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 14 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 35 45
Rank change year-on-year +8 +10 -23
Contract jobs citing Scrum 216 66 69
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 7.14% 4.82% 3.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.52% 5.45% 4.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 40 48
10th Percentile £421 £410 £358
25th Percentile £458 £463 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £487 £518
Median % change year-on-year +2.77% -5.99% -4.17%
75th Percentile £540 £528 £631
90th Percentile £588 £600 £688
England median daily rate £505 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +0.91% -7.41% -4.42%
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 £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 2,535 1,210 1,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.80% 88.45% 83.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,673 811 1,055
10th Percentile £305 £200 £275
25th Percentile £402 £393 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - -1.96%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £611
90th Percentile £650 £688 £725
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 56 118
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.62 £11.11
25th Percentile £17.12 £14.32 £14.03
Median hourly rate £25.15 £18.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.72% -20.00% +26.98%
75th Percentile £59.50 £28.18 £40.38
90th Percentile £71.76 £36.13 £57.00
England median hourly rate £41.00 £31.88 £34.00
% change year-on-year +28.61% -6.24% -9.33%

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 14 April 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 14 April 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 +11 130 £500 +2.04% 4
Warwickshire -8 27 £575 +15.00% 7
Birmingham -9 27 £475 -0.84% 9
Solihull -2 14 £463 +10.12% 2
Worcestershire - 9 £475 -
Coventry -23 5 £544 +14.47% 2
Staffordshire - 3 £320 - 4
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 71 (32.87%) SAS
2 38 (17.59%) Confluence
3 9 (4.17%) WebLogic
4 4 (1.85%) Apache
4 4 (1.85%) JBoss
5 3 (1.39%) Drupal
5 3 (1.39%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.46%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.46%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.85%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.93%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.46%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.46%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 51 (23.61%) AWS
2 22 (10.19%) Azure
3 16 (7.41%) Amazon S3
4 15 (6.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 15 (6.94%) Amazon EC2
5 13 (6.02%) Amazon SQS
6 12 (5.56%) AWS KMS
6 12 (5.56%) OpenShift
6 12 (5.56%) Route 53
7 6 (2.78%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.31%) GitHub
8 5 (2.31%) Serverless
9 4 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.85%) GCP
9 4 (1.85%) SaaS
10 3 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.39%) Network Security
2 1 (0.46%) SMS
2 1 (0.46%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (18.52%) Pentaho
2 18 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (7.41%) Oracle Database
4 15 (6.94%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 14 (6.48%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
6 12 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (5.56%) DynamoDB
6 12 (5.56%) Metadata
6 12 (5.56%) MongoDB
7 9 (4.17%) Metadata Repository
8 6 (2.78%) MySQL
9 5 (2.31%) Power BI
10 4 (1.85%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.39%) Apache Hive
11 3 (1.39%) BusinessObjects
11 3 (1.39%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.39%) Impala
11 3 (1.39%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 83 (38.43%) Git
2 81 (37.50%) JIRA
3 67 (31.02%) Jenkins
4 35 (16.20%) JUnit
5 32 (14.81%) GitLab
6 19 (8.80%) Selenium
7 17 (7.87%) Maven
7 17 (7.87%) Mockito
8 13 (6.02%) SonarQube
9 9 (4.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 9 (4.17%) Bitbucket
9 9 (4.17%) DbUnit
9 9 (4.17%) jMock
10 7 (3.24%) Bitbucket Server
11 4 (1.85%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.85%) Eclipse
11 4 (1.85%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.93%) REST Assured
13 1 (0.46%) Gatling
13 1 (0.46%) MSI
General
1 71 (32.87%) Social Skills
2 32 (14.81%) Public Sector
3 30 (13.89%) Finance
4 22 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (3.24%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (3.24%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.39%) Advertising
7 3 (1.39%) Banking
7 3 (1.39%) Electronics
8 2 (0.93%) Aeronautics
8 2 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.93%) Retail
9 1 (0.46%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.46%) Law
9 1 (0.46%) Legal
Job Titles
1 46 (21.30%) Data Engineer
2 30 (13.89%) Scrum Master
3 25 (11.57%) Developer
4 23 (10.65%) Project Manager
5 19 (8.80%) Architect
6 18 (8.33%) Java Developer
7 14 (6.48%) Test Specialist
8 12 (5.56%) Data Architect
8 12 (5.56%) Lead
8 12 (5.56%) Senior
9 11 (5.09%) SAS Engineer
10 9 (4.17%) Test Automation Specialist
11 8 (3.70%) Agile Delivery Manager
12 7 (3.24%) Analyst
12 7 (3.24%) Business Analyst
12 7 (3.24%) Data Manager
12 7 (3.24%) Delivery Manager
12 7 (3.24%) Software Engineer
13 6 (2.78%) Java Engineer
13 6 (2.78%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (14.81%) Spring
2 31 (14.35%) REST
3 25 (11.57%) Spring Boot
4 18 (8.33%) SOAP
5 17 (7.87%) Hibernate
5 17 (7.87%) JPA
6 16 (7.41%) Web Services
7 13 (6.02%) AngularJS
8 12 (5.56%) ActiveMQ
8 12 (5.56%) Node.js
8 12 (5.56%) Spring Batch
8 12 (5.56%) Spring Cloud
8 12 (5.56%) Spring Integration
9 11 (5.09%) pytest
10 10 (4.63%) RESTful
11 9 (4.17%) PowerMock
12 8 (3.70%) HTML
12 8 (3.70%) JSON
13 7 (3.24%) Bootstrap
14 5 (2.31%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 11 (5.09%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.31%) CMDB
3 5 (2.31%) Data Centre
3 5 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.39%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.39%) Operational Technology
5 2 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.46%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.46%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.46%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.46%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.46%) FPGA
6 1 (0.46%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.46%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.46%) VHDL
6 1 (0.46%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (12.04%) Linux
2 10 (4.63%) Unix
3 6 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (2.78%) Windows
4 1 (0.46%) Android
4 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.46%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (86.11%) Agile
2 99 (45.83%) DevOps
3 94 (43.52%) CI/CD
4 73 (33.80%) Problem-Solving
5 69 (31.94%) Continuous Improvement
6 64 (29.63%) Analytics
7 63 (29.17%) Test Automation
8 56 (25.93%) Data Modelling
9 49 (22.69%) Business Intelligence
9 49 (22.69%) Data Pipeline
9 49 (22.69%) Stakeholder Management
10 48 (22.22%) ETL
11 39 (18.06%) Containerisation
11 39 (18.06%) Data Virtualisation
11 39 (18.06%) Kanban
12 38 (17.59%) Data Analytics
12 38 (17.59%) Project Management
13 36 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
14 35 (16.20%) Data Integration
15 33 (15.28%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 80 (37.04%) SQL
2 38 (17.59%) Java
3 16 (7.41%) Python
4 10 (4.63%) Shell Script
5 9 (4.17%) Perl
6 5 (2.31%) MATLAB
7 4 (1.85%) PL/SQL
7 4 (1.85%) Scala
8 3 (1.39%) HiveQL
8 3 (1.39%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.93%) PHP
9 2 (0.93%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.93%) Ruby
10 1 (0.46%) Bash
10 1 (0.46%) C
10 1 (0.46%) C#
10 1 (0.46%) C++
10 1 (0.46%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.46%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.46%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 118 (54.63%) Security Cleared
2 107 (49.54%) SC Cleared
3 18 (8.33%) Degree
4 10 (4.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (3.70%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.31%) CCNA
6 5 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (2.31%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.31%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.31%) PMP
7 4 (1.85%) SAFe Agilist
8 3 (1.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (1.39%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.39%) CISM
8 3 (1.39%) CISSP
8 3 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.39%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (17.13%) Data Quality
2 13 (6.02%) QA
3 5 (2.31%) WCAG
4 4 (1.85%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 3 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 2 (0.93%) GDPR
6 2 (0.93%) ISO 19650
7 1 (0.46%) GRC
7 1 (0.46%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.46%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.46%) PMO
System Software
1 75 (34.72%) Docker
2 8 (3.70%) Postfix
3 3 (1.39%) HDFS
4 1 (0.46%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.46%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 70 (32.41%) Kubernetes
2 18 (8.33%) Grafana
3 11 (5.09%) Terraform
4 5 (2.31%) Kibana
5 4 (1.85%) Puppet
6 3 (1.39%) Ansible
6 3 (1.39%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 53 (24.54%) Oracle
2 40 (18.52%) Talend
3 36 (16.67%) Denodo
4 20 (9.26%) Atlassian
5 19 (8.80%) Microsoft
6 12 (5.56%) Jaspersoft
7 8 (3.70%) ServiceNow
8 7 (3.24%) Informatica
9 6 (2.78%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.85%) Remedy
10 4 (1.85%) webMethods
11 3 (1.39%) Google
11 3 (1.39%) Pega
12 2 (0.93%) OneLogin
12 2 (0.93%) SAP
13 1 (0.46%) Actian
13 1 (0.46%) CA Agile Central
13 1 (0.46%) MuleSoft
13 1 (0.46%) Okta
13 1 (0.46%) Workday