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 6 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 45 56
Rank change year-on-year +14 +11 -43
Contract jobs citing Scrum 138 65 53
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 6.00% 4.07% 3.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.97% 4.70% 3.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 35 32
10th Percentile £421 £388 £413
25th Percentile £463 £444 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -2.42%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £591
90th Percentile £625 £612 £686
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -

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 1,981 1,384 1,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 86.13% 86.55% 84.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,253 861 994
10th Percentile £263 £220 £275
25th Percentile £402 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £612 £600
90th Percentile £675 £725 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 47 58
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £14.77
25th Percentile £16.25 £16.51 £17.73
Median hourly rate £20.00 £21.59 £27.63
Median % change year-on-year -7.36% -21.85% +59.52%
75th Percentile £27.21 £34.38 £54.06
90th Percentile £35.60 £52.50 £69.13
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +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 6 January 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 6 January 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 +6 82 £515 +8.88% 5
Warwickshire -6 23 £550 +10.00% 14
Birmingham -9 11 £450 - 6
Coventry -8 10 £616 +29.74% 4
Worcestershire -13 7 £575 +15.00% 4
Solihull - 2 £345 -
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 47 (34.06%) SAS
2 10 (7.25%) Confluence
3 9 (6.52%) WebLogic
4 8 (5.80%) Apache
4 8 (5.80%) JBoss
5 3 (2.17%) Drupal
5 3 (2.17%) PowerFactory
6 1 (0.72%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.72%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (3.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.90%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.72%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.72%) Moqups
4 1 (0.72%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Maximo
1 1 (0.72%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.72%) SAP HR
1 1 (0.72%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 22 (15.94%) AWS
2 14 (10.14%) Azure
3 10 (7.25%) OpenShift
4 8 (5.80%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (5.07%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.62%) GCP
7 2 (1.45%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.45%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (1.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.45%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.45%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.45%) SaaS
8 1 (0.72%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.72%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.72%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (0.72%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.72%) npm
8 1 (0.72%) Pulumi
8 1 (0.72%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.72%) Firewall
1 1 (0.72%) SMS
1 1 (0.72%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (24.64%) Pentaho
2 17 (12.32%) Oracle Database
3 14 (10.14%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 13 (9.42%) MongoDB
5 7 (5.07%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (3.62%) Metadata
7 4 (2.90%) Metadata Repository
8 3 (2.17%) MySQL
8 3 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.45%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.45%) Power BI
9 2 (1.45%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.45%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 2 (1.45%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.72%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.72%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.72%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 64 (46.38%) Git
2 52 (37.68%) JIRA
3 43 (31.16%) Jenkins
4 24 (17.39%) JUnit
4 24 (17.39%) Selenium
5 16 (11.59%) GitLab
6 8 (5.80%) Eclipse
6 8 (5.80%) IntelliJ
7 7 (5.07%) Cucumber
7 7 (5.07%) Maven
8 6 (4.35%) Mockito
9 1 (0.72%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.72%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.72%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.72%) Gatling
9 1 (0.72%) Gradle
9 1 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 51 (36.96%) Social Skills
2 16 (11.59%) Finance
3 15 (10.87%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.52%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (5.07%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (3.62%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.62%) Banking
7 4 (2.90%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.17%) Legal
9 2 (1.45%) Aeronautics
9 2 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.72%) Advertising
10 1 (0.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (15.94%) Scrum Master
2 18 (13.04%) Data Engineer
3 15 (10.87%) Project Manager
4 14 (10.14%) Developer
5 10 (7.25%) Architect
6 8 (5.80%) Test Specialist
7 7 (5.07%) Java Developer
7 7 (5.07%) SAS Engineer
8 5 (3.62%) Data Architect
8 5 (3.62%) Data Manager
8 5 (3.62%) Delivery Manager
8 5 (3.62%) Java Engineer
8 5 (3.62%) Senior
9 4 (2.90%) Agile Delivery Manager
9 4 (2.90%) Agile Project Manager
9 4 (2.90%) Denodo Engineer
9 4 (2.90%) Integration Engineer
9 4 (2.90%) Lead
9 4 (2.90%) ScrumMaster Project Manager
9 4 (2.90%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (13.77%) REST
2 16 (11.59%) HTML
2 16 (11.59%) JSON
2 16 (11.59%) Spring
3 9 (6.52%) Hibernate
3 9 (6.52%) HTML5
4 8 (5.80%) EJB
4 8 (5.80%) J2EE
4 8 (5.80%) J2SE
4 8 (5.80%) Play Framework
4 8 (5.80%) pytest
4 8 (5.80%) SOAP
4 8 (5.80%) Spring Boot
4 8 (5.80%) XML
5 6 (4.35%) Gherkin
5 6 (4.35%) JPA
5 6 (4.35%) Playwright
5 6 (4.35%) React
6 5 (3.62%) OAuth
6 5 (3.62%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.52%) Product Ownership
2 3 (2.17%) Client/Server
2 3 (2.17%) CMDB
3 2 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.72%) Animation
4 1 (0.72%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.72%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.72%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.72%) FPGA
4 1 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.72%) MicroBlaze
4 1 (0.72%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.72%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.72%) Private Cloud
4 1 (0.72%) RISC-V
4 1 (0.72%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.80%) Linux
1 8 (5.80%) Unix
2 4 (2.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.17%) Windows
3 3 (2.17%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.72%) Android
4 1 (0.72%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.72%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (91.30%) Agile
2 69 (50.00%) DevOps
3 61 (44.20%) Problem-Solving
4 54 (39.13%) CI/CD
5 51 (36.96%) Analytics
5 51 (36.96%) Continuous Improvement
6 46 (33.33%) Data Modelling
7 43 (31.16%) Test Automation
8 42 (30.43%) Data Pipeline
9 37 (26.81%) Business Intelligence
9 37 (26.81%) Deployment Automation
9 37 (26.81%) ETL
10 33 (23.91%) Data Virtualisation
11 32 (23.19%) Stakeholder Management
12 31 (22.46%) Data Integration
13 30 (21.74%) Data Analytics
14 26 (18.84%) Business Analytics
15 24 (17.39%) Project Management
16 20 (14.49%) Sprint Planning
17 19 (13.77%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 51 (36.96%) SQL
2 20 (14.49%) Java
3 15 (10.87%) Python
4 9 (6.52%) Scala
5 4 (2.90%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.90%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.17%) Perl
6 3 (2.17%) Shell Script
6 3 (2.17%) VBScript
7 2 (1.45%) Bash
7 2 (1.45%) C#
7 2 (1.45%) MATLAB
7 2 (1.45%) PHP
7 2 (1.45%) Ruby
8 1 (0.72%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.72%) C
8 1 (0.72%) C++
8 1 (0.72%) Go
8 1 (0.72%) Groovy
8 1 (0.72%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 63 (45.65%) Security Cleared
2 55 (39.86%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.70%) Degree
4 5 (3.62%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 4 (2.90%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.90%) PMI Certification
5 4 (2.90%) PMP
6 3 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.72%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.72%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (24.64%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.07%) QA
2 7 (5.07%) WCAG
3 5 (3.62%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.17%) ISO 19650
4 3 (2.17%) PMO
5 1 (0.72%) GDPR
5 1 (0.72%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.72%) NCSC
5 1 (0.72%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 56 (40.58%) Docker
2 1 (0.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 55 (39.86%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.52%) Puppet
3 6 (4.35%) Grafana
3 6 (4.35%) Kibana
4 2 (1.45%) Terraform
5 1 (0.72%) Ansible
5 1 (0.72%) Podman
5 1 (0.72%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.72%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 48 (34.78%) Oracle
2 34 (24.64%) Denodo
2 34 (24.64%) Talend
3 10 (7.25%) Microsoft
4 8 (5.80%) webMethods
5 5 (3.62%) VMware
6 3 (2.17%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.17%) DIgSILENT
6 3 (2.17%) Google
6 3 (2.17%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.45%) ArcSight
7 2 (1.45%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.45%) OneLogin
7 2 (1.45%) SAP
8 1 (0.72%) Adobe
8 1 (0.72%) BT
8 1 (0.72%) IBM
8 1 (0.72%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.72%) Remedy
8 1 (0.72%) Salesforce