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 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 44 48
Rank change year-on-year +16 +4 -30
Contract jobs citing Scrum 162 62 63
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 6.59% 4.00% 3.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.72% 4.54% 4.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 33 38
10th Percentile £422 £408 £413
25th Percentile £472 £425 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £483 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.35% -8.00% -2.78%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £597
90th Percentile £624 £608 £679
England median daily rate £501 £518 £550
% change year-on-year -3.29% -5.91% -1.61%

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 2,098 1,366 1,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.39% 88.07% 84.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,360 842 1,018
10th Percentile £290 £210 £274
25th Percentile £403 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £518 £488
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +6.15% -2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 50 100
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £13.16
25th Percentile £16.21 £16.38 £17.44
Median hourly rate £20.98 £21.59 £24.63
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% -12.32% +38.97%
75th Percentile £27.21 £33.10 £48.75
90th Percentile £35.60 £52.50 £67.63
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.31 £36.34
% change year-on-year -26.69% -5.59% +3.81%

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 30 January 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 30 January 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 97 £519 +8.70% 11
Warwickshire -5 28 £550 +10.00% 13
Birmingham -6 15 £488 +1.77% 8
Coventry -10 10 £613 +28.95% 3
Worcestershire - 7 £575 - 2
Solihull 0 3 £358 -
Wolverhampton - 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 (34.57%) SAS
2 12 (7.41%) Confluence
3 9 (5.56%) WebLogic
4 8 (4.94%) Apache
4 8 (4.94%) JBoss
5 3 (1.85%) Drupal
5 3 (1.85%) PowerFactory
6 1 (0.62%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.62%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.62%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (3.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.47%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.62%) CANalyzer
4 1 (0.62%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Maximo
1 1 (0.62%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 28 (17.28%) AWS
2 14 (8.64%) Azure
3 10 (6.17%) OpenShift
4 8 (4.94%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (3.70%) GCP
6 3 (1.85%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.85%) SaaS
7 2 (1.23%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.23%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (1.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.62%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.62%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.62%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.62%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (0.62%) Datadog
8 1 (0.62%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.62%) iPaaS
8 1 (0.62%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.23%) Network Security
2 1 (0.62%) Firewall
2 1 (0.62%) SMS
2 1 (0.62%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (22.84%) Pentaho
2 19 (11.73%) Oracle Database
3 16 (9.88%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 14 (8.64%) MongoDB
5 12 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (6.79%) Metadata
7 8 (4.94%) Metadata Repository
8 3 (1.85%) MySQL
8 3 (1.85%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.23%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.23%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.23%) SAS Visual Analytics
9 2 (1.23%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.62%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.62%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.62%) Ingres
10 1 (0.62%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 68 (41.98%) Git
2 57 (35.19%) JIRA
3 46 (28.40%) Jenkins
4 26 (16.05%) JUnit
5 24 (14.81%) Selenium
6 18 (11.11%) GitLab
7 9 (5.56%) Maven
8 8 (4.94%) Eclipse
8 8 (4.94%) IntelliJ
8 8 (4.94%) Mockito
9 7 (4.32%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.62%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.62%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.62%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.62%) Gradle
11 1 (0.62%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.62%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.62%) webpack
General
1 53 (32.72%) Social Skills
2 21 (12.96%) Finance
3 16 (9.88%) Public Sector
4 10 (6.17%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (4.94%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.32%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (3.70%) Banking
8 4 (2.47%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.85%) Legal
9 3 (1.85%) Retail
10 2 (1.23%) Aeronautics
10 2 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.62%) Advertising
11 1 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (15.43%) Scrum Master
2 21 (12.96%) Data Engineer
3 20 (12.35%) Project Manager
4 16 (9.88%) Architect
4 16 (9.88%) Developer
5 11 (6.79%) Data Architect
6 8 (4.94%) Java Developer
6 8 (4.94%) SAS Engineer
6 8 (4.94%) Test Specialist
7 6 (3.70%) Java Engineer
7 6 (3.70%) Senior
8 5 (3.09%) Data Manager
8 5 (3.09%) Delivery Manager
8 5 (3.09%) Denodo Engineer
8 5 (3.09%) Lead
8 5 (3.09%) Software Engineer
9 4 (2.47%) Agile Project Manager
9 4 (2.47%) Product Manager
9 4 (2.47%) ScrumMaster Project Manager
9 4 (2.47%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (12.35%) REST
2 19 (11.73%) Spring
3 16 (9.88%) JSON
4 15 (9.26%) HTML
5 10 (6.17%) Spring Boot
6 9 (5.56%) Hibernate
7 8 (4.94%) EJB
7 8 (4.94%) HTML5
7 8 (4.94%) J2EE
7 8 (4.94%) J2SE
7 8 (4.94%) JPA
7 8 (4.94%) Play Framework
7 8 (4.94%) pytest
7 8 (4.94%) SOAP
7 8 (4.94%) XML
8 7 (4.32%) React
9 6 (3.70%) Gherkin
9 6 (3.70%) JDBC
9 6 (3.70%) Playwright
10 5 (3.09%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.17%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.09%) CMDB
3 4 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (1.23%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.62%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.62%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.62%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.62%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.62%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.62%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.62%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.62%) MicroBlaze
5 1 (0.62%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.62%) RISC-V
5 1 (0.62%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.56%) Linux
2 8 (4.94%) Unix
3 3 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.85%) Windows
4 1 (0.62%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.62%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (90.74%) Agile
2 71 (43.83%) DevOps
3 66 (40.74%) Problem-Solving
4 61 (37.65%) CI/CD
5 55 (33.95%) Analytics
5 55 (33.95%) Continuous Improvement
6 54 (33.33%) Data Modelling
7 47 (29.01%) Test Automation
8 45 (27.78%) Data Pipeline
9 43 (26.54%) Business Intelligence
10 40 (24.69%) Deployment Automation
11 39 (24.07%) ETL
12 36 (22.22%) Data Virtualisation
13 34 (20.99%) Data Integration
13 34 (20.99%) Stakeholder Management
14 33 (20.37%) Data Analytics
14 33 (20.37%) Project Management
15 28 (17.28%) Business Analytics
16 22 (13.58%) Microservices
16 22 (13.58%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 58 (35.80%) SQL
2 23 (14.20%) Java
3 13 (8.02%) Python
4 9 (5.56%) Scala
5 6 (3.70%) Shell Script
6 5 (3.09%) Perl
7 3 (1.85%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.85%) MATLAB
8 2 (1.23%) Bash
8 2 (1.23%) C#
8 2 (1.23%) PHP
8 2 (1.23%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.23%) Ruby
9 1 (0.62%) C
9 1 (0.62%) C++
9 1 (0.62%) Go
9 1 (0.62%) Groovy
9 1 (0.62%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.62%) SystemVerilog
9 1 (0.62%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 74 (45.68%) Security Cleared
2 66 (40.74%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.02%) Degree
4 7 (4.32%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.09%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 4 (2.47%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.47%) PMI Certification
6 4 (2.47%) PMP
7 2 (1.23%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.23%) CCNA
7 2 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.23%) CISM
7 2 (1.23%) CISSP
8 1 (0.62%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.62%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (22.84%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.94%) QA
3 7 (4.32%) WCAG
4 3 (1.85%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.85%) ISO 19650
4 3 (1.85%) PMO
5 2 (1.23%) GDPR
5 2 (1.23%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.23%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.62%) NCSC
System Software
1 59 (36.42%) Docker
2 1 (0.62%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 62 (38.27%) Kubernetes
2 9 (5.56%) Puppet
3 8 (4.94%) Kibana
4 6 (3.70%) Grafana
5 4 (2.47%) Terraform
6 1 (0.62%) Ansible
6 1 (0.62%) Podman
6 1 (0.62%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.62%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 51 (31.48%) Oracle
2 37 (22.84%) Denodo
2 37 (22.84%) Talend
3 13 (8.02%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.94%) webMethods
5 5 (3.09%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.47%) Google
7 3 (1.85%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.85%) DIgSILENT
7 3 (1.85%) Remedy
7 3 (1.85%) VMware
8 2 (1.23%) CyberArk
8 2 (1.23%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.23%) Okta
8 2 (1.23%) OneLogin
8 2 (1.23%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.62%) BT
9 1 (0.62%) Cadence
9 1 (0.62%) IBM
9 1 (0.62%) SAP