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 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 39 43
Rank change year-on-year +9 +4 -14
Contract jobs citing Scrum 209 70 75
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 6.44% 4.79% 3.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.61% 5.40% 4.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 41 58
10th Percentile £415 £400 £358
25th Percentile £456 £425 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £515 £512 £625
90th Percentile £581 £600 £688
England median daily rate £507 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.35% -4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £33.69 - -
25th Percentile £43.28 - -
Median hourly rate £59.50 - -
75th Percentile £62.50 - -
90th Percentile £64.15 - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +22.73% -15.38% -

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 2,747 1,296 1,669
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.63% 88.71% 81.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,799 821 1,104
10th Percentile £313 £206 £265
25th Percentile £405 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.82% -3.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £575 £582 £625
90th Percentile £676 £663 £731
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 73 118
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £11.11
25th Percentile £22.50 £14.50 £14.31
Median hourly rate £33.99 £22.05 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.15% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £64.19 £31.00 £40.38
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.85 £37.50
% change year-on-year +68.76% -25.73% +4.17%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 13 June 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 +17 120 £492 -4.00% 7
Solihull -2 26 £463 +10.12%
Birmingham -26 25 £475 - 5
Warwickshire -21 21 £550 +22.22% 1
Coventry -11 8 £475 +19.50% 3
Worcestershire - 6 - - 1
Staffordshire - 3 £320 - 3
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 (24.40%) Confluence
2 47 (22.49%) SAS
3 4 (1.91%) WebLogic
4 3 (1.44%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.48%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (2.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.96%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.48%) CANalyzer
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.48%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.48%) Primavera
2 1 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 63 (30.14%) AWS
2 33 (15.79%) Amazon S3
3 32 (15.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 29 (13.88%) Amazon EC2
5 25 (11.96%) Azure
6 18 (8.61%) Amazon SQS
6 18 (8.61%) Route 53
7 17 (8.13%) AWS KMS
8 16 (7.66%) Serverless
9 14 (6.70%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (6.70%) GitHub
10 13 (6.22%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (5.74%) Amazon ECS
11 12 (5.74%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (5.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 11 (5.26%) AWS CodePipeline
12 11 (5.26%) Power Platform
13 10 (4.78%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
15 3 (1.44%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.44%) Network Security
2 1 (0.48%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (17.22%) Pentaho
2 21 (10.05%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (10.05%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (9.57%) DynamoDB
4 17 (8.13%) Amazon Aurora
5 11 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (4.31%) Metadata
6 9 (4.31%) Power BI
7 6 (2.87%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (2.87%) BusinessObjects
8 5 (2.39%) Metadata Repository
8 5 (2.39%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.39%) Oracle Database
9 4 (1.91%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.91%) SAS Enterprise Guide
10 3 (1.44%) Apache Hive
10 3 (1.44%) Apache Iceberg
10 3 (1.44%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.44%) Impala
10 3 (1.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 79 (37.80%) JIRA
2 59 (28.23%) Jenkins
3 56 (26.79%) Git
4 45 (21.53%) GitLab
5 26 (12.44%) JUnit
6 20 (9.57%) Maven
6 20 (9.57%) Mockito
7 19 (9.09%) SonarQube
8 17 (8.13%) Bitbucket
9 13 (6.22%) DbUnit
9 13 (6.22%) jMock
10 11 (5.26%) Bitbucket Server
11 8 (3.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (2.39%) Selenium
13 2 (0.96%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.96%) Cucumber
13 2 (0.96%) REST Assured
14 1 (0.48%) Gatling
14 1 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
14 1 (0.48%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 65 (31.10%) Social Skills
2 42 (20.10%) Public Sector
3 26 (12.44%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (10.05%) Finance
5 4 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (1.44%) Electronics
6 3 (1.44%) Telecoms
7 2 (0.96%) Advertising
7 2 (0.96%) Banking
7 2 (0.96%) Law
7 2 (0.96%) Retail
8 1 (0.48%) Automotive
8 1 (0.48%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (23.44%) Data Engineer
2 39 (18.66%) Scrum Master
3 26 (12.44%) Developer
4 22 (10.53%) Java Developer
5 19 (9.09%) Senior
6 15 (7.18%) Lead
7 14 (6.70%) Architect
7 14 (6.70%) Project Manager
8 12 (5.74%) Business Analyst
9 11 (5.26%) Analyst
9 11 (5.26%) Delivery Manager
10 8 (3.83%) Senior Developer
11 7 (3.35%) Data Architect
11 7 (3.35%) SAS Engineer
11 7 (3.35%) Software Engineer
12 6 (2.87%) AWS DevOps
12 6 (2.87%) Data Manager
12 6 (2.87%) Senior Java Developer
12 6 (2.87%) Test Automation Specialist
12 6 (2.87%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (14.35%) Spring
2 27 (12.92%) Spring Boot
3 24 (11.48%) REST
4 20 (9.57%) JPA
4 20 (9.57%) SOAP
5 19 (9.09%) Web Services
6 18 (8.61%) AngularJS
7 17 (8.13%) ActiveMQ
7 17 (8.13%) Hibernate
7 17 (8.13%) Spring Batch
7 17 (8.13%) Spring Integration
8 16 (7.66%) Spring Cloud
9 13 (6.22%) Node.js
9 13 (6.22%) PowerMock
10 11 (5.26%) Bootstrap
10 11 (5.26%) RESTful
11 10 (4.78%) AWS CDK
12 4 (1.91%) JSON
13 3 (1.44%) OpenAPI
13 3 (1.44%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 32 (15.31%) Product Ownership
2 15 (7.18%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (2.87%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.39%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.91%) CMDB
5 4 (1.91%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.44%) Operational Technology
7 2 (0.96%) Data Fabric
7 2 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.96%) Onboarding
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%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (12.92%) Linux
2 7 (3.35%) Unix
3 6 (2.87%) Windows
4 5 (2.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.48%) Android
5 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (80.86%) Agile
2 86 (41.15%) CI/CD
2 86 (41.15%) DevOps
3 66 (31.58%) Continuous Improvement
4 62 (29.67%) Test Automation
5 50 (23.92%) Problem-Solving
6 48 (22.97%) ETL
7 46 (22.01%) Kanban
8 44 (21.05%) Analytics
8 44 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
9 41 (19.62%) Containerisation
10 38 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
10 38 (18.18%) Data Modelling
11 34 (16.27%) Data Pipeline
12 31 (14.83%) Data Analytics
13 30 (14.35%) Microservices
13 30 (14.35%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 29 (13.88%) Data Virtualisation
14 29 (13.88%) Project Management
15 28 (13.40%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 76 (36.36%) SQL
2 34 (16.27%) Java
3 10 (4.78%) Python
4 8 (3.83%) Perl
4 8 (3.83%) Shell Script
5 4 (1.91%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.91%) MATLAB
5 4 (1.91%) PL/SQL
6 3 (1.44%) HiveQL
6 3 (1.44%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.96%) Bash
7 2 (0.96%) C#
8 1 (0.48%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.48%) Swift
8 1 (0.48%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.48%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 119 (56.94%) Security Cleared
2 107 (51.20%) SC Cleared
3 19 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (5.74%) Degree
5 11 (5.26%) AWS Certification
5 11 (5.26%) SAFe Agilist
6 9 (4.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (2.39%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.39%) CCNA
7 5 (2.39%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.39%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.44%) CISM
8 3 (1.44%) CISSP
9 2 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.96%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.96%) PMP
10 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (11.00%) Data Quality
2 16 (7.66%) QA
3 7 (3.35%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.91%) FATCA
5 3 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 3 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 2 (0.96%) GDPR
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 61 (29.19%) Docker
2 11 (5.26%) 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 43 (20.57%) Kubernetes
2 24 (11.48%) Grafana
3 21 (10.05%) Terraform
4 5 (2.39%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.91%) Ansible
6 3 (1.44%) Kibana
7 1 (0.48%) Argo
7 1 (0.48%) Istio
7 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.48%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.48%) Puppet
Vendors
1 43 (20.57%) Oracle
2 36 (17.22%) Talend
3 25 (11.96%) Denodo
4 23 (11.00%) Atlassian
5 19 (9.09%) Microsoft
6 18 (8.61%) Informatica
7 17 (8.13%) Jaspersoft
8 8 (3.83%) ServiceNow
9 5 (2.39%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.91%) Pega
10 4 (1.91%) Remedy
10 4 (1.91%) Sage
11 3 (1.44%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.44%) Google
12 2 (0.96%) OneLogin
13 1 (0.48%) CA Agile Central
13 1 (0.48%) Infor
13 1 (0.48%) Okta
13 1 (0.48%) Splunk
13 1 (0.48%) Workday