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 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 50 62
Rank change year-on-year +18 +12 -49
Contract jobs citing Scrum 136 66 59
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 6.56% 3.48% 3.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.28% 4.18% 3.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 42 42
10th Percentile £406 £358 £363
25th Percentile £449 £388 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.48% +1.79% -11.63%
75th Percentile £562 £584 £583
90th Percentile £625 £612 £686
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £32.28 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £68.51 £65.00
% change year-on-year -19.72% +5.40% -

All Process and 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 1,867 1,579 1,636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 90.11% 83.28% 84.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,191 992 1,103
10th Percentile £263 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% +3.90% -
75th Percentile £588 £619 £600
90th Percentile £675 £713 £723
England median daily rate £508 £525 £547
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.02% -0.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 45 53
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.70 £16.02
25th Percentile £16.30 £17.25 £17.75
Median hourly rate £23.05 £29.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.52% +5.45% +55.19%
75th Percentile £31.00 £35.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £51.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.14% -19.10% +27.14%

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 12 November 2025.

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 12 November 2025. 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 -4 68 £519 +44.10% 10
Warwickshire -1 22 £450 -16.28% 11
Birmingham +5 19 £475 +5.56% 15
Coventry +1 14 £613 +25.64% 3
Solihull - 7 £345 - 2
Worcestershire -10 4 £600 +20.00% 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 41 (30.15%) SAS
2 10 (7.35%) WebLogic
3 8 (5.88%) Apache
3 8 (5.88%) JBoss
4 6 (4.41%) Confluence
5 3 (2.21%) Drupal
5 3 (2.21%) PowerFactory
6 2 (1.47%) OpenStack
6 2 (1.47%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.74%) CMS
7 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.74%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.74%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 9 (6.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.74%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.74%) Moqups
4 1 (0.74%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.74%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (2.94%) SAP HR
1 4 (2.94%) SAP PM
2 1 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 34 (25.00%) AWS
2 18 (13.24%) Azure
3 10 (7.35%) Amazon EC2
3 10 (7.35%) Amazon S3
4 9 (6.62%) Amazon SQS
4 9 (6.62%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (6.62%) OpenShift
5 8 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (5.15%) GCP
7 6 (4.41%) AWS KMS
7 6 (4.41%) Route 53
8 5 (3.68%) Power Platform
9 4 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (2.94%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 3 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.47%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.47%) Entra ID
11 2 (1.47%) GitHub
11 2 (1.47%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.21%) Firewall
2 2 (1.47%) VPN
3 1 (0.74%) BGP
3 1 (0.74%) DHCP
3 1 (0.74%) DNS
3 1 (0.74%) EIGRP
3 1 (0.74%) HTTP
3 1 (0.74%) IPsec
3 1 (0.74%) Modbus
3 1 (0.74%) Network Security
3 1 (0.74%) OSPF
3 1 (0.74%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (0.74%) SSL
3 1 (0.74%) TACACS
3 1 (0.74%) VLAN
3 1 (0.74%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (20.59%) Pentaho
2 17 (12.50%) Oracle Database
3 14 (10.29%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 13 (9.56%) MongoDB
4 13 (9.56%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (7.35%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (6.62%) Amazon Aurora
7 7 (5.15%) DynamoDB
8 6 (4.41%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (3.68%) Metadata
10 4 (2.94%) Metadata Repository
10 4 (2.94%) Power BI
10 4 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (2.21%) MySQL
11 3 (2.21%) Relational Database
12 2 (1.47%) SAS Visual Analytics
12 2 (1.47%) SQL Server
13 1 (0.74%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.74%) Data Mining
13 1 (0.74%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 67 (49.26%) Git
2 53 (38.97%) JIRA
3 47 (34.56%) Jenkins
4 31 (22.79%) JUnit
5 25 (18.38%) Selenium
6 15 (11.03%) GitLab
6 15 (11.03%) Maven
7 11 (8.09%) Mockito
8 9 (6.62%) SonarQube
9 8 (5.88%) Cucumber
9 8 (5.88%) Eclipse
9 8 (5.88%) IntelliJ
10 4 (2.94%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (2.94%) DbUnit
10 4 (2.94%) jMock
11 2 (1.47%) TestPartner
11 2 (1.47%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.74%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.74%) Snyk
General
1 52 (38.24%) Social Skills
2 24 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 10 (7.35%) Finance
4 9 (6.62%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.15%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (4.41%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.94%) Banking
9 3 (2.21%) Legal
10 2 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.47%) Retail
11 1 (0.74%) Advertising
11 1 (0.74%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 24 (17.65%) Developer
2 16 (11.76%) Java Developer
3 14 (10.29%) Scrum Master
4 11 (8.09%) Data Engineer
5 10 (7.35%) Architect
6 8 (5.88%) Analyst
6 8 (5.88%) Test Specialist
7 7 (5.15%) Lead
7 7 (5.15%) Project Manager
8 5 (3.68%) Data Architect
8 5 (3.68%) Java Engineer
8 5 (3.68%) Senior
8 5 (3.68%) Software Engineer
9 4 (2.94%) Integration Engineer
9 4 (2.94%) Lead Developer
9 4 (2.94%) Lead Java Developer
9 4 (2.94%) Product Owner
9 4 (2.94%) Salesforce Technical Architect
9 4 (2.94%) Technical Architect
9 4 (2.94%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (19.85%) REST
2 26 (19.12%) Spring
3 18 (13.24%) SOAP
3 18 (13.24%) Spring Boot
4 16 (11.76%) HTML
4 16 (11.76%) JSON
5 14 (10.29%) Hibernate
6 13 (9.56%) JPA
7 11 (8.09%) Web Services
8 10 (7.35%) RESTful
9 9 (6.62%) ActiveMQ
9 9 (6.62%) HTML5
10 8 (5.88%) EJB
10 8 (5.88%) J2EE
10 8 (5.88%) J2SE
10 8 (5.88%) Play Framework
10 8 (5.88%) pytest
10 8 (5.88%) XML
11 7 (5.15%) AngularJS
11 7 (5.15%) React
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.24%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.15%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (5.15%) SCADA
3 3 (2.21%) Client/Server
3 3 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.74%) Animation
5 1 (0.74%) CMDB
5 1 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.74%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.74%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.74%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.74%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.74%) PDA
5 1 (0.74%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.09%) Linux
2 8 (5.88%) Unix
3 4 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.21%) Windows
4 3 (2.21%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.74%) Android
5 1 (0.74%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (92.65%) Agile
2 71 (52.21%) DevOps
3 60 (44.12%) Problem-Solving
4 56 (41.18%) CI/CD
5 48 (35.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 42 (30.88%) Analytics
6 42 (30.88%) Data Modelling
7 39 (28.68%) Test Automation
8 36 (26.47%) Data Pipeline
9 33 (24.26%) Business Intelligence
9 33 (24.26%) Deployment Automation
9 33 (24.26%) ETL
10 28 (20.59%) Data Virtualisation
11 27 (19.85%) Microservices
11 27 (19.85%) Stakeholder Management
12 26 (19.12%) Data Analytics
12 26 (19.12%) Data Integration
13 23 (16.91%) Business Analytics
14 22 (16.18%) Sprint Planning
15 21 (15.44%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 49 (36.03%) SQL
2 31 (22.79%) Java
3 14 (10.29%) Python
4 10 (7.35%) Scala
5 6 (4.41%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.94%) Apex Code
6 4 (2.94%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.21%) Bash
7 3 (2.21%) C#
7 3 (2.21%) Shell Script
7 3 (2.21%) VBScript
8 2 (1.47%) PHP
8 2 (1.47%) Ruby
9 1 (0.74%) C
9 1 (0.74%) Go
9 1 (0.74%) Groovy
9 1 (0.74%) Korn
9 1 (0.74%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.74%) Perl
9 1 (0.74%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 62 (45.59%) Security Cleared
2 53 (38.97%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.56%) Degree
4 4 (2.94%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.21%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.21%) PMP
5 3 (2.21%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 2 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.74%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.74%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (19.12%) Data Quality
2 10 (7.35%) QA
3 7 (5.15%) WCAG
4 5 (3.68%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.94%) PMO
6 1 (0.74%) GDPR
6 1 (0.74%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.74%) ISO 19650
6 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.74%) NCSC
6 1 (0.74%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 61 (44.85%) Docker
2 4 (2.94%) Postfix
3 1 (0.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 49 (36.03%) Kubernetes
2 12 (8.82%) Grafana
3 9 (6.62%) Puppet
4 7 (5.15%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.68%) Kibana
6 2 (1.47%) Terraform
7 1 (0.74%) Ansible
7 1 (0.74%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.74%) Nagios
7 1 (0.74%) Podman
7 1 (0.74%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 44 (32.35%) Oracle
2 28 (20.59%) Denodo
2 28 (20.59%) Talend
3 12 (8.82%) Microsoft
4 9 (6.62%) webMethods
5 8 (5.88%) Salesforce
6 5 (3.68%) SAP
6 5 (3.68%) VMware
7 4 (2.94%) Atlassian
7 4 (2.94%) Google
7 4 (2.94%) Jaspersoft
8 3 (2.21%) DIgSILENT
8 3 (2.21%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.47%) ArcSight
9 2 (1.47%) Cisco
9 2 (1.47%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.74%) Adobe
10 1 (0.74%) HP
10 1 (0.74%) Juniper
10 1 (0.74%) Red Hat