) Product Manager
6 5 (6.49%) Project Manager
7 4 (5.19%) QA Analyst
7 4 (5.19%) QA Test Analyst
7 4 (5.19%) Scrum Master
7 4 (5.19%) Senior
8 3 (3.90%) Salesforce Architect
8 3 (3.90%) Salesforce Technical Architect
8 3 (3.90%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (23.38%) Spring
1 18 (23.38%) Spring Boot
2 17 (22.08%) REST
2 17 (22.08%) SOAP
3 15 (19.48%) ActiveMQ
4 14 (18.18%) JPA
4 14 (18.18%) Web Services
5 12 (15.58%) Hibernate
6 11 (14.29%) AngularJS
6 11 (14.29%) Bootstrap
6 11 (14.29%) Spring Batch
6 11 (14.29%) Spring Integration
7 10 (12.99%) RESTful
7 10 (12.99%) Spring Cloud
8 7 (9.09%) Middleware
8 7 (9.09%) PowerMock
9 5 (6.49%) .NET
10 4 (5.19%) GraphQL
10 4 (5.19%) Lightning Web Components
11 3 (3.90%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 23 (29.87%) Product Ownership
2 11 (14.29%) SCADA
3 9 (11.69%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.19%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (5.19%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.30%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.30%) NHS
6 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.30%) PMI
6 1 (1.30%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (92.21%) Agile
2 26 (33.77%) DevOps
3 19 (24.68%) Microservices
4 17 (22.08%) TDD
5 16 (20.78%) User Stories
6 13 (16.88%) CI/CD
6 13 (16.88%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (15.58%) Kanban
8 11 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
8 11 (14.29%) Migration
8 11 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (12.99%) Change Management
9 10 (12.99%) Product Management
9 10 (12.99%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 9 (11.69%) Backlog Prioritisation
10 9 (11.69%) BDD
10 9 (11.69%) Defect Management
10 9 (11.69%) Project Management
10 9 (11.69%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (11.69%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (27.27%) Java
2 15 (19.48%) SQL
3 6 (7.79%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.19%) C#
5 3 (3.90%) Apex Code
6 1 (1.30%) Bash
6 1 (1.30%) C
6 1 (1.30%) Korn
6 1 (1.30%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.30%) Python
6 1 (1.30%) Scala
6 1 (1.30%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (20.78%) Security Cleared
2 14 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.39%) Degree
4 3 (3.90%) PMI Certification
4 3 (3.90%) PMP
5 1 (1.30%) APMP
5 1 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.30%) CISSP
5 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.30%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (1.30%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.39%) QA
2 1 (1.30%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.30%) Automotive SPICE
2 1 (1.30%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.30%) ISO 26262
2 1 (1.30%) ISO 9001
2 1 (1.30%) PMO
2 1 (1.30%) SLA
2 1 (1.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (24.68%) Docker
2 8 (10.39%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 11 (14.29%) Grafana
2 10 (12.99%) Prometheus
3 6 (7.79%) HP ALM
4 4 (5.19%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.60%) Nagios
5 2 (2.60%) Terraform
6 1 (1.30%) Ansible
6 1 (1.30%) Argo
Vendors
1 10 (12.99%) Salesforce
2 9 (11.69%) Atlassian
2 9 (11.69%) Jaspersoft
2 9 (11.69%) Oracle
3 8 (10.39%) Microsoft
4 7 (9.09%) MuleSoft
5 6 (7.79%) HP
6 5 (6.49%) SAP
7 4 (5.19%) Cisco
7 4 (5.19%) ServiceNow
8 3 (3.90%) Autodesk
9 2 (2.60%) Arista
9 2 (2.60%) Google
9 2 (2.60%) Juniper
9 2 (2.60%) SolarWinds
9 2 (2.60%) Splunk
10 1 (1.30%) IBM
10 1 (1.30%) Red Hat
10 1 (1.30%) Sitecore
10 1 (1.30%) webMethods