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 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 56 55
Rank change year-on-year -6 -1 -10
Contract jobs citing Scrum 83 21 51
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.91% 2.35% 2.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.39% 2.61% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 12 35
10th Percentile £366 £401 £333
25th Percentile £450 £418 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £503
Median % change year-on-year - -0.50% -8.64%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £563
90th Percentile £583 £618 £615
England median daily rate £500 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £102.00 -
England median hourly rate £61.57 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -1.49% -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 1,891 804 1,558
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.16% 89.93% 87.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,235 490 949
10th Percentile £304 £231 £262
25th Percentile £403 £358 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £567 £575
90th Percentile £650 £638 £668
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 26 48
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.74 £11.11
25th Percentile £15.25 £17.08 £12.15
Median hourly rate £22.81 £22.14 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +47.60% +41.11%
75th Percentile £55.00 £28.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £69.07 £53.75
England median hourly rate £28.91 £35.00 £34.21
% change year-on-year -17.40% +2.31% -3.42%

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 2 March 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 2 March 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
South Yorkshire -21 39 £486 -2.80% 13
West Yorkshire -4 35 £500 - 19
North Yorkshire +1 8 £488 - 4
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 24 (28.92%) Confluence
2 7 (8.43%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (6.02%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (15.66%) AWS
2 10 (12.05%) GitHub
3 6 (7.23%) Azure
4 4 (4.82%) Cohesity
4 4 (4.82%) GCP
4 4 (4.82%) Serverless
5 3 (3.61%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (3.61%) Amazon S3
5 3 (3.61%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (3.61%) CloudBees
5 3 (3.61%) OpenShift
6 2 (2.41%) Azure API Management
6 2 (2.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.41%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (2.41%) Cloud Run
6 2 (2.41%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.41%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.20%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.61%) DNS
1 3 (3.61%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.41%) BIG-IP
2 2 (2.41%) DHCP
3 1 (1.20%) Firewall
3 1 (1.20%) HTTP
3 1 (1.20%) Network Security
3 1 (1.20%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.64%) NoSQL
2 7 (8.43%) Hadoop
3 6 (7.23%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.41%) Power BI
4 2 (2.41%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.41%) Tableau
5 1 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 28 (33.73%) JIRA
2 17 (20.48%) Jenkins
3 10 (12.05%) GitLab
4 8 (9.64%) Git
5 5 (6.02%) Cucumber
6 4 (4.82%) Cypress.io
7 3 (3.61%) JUnit
7 3 (3.61%) Maven
7 3 (3.61%) Selenium
7 3 (3.61%) WebDriver
8 2 (2.41%) git-flow
8 2 (2.41%) Postman
9 1 (1.20%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (1.20%) CircleCI
9 1 (1.20%) SoapUI
9 1 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.20%) Travis CI
9 1 (1.20%) Zephyr
General
1 37 (44.58%) Social Skills
2 19 (22.89%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (10.84%) Finance
3 9 (10.84%) Public Sector
4 7 (8.43%) Banking
5 3 (3.61%) Military
5 3 (3.61%) Retail
6 2 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.20%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.20%) Front Office
7 1 (1.20%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 13 (15.66%) Lead
2 12 (14.46%) Project Manager
3 11 (13.25%) Analyst
3 11 (13.25%) Business Analyst
3 11 (13.25%) Senior
4 10 (12.05%) Developer
5 8 (9.64%) Data Engineer
5 8 (9.64%) Scrum Master
6 7 (8.43%) Automation Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) Delivery Manager
7 5 (6.02%) Senior Developer
7 5 (6.02%) Senior Test Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) Test Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Consultant
8 4 (4.82%) Data Protection Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Lead Consultant
8 4 (4.82%) Product Owner
8 4 (4.82%) Python Developer
8 4 (4.82%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.43%) Node.js
2 5 (6.02%) REST
3 4 (4.82%) Playwright
3 4 (4.82%) RESTful
3 4 (4.82%) Spring Boot
4 3 (3.61%) Django
4 3 (3.61%) FastAPI
4 3 (3.61%) Flask
4 3 (3.61%) JSON
4 3 (3.61%) Middleware
4 3 (3.61%) React
4 3 (3.61%) SailPoint
4 3 (3.61%) Spring
4 3 (3.61%) Vue
5 2 (2.41%) Next.js
5 2 (2.41%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (2.41%) Redux
6 1 (1.20%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.20%) FHIR
6 1 (1.20%) MERN Stack
Miscellaneous
1 20 (24.10%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.02%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.82%) NHS
3 4 (4.82%) Virtual Team
4 3 (3.61%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.20%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.20%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (87.95%) Agile
2 33 (39.76%) CI/CD
3 28 (33.73%) Test Automation
4 26 (31.33%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (28.92%) DevOps
6 23 (27.71%) Kanban
7 18 (21.69%) User Stories
8 16 (19.28%) Continuous Improvement
9 14 (16.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 13 (15.66%) Project Management
10 13 (15.66%) Stakeholder Management
11 12 (14.46%) Code Quality
12 11 (13.25%) Continuous Integration
12 11 (13.25%) SDLC
13 10 (12.05%) Change Management
13 10 (12.05%) Data Pipeline
13 10 (12.05%) Sprint Planning
14 9 (10.84%) Backlog Refinement
14 9 (10.84%) Decision-Making
14 9 (10.84%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 24 (28.92%) Python
2 12 (14.46%) JavaScript
3 11 (13.25%) Java
3 11 (13.25%) SQL
4 8 (9.64%) Bash
5 6 (7.23%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.20%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.20%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (9.64%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.23%) PMP
2 6 (7.23%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.02%) Degree
4 4 (4.82%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.41%) CBAP
6 1 (1.20%) CSPO
6 1 (1.20%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.84%) Accessibility
2 8 (9.64%) QA
3 6 (7.23%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.41%) PMO
5 1 (1.20%) GDPR
5 1 (1.20%) HL7
5 1 (1.20%) MiFID
5 1 (1.20%) SNOMED CT
5 1 (1.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (10.84%) Docker
2 3 (3.61%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 14 (16.87%) Ansible
2 11 (13.25%) Kubernetes
3 7 (8.43%) NetBackup
4 6 (7.23%) Grafana
4 6 (7.23%) Terraform
5 5 (6.02%) Puppet
6 1 (1.20%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (1.20%) Kibana
6 1 (1.20%) logstash
6 1 (1.20%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.20%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (18.07%) Splunk
2 9 (10.84%) Microsoft
3 8 (9.64%) Red Hat
4 7 (8.43%) Commvault
5 4 (4.82%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.61%) Veritas
7 2 (2.41%) F5
7 2 (2.41%) Infoblox
7 2 (2.41%) Planview
7 2 (2.41%) SAP
8 1 (1.20%) Brio
8 1 (1.20%) Cadence
8 1 (1.20%) MarketAxess
8 1 (1.20%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.20%) Tenable
8 1 (1.20%) Tradeweb
8 1 (1.20%) Workday