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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 44 44
Rank change year-on-year +16 0 -22
Contract jobs citing Scrum 208 55 73
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 6.61% 4.09% 3.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.94% 4.63% 4.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 31 53
10th Percentile £420 £410 £358
25th Percentile £456 £442 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £483 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.86% -3.40% -7.41%
75th Percentile £525 £531 £625
90th Percentile £586 £600 £688
England median daily rate £508 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +1.50% -6.98% -6.52%
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 £60.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +9.54% -7.31% -

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 2,620 1,188 1,637
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.28% 88.39% 84.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,710 787 1,083
10th Percentile £306 £195 £275
25th Percentile £402 £381 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.34%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £625
90th Percentile £663 £675 £750
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.95% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 58 115
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.62 £11.09
25th Percentile £20.44 £14.55 £14.00
Median hourly rate £30.50 £18.07 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.83% -19.71% +26.98%
75th Percentile £65.25 £24.10 £41.13
90th Percentile £72.54 £38.67 £57.75
England median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year +51.53% -16.67% -4.00%

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 1 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 1 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 +18 117 £492 -3.53% 6
Birmingham -18 26 £475 - 14
Warwickshire -13 25 £563 +12.50% 5
Solihull -1 20 £463 +10.12%
Worcestershire - 9 £475 - 1
Coventry -17 5 £475 - 3
Staffordshire - 3 £320 -
Wolverhampton - 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 52 (25.00%) SAS
2 48 (23.08%) Confluence
3 5 (2.40%) 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 53 (25.48%) AWS
2 25 (12.02%) Amazon S3
3 24 (11.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 22 (10.58%) Azure
5 21 (10.10%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (7.21%) Amazon SQS
7 14 (6.73%) AWS KMS
7 14 (6.73%) Route 53
8 11 (5.29%) Serverless
9 9 (4.33%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (4.33%) GitHub
9 9 (4.33%) Power Platform
10 8 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (3.37%) AWS CodePipeline
11 7 (3.37%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (3.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (2.88%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
14 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 38 (18.27%) Pentaho
2 18 (8.65%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (8.17%) Amazon RDS
3 17 (8.17%) DynamoDB
4 14 (6.73%) Amazon Aurora
5 13 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (3.85%) Power BI
7 7 (3.37%) Metadata
8 6 (2.88%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (2.88%) BusinessObjects
8 6 (2.88%) MongoDB
9 5 (2.40%) Data Lake
9 5 (2.40%) Metadata Repository
10 4 (1.92%) MySQL
10 4 (1.92%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.92%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.92%) SAS Enterprise Guide
11 3 (1.44%) Apache Hive
11 3 (1.44%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.44%) Impala
Development Applications
1 80 (38.46%) JIRA
2 60 (28.85%) Git
3 56 (26.92%) Jenkins
4 36 (17.31%) GitLab
5 23 (11.06%) JUnit
6 17 (8.17%) Maven
6 17 (8.17%) Mockito
7 15 (7.21%) SonarQube
8 13 (6.25%) Bitbucket
9 11 (5.29%) DbUnit
9 11 (5.29%) jMock
10 9 (4.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 9 (4.33%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (2.40%) Selenium
12 2 (0.96%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.96%) REST Assured
13 1 (0.48%) Gatling
13 1 (0.48%) MSI
13 1 (0.48%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 60 (28.85%) Social Skills
2 35 (16.83%) Public Sector
3 29 (13.94%) Finance
4 26 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.37%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (3.37%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.44%) Banking
6 3 (1.44%) Electronics
6 3 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (0.96%) Advertising
7 2 (0.96%) Aeronautics
7 2 (0.96%) Law
7 2 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (0.96%) Retail
8 1 (0.48%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.48%) Legal
Job Titles
1 50 (24.04%) Data Engineer
2 35 (16.83%) Scrum Master
3 23 (11.06%) Developer
4 22 (10.58%) Project Manager
5 19 (9.13%) Java Developer
6 15 (7.21%) Architect
7 14 (6.73%) Senior
8 13 (6.25%) Lead
9 10 (4.81%) Delivery Manager
10 9 (4.33%) Analyst
10 9 (4.33%) Business Analyst
10 9 (4.33%) SAS Engineer
11 8 (3.85%) Agile Delivery Manager
11 8 (3.85%) Software Engineer
12 7 (3.37%) Data Architect
12 7 (3.37%) Data Manager
13 6 (2.88%) Senior Developer
13 6 (2.88%) Test Automation Specialist
13 6 (2.88%) Test Specialist
14 5 (2.40%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (13.46%) Spring
2 25 (12.02%) Spring Boot
3 23 (11.06%) REST
4 17 (8.17%) JPA
4 17 (8.17%) SOAP
5 16 (7.69%) Web Services
6 15 (7.21%) AngularJS
6 15 (7.21%) Hibernate
7 14 (6.73%) ActiveMQ
7 14 (6.73%) Spring Batch
7 14 (6.73%) Spring Cloud
7 14 (6.73%) Spring Integration
8 11 (5.29%) Node.js
8 11 (5.29%) PowerMock
9 10 (4.81%) RESTful
10 9 (4.33%) Bootstrap
11 6 (2.88%) AWS CDK
12 5 (2.40%) Middleware
13 3 (1.44%) Ajax
13 3 (1.44%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 25 (12.02%) Product Ownership
2 13 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.37%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.40%) CMDB
5 5 (2.40%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.44%) Operational Technology
7 2 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
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%) FPGA
8 1 (0.48%) Mainframe
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 26 (12.50%) Linux
2 6 (2.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (2.88%) Unix
2 6 (2.88%) Windows
3 1 (0.48%) Android
3 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.48%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (84.13%) Agile
2 88 (42.31%) DevOps
3 83 (39.90%) CI/CD
4 62 (29.81%) Continuous Improvement
5 58 (27.88%) Test Automation
6 55 (26.44%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (24.04%) Analytics
8 49 (23.56%) ETL
9 45 (21.63%) Stakeholder Management
10 42 (20.19%) Data Modelling
10 42 (20.19%) Kanban
11 41 (19.71%) Business Intelligence
12 38 (18.27%) Project Management
13 36 (17.31%) Data Pipeline
14 34 (16.35%) Containerisation
14 34 (16.35%) Data Analytics
15 33 (15.87%) Data Virtualisation
16 30 (14.42%) Scaled Agile Framework
17 28 (13.46%) Microservices
18 26 (12.50%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 78 (37.50%) SQL
2 32 (15.38%) Java
3 10 (4.81%) Python
4 9 (4.33%) Perl
4 9 (4.33%) Shell Script
5 5 (2.40%) MATLAB
6 4 (1.92%) 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
1 113 (54.33%) Security Cleared
2 102 (49.04%) SC Cleared
3 17 (8.17%) Degree
4 12 (5.77%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (4.33%) AWS Certification
6 8 (3.85%) SAFe Agilist
7 6 (2.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (2.40%) CCNA
8 5 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (2.40%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.40%) PMI Certification
8 5 (2.40%) PMP
9 4 (1.92%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.44%) CISM
10 3 (1.44%) CISSP
10 3 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.44%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (14.42%) Data Quality
2 14 (6.73%) QA
3 4 (1.92%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.92%) FATCA
4 3 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 3 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 2 (0.96%) GDPR
5 2 (0.96%) ISO 19650
5 2 (0.96%) WCAG
6 1 (0.48%) GRC
6 1 (0.48%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.48%) PMO
System Software
1 58 (27.88%) Docker
2 10 (4.81%) 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 49 (23.56%) Kubernetes
2 21 (10.10%) Grafana
3 17 (8.17%) Terraform
4 4 (1.92%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.44%) Ansible
5 3 (1.44%) Kibana
6 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 46 (22.12%) Oracle
2 37 (17.79%) Talend
3 29 (13.94%) Denodo
4 22 (10.58%) Atlassian
5 19 (9.13%) Microsoft
6 15 (7.21%) Informatica
7 14 (6.73%) Jaspersoft
8 9 (4.33%) ServiceNow
9 6 (2.88%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.92%) Pega
10 4 (1.92%) Remedy
10 4 (1.92%) Sage
11 3 (1.44%) Dynatrace
12 2 (0.96%) OneLogin
12 2 (0.96%) SAP
13 1 (0.48%) Cadence
13 1 (0.48%) Citrix
13 1 (0.48%) IBM
13 1 (0.48%) NetApp
13 1 (0.48%) VMware