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 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 39 48
Rank change year-on-year +11 +9 -29
Contract jobs citing Scrum 182 64 64
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 6.81% 4.41% 3.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.97% 4.94% 4.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 37 36
10th Percentile £425 £409 £379
25th Percentile £463 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £477 £513
Median % change year-on-year +6.92% -6.93% -5.09%
75th Percentile £562 £525 £586
90th Percentile £600 £597 £681
England median daily rate £500 £501 £550
% change year-on-year -0.20% -8.91% -1.79%

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 2,284 1,296 1,585
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.48% 89.26% 83.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,489 818 1,039
10th Percentile £300 £210 £275
25th Percentile £403 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £488
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +3.54% -2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 51 112
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.50 £12.10
25th Percentile £16.14 £15.22 £16.54
Median hourly rate £21.46 £20.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% -13.04% +29.94%
75th Percentile £27.13 £31.22 £49.06
90th Percentile £34.80 £41.97 £67.50
England median hourly rate £26.61 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -23.99% - -

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 20 February 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 20 February 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 +11 109 £514 +7.65% 21
Warwickshire -8 30 £550 +10.00% 6
Birmingham -9 21 £475 - 12
Coventry -16 9 £560 +17.89% 4
Solihull -2 6 £358 -14.76% 7
Worcestershire - 6 £475 - 5
Staffordshire 0 1 - - 2
Wolverhampton - 1 - - 2
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 55 (30.22%) SAS
2 21 (11.54%) Confluence
3 13 (7.14%) WebLogic
4 8 (4.40%) Apache
4 8 (4.40%) JBoss
5 3 (1.65%) Drupal
5 3 (1.65%) PowerFactory
5 3 (1.65%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.55%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (3.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.20%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.55%) CANalyzer
4 1 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Maximo
1 1 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 39 (21.43%) AWS
2 15 (8.24%) Azure
3 12 (6.59%) OpenShift
4 8 (4.40%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (3.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (3.30%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (3.30%) Amazon S3
5 6 (3.30%) Amazon SQS
5 6 (3.30%) AWS KMS
5 6 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (3.30%) Route 53
6 4 (2.20%) GCP
7 3 (1.65%) SaaS
8 2 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.10%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (1.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (1.10%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.10%) GitHub
8 2 (1.10%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.65%) Network Security
2 1 (0.55%) Firewall
2 1 (0.55%) SMS
2 1 (0.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (17.58%) Pentaho
2 21 (11.54%) Oracle Database
3 18 (9.89%) MongoDB
3 18 (9.89%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 13 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (6.59%) Metadata
6 9 (4.95%) Metadata Repository
7 8 (4.40%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (3.30%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (3.30%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (3.30%) DynamoDB
9 3 (1.65%) MySQL
9 3 (1.65%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.65%) SAS Visual Analytics
10 2 (1.10%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.10%) Power BI
10 2 (1.10%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.10%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.55%) Looker
Development Applications
1 78 (42.86%) Git
2 59 (32.42%) JIRA
3 50 (27.47%) Jenkins
4 37 (20.33%) JUnit
5 28 (15.38%) Selenium
6 24 (13.19%) GitLab
7 14 (7.69%) Maven
7 14 (7.69%) Mockito
8 9 (4.95%) Cucumber
9 8 (4.40%) Eclipse
9 8 (4.40%) IntelliJ
10 7 (3.85%) SonarQube
11 6 (3.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (2.75%) DbUnit
12 5 (2.75%) jMock
13 3 (1.65%) Bitbucket Server
14 2 (1.10%) Gatling
14 2 (1.10%) REST Assured
15 1 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 64 (35.16%) Social Skills
2 26 (14.29%) Finance
3 21 (11.54%) Public Sector
4 13 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.49%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.75%) Banking
7 5 (2.75%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.65%) Retail
9 2 (1.10%) Advertising
9 2 (1.10%) Aeronautics
9 2 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.55%) Electronics
10 1 (0.55%) Legal
Job Titles
1 28 (15.38%) Data Engineer
2 25 (13.74%) Scrum Master
3 24 (13.19%) Developer
4 20 (10.99%) Project Manager
5 17 (9.34%) Architect
6 15 (8.24%) Java Developer
7 12 (6.59%) Data Architect
8 11 (6.04%) Test Specialist
9 9 (4.95%) SAS Engineer
10 7 (3.85%) Java Engineer
10 7 (3.85%) Lead
10 7 (3.85%) Senior
10 7 (3.85%) Software Engineer
11 6 (3.30%) Test Automation Specialist
12 5 (2.75%) Analyst
12 5 (2.75%) Business Analyst
12 5 (2.75%) Data Manager
12 5 (2.75%) Delivery Manager
12 5 (2.75%) Denodo Engineer
12 5 (2.75%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (17.58%) Spring
2 26 (14.29%) REST
3 21 (11.54%) Spring Boot
4 16 (8.79%) JSON
5 15 (8.24%) Hibernate
5 15 (8.24%) HTML
6 14 (7.69%) JPA
6 14 (7.69%) SOAP
7 11 (6.04%) pytest
8 10 (5.49%) Web Services
9 8 (4.40%) EJB
9 8 (4.40%) Gherkin
9 8 (4.40%) HTML5
9 8 (4.40%) J2EE
9 8 (4.40%) J2SE
9 8 (4.40%) Node.js
9 8 (4.40%) Play Framework
9 8 (4.40%) Playwright
9 8 (4.40%) XML
10 7 (3.85%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.49%) Product Ownership
2 5 (2.75%) CMDB
2 5 (2.75%) Data Centre
2 5 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.65%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.55%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.55%) Animation
6 1 (0.55%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.55%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.55%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.55%) MicroBlaze
6 1 (0.55%) PDA
6 1 (0.55%) RISC-V
6 1 (0.55%) SCADA
6 1 (0.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (9.34%) Linux
2 8 (4.40%) Unix
3 6 (3.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.65%) Windows
5 1 (0.55%) Android
5 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.55%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (87.36%) Agile
2 74 (40.66%) CI/CD
3 73 (40.11%) DevOps
4 68 (37.36%) Problem-Solving
5 60 (32.97%) Continuous Improvement
6 52 (28.57%) Analytics
7 51 (28.02%) Data Modelling
7 51 (28.02%) Test Automation
8 46 (25.27%) Data Pipeline
9 43 (23.63%) Business Intelligence
10 39 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
11 37 (20.33%) Deployment Automation
11 37 (20.33%) ETL
12 35 (19.23%) Project Management
13 33 (18.13%) Microservices
14 32 (17.58%) Data Virtualisation
15 31 (17.03%) Data Integration
16 28 (15.38%) Containerisation
16 28 (15.38%) Data Analytics
17 26 (14.29%) Business Analytics
Programming Languages
1 64 (35.16%) SQL
2 37 (20.33%) Java
3 13 (7.14%) Python
4 10 (5.49%) Shell Script
5 9 (4.95%) Perl
5 9 (4.95%) Scala
6 4 (2.20%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.20%) MATLAB
7 2 (1.10%) C#
7 2 (1.10%) PHP
7 2 (1.10%) Ruby
8 1 (0.55%) Bash
8 1 (0.55%) C
8 1 (0.55%) C++
8 1 (0.55%) Groovy
8 1 (0.55%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.55%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.55%) Swift
8 1 (0.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 83 (45.60%) Security Cleared
2 77 (42.31%) SC Cleared
3 14 (7.69%) Degree
4 8 (4.40%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.75%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.75%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 4 (2.20%) PMI Certification
6 4 (2.20%) PMP
7 3 (1.65%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.65%) CCNA
7 3 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.65%) CISM
7 3 (1.65%) CISSP
7 3 (1.65%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.55%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (18.68%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.49%) QA
3 9 (4.95%) WCAG
4 5 (2.75%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.65%) ISO 19650
5 3 (1.65%) PMO
6 1 (0.55%) GDPR
6 1 (0.55%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.55%) NCSC
6 1 (0.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 63 (34.62%) Docker
2 4 (2.20%) Postfix
3 1 (0.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 66 (36.26%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.04%) Grafana
3 8 (4.40%) Kibana
3 8 (4.40%) Puppet
4 4 (2.20%) Terraform
Vendors
1 48 (26.37%) Oracle
2 32 (17.58%) Talend
3 30 (16.48%) Denodo
4 11 (6.04%) Microsoft
5 8 (4.40%) Atlassian
5 8 (4.40%) webMethods
6 6 (3.30%) Jaspersoft
6 6 (3.30%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.75%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.20%) Remedy
9 3 (1.65%) DIgSILENT
9 3 (1.65%) Google
10 2 (1.10%) Informatica
10 2 (1.10%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.10%) OneLogin
11 1 (0.55%) Actian
11 1 (0.55%) CA Agile Central
11 1 (0.55%) CyberArk
11 1 (0.55%) Okta
11 1 (0.55%) Workday