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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 40 42
Rank change year-on-year +11 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing Scrum 234 79 74
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 6.74% 4.86% 3.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.84% 5.51% 4.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 46 59
10th Percentile £413 £328 £356
25th Percentile £450 £425 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% -5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £515 £533 £619
90th Percentile £579 £606 £688
England median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -6.67%
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 £69.50 £55.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +26.36% -8.33% -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 2,984 1,433 1,581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.99% 88.08% 81.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,933 899 1,072
10th Percentile £313 £219 £275
25th Percentile £405 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £671 £669 £725
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 103 75
10th Percentile £14.82 £12.62 £11.39
25th Percentile £21.25 £13.74 £14.06
Median hourly rate £33.99 £22.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.07% +21.62% -29.19%
75th Percentile £58.06 £34.43 £39.38
90th Percentile £72.54 £50.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +86.88% -37.13% -6.98%

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 25 July 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 25 July 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 25 July 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 +8 126 £492 -1.60% 24
Solihull -1 31 £463 +10.12% 4
Birmingham -23 26 £466 -1.95% 13
Coventry -8 21 £425 +6.92% 2
Warwickshire -16 20 £525 +16.67% 3
Worcestershire 0 5 - - 1
Staffordshire - 3 £320 - 2
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 65 (27.78%) Confluence
2 43 (18.38%) SAS
3 6 (2.56%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.71%) WebLogic
5 2 (0.85%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (3.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.71%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (2.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.43%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.43%) Primavera
2 1 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.43%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 72 (30.77%) AWS
2 41 (17.52%) Amazon S3
3 39 (16.67%) Azure
4 38 (16.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 35 (14.96%) Amazon EC2
6 24 (10.26%) Serverless
7 21 (8.97%) AWS Lambda
7 21 (8.97%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (8.55%) Amazon EKS
8 20 (8.55%) GitHub
9 19 (8.12%) Amazon ECS
9 19 (8.12%) Amazon SQS
9 19 (8.12%) Power Platform
10 18 (7.69%) Route 53
11 17 (7.26%) AWS KMS
11 17 (7.26%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (5.13%) Power Automate
12 12 (5.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 11 (4.70%) AWS CodePipeline
14 10 (4.27%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.43%) Network Security
1 1 (0.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (14.10%) Pentaho
2 23 (9.83%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (9.40%) Amazon RDS
4 20 (8.55%) DynamoDB
5 17 (7.26%) Amazon Aurora
6 11 (4.70%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (3.85%) Metadata
7 9 (3.85%) Power BI
8 6 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (2.56%) BusinessObjects
8 6 (2.56%) MongoDB
9 5 (2.14%) Metadata Repository
9 5 (2.14%) Oracle Database
9 5 (2.14%) SQL Server
10 4 (1.71%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.71%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.71%) SAS Enterprise Guide
11 3 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (1.28%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.28%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 91 (38.89%) JIRA
2 63 (26.92%) Jenkins
3 55 (23.50%) Git
4 47 (20.09%) GitLab
5 28 (11.97%) JUnit
6 22 (9.40%) Bitbucket
7 20 (8.55%) Maven
7 20 (8.55%) Mockito
7 20 (8.55%) SonarQube
8 13 (5.56%) DbUnit
8 13 (5.56%) jMock
9 12 (5.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 11 (4.70%) Bitbucket Server
11 10 (4.27%) Selenium
12 4 (1.71%) Cucumber
13 3 (1.28%) Cypress.io
13 3 (1.28%) Gatling
13 3 (1.28%) Postman
13 3 (1.28%) Protractor
13 3 (1.28%) WebDriver
General
1 82 (35.04%) Social Skills
2 60 (25.64%) Public Sector
3 31 (13.25%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (8.97%) Finance
5 10 (4.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (1.71%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.28%) Electronics
8 3 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.85%) Advertising
9 2 (0.85%) Billing
9 2 (0.85%) Law
9 2 (0.85%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.43%) Automotive
10 1 (0.43%) Banking
10 1 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.43%) Front Office
10 1 (0.43%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 47 (20.09%) Data Engineer
2 46 (19.66%) Scrum Master
3 35 (14.96%) Developer
4 26 (11.11%) Senior
5 23 (9.83%) Java Developer
6 21 (8.97%) Lead
7 18 (7.69%) Analyst
8 16 (6.84%) Business Analyst
9 11 (4.70%) Architect
9 11 (4.70%) Delivery Manager
9 11 (4.70%) Senior Developer
10 8 (3.42%) JIRA Engineer
11 7 (2.99%) Data Architect
11 7 (2.99%) Dynamics 365 Developer
11 7 (2.99%) Project Manager
11 7 (2.99%) Quality Engineer
11 7 (2.99%) Senior Java Developer
12 6 (2.56%) Product Manager
12 6 (2.56%) Software Engineer
12 6 (2.56%) Test Automation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (15.38%) Spring
2 33 (14.10%) Spring Boot
3 25 (10.68%) REST
4 21 (8.97%) SOAP
5 20 (8.55%) JPA
5 20 (8.55%) Web Services
6 19 (8.12%) AngularJS
7 18 (7.69%) ActiveMQ
7 18 (7.69%) Hibernate
8 17 (7.26%) RESTful
8 17 (7.26%) Spring Batch
8 17 (7.26%) Spring Cloud
8 17 (7.26%) Spring Integration
9 15 (6.41%) JSON
10 14 (5.98%) Node.js
11 13 (5.56%) PowerMock
12 11 (4.70%) Bootstrap
13 10 (4.27%) AWS CDK
14 5 (2.14%) Gherkin
14 5 (2.14%) React
Miscellaneous
1 50 (21.37%) Product Ownership
2 16 (6.84%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 4 (1.71%) Data Centre
4 4 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (1.71%) Virtual Team
5 3 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.28%) Taxonomies
6 2 (0.85%) BYOD
6 2 (0.85%) Data Fabric
6 2 (0.85%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.43%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.43%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.43%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.43%) Derivative
7 1 (0.43%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.43%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.43%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 25 (10.68%) Linux
2 7 (2.99%) Unix
3 5 (2.14%) Windows
4 4 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.43%) Android
5 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (83.33%) Agile
2 112 (47.86%) DevOps
3 108 (46.15%) CI/CD
4 79 (33.76%) Continuous Improvement
5 70 (29.91%) Test Automation
6 56 (23.93%) Problem-Solving
7 55 (23.50%) Stakeholder Management
8 53 (22.65%) Kanban
9 50 (21.37%) ETL
10 46 (19.66%) Sprint Planning
11 44 (18.80%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 43 (18.38%) Containerisation
13 40 (17.09%) Analytics
14 38 (16.24%) Data Modelling
15 36 (15.38%) Backlog Refinement
15 36 (15.38%) Microservices
16 35 (14.96%) Business Intelligence
17 33 (14.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 32 (13.68%) Data Pipeline
18 32 (13.68%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 72 (30.77%) SQL
2 46 (19.66%) Java
3 13 (5.56%) JavaScript
4 11 (4.70%) Python
5 8 (3.42%) C#
6 6 (2.56%) Shell Script
7 4 (1.71%) Perl
7 4 (1.71%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.28%) HiveQL
8 3 (1.28%) MATLAB
8 3 (1.28%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.85%) Bash
9 2 (0.85%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.43%) R
10 1 (0.43%) Swift
10 1 (0.43%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 134 (57.26%) Security Cleared
2 123 (52.56%) SC Cleared
3 26 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
4 15 (6.41%) AWS Certification
5 12 (5.13%) Degree
6 11 (4.70%) SAFe Agilist
7 9 (3.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 7 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (2.14%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.71%) CCNA
10 4 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.71%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.28%) ISTQB
11 3 (1.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (1.28%) PMI Certification
11 3 (1.28%) PMP
12 2 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
13 1 (0.43%) CBAP
13 1 (0.43%) CISM
13 1 (0.43%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.40%) QA
2 19 (8.12%) Data Quality
3 18 (7.69%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.99%) WCAG
5 4 (1.71%) FATCA
5 4 (1.71%) GDPR
6 3 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 3 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 3 (1.28%) PMO
7 1 (0.43%) GRC
7 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 66 (28.21%) Docker
2 11 (4.70%) Postfix
3 3 (1.28%) HDFS
4 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.43%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 42 (17.95%) Kubernetes
2 25 (10.68%) Grafana
3 20 (8.55%) Terraform
4 6 (2.56%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.71%) Ansible
6 2 (0.85%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.85%) Kibana
7 1 (0.43%) Argo
7 1 (0.43%) Istio
7 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.43%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.43%) Puppet
Vendors
1 45 (19.23%) Oracle
2 33 (14.10%) Talend
3 27 (11.54%) Microsoft
4 26 (11.11%) Atlassian
5 21 (8.97%) Denodo
6 19 (8.12%) Informatica
7 17 (7.26%) Jaspersoft
8 5 (2.14%) Sage
8 5 (2.14%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.71%) Pega
9 4 (1.71%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.71%) Remedy
10 3 (1.28%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.85%) Google
11 2 (0.85%) HP
11 2 (0.85%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.85%) SAP
12 1 (0.43%) Citrix
12 1 (0.43%) Murex
12 1 (0.43%) NetApp