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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 48 57
Rank change year-on-year +4 +9 -22
Contract jobs citing Scrum 94 54 54
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 5.20% 3.89% 2.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.80% 4.58% 3.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 39 41
10th Percentile £361 £406 £400
25th Percentile £435 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +1.45%
75th Percentile £537 £600 £575
90th Percentile £581 £660 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -

All Process and 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 1,622 1,179 1,656
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.66% 84.88% 88.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,076 677 1,073
10th Percentile £252 £262 £285
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £646 £650 £700
England median daily rate £509 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.05% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 36 27
10th Percentile £15.25 - £16.28
25th Percentile £18.87 £12.55 £18.50
Median hourly rate £22.58 £18.07 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +24.95% -15.22% +12.16%
75th Percentile £25.15 £28.75 £28.39
90th Percentile £65.50 £38.75 £44.20
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.93% -15.73% +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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 0 43 £500 -9.09% 56
South Yorkshire -16 41 £492 -8.80% 2
North Yorkshire - 6 £488 -
East Yorkshire - 3 - - 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 28 (29.79%) Confluence
2 3 (3.19%) IIS
3 1 (1.06%) Apache
3 1 (1.06%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.06%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.06%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.06%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.06%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 4 (4.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.06%) SAP MRS
3 1 (1.06%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 19 (20.21%) AWS
1 19 (20.21%) Azure
2 12 (12.77%) GitHub
3 11 (11.70%) GCP
4 9 (9.57%) CloudBees
5 4 (4.26%) Cohesity
6 3 (3.19%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (3.19%) Azure API Management
6 3 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.19%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.19%) Serverless
7 2 (2.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (2.13%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.06%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.06%) Bitrise
8 1 (1.06%) Miro
8 1 (1.06%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.06%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.26%) Firewall
2 3 (3.19%) DNS
2 3 (3.19%) NAS
2 3 (3.19%) SAN
3 1 (1.06%) HTTP
3 1 (1.06%) SSL
3 1 (1.06%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.38%) MongoDB
2 4 (4.26%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.19%) DocumentDB
3 3 (3.19%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.19%) Redis
3 3 (3.19%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.13%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.13%) MySQL
4 2 (2.13%) Power BI
4 2 (2.13%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.06%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.06%) Power Query
5 1 (1.06%) Spark SQL
5 1 (1.06%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 41 (43.62%) JIRA
2 23 (24.47%) Jenkins
3 19 (20.21%) GitLab
4 12 (12.77%) Git
5 9 (9.57%) Postman
5 9 (9.57%) SoapUI
6 5 (5.32%) SonarQube
7 4 (4.26%) Cucumber
8 3 (3.19%) Cypress.io
8 3 (3.19%) git-flow
9 2 (2.13%) Selenium
9 2 (2.13%) Zephyr
10 1 (1.06%) Artifactory
10 1 (1.06%) Crashlytics
10 1 (1.06%) Log4j
10 1 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (1.06%) SpecFlow
10 1 (1.06%) TestRail
General
1 50 (53.19%) Social Skills
2 21 (22.34%) Finance
3 18 (19.15%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (12.77%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.32%) Banking
6 4 (4.26%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.13%) Military
7 2 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.06%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.06%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.06%) Front Office
8 1 (1.06%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.06%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.06%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.06%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (19.15%) Analyst
2 14 (14.89%) Scrum Master
3 13 (13.83%) Senior
4 12 (12.77%) Automation Engineer
5 9 (9.57%) Data Protection Engineer
5 9 (9.57%) Test Analyst
6 8 (8.51%) Business Analyst
6 8 (8.51%) Data Engineer
6 8 (8.51%) Delivery Manager
6 8 (8.51%) Developer
7 5 (5.32%) Lead
7 5 (5.32%) Product Owner
7 5 (5.32%) Test Engineer
8 4 (4.26%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.26%) Migration Specialist
8 4 (4.26%) Project Manager
8 4 (4.26%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.26%) Senior Test Engineer
8 4 (4.26%) Software Engineer
9 3 (3.19%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.70%) Node.js
2 5 (5.32%) Kafka
2 5 (5.32%) RESTful
3 4 (4.26%) .NET
3 4 (4.26%) Playwright
4 3 (3.19%) .NET Framework
4 3 (3.19%) ASP.NET
4 3 (3.19%) Middleware
4 3 (3.19%) MSMQ
4 3 (3.19%) Next.js
4 3 (3.19%) React
4 3 (3.19%) Spring Boot
5 2 (2.13%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (2.13%) REST
6 1 (1.06%) FHIR
6 1 (1.06%) JSON
6 1 (1.06%) OAuth
6 1 (1.06%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (1.06%) WebSockets
6 1 (1.06%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (30.85%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.32%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.19%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.19%) Fixed Income
3 3 (3.19%) N-Tier
4 2 (2.13%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.13%) Derivative
4 2 (2.13%) Equities
4 2 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.13%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.13%) NHS
4 2 (2.13%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.06%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.06%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.06%) FMCG
5 1 (1.06%) PDA
5 1 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.06%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.06%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.32%) Windows
2 4 (4.26%) Linux
3 3 (3.19%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.13%) Android
4 2 (2.13%) VMS
5 1 (1.06%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (81.91%) Agile
2 38 (40.43%) CI/CD
3 33 (35.11%) Kanban
4 32 (34.04%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (31.91%) User Stories
6 28 (29.79%) DevOps
7 27 (28.72%) Test Automation
8 21 (22.34%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (21.28%) Sprint Retrospective
10 19 (20.21%) Stakeholder Management
11 18 (19.15%) Backlog Refinement
12 16 (17.02%) Software Testing
12 16 (17.02%) Sprint Planning
13 15 (15.96%) Configuration Management
13 15 (15.96%) Data Protection
13 15 (15.96%) Roadmaps
13 15 (15.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 12 (12.77%) Project Management
14 12 (12.77%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 10 (10.64%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 20 (21.28%) Python
2 13 (13.83%) Bash
3 8 (8.51%) Java
3 8 (8.51%) JavaScript
4 6 (6.38%) SQL
4 6 (6.38%) TypeScript
5 3 (3.19%) PowerShell
5 3 (3.19%) Shell Script
5 3 (3.19%) VB.NET
6 2 (2.13%) Bicep
6 2 (2.13%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.06%) ABAP
7 1 (1.06%) C++
Qualifications
1 8 (8.51%) CISM
1 8 (8.51%) CISSP
1 8 (8.51%) ISTQB
2 6 (6.38%) BPSS Clearance
2 6 (6.38%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.26%) Degree
3 4 (4.26%) PMP
3 4 (4.26%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.06%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.06%) IBM Certification
5 1 (1.06%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.06%) MBA
5 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.06%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.83%) QA
2 7 (7.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (7.45%) NIST
3 6 (6.38%) GDPR
3 6 (6.38%) PCI DSS
4 4 (4.26%) Accessibility
4 4 (4.26%) WCAG
5 3 (3.19%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.06%) HL7
6 1 (1.06%) SEPA
6 1 (1.06%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 4 (4.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.19%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.19%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (3.19%) VMware NSX
2 3 (3.19%) vSphere
3 1 (1.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (22.34%) Ansible
2 13 (13.83%) NetBackup
3 5 (5.32%) Puppet
4 4 (4.26%) Grafana
5 3 (3.19%) vCenter Server
5 3 (3.19%) vRealize
6 1 (1.06%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.06%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.06%) SCCM
6 1 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.06%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (26.60%) Microsoft
2 15 (15.96%) Red Hat
3 13 (13.83%) Commvault
4 9 (9.57%) Google
4 9 (9.57%) Veritas
5 8 (8.51%) BeyondTrust
5 8 (8.51%) CyberArk
5 8 (8.51%) Thycotic
6 7 (7.45%) Splunk
7 4 (4.26%) VMware
8 3 (3.19%) F5
9 2 (2.13%) Databricks
9 2 (2.13%) Planview
9 2 (2.13%) SAP
10 1 (1.06%) Brio
10 1 (1.06%) Dynatrace
10 1 (1.06%) IBM
10 1 (1.06%) MuleSoft
10 1 (1.06%) Oracle
10 1 (1.06%) TIBCO