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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 38 41
Rank change year-on-year +8 +3 -10
Contract jobs citing Scrum 225 76 76
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 6.57% 4.71% 3.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.63% 5.32% 4.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 44 59
10th Percentile £413 £327 £356
25th Percentile £450 £422 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £515 £503 £625
90th Percentile £579 £600 £688
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -6.67%
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 £70.00 £55.88 £65.00
% change year-on-year +25.28% -14.04% -

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 2,947 1,429 1,625
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 86.07% 88.54% 80.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,921 899 1,085
10th Percentile £313 £209 £266
25th Percentile £405 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £671 £677 £725
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 99 93
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £11.06
25th Percentile £20.78 £13.74 £14.00
Median hourly rate £33.99 £22.05 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.15% +16.05% -24.38%
75th Percentile £59.50 £32.82 £38.75
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -8.14%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -1.60% 16
Solihull -2 30 £463 +10.12% 2
Birmingham -24 27 £472 -1.46% 9
Warwickshire -16 22 £525 +16.67% 5
Coventry -8 20 £425 +6.92% 1
Worcestershire - 6 - -
Staffordshire - 3 £320 - 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 58 (25.78%) Confluence
2 43 (19.11%) SAS
3 6 (2.67%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.78%) WebLogic
5 2 (0.89%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (3.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.78%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.44%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.44%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.44%) Primavera
2 1 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.44%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 72 (32.00%) AWS
2 40 (17.78%) Amazon S3
3 39 (17.33%) Azure
4 37 (16.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 34 (15.11%) Amazon EC2
6 23 (10.22%) Serverless
7 20 (8.89%) AWS Lambda
7 20 (8.89%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (8.44%) Amazon EKS
8 19 (8.44%) Amazon SQS
8 19 (8.44%) GitHub
9 18 (8.00%) Amazon ECS
9 18 (8.00%) Route 53
10 17 (7.56%) AWS KMS
11 16 (7.11%) GitHub Actions
11 16 (7.11%) Power Platform
12 12 (5.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 11 (4.89%) AWS CodePipeline
14 10 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.44%) Network Security
1 1 (0.44%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (14.67%) Pentaho
2 22 (9.78%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (9.78%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (8.89%) DynamoDB
4 17 (7.56%) Amazon Aurora
5 11 (4.89%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (4.00%) Metadata
6 9 (4.00%) Power BI
7 7 (3.11%) MongoDB
8 6 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (2.67%) BusinessObjects
9 5 (2.22%) Metadata Repository
9 5 (2.22%) Oracle Database
9 5 (2.22%) SQL Server
10 4 (1.78%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.78%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.78%) SAS Enterprise Guide
11 3 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (1.33%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 84 (37.33%) JIRA
2 61 (27.11%) Jenkins
3 55 (24.44%) Git
4 47 (20.89%) GitLab
5 27 (12.00%) JUnit
6 19 (8.44%) Maven
6 19 (8.44%) Mockito
6 19 (8.44%) SonarQube
7 17 (7.56%) Bitbucket
8 13 (5.78%) DbUnit
8 13 (5.78%) jMock
9 11 (4.89%) Bitbucket Server
10 10 (4.44%) Selenium
11 8 (3.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (1.78%) Cucumber
13 3 (1.33%) Cypress.io
13 3 (1.33%) Gatling
13 3 (1.33%) Postman
13 3 (1.33%) Protractor
13 3 (1.33%) WebDriver
General
1 77 (34.22%) Social Skills
2 55 (24.44%) Public Sector
3 30 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (9.33%) Finance
5 9 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (1.78%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.33%) Electronics
7 3 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.89%) Advertising
8 2 (0.89%) Billing
8 2 (0.89%) Law
8 2 (0.89%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.89%) Retail
9 1 (0.44%) Automotive
9 1 (0.44%) Banking
9 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.44%) Front Office
9 1 (0.44%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 47 (20.89%) Data Engineer
2 44 (19.56%) Scrum Master
3 31 (13.78%) Developer
4 23 (10.22%) Senior
5 22 (9.78%) Java Developer
6 18 (8.00%) Analyst
6 18 (8.00%) Lead
7 16 (7.11%) Business Analyst
8 11 (4.89%) Architect
8 11 (4.89%) Delivery Manager
9 10 (4.44%) Project Manager
10 9 (4.00%) Senior Developer
11 7 (3.11%) Data Architect
12 6 (2.67%) AWS DevOps
12 6 (2.67%) Product Manager
12 6 (2.67%) Quality Engineer
12 6 (2.67%) Senior Java Developer
12 6 (2.67%) Software Engineer
12 6 (2.67%) Test Automation Specialist
12 6 (2.67%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (15.56%) Spring
2 32 (14.22%) Spring Boot
3 24 (10.67%) REST
4 20 (8.89%) SOAP
4 20 (8.89%) Web Services
5 19 (8.44%) JPA
6 18 (8.00%) AngularJS
7 17 (7.56%) ActiveMQ
7 17 (7.56%) Hibernate
7 17 (7.56%) Spring Batch
7 17 (7.56%) Spring Integration
8 16 (7.11%) RESTful
8 16 (7.11%) Spring Cloud
9 14 (6.22%) JSON
9 14 (6.22%) Node.js
10 13 (5.78%) PowerMock
11 11 (4.89%) Bootstrap
12 10 (4.44%) AWS CDK
13 5 (2.22%) Gherkin
13 5 (2.22%) React
Miscellaneous
1 48 (21.33%) Product Ownership
2 16 (7.11%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.33%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (1.78%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.78%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.33%) Taxonomies
7 2 (0.89%) BYOD
7 2 (0.89%) Data Fabric
7 2 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.89%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.44%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.44%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.44%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.44%) Derivative
8 1 (0.44%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.44%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.44%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 27 (12.00%) Linux
2 7 (3.11%) Unix
3 6 (2.67%) Windows
4 5 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.44%) Android
5 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (82.67%) Agile
2 104 (46.22%) DevOps
3 102 (45.33%) CI/CD
4 74 (32.89%) Continuous Improvement
5 69 (30.67%) Test Automation
6 55 (24.44%) Kanban
7 53 (23.56%) Problem-Solving
7 53 (23.56%) Stakeholder Management
8 49 (21.78%) ETL
9 43 (19.11%) Containerisation
9 43 (19.11%) Sprint Planning
10 40 (17.78%) Analytics
10 40 (17.78%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 38 (16.89%) Data Modelling
12 37 (16.44%) Microservices
13 35 (15.56%) Business Intelligence
14 34 (15.11%) Backlog Refinement
15 32 (14.22%) Data Pipeline
15 32 (14.22%) TDD
16 28 (12.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 73 (32.44%) SQL
2 44 (19.56%) Java
3 12 (5.33%) JavaScript
4 11 (4.89%) Python
5 7 (3.11%) C#
5 7 (3.11%) Shell Script
6 5 (2.22%) Perl
7 4 (1.78%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.33%) HiveQL
8 3 (1.33%) MATLAB
8 3 (1.33%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.89%) Bash
10 1 (0.44%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.44%) R
10 1 (0.44%) Swift
10 1 (0.44%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.44%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 130 (57.78%) Security Cleared
2 117 (52.00%) SC Cleared
3 22 (9.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 15 (6.67%) AWS Certification
5 12 (5.33%) Degree
6 11 (4.89%) SAFe Agilist
7 9 (4.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (2.22%) Azure Certification
9 5 (2.22%) CCNA
9 5 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (2.22%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.33%) ISTQB
10 3 (1.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 3 (1.33%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.33%) PMP
11 2 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
12 1 (0.44%) CBAP
12 1 (0.44%) CISM
12 1 (0.44%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.33%) QA
2 19 (8.44%) Data Quality
3 17 (7.56%) Accessibility
4 7 (3.11%) WCAG
5 5 (2.22%) GDPR
6 4 (1.78%) FATCA
7 3 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 3 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 3 (1.33%) PMO
8 1 (0.44%) GRC
8 1 (0.44%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.44%) SLA
System Software
1 65 (28.89%) Docker
2 11 (4.89%) Postfix
3 3 (1.33%) HDFS
4 1 (0.44%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 43 (19.11%) Kubernetes
2 24 (10.67%) Grafana
3 21 (9.33%) Terraform
4 5 (2.22%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.78%) Ansible
6 2 (0.89%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.89%) Kibana
7 1 (0.44%) Argo
7 1 (0.44%) Istio
7 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.44%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.44%) Puppet
Vendors
1 46 (20.44%) Oracle
2 33 (14.67%) Talend
3 25 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 21 (9.33%) Atlassian
4 21 (9.33%) Denodo
5 19 (8.44%) Informatica
6 17 (7.56%) Jaspersoft
7 5 (2.22%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.22%) Sage
7 5 (2.22%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.78%) Pega
8 4 (1.78%) Remedy
9 3 (1.33%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.33%) Google
10 2 (0.89%) HP
10 2 (0.89%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.89%) SAP
11 1 (0.44%) Charles River
11 1 (0.44%) Citrix
11 1 (0.44%) NetApp