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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 49 62
Rank change year-on-year +15 +13 -49
Contract jobs citing Scrum 136 67 59
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 6.38% 3.57% 3.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.11% 4.28% 3.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 42 43
10th Percentile £413 £358 £363
25th Percentile £450 £388 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.10% +1.79% -11.67%
75th Percentile £561 £584 £619
90th Percentile £625 £612 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £32.28 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £67.02 £65.00
% change year-on-year -17.93% +3.11% -

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 1,913 1,566 1,635
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 89.81% 83.48% 84.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,217 983 1,106
10th Percentile £263 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £619 £600
90th Percentile £675 £723 £713
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 45 51
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.70 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £17.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.00 £29.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.69% +16.00% +41.08%
75th Percentile £30.65 £35.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £51.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.48% -17.22% +28.57%

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 19 November 2025.

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 19 November 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
Shropshire -1 73 £519 +44.03% 6
Birmingham -1 19 £475 +5.56% 12
Warwickshire -5 19 £450 -16.28% 11
Coventry -3 13 £616 +26.41% 3
Worcestershire -8 6 £588 +17.50% 1
Solihull - 3 £345 - 1
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 46 (33.82%) SAS
2 10 (7.35%) WebLogic
3 8 (5.88%) Apache
3 8 (5.88%) JBoss
4 7 (5.15%) Confluence
5 3 (2.21%) Drupal
5 3 (2.21%) PowerFactory
6 2 (1.47%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.74%) CMS
7 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.74%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.74%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.74%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 7 (5.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.74%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.74%) Moqups
4 1 (0.74%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.74%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (2.94%) SAP HR
1 4 (2.94%) SAP PM
2 1 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 28 (20.59%) AWS
2 16 (11.76%) Azure
3 9 (6.62%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (6.62%) OpenShift
4 8 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (5.15%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (4.41%) Amazon S3
6 6 (4.41%) Amazon SQS
6 6 (4.41%) AWS KMS
6 6 (4.41%) Route 53
7 5 (3.68%) GCP
8 4 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (2.94%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 3 (2.21%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.47%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.47%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.47%) GitHub
11 1 (0.74%) Lucidchart
11 1 (0.74%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.74%) Firewall
1 1 (0.74%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (24.26%) Pentaho
2 17 (12.50%) Oracle Database
3 14 (10.29%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 13 (9.56%) MongoDB
5 9 (6.62%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (5.15%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (4.41%) Amazon Aurora
7 6 (4.41%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (4.41%) DynamoDB
8 5 (3.68%) Metadata
9 4 (2.94%) Metadata Repository
9 4 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (2.21%) MySQL
11 2 (1.47%) Power BI
11 2 (1.47%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.47%) SAS Visual Analytics
11 2 (1.47%) SQL Server
12 1 (0.74%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.74%) Data Mining
12 1 (0.74%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 68 (50.00%) Git
2 55 (40.44%) JIRA
3 48 (35.29%) Jenkins
4 29 (21.32%) JUnit
5 25 (18.38%) Selenium
6 15 (11.03%) GitLab
7 12 (8.82%) Maven
8 9 (6.62%) Mockito
9 8 (5.88%) Cucumber
9 8 (5.88%) Eclipse
9 8 (5.88%) IntelliJ
10 7 (5.15%) SonarQube
11 4 (2.94%) Bitbucket Server
11 4 (2.94%) DbUnit
11 4 (2.94%) jMock
12 2 (1.47%) TestPartner
12 2 (1.47%) Visual Studio
13 1 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.74%) Cypress.io
13 1 (0.74%) Snyk
General
1 52 (38.24%) Social Skills
2 20 (14.71%) Public Sector
3 9 (6.62%) Finance
3 9 (6.62%) Influencing Skills
4 8 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.15%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (5.15%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (2.94%) Banking
7 3 (2.21%) Legal
8 2 (1.47%) Aeronautics
9 1 (0.74%) Advertising
9 1 (0.74%) Marketing
9 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (14.71%) Developer
2 17 (12.50%) Scrum Master
3 16 (11.76%) Data Engineer
4 12 (8.82%) Java Developer
5 10 (7.35%) Architect
6 9 (6.62%) Project Manager
7 8 (5.88%) Test Specialist
8 7 (5.15%) Analyst
9 6 (4.41%) Lead
9 6 (4.41%) SAS Engineer
10 5 (3.68%) Data Architect
10 5 (3.68%) Java Engineer
10 5 (3.68%) Senior
10 5 (3.68%) Software Engineer
11 4 (2.94%) Integration Engineer
11 4 (2.94%) Salesforce Architect
11 4 (2.94%) Salesforce Technical Architect
11 4 (2.94%) ScrumMaster Project Manager
11 4 (2.94%) Technical Architect
11 4 (2.94%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (17.65%) REST
2 22 (16.18%) Spring
3 16 (11.76%) HTML
3 16 (11.76%) JSON
4 15 (11.03%) SOAP
5 14 (10.29%) Hibernate
5 14 (10.29%) Spring Boot
6 11 (8.09%) JPA
7 10 (7.35%) RESTful
8 9 (6.62%) HTML5
8 9 (6.62%) Web Services
9 8 (5.88%) EJB
9 8 (5.88%) J2EE
9 8 (5.88%) J2SE
9 8 (5.88%) Play Framework
9 8 (5.88%) pytest
9 8 (5.88%) XML
10 6 (4.41%) Playwright
10 6 (4.41%) React
10 6 (4.41%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.76%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.68%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (2.94%) SCADA
4 3 (2.21%) Client/Server
4 3 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.74%) Animation
6 1 (0.74%) CMDB
6 1 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.74%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.74%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.74%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.74%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.74%) PDA
6 1 (0.74%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.09%) Linux
2 8 (5.88%) Unix
3 4 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.21%) Windows
4 3 (2.21%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.74%) Android
5 1 (0.74%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (91.91%) Agile
2 74 (54.41%) DevOps
3 62 (45.59%) Problem-Solving
4 55 (40.44%) CI/CD
5 53 (38.97%) Continuous Improvement
6 49 (36.03%) Analytics
7 47 (34.56%) Data Modelling
8 42 (30.88%) Test Automation
9 40 (29.41%) Data Pipeline
10 37 (27.21%) ETL
11 36 (26.47%) Deployment Automation
12 35 (25.74%) Business Intelligence
13 32 (23.53%) Data Virtualisation
14 30 (22.06%) Data Integration
15 29 (21.32%) Data Analytics
15 29 (21.32%) Stakeholder Management
16 25 (18.38%) Business Analytics
17 23 (16.91%) Microservices
17 23 (16.91%) Sprint Planning
18 19 (13.97%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 54 (39.71%) SQL
2 27 (19.85%) Java
3 14 (10.29%) Python
4 10 (7.35%) Scala
5 5 (3.68%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.94%) Apex Code
6 4 (2.94%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.21%) Bash
7 3 (2.21%) C#
7 3 (2.21%) Shell Script
7 3 (2.21%) VBScript
8 2 (1.47%) PHP
8 2 (1.47%) Ruby
9 1 (0.74%) C
9 1 (0.74%) Go
9 1 (0.74%) Groovy
9 1 (0.74%) Korn
9 1 (0.74%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.74%) Perl
9 1 (0.74%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 64 (47.06%) Security Cleared
2 55 (40.44%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.56%) Degree
4 4 (2.94%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.21%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.21%) PMP
5 3 (2.21%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 2 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.74%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.74%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (22.06%) Data Quality
2 10 (7.35%) QA
3 7 (5.15%) WCAG
4 5 (3.68%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.21%) PMO
6 1 (0.74%) GDPR
6 1 (0.74%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.74%) ISO 19650
6 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.74%) NCSC
6 1 (0.74%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 61 (44.85%) Docker
2 4 (2.94%) Postfix
3 1 (0.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 52 (38.24%) Kubernetes
2 10 (7.35%) Grafana
3 9 (6.62%) Puppet
4 5 (3.68%) Kibana
4 5 (3.68%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.47%) Terraform
6 1 (0.74%) Ansible
6 1 (0.74%) Podman
6 1 (0.74%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 49 (36.03%) Oracle
2 33 (24.26%) Denodo
2 33 (24.26%) Talend
3 10 (7.35%) Microsoft
4 9 (6.62%) webMethods
5 6 (4.41%) Salesforce
6 5 (3.68%) Atlassian
6 5 (3.68%) VMware
7 4 (2.94%) Jaspersoft
7 4 (2.94%) SAP
8 3 (2.21%) DIgSILENT
8 3 (2.21%) Google
8 3 (2.21%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.47%) ArcSight
9 2 (1.47%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.74%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.74%) Okta
10 1 (0.74%) Remedy
10 1 (0.74%) Sitecore
10 1 (0.74%) Splunk