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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 38 38
Rank change year-on-year +9 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Scrum 236 90 71
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 6.75% 5.33% 3.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.90% 6.04% 4.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 57 56
10th Percentile £413 £329 £358
25th Percentile £448 £425 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £515 £600 £615
90th Percentile £579 £643 £688
England median daily rate £514 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +2.80% -5.66% -5.36%
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 £69.50 £55.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +26.36% -8.33% -7.69%

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 2,989 1,491 1,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.50% 88.38% 81.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,913 939 1,027
10th Percentile £313 £231 £283
25th Percentile £406 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £626
90th Percentile £671 £669 £738
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 105 62
10th Percentile £13.51 £12.62 £13.02
25th Percentile £20.29 £14.70 £14.31
Median hourly rate £33.99 £24.34 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.63% +31.57% -32.73%
75th Percentile £53.75 £33.88 £36.88
90th Percentile £72.34 £50.00 £56.13
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 +5 129 £492 -5.11% 27
Solihull 0 33 £463 +10.12% 1
Coventry -10 22 £425 -28.87% 3
Birmingham -15 22 £463 -2.63% 9
Warwickshire -16 18 £500 +11.11% 4
Worcestershire 0 3 - - 1
Staffordshire - 3 £320 - 3
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 64 (27.12%) Confluence
2 40 (16.95%) SAS
3 6 (2.54%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.27%) WebLogic
5 2 (0.85%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (3.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.69%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.42%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.42%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.42%) Primavera
2 1 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.42%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 81 (34.32%) AWS
2 42 (17.80%) Amazon S3
3 40 (16.95%) Azure
4 39 (16.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 36 (15.25%) Amazon EC2
6 27 (11.44%) Serverless
7 26 (11.02%) GitHub
8 24 (10.17%) AWS Lambda
8 24 (10.17%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (9.75%) Amazon EKS
10 22 (9.32%) Amazon ECS
11 21 (8.90%) Power Platform
12 20 (8.47%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (7.20%) Amazon SQS
14 16 (6.78%) Route 53
15 15 (6.36%) AWS KMS
16 14 (5.93%) Power Automate
17 12 (5.08%) Dynamics 365
17 12 (5.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 11 (4.66%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.42%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (15.68%) Pentaho
2 22 (9.32%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (8.47%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (7.63%) DynamoDB
5 15 (6.36%) Amazon Aurora
6 9 (3.81%) Power BI
7 8 (3.39%) MongoDB
8 6 (2.54%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (2.54%) BusinessObjects
8 6 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.69%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.69%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.27%) Apache Hive
10 3 (1.27%) Apache Iceberg
10 3 (1.27%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.27%) Impala
10 3 (1.27%) Metadata
10 3 (1.27%) MySQL
10 3 (1.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 90 (38.14%) JIRA
2 68 (28.81%) Jenkins
3 62 (26.27%) Git
4 54 (22.88%) GitLab
5 32 (13.56%) JUnit
6 22 (9.32%) Bitbucket
6 22 (9.32%) SonarQube
7 20 (8.47%) Maven
7 20 (8.47%) Mockito
8 14 (5.93%) Selenium
9 11 (4.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 11 (4.66%) Bitbucket Server
9 11 (4.66%) DbUnit
9 11 (4.66%) jMock
10 10 (4.24%) Cucumber
11 9 (3.81%) Gatling
12 3 (1.27%) Cypress.io
12 3 (1.27%) Postman
12 3 (1.27%) Protractor
12 3 (1.27%) WebDriver
General
1 89 (37.71%) Social Skills
2 71 (30.08%) Public Sector
3 31 (13.14%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (6.36%) Finance
5 12 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.69%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.27%) Electronics
9 3 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.85%) Advertising
10 2 (0.85%) Billing
10 2 (0.85%) Law
10 2 (0.85%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.42%) Automotive
11 1 (0.42%) Banking
11 1 (0.42%) Front Office
11 1 (0.42%) Local Government
11 1 (0.42%) Military
11 1 (0.42%) Retail
Job Titles
1 51 (21.61%) Data Engineer
2 46 (19.49%) Scrum Master
3 35 (14.83%) Developer
4 28 (11.86%) Senior
5 26 (11.02%) Lead
6 22 (9.32%) Java Developer
7 17 (7.20%) Analyst
8 15 (6.36%) Business Analyst
9 12 (5.08%) Quality Engineer
9 12 (5.08%) Senior Developer
10 11 (4.66%) Delivery Manager
11 9 (3.81%) Dynamics 365 Developer
12 8 (3.39%) JIRA Engineer
12 8 (3.39%) Senior Java Developer
13 7 (2.97%) Project Manager
14 6 (2.54%) AWS DevOps
14 6 (2.54%) SAS Engineer
15 5 (2.12%) Architect
15 5 (2.12%) Software Engineer
15 5 (2.12%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (17.37%) Spring
2 35 (14.83%) Spring Boot
3 23 (9.75%) REST
3 23 (9.75%) RESTful
4 20 (8.47%) JPA
4 20 (8.47%) JSON
4 20 (8.47%) SOAP
5 19 (8.05%) Web Services
6 17 (7.20%) ActiveMQ
6 17 (7.20%) AngularJS
6 17 (7.20%) Hibernate
7 16 (6.78%) Spring Cloud
8 15 (6.36%) Spring Batch
8 15 (6.36%) Spring Integration
9 12 (5.08%) Node.js
10 11 (4.66%) Bootstrap
10 11 (4.66%) PowerMock
11 10 (4.24%) AWS CDK
11 10 (4.24%) Playwright
12 8 (3.39%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 54 (22.88%) Product Ownership
2 21 (8.90%) Cloud Native
3 15 (6.36%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.69%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.27%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.27%) Taxonomies
7 2 (0.85%) BYOD
7 2 (0.85%) Data Fabric
7 2 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.85%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.42%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.42%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.42%) Derivative
8 1 (0.42%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.42%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.42%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.42%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.47%) Linux
2 7 (2.97%) Unix
3 3 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.27%) Windows
4 1 (0.42%) Android
4 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (85.59%) Agile
2 122 (51.69%) CI/CD
3 121 (51.27%) DevOps
4 89 (37.71%) Continuous Improvement
5 80 (33.90%) Test Automation
6 61 (25.85%) Stakeholder Management
7 57 (24.15%) Problem-Solving
8 55 (23.31%) ETL
9 52 (22.03%) Sprint Planning
10 51 (21.61%) Kanban
11 46 (19.49%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 44 (18.64%) Containerisation
12 44 (18.64%) Microservices
13 42 (17.80%) Analytics
14 41 (17.37%) Backlog Refinement
15 37 (15.68%) TDD
16 36 (15.25%) Data Modelling
17 35 (14.83%) Business Intelligence
17 35 (14.83%) Data Pipeline
17 35 (14.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 74 (31.36%) SQL
2 54 (22.88%) Java
3 16 (6.78%) JavaScript
4 9 (3.81%) C#
4 9 (3.81%) Python
5 6 (2.54%) Shell Script
6 4 (1.69%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.27%) HiveQL
7 3 (1.27%) MATLAB
7 3 (1.27%) Perl
7 3 (1.27%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.27%) Scala
8 2 (0.85%) Bash
8 2 (0.85%) R
8 2 (0.85%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.42%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.42%) Swift
9 1 (0.42%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 136 (57.63%) Security Cleared
2 126 (53.39%) SC Cleared
3 31 (13.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 14 (5.93%) AWS Certification
5 11 (4.66%) Degree
5 11 (4.66%) SAFe Agilist
6 9 (3.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 9 (3.81%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.27%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.27%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.27%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (1.27%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.27%) PMP
8 2 (0.85%) CCNA
8 2 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.42%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (11.02%) Accessibility
2 25 (10.59%) QA
3 23 (9.75%) Data Quality
4 12 (5.08%) WCAG
5 4 (1.69%) FATCA
5 4 (1.69%) GDPR
6 3 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 3 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 3 (1.27%) PMO
7 1 (0.42%) GRC
7 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.42%) SLA
System Software
1 76 (32.20%) Docker
2 9 (3.81%) Postfix
3 3 (1.27%) HDFS
4 1 (0.42%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.42%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 49 (20.76%) Kubernetes
2 24 (10.17%) Grafana
3 18 (7.63%) Terraform
4 7 (2.97%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.69%) Ansible
6 3 (1.27%) Kibana
7 2 (0.85%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.42%) Argo
8 1 (0.42%) Istio
8 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.42%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.42%) Puppet
Vendors
1 45 (19.07%) Oracle
2 37 (15.68%) Talend
3 26 (11.02%) Microsoft
4 25 (10.59%) Denodo
5 24 (10.17%) Atlassian
6 19 (8.05%) Informatica
7 15 (6.36%) Jaspersoft
8 5 (2.12%) Sage
9 4 (1.69%) Pega
9 4 (1.69%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.27%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.27%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.85%) Google
11 2 (0.85%) HP
11 2 (0.85%) Remedy
11 2 (0.85%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.85%) SAP
12 1 (0.42%) Citrix
12 1 (0.42%) Infor
12 1 (0.42%) Murex