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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 54 45
Rank change year-on-year -19 -9 +10
Contract jobs citing Scrum 71 36 65
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.76% 3.43% 3.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.19% 3.72% 4.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 21 46
10th Percentile £371 £365 £375
25th Percentile £447 £400 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £466 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% -15.27% -0.90%
75th Percentile £584 £500 £600
90th Percentile £619 £550 £645
England median daily rate £511 £500 £531
% change year-on-year +2.20% -5.88% -7.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £102.00 -
England median hourly rate £66.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.78% -11.54% -

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 2,225 967 1,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 86.54% 92.18% 85.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,411 594 863
10th Percentile £325 £263 £275
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -6.67%
75th Percentile £569 £550 £582
90th Percentile £669 £625 £650
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 39 66
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.32 £11.30
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.29 £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 £22.14 £22.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £34.21 £53.75
England median hourly rate £46.80 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.78% -21.23% -0.11%

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 21 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 21 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 +3 36 £530 +6.00% 14
South Yorkshire -42 31 £460 -0.92% 9
North Yorkshire -3 3 - - 1
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 13 (18.31%) Confluence
2 7 (9.86%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.41%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.63%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (5.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.41%) SAP CRM
2 1 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.41%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 18 (25.35%) AWS
2 15 (21.13%) Azure
3 8 (11.27%) GCP
4 7 (9.86%) Serverless
5 4 (5.63%) GitHub
5 4 (5.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (4.23%) OpenShift
7 2 (2.82%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (2.82%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.82%) Cloud Run
8 1 (1.41%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.41%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.41%) Figma
8 1 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.41%) Kong
8 1 (1.41%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.41%) SaaS
8 1 (1.41%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.04%) Network Security
2 3 (4.23%) DNS
2 3 (4.23%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.82%) BIG-IP
3 2 (2.82%) DHCP
4 1 (1.41%) Firewall
4 1 (1.41%) HTTP
4 1 (1.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.27%) NoSQL
2 7 (9.86%) Hadoop
3 4 (5.63%) Neo4j
3 4 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.23%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.41%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.41%) Power BI
5 1 (1.41%) SAP HANA
5 1 (1.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (36.62%) JIRA
2 14 (19.72%) Git
3 11 (15.49%) Jenkins
4 5 (7.04%) JUnit
5 3 (4.23%) GitLab
5 3 (4.23%) Maven
5 3 (4.23%) Selenium
5 3 (4.23%) WebDriver
6 2 (2.82%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.82%) Flyway
6 2 (2.82%) git-flow
6 2 (2.82%) Liquibase
6 2 (2.82%) Mockito
7 1 (1.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.41%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.41%) Postman
7 1 (1.41%) SoapUI
7 1 (1.41%) Travis CI
7 1 (1.41%) Vite
7 1 (1.41%) Zephyr
General
1 29 (40.85%) Social Skills
2 10 (14.08%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (12.68%) Finance
4 7 (9.86%) Banking
4 7 (9.86%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (8.45%) Public Sector
6 5 (7.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (7.04%) Retail
7 4 (5.63%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (4.23%) Law
9 2 (2.82%) Military
9 2 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (23.94%) Lead
2 13 (18.31%) Delivery Manager
3 12 (16.90%) Senior
4 10 (14.08%) Developer
5 9 (12.68%) Project Manager
6 6 (8.45%) Agile Delivery Manager
6 6 (8.45%) Business Analyst
6 6 (8.45%) Java Developer
6 6 (8.45%) Senior Manager
7 5 (7.04%) Analyst
7 5 (7.04%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
7 5 (7.04%) Senior Delivery Manager
7 5 (7.04%) Senior Developer
8 4 (5.63%) Agile Delivery Lead
8 4 (5.63%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (5.63%) Senior Java Developer
9 3 (4.23%) Lead Consultant
9 3 (4.23%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.86%) REST
2 6 (8.45%) Kafka
2 6 (8.45%) Spring
3 5 (7.04%) React
3 5 (7.04%) RESTful
3 5 (7.04%) SailPoint
3 5 (7.04%) Spring Boot
4 4 (5.63%) Middleware
5 3 (4.23%) JSON
6 2 (2.82%) Drools
6 2 (2.82%) Gherkin
6 2 (2.82%) HATEOAS
6 2 (2.82%) JDBC
6 2 (2.82%) JPA
6 2 (2.82%) Node.js
6 2 (2.82%) OAuth
6 2 (2.82%) OAuth2
6 2 (2.82%) Spring Batch
6 2 (2.82%) Spring MVC
6 2 (2.82%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.08%) Cloud Native
2 8 (11.27%) Product Ownership
3 5 (7.04%) Onboarding
4 4 (5.63%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (4.23%) NHS
6 2 (2.82%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.41%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (95.77%) Agile
2 32 (45.07%) CI/CD
3 24 (33.80%) DevOps
4 22 (30.99%) Kanban
4 22 (30.99%) Test Automation
5 21 (29.58%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (21.13%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (19.72%) Code Quality
8 13 (18.31%) Change Management
8 13 (18.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 12 (16.90%) Data Pipeline
10 11 (15.49%) Containerisation
10 11 (15.49%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (15.49%) Migration
10 11 (15.49%) Sprint Planning
10 11 (15.49%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (14.08%) Cybersecurity
11 10 (14.08%) Data Engineering
12 9 (12.68%) Decision-Making
12 9 (12.68%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (18.31%) Python
1 13 (18.31%) SQL
2 9 (12.68%) Java
3 7 (9.86%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.82%) Bash
4 2 (2.82%) PromQL
5 1 (1.41%) ABAP
5 1 (1.41%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.41%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (12.68%) Degree
2 7 (9.86%) PMP
3 6 (8.45%) PMI Certification
4 5 (7.04%) SC Cleared
4 5 (7.04%) Security Cleared
5 3 (4.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.82%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.82%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.82%) CBAP
6 2 (2.82%) CISM
6 2 (2.82%) CISSP
6 2 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.82%) CRISC
7 1 (1.41%) CAPM
7 1 (1.41%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.41%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.63%) Accessibility
1 4 (5.63%) Data Quality
1 4 (5.63%) PMO
2 2 (2.82%) GRC
2 2 (2.82%) NIST
2 2 (2.82%) QA
3 1 (1.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (18.31%) Docker
2 3 (4.23%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 15 (21.13%) Kubernetes
2 12 (16.90%) Terraform
3 9 (12.68%) Ansible
4 4 (5.63%) Kustomize
5 3 (4.23%) Grafana
5 3 (4.23%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.82%) Consul
6 2 (2.82%) Zipkin
7 1 (1.41%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (1.41%) Kibana
7 1 (1.41%) logstash
7 1 (1.41%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.41%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (11.27%) Splunk
2 6 (8.45%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.45%) ServiceNow
3 4 (5.63%) Salesforce
4 3 (4.23%) SAP
5 2 (2.82%) Cadence
5 2 (2.82%) F5
5 2 (2.82%) Infoblox
5 2 (2.82%) Solace
6 1 (1.41%) Tenable
6 1 (1.41%) Workday