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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 47 42
Rank change year-on-year +4 -5 -28
Contract jobs citing Scrum 91 66 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.95% 3.46% 4.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.58% 4.23% 5.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 42 71
10th Percentile £381 £351 £375
25th Percentile £430 £358 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -11.90% -0.94%
75th Percentile £600 £609 £600
90th Percentile £630 £653 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £563
% change year-on-year -4.76% -6.67% +2.27%
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 1,630 1,561 1,762
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.73% 81.77% 85.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,046 1,005 1,180
10th Percentile £250 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £663 £725 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 40 48
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.48 £14.42
25th Percentile £16.13 £15.22 £19.56
Median hourly rate £24.34 £24.31 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -11.59% +52.78%
75th Percentile £35.15 £37.63 £44.69
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.45 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -41.51% -2.05% +51.38%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Scrum as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Scrum 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -12 29 £519 +45.04% 7
Warwickshire +2 21 £450 -14.29% 5
Birmingham -2 18 £475 -11.63% 25
Coventry - 10 £594 - 9
Solihull - 8 £500 - 3
Worcestershire -2 4 £600 +20.00% 3
Scrum
England

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (19.78%) SAS
2 5 (5.49%) WebLogic
3 4 (4.40%) Apache
3 4 (4.40%) Confluence
3 4 (4.40%) JBoss
4 3 (3.30%) PowerFactory
5 2 (2.20%) OpenStack
6 1 (1.10%) CMS
6 1 (1.10%) SharePoint
6 1 (1.10%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (1.10%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 6 (6.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (2.20%) Revit
4 1 (1.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (1.10%) Moqups
4 1 (1.10%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (4.40%) SAP HR
1 4 (4.40%) SAP PM
2 1 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.10%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 24 (26.37%) AWS
2 14 (15.38%) Azure
3 11 (12.09%) Amazon EC2
3 11 (12.09%) Amazon S3
4 10 (10.99%) Amazon SQS
5 7 (7.69%) AWS KMS
5 7 (7.69%) GCP
5 7 (7.69%) Route 53
6 6 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (5.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (5.49%) Power Platform
8 4 (4.40%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (4.40%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 2 (2.20%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.20%) GitHub
9 2 (2.20%) Serverless
10 1 (1.10%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (1.10%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.40%) Firewall
2 2 (2.20%) BGP
2 2 (2.20%) DHCP
2 2 (2.20%) DNS
2 2 (2.20%) EIGRP
2 2 (2.20%) HTTP
2 2 (2.20%) IPsec
2 2 (2.20%) Network Security
2 2 (2.20%) OSPF
2 2 (2.20%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (2.20%) SSL
2 2 (2.20%) TACACS
2 2 (2.20%) VLAN
2 2 (2.20%) VPN
2 2 (2.20%) Wireless
3 1 (1.10%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (19.78%) Pentaho
2 12 (13.19%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (12.09%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (10.99%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (8.79%) DynamoDB
6 4 (4.40%) MongoDB
6 4 (4.40%) Power BI
6 4 (4.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (3.30%) Oracle Database
7 3 (3.30%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 2 (2.20%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.20%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.10%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 37 (40.66%) JIRA
2 35 (38.46%) Git
3 30 (32.97%) Jenkins
4 14 (15.38%) JUnit
5 11 (12.09%) Maven
6 10 (10.99%) SonarQube
7 7 (7.69%) Mockito
8 6 (6.59%) Selenium
9 5 (5.49%) Bitbucket Server
9 5 (5.49%) DbUnit
9 5 (5.49%) jMock
10 4 (4.40%) Eclipse
10 4 (4.40%) IntelliJ
11 2 (2.20%) Cypress.io
11 2 (2.20%) Postman
11 2 (2.20%) TestPartner
11 2 (2.20%) Visual Studio
12 1 (1.10%) GitLab
12 1 (1.10%) Snyk
12 1 (1.10%) webpack
General
1 26 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 20 (21.98%) Public Sector
3 10 (10.99%) Finance
4 8 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (6.59%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (4.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.30%) Banking
8 3 (3.30%) Legal
8 3 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.20%) Automotive
9 2 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.10%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.10%) Marketing
10 1 (1.10%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (17.58%) Developer
2 13 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 9 (9.89%) Scrum Master
4 8 (8.79%) Analyst
4 8 (8.79%) Architect
5 7 (7.69%) Product Owner
6 6 (6.59%) Lead
7 5 (5.49%) Test Analyst
8 4 (4.40%) Data Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Lead Developer
8 4 (4.40%) Lead Java Developer
8 4 (4.40%) Salesforce Architect
8 4 (4.40%) Salesforce Technical Architect
8 4 (4.40%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 4 (4.40%) Technical Architect
9 3 (3.30%) Application Integration Engineer
9 3 (3.30%) Applications Engineer
9 3 (3.30%) AWS Developer
9 3 (3.30%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.30%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (18.68%) REST
1 17 (18.68%) Spring
2 15 (16.48%) SOAP
3 13 (14.29%) Spring Boot
4 11 (12.09%) Hibernate
5 10 (10.99%) ActiveMQ
6 9 (9.89%) JPA
6 9 (9.89%) Web Services
7 8 (8.79%) AngularJS
7 8 (8.79%) RESTful
8 7 (7.69%) Bootstrap
8 7 (7.69%) Spring Batch
8 7 (7.69%) Spring Cloud
8 7 (7.69%) Spring Integration
9 6 (6.59%) HTML
9 6 (6.59%) JSON
10 5 (5.49%) HTML5
10 5 (5.49%) Lightning Web Components
10 5 (5.49%) PowerMock
11 4 (4.40%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 19 (20.88%) Product Ownership
2 8 (8.79%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (6.59%) SCADA
4 3 (3.30%) Client/Server
4 3 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.30%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.10%) Animation
6 1 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.10%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.10%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.10%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.10%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.89%) Linux
2 4 (4.40%) Unix
3 3 (3.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.30%) Windows
3 3 (3.30%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.10%) Android
4 1 (1.10%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (94.51%) Agile
2 45 (49.45%) DevOps
3 35 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (36.26%) CI/CD
5 32 (35.16%) Continuous Improvement
6 24 (26.37%) Analytics
7 23 (25.27%) ETL
8 22 (24.18%) Data Modelling
9 20 (21.98%) Business Intelligence
9 20 (21.98%) Deployment Automation
10 19 (20.88%) Data Analytics
10 19 (20.88%) Data Pipeline
10 19 (20.88%) Test Automation
11 18 (19.78%) Data Virtualisation
12 17 (18.68%) Microservices
13 16 (17.58%) Data Integration
14 15 (16.48%) Business Analytics
15 13 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
16 12 (13.19%) Migration
16 12 (13.19%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 32 (35.16%) SQL
2 18 (19.78%) Java
3 5 (5.49%) JavaScript
3 5 (5.49%) Scala
4 4 (4.40%) Apex Code
4 4 (4.40%) Python
5 3 (3.30%) PowerShell
5 3 (3.30%) VBScript
6 2 (2.20%) Bash
6 2 (2.20%) C#
7 1 (1.10%) C
7 1 (1.10%) Go
7 1 (1.10%) Korn
7 1 (1.10%) MATLAB
7 1 (1.10%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.10%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 28 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.99%) Degree
4 4 (4.40%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.20%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.20%) PMP
5 2 (2.20%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.10%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (20.88%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.69%) QA
3 3 (3.30%) PMO
4 2 (2.20%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.10%) Automotive SPICE
5 1 (1.10%) GDPR
5 1 (1.10%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.10%) ISO 19650
5 1 (1.10%) ISO 26262
5 1 (1.10%) ISO 9001
5 1 (1.10%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.10%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (41.76%) Docker
2 5 (5.49%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 23 (25.27%) Kubernetes
2 9 (9.89%) Grafana
3 8 (8.79%) Prometheus
4 5 (5.49%) Puppet
5 2 (2.20%) Nagios
6 1 (1.10%) Ansible
6 1 (1.10%) HP ALM
6 1 (1.10%) Podman
6 1 (1.10%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.10%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (24.18%) Oracle
2 18 (19.78%) Denodo
2 18 (19.78%) Talend
3 13 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 10 (10.99%) Salesforce
5 6 (6.59%) Atlassian
6 5 (5.49%) Jaspersoft
6 5 (5.49%) SAP
6 5 (5.49%) VMware
6 5 (5.49%) webMethods
7 4 (4.40%) Cisco
8 3 (3.30%) DIgSILENT
8 3 (3.30%) Google
9 2 (2.20%) ArcSight
9 2 (2.20%) Arista
9 2 (2.20%) Autodesk
9 2 (2.20%) Juniper
9 2 (2.20%) MuleSoft
9 2 (2.20%) SolarWinds
9 2 (2.20%) Splunk