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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 49 37
Rank change year-on-year -48 -12 +28
Contract jobs citing Scrum 62 83 73
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.18% 4.98% 4.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.60% 5.54% 5.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 55 59
10th Percentile £413 £361 £406
25th Percentile £443 £415 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +6.38%
75th Percentile £575 £534 £611
90th Percentile £673 £583 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%

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 2,381 1,499 1,248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 83.57% 90.03% 84.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,420 969 732
10th Percentile £340 £250 £300
25th Percentile £413 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £575
90th Percentile £675 £649 £655
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 52 39
10th Percentile £13.45 £17.34 -
25th Percentile £15.39 £18.78 £12.55
Median hourly rate £19.00 £23.79 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.13% +25.20% -10.84%
75th Percentile £26.50 £25.15 £33.75
90th Percentile £43.96 £78.38 £50.25
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -4.49%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -22 34 £500 - 46
South Yorkshire -30 27 £500 +6.84% 23
East Yorkshire -5 1 £500 - 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 8 (12.90%) Confluence
2 1 (1.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (3.23%) SAP ERP
1 2 (3.23%) SAP MRS
1 2 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.61%) CA PPM
2 1 (1.61%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 21 (33.87%) Azure
2 19 (30.65%) AWS
3 16 (25.81%) GCP
4 9 (14.52%) Serverless
5 8 (12.90%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (9.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 4 (6.45%) GitHub
8 3 (4.84%) Cloud Run
9 2 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.61%) Azure AKS
10 1 (1.61%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (1.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (1.61%) Datadog
10 1 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.61%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.61%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.29%) Network Security
2 1 (1.61%) DNS
2 1 (1.61%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.90%) Neo4j
2 5 (8.06%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (8.06%) SQL Server
3 4 (6.45%) Big Data
4 2 (3.23%) GIS
4 2 (3.23%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.23%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.61%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.61%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.61%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.61%) Power BI
5 1 (1.61%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (1.61%) SQLite
5 1 (1.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (25.81%) JIRA
2 12 (19.35%) Git
3 4 (6.45%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.84%) GitLab
5 2 (3.23%) Cucumber
5 2 (3.23%) Flyway
5 2 (3.23%) git-flow
5 2 (3.23%) JUnit
5 2 (3.23%) Liquibase
5 2 (3.23%) Mockito
5 2 (3.23%) MSBuild
5 2 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (3.23%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.61%) Gatling
6 1 (1.61%) JMeter
6 1 (1.61%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.61%) NeoLoad
General
1 32 (51.61%) Social Skills
2 22 (35.48%) Finance
3 13 (20.97%) Public Sector
4 9 (14.52%) Documentation Skills
4 9 (14.52%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (12.90%) Banking
6 5 (8.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (6.45%) Telecoms
8 3 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (4.84%) Law
8 3 (4.84%) Marketing
9 2 (3.23%) Investment Banking
9 2 (3.23%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.61%) Games
10 1 (1.61%) Military
10 1 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (19.35%) Developer
2 11 (17.74%) Senior
3 10 (16.13%) Delivery Manager
3 10 (16.13%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (14.52%) Lead
4 9 (14.52%) Project Manager
4 9 (14.52%) Senior Developer
5 5 (8.06%) Business Analyst
5 5 (8.06%) Product Owner
6 4 (6.45%) Analyst
6 4 (6.45%) Java Developer
6 4 (6.45%) Python Developer
7 3 (4.84%) Backend Developer
7 3 (4.84%) ERP Analyst
7 3 (4.84%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (4.84%) Senior .NET Developer
7 3 (4.84%) Senior Backend Developer
7 3 (4.84%) Senior Python Developer
7 3 (4.84%) Technical Manager
8 2 (3.23%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (19.35%) REST
1 12 (19.35%) Terraform
2 8 (12.90%) Kafka
3 5 (8.06%) .NET
3 5 (8.06%) RESTful
3 5 (8.06%) Spring
3 5 (8.06%) Spring Boot
4 3 (4.84%) .NET Core
4 3 (4.84%) .NET Framework
4 3 (4.84%) ASP.NET
4 3 (4.84%) ASP.NET MVC
4 3 (4.84%) ASP.NET Web API
4 3 (4.84%) Entity Framework
4 3 (4.84%) OAuth
4 3 (4.84%) OAuth2
4 3 (4.84%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (4.84%) React
5 2 (3.23%) JWT
5 2 (3.23%) Loki
5 2 (3.23%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 15 (24.19%) Product Ownership
2 11 (17.74%) Cloud Native
3 8 (12.90%) NHS
4 6 (9.68%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (9.68%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (9.68%) Onboarding
4 6 (9.68%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.61%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.61%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.61%) Linux
1 1 (1.61%) Unix
1 1 (1.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (96.77%) Agile
2 27 (43.55%) CI/CD
2 27 (43.55%) Stakeholder Management
3 25 (40.32%) Continuous Improvement
3 25 (40.32%) DevOps
4 17 (27.42%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (24.19%) Microservices
6 14 (22.58%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 13 (20.97%) Cybersecurity
7 13 (20.97%) Kanban
7 13 (20.97%) Roadmaps
7 13 (20.97%) Test Automation
8 12 (19.35%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (19.35%) SDLC
8 12 (19.35%) Sprint Planning
9 11 (17.74%) Mentoring
9 11 (17.74%) Platform Engineering
10 10 (16.13%) AI
10 10 (16.13%) Change Management
10 10 (16.13%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (12.90%) Python
1 8 (12.90%) SQL
2 6 (9.68%) Java
3 4 (6.45%) JavaScript
3 4 (6.45%) PowerShell
4 3 (4.84%) C#
4 3 (4.84%) TypeScript
5 2 (3.23%) Bash
5 2 (3.23%) PromQL
6 1 (1.61%) Bicep
6 1 (1.61%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 7 (11.29%) Degree
1 7 (11.29%) PMI Certification
1 7 (11.29%) PMP
2 4 (6.45%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.84%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.23%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.23%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.23%) CISM
4 2 (3.23%) CISSP
4 2 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.23%) CRISC
4 2 (3.23%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.61%) CAPM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.45%) PMO
2 3 (4.84%) QA
3 2 (3.23%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.23%) GRC
3 2 (3.23%) NIST
4 1 (1.61%) Accessibility
System Software
1 14 (22.58%) Docker
2 1 (1.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (20.97%) Kubernetes
2 8 (12.90%) Ansible
3 6 (9.68%) Kustomize
4 3 (4.84%) Grafana
4 3 (4.84%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.23%) Consul
5 2 (3.23%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 7 (11.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.23%) Databricks
2 2 (3.23%) ESRI
2 2 (3.23%) Oracle
2 2 (3.23%) SAP
2 2 (3.23%) ServiceNow
2 2 (3.23%) Solace
3 1 (1.61%) Adobe
3 1 (1.61%) AppDynamics
3 1 (1.61%) Cadence
3 1 (1.61%) Google