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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 45 47
Rank change year-on-year +18 +2 -5
Contract jobs citing Scrum 228 83 69
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 6.60% 4.70% 3.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.78% 5.32% 4.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 53 49
10th Percentile £413 £326 £356
25th Percentile £448 £428 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% -11.21%
75th Percentile £525 £600 £625
90th Percentile £602 £656 £688
England median daily rate £514 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £31.91 - -
25th Percentile £38.81 - -
Median hourly rate £51.08 - £32.28
75th Percentile £61.13 - -
90th Percentile £63.60 - -
England median hourly rate £69.75 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +26.82% -12.00% -3.85%

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 2,932 1,559 1,542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.91% 88.33% 81.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,807 997 1,013
10th Percentile £313 £250 £250
25th Percentile £410 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £725
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 102 51
10th Percentile £13.45 £12.62 £13.18
25th Percentile £17.74 £15.34 £14.85
Median hourly rate £30.27 £24.34 £21.59
Median % change year-on-year +24.36% +12.74% -21.49%
75th Percentile £53.75 £35.45 £36.25
90th Percentile £70.16 £50.00 £55.25
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

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 29 August 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 29 August 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 29 August 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 +11 123 £492 -5.11% 29
Solihull +5 31 £463 -7.50% 3
Coventry -6 24 £425 -28.87% 7
Warwickshire -10 19 £500 +11.11% 3
Birmingham -18 19 £463 -2.63% 42
Worcestershire -1 2 - - 4
Staffordshire - 2 £320 - 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 56 (24.56%) Confluence
2 22 (9.65%) SAS
3 4 (1.75%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.88%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (3.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.75%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.44%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.44%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.44%) Primavera
2 1 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.44%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 82 (35.96%) AWS
2 41 (17.98%) Azure
3 36 (15.79%) Amazon S3
4 33 (14.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 31 (13.60%) GitHub
6 30 (13.16%) Amazon EC2
7 28 (12.28%) Serverless
8 25 (10.96%) AWS Lambda
9 24 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
9 24 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (10.09%) Amazon ECS
11 21 (9.21%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (8.33%) Power Platform
13 16 (7.02%) Power Automate
14 14 (6.14%) Dynamics 365
15 13 (5.70%) PowerApps
16 12 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 11 (4.82%) AWS CodePipeline
18 10 (4.39%) Amazon SQS
18 10 (4.39%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.44%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (9.65%) Pentaho
2 13 (5.70%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (4.82%) DynamoDB
5 8 (3.51%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (3.07%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.19%) Power BI
8 4 (1.75%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.75%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.32%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.32%) Apache Iceberg
9 3 (1.32%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (1.32%) Metadata
9 3 (1.32%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.32%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.88%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.88%) ZAP BI
11 1 (0.44%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 78 (34.21%) JIRA
2 52 (22.81%) GitLab
3 45 (19.74%) Git
3 45 (19.74%) Jenkins
4 32 (14.04%) JUnit
5 19 (8.33%) Maven
5 19 (8.33%) SonarQube
6 17 (7.46%) Bitbucket
6 17 (7.46%) Mockito
7 16 (7.02%) Selenium
8 13 (5.70%) Cucumber
8 13 (5.70%) Gatling
9 6 (2.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (2.63%) Bitbucket Server
9 6 (2.63%) DbUnit
9 6 (2.63%) jMock
10 3 (1.32%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.32%) Postman
10 3 (1.32%) Protractor
10 3 (1.32%) WebDriver
General
1 102 (44.74%) Social Skills
2 69 (30.26%) Public Sector
3 27 (11.84%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (7.46%) Finance
5 14 (6.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.32%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.88%) Banking
9 2 (0.88%) Billing
9 2 (0.88%) Electronics
9 2 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.88%) Law
9 2 (0.88%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.88%) Retail
10 1 (0.44%) Advertising
10 1 (0.44%) Automotive
10 1 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.44%) Local Government
10 1 (0.44%) Military
Job Titles
1 53 (23.25%) Scrum Master
2 34 (14.91%) Developer
3 31 (13.60%) Data Engineer
4 28 (12.28%) Senior
5 24 (10.53%) Lead
6 17 (7.46%) Java Developer
7 15 (6.58%) Analyst
7 15 (6.58%) Quality Engineer
8 13 (5.70%) Business Analyst
8 13 (5.70%) Senior Developer
9 11 (4.82%) Delivery Manager
9 11 (4.82%) Dynamics 365 Developer
10 10 (4.39%) Java Engineer
11 9 (3.95%) Project Manager
12 7 (3.07%) Senior Java Developer
13 6 (2.63%) AWS DevOps
13 6 (2.63%) Data Manager
13 6 (2.63%) JIRA Engineer
14 5 (2.19%) Product Owner
14 5 (2.19%) SAS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (18.86%) Spring
2 34 (14.91%) Spring Boot
3 22 (9.65%) JSON
4 20 (8.77%) REST
4 20 (8.77%) RESTful
5 17 (7.46%) Terraform
6 16 (7.02%) JPA
7 14 (6.14%) Playwright
8 13 (5.70%) SOAP
8 13 (5.70%) Web Services
9 11 (4.82%) Gherkin
9 11 (4.82%) OpenAPI
10 10 (4.39%) ActiveMQ
10 10 (4.39%) AngularJS
10 10 (4.39%) AWS CDK
10 10 (4.39%) Hibernate
11 9 (3.95%) React
11 9 (3.95%) Spring Cloud
12 8 (3.51%) Spring Batch
12 8 (3.51%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 61 (26.75%) Product Ownership
2 26 (11.40%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.82%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.75%) Data Fabric
5 4 (1.75%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.32%) Legacy Code
6 3 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.32%) Taxonomies
7 2 (0.88%) BYOD
7 2 (0.88%) Credit Risk
7 2 (0.88%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.88%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.44%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.44%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.44%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (0.44%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.44%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.44%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.82%) Linux
2 4 (1.75%) Unix
3 2 (0.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (87.28%) Agile
2 106 (46.49%) CI/CD
3 105 (46.05%) DevOps
4 84 (36.84%) Continuous Improvement
5 74 (32.46%) Test Automation
6 72 (31.58%) Stakeholder Management
7 57 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
8 45 (19.74%) Backlog Refinement
8 45 (19.74%) Microservices
8 45 (19.74%) Problem-Solving
9 44 (19.30%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 38 (16.67%) Kanban
11 37 (16.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 37 (16.23%) User Stories
12 36 (15.79%) Containerisation
13 34 (14.91%) ETL
14 31 (13.60%) SFIA
15 30 (13.16%) TDD
15 30 (13.16%) Technical Leadership
16 29 (12.72%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 54 (23.68%) Java
2 48 (21.05%) SQL
3 22 (9.65%) JavaScript
4 12 (5.26%) C#
5 6 (2.63%) Python
5 6 (2.63%) Shell Script
6 3 (1.32%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.32%) Scala
7 2 (0.88%) Bash
7 2 (0.88%) MATLAB
7 2 (0.88%) R
7 2 (0.88%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.44%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.44%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 112 (49.12%) Security Cleared
2 105 (46.05%) SC Cleared
3 45 (19.74%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (5.70%) AWS Certification
5 11 (4.82%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (4.82%) SAFe Agilist
6 10 (4.39%) Degree
7 9 (3.95%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 3 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.32%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.88%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.88%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.88%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.88%) PMP
10 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.44%) CBAP
10 1 (0.44%) CCNA
10 1 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.44%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (15.35%) Accessibility
2 31 (13.60%) QA
3 15 (6.58%) WCAG
4 12 (5.26%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.75%) FATCA
5 4 (1.75%) GDPR
5 4 (1.75%) PMO
6 2 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 2 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 1 (0.44%) GRC
7 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.44%) SLA
System Software
1 61 (26.75%) Docker
2 5 (2.19%) Postfix
3 1 (0.44%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 38 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 17 (7.46%) Grafana
3 9 (3.95%) Prometheus
4 7 (3.07%) Kibana
5 2 (0.88%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.44%) Ansible
6 1 (0.44%) Argo
6 1 (0.44%) Istio
6 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.44%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.44%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (13.16%) Oracle
2 26 (11.40%) Microsoft
3 22 (9.65%) Talend
4 18 (7.89%) Atlassian
5 14 (6.14%) Denodo
6 12 (5.26%) Informatica
7 8 (3.51%) Jaspersoft
8 6 (2.63%) Dynatrace
9 5 (2.19%) Sage
10 4 (1.75%) Pega
10 4 (1.75%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.88%) Google
11 2 (0.88%) HP
11 2 (0.88%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.88%) SAP
12 1 (0.44%) Charles River
12 1 (0.44%) Citrix
12 1 (0.44%) Murex
12 1 (0.44%) NetApp
12 1 (0.44%) Remedy