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 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 38 48
Rank change year-on-year +11 +10 -1
Contract jobs citing Scrum 256 96 68
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 7.16% 5.18% 3.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.44% 5.79% 4.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 66 42
10th Percentile £413 £345 £351
25th Percentile £447 £428 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +8.11% -2.63%
75th Percentile £530 £566 £608
90th Percentile £608 £634 £624
England median daily rate £507 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.35% -4.76% -4.55%
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 £70.00 £55.00 £68.51
% change year-on-year +27.27% -19.72% +5.40%

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 3,032 1,658 1,568
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.86% 89.38% 82.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,853 1,053 990
10th Percentile £316 £250 £231
25th Percentile £413 £400 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £519
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -3.66% +3.80%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £675 £725
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 227 113 40
10th Percentile £13.45 £12.62 £14.70
25th Percentile £17.48 £16.30 £16.81
Median hourly rate £25.54 £23.00 £25.15
Median % change year-on-year +11.04% -8.56% -8.54%
75th Percentile £50.75 £33.88 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.84 £50.00 £55.45
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 4 October 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 +2 148 £483 -6.85% 15
Solihull +5 34 £488 +36.17% 7
Coventry -5 29 £425 -30.61% 7
Birmingham -14 17 £463 -2.63% 40
Warwickshire -17 14 £477 +9.66% 13
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 61 (23.83%) Confluence
2 13 (5.08%) SAS
3 3 (1.17%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (1.56%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.78%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.39%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.39%) Primavera
2 1 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.39%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 102 (39.84%) AWS
2 38 (14.84%) GitHub
3 36 (14.06%) Azure
4 32 (12.50%) Amazon S3
5 30 (11.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 27 (10.55%) Amazon EC2
7 25 (9.77%) Serverless
8 24 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
8 24 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (8.59%) Amazon EKS
10 21 (8.20%) Amazon ECS
11 20 (7.81%) GitHub Actions
12 17 (6.64%) Power Platform
13 16 (6.25%) Power Automate
14 14 (5.47%) Dynamics 365
15 13 (5.08%) PowerApps
16 9 (3.52%) GitHub Copilot
16 9 (3.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 8 (3.13%) AWS CodePipeline
18 7 (2.73%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.56%) Network Security
2 1 (0.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.59%) Pentaho
2 18 (7.03%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (5.47%) MongoDB
4 12 (4.69%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (4.69%) Relational Database
5 9 (3.52%) DynamoDB
6 6 (2.34%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (1.56%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.56%) Power BI
8 3 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.17%) Apache Iceberg
8 3 (1.17%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (1.17%) Metadata
8 3 (1.17%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.17%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.78%) NoSQL
9 2 (0.78%) ZAP BI
10 1 (0.39%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 77 (30.08%) GitLab
2 75 (29.30%) JIRA
3 64 (25.00%) Git
4 59 (23.05%) JUnit
5 46 (17.97%) Jenkins
6 34 (13.28%) Maven
6 34 (13.28%) SonarQube
7 31 (12.11%) Mockito
8 30 (11.72%) Selenium
9 27 (10.55%) Cucumber
10 24 (9.38%) Gatling
11 14 (5.47%) Bitbucket
12 6 (2.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (1.56%) Bitbucket Server
13 4 (1.56%) DbUnit
13 4 (1.56%) jMock
14 3 (1.17%) Cypress.io
14 3 (1.17%) Postman
14 3 (1.17%) Protractor
14 3 (1.17%) WebDriver
General
1 122 (47.66%) Social Skills
2 76 (29.69%) Public Sector
3 30 (11.72%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (7.42%) Finance
5 14 (5.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (4.30%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (3.52%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.95%) Banking
8 5 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.17%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.78%) Billing
10 2 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.78%) Retail
10 2 (0.78%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.39%) Automotive
11 1 (0.39%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.39%) Front Office
11 1 (0.39%) Law
11 1 (0.39%) Local Government
11 1 (0.39%) Military
Job Titles
1 51 (19.92%) Scrum Master
2 41 (16.02%) Developer
2 41 (16.02%) Senior
3 31 (12.11%) Data Engineer
4 26 (10.16%) Quality Engineer
5 25 (9.77%) Lead
6 24 (9.38%) Java Developer
7 21 (8.20%) Java Engineer
8 17 (6.64%) Senior Developer
9 15 (5.86%) Analyst
10 13 (5.08%) Business Analyst
10 13 (5.08%) Delivery Manager
11 11 (4.30%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 11 (4.30%) Senior Java Developer
12 10 (3.91%) Product Manager
13 8 (3.13%) Project Manager
14 7 (2.73%) Java Scrum Master
15 6 (2.34%) JIRA Engineer
15 6 (2.34%) Lead Developer
15 6 (2.34%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (28.91%) Spring
2 51 (19.92%) Spring Boot
3 31 (12.11%) JPA
4 30 (11.72%) JSON
4 30 (11.72%) RESTful
5 28 (10.94%) Playwright
5 28 (10.94%) REST
6 22 (8.59%) Gherkin
6 22 (8.59%) OpenAPI
7 18 (7.03%) SOAP
7 18 (7.03%) Web Services
8 17 (6.64%) AngularJS
8 17 (6.64%) Hibernate
9 16 (6.25%) ActiveMQ
9 16 (6.25%) WireMock
10 15 (5.86%) Spring Cloud
11 14 (5.47%) RabbitMQ
11 14 (5.47%) React
12 12 (4.69%) Terraform
13 11 (4.30%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 62 (24.22%) Product Ownership
2 37 (14.45%) Cloud Native
3 9 (3.52%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.95%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.56%) Data Fabric
7 4 (1.56%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.17%) Culture of Ownership
8 3 (1.17%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.17%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.17%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.78%) BYOD
9 2 (0.78%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.78%) IoT
9 2 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.78%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.39%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.39%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.39%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.13%) Linux
2 4 (1.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (87.89%) Agile
2 118 (46.09%) CI/CD
3 94 (36.72%) Test Automation
4 91 (35.55%) DevOps
5 88 (34.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 85 (33.20%) Stakeholder Management
7 71 (27.73%) Sprint Planning
8 67 (26.17%) Microservices
9 55 (21.48%) Backlog Refinement
10 54 (21.09%) Problem-Solving
11 46 (17.97%) TDD
12 44 (17.19%) Kanban
13 43 (16.80%) Coaching
13 43 (16.80%) Containerisation
13 43 (16.80%) User Stories
14 40 (15.63%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 35 (13.67%) Software Testing
15 35 (13.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 34 (13.28%) ETL
16 34 (13.28%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 89 (34.77%) Java
2 49 (19.14%) SQL
3 28 (10.94%) JavaScript
4 12 (4.69%) C#
5 11 (4.30%) TypeScript
6 9 (3.52%) Python
6 9 (3.52%) Shell Script
7 3 (1.17%) Scala
8 2 (0.78%) R
9 1 (0.39%) Bash
9 1 (0.39%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.39%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 108 (42.19%) Security Cleared
2 100 (39.06%) SC Cleared
3 77 (30.08%) BPSS Clearance
4 14 (5.47%) AWS Certification
5 11 (4.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (3.91%) Degree
7 8 (3.13%) SAFe Agilist
8 6 (2.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (1.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (1.56%) CCSP
9 4 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.56%) CISSP
10 3 (1.17%) ISTQB
10 3 (1.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.78%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.39%) Computer Science Degree
12 1 (0.39%) CSPO
12 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (18.75%) Accessibility
2 45 (17.58%) QA
3 28 (10.94%) WCAG
4 8 (3.13%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.56%) FATCA
5 4 (1.56%) PMO
6 3 (1.17%) GDPR
7 1 (0.39%) GRC
7 1 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 72 (28.13%) Docker
2 3 (1.17%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 46 (17.97%) Kubernetes
2 24 (9.38%) Grafana
3 15 (5.86%) Kibana
3 15 (5.86%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.78%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.39%) Ansible
5 1 (0.39%) Argo
5 1 (0.39%) Istio
5 1 (0.39%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.39%) Puppet
Vendors
1 37 (14.45%) Oracle
2 22 (8.59%) Talend
3 17 (6.64%) Microsoft
4 16 (6.25%) Informatica
5 11 (4.30%) Atlassian
6 10 (3.91%) Denodo
7 7 (2.73%) Dynatrace
8 6 (2.34%) Jaspersoft
9 5 (1.95%) Sage
10 4 (1.56%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.17%) Pega
12 2 (0.78%) Google
12 2 (0.78%) HP
12 2 (0.78%) Salesforce
13 1 (0.39%) Charles River
13 1 (0.39%) MuleSoft
13 1 (0.39%) Murex
13 1 (0.39%) OneLogin
13 1 (0.39%) Remedy
13 1 (0.39%) SAP