Scrum Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Scrum
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Scrum skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 58 55
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 -12
Contract jobs citing Scrum 86 26 56
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.31% 2.77% 2.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.82% 3.14% 3.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 17 43
10th Percentile £361 £404 £363
25th Percentile £447 £406 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £535 £600 £559
90th Percentile £548 £675 £590
England median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £102.00 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,785 828 1,650
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.47% 88.37% 88.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 499 1,017
10th Percentile £300 £231 £263
25th Percentile £400 £363 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.58% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £574 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 25 50
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.18 £11.10
25th Percentile £15.25 £16.25 £12.53
Median hourly rate £23.58 £22.50 £15.37
Median % change year-on-year +4.78% +46.44% +44.54%
75th Percentile £52.50 £38.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £57.85 £74.59 £53.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% - -

Scrum
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Scrum relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Scrum job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Scrum
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Scrum.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Scrum

Scrum
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scrum in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 8 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Scrum in Yorkshire

Scrum
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Scrum.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Scrum

Scrum
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scrum within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 8 February 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
West Yorkshire -5 40 £500 - 18
South Yorkshire -26 38 £492 -2.81% 6
North Yorkshire +3 7 £488 - 3
Scrum
England

Scrum
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 31 (36.05%) Confluence
2 1 (1.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (5.81%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (3.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (16.28%) AWS
2 11 (12.79%) GitHub
3 7 (8.14%) CloudBees
4 6 (6.98%) Azure
5 4 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (4.65%) Cohesity
5 4 (4.65%) GCP
5 4 (4.65%) Serverless
6 3 (3.49%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (3.49%) Amazon S3
6 3 (3.49%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (3.49%) OpenShift
6 3 (3.49%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.33%) Azure API Management
7 2 (2.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (2.33%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.16%) Apigee
8 1 (1.16%) Miro
8 1 (1.16%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.49%) DNS
1 3 (3.49%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.33%) BIG-IP
2 2 (2.33%) DHCP
3 1 (1.16%) Firewall
3 1 (1.16%) HTTP
3 1 (1.16%) Network Security
3 1 (1.16%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.98%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.49%) Power BI
2 3 (3.49%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.33%) Tableau
4 1 (1.16%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.16%) DocumentDB
4 1 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.16%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.16%) Power Query
4 1 (1.16%) Redis
4 1 (1.16%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 35 (40.70%) JIRA
2 22 (25.58%) Jenkins
3 14 (16.28%) GitLab
4 8 (9.30%) Git
5 5 (5.81%) Cucumber
6 4 (4.65%) Cypress.io
6 4 (4.65%) Selenium
7 3 (3.49%) JUnit
7 3 (3.49%) Maven
7 3 (3.49%) WebDriver
8 2 (2.33%) git-flow
8 2 (2.33%) Postman
8 2 (2.33%) SoapUI
8 2 (2.33%) Zephyr
9 1 (1.16%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (1.16%) CircleCI
9 1 (1.16%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.16%) Travis CI
General
1 37 (43.02%) Social Skills
2 13 (15.12%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (13.95%) Finance
4 11 (12.79%) Public Sector
5 7 (8.14%) Banking
6 3 (3.49%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.49%) Military
6 3 (3.49%) Retail
7 1 (1.16%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.16%) Front Office
7 1 (1.16%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.16%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 12 (13.95%) Analyst
2 11 (12.79%) Automation Engineer
2 11 (12.79%) Senior
3 10 (11.63%) Business Analyst
3 10 (11.63%) Project Manager
4 9 (10.47%) Developer
4 9 (10.47%) Scrum Master
5 8 (9.30%) Delivery Manager
5 8 (9.30%) Lead
6 7 (8.14%) Data Protection Engineer
7 6 (6.98%) Data Engineer
8 5 (5.81%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (5.81%) Product Owner
8 5 (5.81%) Senior Test Engineer
8 5 (5.81%) Test Engineer
9 4 (4.65%) Senior Developer
9 4 (4.65%) Technical Analyst
10 3 (3.49%) Integration Manager
10 3 (3.49%) Java Developer
10 3 (3.49%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.30%) Node.js
2 5 (5.81%) Spring Boot
3 4 (4.65%) Playwright
3 4 (4.65%) React
3 4 (4.65%) REST
3 4 (4.65%) RESTful
3 4 (4.65%) Spring
4 3 (3.49%) Django
4 3 (3.49%) FastAPI
4 3 (3.49%) Flask
4 3 (3.49%) JSON
4 3 (3.49%) Kafka
4 3 (3.49%) Middleware
4 3 (3.49%) SailPoint
4 3 (3.49%) Vue
5 2 (2.33%) Next.js
5 2 (2.33%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (2.33%) Redux
6 1 (1.16%) FHIR
6 1 (1.16%) MERN Stack
Miscellaneous
1 26 (30.23%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.98%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.65%) NHS
3 4 (4.65%) Virtual Team
4 3 (3.49%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.16%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.16%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.16%) FMCG
5 1 (1.16%) PDA
5 1 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (83.72%) Agile
2 30 (34.88%) CI/CD
3 28 (32.56%) DevOps
4 26 (30.23%) Test Automation
5 25 (29.07%) User Stories
6 22 (25.58%) Kanban
7 21 (24.42%) Continuous Improvement
7 21 (24.42%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (20.93%) Stakeholder Management
9 16 (18.60%) Project Management
9 16 (18.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 14 (16.28%) Backlog Refinement
10 14 (16.28%) Sprint Retrospective
11 12 (13.95%) Data Protection
11 12 (13.95%) SDLC
12 11 (12.79%) Configuration Management
12 11 (12.79%) Roadmaps
12 11 (12.79%) Sprint Planning
13 10 (11.63%) Agile Coaching
13 10 (11.63%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 20 (23.26%) Python
2 13 (15.12%) Java
2 13 (15.12%) JavaScript
3 12 (13.95%) Bash
4 6 (6.98%) TypeScript
5 4 (4.65%) SQL
6 1 (1.16%) C++
6 1 (1.16%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.16%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (9.30%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.98%) Degree
2 6 (6.98%) PMP
2 6 (6.98%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.81%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (4.65%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.33%) CBAP
6 1 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.16%) CSPO
6 1 (1.16%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.30%) Accessibility
1 8 (9.30%) QA
2 6 (6.98%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.33%) WCAG
4 1 (1.16%) GDPR
4 1 (1.16%) HL7
4 1 (1.16%) MiFID
4 1 (1.16%) PMO
4 1 (1.16%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 8 (9.30%) Docker
2 3 (3.49%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 18 (20.93%) Ansible
2 11 (12.79%) NetBackup
3 10 (11.63%) Kubernetes
4 6 (6.98%) Grafana
4 6 (6.98%) Terraform
5 5 (5.81%) Puppet
6 1 (1.16%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (1.16%) Kibana
6 1 (1.16%) logstash
6 1 (1.16%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.16%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (13.95%) Red Hat
2 11 (12.79%) Commvault
3 10 (11.63%) Microsoft
4 8 (9.30%) Splunk
5 7 (8.14%) Veritas
6 4 (4.65%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.33%) F5
7 2 (2.33%) Infoblox
7 2 (2.33%) Planview
8 1 (1.16%) Brio
8 1 (1.16%) Cadence
8 1 (1.16%) Google
8 1 (1.16%) MarketAxess
8 1 (1.16%) Oracle
8 1 (1.16%) SAP
8 1 (1.16%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.16%) Tenable
8 1 (1.16%) Tradeweb