Scrum Master Contracts with Work from Home Options

Scrum Master
UK > Work from Home

The median Scrum Master daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 288 346 258
Rank change year-on-year +58 -88 +27
Contract jobs requiring a Scrum Master 53 111 463
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.36% 0.46% 1.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.49% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 77 336
10th Percentile £357 £400 £413
25th Percentile £400 £425 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £524 £600 £600
90th Percentile £600 £646 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £72.50 £85.00
Median hourly rate - £82.50 £85.25
Median % change year-on-year - -3.23% +21.79%
75th Percentile - £87.50 £85.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £68.00 £80.00 £41.36
% change year-on-year -15.00% +93.45% -40.92%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,801 22,740 41,944
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.25% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,306 16,147 30,496
10th Percentile £325 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 528 563
10th Percentile £14.27 £16.98 £14.05
25th Percentile £22.59 £25.00 £19.96
Median hourly rate £43.50 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% +25.00% +70.21%
75th Percentile £63.56 £66.05 £59.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.15 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Scrum Master
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Scrum Master in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Scrum Master trend for jobs with a WFH option

Scrum Master
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Scrum Master.

Scrum Master daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Scrum Master
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Scrum Master over the 6 months to 23 June 2024.

Scrum Master daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Scrum Master
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Scrum Master.

Scrum Master hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Scrum Master Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 23 June 2024, Scrum Master contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with a WFH option featuring Scrum Master in the job title.

1 53 (100.00%) Scrum
2 38 (71.70%) Agile
3 16 (30.19%) Finance
4 13 (24.53%) Social Skills
5 11 (20.75%) Banking
5 11 (20.75%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (20.75%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 11 (20.75%) Sprint Planning
6 10 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (18.87%) Azure
7 9 (16.98%) DevOps
7 9 (16.98%) Sprint Retrospective
7 9 (16.98%) Project Management
7 9 (16.98%) Product Ownership
8 8 (15.09%) Kanban
8 8 (15.09%) Coaching
9 7 (13.21%) Project Delivery
9 7 (13.21%) Sprint Review
10 6 (11.32%) Security Cleared
10 6 (11.32%) Change Management
11 5 (9.43%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (9.43%) SQL
11 5 (9.43%) PRINCE2
11 5 (9.43%) PMP
11 5 (9.43%) PMI Certification
11 5 (9.43%) SC Cleared
11 5 (9.43%) Mentoring
11 5 (9.43%) SDLC
11 5 (9.43%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (7.55%) User Stories

Scrum Master Skill Set
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 1 (1.89%) Confluence
1 1 (1.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.89%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (18.87%) Azure
2 5 (9.43%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.89%) Azure Functions
3 1 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (1.89%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
3 1 (1.89%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 1 (1.89%) Serverless
3 1 (1.89%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.89%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (7.55%) JIRA
General
1 16 (30.19%) Finance
2 13 (24.53%) Social Skills
3 11 (20.75%) Banking
4 4 (7.55%) Front Office
4 4 (7.55%) Public Sector
4 4 (7.55%) Retail
5 3 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Games
6 1 (1.89%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.89%) Marketing
6 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.89%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.66%) .NET
2 1 (1.89%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.98%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.66%) Mobile Banking
3 2 (3.77%) Credit Risk
3 2 (3.77%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (100.00%) Scrum
2 38 (71.70%) Agile
3 11 (20.75%) Continuous Improvement
3 11 (20.75%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 11 (20.75%) Sprint Planning
4 10 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (16.98%) DevOps
5 9 (16.98%) Project Management
5 9 (16.98%) Sprint Retrospective
6 8 (15.09%) Coaching
6 8 (15.09%) Kanban
7 7 (13.21%) Project Delivery
7 7 (13.21%) Sprint Review
8 6 (11.32%) Change Management
9 5 (9.43%) Mentoring
9 5 (9.43%) PRINCE2
9 5 (9.43%) SDLC
9 5 (9.43%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (7.55%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 4 (7.55%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.43%) SQL
2 3 (5.66%) C#
2 3 (5.66%) Python
3 2 (3.77%) Java
4 1 (1.89%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (11.32%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.43%) PMI Certification
2 5 (9.43%) PMP
2 5 (9.43%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.55%) Degree
4 1 (1.89%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.66%) QA
2 1 (1.89%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.89%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (3.77%) VMware NSX
1 2 (3.77%) vSphere
Vendors
1 3 (5.66%) Salesforce
1 3 (5.66%) ServiceNow
2 2 (3.77%) Splunk
2 2 (3.77%) VMware
3 1 (1.89%) Automation Anywhere
3 1 (1.89%) Blue Prism
3 1 (1.89%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (1.89%) UiPath