Scrum Contracts in the West Midlands

Scrum
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Scrum skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Scrum over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 44 22
Rank change year-on-year 0 -22 -5
Contract jobs citing Scrum 55 73 208
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.09% 3.75% 8.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.63% 4.46% 9.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 53 158
10th Percentile £410 £358 £413
25th Percentile £442 £360 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% -7.41% +1.89%
75th Percentile £531 £625 £599
90th Percentile £600 £688 £688
England median daily rate £500 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -6.98% -6.52% +4.55%

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 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Scrum as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in the West Midlands

Scrum
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scrum in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Scrum in the West Midlands

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in the West Midlands

Scrum
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scrum in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 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
Birmingham +8 17 £475 -8.21% 28
Warwickshire +4 17 £500 -25.93% 28
Shropshire -18 6 £510 +42.45% 9
Solihull - 6 £420 - 5
Coventry +9 2 £475 - 17
Herefordshire - 1 - - 4
Scrum
England

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (9.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (5.45%) Revit
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.82%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 19 (34.55%) AWS
2 11 (20.00%) Azure
3 8 (14.55%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (14.55%) Amazon S3
4 7 (12.73%) Amazon SQS
5 6 (10.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (10.91%) AWS KMS
5 6 (10.91%) Route 53
6 3 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (5.45%) GCP
7 2 (3.64%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.82%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.82%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.82%) Serverless
8 1 (1.82%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.82%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.82%) Converged Networks
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (12.73%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (12.73%) DynamoDB
3 6 (10.91%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (9.09%) Relational Database
4 5 (9.09%) SQL Server
5 3 (5.45%) RDBMS
6 2 (3.64%) IDMS
7 1 (1.82%) Big Data
7 1 (1.82%) DataStage
7 1 (1.82%) DB2
7 1 (1.82%) GIS
7 1 (1.82%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.82%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.82%) Power BI
7 1 (1.82%) QualityStage
Development Applications
1 13 (23.64%) JIRA
2 10 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 9 (16.36%) JUnit
4 7 (12.73%) Git
4 7 (12.73%) Mockito
5 6 (10.91%) Maven
6 4 (7.27%) SonarQube
7 3 (5.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (5.45%) Bitbucket Server
7 3 (5.45%) Cucumber
7 3 (5.45%) DbUnit
7 3 (5.45%) jMock
8 2 (3.64%) Bitbucket
8 2 (3.64%) CA Gen
8 2 (3.64%) Cypress.io
8 2 (3.64%) JMeter
8 2 (3.64%) Postman
8 2 (3.64%) Selenium
9 1 (1.82%) Axure RP
9 1 (1.82%) Snyk
General
1 11 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (12.73%) Finance
3 7 (12.73%) Public Sector
4 5 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (5.45%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.64%) General Ledger
6 2 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.82%) Automotive
7 1 (1.82%) Legal
7 1 (1.82%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 13 (23.64%) Developer
2 10 (18.18%) Java Developer
3 9 (16.36%) Lead
4 7 (12.73%) Architect
4 7 (12.73%) Tester
5 5 (9.09%) Product Manager
5 5 (9.09%) Project Manager
5 5 (9.09%) Senior
5 5 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (5.45%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 3 (5.45%) Scrum Master
7 2 (3.64%) IT Project Manager
7 2 (3.64%) Lead Java Developer
7 2 (3.64%) Product Owner
7 2 (3.64%) QA Analyst
7 2 (3.64%) QA Leader
7 2 (3.64%) QA Test Analyst
7 2 (3.64%) QA Tester
7 2 (3.64%) Senior Architect
7 2 (3.64%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.18%) Spring
1 10 (18.18%) Spring Boot
2 9 (16.36%) Hibernate
2 9 (16.36%) REST
2 9 (16.36%) Web Services
3 7 (12.73%) .NET
3 7 (12.73%) SOAP
4 6 (10.91%) ActiveMQ
4 6 (10.91%) AngularJS
4 6 (10.91%) JPA
5 5 (9.09%) Bootstrap
5 5 (9.09%) Middleware
5 5 (9.09%) RESTful
5 5 (9.09%) Spring Batch
5 5 (9.09%) Spring Integration
6 4 (7.27%) Spring Cloud
7 3 (5.45%) Gherkin
7 3 (5.45%) HTML
7 3 (5.45%) PowerMock
7 3 (5.45%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (9.09%) SCADA
3 4 (7.27%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (7.27%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (5.45%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (5.45%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.82%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.82%) NHS
5 1 (1.82%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.82%) PMI
5 1 (1.82%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.82%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.09%) Linux
2 2 (3.64%) Unix
2 2 (3.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (94.55%) Agile
2 18 (32.73%) Microservices
3 12 (21.82%) DevOps
4 11 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 10 (18.18%) Kanban
5 10 (18.18%) TDD
6 9 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (16.36%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 9 (16.36%) User Stories
7 8 (14.55%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (14.55%) Roadmaps
7 8 (14.55%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (12.73%) BDD
8 7 (12.73%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (12.73%) Project Management
8 7 (12.73%) SDLC
8 7 (12.73%) Test Automation
8 7 (12.73%) Test Management
9 6 (10.91%) Defect Management
9 6 (10.91%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (21.82%) Java
1 12 (21.82%) SQL
2 7 (12.73%) JavaScript
3 5 (9.09%) Python
4 4 (7.27%) C#
5 2 (3.64%) COBOL
6 1 (1.82%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (16.36%) Security Cleared
2 8 (14.55%) SC Cleared
3 7 (12.73%) Degree
4 4 (7.27%) AWS Certification
4 4 (7.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (7.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.64%) ISEB
5 2 (3.64%) ISTQB
5 2 (3.64%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 2 (3.64%) PMI Certification
5 2 (3.64%) PMP
6 1 (1.82%) APMP
6 1 (1.82%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.82%) CISSP
6 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.82%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (1.82%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.36%) QA
2 2 (3.64%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.82%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.82%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (23.64%) Docker
2 4 (7.27%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 6 (10.91%) Kubernetes
2 5 (9.09%) Grafana
2 5 (9.09%) HP ALM
3 4 (7.27%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.64%) Terraform
5 1 (1.82%) Ansible
5 1 (1.82%) Argo
Vendors
1 8 (14.55%) Oracle
2 6 (10.91%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.09%) HP
3 5 (9.09%) Jaspersoft
3 5 (9.09%) MuleSoft
4 4 (7.27%) Atlassian
5 3 (5.45%) Autodesk
5 3 (5.45%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.64%) Bloomberg
6 2 (3.64%) Splunk
7 1 (1.82%) Databricks
7 1 (1.82%) IBM
7 1 (1.82%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.82%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.82%) SAP
7 1 (1.82%) Siemens