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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 38 45
Rank change year-on-year +12 +7 -27
Contract jobs citing Scrum 183 61 72
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 6.88% 4.30% 3.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.07% 4.79% 4.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 35 42
10th Percentile £422 £411 £372
25th Percentile £463 £458 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £483 £518
Median % change year-on-year +5.33% -6.67% -4.17%
75th Percentile £562 £525 £580
90th Percentile £600 £601 £675
England median daily rate £500 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% -2.18%

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 2,267 1,273 1,603
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.23% 89.71% 84.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,480 803 1,051
10th Percentile £300 £210 £275
25th Percentile £402 £400 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 52 110
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.52 £11.94
25th Percentile £16.10 £15.22 £16.05
Median hourly rate £21.46 £20.12 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.66% -12.52% +29.94%
75th Percentile £27.21 £30.95 £48.75
90th Percentile £37.45 £41.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £27.21 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.26% - -

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 23 February 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 23 February 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 +10 111 £513 +7.49% 12
Warwickshire -9 28 £550 +10.00% 4
Birmingham -2 21 £475 - 11
Coventry -15 9 £560 +17.89% 3
Solihull -2 7 £358 -14.76% 7
Worcestershire - 6 £475 - 4
Staffordshire +1 1 - - 1
Wolverhampton - 1 - - 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 56 (30.60%) SAS
2 21 (11.48%) Confluence
3 13 (7.10%) WebLogic
4 8 (4.37%) Apache
4 8 (4.37%) JBoss
5 3 (1.64%) Drupal
5 3 (1.64%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.55%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.55%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 6 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.19%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.55%) CANalyzer
4 1 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Maximo
1 1 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 40 (21.86%) AWS
2 16 (8.74%) Azure
3 12 (6.56%) OpenShift
4 8 (4.37%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (3.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (3.83%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (3.83%) Amazon S3
5 7 (3.83%) Amazon SQS
5 7 (3.83%) AWS KMS
5 7 (3.83%) Route 53
6 6 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.19%) GCP
8 3 (1.64%) SaaS
9 2 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.09%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (1.09%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.09%) GitHub
9 2 (1.09%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.55%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.64%) Network Security
2 1 (0.55%) Firewall
2 1 (0.55%) SMS
2 1 (0.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (18.58%) Pentaho
2 21 (11.48%) Oracle Database
3 18 (9.84%) MongoDB
3 18 (9.84%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 13 (7.10%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (6.56%) Metadata
6 9 (4.92%) Metadata Repository
6 9 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (3.83%) Amazon Aurora
7 7 (3.83%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (3.83%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.64%) MySQL
8 3 (1.64%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.64%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 2 (1.09%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.09%) Power BI
9 2 (1.09%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.09%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 80 (43.72%) Git
2 59 (32.24%) JIRA
3 52 (28.42%) Jenkins
4 38 (20.77%) JUnit
5 28 (15.30%) Selenium
6 25 (13.66%) GitLab
7 15 (8.20%) Maven
7 15 (8.20%) Mockito
8 9 (4.92%) Cucumber
9 8 (4.37%) Eclipse
9 8 (4.37%) IntelliJ
9 8 (4.37%) SonarQube
10 6 (3.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 6 (3.28%) DbUnit
10 6 (3.28%) jMock
11 4 (2.19%) Bitbucket Server
12 2 (1.09%) Gatling
12 2 (1.09%) REST Assured
13 1 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 64 (34.97%) Social Skills
2 26 (14.21%) Finance
3 22 (12.02%) Public Sector
4 14 (7.65%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.46%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (4.37%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.73%) Banking
7 5 (2.73%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.64%) Retail
9 2 (1.09%) Advertising
9 2 (1.09%) Aeronautics
9 2 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.55%) Electronics
10 1 (0.55%) Legal
Job Titles
1 30 (16.39%) Data Engineer
2 25 (13.66%) Developer
2 25 (13.66%) Scrum Master
3 20 (10.93%) Project Manager
4 16 (8.74%) Architect
4 16 (8.74%) Java Developer
5 12 (6.56%) Data Architect
6 11 (6.01%) Test Specialist
7 9 (4.92%) SAS Engineer
8 7 (3.83%) Java Engineer
8 7 (3.83%) Lead
8 7 (3.83%) Senior
8 7 (3.83%) Software Engineer
9 6 (3.28%) Test Automation Specialist
10 5 (2.73%) Analyst
10 5 (2.73%) Business Analyst
10 5 (2.73%) Data Manager
10 5 (2.73%) Delivery Manager
10 5 (2.73%) Denodo Engineer
11 4 (2.19%) Agile Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (18.03%) Spring
2 27 (14.75%) REST
3 22 (12.02%) Spring Boot
4 16 (8.74%) Hibernate
4 16 (8.74%) JSON
5 15 (8.20%) HTML
5 15 (8.20%) JPA
5 15 (8.20%) SOAP
6 11 (6.01%) pytest
6 11 (6.01%) Web Services
7 9 (4.92%) Node.js
8 8 (4.37%) AngularJS
8 8 (4.37%) Gherkin
8 8 (4.37%) HTML5
8 8 (4.37%) J2EE
8 8 (4.37%) J2SE
8 8 (4.37%) Play Framework
8 8 (4.37%) Playwright
8 8 (4.37%) RESTful
8 8 (4.37%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.46%) Product Ownership
2 6 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (2.73%) CMDB
3 5 (2.73%) Data Centre
4 4 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.64%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.55%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.55%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.55%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.55%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.55%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.55%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.55%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.55%) MicroBlaze
7 1 (0.55%) RISC-V
7 1 (0.55%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.55%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 18 (9.84%) Linux
2 8 (4.37%) Unix
3 6 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.64%) Windows
5 1 (0.55%) Android
5 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.55%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (86.89%) Agile
2 76 (41.53%) CI/CD
3 75 (40.98%) DevOps
4 69 (37.70%) Problem-Solving
5 61 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 53 (28.96%) Test Automation
7 52 (28.42%) Analytics
7 52 (28.42%) Data Modelling
8 47 (25.68%) Data Pipeline
9 44 (24.04%) Business Intelligence
10 40 (21.86%) Stakeholder Management
11 39 (21.31%) ETL
12 38 (20.77%) Deployment Automation
13 35 (19.13%) Project Management
14 34 (18.58%) Microservices
15 33 (18.03%) Data Virtualisation
16 32 (17.49%) Data Integration
17 29 (15.85%) Containerisation
17 29 (15.85%) Data Analytics
18 27 (14.75%) Business Analytics
Programming Languages
1 67 (36.61%) SQL
2 38 (20.77%) Java
3 13 (7.10%) Python
4 10 (5.46%) Shell Script
5 9 (4.92%) Perl
5 9 (4.92%) Scala
6 4 (2.19%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.19%) MATLAB
7 2 (1.09%) C#
7 2 (1.09%) PHP
7 2 (1.09%) Ruby
8 1 (0.55%) Bash
8 1 (0.55%) C
8 1 (0.55%) C++
8 1 (0.55%) Groovy
8 1 (0.55%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.55%) Swift
8 1 (0.55%) SystemVerilog
8 1 (0.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 85 (46.45%) Security Cleared
2 79 (43.17%) SC Cleared
3 14 (7.65%) Degree
4 8 (4.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.28%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.73%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 4 (2.19%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.19%) PMI Certification
7 4 (2.19%) PMP
8 3 (1.64%) CCNA
8 3 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.64%) CISM
8 3 (1.64%) CISSP
8 3 (1.64%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.55%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (19.13%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.46%) QA
3 9 (4.92%) WCAG
4 5 (2.73%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.64%) ISO 19650
5 3 (1.64%) PMO
6 1 (0.55%) GDPR
6 1 (0.55%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.55%) NCSC
6 1 (0.55%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 65 (35.52%) Docker
2 5 (2.73%) Postfix
3 1 (0.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 67 (36.61%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.56%) Grafana
3 8 (4.37%) Kibana
3 8 (4.37%) Puppet
4 4 (2.19%) Terraform
Vendors
1 49 (26.78%) Oracle
2 34 (18.58%) Talend
3 31 (16.94%) Denodo
4 11 (6.01%) Microsoft
5 9 (4.92%) Atlassian
6 8 (4.37%) webMethods
7 7 (3.83%) Jaspersoft
8 6 (3.28%) Red Hat
9 5 (2.73%) ServiceNow
10 4 (2.19%) Remedy
11 3 (1.64%) Google
11 3 (1.64%) Informatica
12 2 (1.09%) MuleSoft
12 2 (1.09%) OneLogin
13 1 (0.55%) Actian
13 1 (0.55%) CA Agile Central
13 1 (0.55%) CyberArk
13 1 (0.55%) DIgSILENT
13 1 (0.55%) Okta
13 1 (0.55%) Workday