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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 37 45
Rank change year-on-year +13 +8 -24
Contract jobs citing Scrum 208 62 76
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 7.51% 4.64% 3.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.86% 5.14% 4.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 38 49
10th Percentile £415 £410 £358
25th Percentile £455 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £487 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.77% -2.70% -7.41%
75th Percentile £554 £525 £625
90th Percentile £590 £603 £688
England median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.75 - -
Median hourly rate £63.50 - -
75th Percentile £65.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.54 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +0.06% -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 2,347 1,206 1,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.73% 90.27% 84.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,556 796 1,072
10th Percentile £303 £205 £264
25th Percentile £402 £397 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £671 £700 £690
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 54 122
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.36 £11.43
25th Percentile £16.25 £14.70 £15.54
Median hourly rate £22.01 £18.32 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.14% -20.35% +29.80%
75th Percentile £27.50 £27.81 £42.31
90th Percentile £59.50 £35.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -7.22%

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 9 March 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 9 March 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 +12 131 £500 +2.04% 11
Warwickshire -10 25 £575 +15.00% 4
Birmingham -10 23 £475 -1.66% 16
Solihull -1 11 £393 -6.55% 5
Worcestershire - 9 £475 - 4
Coventry -21 7 £560 +17.89% 2
Staffordshire -2 2 - - 3
Wolverhampton - 1 - - 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 65 (31.25%) SAS
2 33 (15.87%) Confluence
3 13 (6.25%) WebLogic
4 8 (3.85%) Apache
4 8 (3.85%) JBoss
5 3 (1.44%) Drupal
5 3 (1.44%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.48%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.48%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.48%) CANalyzer
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Maximo
1 1 (0.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 44 (21.15%) AWS
2 15 (7.21%) Azure
3 12 (5.77%) OpenShift
4 10 (4.81%) Amazon S3
4 10 (4.81%) Amazon SQS
5 9 (4.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 9 (4.33%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (4.33%) AWS KMS
5 9 (4.33%) Route 53
6 8 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.40%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.44%) GCP
8 3 (1.44%) SaaS
9 2 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (0.96%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (0.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (0.96%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.96%) GitHub
10 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.44%) Network Security
2 1 (0.48%) Firewall
2 1 (0.48%) SMS
2 1 (0.48%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (20.19%) Pentaho
2 21 (10.10%) Oracle Database
3 18 (8.65%) MongoDB
3 18 (8.65%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 15 (7.21%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (6.73%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (5.77%) Metadata
7 9 (4.33%) Amazon Aurora
7 9 (4.33%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (4.33%) DynamoDB
7 9 (4.33%) Metadata Repository
8 6 (2.88%) MySQL
9 5 (2.40%) Power BI
10 4 (1.92%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.44%) Apache Hive
11 3 (1.44%) BusinessObjects
11 3 (1.44%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.44%) Impala
11 3 (1.44%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 88 (42.31%) Git
2 74 (35.58%) JIRA
3 63 (30.29%) Jenkins
4 40 (19.23%) JUnit
5 31 (14.90%) GitLab
6 28 (13.46%) Selenium
7 17 (8.17%) Maven
7 17 (8.17%) Mockito
8 10 (4.81%) SonarQube
9 9 (4.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 9 (4.33%) Cucumber
10 8 (3.85%) Eclipse
10 8 (3.85%) IntelliJ
11 7 (3.37%) DbUnit
11 7 (3.37%) jMock
12 6 (2.88%) Bitbucket
13 5 (2.40%) Bitbucket Server
14 2 (0.96%) Gatling
14 2 (0.96%) REST Assured
15 1 (0.48%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 67 (32.21%) Social Skills
2 30 (14.42%) Finance
3 28 (13.46%) Public Sector
4 17 (8.17%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.81%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (4.33%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.40%) Banking
7 5 (2.40%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.44%) Advertising
8 3 (1.44%) Retail
9 2 (0.96%) Aeronautics
9 2 (0.96%) Electronics
10 1 (0.48%) Legal
10 1 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (19.23%) Data Engineer
2 28 (13.46%) Developer
3 26 (12.50%) Scrum Master
4 23 (11.06%) Project Manager
5 19 (9.13%) Java Developer
6 16 (7.69%) Architect
7 12 (5.77%) Data Architect
7 12 (5.77%) Test Specialist
8 10 (4.81%) SAS Engineer
9 9 (4.33%) Data Manager
9 9 (4.33%) Software Engineer
10 8 (3.85%) Lead
10 8 (3.85%) Senior
11 7 (3.37%) Java Engineer
11 7 (3.37%) Test Automation Specialist
12 6 (2.88%) Engagement Manager
13 5 (2.40%) Denodo Engineer
13 5 (2.40%) DevSecOps Engineer
13 5 (2.40%) Senior Developer
14 4 (1.92%) Agile Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (17.31%) Spring
2 30 (14.42%) REST
3 25 (12.02%) Spring Boot
4 18 (8.65%) Hibernate
5 17 (8.17%) JPA
5 17 (8.17%) SOAP
6 16 (7.69%) JSON
7 15 (7.21%) HTML
8 14 (6.73%) Web Services
9 11 (5.29%) Node.js
9 11 (5.29%) pytest
10 10 (4.81%) AngularJS
11 9 (4.33%) ActiveMQ
11 9 (4.33%) RESTful
11 9 (4.33%) Spring Batch
11 9 (4.33%) Spring Cloud
11 9 (4.33%) Spring Integration
12 8 (3.85%) J2EE
12 8 (3.85%) J2SE
12 8 (3.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.81%) Product Ownership
2 8 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.40%) CMDB
3 5 (2.40%) Data Centre
3 5 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.44%) Operational Technology
6 2 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.48%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.48%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.48%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.48%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.48%) FPGA
7 1 (0.48%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.48%) PDA
7 1 (0.48%) SCADA
7 1 (0.48%) Verilog
7 1 (0.48%) VHDL
7 1 (0.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (10.10%) Linux
2 11 (5.29%) Unix
3 6 (2.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.40%) Windows
5 1 (0.48%) Android
5 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.48%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (86.54%) Agile
2 92 (44.23%) DevOps
3 91 (43.75%) CI/CD
4 76 (36.54%) Problem-Solving
5 67 (32.21%) Continuous Improvement
6 61 (29.33%) Test Automation
7 59 (28.37%) Analytics
8 57 (27.40%) Data Modelling
9 51 (24.52%) Business Intelligence
10 50 (24.04%) Data Pipeline
10 50 (24.04%) ETL
11 48 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
12 42 (20.19%) Deployment Automation
13 41 (19.71%) Data Virtualisation
14 39 (18.75%) Project Management
15 37 (17.79%) Microservices
16 36 (17.31%) Data Analytics
16 36 (17.31%) Data Integration
17 33 (15.87%) Containerisation
18 31 (14.90%) Business Analytics
Programming Languages
1 80 (38.46%) SQL
2 44 (21.15%) Java
3 16 (7.69%) Python
4 10 (4.81%) Shell Script
5 9 (4.33%) Perl
5 9 (4.33%) Scala
6 5 (2.40%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.92%) MATLAB
7 4 (1.92%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.44%) HiveQL
9 2 (0.96%) C#
9 2 (0.96%) PHP
9 2 (0.96%) Ruby
10 1 (0.48%) Bash
10 1 (0.48%) C
10 1 (0.48%) C++
10 1 (0.48%) Groovy
10 1 (0.48%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.48%) Swift
10 1 (0.48%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 109 (52.40%) Security Cleared
2 98 (47.12%) SC Cleared
3 17 (8.17%) Degree
4 8 (3.85%) AWS Certification
4 8 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.40%) CCNA
5 5 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (2.40%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.92%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.92%) PMI Certification
6 4 (1.92%) PMP
6 4 (1.92%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 3 (1.44%) CISM
7 3 (1.44%) CISSP
7 3 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.48%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (18.75%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.81%) QA
3 9 (4.33%) WCAG
4 5 (2.40%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.44%) ISO 19650
5 3 (1.44%) PMO
6 2 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 2 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 1 (0.48%) GDPR
7 1 (0.48%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.48%) NCSC
7 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 75 (36.06%) Docker
2 6 (2.88%) Postfix
3 3 (1.44%) HDFS
4 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 75 (36.06%) Kubernetes
2 17 (8.17%) Grafana
3 8 (3.85%) Kibana
3 8 (3.85%) Puppet
4 6 (2.88%) Terraform
5 3 (1.44%) Ansible
6 1 (0.48%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 55 (26.44%) Oracle
2 42 (20.19%) Talend
3 38 (18.27%) Denodo
4 18 (8.65%) Atlassian
5 14 (6.73%) Microsoft
6 9 (4.33%) Jaspersoft
7 8 (3.85%) webMethods
8 7 (3.37%) Informatica
9 6 (2.88%) Red Hat
10 5 (2.40%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.92%) Remedy
12 3 (1.44%) Google
13 2 (0.96%) MuleSoft
13 2 (0.96%) OneLogin
14 1 (0.48%) Actian
14 1 (0.48%) CA Agile Central
14 1 (0.48%) CyberArk
14 1 (0.48%) Infor
14 1 (0.48%) Okta
14 1 (0.48%) Workday