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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 38 50
Rank change year-on-year +10 +12 -11
Contract jobs citing Scrum 247 92 67
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 6.99% 5.04% 3.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.23% 5.68% 4.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 61 42
10th Percentile £413 £381 £351
25th Percentile £450 £430 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +8.11% -11.90%
75th Percentile £517 £600 £609
90th Percentile £608 £630 £653
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £30.37 - -
25th Percentile £34.98 - -
Median hourly rate £42.65 - £32.28
75th Percentile £51.20 - -
90th Percentile £56.33 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £67.02
% change year-on-year +27.27% -17.93% +3.11%

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 3,000 1,619 1,560
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.84% 88.76% 81.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,833 1,034 995
10th Percentile £313 £246 £252
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £674 £725
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 106 39
10th Percentile £13.45 £12.62 £14.66
25th Percentile £17.57 £16.17 £15.25
Median hourly rate £29.60 £24.34 £26.13
Median % change year-on-year +21.61% -6.83% -5.00%
75th Percentile £53.75 £35.00 £40.25
90th Percentile £68.27 £50.00 £55.65
England median hourly rate £42.41 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.61% -41.51% -3.37%

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 September 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 20 September 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 20 September 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 +6 142 £488 -6.11% 18
Solihull +9 36 £488 -2.50% 4
Coventry -3 28 £425 -28.42% 8
Birmingham -11 17 £463 -2.63% 32
Warwickshire -13 15 £477 +6.00% 5
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 63 (25.51%) Confluence
2 20 (8.10%) SAS
3 3 (1.21%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (1.62%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.81%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.40%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.40%) Primavera
2 1 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.40%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 99 (40.08%) AWS
2 38 (15.38%) Azure
3 34 (13.77%) Amazon S3
3 34 (13.77%) GitHub
4 32 (12.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 29 (11.74%) Amazon EC2
6 26 (10.53%) Serverless
7 24 (9.72%) AWS Lambda
7 24 (9.72%) Azure DevOps
8 22 (8.91%) Amazon EKS
9 21 (8.50%) Amazon ECS
10 20 (8.10%) GitHub Actions
11 17 (6.88%) Power Platform
12 16 (6.48%) Power Automate
13 14 (5.67%) Dynamics 365
14 13 (5.26%) PowerApps
15 9 (3.64%) Amazon SQS
15 9 (3.64%) Route 53
15 9 (3.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 8 (3.24%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.21%) Network Security
2 1 (0.40%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.50%) Pentaho
2 20 (8.10%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (5.67%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (4.86%) Relational Database
5 11 (4.45%) DynamoDB
6 10 (4.05%) MongoDB
7 8 (3.24%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (1.62%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.62%) Power BI
9 3 (1.21%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.21%) Apache Iceberg
9 3 (1.21%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (1.21%) Metadata
9 3 (1.21%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.21%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.81%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.81%) ZAP BI
11 1 (0.40%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 80 (32.39%) JIRA
2 60 (24.29%) GitLab
3 59 (23.89%) Git
4 52 (21.05%) JUnit
5 51 (20.65%) Jenkins
6 33 (13.36%) Maven
7 31 (12.55%) SonarQube
8 30 (12.15%) Mockito
9 24 (9.72%) Selenium
10 21 (8.50%) Cucumber
11 19 (7.69%) Gatling
12 14 (5.67%) Bitbucket
13 6 (2.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (2.43%) Bitbucket Server
13 6 (2.43%) DbUnit
13 6 (2.43%) jMock
14 3 (1.21%) Cypress.io
14 3 (1.21%) Postman
14 3 (1.21%) Protractor
14 3 (1.21%) WebDriver
General
1 115 (46.56%) Social Skills
2 77 (31.17%) Public Sector
3 33 (13.36%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (7.29%) Finance
5 14 (5.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (4.45%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (3.24%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.62%) Banking
8 4 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.21%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.81%) Billing
10 2 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.81%) Retail
11 1 (0.40%) Automotive
11 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.40%) Front Office
11 1 (0.40%) Law
11 1 (0.40%) Local Government
11 1 (0.40%) Military
11 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 52 (21.05%) Scrum Master
2 42 (17.00%) Developer
3 37 (14.98%) Senior
4 30 (12.15%) Data Engineer
5 26 (10.53%) Lead
6 25 (10.12%) Java Developer
7 21 (8.50%) Quality Engineer
8 18 (7.29%) Senior Developer
9 15 (6.07%) Analyst
10 13 (5.26%) Business Analyst
10 13 (5.26%) Delivery Manager
10 13 (5.26%) Java Engineer
11 12 (4.86%) Senior Java Developer
12 11 (4.45%) Dynamics 365 Developer
13 10 (4.05%) Product Manager
14 8 (3.24%) Project Manager
15 7 (2.83%) Java Scrum Master
16 6 (2.43%) JIRA Engineer
16 6 (2.43%) Lead Developer
16 6 (2.43%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (26.32%) Spring
2 50 (20.24%) Spring Boot
3 31 (12.55%) RESTful
4 30 (12.15%) JPA
5 29 (11.74%) REST
6 25 (10.12%) JSON
7 22 (8.91%) Playwright
7 22 (8.91%) SOAP
8 20 (8.10%) Web Services
9 19 (7.69%) AngularJS
9 19 (7.69%) Hibernate
10 18 (7.29%) ActiveMQ
11 17 (6.88%) Gherkin
11 17 (6.88%) Spring Cloud
12 16 (6.48%) OpenAPI
13 12 (4.86%) React
13 12 (4.86%) Terraform
13 12 (4.86%) WireMock
14 10 (4.05%) RabbitMQ
15 9 (3.64%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 64 (25.91%) Product Ownership
2 36 (14.57%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.02%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.62%) Data Fabric
8 3 (1.21%) Culture of Ownership
8 3 (1.21%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.21%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.21%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.21%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.81%) BYOD
9 2 (0.81%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.81%) IoT
9 2 (0.81%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.40%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.40%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.40%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.05%) Linux
2 4 (1.62%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (87.85%) Agile
2 117 (47.37%) CI/CD
3 100 (40.49%) DevOps
4 90 (36.44%) Continuous Improvement
5 88 (35.63%) Test Automation
6 80 (32.39%) Stakeholder Management
7 72 (29.15%) Sprint Planning
8 61 (24.70%) Microservices
9 55 (22.27%) Backlog Refinement
9 55 (22.27%) Problem-Solving
10 47 (19.03%) Kanban
11 45 (18.22%) Containerisation
12 44 (17.81%) TDD
13 43 (17.41%) User Stories
14 39 (15.79%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 35 (14.17%) Sprint Retrospective
16 34 (13.77%) Coaching
16 34 (13.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 33 (13.36%) ETL
17 33 (13.36%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 77 (31.17%) Java
2 48 (19.43%) SQL
3 26 (10.53%) JavaScript
4 12 (4.86%) C#
5 11 (4.45%) TypeScript
6 7 (2.83%) Shell Script
7 6 (2.43%) Python
8 3 (1.21%) Scala
9 2 (0.81%) Bash
9 2 (0.81%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.81%) R
10 1 (0.40%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 110 (44.53%) Security Cleared
2 102 (41.30%) SC Cleared
3 64 (25.91%) BPSS Clearance
4 14 (5.67%) AWS Certification
5 11 (4.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (3.64%) Degree
7 8 (3.24%) SAFe Agilist
8 6 (2.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (1.21%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.21%) CCSP
9 3 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.21%) CISSP
9 3 (1.21%) ISTQB
9 3 (1.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.81%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.40%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.40%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.40%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (17.41%) Accessibility
2 40 (16.19%) QA
3 23 (9.31%) WCAG
4 11 (4.45%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.62%) FATCA
5 4 (1.62%) GDPR
5 4 (1.62%) PMO
6 1 (0.40%) GRC
6 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 72 (29.15%) Docker
2 5 (2.02%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 43 (17.41%) Kubernetes
2 27 (10.93%) Grafana
3 17 (6.88%) Prometheus
4 12 (4.86%) Kibana
5 2 (0.81%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.40%) Ansible
6 1 (0.40%) Argo
6 1 (0.40%) Istio
6 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.40%) Puppet
Vendors
1 32 (12.96%) Oracle
2 21 (8.50%) Talend
3 17 (6.88%) Microsoft
4 13 (5.26%) Atlassian
4 13 (5.26%) Denodo
5 12 (4.86%) Informatica
6 8 (3.24%) Jaspersoft
7 7 (2.83%) Dynatrace
8 5 (2.02%) Pega
8 5 (2.02%) Sage
9 4 (1.62%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.81%) Google
10 2 (0.81%) HP
10 2 (0.81%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.40%) Charles River
11 1 (0.40%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.40%) Murex
11 1 (0.40%) Remedy
11 1 (0.40%) SAP
11 1 (0.40%) Splunk