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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 46 65
Rank change year-on-year +13 +19 -51
Contract jobs citing Scrum 136 63 53
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 6.04% 3.77% 2.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.92% 4.40% 3.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 36 34
10th Percentile £415 £378 £370
25th Percentile £463 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.75% +4.21% -11.21%
75th Percentile £575 £591 £583
90th Percentile £630 £612 £684
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £32.28 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% -

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 1,965 1,432 1,551
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 87.29% 85.70% 85.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,239 907 1,057
10th Percentile £263 £225 £273
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
75th Percentile £584 £612 £600
90th Percentile £672 £725 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 47 49
10th Percentile £13.51 £14.70 £14.46
25th Percentile £16.13 £16.88 £17.50
Median hourly rate £20.50 £23.60 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.14% +2.61% +29.94%
75th Percentile £27.21 £34.38 £55.00
90th Percentile £40.19 £52.50 £67.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

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 17 December 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 17 December 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 +1 75 £519 +9.62% 7
Warwickshire -7 23 £550 +10.00% 7
Coventry -5 13 £616 +29.74% 2
Birmingham -7 13 £475 +5.56% 9
Worcestershire -12 7 £575 +15.00% 2
Solihull - 2 £345 -
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 46 (33.82%) SAS
2 10 (7.35%) WebLogic
3 8 (5.88%) Apache
3 8 (5.88%) Confluence
3 8 (5.88%) JBoss
4 3 (2.21%) Drupal
4 3 (2.21%) PowerFactory
5 1 (0.74%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.74%) CMS
5 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.74%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.74%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.74%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.74%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 7 (5.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.68%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.74%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.74%) Moqups
4 1 (0.74%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.74%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (2.94%) SAP HR
1 4 (2.94%) SAP PM
2 1 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.74%) Maximo
2 1 (0.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 22 (16.18%) AWS
2 15 (11.03%) Azure
3 10 (7.35%) OpenShift
4 8 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (5.15%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.68%) GCP
7 3 (2.21%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 2 (1.47%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.47%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (1.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.47%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.47%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.74%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.74%) Datadog
9 1 (0.74%) iPaaS
9 1 (0.74%) Lucidchart
9 1 (0.74%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.74%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.74%) Firewall
1 1 (0.74%) SMS
1 1 (0.74%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (24.26%) Pentaho
2 17 (12.50%) Oracle Database
3 14 (10.29%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 13 (9.56%) MongoDB
5 7 (5.15%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (3.68%) Metadata
7 4 (2.94%) Metadata Repository
7 4 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (2.21%) MySQL
8 3 (2.21%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.47%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.47%) Power BI
9 2 (1.47%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.47%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 2 (1.47%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.74%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.74%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.74%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 63 (46.32%) Git
2 55 (40.44%) JIRA
3 42 (30.88%) Jenkins
4 25 (18.38%) Selenium
5 24 (17.65%) JUnit
6 16 (11.76%) GitLab
7 8 (5.88%) Cucumber
7 8 (5.88%) Eclipse
7 8 (5.88%) IntelliJ
8 7 (5.15%) Maven
9 6 (4.41%) Mockito
10 2 (1.47%) TestPartner
11 1 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.74%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.74%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.74%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.74%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.74%) webpack
General
1 54 (39.71%) Social Skills
2 16 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 14 (10.29%) Finance
4 9 (6.62%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.15%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (3.68%) Banking
7 5 (3.68%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.94%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.21%) Legal
10 2 (1.47%) Aeronautics
10 2 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.74%) Advertising
11 1 (0.74%) Marketing
11 1 (0.74%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (12.50%) Data Engineer
2 16 (11.76%) Scrum Master
3 14 (10.29%) Developer
3 14 (10.29%) Project Manager
4 11 (8.09%) Architect
5 8 (5.88%) Test Specialist
6 7 (5.15%) Java Developer
7 6 (4.41%) Analyst
7 6 (4.41%) SAS Engineer
8 5 (3.68%) Data Architect
8 5 (3.68%) Java Engineer
8 5 (3.68%) Senior
8 5 (3.68%) Software Engineer
8 5 (3.68%) Technical Architect
9 4 (2.94%) Agile Project Manager
9 4 (2.94%) Delivery Manager
9 4 (2.94%) Integration Engineer
9 4 (2.94%) Salesforce Architect
9 4 (2.94%) Salesforce Technical Architect
9 4 (2.94%) ScrumMaster Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (13.97%) REST
2 17 (12.50%) JSON
2 17 (12.50%) Spring
3 16 (11.76%) HTML
4 9 (6.62%) Hibernate
4 9 (6.62%) HTML5
4 9 (6.62%) SOAP
4 9 (6.62%) Spring Boot
5 8 (5.88%) EJB
5 8 (5.88%) J2EE
5 8 (5.88%) J2SE
5 8 (5.88%) Play Framework
5 8 (5.88%) pytest
5 8 (5.88%) XML
6 6 (4.41%) Gherkin
6 6 (4.41%) JPA
6 6 (4.41%) Playwright
6 6 (4.41%) React
7 5 (3.68%) GraalVM
7 5 (3.68%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.03%) Product Ownership
2 4 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.21%) Client/Server
3 3 (2.21%) SCADA
4 2 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.74%) Animation
5 1 (0.74%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.74%) CMDB
5 1 (0.74%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.74%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.74%) FPGA
5 1 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.74%) MicroBlaze
5 1 (0.74%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.74%) PDA
5 1 (0.74%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.74%) RISC-V
5 1 (0.74%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.88%) Linux
1 8 (5.88%) Unix
2 4 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.21%) Windows
3 3 (2.21%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.74%) Android
4 1 (0.74%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.74%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (92.65%) Agile
2 68 (50.00%) DevOps
3 65 (47.79%) Problem-Solving
4 55 (40.44%) CI/CD
5 52 (38.24%) Continuous Improvement
6 50 (36.76%) Analytics
7 48 (35.29%) Data Modelling
8 43 (31.62%) Test Automation
9 41 (30.15%) Data Pipeline
10 39 (28.68%) ETL
11 36 (26.47%) Business Intelligence
11 36 (26.47%) Deployment Automation
12 32 (23.53%) Data Virtualisation
13 30 (22.06%) Data Integration
13 30 (22.06%) Stakeholder Management
14 29 (21.32%) Data Analytics
15 25 (18.38%) Business Analytics
16 23 (16.91%) Sprint Planning
17 21 (15.44%) Project Management
18 19 (13.97%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 51 (37.50%) SQL
2 22 (16.18%) Java
3 15 (11.03%) Python
4 10 (7.35%) Scala
5 4 (2.94%) Apex Code
5 4 (2.94%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.94%) PowerShell
5 4 (2.94%) Shell Script
6 3 (2.21%) Bash
6 3 (2.21%) VBScript
7 2 (1.47%) C
7 2 (1.47%) C#
7 2 (1.47%) MATLAB
7 2 (1.47%) PHP
7 2 (1.47%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.47%) Ruby
8 1 (0.74%) C++
8 1 (0.74%) Groovy
8 1 (0.74%) Korn
8 1 (0.74%) Perl
Qualifications
1 62 (45.59%) Security Cleared
2 53 (38.97%) SC Cleared
3 17 (12.50%) Degree
4 5 (3.68%) PMI Certification
4 5 (3.68%) PMP
4 5 (3.68%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 4 (2.94%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.74%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.74%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (24.26%) Data Quality
2 10 (7.35%) QA
3 7 (5.15%) WCAG
4 5 (3.68%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.21%) ISO 19650
5 3 (2.21%) PMO
6 1 (0.74%) GDPR
6 1 (0.74%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.74%) NCSC
6 1 (0.74%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 55 (40.44%) Docker
2 1 (0.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 54 (39.71%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.62%) Puppet
3 6 (4.41%) Grafana
3 6 (4.41%) Kibana
4 2 (1.47%) Terraform
5 1 (0.74%) Ansible
5 1 (0.74%) Podman
5 1 (0.74%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.74%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 50 (36.76%) Oracle
2 33 (24.26%) Denodo
2 33 (24.26%) Talend
3 10 (7.35%) Microsoft
4 9 (6.62%) webMethods
5 5 (3.68%) SAP
5 5 (3.68%) VMware
6 4 (2.94%) MuleSoft
6 4 (2.94%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.21%) DIgSILENT
7 3 (2.21%) Google
8 2 (1.47%) ArcSight
8 2 (1.47%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.74%) Adobe
9 1 (0.74%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.74%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.74%) Okta
9 1 (0.74%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.74%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.74%) Splunk