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 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 35 42
Rank change year-on-year +9 +7 -12
Contract jobs citing Scrum 208 67 70
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 6.54% 4.89% 3.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.84% 5.50% 4.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 36 52
10th Percentile £421 £405 £358
25th Percentile £457 £425 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £525 £523 £625
90th Percentile £588 £600 £686
England median daily rate £513 £500 £533
% change year-on-year +2.50% -6.15% -7.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £59.50 - -
25th Percentile £59.88 - -
Median hourly rate £61.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.88 - -
90th Percentile £64.70 - -
England median hourly rate £66.00 £56.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +16.30% -12.69% -

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 2,653 1,218 1,578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.40% 88.91% 83.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,713 793 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £195 £275
25th Percentile £404 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £668 £750
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 55 114
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £11.08
25th Percentile £22.50 £13.20 £14.03
Median hourly rate £34.38 £19.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +80.92% -15.56% +3.73%
75th Percentile £67.84 £28.18 £40.38
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £58.00
England median hourly rate £45.59 £28.55 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.67% -21.78% -2.67%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 +14 116 £492 -4.00% 2
Birmingham -20 27 £475 - 5
Solihull -2 25 £463 +10.12%
Warwickshire -11 23 £575 +27.78% 4
Coventry -15 7 £475 - 3
Worcestershire - 7 £575 -
Staffordshire - 3 £320 - 2
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 51 (24.52%) Confluence
2 47 (22.60%) SAS
3 4 (1.92%) WebLogic
4 3 (1.44%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.48%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.48%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (2.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.96%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.48%) CANalyzer
5 1 (0.48%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.48%) Maximo
2 1 (0.48%) Primavera
2 1 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 58 (27.88%) AWS
2 31 (14.90%) Amazon S3
3 30 (14.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 27 (12.98%) Amazon EC2
5 22 (10.58%) Azure
6 18 (8.65%) Amazon SQS
7 17 (8.17%) AWS KMS
7 17 (8.17%) Route 53
8 14 (6.73%) Serverless
9 12 (5.77%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (5.77%) GitHub
10 11 (5.29%) Amazon ECS
10 11 (5.29%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (4.81%) AWS CodePipeline
11 10 (4.81%) GitHub Actions
11 10 (4.81%) Power Platform
11 10 (4.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (1.92%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.44%) Network Security
2 1 (0.48%) SMS
2 1 (0.48%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (16.83%) Pentaho
2 21 (10.10%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (9.62%) Amazon RDS
3 20 (9.62%) DynamoDB
4 17 (8.17%) Amazon Aurora
5 12 (5.77%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (4.33%) Power BI
7 7 (3.37%) Metadata
8 6 (2.88%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (2.88%) BusinessObjects
9 5 (2.40%) Data Lake
9 5 (2.40%) Metadata Repository
9 5 (2.40%) MongoDB
9 5 (2.40%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.92%) SAS Enterprise Guide
11 3 (1.44%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (1.44%) Apache Hive
11 3 (1.44%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.44%) MySQL
11 3 (1.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 80 (38.46%) JIRA
2 57 (27.40%) Git
2 57 (27.40%) Jenkins
3 41 (19.71%) GitLab
4 25 (12.02%) JUnit
5 19 (9.13%) Maven
5 19 (9.13%) Mockito
6 18 (8.65%) SonarQube
7 16 (7.69%) Bitbucket
8 13 (6.25%) DbUnit
8 13 (6.25%) jMock
9 11 (5.29%) Bitbucket Server
10 8 (3.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (2.40%) Selenium
12 2 (0.96%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.96%) REST Assured
13 1 (0.48%) Artifactory
13 1 (0.48%) Gatling
13 1 (0.48%) MSI
13 1 (0.48%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 64 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 40 (19.23%) Public Sector
3 28 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (11.54%) Finance
5 5 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (2.40%) Telecoms
6 4 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.44%) Electronics
8 2 (0.96%) Advertising
8 2 (0.96%) Banking
8 2 (0.96%) Law
8 2 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.96%) Retail
9 1 (0.48%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 49 (23.56%) Data Engineer
2 37 (17.79%) Scrum Master
3 24 (11.54%) Developer
4 21 (10.10%) Java Developer
5 18 (8.65%) Project Manager
6 17 (8.17%) Senior
7 15 (7.21%) Architect
8 13 (6.25%) Lead
9 12 (5.77%) Business Analyst
10 11 (5.29%) Analyst
10 11 (5.29%) Delivery Manager
11 7 (3.37%) Agile Delivery Manager
11 7 (3.37%) Data Architect
11 7 (3.37%) SAS Engineer
11 7 (3.37%) Senior Developer
11 7 (3.37%) Software Engineer
12 6 (2.88%) Data Manager
12 6 (2.88%) Senior Java Developer
12 6 (2.88%) Test Automation Specialist
12 6 (2.88%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (13.94%) Spring
2 26 (12.50%) Spring Boot
3 24 (11.54%) REST
4 20 (9.62%) SOAP
5 19 (9.13%) JPA
5 19 (9.13%) Web Services
6 18 (8.65%) AngularJS
7 17 (8.17%) ActiveMQ
7 17 (8.17%) Hibernate
7 17 (8.17%) Spring Batch
7 17 (8.17%) Spring Integration
8 16 (7.69%) Spring Cloud
9 13 (6.25%) Node.js
9 13 (6.25%) PowerMock
10 11 (5.29%) Bootstrap
10 11 (5.29%) RESTful
11 8 (3.85%) AWS CDK
12 5 (2.40%) Middleware
13 3 (1.44%) Ajax
13 3 (1.44%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 28 (13.46%) Product Ownership
2 15 (7.21%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.37%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.40%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.92%) CMDB
6 3 (1.44%) Operational Technology
7 2 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.48%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.48%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.48%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.48%) FPGA
8 1 (0.48%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.48%) MicroBlaze
8 1 (0.48%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.48%) Verilog
8 1 (0.48%) VHDL
8 1 (0.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (12.98%) Linux
2 7 (3.37%) Unix
3 6 (2.88%) Windows
4 5 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.48%) Android
5 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.48%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (83.17%) Agile
2 86 (41.35%) DevOps
3 83 (39.90%) CI/CD
4 61 (29.33%) Test Automation
5 60 (28.85%) Continuous Improvement
6 50 (24.04%) Problem-Solving
7 49 (23.56%) ETL
7 49 (23.56%) Kanban
8 44 (21.15%) Stakeholder Management
9 43 (20.67%) Analytics
10 39 (18.75%) Containerisation
10 39 (18.75%) Data Modelling
11 37 (17.79%) Business Intelligence
12 35 (16.83%) Data Pipeline
12 35 (16.83%) Project Management
13 31 (14.90%) Data Analytics
14 30 (14.42%) Microservices
14 30 (14.42%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 29 (13.94%) Data Virtualisation
16 28 (13.46%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 76 (36.54%) SQL
2 33 (15.87%) Java
3 10 (4.81%) Python
4 8 (3.85%) Perl
5 7 (3.37%) Shell Script
6 5 (2.40%) MATLAB
6 5 (2.40%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.44%) HiveQL
7 3 (1.44%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.96%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.48%) Bash
9 1 (0.48%) C
9 1 (0.48%) C#
9 1 (0.48%) C++
9 1 (0.48%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.48%) Swift
9 1 (0.48%) SystemVerilog
9 1 (0.48%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.48%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 114 (54.81%) Security Cleared
2 103 (49.52%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 15 (7.21%) Degree
5 10 (4.81%) AWS Certification
5 10 (4.81%) SAFe Agilist
6 8 (3.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (2.40%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.40%) CCNA
7 5 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.40%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.92%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.92%) PMP
9 3 (1.44%) CISM
9 3 (1.44%) CISSP
10 2 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.96%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 15 (7.21%) QA
3 6 (2.88%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.92%) FATCA
5 3 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 3 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 2 (0.96%) GDPR
6 2 (0.96%) ISO 19650
6 2 (0.96%) PMO
6 2 (0.96%) WCAG
7 1 (0.48%) GRC
7 1 (0.48%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 59 (28.37%) Docker
2 11 (5.29%) Postfix
3 3 (1.44%) HDFS
4 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 42 (20.19%) Kubernetes
2 23 (11.06%) Grafana
3 19 (9.13%) Terraform
4 4 (1.92%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.44%) Ansible
6 2 (0.96%) Kibana
7 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 43 (20.67%) Oracle
2 35 (16.83%) Talend
3 25 (12.02%) Denodo
4 23 (11.06%) Atlassian
5 19 (9.13%) Microsoft
6 17 (8.17%) Informatica
6 17 (8.17%) Jaspersoft
7 8 (3.85%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.40%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.92%) Pega
9 4 (1.92%) Remedy
9 4 (1.92%) Sage
10 3 (1.44%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.96%) OneLogin
11 2 (0.96%) SAP
12 1 (0.48%) Cadence
12 1 (0.48%) Citrix
12 1 (0.48%) IBM
12 1 (0.48%) NetApp
12 1 (0.48%) VMware