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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 34 48
Rank change year-on-year +6 +14 -18
Contract jobs citing Scrum 210 68 66
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 6.50% 4.87% 3.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.75% 5.48% 4.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 39 50
10th Percentile £417 £386 £358
25th Percentile £456 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £525 £515 £625
90th Percentile £588 £600 £688
England median daily rate £510 £500 £533
% change year-on-year +2.00% -6.19% -7.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £33.69 - -
25th Percentile £43.28 - -
Median hourly rate £59.50 - -
75th Percentile £62.50 - -
90th Percentile £64.15 - -
England median hourly rate £66.50 £56.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.18% -12.69% -

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 2,710 1,240 1,617
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.87% 88.76% 83.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,755 807 1,076
10th Percentile £313 £200 £266
25th Percentile £404 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £483 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% -3.40% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £578 £625
90th Percentile £675 £665 £750
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 61 117
10th Percentile £14.68 £12.62 £11.10
25th Percentile £22.50 £13.78 £14.13
Median hourly rate £33.99 £20.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +69.95% -11.11% +3.73%
75th Percentile £67.84 £30.29 £40.50
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.55 £37.18
% change year-on-year +64.62% -23.21% -0.85%

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 30 May 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Scrum in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 30 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 30 May 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 +15 117 £492 -4.00% 1
Birmingham -19 27 £475 - 4
Solihull -3 25 £463 +10.12%
Warwickshire -15 23 £588 +34.29% 2
Coventry -12 8 £475 - 2
Worcestershire - 7 £575 -
Staffordshire - 3 £320 - 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 51 (24.29%) Confluence
2 47 (22.38%) SAS
3 4 (1.90%) WebLogic
4 3 (1.43%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.48%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.48%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.95%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.48%) CANalyzer
5 1 (0.48%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.48%) Maximo
2 1 (0.48%) Primavera
2 1 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 59 (28.10%) AWS
2 32 (15.24%) Amazon S3
3 31 (14.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 28 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
5 24 (11.43%) Azure
6 18 (8.57%) Amazon SQS
6 18 (8.57%) Route 53
7 17 (8.10%) AWS KMS
8 15 (7.14%) Serverless
9 13 (6.19%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (6.19%) GitHub
10 12 (5.71%) Amazon EKS
11 11 (5.24%) Amazon ECS
11 11 (5.24%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (5.24%) Power Platform
11 11 (5.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 10 (4.76%) AWS CodePipeline
13 9 (4.29%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
15 4 (1.90%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.43%) Network Security
2 1 (0.48%) SMS
2 1 (0.48%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (17.14%) Pentaho
2 21 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (9.52%) DynamoDB
4 17 (8.10%) Amazon Aurora
5 12 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (4.29%) Power BI
7 7 (3.33%) Metadata
8 6 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (2.86%) BusinessObjects
9 5 (2.38%) Data Lake
9 5 (2.38%) Metadata Repository
9 5 (2.38%) MongoDB
9 5 (2.38%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.90%) SAS Enterprise Guide
11 3 (1.43%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (1.43%) Apache Hive
11 3 (1.43%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.43%) MySQL
11 3 (1.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 80 (38.10%) JIRA
2 58 (27.62%) Jenkins
3 57 (27.14%) Git
4 43 (20.48%) GitLab
5 25 (11.90%) JUnit
6 19 (9.05%) Maven
6 19 (9.05%) Mockito
6 19 (9.05%) SonarQube
7 16 (7.62%) Bitbucket
8 13 (6.19%) DbUnit
8 13 (6.19%) jMock
9 11 (5.24%) Bitbucket Server
10 8 (3.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (2.38%) Selenium
12 2 (0.95%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.95%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.95%) REST Assured
13 1 (0.48%) Gatling
13 1 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
13 1 (0.48%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 65 (30.95%) Social Skills
2 41 (19.52%) Public Sector
3 28 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (11.43%) Finance
5 5 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.43%) Electronics
7 3 (1.43%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.95%) Advertising
8 2 (0.95%) Banking
8 2 (0.95%) Law
8 2 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.95%) Retail
9 1 (0.48%) Automotive
9 1 (0.48%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 50 (23.81%) Data Engineer
2 37 (17.62%) Scrum Master
3 25 (11.90%) Developer
4 21 (10.00%) Java Developer
5 19 (9.05%) Senior
6 16 (7.62%) Project Manager
7 15 (7.14%) Architect
8 14 (6.67%) Lead
9 12 (5.71%) Business Analyst
10 11 (5.24%) Analyst
10 11 (5.24%) Delivery Manager
11 8 (3.81%) Senior Developer
12 7 (3.33%) Agile Delivery Manager
12 7 (3.33%) Data Architect
12 7 (3.33%) SAS Engineer
12 7 (3.33%) Software Engineer
13 6 (2.86%) Data Manager
13 6 (2.86%) Senior Java Developer
13 6 (2.86%) Test Automation Specialist
13 6 (2.86%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (13.81%) Spring
2 26 (12.38%) Spring Boot
3 24 (11.43%) REST
4 20 (9.52%) SOAP
5 19 (9.05%) JPA
5 19 (9.05%) Web Services
6 18 (8.57%) AngularJS
7 17 (8.10%) ActiveMQ
7 17 (8.10%) Hibernate
7 17 (8.10%) Spring Batch
7 17 (8.10%) Spring Integration
8 16 (7.62%) Spring Cloud
9 13 (6.19%) Node.js
9 13 (6.19%) PowerMock
10 11 (5.24%) Bootstrap
10 11 (5.24%) RESTful
11 9 (4.29%) AWS CDK
12 5 (2.38%) Middleware
13 4 (1.90%) JSON
14 3 (1.43%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 29 (13.81%) Product Ownership
2 15 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.38%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.90%) CMDB
6 3 (1.43%) Operational Technology
7 2 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.48%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.48%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.48%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.48%) FPGA
8 1 (0.48%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.48%) MicroBlaze
8 1 (0.48%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.48%) Verilog
8 1 (0.48%) VHDL
8 1 (0.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (13.33%) Linux
2 7 (3.33%) Unix
3 6 (2.86%) Windows
4 5 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.48%) Android
5 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.48%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (82.86%) Agile
2 88 (41.90%) DevOps
3 85 (40.48%) CI/CD
4 63 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 62 (29.52%) Test Automation
6 51 (24.29%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (23.81%) ETL
8 49 (23.33%) Kanban
9 44 (20.95%) Stakeholder Management
10 43 (20.48%) Analytics
11 40 (19.05%) Containerisation
12 39 (18.57%) Data Modelling
13 37 (17.62%) Business Intelligence
14 35 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
15 33 (15.71%) Project Management
16 31 (14.76%) Data Analytics
16 31 (14.76%) Microservices
17 30 (14.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
18 29 (13.81%) Data Virtualisation
19 28 (13.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 77 (36.67%) SQL
2 33 (15.71%) Java
3 11 (5.24%) Python
4 8 (3.81%) Perl
5 7 (3.33%) Shell Script
6 5 (2.38%) MATLAB
6 5 (2.38%) PL/SQL
7 4 (1.90%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.43%) HiveQL
8 3 (1.43%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.95%) Bash
9 2 (0.95%) C#
10 1 (0.48%) C
10 1 (0.48%) C++
10 1 (0.48%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.48%) Swift
10 1 (0.48%) SystemVerilog
10 1 (0.48%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.48%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 116 (55.24%) Security Cleared
2 105 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.62%) BPSS Clearance
3 16 (7.62%) Degree
4 11 (5.24%) AWS Certification
5 10 (4.76%) SAFe Agilist
6 8 (3.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (2.38%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.38%) CCNA
7 5 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.38%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.90%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.90%) PMP
9 3 (1.43%) CISM
9 3 (1.43%) CISSP
10 2 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.95%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (12.38%) Data Quality
2 16 (7.62%) QA
3 7 (3.33%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.90%) FATCA
5 3 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 3 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 2 (0.95%) GDPR
6 2 (0.95%) ISO 19650
6 2 (0.95%) PMO
6 2 (0.95%) WCAG
7 1 (0.48%) GRC
7 1 (0.48%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 60 (28.57%) Docker
2 11 (5.24%) Postfix
3 3 (1.43%) HDFS
4 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 43 (20.48%) Kubernetes
2 24 (11.43%) Grafana
3 20 (9.52%) Terraform
4 5 (2.38%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.90%) Ansible
6 2 (0.95%) Kibana
7 1 (0.48%) Argo
7 1 (0.48%) Istio
7 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.48%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.48%) Puppet
Vendors
1 44 (20.95%) Oracle
2 36 (17.14%) Talend
3 25 (11.90%) Denodo
4 23 (10.95%) Atlassian
5 20 (9.52%) Microsoft
6 18 (8.57%) Informatica
7 17 (8.10%) Jaspersoft
8 8 (3.81%) ServiceNow
9 5 (2.38%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.90%) Pega
10 4 (1.90%) Remedy
10 4 (1.90%) Sage
11 3 (1.43%) Dynatrace
12 2 (0.95%) OneLogin
12 2 (0.95%) SAP
13 1 (0.48%) Cadence
13 1 (0.48%) Citrix
13 1 (0.48%) IBM
13 1 (0.48%) NetApp
13 1 (0.48%) VMware