Scrum Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Scrum
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 48 38
Rank change year-on-year -6 -10 -17
Contract jobs citing Scrum 388 584 1,423
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.96% 3.85% 5.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.34% 4.38% 6.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 427 962
10th Percentile £350 £359 £406
25th Percentile £413 £423 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £500 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.25% -8.26% +3.81%
75th Percentile £554 £588 £638
90th Percentile £675 £660 £735
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +0.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 68
10th Percentile £45.85 - -
25th Percentile £49.86 £51.25 £42.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +46.07%
75th Percentile £67.63 £65.00 £74.06
90th Percentile £95.03 £68.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £57.63 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -11.35% - +44.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,943 13,319 22,924
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.20% 87.90% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,147 8,917 16,193
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 575 527
10th Percentile £13.92 £15.17 £18.67
25th Percentile £19.00 £24.63 £30.00
Median hourly rate £39.04 £42.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.14% -22.73% +57.14%
75th Percentile £67.00 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.15 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.95 £35.80
% change year-on-year -19.33% +0.42% +43.20%

Scrum
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Scrum as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Scrum trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Scrum
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Scrum.

Scrum daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Scrum over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Scrum daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Scrum
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Scrum.

Scrum hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Scrum
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Scrum over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Scrum hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Scrum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 57 (14.69%) Confluence
2 8 (2.06%) CMS
3 7 (1.80%) Apache
4 5 (1.29%) NetWeaver
4 5 (1.29%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.03%) Drupal
5 4 (1.03%) JBoss
5 4 (1.03%) Tomcat
5 4 (1.03%) WordPress
6 3 (0.77%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.77%) Oracle Coherence
6 3 (0.77%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.52%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.26%) Appian
8 1 (0.26%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.26%) nginx
8 1 (0.26%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.26%) TPMS
Applications
1 11 (2.84%) Microsoft Excel
1 11 (2.84%) Trello
2 7 (1.80%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.77%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.26%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.26%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (1.03%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.52%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.52%) Primavera
3 1 (0.26%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.26%) Endur
3 1 (0.26%) Magento
3 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.26%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 96 (24.74%) Azure
2 71 (18.30%) AWS
3 44 (11.34%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (7.73%) Serverless
5 23 (5.93%) GitHub
6 21 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
7 19 (4.90%) SaaS
8 17 (4.38%) GCP
9 16 (4.12%) Amazon S3
10 14 (3.61%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (3.61%) Power Platform
11 10 (2.58%) Entra ID
12 8 (2.06%) Amazon EC2
12 8 (2.06%) AWS CodePipeline
12 8 (2.06%) Azure AKS
13 7 (1.80%) Azure Service Bus
13 7 (1.80%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (1.80%) Miro
13 7 (1.80%) OpenShift
14 6 (1.55%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.12%) HTTP
2 8 (2.06%) Firewall
3 6 (1.55%) DNS
3 6 (1.55%) Network Security
4 5 (1.29%) SNMP
4 5 (1.29%) SSL
5 4 (1.03%) HTTPS
5 4 (1.03%) Internet
5 4 (1.03%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.77%) 5G
6 3 (0.77%) BGP
6 3 (0.77%) DHCP
6 3 (0.77%) Software-Defined Radio
7 2 (0.52%) DOCSIS
7 2 (0.52%) HSRP
7 2 (0.52%) IPsec
7 2 (0.52%) VLAN
7 2 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.52%) Wireless
7 2 (0.52%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (6.96%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (5.41%) SQL Server
3 15 (3.87%) Relational Database
4 12 (3.09%) Power BI
5 11 (2.84%) MongoDB
6 9 (2.32%) NoSQL
7 8 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (1.55%) Big Data
9 6 (1.55%) Data Mining
10 5 (1.29%) MySQL
11 4 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.03%) InfluxDB
11 4 (1.03%) Redis
12 3 (0.77%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (0.77%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.77%) Neo4j
12 3 (0.77%) Oracle Database
13 2 (0.52%) GIS
Development Applications
1 104 (26.80%) JIRA
2 50 (12.89%) Git
3 34 (8.76%) Jenkins
4 21 (5.41%) GitLab
5 14 (3.61%) Selenium
6 11 (2.84%) Cypress.io
7 10 (2.58%) JUnit
8 9 (2.32%) Postman
9 8 (2.06%) Bitbucket
9 8 (2.06%) JMeter
10 7 (1.80%) Maven
10 7 (1.80%) Visual Studio
11 6 (1.55%) Gatling
11 6 (1.55%) Gradle
11 6 (1.55%) SpecFlow
12 5 (1.29%) NeoLoad
12 5 (1.29%) REST Assured
12 5 (1.29%) SonarQube
12 5 (1.29%) Subversion
13 4 (1.03%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 132 (34.02%) Social Skills
2 59 (15.21%) Finance
3 58 (14.95%) Public Sector
4 36 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (5.93%) Banking
6 11 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (2.84%) Telecoms
7 8 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (1.80%) Marketing
8 7 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.29%) Billing
10 5 (1.29%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.03%) Legal
11 4 (1.03%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.77%) Electronics
12 3 (0.77%) Retail
13 2 (0.52%) Automotive
13 2 (0.52%) Multimedia
13 2 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 85 (21.91%) Developer
2 44 (11.34%) Senior
3 41 (10.57%) Analyst
4 36 (9.28%) Business Analyst
5 35 (9.02%) Scrum Master
6 32 (8.25%) Project Manager
7 29 (7.47%) Lead
8 24 (6.19%) Architect
9 20 (5.15%) Software Engineer
10 18 (4.64%) Delivery Manager
11 16 (4.12%) Consultant
12 15 (3.87%) Test Engineer
13 13 (3.35%) .NET Developer
14 12 (3.09%) AWS Engineer
15 11 (2.84%) Java Developer
15 11 (2.84%) Senior Developer
15 11 (2.84%) Software Developer
16 10 (2.58%) DevOps Engineer
16 10 (2.58%) Solutions Architect
17 9 (2.32%) Agile Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (11.08%) REST
2 39 (10.05%) CSS
3 35 (9.02%) HTML
4 27 (6.96%) AngularJS
4 27 (6.96%) SOAP
5 26 (6.70%) .NET
6 24 (6.19%) Web Services
7 22 (5.67%) React
8 20 (5.15%) Kafka
8 20 (5.15%) RESTful
8 20 (5.15%) Spring Boot
9 18 (4.64%) Node.js
10 16 (4.12%) Spring
11 14 (3.61%) OAuth
11 14 (3.61%) XML
12 13 (3.35%) .NET Core
12 13 (3.35%) Ajax
12 13 (3.35%) AWS CDK
13 12 (3.09%) ASP.NET
13 12 (3.09%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 63 (16.24%) Product Ownership
2 17 (4.38%) Cloud Native
3 13 (3.35%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (3.35%) Virtual Team
4 11 (2.84%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.06%) CMDB
6 6 (1.55%) Data Centre
6 6 (1.55%) Legacy Code
6 6 (1.55%) Market Risk
6 6 (1.55%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.29%) Hedge funds
7 5 (1.29%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (1.29%) PKI
7 5 (1.29%) PMI
8 4 (1.03%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.03%) Taxonomies
9 3 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (7.99%) Linux
2 12 (3.09%) Windows
3 8 (2.06%) Unix
4 4 (1.03%) Android
4 4 (1.03%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.03%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.77%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.26%) AIX
6 1 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.26%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.26%) VyOS
6 1 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 360 (92.78%) Agile
2 111 (28.61%) Kanban
3 109 (28.09%) CI/CD
4 104 (26.80%) DevOps
5 83 (21.39%) Problem-Solving
6 61 (15.72%) Stakeholder Management
7 60 (15.46%) Continuous Improvement
8 54 (13.92%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 52 (13.40%) Project Management
10 51 (13.14%) Sprint Planning
11 49 (12.63%) Test Automation
12 42 (10.82%) Software Engineering
13 40 (10.31%) User Experience
14 39 (10.05%) SDLC
14 39 (10.05%) User Stories
15 37 (9.54%) Sprint Retrospective
16 36 (9.28%) Microservices
16 36 (9.28%) TDD
17 34 (8.76%) Project Delivery
17 34 (8.76%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 72 (18.56%) Java
2 60 (15.46%) Python
3 54 (13.92%) JavaScript
4 47 (12.11%) SQL
5 36 (9.28%) C#
6 34 (8.76%) TypeScript
7 16 (4.12%) C++
8 13 (3.35%) Bash
9 9 (2.32%) PHP
9 9 (2.32%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.55%) ABAP
10 6 (1.55%) Groovy
10 6 (1.55%) Ruby
10 6 (1.55%) Scala
10 6 (1.55%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.29%) Rust
12 4 (1.03%) Bicep
12 4 (1.03%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.03%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.77%) Perl
Qualifications
1 64 (16.49%) Security Cleared
2 55 (14.18%) SC Cleared
3 41 (10.57%) Degree
4 14 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.09%) PMI Certification
6 8 (2.06%) PMP
7 7 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (1.80%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.03%) CSPO
8 4 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.77%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.77%) CCNP
9 3 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.77%) CISSP
9 3 (0.77%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (0.52%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.52%) CEH
10 2 (0.52%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 2 (0.52%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (11.86%) QA
2 30 (7.73%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.29%) Basel II
3 5 (1.29%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (1.03%) WCAG
5 3 (0.77%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.52%) Basel III
6 2 (0.52%) COREP
6 2 (0.52%) GDPR
6 2 (0.52%) PMO
7 1 (0.26%) Automotive SPICE
7 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.26%) GxP
7 1 (0.26%) HL7
7 1 (0.26%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.26%) SLA
7 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 35 (9.02%) Docker
2 8 (2.06%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.26%) KVM
4 1 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 37 (9.54%) Kubernetes
2 24 (6.19%) Terraform
3 13 (3.35%) Grafana
4 9 (2.32%) Ansible
4 9 (2.32%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (1.55%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.29%) Kibana
6 5 (1.29%) Puppet
7 4 (1.03%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.77%) Amdocs OSS
8 3 (0.77%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.52%) HP Quality Center
9 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.26%) CA Wily
10 1 (0.26%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.26%) MIIS
10 1 (0.26%) Nagios
10 1 (0.26%) Nessus
10 1 (0.26%) Nmap
10 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 42 (10.82%) Microsoft
2 26 (6.70%) Oracle
3 20 (5.15%) ServiceNow
4 12 (3.09%) Salesforce
5 11 (2.84%) Google
5 11 (2.84%) SAP
6 7 (1.80%) IBM
6 7 (1.80%) Splunk
7 5 (1.29%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.29%) Databricks
7 5 (1.29%) HP
7 5 (1.29%) VMware
8 4 (1.03%) CA Agile Central
8 4 (1.03%) Cisco
8 4 (1.03%) ForgeRock
8 4 (1.03%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.03%) Pega
8 4 (1.03%) Ping Identity
8 4 (1.03%) Planview
8 4 (1.03%) Zend