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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 36 43
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 -13
Contract jobs citing Scrum 223 77 74
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 6.48% 4.82% 3.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.55% 5.44% 4.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 45 57
10th Percentile £413 £328 £355
25th Percentile £451 £425 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.11% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £525 £500 £625
90th Percentile £586 £600 £688
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -7.24%
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 £56.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +23.35% -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 2,954 1,416 1,657
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.87% 88.72% 80.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,928 895 1,107
10th Percentile £313 £206 £263
25th Percentile £405 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £683 £725
England median daily rate £525 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +2.14% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 97 108
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £11.06
25th Percentile £20.31 £13.78 £14.00
Median hourly rate £33.99 £22.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.07% +18.42% -24.00%
75th Percentile £59.56 £33.88 £37.50
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £57.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.09%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +15 120 £492 -1.60% 9
Solihull 0 29 £463 +10.12% 4
Birmingham -30 26 £475 -0.84% 11
Warwickshire -14 22 £563 +25.00% 9
Coventry -14 17 £443 +11.32% 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 57 (25.56%) Confluence
2 46 (20.63%) SAS
3 5 (2.24%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.79%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.45%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (3.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.79%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.45%) CANalyzer
4 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.45%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.45%) Primavera
2 1 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 71 (31.84%) AWS
2 37 (16.59%) Amazon S3
3 36 (16.14%) Azure
4 35 (15.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 32 (14.35%) Amazon EC2
6 20 (8.97%) Serverless
7 18 (8.07%) Amazon SQS
7 18 (8.07%) AWS Lambda
7 18 (8.07%) Route 53
8 17 (7.62%) AWS KMS
8 17 (7.62%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (7.62%) GitHub
9 16 (7.17%) Amazon EKS
10 15 (6.73%) Amazon ECS
10 15 (6.73%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (6.73%) Power Platform
11 12 (5.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 11 (4.93%) AWS CodePipeline
13 10 (4.48%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (3.14%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.35%) Network Security
2 1 (0.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (16.14%) Pentaho
2 22 (9.87%) Amazon RDS
3 21 (9.42%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (8.97%) DynamoDB
5 17 (7.62%) Amazon Aurora
6 11 (4.93%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (4.04%) Metadata
7 9 (4.04%) Power BI
8 7 (3.14%) MongoDB
9 6 (2.69%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (2.69%) BusinessObjects
10 5 (2.24%) Metadata Repository
10 5 (2.24%) Oracle Database
11 4 (1.79%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.79%) SAS Enterprise Guide
11 4 (1.79%) SQL Server
12 3 (1.35%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (1.35%) Apache Hive
12 3 (1.35%) Hadoop
12 3 (1.35%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 85 (38.12%) JIRA
2 61 (27.35%) Jenkins
3 57 (25.56%) Git
4 49 (21.97%) GitLab
5 29 (13.00%) JUnit
6 21 (9.42%) Maven
6 21 (9.42%) Mockito
7 19 (8.52%) SonarQube
8 17 (7.62%) Bitbucket
9 13 (5.83%) DbUnit
9 13 (5.83%) jMock
10 11 (4.93%) Bitbucket Server
11 9 (4.04%) Selenium
12 8 (3.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (1.79%) Cucumber
14 3 (1.35%) Gatling
15 2 (0.90%) Artifactory
15 2 (0.90%) Postman
15 2 (0.90%) Protractor
15 2 (0.90%) REST Assured
General
1 75 (33.63%) Social Skills
2 52 (23.32%) Public Sector
3 32 (14.35%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (9.87%) Finance
5 7 (3.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.35%) Electronics
7 3 (1.35%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.90%) Advertising
8 2 (0.90%) Banking
8 2 (0.90%) Billing
8 2 (0.90%) Law
8 2 (0.90%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.90%) Retail
9 1 (0.45%) Automotive
9 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.45%) Front Office
9 1 (0.45%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 50 (22.42%) Data Engineer
2 38 (17.04%) Scrum Master
3 31 (13.90%) Developer
4 23 (10.31%) Java Developer
4 23 (10.31%) Senior
5 18 (8.07%) Lead
6 16 (7.17%) Analyst
7 15 (6.73%) Business Analyst
8 12 (5.38%) Architect
8 12 (5.38%) Project Manager
9 11 (4.93%) Delivery Manager
10 9 (4.04%) Senior Developer
11 7 (3.14%) Data Architect
11 7 (3.14%) Software Engineer
12 6 (2.69%) AWS DevOps
12 6 (2.69%) Product Manager
12 6 (2.69%) SAS Engineer
12 6 (2.69%) Senior Java Developer
12 6 (2.69%) Test Automation Specialist
12 6 (2.69%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (15.25%) Spring
2 31 (13.90%) Spring Boot
3 23 (10.31%) REST
4 21 (9.42%) JPA
5 20 (8.97%) SOAP
6 19 (8.52%) Web Services
7 18 (8.07%) AngularJS
8 17 (7.62%) ActiveMQ
8 17 (7.62%) Hibernate
8 17 (7.62%) Spring Batch
8 17 (7.62%) Spring Integration
9 16 (7.17%) Spring Cloud
10 14 (6.28%) RESTful
11 13 (5.83%) Node.js
11 13 (5.83%) PowerMock
12 12 (5.38%) JSON
13 11 (4.93%) Bootstrap
14 10 (4.48%) AWS CDK
15 4 (1.79%) OpenAPI
15 4 (1.79%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 41 (18.39%) Product Ownership
2 15 (6.73%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (4.93%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (1.79%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.35%) Operational Technology
6 3 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.35%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.90%) BYOD
7 2 (0.90%) CMDB
7 2 (0.90%) Data Fabric
7 2 (0.90%) Driving Licence
7 2 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.90%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.90%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.45%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.45%) Derivative
8 1 (0.45%) Equities
8 1 (0.45%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 27 (12.11%) Linux
2 7 (3.14%) Unix
3 6 (2.69%) Windows
4 5 (2.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.45%) Android
5 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (82.96%) Agile
2 100 (44.84%) DevOps
3 99 (44.39%) CI/CD
4 73 (32.74%) Continuous Improvement
5 70 (31.39%) Test Automation
6 55 (24.66%) Problem-Solving
7 52 (23.32%) Kanban
8 51 (22.87%) ETL
8 51 (22.87%) Stakeholder Management
9 45 (20.18%) Containerisation
10 43 (19.28%) Analytics
11 40 (17.94%) Data Modelling
12 37 (16.59%) Business Intelligence
12 37 (16.59%) Sprint Planning
13 36 (16.14%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 35 (15.70%) Data Pipeline
15 34 (15.25%) Microservices
16 30 (13.45%) Data Analytics
16 30 (13.45%) TDD
17 29 (13.00%) Backlog Refinement
Programming Languages
1 78 (34.98%) SQL
2 42 (18.83%) Java
3 11 (4.93%) Python
4 10 (4.48%) JavaScript
5 9 (4.04%) Shell Script
6 6 (2.69%) C#
6 6 (2.69%) Perl
7 4 (1.79%) MATLAB
7 4 (1.79%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.35%) HiveQL
8 3 (1.35%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.90%) Bash
10 1 (0.45%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.45%) R
10 1 (0.45%) Swift
10 1 (0.45%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.45%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 129 (57.85%) Security Cleared
2 116 (52.02%) SC Cleared
3 24 (10.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (5.83%) AWS Certification
4 13 (5.83%) Degree
5 11 (4.93%) SAFe Agilist
6 9 (4.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (2.24%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.24%) CCNA
7 5 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.24%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.35%) CISM
8 3 (1.35%) CISSP
8 3 (1.35%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.35%) PMP
9 2 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.90%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.87%) Data Quality
2 21 (9.42%) QA
3 15 (6.73%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.69%) WCAG
5 4 (1.79%) FATCA
5 4 (1.79%) GDPR
6 3 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 3 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 3 (1.35%) PMO
7 1 (0.45%) GRC
7 1 (0.45%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 65 (29.15%) Docker
2 11 (4.93%) Postfix
3 3 (1.35%) HDFS
4 1 (0.45%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.45%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 46 (20.63%) Kubernetes
2 24 (10.76%) Grafana
3 21 (9.42%) Terraform
4 5 (2.24%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.79%) Ansible
5 4 (1.79%) Kibana
6 1 (0.45%) Argo
6 1 (0.45%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.45%) Istio
6 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.45%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 45 (20.18%) Oracle
2 36 (16.14%) Talend
3 25 (11.21%) Microsoft
4 24 (10.76%) Denodo
5 21 (9.42%) Atlassian
6 19 (8.52%) Informatica
7 17 (7.62%) Jaspersoft
8 6 (2.69%) ServiceNow
9 5 (2.24%) Red Hat
9 5 (2.24%) Sage
10 4 (1.79%) Pega
10 4 (1.79%) Remedy
11 3 (1.35%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.35%) Google
12 1 (0.45%) Actian
12 1 (0.45%) CA Agile Central
12 1 (0.45%) CyberArk
12 1 (0.45%) OneLogin
12 1 (0.45%) Splunk
12 1 (0.45%) Workday