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 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 37 41
Rank change year-on-year +10 +4 -2
Contract jobs citing Scrum 232 88 72
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 6.71% 5.09% 3.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.91% 5.76% 4.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 56 53
10th Percentile £402 £328 £358
25th Percentile £428 £430 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.40% +5.26% -11.63%
75th Percentile £514 £600 £612
90th Percentile £578 £646 £688
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -4.55%
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 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +27.27% -12.00% -3.85%

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 2,932 1,528 1,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.84% 88.37% 81.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,822 973 1,040
10th Percentile £313 £235 £263
25th Percentile £406 £385 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £584 £625
90th Percentile £670 £650 £738
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 103 57
10th Percentile £13.44 £12.62 £13.11
25th Percentile £17.74 £14.91 £14.70
Median hourly rate £30.50 £24.34 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.31% +15.90% -22.22%
75th Percentile £53.75 £35.29 £37.50
90th Percentile £70.26 £50.00 £53.50
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% +2.41%

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 22 August 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 22 August 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 22 August 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 +5 127 £481 -7.23% 20
Solihull +3 31 £463 +0.54% 2
Coventry -6 24 £425 -28.87% 2
Warwickshire -14 19 £500 +11.11% 2
Birmingham -25 18 £463 -2.63% 8
Worcestershire -1 3 - - 2
Staffordshire - 2 £320 - 5
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 63 (27.16%) Confluence
2 30 (12.93%) SAS
3 4 (1.72%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.86%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (3.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.72%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.43%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.43%) Primavera
2 1 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.43%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 76 (32.76%) AWS
2 41 (17.67%) Azure
3 37 (15.95%) Amazon S3
4 34 (14.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 31 (13.36%) Amazon EC2
6 28 (12.07%) GitHub
7 27 (11.64%) Serverless
8 24 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
8 24 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (9.91%) Amazon EKS
10 22 (9.48%) Amazon ECS
10 22 (9.48%) Power Platform
11 20 (8.62%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (6.90%) Power Automate
13 14 (6.03%) Dynamics 365
14 13 (5.60%) PowerApps
15 12 (5.17%) Amazon SQS
15 12 (5.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 11 (4.74%) AWS CodePipeline
16 11 (4.74%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (12.50%) Pentaho
2 17 (7.33%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (6.47%) Amazon RDS
4 13 (5.60%) DynamoDB
5 10 (4.31%) Amazon Aurora
6 8 (3.45%) Power BI
7 6 (2.59%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (2.59%) BusinessObjects
8 5 (2.16%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (2.16%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.72%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.72%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.29%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.29%) Apache Hive
10 3 (1.29%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.29%) Impala
10 3 (1.29%) Metadata
10 3 (1.29%) MySQL
10 3 (1.29%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 85 (36.64%) JIRA
2 53 (22.84%) Jenkins
3 50 (21.55%) GitLab
4 46 (19.83%) Git
5 26 (11.21%) JUnit
6 23 (9.91%) Bitbucket
7 19 (8.19%) SonarQube
8 15 (6.47%) Maven
8 15 (6.47%) Mockito
9 13 (5.60%) Selenium
10 11 (4.74%) Cucumber
10 11 (4.74%) Gatling
11 9 (3.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 7 (3.02%) Bitbucket Server
12 7 (3.02%) DbUnit
12 7 (3.02%) jMock
13 3 (1.29%) Cypress.io
13 3 (1.29%) Postman
13 3 (1.29%) Protractor
13 3 (1.29%) WebDriver
General
1 99 (42.67%) Social Skills
2 72 (31.03%) Public Sector
3 28 (12.07%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (6.90%) Finance
5 14 (6.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.29%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.86%) Billing
9 2 (0.86%) Electronics
9 2 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.86%) Law
9 2 (0.86%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.43%) Advertising
10 1 (0.43%) Banking
10 1 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.43%) Front Office
10 1 (0.43%) Local Government
10 1 (0.43%) Military
10 1 (0.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 52 (22.41%) Scrum Master
2 40 (17.24%) Data Engineer
3 33 (14.22%) Developer
4 29 (12.50%) Senior
5 23 (9.91%) Lead
6 16 (6.90%) Java Developer
7 15 (6.47%) Analyst
8 14 (6.03%) Senior Developer
9 13 (5.60%) Business Analyst
9 13 (5.60%) Quality Engineer
10 11 (4.74%) Delivery Manager
10 11 (4.74%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 9 (3.88%) JIRA Engineer
11 9 (3.88%) Project Manager
12 8 (3.45%) Senior Java Developer
13 6 (2.59%) AWS DevOps
13 6 (2.59%) Data Manager
13 6 (2.59%) Technical Engineer
14 5 (2.16%) Product Owner
14 5 (2.16%) SAS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (14.66%) Spring
2 27 (11.64%) Spring Boot
3 22 (9.48%) JSON
4 20 (8.62%) REST
4 20 (8.62%) RESTful
5 18 (7.76%) Terraform
6 15 (6.47%) JPA
6 15 (6.47%) SOAP
6 15 (6.47%) Web Services
7 12 (5.17%) ActiveMQ
7 12 (5.17%) AngularJS
7 12 (5.17%) Hibernate
8 11 (4.74%) Playwright
8 11 (4.74%) Spring Cloud
9 10 (4.31%) AWS CDK
9 10 (4.31%) Spring Batch
9 10 (4.31%) Spring Integration
10 9 (3.88%) Gherkin
11 8 (3.45%) React
12 7 (3.02%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 59 (25.43%) Product Ownership
2 22 (9.48%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.17%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.16%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.72%) Data Fabric
6 4 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.29%) Legacy Code
7 3 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.29%) Taxonomies
8 2 (0.86%) BYOD
8 2 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.86%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.43%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.43%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.43%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.43%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.43%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.43%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.43%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.60%) Linux
2 7 (3.02%) Unix
3 3 (1.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (87.07%) Agile
2 114 (49.14%) DevOps
3 112 (48.28%) CI/CD
4 85 (36.64%) Continuous Improvement
5 74 (31.90%) Test Automation
6 73 (31.47%) Stakeholder Management
7 56 (24.14%) Sprint Planning
8 49 (21.12%) Problem-Solving
9 47 (20.26%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 44 (18.97%) Backlog Refinement
10 44 (18.97%) ETL
11 41 (17.67%) Kanban
12 39 (16.81%) Microservices
13 37 (15.95%) Containerisation
13 37 (15.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 37 (15.95%) User Stories
14 33 (14.22%) Analytics
15 31 (13.36%) SFIA
16 30 (12.93%) TDD
17 28 (12.07%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 57 (24.57%) SQL
2 46 (19.83%) Java
3 21 (9.05%) JavaScript
4 12 (5.17%) C#
5 9 (3.88%) Python
6 4 (1.72%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.29%) HiveQL
7 3 (1.29%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.29%) Scala
7 3 (1.29%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.86%) Bash
8 2 (0.86%) MATLAB
8 2 (0.86%) R
8 2 (0.86%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.43%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 125 (53.88%) Security Cleared
2 115 (49.57%) SC Cleared
3 37 (15.95%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (5.60%) AWS Certification
5 11 (4.74%) Degree
5 11 (4.74%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (4.74%) SAFe Agilist
6 9 (3.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 3 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.29%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.29%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (1.29%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.29%) PMP
8 2 (0.86%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.86%) CCNA
8 2 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.43%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (14.22%) Accessibility
2 30 (12.93%) QA
3 15 (6.47%) Data Quality
4 13 (5.60%) WCAG
5 4 (1.72%) FATCA
5 4 (1.72%) GDPR
5 4 (1.72%) PMO
6 2 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 2 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 1 (0.43%) GRC
7 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 65 (28.02%) Docker
2 6 (2.59%) Postfix
3 3 (1.29%) HDFS
4 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 38 (16.38%) Kubernetes
2 19 (8.19%) Grafana
3 7 (3.02%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.72%) Ansible
5 3 (1.29%) Kibana
6 2 (0.86%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.43%) Argo
7 1 (0.43%) Istio
7 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.43%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.43%) Puppet
Vendors
1 36 (15.52%) Oracle
2 29 (12.50%) Talend
3 27 (11.64%) Microsoft
4 22 (9.48%) Atlassian
5 20 (8.62%) Denodo
6 16 (6.90%) Informatica
7 10 (4.31%) Jaspersoft
8 5 (2.16%) Sage
9 4 (1.72%) Pega
9 4 (1.72%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.29%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.86%) Google
11 2 (0.86%) HP
11 2 (0.86%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.86%) SAP
12 1 (0.43%) Charles River
12 1 (0.43%) Citrix
12 1 (0.43%) Murex
12 1 (0.43%) NetApp
12 1 (0.43%) Remedy