Scrum Contracts in the West Midlands

Scrum
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Scrum skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Scrum over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 22 18
Rank change year-on-year -24 -4 +1
Contract jobs citing Scrum 71 208 329
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.68% 8.70% 9.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.39% 9.83% 10.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 158 246
10th Percentile £358 £413 £401
25th Percentile £374 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £540 £532
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +1.60% +26.93%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £588
90th Percentile £688 £655 £673
England median daily rate £539 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -5.48% +3.64% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Scrum is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,619 2,117 3,206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.97% 88.50% 90.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,067 1,453 2,361
10th Percentile £275 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +4.62% +17.47%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £694 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 45 73
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.20 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.75
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £16.83
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +5.32% -1.03%
75th Percentile £41.13 £23.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.75 £51.25 £22.20
England median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -

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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in the West Midlands

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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

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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 26 April 2024. 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 26 £518 +2.22% 24
Shropshire -2 26 £358 -33.70% 5
Warwickshire -7 16 £675 +12.50% 15
Coventry -16 2 - - 4
Worcestershire +2 1 £650 +52.94% 7
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 9 (12.68%) CICS
1 9 (12.68%) SAS
2 3 (4.23%) CMS
2 3 (4.23%) Confluence
2 3 (4.23%) Drupal
3 2 (2.82%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.41%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (2.82%) Trello
2 1 (1.41%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.23%) NetSuite
2 2 (2.82%) Maximo
3 1 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (19.72%) Azure
2 9 (12.68%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (5.63%) AWS
3 4 (5.63%) Boomi
3 4 (5.63%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (5.63%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (4.23%) GCP
5 2 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (2.82%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.82%) GitHub
5 2 (2.82%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 2 (2.82%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 2 (2.82%) Serverless
6 1 (1.41%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (1.41%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (1.41%) Azure App Service
6 1 (1.41%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (1.41%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.41%) Miro
6 1 (1.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.23%) DNS
1 3 (4.23%) SSL
2 2 (2.82%) LAN
2 2 (2.82%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.82%) VPN
2 2 (2.82%) WAN
3 1 (1.41%) FTP
3 1 (1.41%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.68%) Amazon Redshift
1 9 (12.68%) DB2
1 9 (12.68%) IDMS
1 9 (12.68%) MySQL
2 2 (2.82%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.82%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (1.41%) Big Data
3 1 (1.41%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.41%) Flink
3 1 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 26 (36.62%) Git
2 8 (11.27%) JIRA
3 4 (5.63%) Ant
4 3 (4.23%) Artifactory
4 3 (4.23%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.23%) Selenium
4 3 (4.23%) Subversion
5 2 (2.82%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.41%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.41%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 22 (30.99%) Social Skills
2 10 (14.08%) Finance
3 7 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (8.45%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.63%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.41%) Banking
7 1 (1.41%) Electronics
7 1 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.41%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.41%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 23 (32.39%) Developer
2 9 (12.68%) IBM Mainframe Developer
2 9 (12.68%) Mainframe Developer
3 8 (11.27%) SQL Developer
4 7 (9.86%) Architect
5 6 (8.45%) Analyst
5 6 (8.45%) Business Analyst
5 6 (8.45%) Project Manager
6 5 (7.04%) Senior
7 4 (5.63%) Infrastructure Manager
7 4 (5.63%) Lead
7 4 (5.63%) Network Infrastructure Manager
7 4 (5.63%) Network Manager
7 4 (5.63%) Scrum Master
8 3 (4.23%) Consultant
8 3 (4.23%) Infrastructure Test Manager
8 3 (4.23%) Salesforce Architect
8 3 (4.23%) Salesforce Solution Architect
8 3 (4.23%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.23%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.04%) XML
2 4 (5.63%) .NET
2 4 (5.63%) ADO
2 4 (5.63%) HTML
3 3 (4.23%) Visualforce
4 2 (2.82%) .NET Framework
4 2 (2.82%) CSS
4 2 (2.82%) JSON
4 2 (2.82%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (2.82%) OAuth
4 2 (2.82%) SAML
4 2 (2.82%) SOAP
4 2 (2.82%) Spring
4 2 (2.82%) Web Services
5 1 (1.41%) Ajax
5 1 (1.41%) Guice
5 1 (1.41%) JDBC
5 1 (1.41%) ODBC
5 1 (1.41%) SPFx
5 1 (1.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.49%) Product Ownership
2 9 (12.68%) IBM Mainframe
2 9 (12.68%) Mainframe
3 5 (7.04%) Onboarding
4 4 (5.63%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.23%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (4.23%) Mobile App
5 3 (4.23%) Private Cloud
5 3 (4.23%) Taxonomies
6 2 (2.82%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.82%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.41%) CMDB
7 1 (1.41%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.41%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 10 (14.08%) Unix
2 9 (12.68%) zOS
3 2 (2.82%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (94.37%) Agile
2 20 (28.17%) Requirements Gathering
3 18 (25.35%) Stakeholder Management
4 15 (21.13%) Continuous Integration
5 13 (18.31%) DevOps
5 13 (18.31%) Test Strategy
6 12 (16.90%) Configuration Management
6 12 (16.90%) Software Engineering
7 11 (15.49%) Analytics
7 11 (15.49%) Dashboard Development
8 10 (14.08%) Data Analytics
8 10 (14.08%) Data Extraction
8 10 (14.08%) ETL
8 10 (14.08%) Project Management
8 10 (14.08%) Waterfall
9 9 (12.68%) Roadmaps
9 9 (12.68%) Software Testing
9 9 (12.68%) User Stories
10 8 (11.27%) CI/CD
10 8 (11.27%) Product Backlog
Programming Languages
1 10 (14.08%) SQL
2 9 (12.68%) CLIST
2 9 (12.68%) COBOL
2 9 (12.68%) REXX
2 9 (12.68%) SELCOPY
3 8 (11.27%) PL/SQL
4 7 (9.86%) Bash
4 7 (9.86%) Bourne shell
4 7 (9.86%) Korn
5 4 (5.63%) C#
5 4 (5.63%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.23%) Apex Code
6 3 (4.23%) Java
6 3 (4.23%) Perl
7 2 (2.82%) Python
7 2 (2.82%) SOQL
8 1 (1.41%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 17 (23.94%) SC Cleared
1 17 (23.94%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.45%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (7.04%) Degree
4 4 (5.63%) PMI Certification
4 4 (5.63%) PMP
5 3 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.82%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.41%) APMG
7 1 (1.41%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.41%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.41%) CCNA
7 1 (1.41%) CCNP
7 1 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.41%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.27%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.41%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (12.68%) Grafana
2 3 (4.23%) Ansible
3 2 (2.82%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (2.82%) Terraform
4 1 (1.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (18.31%) Salesforce
2 11 (15.49%) IBM
3 9 (12.68%) Denodo
3 9 (12.68%) Oracle
3 9 (12.68%) Syncsort
3 9 (12.68%) Talend
4 5 (7.04%) Microsoft
5 4 (5.63%) SAP
5 4 (5.63%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.82%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.41%) Cadence
7 1 (1.41%) Dell
7 1 (1.41%) Planview
7 1 (1.41%) Sage
7 1 (1.41%) UiPath