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 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 41 43
Rank change year-on-year +14 +2 -24
Contract jobs citing Scrum 188 60 72
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 7.00% 4.30% 3.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.20% 4.77% 4.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 35 42
10th Percentile £421 £411 £372
25th Percentile £463 £458 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £483 £518
Median % change year-on-year +5.07% -6.67% -4.17%
75th Percentile £562 £525 £580
90th Percentile £600 £601 £675
England median daily rate £500 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% -1.43%

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 2,292 1,257 1,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.33% 90.04% 84.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,501 797 1,049
10th Percentile £300 £210 £275
25th Percentile £402 £400 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 52 108
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.52 £11.81
25th Percentile £16.10 £15.22 £15.83
Median hourly rate £21.46 £20.12 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.66% -12.52% +29.94%
75th Percentile £27.21 £30.95 £47.81
90th Percentile £37.45 £41.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% - -

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 24 February 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 24 February 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 +10 115 £511 +7.18% 11
Warwickshire -10 28 £550 +10.00% 3
Birmingham -7 22 £475 - 10
Coventry -15 9 £560 +17.89% 3
Solihull -2 7 £358 -14.76% 7
Worcestershire - 6 £475 - 3
Staffordshire -3 1 - - 1
Wolverhampton - 1 - - 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 59 (31.38%) SAS
2 22 (11.70%) Confluence
3 13 (6.91%) WebLogic
4 8 (4.26%) Apache
4 8 (4.26%) JBoss
5 3 (1.60%) Drupal
5 3 (1.60%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.53%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.53%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 6 (3.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.13%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.53%) CANalyzer
4 1 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Maximo
1 1 (0.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 41 (21.81%) AWS
2 16 (8.51%) Azure
3 12 (6.38%) OpenShift
4 8 (4.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 8 (4.26%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (4.26%) Amazon S3
4 8 (4.26%) Amazon SQS
4 8 (4.26%) AWS KMS
4 8 (4.26%) Cloud Computing
4 8 (4.26%) Route 53
5 6 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.13%) GCP
7 3 (1.60%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.60%) SaaS
8 2 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.06%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (1.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (1.06%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.06%) GitHub
9 1 (0.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.60%) Network Security
2 1 (0.53%) Firewall
2 1 (0.53%) SMS
2 1 (0.53%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (20.21%) Pentaho
2 21 (11.17%) Oracle Database
3 18 (9.57%) MongoDB
3 18 (9.57%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 14 (7.45%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (6.38%) Metadata
6 11 (5.85%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (4.79%) Metadata Repository
8 8 (4.26%) Amazon Aurora
8 8 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (4.26%) DynamoDB
9 4 (2.13%) MySQL
10 3 (1.60%) Power BI
10 3 (1.60%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.60%) SAS Visual Analytics
11 2 (1.06%) Data Lake
11 2 (1.06%) RDBMS
11 2 (1.06%) SQL Server
12 1 (0.53%) Data Mining
12 1 (0.53%) Ingres
Development Applications
1 83 (44.15%) Git
2 60 (31.91%) JIRA
3 56 (29.79%) Jenkins
4 39 (20.74%) JUnit
5 28 (14.89%) Selenium
6 27 (14.36%) GitLab
7 16 (8.51%) Maven
7 16 (8.51%) Mockito
8 9 (4.79%) Cucumber
8 9 (4.79%) SonarQube
9 8 (4.26%) Eclipse
9 8 (4.26%) IntelliJ
10 6 (3.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 6 (3.19%) DbUnit
10 6 (3.19%) jMock
11 4 (2.13%) Bitbucket Server
12 2 (1.06%) Gatling
12 2 (1.06%) REST Assured
13 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
13 1 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 64 (34.04%) Social Skills
2 26 (13.83%) Finance
3 25 (13.30%) Public Sector
4 14 (7.45%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.32%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.66%) Banking
7 5 (2.66%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.60%) Retail
9 2 (1.06%) Advertising
9 2 (1.06%) Aeronautics
9 2 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.53%) Electronics
10 1 (0.53%) Legal
Job Titles
1 33 (17.55%) Data Engineer
2 26 (13.83%) Developer
3 25 (13.30%) Scrum Master
4 20 (10.64%) Project Manager
5 17 (9.04%) Java Developer
6 16 (8.51%) Architect
7 12 (6.38%) Data Architect
8 11 (5.85%) Test Specialist
9 9 (4.79%) SAS Engineer
10 8 (4.26%) Senior
10 8 (4.26%) Software Engineer
11 7 (3.72%) Java Engineer
11 7 (3.72%) Lead
12 6 (3.19%) Test Automation Specialist
13 5 (2.66%) Analyst
13 5 (2.66%) Business Analyst
13 5 (2.66%) Data Manager
13 5 (2.66%) Delivery Manager
13 5 (2.66%) Denodo Engineer
13 5 (2.66%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (18.09%) Spring
2 28 (14.89%) REST
3 23 (12.23%) Spring Boot
4 17 (9.04%) Hibernate
5 16 (8.51%) JPA
5 16 (8.51%) JSON
5 16 (8.51%) SOAP
6 15 (7.98%) HTML
7 12 (6.38%) Web Services
8 11 (5.85%) pytest
9 10 (5.32%) Node.js
10 9 (4.79%) AngularJS
11 8 (4.26%) ActiveMQ
11 8 (4.26%) Gherkin
11 8 (4.26%) HTML5
11 8 (4.26%) Play Framework
11 8 (4.26%) RESTful
11 8 (4.26%) Spring Batch
11 8 (4.26%) Spring Cloud
11 8 (4.26%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.32%) Product Ownership
2 6 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.66%) CMDB
3 5 (2.66%) Data Centre
4 4 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.60%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.53%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.53%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.53%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.53%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.53%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.53%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.53%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.53%) MicroBlaze
7 1 (0.53%) RISC-V
7 1 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.53%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 18 (9.57%) Linux
2 9 (4.79%) Unix
3 6 (3.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.60%) Windows
5 1 (0.53%) Android
5 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (86.70%) Agile
2 80 (42.55%) CI/CD
3 79 (42.02%) DevOps
4 70 (37.23%) Problem-Solving
5 62 (32.98%) Continuous Improvement
6 55 (29.26%) Test Automation
7 54 (28.72%) Analytics
7 54 (28.72%) Data Modelling
8 48 (25.53%) Data Pipeline
9 46 (24.47%) Business Intelligence
10 43 (22.87%) ETL
11 41 (21.81%) Stakeholder Management
12 39 (20.74%) Deployment Automation
13 36 (19.15%) Data Virtualisation
14 35 (18.62%) Microservices
14 35 (18.62%) Project Management
15 33 (17.55%) Data Integration
16 31 (16.49%) Data Analytics
17 30 (15.96%) Containerisation
18 28 (14.89%) Business Analytics
Programming Languages
1 72 (38.30%) SQL
2 40 (21.28%) Java
3 14 (7.45%) Python
4 10 (5.32%) Shell Script
5 9 (4.79%) Perl
5 9 (4.79%) Scala
6 4 (2.13%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.13%) MATLAB
7 2 (1.06%) C#
7 2 (1.06%) PHP
7 2 (1.06%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.06%) Ruby
8 1 (0.53%) Bash
8 1 (0.53%) C
8 1 (0.53%) C++
8 1 (0.53%) Groovy
8 1 (0.53%) HiveQL
8 1 (0.53%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.53%) Swift
8 1 (0.53%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 90 (47.87%) Security Cleared
2 84 (44.68%) SC Cleared
3 14 (7.45%) Degree
4 8 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.19%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.66%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 4 (2.13%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.13%) PMI Certification
7 4 (2.13%) PMP
8 3 (1.60%) CCNA
8 3 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.60%) CISM
8 3 (1.60%) CISSP
8 3 (1.60%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.53%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.53%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (19.15%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.85%) QA
3 9 (4.79%) WCAG
4 5 (2.66%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.60%) ISO 19650
5 3 (1.60%) PMO
6 1 (0.53%) GDPR
6 1 (0.53%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.53%) NCSC
6 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 68 (36.17%) Docker
2 5 (2.66%) Postfix
3 1 (0.53%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.53%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 69 (36.70%) Kubernetes
2 14 (7.45%) Grafana
3 8 (4.26%) Kibana
3 8 (4.26%) Puppet
4 4 (2.13%) Terraform
5 1 (0.53%) Ansible
Vendors
1 51 (27.13%) Oracle
2 38 (20.21%) Talend
3 34 (18.09%) Denodo
4 11 (5.85%) Microsoft
5 9 (4.79%) Atlassian
6 8 (4.26%) Jaspersoft
6 8 (4.26%) webMethods
7 6 (3.19%) Red Hat
8 5 (2.66%) Informatica
8 5 (2.66%) ServiceNow
9 4 (2.13%) Remedy
10 3 (1.60%) Google
11 2 (1.06%) MuleSoft
11 2 (1.06%) OneLogin
12 1 (0.53%) Actian
12 1 (0.53%) CA Agile Central
12 1 (0.53%) CyberArk
12 1 (0.53%) DIgSILENT
12 1 (0.53%) Okta
12 1 (0.53%) Workday