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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 55 57
Rank change year-on-year -11 +2 -13
Contract jobs citing Scrum 79 30 43
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.46% 3.20% 2.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.90% 3.47% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 15 29
10th Percentile £400 £373 £313
25th Percentile £458 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year - +3.09% -11.82%
75th Percentile £538 £535 £556
90th Percentile £588 £550 £616
England median daily rate £500 £500 £540
% change year-on-year - -7.41% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £102.00 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 2,026 865 1,476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 88.82% 92.32% 86.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,339 534 881
10th Percentile £313 £258 £258
25th Percentile £405 £363 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.74% -0.11% -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £575
90th Percentile £639 £638 £669
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 36 58
10th Percentile £14.25 £11.95 £11.24
25th Percentile £15.25 £16.93 £12.15
Median hourly rate £23.19 £21.24 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.19% +57.33% +27.00%
75th Percentile £57.25 £28.75 £21.99
90th Percentile £68.75 £69.07 £53.75
England median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -6 37 £500 - 17
South Yorkshire -30 36 £492 +4.13% 5
North Yorkshire -7 4 - - 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 22 (27.85%) Confluence
2 7 (8.86%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.27%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.27%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (16.46%) AWS
2 8 (10.13%) GitHub
3 5 (6.33%) Azure
3 5 (6.33%) Serverless
4 4 (5.06%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (5.06%) Amazon S3
4 4 (5.06%) Cohesity
4 4 (5.06%) GCP
5 3 (3.80%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (3.80%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (3.80%) OpenShift
6 2 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.53%) Cloud Run
6 2 (2.53%) CloudBees
6 2 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.53%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.27%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.27%) Apigee
7 1 (1.27%) Miro
7 1 (1.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.80%) DNS
1 3 (3.80%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.53%) BIG-IP
2 2 (2.53%) DHCP
3 1 (1.27%) Firewall
3 1 (1.27%) HTTP
3 1 (1.27%) Network Security
3 1 (1.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.13%) NoSQL
2 7 (8.86%) Hadoop
3 5 (6.33%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.80%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.53%) Power BI
5 2 (2.53%) Tableau
6 1 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.27%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 26 (32.91%) JIRA
2 16 (20.25%) Jenkins
3 8 (10.13%) Git
3 8 (10.13%) GitLab
4 5 (6.33%) Cypress.io
5 4 (5.06%) Cucumber
6 3 (3.80%) JUnit
6 3 (3.80%) Maven
6 3 (3.80%) Selenium
6 3 (3.80%) WebDriver
7 2 (2.53%) Postman
8 1 (1.27%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.27%) CircleCI
8 1 (1.27%) SoapUI
8 1 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.27%) Travis CI
8 1 (1.27%) Vite
8 1 (1.27%) Zephyr
General
1 36 (45.57%) Social Skills
2 19 (24.05%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (12.66%) Public Sector
4 7 (8.86%) Banking
4 7 (8.86%) Finance
5 5 (6.33%) Retail
6 2 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.53%) Military
6 2 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.27%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.27%) Front Office
7 1 (1.27%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (16.46%) Lead
2 10 (12.66%) Developer
2 10 (12.66%) Project Manager
3 9 (11.39%) Analyst
3 9 (11.39%) Business Analyst
4 8 (10.13%) Senior
5 7 (8.86%) Data Engineer
6 6 (7.59%) Automation Engineer
6 6 (7.59%) Scrum Master
7 5 (6.33%) Delivery Manager
8 4 (5.06%) Consultant
8 4 (5.06%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.06%) Java Developer
8 4 (5.06%) Lead Consultant
8 4 (5.06%) Product Owner
8 4 (5.06%) Python Developer
8 4 (5.06%) Senior Test Engineer
8 4 (5.06%) Test Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (3.80%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.86%) REST
2 6 (7.59%) Node.js
3 5 (6.33%) Playwright
3 5 (6.33%) React
3 5 (6.33%) Spring Boot
4 4 (5.06%) Middleware
4 4 (5.06%) RESTful
4 4 (5.06%) Spring
5 3 (3.80%) Django
5 3 (3.80%) FastAPI
5 3 (3.80%) Flask
5 3 (3.80%) JSON
5 3 (3.80%) SailPoint
5 3 (3.80%) Vue
6 2 (2.53%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (2.53%) Kafka
6 2 (2.53%) Redux
7 1 (1.27%) FHIR
7 1 (1.27%) GraphQL
7 1 (1.27%) MERN Stack
Miscellaneous
1 18 (22.78%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.33%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.06%) NHS
3 4 (5.06%) Virtual Team
4 3 (3.80%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.27%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.27%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (91.14%) Agile
2 31 (39.24%) CI/CD
3 27 (34.18%) Test Automation
4 25 (31.65%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (27.85%) DevOps
5 22 (27.85%) Kanban
6 18 (22.78%) User Stories
7 16 (20.25%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (16.46%) Project Management
9 12 (15.19%) Sprint Planning
9 12 (15.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 11 (13.92%) Continuous Integration
10 11 (13.92%) SDLC
10 11 (13.92%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (12.66%) Change Management
11 10 (12.66%) Code Quality
11 10 (12.66%) Data Pipeline
11 10 (12.66%) Decision-Making
12 9 (11.39%) Backlog Refinement
12 9 (11.39%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 23 (29.11%) Python
2 12 (15.19%) JavaScript
2 12 (15.19%) SQL
3 11 (13.92%) Java
4 7 (8.86%) Bash
5 4 (5.06%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.27%) ABAP
6 1 (1.27%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.27%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (10.13%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.86%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.59%) PMP
4 5 (6.33%) Degree
5 4 (5.06%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.53%) CBAP
7 1 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.27%) CSPO
7 1 (1.27%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.27%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.66%) Accessibility
2 7 (8.86%) QA
3 6 (7.59%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.80%) PMO
5 1 (1.27%) GDPR
5 1 (1.27%) HL7
5 1 (1.27%) MiFID
5 1 (1.27%) SNOMED CT
5 1 (1.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (12.66%) Docker
2 3 (3.80%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 12 (15.19%) Kubernetes
2 11 (13.92%) Ansible
3 6 (7.59%) NetBackup
3 6 (7.59%) Terraform
4 5 (6.33%) Grafana
4 5 (6.33%) Puppet
5 1 (1.27%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (1.27%) Kibana
5 1 (1.27%) logstash
5 1 (1.27%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (15.19%) Splunk
2 8 (10.13%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.86%) Red Hat
4 6 (7.59%) Commvault
5 4 (5.06%) Salesforce
5 4 (5.06%) SAP
6 2 (2.53%) F5
6 2 (2.53%) Infoblox
6 2 (2.53%) Veritas
7 1 (1.27%) Brio
7 1 (1.27%) Cadence
7 1 (1.27%) MarketAxess
7 1 (1.27%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.27%) Tenable
7 1 (1.27%) Tradeweb
7 1 (1.27%) Workday