Scrum Contracts in the West Midlands

Scrum
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Scrum skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Scrum over the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 39 38
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 -26
Contract jobs citing Scrum 87 72 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.08% 3.85% 5.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.74% 4.70% 6.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 56 90
10th Percentile £328 £358 £374
25th Percentile £441 £358 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
England median daily rate £500 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -5.21% -4.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £32.28 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% - +3.38%

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 1,515 1,531 1,843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.44% 81.83% 85.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 961 1,038 1,262
10th Percentile £235 £274 £263
25th Percentile £380 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £625 £600
90th Percentile £650 £725 £725
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 60 41
10th Percentile £12.62 £13.16 £14.36
25th Percentile £14.24 £14.93 £20.00
Median hourly rate £24.34 £24.31 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.95% +54.29%
75th Percentile £35.29 £39.06 £30.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £56.25 £43.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +3.61% +56.60%

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Scrum as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Scrum in the West Midlands

Scrum
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Scrum in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Scrum in the West Midlands

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in the West Midlands

Scrum
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Scrum in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend 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 15 August 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
Birmingham +9 23 £475 -13.64% 26
Shropshire -16 22 £519 +44.83% 8
Warwickshire +3 18 £450 -32.08% 15
Solihull - 10 £460 - 1
Coventry - 8 £598 - 10
Worcestershire +4 4 £600 +20.00% 5
Scrum
England

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (14.94%) SAS
2 4 (4.60%) Confluence
3 2 (2.30%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.15%) CMS
4 1 (1.15%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.15%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (1.15%) Tuxedo
4 1 (1.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (4.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.45%) Revit
3 1 (1.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.15%) Moqups
3 1 (1.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (4.60%) SAP HR
1 4 (4.60%) SAP PM
2 2 (2.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.15%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 23 (26.44%) AWS
2 15 (17.24%) Azure
3 13 (14.94%) Amazon EC2
3 13 (14.94%) Amazon S3
4 11 (12.64%) Amazon SQS
5 8 (9.20%) AWS KMS
5 8 (9.20%) Route 53
6 7 (8.05%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (6.90%) GCP
7 6 (6.90%) Power Platform
8 4 (4.60%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (4.60%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 3 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (3.45%) GitHub
10 2 (2.30%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (2.30%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.30%) PowerApps
10 2 (2.30%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.60%) Firewall
2 2 (2.30%) BGP
2 2 (2.30%) DHCP
2 2 (2.30%) DNS
2 2 (2.30%) EIGRP
2 2 (2.30%) HTTP
2 2 (2.30%) IPsec
2 2 (2.30%) Network Security
2 2 (2.30%) OSPF
2 2 (2.30%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (2.30%) SSL
2 2 (2.30%) TACACS
2 2 (2.30%) VLAN
2 2 (2.30%) VPN
2 2 (2.30%) Wireless
3 1 (1.15%) Converged Networks
3 1 (1.15%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (16.09%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (14.94%) Pentaho
3 12 (13.79%) Amazon Aurora
3 12 (13.79%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (10.34%) DynamoDB
5 4 (4.60%) Power BI
5 4 (4.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.30%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.30%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.15%) Big Data
7 1 (1.15%) GIS
7 1 (1.15%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 35 (40.23%) JIRA
2 27 (31.03%) Git
2 27 (31.03%) Jenkins
3 13 (14.94%) Maven
4 12 (13.79%) JUnit
4 12 (13.79%) SonarQube
5 8 (9.20%) Mockito
6 6 (6.90%) Bitbucket Server
6 6 (6.90%) DbUnit
6 6 (6.90%) jMock
7 3 (3.45%) Cypress.io
7 3 (3.45%) Postman
8 2 (2.30%) Selenium
8 2 (2.30%) Snyk
8 2 (2.30%) TestPartner
8 2 (2.30%) Visual Studio
9 1 (1.15%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.15%) GitLab
9 1 (1.15%) Gradle
9 1 (1.15%) webpack
General
1 21 (24.14%) Public Sector
2 20 (22.99%) Social Skills
3 11 (12.64%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (11.49%) Finance
5 9 (10.34%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (5.75%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (4.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.45%) Legal
9 2 (2.30%) Automotive
9 2 (2.30%) Banking
9 2 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.30%) Marketing
10 1 (1.15%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.15%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (20.69%) Developer
2 14 (16.09%) Java Developer
3 8 (9.20%) Architect
3 8 (9.20%) Lead
4 7 (8.05%) Analyst
4 7 (8.05%) Product Owner
5 6 (6.90%) Scrum Master
6 5 (5.75%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 5 (5.75%) Test Analyst
6 5 (5.75%) Tester
7 4 (4.60%) Data Engineer
7 4 (4.60%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.60%) Lead Developer
7 4 (4.60%) Lead Java Developer
7 4 (4.60%) Project Manager
7 4 (4.60%) Salesforce Architect
7 4 (4.60%) Salesforce Technical Architect
7 4 (4.60%) Technical Architect
8 3 (3.45%) Applications Engineer
8 3 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (17.24%) REST
1 15 (17.24%) Spring
1 15 (17.24%) Spring Boot
2 13 (14.94%) SOAP
3 12 (13.79%) ActiveMQ
4 11 (12.64%) JPA
4 11 (12.64%) Web Services
5 10 (11.49%) AngularJS
6 9 (10.34%) Bootstrap
6 9 (10.34%) Hibernate
6 9 (10.34%) RESTful
6 9 (10.34%) Spring Batch
6 9 (10.34%) Spring Integration
7 8 (9.20%) Spring Cloud
8 6 (6.90%) PowerMock
9 5 (5.75%) .NET
9 5 (5.75%) Lightning Web Components
10 4 (4.60%) GraphQL
10 4 (4.60%) Middleware
10 4 (4.60%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 22 (25.29%) Product Ownership
2 9 (10.34%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (9.20%) SCADA
4 3 (3.45%) Client/Server
4 3 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.15%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.15%) NHS
6 1 (1.15%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.15%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.15%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.49%) Linux
2 3 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (3.45%) Windows
2 3 (3.45%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.15%) Android
3 1 (1.15%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (94.25%) Agile
2 40 (45.98%) DevOps
3 26 (29.89%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (28.74%) CI/CD
4 25 (28.74%) Continuous Improvement
5 18 (20.69%) Analytics
5 18 (20.69%) ETL
6 17 (19.54%) Data Modelling
7 16 (18.39%) Microservices
8 15 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
8 15 (17.24%) Data Analytics
8 15 (17.24%) TDD
8 15 (17.24%) Test Automation
9 13 (14.94%) Data Pipeline
9 13 (14.94%) Data Virtualisation
10 12 (13.79%) Migration
11 11 (12.64%) Data Integration
11 11 (12.64%) Deployment Automation
11 11 (12.64%) Kanban
11 11 (12.64%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 25 (28.74%) SQL
2 17 (19.54%) Java
3 8 (9.20%) JavaScript
4 4 (4.60%) Apex Code
4 4 (4.60%) Python
5 3 (3.45%) C#
5 3 (3.45%) PowerShell
5 3 (3.45%) VBScript
6 2 (2.30%) Bash
7 1 (1.15%) C
7 1 (1.15%) Go
7 1 (1.15%) Korn
7 1 (1.15%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.15%) Scala
7 1 (1.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 32 (36.78%) Security Cleared
2 24 (27.59%) SC Cleared
3 9 (10.34%) Degree
4 4 (4.60%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.30%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.30%) PMP
6 1 (1.15%) CISSP
6 1 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.15%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (14.94%) Data Quality
2 7 (8.05%) QA
3 2 (2.30%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.30%) PMO
4 1 (1.15%) Automotive SPICE
4 1 (1.15%) GDPR
4 1 (1.15%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.15%) ISO 26262
4 1 (1.15%) ISO 9001
4 1 (1.15%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.15%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (36.78%) Docker
2 6 (6.90%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 19 (21.84%) Kubernetes
2 10 (11.49%) Grafana
3 9 (10.34%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.45%) HP ALM
5 2 (2.30%) Ansible
5 2 (2.30%) Nagios
5 2 (2.30%) Terraform
6 1 (1.15%) Argo
6 1 (1.15%) Podman
6 1 (1.15%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (22.99%) Oracle
2 13 (14.94%) Denodo
2 13 (14.94%) Microsoft
2 13 (14.94%) Talend
3 10 (11.49%) Salesforce
4 8 (9.20%) Atlassian
5 7 (8.05%) Jaspersoft
6 5 (5.75%) SAP
7 4 (4.60%) Cisco
7 4 (4.60%) MuleSoft
7 4 (4.60%) VMware
8 3 (3.45%) Autodesk
8 3 (3.45%) Google
8 3 (3.45%) HP
9 2 (2.30%) ArcSight
9 2 (2.30%) Arista
9 2 (2.30%) Juniper
9 2 (2.30%) SolarWinds
9 2 (2.30%) Splunk
10 1 (1.15%) ServiceNow