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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 59 60
Rank change year-on-year +8 +1 -27
Contract jobs citing Scrum 93 28 45
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.92% 2.65% 2.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.53% 3.07% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 20 38
10th Percentile £371 - £400
25th Percentile £435 £406 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £521
Median % change year-on-year - -4.03% -5.27%
75th Percentile £535 £650 £575
90th Percentile £550 £716 £600
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
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% -0.76%

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 1,681 913 1,563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 88.85% 86.46% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,130 547 992
10th Percentile £275 £234 £285
25th Percentile £385 £367 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £574 £600
90th Percentile £638 £677 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 25 32
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.18 £12.68
25th Percentile £17.48 £15.75 £16.02
Median hourly rate £25.15 £20.00 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year +25.75% -8.05% +15.23%
75th Percentile £49.19 £38.75 £27.60
90th Percentile £57.33 £74.59 £53.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%

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 7 January 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 7 January 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 +8 44 £500 - 25
South Yorkshire -17 41 £486 -11.64% 11
North Yorkshire +10 7 £488 - 5
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 32 (34.41%) Confluence
2 1 (1.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (5.38%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (17.20%) AWS
2 11 (11.83%) GitHub
3 9 (9.68%) CloudBees
4 8 (8.60%) Azure
5 6 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (6.45%) Serverless
6 5 (5.38%) GCP
7 4 (4.30%) Cohesity
8 3 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (3.23%) Amazon S3
8 3 (3.23%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (3.23%) OpenShift
8 3 (3.23%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.15%) Azure API Management
9 2 (2.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (2.15%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.08%) Kong
10 1 (1.08%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.38%) Firewall
2 4 (4.30%) DNS
3 3 (3.23%) NAS
3 3 (3.23%) SAN
4 2 (2.15%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.08%) HTTP
5 1 (1.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.45%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.23%) DocumentDB
2 3 (3.23%) Power BI
2 3 (3.23%) Redis
3 2 (2.15%) Tableau
4 1 (1.08%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.08%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.08%) Power Query
4 1 (1.08%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 36 (38.71%) JIRA
2 27 (29.03%) Jenkins
3 19 (20.43%) GitLab
4 12 (12.90%) Git
5 5 (5.38%) Cucumber
6 4 (4.30%) Cypress.io
6 4 (4.30%) Postman
6 4 (4.30%) Selenium
7 3 (3.23%) JUnit
7 3 (3.23%) Maven
7 3 (3.23%) SoapUI
7 3 (3.23%) SonarQube
7 3 (3.23%) WebDriver
8 2 (2.15%) git-flow
8 2 (2.15%) Zephyr
9 1 (1.08%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (1.08%) CircleCI
9 1 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.08%) Travis CI
General
1 45 (48.39%) Social Skills
2 18 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (17.20%) Finance
4 15 (16.13%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.45%) Banking
6 3 (3.23%) Military
6 3 (3.23%) Retail
7 1 (1.08%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.08%) Front Office
7 1 (1.08%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.08%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 13 (13.98%) Analyst
1 13 (13.98%) Automation Engineer
2 12 (12.90%) Scrum Master
2 12 (12.90%) Senior
3 10 (10.75%) Delivery Manager
3 10 (10.75%) Project Manager
4 9 (9.68%) Business Analyst
4 9 (9.68%) Data Protection Engineer
5 8 (8.60%) Data Engineer
6 7 (7.53%) Lead
7 6 (6.45%) Developer
7 6 (6.45%) Product Owner
8 5 (5.38%) Senior Test Engineer
8 5 (5.38%) Test Engineer
9 4 (4.30%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.30%) Software Engineer
9 4 (4.30%) Technical Analyst
10 3 (3.23%) AWS Engineer
10 3 (3.23%) Senior Developer
10 3 (3.23%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.75%) Node.js
2 6 (6.45%) Middleware
3 5 (5.38%) Kafka
4 4 (4.30%) Playwright
4 4 (4.30%) React
5 3 (3.23%) Django
5 3 (3.23%) FastAPI
5 3 (3.23%) Flask
5 3 (3.23%) REST
5 3 (3.23%) RESTful
5 3 (3.23%) SailPoint
5 3 (3.23%) Spring Boot
5 3 (3.23%) Vue
6 2 (2.15%) Next.js
6 2 (2.15%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (2.15%) Spring
7 1 (1.08%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.08%) FHIR
7 1 (1.08%) JSON
7 1 (1.08%) MERN Stack
Miscellaneous
1 29 (31.18%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.45%) Onboarding
3 5 (5.38%) NHS
4 3 (3.23%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.15%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.15%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.08%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.08%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.08%) FMCG
6 1 (1.08%) PDA
6 1 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.38%) Windows
2 3 (3.23%) Linux
2 3 (3.23%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (82.80%) Agile
2 34 (36.56%) CI/CD
3 33 (35.48%) User Stories
4 31 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 30 (32.26%) DevOps
6 26 (27.96%) Kanban
6 26 (27.96%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (26.88%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (21.51%) Backlog Refinement
8 20 (21.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 19 (20.43%) Stakeholder Management
10 17 (18.28%) Sprint Retrospective
11 15 (16.13%) Project Management
11 15 (16.13%) Sprint Planning
12 14 (15.05%) Configuration Management
12 14 (15.05%) Data Protection
13 13 (13.98%) Roadmaps
14 11 (11.83%) Decision-Making
14 11 (11.83%) Migration
14 11 (11.83%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 23 (24.73%) Python
2 13 (13.98%) Bash
3 11 (11.83%) Java
4 10 (10.75%) JavaScript
5 6 (6.45%) TypeScript
6 4 (4.30%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.23%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.15%) SQL
9 1 (1.08%) C++
Qualifications
1 8 (8.60%) Degree
2 7 (7.53%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (6.45%) PMP
3 6 (6.45%) Security Cleared
4 4 (4.30%) PMI Certification
4 4 (4.30%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.15%) CBAP
6 2 (2.15%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.08%) CISM
7 1 (1.08%) CISSP
7 1 (1.08%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.75%) QA
2 8 (8.60%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.38%) Data Quality
4 4 (4.30%) WCAG
5 2 (2.15%) GDPR
5 2 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.15%) NIST
6 1 (1.08%) HL7
6 1 (1.08%) MiFID
6 1 (1.08%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.08%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 7 (7.53%) Docker
2 4 (4.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.23%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 3 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.23%) VMware NSX
3 3 (3.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (23.66%) Ansible
2 13 (13.98%) NetBackup
3 9 (9.68%) Kubernetes
4 6 (6.45%) Grafana
4 6 (6.45%) Puppet
5 5 (5.38%) Terraform
6 3 (3.23%) vCenter Server
6 3 (3.23%) vRealize
7 1 (1.08%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (1.08%) Kibana
7 1 (1.08%) logstash
7 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (1.08%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.08%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.08%) SCCM
Vendors
1 17 (18.28%) Microsoft
2 14 (15.05%) Red Hat
3 13 (13.98%) Commvault
4 9 (9.68%) Veritas
5 8 (8.60%) Splunk
6 4 (4.30%) Salesforce
6 4 (4.30%) VMware
7 3 (3.23%) F5
8 2 (2.15%) Google
8 2 (2.15%) Planview
9 1 (1.08%) BeyondTrust
9 1 (1.08%) Brio
9 1 (1.08%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.08%) MarketAxess
9 1 (1.08%) MuleSoft
9 1 (1.08%) Oracle
9 1 (1.08%) SAP
9 1 (1.08%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.08%) Thycotic
9 1 (1.08%) Tradeweb