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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 40 48
Rank change year-on-year +13 +8 -4
Contract jobs citing Scrum 257 98 69
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 7.20% 5.31% 3.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.50% 5.96% 4.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 65 43
10th Percentile £413 £389 £352
25th Percentile £450 £430 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £525 £588 £611
90th Percentile £608 £635 £625
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -6.25%
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 £70.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% -21.43% +7.69%

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 3,023 1,643 1,568
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.75% 89.10% 82.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,849 1,045 987
10th Percentile £313 £250 £243
25th Percentile £413 £400 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £581 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £675 £725
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 111 40
10th Percentile £13.45 £12.62 £14.70
25th Percentile £17.50 £16.30 £16.81
Median hourly rate £28.05 £23.00 £25.15
Median % change year-on-year +21.93% -8.56% -8.54%
75th Percentile £53.75 £32.44 £37.63
90th Percentile £67.84 £50.00 £55.45
England median hourly rate £41.03 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.14% -41.51% -2.27%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 +4 148 £488 -5.98% 18
Solihull +10 35 £488 -2.50% 6
Coventry -4 29 £425 -30.61% 8
Birmingham -12 17 £463 -2.63% 43
Warwickshire -18 14 £477 +7.80% 7
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 (24.51%) Confluence
2 18 (7.00%) SAS
3 3 (1.17%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (1.56%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.78%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.39%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.39%) Primavera
2 1 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.39%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 105 (40.86%) AWS
2 38 (14.79%) Azure
3 37 (14.40%) GitHub
4 33 (12.84%) Amazon S3
5 31 (12.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 28 (10.89%) Amazon EC2
7 25 (9.73%) Serverless
8 24 (9.34%) AWS Lambda
8 24 (9.34%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (8.56%) Amazon EKS
10 21 (8.17%) Amazon ECS
11 20 (7.78%) GitHub Actions
12 17 (6.61%) Power Platform
13 16 (6.23%) Power Automate
14 14 (5.45%) Dynamics 365
15 13 (5.06%) PowerApps
16 9 (3.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 8 (3.11%) Amazon SQS
17 8 (3.11%) AWS CodePipeline
17 8 (3.11%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.56%) Network Security
2 1 (0.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.78%) Pentaho
2 19 (7.39%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (5.45%) MongoDB
4 13 (5.06%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (4.67%) Relational Database
6 10 (3.89%) DynamoDB
7 7 (2.72%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (1.56%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.56%) Power BI
9 3 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.17%) Apache Iceberg
9 3 (1.17%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (1.17%) Metadata
9 3 (1.17%) Oracle Database
9 3 (1.17%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.78%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.78%) ZAP BI
11 1 (0.39%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 79 (30.74%) JIRA
2 71 (27.63%) GitLab
3 65 (25.29%) Git
4 58 (22.57%) JUnit
5 49 (19.07%) Jenkins
6 35 (13.62%) Maven
7 33 (12.84%) SonarQube
8 32 (12.45%) Mockito
9 28 (10.89%) Selenium
10 25 (9.73%) Cucumber
11 23 (8.95%) Gatling
12 14 (5.45%) Bitbucket
13 6 (2.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (1.95%) Bitbucket Server
14 5 (1.95%) DbUnit
14 5 (1.95%) jMock
15 3 (1.17%) Cypress.io
15 3 (1.17%) Postman
15 3 (1.17%) Protractor
15 3 (1.17%) WebDriver
General
1 124 (48.25%) Social Skills
2 78 (30.35%) Public Sector
3 31 (12.06%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (7.39%) Finance
5 14 (5.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (4.28%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (3.50%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.95%) Banking
8 5 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.17%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.78%) Billing
10 2 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.78%) Retail
10 2 (0.78%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.39%) Automotive
11 1 (0.39%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.39%) Front Office
11 1 (0.39%) Law
11 1 (0.39%) Local Government
11 1 (0.39%) Military
Job Titles
1 52 (20.23%) Scrum Master
2 42 (16.34%) Developer
2 42 (16.34%) Senior
3 29 (11.28%) Data Engineer
4 27 (10.51%) Lead
5 25 (9.73%) Java Developer
6 24 (9.34%) Quality Engineer
7 20 (7.78%) Java Engineer
8 18 (7.00%) Senior Developer
9 15 (5.84%) Analyst
10 13 (5.06%) Business Analyst
10 13 (5.06%) Delivery Manager
11 12 (4.67%) Senior Java Developer
12 11 (4.28%) Dynamics 365 Developer
13 10 (3.89%) Product Manager
14 8 (3.11%) Project Manager
15 7 (2.72%) Java Scrum Master
16 6 (2.33%) JIRA Engineer
16 6 (2.33%) Lead Developer
16 6 (2.33%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (28.40%) Spring
2 52 (20.23%) Spring Boot
3 32 (12.45%) JPA
4 31 (12.06%) REST
4 31 (12.06%) RESTful
5 30 (11.67%) JSON
6 26 (10.12%) Playwright
7 21 (8.17%) SOAP
8 20 (7.78%) Gherkin
8 20 (7.78%) OpenAPI
9 19 (7.39%) Web Services
10 18 (7.00%) AngularJS
10 18 (7.00%) Hibernate
11 17 (6.61%) ActiveMQ
12 16 (6.23%) Spring Cloud
13 15 (5.84%) WireMock
14 14 (5.45%) RabbitMQ
14 14 (5.45%) React
15 12 (4.67%) Terraform
16 11 (4.28%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 64 (24.90%) Product Ownership
2 37 (14.40%) Cloud Native
3 9 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (3.11%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.95%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.56%) Data Fabric
7 4 (1.56%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.17%) Culture of Ownership
8 3 (1.17%) Legacy Code
8 3 (1.17%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.17%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.78%) BYOD
9 2 (0.78%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.78%) IoT
9 2 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.78%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.39%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.39%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.39%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.50%) Linux
2 4 (1.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (88.72%) Agile
2 119 (46.30%) CI/CD
3 97 (37.74%) DevOps
4 92 (35.80%) Continuous Improvement
5 91 (35.41%) Test Automation
6 86 (33.46%) Stakeholder Management
7 73 (28.40%) Sprint Planning
8 66 (25.68%) Microservices
9 56 (21.79%) Problem-Solving
10 55 (21.40%) Backlog Refinement
11 47 (18.29%) Kanban
12 46 (17.90%) TDD
13 44 (17.12%) Containerisation
14 43 (16.73%) User Stories
15 42 (16.34%) Coaching
16 40 (15.56%) Scaled Agile Framework
17 36 (14.01%) Sprint Retrospective
18 34 (13.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 33 (12.84%) Technical Leadership
20 32 (12.45%) SFIA
Programming Languages
1 88 (34.24%) Java
2 48 (18.68%) SQL
3 28 (10.89%) JavaScript
4 12 (4.67%) C#
5 11 (4.28%) TypeScript
6 9 (3.50%) Python
6 9 (3.50%) Shell Script
7 3 (1.17%) Scala
8 2 (0.78%) R
9 1 (0.39%) Bash
9 1 (0.39%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.39%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 110 (42.80%) Security Cleared
2 101 (39.30%) SC Cleared
3 72 (28.02%) BPSS Clearance
4 14 (5.45%) AWS Certification
5 11 (4.28%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (3.89%) Degree
7 8 (3.11%) SAFe Agilist
8 6 (2.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (1.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (1.56%) CCSP
9 4 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.56%) CISSP
10 3 (1.17%) ISTQB
10 3 (1.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.78%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.39%) Computer Science Degree
12 1 (0.39%) CSPO
12 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (17.90%) Accessibility
2 44 (17.12%) QA
3 26 (10.12%) WCAG
4 10 (3.89%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.56%) FATCA
5 4 (1.56%) PMO
6 3 (1.17%) GDPR
7 1 (0.39%) GRC
7 1 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 73 (28.40%) Docker
2 4 (1.56%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 46 (17.90%) Kubernetes
2 25 (9.73%) Grafana
3 16 (6.23%) Prometheus
4 15 (5.84%) Kibana
5 2 (0.78%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.39%) Ansible
6 1 (0.39%) Argo
6 1 (0.39%) Istio
6 1 (0.39%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.39%) Puppet
Vendors
1 35 (13.62%) Oracle
2 20 (7.78%) Talend
3 17 (6.61%) Microsoft
4 12 (4.67%) Atlassian
4 12 (4.67%) Denodo
4 12 (4.67%) Informatica
5 7 (2.72%) Dynatrace
5 7 (2.72%) Jaspersoft
6 5 (1.95%) Pega
6 5 (1.95%) Sage
7 4 (1.56%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.78%) Google
8 2 (0.78%) HP
8 2 (0.78%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.39%) Charles River
9 1 (0.39%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.39%) Murex
9 1 (0.39%) OneLogin
9 1 (0.39%) Remedy
9 1 (0.39%) SAP