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 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 57 46
Rank change year-on-year -24 -11 +6
Contract jobs citing Scrum 67 34 57
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.72% 3.26% 3.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.13% 3.53% 3.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 19 41
10th Percentile £394 £381 £375
25th Percentile £450 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £466 £517
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% -9.86% -1.52%
75th Percentile £575 £519 £575
90th Percentile £615 £550 £645
England median daily rate £511 £500 £535
% change year-on-year +2.10% -6.45% -7.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £102.00 -
England median hourly rate £66.00 £60.00 £63.75
% change year-on-year +10.00% -5.88% -1.92%

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 2,141 963 1,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 86.86% 92.33% 86.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,365 594 867
10th Percentile £318 £257 £275
25th Percentile £410 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -2.06% -7.62%
75th Percentile £563 £550 £581
90th Percentile £663 £638 £650
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 37 66
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.39 £11.30
25th Percentile £17.35 £17.25 £12.15
Median hourly rate £22.81 £21.24 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.39% +57.33% +27.00%
75th Percentile £57.25 £23.86 £22.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £59.33 £53.75
England median hourly rate £46.80 £29.15 £36.50
% change year-on-year +60.55% -20.14% -2.14%

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 10 May 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 10 May 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 +2 37 £525 +5.00% 27
South Yorkshire -48 26 £447 -3.82% 5
North Yorkshire -7 3 - - 2
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 11 (16.42%) Confluence
2 7 (10.45%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.49%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (5.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.49%) SAP CRM
2 1 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (25.37%) AWS
2 12 (17.91%) Azure
3 5 (7.46%) Serverless
4 4 (5.97%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (5.97%) Amazon S3
4 4 (5.97%) GCP
5 3 (4.48%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (4.48%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (4.48%) GitHub
5 3 (4.48%) OpenShift
6 2 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.99%) Cloud Run
6 2 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.49%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.49%) Apigee
7 1 (1.49%) Figma
7 1 (1.49%) Kong
7 1 (1.49%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.49%) SaaS
7 1 (1.49%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.48%) DNS
1 3 (4.48%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.99%) BIG-IP
2 2 (2.99%) DHCP
3 1 (1.49%) Firewall
3 1 (1.49%) HTTP
3 1 (1.49%) Network Security
3 1 (1.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.94%) NoSQL
2 7 (10.45%) Hadoop
3 3 (4.48%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.99%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.49%) Power BI
5 1 (1.49%) SAP HANA
5 1 (1.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (29.85%) JIRA
2 13 (19.40%) Git
3 12 (17.91%) Jenkins
4 4 (5.97%) GitLab
5 3 (4.48%) JUnit
5 3 (4.48%) Maven
5 3 (4.48%) Selenium
5 3 (4.48%) WebDriver
6 2 (2.99%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.99%) Postman
7 1 (1.49%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.49%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.49%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.49%) SoapUI
7 1 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.49%) Travis CI
7 1 (1.49%) Vite
7 1 (1.49%) Zephyr
General
1 28 (41.79%) Social Skills
2 11 (16.42%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (10.45%) Public Sector
4 5 (7.46%) Retail
5 4 (5.97%) Banking
6 3 (4.48%) Finance
6 3 (4.48%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (4.48%) Military
7 2 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (23.88%) Lead
2 12 (17.91%) Delivery Manager
3 11 (16.42%) Senior
4 10 (14.93%) Developer
4 10 (14.93%) Project Manager
5 7 (10.45%) Analyst
5 7 (10.45%) Business Analyst
6 6 (8.96%) Agile Delivery Manager
7 5 (7.46%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
7 5 (7.46%) Senior Delivery Manager
7 5 (7.46%) Senior Manager
8 4 (5.97%) Agile Delivery Lead
8 4 (5.97%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) Java Developer
8 4 (5.97%) Python Developer
9 3 (4.48%) Data Consultant
9 3 (4.48%) Integration Manager
9 3 (4.48%) Integration Project Manager
9 3 (4.48%) Lead Consultant
9 3 (4.48%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.96%) REST
2 5 (7.46%) React
3 4 (5.97%) Middleware
3 4 (5.97%) SailPoint
3 4 (5.97%) Spring
4 3 (4.48%) Django
4 3 (4.48%) FastAPI
4 3 (4.48%) Flask
4 3 (4.48%) JSON
4 3 (4.48%) Node.js
4 3 (4.48%) RESTful
4 3 (4.48%) Spring Boot
4 3 (4.48%) Vue
5 2 (2.99%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (2.99%) Kafka
5 2 (2.99%) Playwright
5 2 (2.99%) Redux
6 1 (1.49%) Express.js
6 1 (1.49%) Mustache
6 1 (1.49%) Semantic HTML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.94%) Product Ownership
2 6 (8.96%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.48%) NHS
3 3 (4.48%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.99%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.49%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (97.01%) Agile
2 31 (46.27%) CI/CD
3 22 (32.84%) Test Automation
4 21 (31.34%) Kanban
5 20 (29.85%) DevOps
6 18 (26.87%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (22.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 14 (20.90%) Sprint Planning
9 13 (19.40%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (14.93%) Code Quality
10 10 (14.93%) Data Engineering
10 10 (14.93%) Data Pipeline
10 10 (14.93%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (14.93%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (13.43%) Analytics
11 9 (13.43%) Change Management
11 9 (13.43%) Continuous Integration
12 8 (11.94%) API Integration
12 8 (11.94%) SDLC
12 8 (11.94%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 16 (23.88%) Python
2 12 (17.91%) SQL
3 10 (14.93%) JavaScript
4 8 (11.94%) Java
5 2 (2.99%) Bash
6 1 (1.49%) ABAP
6 1 (1.49%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.49%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.49%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.49%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (10.45%) PMP
2 6 (8.96%) SC Cleared
2 6 (8.96%) Security Cleared
3 5 (7.46%) Degree
3 5 (7.46%) PMI Certification
4 4 (5.97%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.99%) CBAP
6 1 (1.49%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.49%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.49%) CISM
6 1 (1.49%) CISSP
6 1 (1.49%) CRISC
6 1 (1.49%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.49%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.45%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.48%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.48%) PMO
2 3 (4.48%) QA
3 1 (1.49%) GDPR
3 1 (1.49%) GRC
3 1 (1.49%) MiFID
3 1 (1.49%) NIST
3 1 (1.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (16.42%) Docker
2 3 (4.48%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 13 (19.40%) Kubernetes
2 11 (16.42%) Terraform
3 4 (5.97%) Ansible
4 2 (2.99%) Grafana
5 1 (1.49%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (1.49%) Kibana
5 1 (1.49%) logstash
5 1 (1.49%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.49%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.49%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (13.43%) Splunk
2 6 (8.96%) ServiceNow
3 5 (7.46%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.97%) Salesforce
5 3 (4.48%) SAP
6 2 (2.99%) Cadence
6 2 (2.99%) F5
6 2 (2.99%) Infoblox
7 1 (1.49%) Tenable
7 1 (1.49%) Workday