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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 37 44
Rank change year-on-year +8 +7 -13
Contract jobs citing Scrum 210 71 76
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 6.37% 4.79% 3.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.51% 5.38% 4.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 41 59
10th Percentile £415 £331 £356
25th Percentile £455 £425 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.11% -5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £525 £500 £625
90th Percentile £580 £600 £688
England median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -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 £69.50 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +26.36% -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 2,796 1,319 1,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.80% 88.94% 81.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,837 832 1,106
10th Percentile £313 £204 £273
25th Percentile £405 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £483 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.62% -3.40% -2.10%
75th Percentile £575 £577 £625
90th Percentile £675 £663 £734
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 76 121
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £11.13
25th Percentile £22.50 £14.32 £14.25
Median hourly rate £33.99 £22.28 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.59% -1.00% -4.70%
75th Percentile £61.00 £34.16 £40.00
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £47.50 £27.40 £37.63
% change year-on-year +73.36% -27.18% +4.81%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +12 119 £492 -4.00% 9
Solihull -2 27 £463 +10.12%
Birmingham -30 25 £475 - 4
Warwickshire -14 19 £550 +22.22% 3
Coventry -7 11 £475 +19.50% 1
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 53 (25.24%) Confluence
2 47 (22.38%) SAS
3 4 (1.90%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.90%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.48%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.95%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.48%) CANalyzer
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.48%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.48%) Primavera
2 1 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 65 (30.95%) AWS
2 34 (16.19%) Amazon S3
3 33 (15.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 30 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
5 27 (12.86%) Azure
6 18 (8.57%) Amazon SQS
6 18 (8.57%) Route 53
7 17 (8.10%) AWS KMS
7 17 (8.10%) Serverless
8 15 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (7.14%) GitHub
9 14 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (6.19%) Amazon ECS
10 13 (6.19%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (5.71%) Power Platform
11 12 (5.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 11 (5.24%) AWS CodePipeline
13 10 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
15 3 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.43%) Network Security
2 1 (0.48%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (17.14%) Pentaho
2 21 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (9.52%) DynamoDB
4 17 (8.10%) Amazon Aurora
5 11 (5.24%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (4.29%) Metadata
6 9 (4.29%) Power BI
7 6 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (2.86%) BusinessObjects
8 5 (2.38%) Metadata Repository
8 5 (2.38%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.38%) Oracle Database
9 4 (1.90%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.90%) SAS Enterprise Guide
10 3 (1.43%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.43%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.43%) MySQL
10 3 (1.43%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 82 (39.05%) JIRA
2 60 (28.57%) Jenkins
3 56 (26.67%) Git
4 45 (21.43%) GitLab
5 26 (12.38%) JUnit
6 20 (9.52%) Maven
6 20 (9.52%) Mockito
7 19 (9.05%) SonarQube
8 17 (8.10%) Bitbucket
9 13 (6.19%) DbUnit
9 13 (6.19%) jMock
10 11 (5.24%) Bitbucket Server
11 8 (3.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (2.86%) Selenium
13 2 (0.95%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.95%) Cucumber
13 2 (0.95%) REST Assured
14 1 (0.48%) Gatling
14 1 (0.48%) Postman
14 1 (0.48%) Protractor
General
1 68 (32.38%) Social Skills
2 46 (21.90%) Public Sector
3 28 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (10.00%) Finance
5 4 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (1.43%) Electronics
6 3 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.43%) Telecoms
7 2 (0.95%) Advertising
7 2 (0.95%) Banking
7 2 (0.95%) Law
7 2 (0.95%) Retail
8 1 (0.48%) Automotive
8 1 (0.48%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.48%) Local Government
8 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (23.33%) Data Engineer
2 38 (18.10%) Scrum Master
3 27 (12.86%) Developer
4 22 (10.48%) Java Developer
5 19 (9.05%) Senior
6 16 (7.62%) Lead
7 14 (6.67%) Project Manager
8 12 (5.71%) Analyst
8 12 (5.71%) Architect
8 12 (5.71%) Business Analyst
9 11 (5.24%) Delivery Manager
10 8 (3.81%) Senior Developer
11 7 (3.33%) Data Architect
11 7 (3.33%) SAS Engineer
11 7 (3.33%) Software Engineer
12 6 (2.86%) AWS DevOps
12 6 (2.86%) Data Manager
12 6 (2.86%) Senior Java Developer
12 6 (2.86%) Test Automation Specialist
12 6 (2.86%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (14.76%) Spring
2 28 (13.33%) Spring Boot
3 24 (11.43%) REST
4 20 (9.52%) JPA
4 20 (9.52%) SOAP
5 19 (9.05%) Web Services
6 18 (8.57%) AngularJS
7 17 (8.10%) ActiveMQ
7 17 (8.10%) Hibernate
7 17 (8.10%) Spring Batch
7 17 (8.10%) Spring Integration
8 16 (7.62%) Spring Cloud
9 13 (6.19%) Node.js
9 13 (6.19%) PowerMock
10 12 (5.71%) RESTful
11 11 (5.24%) Bootstrap
12 10 (4.76%) AWS CDK
13 6 (2.86%) JSON
14 3 (1.43%) JMS
14 3 (1.43%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (16.19%) Product Ownership
2 15 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.90%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.43%) Operational Technology
7 2 (0.95%) CMDB
7 2 (0.95%) Data Fabric
7 2 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.95%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.95%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.48%) Analytical Mindset
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%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 27 (12.86%) Linux
2 7 (3.33%) Unix
3 6 (2.86%) Windows
4 5 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.48%) Android
5 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (81.90%) Agile
2 91 (43.33%) DevOps
3 89 (42.38%) CI/CD
4 67 (31.90%) Continuous Improvement
5 64 (30.48%) Test Automation
6 51 (24.29%) Problem-Solving
7 49 (23.33%) ETL
8 47 (22.38%) Kanban
8 47 (22.38%) Stakeholder Management
9 44 (20.95%) Analytics
10 41 (19.52%) Containerisation
11 39 (18.57%) Data Modelling
12 38 (18.10%) Business Intelligence
13 35 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
14 32 (15.24%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 31 (14.76%) Data Analytics
15 31 (14.76%) Microservices
16 29 (13.81%) Data Virtualisation
16 29 (13.81%) Sprint Planning
17 28 (13.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 76 (36.19%) SQL
2 36 (17.14%) Java
3 10 (4.76%) Python
4 8 (3.81%) Shell Script
5 6 (2.86%) Perl
6 5 (2.38%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.90%) MATLAB
7 4 (1.90%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.43%) C#
8 3 (1.43%) HiveQL
8 3 (1.43%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.95%) Bash
10 1 (0.48%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.48%) Swift
10 1 (0.48%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.48%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 123 (58.57%) Security Cleared
2 111 (52.86%) SC Cleared
3 19 (9.05%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (5.71%) Degree
5 11 (5.24%) AWS Certification
5 11 (5.24%) SAFe Agilist
6 9 (4.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (2.38%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.38%) CCNA
7 5 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.38%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.43%) CISM
8 3 (1.43%) CISSP
9 2 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.95%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.95%) PMP
10 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.48%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (10.95%) Data Quality
2 16 (7.62%) QA
3 9 (4.29%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.90%) FATCA
5 3 (1.43%) GDPR
5 3 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 3 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 3 (1.43%) WCAG
6 2 (0.95%) PMO
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 62 (29.52%) Docker
2 11 (5.24%) Postfix
3 3 (1.43%) HDFS
4 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 44 (20.95%) Kubernetes
2 24 (11.43%) Grafana
3 21 (10.00%) Terraform
4 5 (2.38%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.90%) Ansible
6 3 (1.43%) 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 (20.48%) Oracle
2 36 (17.14%) Talend
3 25 (11.90%) Denodo
4 23 (10.95%) Atlassian
5 21 (10.00%) Microsoft
6 18 (8.57%) Informatica
7 17 (8.10%) Jaspersoft
8 6 (2.86%) ServiceNow
9 5 (2.38%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.90%) Pega
10 4 (1.90%) Remedy
10 4 (1.90%) Sage
11 3 (1.43%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.43%) Google
12 1 (0.48%) Actian
12 1 (0.48%) CA Agile Central
12 1 (0.48%) CyberArk
12 1 (0.48%) Okta
12 1 (0.48%) Splunk
12 1 (0.48%) Workday