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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 45 58
Rank change year-on-year +17 +13 -43
Contract jobs citing Scrum 150 63 53
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 6.39% 4.06% 2.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.47% 4.65% 3.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 32 32
10th Percentile £421 £407 £413
25th Percentile £477 £453 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £484 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.24% -7.90% -2.78%
75th Percentile £575 £578 £591
90th Percentile £629 £612 £686
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -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 2,007 1,355 1,519
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.48% 87.36% 84.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,282 845 1,005
10th Percentile £263 £213 £275
25th Percentile £405 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £490
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.14% -2.00%
75th Percentile £588 £612 £600
90th Percentile £675 £713 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 47 79
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £13.50
25th Percentile £16.19 £16.51 £17.61
Median hourly rate £20.50 £21.59 £24.65
Median % change year-on-year -5.05% -12.41% +39.27%
75th Percentile £26.18 £33.65 £48.75
90th Percentile £35.60 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -12.50% +14.29%

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 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 20 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 +5 87 £519 +8.70% 10
Warwickshire -7 26 £550 +10.00% 9
Birmingham -4 15 £488 +8.33% 3
Coventry -10 10 £616 +29.74% 3
Worcestershire - 7 £575 - 2
Solihull +1 3 £358 -
Wolverhampton - 1 - - 3
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 50 (33.33%) SAS
2 9 (6.00%) Confluence
2 9 (6.00%) WebLogic
3 8 (5.33%) Apache
3 8 (5.33%) JBoss
4 3 (2.00%) Drupal
4 3 (2.00%) PowerFactory
5 1 (0.67%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.67%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.67%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.67%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.67%) CANalyzer
4 1 (0.67%) Moqups
4 1 (0.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Maximo
1 1 (0.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.67%) SAP HR
1 1 (0.67%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 24 (16.00%) AWS
2 13 (8.67%) Azure
3 10 (6.67%) OpenShift
4 8 (5.33%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (4.67%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.33%) GCP
7 3 (2.00%) SaaS
8 2 (1.33%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.33%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (1.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.33%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.67%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.67%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (0.67%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.67%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.67%) npm
9 1 (0.67%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.67%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.33%) Network Security
2 1 (0.67%) Firewall
2 1 (0.67%) SMS
2 1 (0.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (24.67%) Pentaho
2 17 (11.33%) Oracle Database
3 14 (9.33%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 13 (8.67%) MongoDB
5 7 (4.67%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (3.33%) Metadata
7 4 (2.67%) Metadata Repository
8 3 (2.00%) MySQL
9 2 (1.33%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.33%) SAS Visual Analytics
10 1 (0.67%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.67%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.67%) Power BI
10 1 (0.67%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.67%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 67 (44.67%) Git
2 54 (36.00%) JIRA
3 46 (30.67%) Jenkins
4 26 (17.33%) JUnit
5 24 (16.00%) Selenium
6 18 (12.00%) GitLab
7 9 (6.00%) Maven
8 8 (5.33%) Eclipse
8 8 (5.33%) IntelliJ
8 8 (5.33%) Mockito
9 7 (4.67%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.67%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.67%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.67%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.67%) Gatling
10 1 (0.67%) Gradle
10 1 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.67%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 52 (34.67%) Social Skills
2 18 (12.00%) Finance
3 16 (10.67%) Public Sector
4 10 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
5 9 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.67%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (4.00%) Banking
8 4 (2.67%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.00%) Legal
9 3 (2.00%) Retail
10 2 (1.33%) Aeronautics
10 2 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 24 (16.00%) Scrum Master
2 21 (14.00%) Data Engineer
3 19 (12.67%) Project Manager
4 14 (9.33%) Developer
5 11 (7.33%) Architect
6 8 (5.33%) Java Developer
6 8 (5.33%) SAS Engineer
6 8 (5.33%) Test Specialist
7 5 (3.33%) Data Architect
7 5 (3.33%) Data Manager
7 5 (3.33%) Delivery Manager
7 5 (3.33%) Denodo Engineer
7 5 (3.33%) Java Engineer
7 5 (3.33%) Lead
7 5 (3.33%) Senior
7 5 (3.33%) Software Engineer
8 4 (2.67%) Agile Delivery Manager
8 4 (2.67%) Agile Project Manager
8 4 (2.67%) Integration Engineer
8 4 (2.67%) ScrumMaster Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (12.67%) REST
2 17 (11.33%) Spring
3 16 (10.67%) JSON
4 15 (10.00%) HTML
5 9 (6.00%) Hibernate
5 9 (6.00%) HTML5
5 9 (6.00%) Spring Boot
6 8 (5.33%) EJB
6 8 (5.33%) J2EE
6 8 (5.33%) J2SE
6 8 (5.33%) JPA
6 8 (5.33%) Play Framework
6 8 (5.33%) pytest
6 8 (5.33%) SOAP
6 8 (5.33%) XML
7 6 (4.00%) Gherkin
7 6 (4.00%) Playwright
7 6 (4.00%) React
8 5 (3.33%) GraalVM
8 5 (3.33%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 4 (2.67%) CMDB
3 3 (2.00%) Client/Server
3 3 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (1.33%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.67%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.67%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.67%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.67%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.67%) MicroBlaze
5 1 (0.67%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.67%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.67%) RISC-V
5 1 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.67%) Verilog
5 1 (0.67%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.33%) Linux
1 8 (5.33%) Unix
2 4 (2.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.00%) Windows
3 3 (2.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.67%) Android
4 1 (0.67%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.67%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (92.00%) Agile
2 72 (48.00%) DevOps
3 63 (42.00%) Problem-Solving
4 57 (38.00%) CI/CD
5 54 (36.00%) Analytics
5 54 (36.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 49 (32.67%) Data Modelling
7 47 (31.33%) Test Automation
8 45 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
9 40 (26.67%) Deployment Automation
9 40 (26.67%) ETL
10 39 (26.00%) Business Intelligence
11 36 (24.00%) Data Virtualisation
12 34 (22.67%) Data Integration
13 33 (22.00%) Data Analytics
14 32 (21.33%) Stakeholder Management
15 29 (19.33%) Project Management
16 28 (18.67%) Business Analytics
17 21 (14.00%) Risk Assessment
18 20 (13.33%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 55 (36.67%) SQL
2 21 (14.00%) Java
3 15 (10.00%) Python
4 9 (6.00%) Scala
5 5 (3.33%) Shell Script
6 4 (2.67%) Perl
6 4 (2.67%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.00%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.00%) MATLAB
7 3 (2.00%) VBScript
8 2 (1.33%) Bash
8 2 (1.33%) PHP
8 2 (1.33%) Ruby
9 1 (0.67%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.67%) C
9 1 (0.67%) C#
9 1 (0.67%) C++
9 1 (0.67%) Go
9 1 (0.67%) Groovy
9 1 (0.67%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 69 (46.00%) Security Cleared
2 60 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.67%) Degree
4 5 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (3.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 4 (2.67%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.67%) PMI Certification
5 4 (2.67%) PMP
6 2 (1.33%) CISM
6 2 (1.33%) CISSP
7 1 (0.67%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.67%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (24.67%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.67%) QA
2 7 (4.67%) WCAG
3 4 (2.67%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.00%) ISO 19650
4 3 (2.00%) PMO
5 1 (0.67%) GDPR
5 1 (0.67%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.67%) NCSC
5 1 (0.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 57 (38.00%) Docker
2 1 (0.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 59 (39.33%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.00%) Puppet
3 8 (5.33%) Kibana
4 6 (4.00%) Grafana
5 2 (1.33%) Terraform
6 1 (0.67%) Ansible
6 1 (0.67%) Podman
6 1 (0.67%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 47 (31.33%) Oracle
2 37 (24.67%) Denodo
2 37 (24.67%) Talend
3 12 (8.00%) Microsoft
4 8 (5.33%) webMethods
5 5 (3.33%) VMware
6 4 (2.67%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.00%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.00%) DIgSILENT
7 3 (2.00%) Google
8 2 (1.33%) ArcSight
8 2 (1.33%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.33%) OneLogin
8 2 (1.33%) SAP
9 1 (0.67%) Adobe
9 1 (0.67%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.67%) Okta
9 1 (0.67%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.67%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.67%) Splunk