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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 39 41
Rank change year-on-year +11 +2 -18
Contract jobs citing Scrum 210 63 71
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 6.66% 4.55% 3.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.99% 5.13% 4.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 34 52
10th Percentile £418 £410 £358
25th Percentile £457 £425 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £479 £505
Median % change year-on-year +2.71% -5.15% -6.13%
75th Percentile £525 £534 £625
90th Percentile £588 £600 £688
England median daily rate £513 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +2.50% -5.66% -7.83%
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 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.78% -11.54% -

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 2,627 1,227 1,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.29% 88.66% 83.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,699 799 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £193 £275
25th Percentile £404 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £657 £750
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 58 114
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £11.08
25th Percentile £22.50 £13.96 £14.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £18.13 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +93.05% -19.42% +18.42%
75th Percentile £67.84 £24.81 £40.38
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £58.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.07% -20.55% -2.14%

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 16 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 16 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 +14 117 £492 -3.53% 5
Birmingham -14 28 £475 - 13
Warwickshire -17 24 £563 +21.62% 5
Solihull +1 23 £463 +10.12%
Coventry -14 7 £475 -9.52% 2
Worcestershire - 7 £575 - 1
Staffordshire - 3 £320 - 1
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 (24.76%) SAS
2 51 (24.29%) Confluence
3 4 (1.90%) WebLogic
4 3 (1.43%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.48%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.48%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.95%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.48%) CANalyzer
5 1 (0.48%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.48%) Maximo
2 1 (0.48%) Primavera
2 1 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 56 (26.67%) AWS
2 28 (13.33%) Amazon S3
3 27 (12.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 24 (11.43%) Amazon EC2
5 21 (10.00%) Azure
6 15 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
7 14 (6.67%) AWS KMS
7 14 (6.67%) Route 53
7 14 (6.67%) Serverless
8 12 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (5.71%) GitHub
9 11 (5.24%) Amazon ECS
9 11 (5.24%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (4.76%) AWS CodePipeline
10 10 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (4.76%) Power Platform
10 10 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 8 (3.81%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (1.90%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.43%) Network Security
2 1 (0.48%) SMS
2 1 (0.48%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (19.05%) Pentaho
2 18 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (8.10%) Amazon RDS
3 17 (8.10%) DynamoDB
4 14 (6.67%) Amazon Aurora
5 12 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (4.29%) Power BI
7 7 (3.33%) Metadata
8 6 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (2.86%) BusinessObjects
9 5 (2.38%) Data Lake
9 5 (2.38%) Metadata Repository
9 5 (2.38%) MongoDB
9 5 (2.38%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.90%) SAS Enterprise Guide
11 3 (1.43%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (1.43%) Apache Hive
11 3 (1.43%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.43%) Impala
11 3 (1.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 83 (39.52%) JIRA
2 59 (28.10%) Git
2 59 (28.10%) Jenkins
3 42 (20.00%) GitLab
4 23 (10.95%) JUnit
5 17 (8.10%) Maven
5 17 (8.10%) Mockito
6 16 (7.62%) Bitbucket
7 15 (7.14%) SonarQube
8 11 (5.24%) DbUnit
8 11 (5.24%) jMock
9 9 (4.29%) Bitbucket Server
10 8 (3.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (2.38%) Selenium
12 2 (0.95%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.95%) REST Assured
13 1 (0.48%) Artifactory
13 1 (0.48%) Gatling
13 1 (0.48%) MSI
13 1 (0.48%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 61 (29.05%) Social Skills
2 36 (17.14%) Public Sector
3 28 (13.33%) Finance
4 26 (12.38%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.33%) Telecoms
6 6 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.43%) Banking
8 3 (1.43%) Electronics
9 2 (0.95%) Advertising
9 2 (0.95%) Law
9 2 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.95%) Retail
10 1 (0.48%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 54 (25.71%) Data Engineer
2 36 (17.14%) Scrum Master
3 22 (10.48%) Developer
4 20 (9.52%) Project Manager
5 19 (9.05%) Java Developer
6 16 (7.62%) Senior
7 15 (7.14%) Architect
8 14 (6.67%) Lead
9 11 (5.24%) Delivery Manager
10 10 (4.76%) Analyst
10 10 (4.76%) Business Analyst
11 9 (4.29%) SAS Engineer
12 8 (3.81%) Agile Delivery Manager
13 7 (3.33%) Data Architect
13 7 (3.33%) Software Engineer
14 6 (2.86%) Data Manager
14 6 (2.86%) Senior Developer
14 6 (2.86%) Test Automation Specialist
14 6 (2.86%) Test Specialist
15 5 (2.38%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (12.86%) Spring
2 24 (11.43%) Spring Boot
3 23 (10.95%) REST
4 17 (8.10%) JPA
4 17 (8.10%) SOAP
5 16 (7.62%) Web Services
6 15 (7.14%) AngularJS
6 15 (7.14%) Hibernate
7 14 (6.67%) ActiveMQ
7 14 (6.67%) Spring Batch
7 14 (6.67%) Spring Cloud
7 14 (6.67%) Spring Integration
8 11 (5.24%) Node.js
8 11 (5.24%) PowerMock
9 10 (4.76%) RESTful
10 9 (4.29%) Bootstrap
11 8 (3.81%) AWS CDK
12 5 (2.38%) Middleware
13 3 (1.43%) JMS
13 3 (1.43%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 27 (12.86%) Product Ownership
2 13 (6.19%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.38%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.90%) CMDB
7 3 (1.43%) Operational Technology
8 2 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.48%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.48%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.48%) FPGA
9 1 (0.48%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.48%) MicroBlaze
9 1 (0.48%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.48%) RISC-V
9 1 (0.48%) Verilog
9 1 (0.48%) VHDL
9 1 (0.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (11.90%) 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
5 1 (0.48%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (83.81%) Agile
2 89 (42.38%) DevOps
3 85 (40.48%) CI/CD
4 64 (30.48%) Test Automation
5 63 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 54 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
7 53 (25.24%) ETL
8 50 (23.81%) Analytics
9 44 (20.95%) Kanban
9 44 (20.95%) Stakeholder Management
10 42 (20.00%) Data Modelling
11 41 (19.52%) Business Intelligence
12 39 (18.57%) Data Pipeline
13 37 (17.62%) Containerisation
14 36 (17.14%) Project Management
15 34 (16.19%) Data Analytics
16 33 (15.71%) Data Virtualisation
17 32 (15.24%) Scaled Agile Framework
18 28 (13.33%) Data Integration
18 28 (13.33%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 79 (37.62%) SQL
2 31 (14.76%) Java
3 10 (4.76%) Python
4 8 (3.81%) Perl
4 8 (3.81%) Shell Script
5 5 (2.38%) MATLAB
5 5 (2.38%) PL/SQL
6 3 (1.43%) HiveQL
6 3 (1.43%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.95%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.48%) Bash
8 1 (0.48%) C
8 1 (0.48%) C#
8 1 (0.48%) C++
8 1 (0.48%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.48%) Swift
8 1 (0.48%) SystemVerilog
8 1 (0.48%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.48%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 114 (54.29%) Security Cleared
2 103 (49.05%) SC Cleared
3 15 (7.14%) Degree
4 13 (6.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (4.76%) SAFe Agilist
6 9 (4.29%) AWS Certification
7 8 (3.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (2.38%) CCNA
8 5 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (2.38%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.90%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.90%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.90%) PMP
10 3 (1.43%) CISM
10 3 (1.43%) CISSP
11 2 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.95%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.19%) QA
3 5 (2.38%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.90%) FATCA
5 3 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 3 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 2 (0.95%) GDPR
6 2 (0.95%) ISO 19650
6 2 (0.95%) PMO
6 2 (0.95%) WCAG
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 61 (29.05%) Docker
2 10 (4.76%) 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 48 (22.86%) Kubernetes
2 21 (10.00%) Grafana
3 19 (9.05%) Terraform
4 4 (1.90%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.43%) Ansible
5 3 (1.43%) Kibana
6 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 48 (22.86%) Oracle
2 40 (19.05%) Talend
3 30 (14.29%) Denodo
4 21 (10.00%) Atlassian
5 19 (9.05%) Microsoft
6 17 (8.10%) Informatica
7 14 (6.67%) Jaspersoft
8 8 (3.81%) 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
12 2 (0.95%) OneLogin
12 2 (0.95%) SAP
13 1 (0.48%) Cadence
13 1 (0.48%) Google
13 1 (0.48%) IBM
13 1 (0.48%) NetApp
13 1 (0.48%) VMware